Little Red Triangle...... You Have GOT To Be Kidding Me....

Lanzfeld · Joined: 10 Jan 2002 Posts: 1256 Location: Reston, VA

The triangle, in SH-2, was a HUGE immersion killer. It would flash on a target before you could even see the target yourself. For us guys who are manual TDC nuts it just ruined the view from the scope. It is too arcadish.

Now if it only appears after you select a target in auto mode then it might be okay...but only AFTER you select a target.

Neal Stevens · Joined: 25 Jan 1997 Posts: 3517 Location: Houston, Texas

For what it's worth: I cranked up the old Oct build of SH3 and there is no red triangle, whether in Casual or Expert targeting mode. There is a LOCK button that keeps the target in the crosshairs, but it is optional.

The difference between Casual and Expert (in that build) is that Casual automatically feeds the range, speed, course, and bearing to the TDC, just like in SH2, SH1, Aces, etc.

Expert means that you feed the data in, manually, and as I said in the preview, it works well and is pretty cool. I gave it two thumbs up.

One thing that has most SH3 players nervous is the idea that a crappy feature will be introduced late in the dev cycle and we will be stuck with it. I can understand that. But so far, my experience with Florin and Co. has been they do understand what is wanted by the veteran SH players, and they have realism options to cover it.

Like the little green sub, in my build there was no way to disable it, and we were pretty worried that this "stealth meter" was not optional. Florin assured me it is for easy realism options.

Like I said, our past experiences have made us wary (and jumpy!), me included, but I think these guys know their stuff. Thumbs Up

More to come when the next and final preview is done.

Neal

Neal Stevens · Joined: 25 Jan 1997 Posts: 3517 Location: Houston, Texas

Vonotto · Joined: 07 Jul 2002 Posts: 551 Location: Alexandria, Va

Let me just say one thing here:

WE ARE DOOMED DOOMED I TELL YOU.

Joking

Lanzfeld · Joined: 10 Jan 2002 Posts: 1256 Location: Reston, VA

Neal....and to all others that are worried about hardcore TDC (me...LOL),

I just realized, and I am happy about it, that we may not need the periscope bearing indicator to be in one degree increments. I see that bearing to target is not something that we set in this game ourselves. It looks like we will set range, AOB, and speed. The bearing to target will probably be whatever bearing the scope is trained on so we don't have to set it. That would be cool and the equivalent of saying "Mark". Thumbs Up

For this to work to things are critical. The bearing has to be updated in the TDC very quickly and there can be no error between the bearing the scope is pointing at and the real bearing (error from SH-2 (thanks REDWINE)). Thumbs Up

JJ · Joined: 22 Apr 2004 Posts: 879 Location: Oulu, Finland

LOL @ Vonotto

Rotfl

martes86 · Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 4:34 pm Post subject:

Letum · Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 4:53 pm Post subject:

Lanzfeld · Joined: 10 Jan 2002 Posts: 1256 Location: Reston, VA

It is kinda realistic. I just pretend that the crew is reading the bearing from my scope. Works for me....and I am hard to please with these things.
Thumbs Up

Vonotto · Joined: 07 Jul 2002 Posts: 551 Location: Alexandria, Va

OlegM · Joined: 25 Dec 2001 Posts: 466 Location: Zagreb, Croatia

Guys, it's OFFICIAL, they had the Red Triangle in Das Boot!

Rock

Oleg

OlegM · Joined: 25 Dec 2001 Posts: 466 Location: Zagreb, Croatia

New evidence, so we're indeed DOOMED!

Argh

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Oleg

Letum · Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 6:50 pm Post subject:

Wootastic! Thumbs Up

Lanzfeld · Joined: 10 Jan 2002 Posts: 1256 Location: Reston, VA

Now that is funny. Joking

OlegM · Joined: 25 Dec 2001 Posts: 466 Location: Zagreb, Croatia

Don't go on patrol without it!

Oleg