Just started playing the game and it's so addicting, this video did help me actually hit something and it made the game even more interesting rather than doing everything automatically
Just got the game during Summer Steam Sale. Haven't played yet, but looking forward to it. I've been playing subsims since "Gato" on MSDOS. Totally hooked on the SH franchise, especially SH4. Your video are the best tutorials. No extraneous yammering, and step-by-step explanations.
You've just earned yourself a subscriber! My first ever attempt at manual targeting following your guide and it worked like a charm, 3 targets at the same time, all of them a hit and sink! Thanks for the amazing tutorial!
I just purchased this game today after having trouble playing Silent Hunter 3, I’ve been looking for a submarine game for years but never knew these games were out there all this time (not really a PC gamer). I’m already having a blast with this game it’s so cool, just need to get used to assigning crew members what to do etc…..especially the torpedo fighting, glad I found your vid……subscribed.
Thank you very much. I was totally lost on how to find the targets course. And did not know about auto clicking intercept course and assigning officers to the jobs. Learned several things. Good tutorial.
First, massive thank you for all of the tutorials. I was completely lost in the sauce for a while and your videos got me out in the deeps and having fun. A week in to the game now, I am having a blast! You rock. Now to my question, I am having a miserable time on a mission where I need to sink the "Empire Whatever" who is one of about 25 boats in a convoy. That convoy is heavily surrounded by corvettes and battleships. I try to get close, sneak style, but by the time I even identify one boat my discipline runs out or I get spotted. How do I sneak in to such a big circle of ships, identify the correct ship, kill it, and still get out alive?? I'm sorry if this is in one of your videos from a few months ago and have already explained. Big fan of your work, and thanks again.
Thanks very much! Get out ahead of the convoy, drop to at least 30m . Kill everything that makes noise. When you get into the baffles of the lead escorts roll up to just shy of PD, say 10m and take a peek with the scope. Rinse and repeat. There's no fighting discipline, you just have to react fast when it goes down. Kill your target, get low and slow and get gone. If you have to disengage and pick up the convoy again, do so. Happy hunting.
For speed what I do is put a point on front of the ship, give it 15 seconds, another point, measure the distance, divide that by 15, then multiply that by 3.6. This only works when you are in metric mode. I like this method bc it’s extremely fast and relatively simple.
So my mistake was not closing the torpedo tubes while changing targets... I was getting a headache from this! I learned a lot about how to measure and get the angles manually though, but doing it all from the attack periscope I always hit a target then miss the second (because I didn't close the torpedo page...). That will help for sure though! Great video, thank you!
Good video. Much clearer presentation than your first tutorial series. You did forget to mention that you can click the camera icon in the lower left to view the kill in cloae up.
@@Lite_lySalted your angle on bow calculations were much easier for me to understand today. I must have been half asleep on the first tutorial series. Well done.
Perfect, was looking foward for this video as so far since I've started this was my biggest problem, amaizing! p.s. sound quality seems better as well :)
LOL, "Mr Watcher". I'm sure Herr 'Vechter' wouldn't even know you were talking about him. Excellent guide. You gave me options I didn't even realise I had. The only bit I didn't understand is how you calculated course from the periscope tools. It just seemed arbitrary to me.
During the build that this video was filmed in, it was fairly arbitrary. Where we a re build 131 now, I would suggest using map tools, or using AoB from the video here: th-cam.com/video/kqVO-ESAm8s/w-d-xo.html
Very well done tutorials. Picked the game up over over weekend, and watched all your tutorials this evening. Exceedingly helpful - you leave no stone unturned, offer helpful insights and deliver the content with great clarity (and a helpful/positive tone!).
Lite_ly - extremely helpful video. I wish the dev team would hire you to make official tutorial videos! The last piece is me translating the mapping part into the TDC mod, which is its own animal.
Did you learn all this in the Royal Navy? Or did you have to figure all this out yourself? I've been a professional land surveyor for 12 years now. Before this I was in the Military and I never really understood maps. contours and all that. I had a good idea and could navigate ok, but I always felt like I was "hoping I knew what I was looking at". Now I have a decade of making maps professionally and can read them like clock work. I don't even need a Legend, ha. Life seems to throw things at you you don't have skills or experience in, when you need it the most. Then you wish you had all that you have now, back when you needed it. Its almost useless now, unless you pass it on. And you sure do Sir. Thank you.
Thanks for the great tutorial. With all the torpedo tutorials out there this one makes it easy to understand. One question: do these methods require hard-core aiming mode turned on for the manual aspect of it? Thanks salted. Keep up the highly appreciated videos. Hitting the subscribe button right after I enter this period. SUBBED!
@@Lite_lySalted Thanks for the info. I have done some research on uboats since I bought this game and I come to find out the movie called Das Boot was made in regards to U96. The ingame names are the same as the real life sailors that were commissioned to the sub. The logo on the conning tower is even the real deal.. How cool is that!
Are the in-game tool giving bad information ? Or are they rounded too like map based information that you manually entered. Because if the game calculated 6 knot from periscope and 5.6 knot from map, it's a big difference.
The game tutorial doesn't really tackle the information needed for manual play. The periscope will never show decimels, it rounds to the nearest knot. You only need decimals when entering manually
Does distance need to be recalculated regularly, say for instance I'm working up the solutions on multiple ships - by the time I finish the third ship is the fact that the first one has continued transit made my distance out of date or is it compensated for automatically?
Great Tutorial video, thanks for your hard work. But, still, can you teach us how to launch a torpedo from a long distance, such as 2~4 nautical miles away with manual aiming. I only have a 20% chance to hit the target. And this skill is really important, especially when encountering a big convoy, and 2 nautical miles is the minimum distance I can reach, otherwise, I will be spotted by the escort destroyer or cruiser.
really helpfull. My last hunt was a shame. 10 torpidos in the wind and no idea why it didn't work. Now, at least, I have some ideas for the next time. I just don't understand why we don't need to make the uboat face the target
at 2:45 you clicked on the officer and a window popped up which let you quickly pick what job he was doing - how do you do that / what is the control for that?
When doing the angle on bow, you can see on the map that the ship is angled away from you, but on the statimeter tool, you have to set it ever so slightly towards yourself to be able to enter the 115 degrees. Is that supposed to happen?
@@Lite_lySalted that makes total sense! 1 last thing I was wondering. Wether the ship is going in a direction towards your left or right, you could end up with 90 degrees. How would the game know wether you mean AOB towards the left or right?
Could you explain the calculations again with the new options for determining course that came with the new update? My manually calculated torpedos always miss.
@@Lite_lySalted I guess my confusion stems from the input, since you plug 115° into the angle on bow tool, which then registers as a true course of 98.9°, but when you calculate using the map you get -145°, which then translates to 215°, which is nowhere near 98.9°. Is it just different because you're now viewing it on the map instead of in the periscope? Thank you
@@heavyharris5580 ah, I see what you're getting at. The course tool does not register as true course unless you physically type the number in. When you dial the arrow, the value gets represented by some equation that the game does in the background. Maybe some representation of relative bearing. I honestly couldn't say. The math doesn't check out. I'd recommend using the true course method, or get the TDC mod if realism is what you're after.
Great series this are :) i learned to play Uboat watching youre video's thank you!! I have a issue with torpedoes, last night i fully hit a destroyer in its side, and it has only 5% damage?????? Even with all my torpedoes i would not able to sink it! In silent hunter you only need 1 torpedo
Thanks! I'd recommend no less than 2 for destroyers. The damage box can be misleading, but sometimes depending on where you hit, it can take several shots.
@@Lite_lySalted What other way is there to aim without manual angle on bow calculations? Is using the map to find heading the same as manual angle on bow calculations?
@@deruttnaavokadosarna3968 I get that, I was just pointing out that the Maths in this game are easy since the game gives you every answers. I don't do much Maths either, I mean I have to for work but it's just calculating feet, inches and their decimals, nothing too fancy.
Late for the party but here I go anyway after reading the other response: It makes you interested in math because it is easy to understand with examples AND a (probable) hobby of yours, gaming. Learning while doing something enjoyable is completely different than cramming a textbook, it's the same for languages, history and anything else, the other user says "the game is easy because it makes all the calculations for you"...it's extremely wrong...I've studied nautical sciences and I can say, the manual methods shown in this video is what we use to make calculations, of course, most of the data is already shown to us through modern equipment such as through ECDIS but, when needed, we do use Radar and onboard equipment to make those same calculations, the only difference is that it's not in this "eagle view" way.
@@baluranha From memory, my point was you just draw a line between two dots, get an exact number which is easier than real life calculation are. Getting the angle of the ship would be harder and so would be getting its speed. It probably wouldn't be off by much, but the game does give you exact answers easily, making Maths easier. I've never been on a ship other than fishing boats or docked commercial transport ships, so I can't say I'm an expert on the subject, it's just my observation and logic from what is given to us in the game. I'll take your word for it, that it easier than it seems for someone with no experience on the subject at hand.
@@Lite_lySalted I did that, but when I shot the torpedoes at the ship they went wide left…….this has happened 2 or 3 times but I’m sure the angle of bow was off if I’m missing that wide….lol Also I just saw at the top of the AOB box that you can switch from angle to course, didn’t know you can switch between the 2.
Hi great tutorial you explained everything great and very calm. It really helped me alot. But my periscope looks different then yours, the actual lense you see through is very small in my game, which makes it hard to do the measurments. Is there a button I have to press to get it to fullscreen?
@@Lite_lySalted So I wanted to ask why are the waves in video so low? Because in my game there are so high, that my periscope is under water half the time which makes it really difficult to do the measurments. Sorry for asking such stupid questions but im entirely new to all of this.
I'm so confused, no matter how close I get to enemy ships the status never goes beyond the greyed out flag and the aim percentage never increases despite having one man on the aiming periscope and another on the other periscope. I got close enough to use the deck gun and it still never gave me an option to engage.
@@Lite_lySalted Well I managed to destroy a few ships manually which, considering I hadn't played before was quite an achievement, lol. But yes, I realised afterwards that I had everything set too realistic.
Thank you for this series, it's been a massive help in grasping this game. A question though, when would I want to change the speed of my torpedoes? And last wouldn't the angle of bow change in relation to you as the torpedoes went to your target? If so why wouldn't you just always use true direction? Sorry for the heavy questions. I'm really new to this style of game.
Happy to help! A faster torp is harder for a warship to avoid, or can come in handy with a ship that is rapidly changing speed. Once the torp is fired, AoB is programmed into it to move to X space, so continual changes don't affect it so long as the target stays on course/speed. True course is more accurate; up to the player to decide how to calculate. Happy hunting!
I understand 3 minutes 15 is very convenient but as an occasional streamer of this game, sitting still for 195 seconds without much to talk about feels like an age. The periscope method is obviously great for stream entertainment but I'm often finding it difficult to approach a the perfect angle. What I have been doing instead is stopping the stopwatch after 30 seconds, looking at my 2nd monitor and calculating metres per second and then dropping that figure into a mps to knots calculator. That seems to be working... but can anyone suggest something thats just as fast if not faster?
In your examples, I see you are always at the beam of target, to measure its speed with chronometer and distance with telemeter. You do not say that you must set a course to see target in that position. If ship is not seen in its length, how can mechanical calculator evaluate its characteristics? (assuming ship has been recognized) Playing not in realistic way (3rd choice) we are too far from reality, it is a game. I have to investigate the way WWII u-boot commander really effected torpedo calculations. Anyway i started with U-boot only since few days and if I resist its difficulty, i will do a more correct consideration later.
Awesome tutorials, thanks for the help! When you get a message saying "interception not possible" after detecting a target, is it best to plot a course manually towards them? Or is there something else I should be doing?
I don't seem to have the option to warm torpedoes... Might be a dumb question, but with the automatic firing solutions, does all the math still need to be done to hit, or does the "launch at this target" button in the target card suffice?
@@Lite_lySalted Thanks! Started playing today and it's a bit of a learning curve. Getting some Xcom vibes with how often my 100% shots manage to miss though
man, that course tool is so imprecise. I wonder if I'm doing anything wrong. when I fire with that estimation I always miss, torpedo passes behind the ship. do you have any tips? even on this video it's possible to see how far is the estimation compared to the number you got on the map.
sry but i really need to ask how do i warm the torpedo because when i try to use one of the offiser or enginer or anyone i dont get the option to warm the torpedo?
How come every time I go to an area where I get a message to go investigate and when I get there the ship or enemy uboat is no where to found, all the while expending fuel doing patrols etc…..just a little frustrating is all.
i just got the game but i cant seem to hit much. To find the speed do i need to be directly to the side of the ship? The course also confuses me. when you do it with the protractor its 115 and gets put to 98 something but when you do true course its 215. that seems like a big difference to me so im not sure how that works. cool video would love a response because im struggling to hit anything.
@@Lite_lySalted okay thank you. also i figured out how im gonna play. when you set crew to find torpedo calculations when you do one manually it adds to theirs so all i have to do is find speed and distance and then by that time they find course and its faster that way. but thanks for the help. love your videos im trying to find as much info on this game as possible. could you possibly make a mods video at somepoint to show some good mods because i have one that i like but im sure there are more thank you.
@@Lite_lySalted @Lite_ly Salted Thank you. Another question about the course. You show 2 ways to find the course of the ship, by either using the tool or typing in the course directly. However in both scenarios you end up with two different results for the true course, which left me confused. I noticed when trying to replicate what I learned here. (7:51 and 9:31)
@@Newwgo yes, by going purely visually, there is a large error percentage, as your trying to point the arrow roughly in the direction the ship looks like its going in. If you do it this way, keep dispersion of salvos high, to maximize your chance of hitting. Much more accurate to go by AOB from the map.
Also, true course and AOB via the tool are very different. One is based with 0 degrees being north, and the other is based off 0 degrees being the nose of your ship
Watched this twice now. I must say, you have an extremely good way about you in terms of explaining things clearly, calmly and nicely. Seriously, just keep doing what you're doing
@@Lite_lySalted Sorry to bother you again, but just one thing - you know when you do the true course, and you say the negative figure is what you enter for East to West travel, if it's West to East thus a positive number, do you enter this straight in as it is, or do you have to add that number to 180, and enter that total figure into the heading of the target manually?
Just started playing the game and it's so addicting, this video did help me actually hit something and it made the game even more interesting rather than doing everything automatically
I'm glad
Thank you. This is such a great tutorial that breaks down the options and tools really clearly. One of the best tutorials I've watched.
Very kind of you to say, thanks!
I second that, best tutorial!!!!
Same here. 👍🏾
Just got the game during Summer Steam Sale. Haven't played yet, but looking forward to it. I've been playing subsims since "Gato" on MSDOS. Totally hooked on the SH franchise, especially SH4. Your video are the best tutorials. No extraneous yammering, and step-by-step explanations.
Very kind of you to say, thanks!
When the game blows up, so will this channel! Really helping me out Salty!
Happy to help!
You are a great narrator! Thanks for the tutorial!
I appreciate you saying so, thanks!
Hey man, this was super super very good tutorial, very well narrated and structured. Thanks.
I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for the feedback!
You've just earned yourself a subscriber! My first ever attempt at manual targeting following your guide and it worked like a charm, 3 targets at the same time, all of them a hit and sink! Thanks for the amazing tutorial!
Thanks! Happy hunting!
I just purchased this game today after having trouble playing Silent Hunter 3, I’ve been looking for a submarine game for years but never knew these games were out there all this time (not really a PC gamer).
I’m already having a blast with this game it’s so cool, just need to get used to assigning crew members what to do etc…..especially the torpedo fighting, glad I found your vid……subscribed.
@@Akumaa2000 thanks!
I have started UBOAT a few days ago and this is by far the best tutorial out there.
Appreciate you saying so!
Thank you very much. I was totally lost on how to find the targets course. And did not know about auto clicking intercept course and assigning officers to the jobs. Learned several things. Good tutorial.
Thanks!
First, massive thank you for all of the tutorials. I was completely lost in the sauce for a while and your videos got me out in the deeps and having fun. A week in to the game now, I am having a blast! You rock. Now to my question, I am having a miserable time on a mission where I need to sink the "Empire Whatever" who is one of about 25 boats in a convoy. That convoy is heavily surrounded by corvettes and battleships. I try to get close, sneak style, but by the time I even identify one boat my discipline runs out or I get spotted. How do I sneak in to such a big circle of ships, identify the correct ship, kill it, and still get out alive?? I'm sorry if this is in one of your videos from a few months ago and have already explained. Big fan of your work, and thanks again.
Thanks very much! Get out ahead of the convoy, drop to at least 30m . Kill everything that makes noise. When you get into the baffles of the lead escorts roll up to just shy of PD, say 10m and take a peek with the scope. Rinse and repeat. There's no fighting discipline, you just have to react fast when it goes down. Kill your target, get low and slow and get gone. If you have to disengage and pick up the convoy again, do so. Happy hunting.
For speed what I do is put a point on front of the ship, give it 15 seconds, another point, measure the distance, divide that by 15, then multiply that by 3.6. This only works when you are in metric mode. I like this method bc it’s extremely fast and relatively simple.
cheers for that it's just what I was looking for as I was making a couple of silly mistakes in my calculations.
Happy to help!
The one I been waiting on...
thanks for the best tutorial series. before this i have no idea how to fire torpedo at multiple target like how i did in the Silent Hunter
@@WilWatra happy to help!
I love how much math goes into this game, it really makes you feel like a captain in some war movie
That plus and minus thing AT curse really helped. Thank you!
Happy to help!
Your teaching is just awesome. :)
Makes it much more interessting to manually get the target informations.
Very kind of you to say, thanks!
@@Lite_lySalted Are you using any mods?
@@Harte74 check the vid description
Very good. Clearest tutorial I've watched on torped targeting. Ok!
Glad to help
Thanks!
Really appreciate the support!
So my mistake was not closing the torpedo tubes while changing targets... I was getting a headache from this! I learned a lot about how to measure and get the angles manually though, but doing it all from the attack periscope I always hit a target then miss the second (because I didn't close the torpedo page...). That will help for sure though! Great video, thank you!
Happy to help!
The stunning thing is that this tutorial are not in the game, you are the best
Kind of you to say, thanks!
Good video. Much clearer presentation than your first tutorial series. You did forget to mention that you can click the camera icon in the lower left to view the kill in cloae up.
Thanks! This one was more about the solution rather than the extras
@@Lite_lySalted your angle on bow calculations were much easier for me to understand today. I must have been half asleep on the first tutorial series. Well done.
Perfect, was looking foward for this video as so far since I've started this was my biggest problem, amaizing! p.s. sound quality seems better as well :)
Appreciate the feedback, thanks
Excellent tutorial, many thanks for this. Can't wait for the new update in Oct.
Happy to help
This is amazing, Very clearing explained, Thank you so much.
You have helped me a lot for this game, specially for the heading of the ship ! TY very much !
Happy to help
this is great, im going to try to use it here in a second, but im trying to sneak up on a heavily guarded convoy so i need to do that first.
LOL, "Mr Watcher". I'm sure Herr 'Vechter' wouldn't even know you were talking about him.
Excellent guide. You gave me options I didn't even realise I had. The only bit I didn't understand is how you calculated course from the periscope tools. It just seemed arbitrary to me.
During the build that this video was filmed in, it was fairly arbitrary. Where we a re build 131 now, I would suggest using map tools, or using AoB from the video here: th-cam.com/video/kqVO-ESAm8s/w-d-xo.html
Very well done tutorials. Picked the game up over over weekend, and watched all your tutorials this evening. Exceedingly helpful - you leave no stone unturned, offer helpful insights and deliver the content with great clarity (and a helpful/positive tone!).
Very kind of you to say, thanks!
Rewatching this because I haven't played in forever... thanks again!
Glad it's still helpful!
@@Lite_lySalted Quality guide :)
@@LilGamingYes much obliged
Wow, now I can really start enjoying this game, thanks for a brilliant tutorial😊
Glad to help! Happy hunting
Lite_ly - extremely helpful video. I wish the dev team would hire you to make official tutorial videos! The last piece is me translating the mapping part into the TDC mod, which is its own animal.
Very kind of you to say, thanks
Excellent. Best explanation ever bar none.
Thanks!
feels like im taking a trig class learning to take these calculations manually lmao. thank you though. this has helped!
I'm glad!
Thank you, the AOB confuses me. That calculation you gave is so easy! Love it.
Glad to help!
Cheers! Didnt know that you should dive deeper for the hydrophone!
Glad to help
How do you fire at multiple ships I tried it but it didn’t work
Thanks for this guide, it is much better than the tutorial in game
Happy to help
I still cant hit a single torpedo but this was nontheless very helpful thank you sir!
Happy hunting!
Very well explained! Just what i´m looking for.
Thanks for the feedback!
Thank you, Kapitän!!! For some reason AOB wasn't clicking in my head.
You make the aiming seem easy.
Took me a while to get there lol
hey man congratulations on you and your chanel and your editing for making these vids i really liked them :) keep up the good work captain
Thanks!
@@Lite_lySalted i still suck big time at calculating the right angle tho , i have tried so many diffrent ways and i still get it wrong
@@Icantfindanamewtf all I can say is that its all there in the video. Sorry.
Did you learn all this in the Royal Navy? Or did you have to figure all this out yourself? I've been a professional land surveyor for 12 years now. Before this I was in the Military and I never really understood maps. contours and all that. I had a good idea and could navigate ok, but I always felt like I was "hoping I knew what I was looking at". Now I have a decade of making maps professionally and can read them like clock work. I don't even need a Legend, ha. Life seems to throw things at you you don't have skills or experience in, when you need it the most. Then you wish you had all that you have now, back when you needed it. Its almost useless now, unless you pass it on. And you sure do Sir. Thank you.
Royal Canadian Air Force, actually. Thanks!
Just great tutorials!! my compliments
Thanks, glad you enjoyed them!
Straight to the point and simple
Happy to oblige!
Thanks for the great tutorial. With all the torpedo tutorials out there this one makes it easy to understand. One question: do these methods require hard-core aiming mode turned on for the manual aspect of it?
Thanks salted. Keep up the highly appreciated videos.
Hitting the subscribe button right after I enter this period. SUBBED!
Thanks for the feedback! No, you don't have to enable hard-core. You can leave it off and overwrite the auto calc.
@@Lite_lySalted
Thanks for the info.
I have done some research on uboats since I bought this game and I come to find out the movie called Das Boot was made in regards to U96. The ingame names are the same as the real life sailors that were commissioned to the sub. The logo on the conning tower is even the real deal..
How cool is that!
You got a new Sub... amazing tutorial mate
Thanks very much!
thanks for the assist Salted. I was really getting frustrated not hitting stuff.... ..my monitor was taking a flight out the window..smh
Happy to help!
Are the in-game tool giving bad information ? Or are they rounded too like map based information that you manually entered. Because if the game calculated 6 knot from periscope and 5.6 knot from map, it's a big difference.
The game tutorial doesn't really tackle the information needed for manual play. The periscope will never show decimels, it rounds to the nearest knot. You only need decimals when entering manually
Does distance need to be recalculated regularly, say for instance I'm working up the solutions on multiple ships - by the time I finish the third ship is the fact that the first one has continued transit made my distance out of date or is it compensated for automatically?
It's not done automatically. Best practice is take your distance reading while flooding the tubes, fire as soon after you take the bearing as you can.
0:18 how do you bring up this screen where you can change what the officer is doing?
Tab. All commands are covered in the tutorial series.
Great tutorial! Thank you!
Happy to help
Great explanation video. Thanks
Glad you liked it!
Great Tutorial video, thanks for your hard work. But, still, can you teach us how to launch a torpedo from a long distance, such as 2~4 nautical miles away with manual aiming. I only have a 20% chance to hit the target. And this skill is really important, especially when encountering a big convoy, and 2 nautical miles is the minimum distance I can reach, otherwise, I will be spotted by the escort destroyer or cruiser.
Using these methods will easily work at that 2nm. Do NOT try to fire at 4nm, none of the torpedoes have the range to make it to target
really helpfull. My last hunt was a shame. 10 torpidos in the wind and no idea why it didn't work. Now, at least, I have some ideas for the next time. I just don't understand why we don't need to make the uboat face the target
Becaise torpdeos can steer. Happy hunting!
So we can run along side a convoy and launch torpedo ? that's so cool ! Thanks !
@@Teneombre yep! Happy to help!
Btw, I guess it works also for the rear torpedo ? (sorry to ask you, but you are the only one who actually allow me to touch a bot with torpedo ^^)
@@Teneombre yes. I have a video up dedicated to torpedo types and how best to use them, if you're interested
Makes a lot more sense seeing it properly done lol.
We all start in the same place lol
Just sunk a County class cruiser thanks to you.
Happy to help!
Subbed for this video alone. Very efficient tutorial. German ancestors? ;D
Thanks! And no lol
at 2:45 you clicked on the officer and a window popped up which let you quickly pick what job he was doing - how do you do that / what is the control for that?
Hold TAB. I also have a video detailing keyboard commands
@@Lite_lySalted thanks and I appreciate the insanely quick response!
@@dathremo. No problem. lol I happened to be in-app when it popped up
Fantastic tutorial, thanks.
Happy to help
der Kapitän - fantastic !
Thanks!
When doing the angle on bow, you can see on the map that the ship is angled away from you, but on the statimeter tool, you have to set it ever so slightly towards yourself to be able to enter the 115 degrees. Is that supposed to happen?
AOB sort of works from the perspective of your target ship vice yours.
@@Lite_lySalted that makes total sense! 1 last thing I was wondering. Wether the ship is going in a direction towards your left or right, you could end up with 90 degrees. How would the game know wether you mean AOB towards the left or right?
One would be 90, the other would be -90
Could you explain the calculations again with the new options for determining course that came with the new update? My manually calculated torpedos always miss.
They're basically the same, some more info at 09:10 here th-cam.com/video/DqqNVKnkJ4g/w-d-xo.html
I'm confused at 6:15 it looks like you have been running the stopwatch for 6 minutes and 15 seconds.
What an odd coincidence! Watch it 615 more times and let me know if it changes pls
9:31 why are the angles you get from the angle on bow method and the map method different?
Typing numbers results in true course, as in via compass rose. Angle on bow is angle relative to your boat.
@@Lite_lySalted I guess my confusion stems from the input, since you plug 115° into the angle on bow tool, which then registers as a true course of 98.9°, but when you calculate using the map you get -145°, which then translates to 215°, which is nowhere near 98.9°. Is it just different because you're now viewing it on the map instead of in the periscope? Thank you
@@heavyharris5580 ah, I see what you're getting at. The course tool does not register as true course unless you physically type the number in. When you dial the arrow, the value gets represented by some equation that the game does in the background. Maybe some representation of relative bearing. I honestly couldn't say. The math doesn't check out. I'd recommend using the true course method, or get the TDC mod if realism is what you're after.
@@Lite_lySalted I appreciate it, thank you. The video was very helpful
@@heavyharris5580 happy to help
Mmm ok my tip don’t drink and watch this coz it’s pretty deep , these videos are gold for this game
Thanks!
Great series this are :) i learned to play Uboat watching youre video's thank you!! I have a issue with torpedoes, last night i fully hit a destroyer in its side, and it has only 5% damage?????? Even with all my torpedoes i would not able to sink it! In silent hunter you only need 1 torpedo
Thanks! I'd recommend no less than 2 for destroyers. The damage box can be misleading, but sometimes depending on where you hit, it can take several shots.
@@Lite_lySalted thanks ;) much appreciated
very well explained .. thank you :)
Glad to help
Very nice. But how you do all this stuff on 100% realistic setting where map doesn't display ships models in real time.
You can't. You have to estimate through the periscope.
Is the finding the ship’s true course more accurate than AOB, or are they both the same?
True course is more accurate
Can you move while firing a torpedo, like will it mess up the aim of the shot?
Yes, you can move. It won't do anything to your shot unless you are using manual angle on bow calculations
@@Lite_lySalted What other way is there to aim without manual angle on bow calculations? Is using the map to find heading the same as manual angle on bow calculations?
@@urgentlygaming6410 Heading (course) is not the same as AOB. As to how you do it, the only methods I know are in the video.
So the most realistic way is the periscope method?
The other ways seem like gaming the system
Well yes lol
One question: for the programming of torpedo fire, does our submarine have to be at a standstill? Thanks!
No, but it'll be less accurate if you are moving
@@Lite_lySalted Thank u for your help. Really appreciate !
@@yannickb.9237 no problem
why does this make me low-key a bit interested in math
Because it's automatic Maths? xD Just draw the line and the game tells you everything!
@@LilGamingYes it makes me interested in Math because it shows that math can be usefull not only in school. I didnt say that i’m doing any real math
@@deruttnaavokadosarna3968 I get that, I was just pointing out that the Maths in this game are easy since the game gives you every answers. I don't do much Maths either, I mean I have to for work but it's just calculating feet, inches and their decimals, nothing too fancy.
Late for the party but here I go anyway after reading the other response:
It makes you interested in math because it is easy to understand with examples AND a (probable) hobby of yours, gaming.
Learning while doing something enjoyable is completely different than cramming a textbook, it's the same for languages, history and anything else, the other user says "the game is easy because it makes all the calculations for you"...it's extremely wrong...I've studied nautical sciences and I can say, the manual methods shown in this video is what we use to make calculations, of course, most of the data is already shown to us through modern equipment such as through ECDIS but, when needed, we do use Radar and onboard equipment to make those same calculations, the only difference is that it's not in this "eagle view" way.
@@baluranha From memory, my point was you just draw a line between two dots, get an exact number which is easier than real life calculation are. Getting the angle of the ship would be harder and so would be getting its speed.
It probably wouldn't be off by much, but the game does give you exact answers easily, making Maths easier. I've never been on a ship other than fishing boats or docked commercial transport ships, so I can't say I'm an expert on the subject, it's just my observation and logic from what is given to us in the game.
I'll take your word for it, that it easier than it seems for someone with no experience on the subject at hand.
Can you do on be on how to return dock and get credit .add men .
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In target sighted how did you open up the crew portraits and tell them to go to different stations, i cant figure it out 🤔
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@@Lite_lySalted my hero
Quick question, when targeting a ship and it’s standing still and not moving….what do i put in for the chronometer numbers ??
0
@@Lite_lySalted I did that, but when I shot the torpedoes at the ship they went wide left…….this has happened 2 or 3 times but I’m sure the angle of bow was off if I’m missing that wide….lol
Also I just saw at the top of the AOB box that you can switch from angle to course, didn’t know you can switch between the 2.
@@Akumaa2000 speed 0, aob 0, distance = stadimeter has always worked for me
@@Lite_lySalted ok I’m gonna try that…..thanks.
For The T1 torpedo. Why would you want to choose the low speed setting? Does it have an advantage compared to the high speed setting or vice versa?
More accurate at low speeds.
Well done!
Thanks!
Hi great tutorial you explained everything great and very calm. It really helped me alot. But my periscope looks different then yours, the actual lense you see through is very small in my game, which makes it hard to do the measurments. Is there a button I have to press to get it to fullscreen?
Happy to help! Select a different view mode, you're on default. Tutorial 2.
Thamk you for your quick answer! I now understand what I have to do.
@@Lite_lySalted So I wanted to ask why are the waves in video so low? Because in my game there are so high, that my periscope is under water half the time which makes it really difficult to do the measurments. Sorry for asking such stupid questions but im entirely new to all of this.
@@cmdbraal7744 Raise the periscope higher, and get someone on the diving planes.
I'm so confused, no matter how close I get to enemy ships the status never goes beyond the greyed out flag and the aim percentage never increases despite having one man on the aiming periscope and another on the other periscope. I got close enough to use the deck gun and it still never gave me an option to engage.
Do you have hardcore aiming turned on?
@@Lite_lySalted Well I managed to destroy a few ships manually which, considering I hadn't played before was quite an achievement, lol. But yes, I realised afterwards that I had everything set too realistic.
@@alfreyar1893 groovy
holy shit this is gold! Too bad the devs have such horrible tutorials, I suspect they are expecting most players to use the automated targeting
Very kind of you to say, thanks
Thank you for this series, it's been a massive help in grasping this game. A question though, when would I want to change the speed of my torpedoes? And last wouldn't the angle of bow change in relation to you as the torpedoes went to your target? If so why wouldn't you just always use true direction? Sorry for the heavy questions. I'm really new to this style of game.
Happy to help! A faster torp is harder for a warship to avoid, or can come in handy with a ship that is rapidly changing speed. Once the torp is fired, AoB is programmed into it to move to X space, so continual changes don't affect it so long as the target stays on course/speed. True course is more accurate; up to the player to decide how to calculate. Happy hunting!
for me the aiming ridicule is always greyed out. i can never get help aiming at the ships for some reason. no matter how close i am.
You have hard core aiming turned on. You can't auto calculate with that enabled.
@@Lite_lySalted i just noticed i cant switch that anymore after i created the game.... :(
I understand 3 minutes 15 is very convenient but as an occasional streamer of this game, sitting still for 195 seconds without much to talk about feels like an age. The periscope method is obviously great for stream entertainment but I'm often finding it difficult to approach a the perfect angle.
What I have been doing instead is stopping the stopwatch after 30 seconds, looking at my 2nd monitor and calculating metres per second and then dropping that figure into a mps to knots calculator.
That seems to be working... but can anyone suggest something thats just as fast if not faster?
Use time compression while taking the speed check
Now I understand what I´m supposed to do :)
Happy to help!
In your examples, I see you are always at the beam of target, to measure its speed with chronometer and distance with telemeter. You do not say that you must set a course to see target in that position. If ship is not seen in its length, how can mechanical calculator evaluate its characteristics? (assuming ship has been recognized)
Playing not in realistic way (3rd choice) we are too far from reality, it is a game. I have to investigate the way WWII u-boot commander really effected torpedo calculations. Anyway i started with U-boot only since few days and if I resist its difficulty, i will do a more correct consideration later.
Awesome tutorials, thanks for the help! When you get a message saying "interception not possible" after detecting a target, is it best to plot a course manually towards them? Or is there something else I should be doing?
Thanks! That message likely means that even at best speed you won't be able to intercept before they reach port.
@@Lite_lySalted Thanks man!
I don't seem to have the option to warm torpedoes...
Might be a dumb question, but with the automatic firing solutions, does all the math still need to be done to hit, or does the "launch at this target" button in the target card suffice?
On auto you don't need to calculate anything, just wait til your solution is up nice and high and fire
@@Lite_lySalted Thanks! Started playing today and it's a bit of a learning curve.
Getting some Xcom vibes with how often my 100% shots manage to miss though
@@SerLagsalot We all start in the same place lol
Also note that a 100%solution on an alarmed ship will most likely miss, as alarmed ships change course and speed.
i fought 3 ships took down two then the last one got my while i was retreating from it
Happens to the best of us
man, that course tool is so imprecise. I wonder if I'm doing anything wrong. when I fire with that estimation I always miss, torpedo passes behind the ship. do you have any tips? even on this video it's possible to see how far is the estimation compared to the number you got on the map.
My advice would be to not use it
sry but i really need to ask how do i warm the torpedo because when i try to use one of the offiser or enginer or anyone i dont get the option to warm the torpedo?
@JokerKent15 it's called "maintenance" now
@@Lite_lySalted thank you i thought i missed something. but then i understand thank you :)
how did you compute for torpedo speed and depth? I am not sure I am doing it right.
You don't need to compute either of those. Default works on all ships.
How come every time I go to an area where I get a message to go investigate and when I get there the ship or enemy uboat is no where to found, all the while expending fuel doing patrols etc…..just a little frustrating is all.
@@Akumaa2000 the target is moving while you are traveling to it. You have to try to move yo where it will be.
Oh ok…….im still learning as I go…..😂😂
@@Akumaa2000 we all start out in the same place
Almost forgot, when I get a message to go to a certain sector is it the first 2 numbers or all 3 ? (AN714 or AN71)
@@Akumaa2000 all 3
i just got the game but i cant seem to hit much. To find the speed do i need to be directly to the side of the ship? The course also confuses me. when you do it with the protractor its 115 and gets put to 98 something but when you do true course its 215. that seems like a big difference to me so im not sure how that works. cool video would love a response because im struggling to hit anything.
No, you don't have to be to the side. 115 was the course relative to your boat. 215 was its true heading based on north being 0/360 degrees.
@@Lite_lySalted okay thank you. also i figured out how im gonna play. when you set crew to find torpedo calculations when you do one manually it adds to theirs so all i have to do is find speed and distance and then by that time they find course and its faster that way. but thanks for the help. love your videos im trying to find as much info on this game as possible. could you possibly make a mods video at somepoint to show some good mods because i have one that i like but im sure there are more thank you.
damn man I always think we have to aim our uboat like a gun but now I saw we can shot two different angle with calculations.
Happy to help
@@Lite_lySalted thanks but ı have problem my periscope is so slow man sometimes it is so fast. Is it a bug or do I have to click something ?
@@hertoramann holding shift increases the speed
Is the direction of the course selector related to the heading of your submarine or to the camera/periscope?
Periscope, if you're just pointing the arrow in the direction of travel
@@Lite_lySalted @Lite_ly Salted Thank you. Another question about the course.
You show 2 ways to find the course of the ship, by either using the tool or typing in the course directly.
However in both scenarios you end up with two different results for the true course, which left me confused.
I noticed when trying to replicate what I learned here.
(7:51 and 9:31)
@@Newwgo yes, by going purely visually, there is a large error percentage, as your trying to point the arrow roughly in the direction the ship looks like its going in. If you do it this way, keep dispersion of salvos high, to maximize your chance of hitting. Much more accurate to go by AOB from the map.
Also, true course and AOB via the tool are very different. One is based with 0 degrees being north, and the other is based off 0 degrees being the nose of your ship
@@Lite_lySalted But if you end up once with 98,9 with one method and 215 with the next one, which one is the right one to take?
As you know, shame I didn't see this earlier.
lol
Watched this twice now. I must say, you have an extremely good way about you in terms of explaining things clearly, calmly and nicely. Seriously, just keep doing what you're doing
@@WinOrBinGamingReviews thanks very much!
@@Lite_lySalted Sorry to bother you again, but just one thing - you know when you do the true course, and you say the negative figure is what you enter for East to West travel, if it's West to East thus a positive number, do you enter this straight in as it is, or do you have to add that number to 180, and enter that total figure into the heading of the target manually?
@@WinOrBinGamingReviews just enter it straight
How do u get that popup screen with all ur crew??
Hold tab