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Originally Posted by Michael Wood
Should you succeed in modifying the files to prohibit use of hydrophones on the surface, let me know and I might switch from RFB to FOTRS. Too bad, the modders did not make such use a player option.
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As has been stated, RFB has multiple sonar heads in use, similar to some mods using multiple Visual sensors to attempt to simulate an airplane's view, a crow's nest view, and a deck view. All of that adds complexity to modding the game, as well as "overlaps" that affect each other. If you restrict the hydrophone, as was stated, you lose the close-in ability of it, such that when you are under a depth charge attack, you might not be able to determine where the ship above is coming from, or might not even see the attack on its way. Now, that also happened in real life, but we were after making it to where a player can make it to retirement or make it all the way through the game, instead of being sunk each time out. To offer an "option" for the hydrophone would be prohibitively complex for us. We removed that kind of stuff from FotRSU. Each submarine would require a re-working of their nodes, sns files, as well as the associated sensors files in the library. Maybe someone will want to offer that as a sanctioned, optional add-in mod?
