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Originally Posted by Imarider
So no one know?
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As MM need to see your mod list to give a full answer but...
Honestly, visual sensors and how are detected has no sure fire answer, because there are so many variables to account for. and so man situations I learned this when creating my update mod for TMO. I spent many, many hours testing various settings in the sim.cfg so could make realistic night surface attacks, including getting inside convoys and attacking in certain conditions, mainly moonlight.
Main factors to being visually spotted are light, profile to enemy i.e. AOB, your speed, range, and fog. All of these factors work in conjunction, then others factors are enemy visual sensor type...escorts have different visual "eyes" than say a merchant, and that particular units skill level...a veteran escort will be more likely to spot you than a escort set to competent or novice, but then there are those various factors.
Yes, the lower the number in say light or fog, the lower the handicap. Example, with the darker nights mod added into TMO for more realistic nights, I had to lower light factor to 2.8, because at 3.0 they were blind with the dark nights. Any lower, they tend to get hawkeyed again so 2.8 is balance.
Same with hydrophone and sonar. With hydrophones, in TMO at least have found have to keep wave factor at 0.5 or they hear me coming a mile away in calm seas, even on silent running. However, I have lowered the thermal layer attenuation as well as the wave factor on active sonar. Result has been once I am contacted, waves don't completely nerf their sonar.
Far as the periscope. I'll need to know the mods and circumstances such as date, time, wave condition, your speed etc.