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Keep your periscope wet!
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Keep your periscope wet!

Description
Fully compatible with full release 1.0 and beyond. Ignore any outdated messages
NEW CAREER REQUIRED.
Works with any stabilisation setting.

Increases visibility of periscopes to enemy. Observation scope more visible than attack scope. Speed increases visibility.

Patch 1.1: Resized TYPE VII periscope lengths to be accurate. In vanilla, max height from top edge of conning tower is: Attack scope 5.5m, Observation scope 3.5m. In mod it is Attack scope 5.3m, Observation scope 2.7m

In vanilla you can have both at maximum extension, and on a clear calm day, a freighter will sail straight past you without ever seeing it.

The intention of this mod is to encourage you to keep it wet!

On a calm clear day, at KF (Forward 1), with one periscope at maximum extension, you have a chance to be spotted by a freighter at 2km

If you increase speed your chances of being detected go up considerably.

Within 1km you want to be constantly keeping it wet. Maybe max 4 seconds. As was doctrine IRL.

Within 500m just peeps. 1-2 seconds, not enough for a stadimeter/ chrono check, and constantly washed over by waves. Detection is based off a chance so you may or may not get lucky.

YOU MUST MAKE SURE THE OBSERVATION PERISCOPE PRIORITY IN THE SAILOR TASK IS SET TO ZERO (otherwise they'll constantly use it and get you spotted.)

Make sure all officers have a set task so they dont decide to use observation scope.

Make sure officer at depth steers! To keep you level.

I ALSO HIGHLY RECOMMEND HAVING UP AND DOWN PERISCOPE KEYS SET ON YOUR MOUSE so you can constantly adjust

Highly recommend this mod which makes it so ONLY skipper uses scope and only uses it manually https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3321880507

Best of luck!
35 Comments
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Joewlpc 5 Aug @ 5:21pm 
works as intended, however cant agree with the enime seeing me from 2km away at night
Photon 3 Jul @ 3:10pm 
@червь @millnate I figured out how to fix the problem with the game launching as soon as you click the mod. Go into the workshop folder \workshop\content\494840\3304713956 and delete the Preview.jpg file. Somehow the launcher doesn't like the thumbnail for the mod and it just launches the game. If you delete the image then you can click on it and enable it correctly.
tequilatibbs  [author] 7 May @ 12:32am 
@ColdSpaCe7 yes it still works. The sailor task screen is shown in the images above.
MightyThor769 6 May @ 4:07am 
does this mod still work?
MightyThor769 6 May @ 4:06am 
YOU MUST MAKE SURE THE OBSERVATION PERISCOPE PRIORITY IN THE SAILOR TASK IS SET TO ZERO (otherwise they'll constantly use it and get you spotted.)..... how do i do that?
tequilatibbs  [author] 27 Feb @ 4:14am 
This mod is working in 2025 patch 12 and beyond.

It is also working as intended. I tested in storm and you still get intermittent view (often covered by waves which is good for your stealth). In a storm you would not be making an attack though anyway, but it is still possible with this mod.
червь 7 Feb @ 2:33am 
cannot turn on this mod, my game just launches... probably its broken for now
Thinkflight 11 Nov, 2024 @ 7:49pm 
@tequilatibbs Love the mod but I agree with er.tz - "Observation scope at 2.7m become not usable in most situations." This seems to be the case.
Any chance you could update this so the observation scope is back to its default height so its usable but still keeping the ability for it to be spotted better than the attack scope?

Right now in 80% of my play-though the observation scope is not usable unless super close due to wave height which was not an issue vanilla. I also feel the attack scope doesn't have the total height it should get being slightly lower too. I think this is more of a wave height issue for the sim where those default heights were adjusted for the waves instead of total realism via height.
tequilatibbs  [author] 24 Oct, 2024 @ 12:22am 
er.tz well that would have been the case IRL then. It is the accurate height. You manually set your depth higher than the periscope button goes without breaching. If its a storm then you would stay under.
er.tz 23 Oct, 2024 @ 10:17pm 
Observation scope at 2.7m become not usable in most situations.