Yea, that has bugged me ever since the early days of uboat, I wish it would automatically be removed. but it doesn't and no person on stream seem to remove it before diving.

BETA still. not yet fully released

This is the beta test of the 1.0 update, still a little work to do, but it's not "fully released". They've let all players access the 1.0 build by opting into the beta on steam. My understanding is it's just some polish and bug fixing at this point. So yeah, this IS the "full game" but it's still in testing and not "officially" released and finalised, you can just opt in to play it at this point.

I haven't played this one yet but I'm a long term vet of the genre so I hope this will answer your question - There's a really big problem with the automatic map marking systems in these types of games. They will take a practically infinite amount of information and plot it with an extreme level of precision faster than you can blink. They even collect that information faster than a human crew could possibly take it in. Especially in an engagement where you're not running radar, the precision factor alone is just huge. Stadimeter readings, especially at long distance, are really not very accurate. The speed issue is big too. To be honest with you though, once you have a certain level of experience with dealing with those problems, it doesn't matter that much and manual plotting starts to become kind of tedious. I can and have used manual plotting to set up complicated attacks on convoys where I hit multiple targets within that convoy simultaneously. I even put up a tutorial series on how to do this in silent hunter 4 some time ago. To be honest, I long wished that there was a setting in the silent hunter games that would automatically plot the radar contacts but leave you to plot the periscope and/or hydrophone contacts manually. It would probably have been about the best balance between reducing the tedious nature of doing it by hand while maintaining the uncertainty that goes with some of less precise sensors.

@@ColonelSandersLite Well, uncertainty can be programmed easily. It's just math. The ancient Harpoon games do so. Actually I've become fond of ancient games because although, naturally they are ugly as sin compared to today, very often the modelling of performance, including the enemy, is vastly better. Like most, but not all of the Jane's series games. My understanding is some of the games of that era came as close as they could without delving into classified information and some were even good enough to be used as real world training aids.

@@dailyqwikbytes It's really not as easy to do realistic uncertainty as you might think for a whole lot of reasons. For example, let's say we just run the most basic version of it. The position of a target is plotted somewhere within 500 yards of it's true position. If there's say a 4 ship convoy in a box formation you can very easily have a plot that looks nothing like what you see out of the periscope. Or let's go with a second example - we don't know our own position relative to the earth more accurately than a couple of miles. Yet we can look with our binoculars and say that a lighthouse is on bearing 40. That would mean that we're somewhere along a specific bearing line. Then how do you correct from one moment to another? Say our position is plotted somewhere then we see the lighthouse. Do we just teleport possibly ruining a whole plot? Additionally, I can only think of a single video game franchise, of any genre, that gave you deliberately inaccurate maps and it wasn't a naval sim. There may be more that I don't know about but it's very rare anyways. Edit - To be clear though, I'm not saying that these things are impossible to deal with from a programming point of view. Only that they are a lot more difficult and complicated than it seems at a surface level. Besides which, it's not a question of "can they" but more a question of "do they". As far as I'm seeing in this game and the more sucessful historical subs sims, they don't.

I dont think its too hard to learn, theres tutorials ingame and most things are automatically set up. Theres also many settings and difficulties so you can choose how much should be automated. Personally I like hardcore milsim so I always play 100% realism

Thank you so much for you generous tip! Regarding your comment from yesterday about the timing of the Spanish civil war - it will always vary some... What got need to be able to do is send over the panzer divisions. If it happens again, I suggest you continue the tutorial as closely as possible, and either: 1) continue the tutorial, and send the Spanish volunteers at the same time I do - in other words, miss a few weeks fighting. The war latest 36-39 in real life, so there should be time. Once you've done it a time or two, you'll get the hang of it. 2) I'm going to do a separate video, just for the Spanish civil war, as many people are experiencing it at different times. I'll try insert it, outside the tutorial series, as a "if Spanish war starts early, watch this specific video." Thanks again for your generosity, and giving me the prompt to address the Spanish civil war properly - together with the other comments regarding the similar issue, it's finally twisted my arm into addressing it properly!

I'm very pleased you found it so useful. Please watch: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o9N-g7Whvq2sY6c.html to see how to do the Navy Invasion. I'm aware it's not part of the series, but it shows how to continue. Thanks again for your words

@@gameswithbrains Ohh nice. Really nice to see a creator care so much to help people to understand the game

Thank you my friend, despite your economic ideas 🤣

Keep going regardless... There's always a degree of randomness. So long as they don't start attacking you, before we're ready.

It's possible it uses your Simbrief ID. to find this, log into your Simbrief account, and go into your account settings. You Simbrief ID will be a series of 6-8 numbers. They could make it more clear that the ID is not the same as the username, I agree. I hope this helps

Thank you for that tidbit. I usually suck at getting words right, but I might just be able to remember this one. Cheers!

Thank you so much for your kind words and for helping to support what I do here on the channel. Very kind