Voice Commands!

Undocumented VOICE COMMANDS.
New Commands:

• "BATTLE STATIONS" (Both defends guns and evasive mode at once).
  "FIRE" or "LAUNCH"
  ..."MORTARS" (Fires Hedgehogs).
  "HOLD DEPTH" (Stops the submarine from diving or surfacing).
  "MAP"...
  ..."DOWN" (Close Big Tactical screen).
  ..."UP" (Open Big Tatctical screen).
  "PORT TORPEDO FIRE" .....
  ..."ONE" (Fires foremost PORT torpedo from Vospers/PT Boats).
  ..."TWO" (Fires aftmost PORT torpedo from Vospers/PT Boats).
  "RIG FOR SILENCE" (Change sub dive state to engage silent running).
  "ROLL CHARGES" (Fires depth charges).
  "SET CHARGES nnn" (Configure Depth Charge explosion depth).
  ...number from 0 to 250
  "SET COURSE nnn" (Sets vehicle's compass heading).
  ...number from 0 to 360
  "SET DEPTH nnn" (Sets sub's desired depth).
  ...number from 0 to 250
  "SET HEADING nnn" (Sets vehicle's compass heading).
  ...number between 0 and 360
  "SET RUDDER nn PORT" (Sets rudder to specific degree to PORT side).
  ...number between 0 and 45
  "SET RUDDER nn STARBOARD" (Sets rudder to specific degree to STARBOARD side).
  ...number between 0 and 45
  "SET DESTINATION" (Sets a waypoint to go to).
  ...number between 0 and 360... - the heading
  ..."DEGREES"... - seperates heading/distance #'s
  ...number between 0 and 999.. - distance
  ...optional "THOUSAND"... - modifier for distance
  "STAND DOWN" (Cancel battle stations).
  "STARBOARD TORPEDO FIRE" .....
  ..."ONE" (Fires foremost STARBOARD torpedo from Vospers/PT Boats).
  ..."TWO" (Fires aftmost STARBOARD torpedo from Vospers/PT Boats).
  "TAKE EVASIVE" (Enables AI collision avoidance).
  ...Note that this command replaces "EVASIVE" (as this was being picked up too often by accident).

NOTES:

"nnn" refers to numbers.

All numbers will be given by individual digits...

ie for "100" its "ONE ZERO ZERO" and for "234" its "TWO THREE FOUR" etc

Available numbers are:

• "ZERO"
  "ONE"
  "TWO"
  "THREE"
  "FOUR"
  "FIVE"
  "SIX"
  "SEVEN"
  "EIGHT"
  "NINE"

Submarine Commands:

• "BLOW BALLAST" (Emergency surface).
  "DIVE-DIVE-DIVE" (Executes crash dive).
  "PERISCOPE DEPTH" (Brings the submarine to periscope depth).
  "RIG FOR DIVE" (Deploys submarine guns on surface).
  "RIG FOR SURFACE" (Prepares submarine to dive).
  "SURFACE THE BOAT" (Surfaces the submarine).

Miscellaneous Commands:

• "CONFIRMED" or "YES" (Yes on the yes/no dialouge).
  "NEGATIVE" or "NO" (No on the yes/no dialouge).
  "SPECTATOR" (Toggles 3rd person view on/off).

Throttle Commands:

• "AHEAD"
  ... "ONE THIRD" (Slow speed forward).
  ... "TWO THIRDS" (Moderate speed forward).
  ... "FULL" (Fast speed forward).
  ... "FLANK" (Maximum speed forward).
  "ALL STOP" (Sets engines to bring vessel to a complete stop).
  "BACK"
  ... "ONE THIRD" (Slow speed backwards).
  ... "TWO THIRDS" (Moderate speed backwards).
  ... "FULL" (Fast speed backwards).
  ... "FLANK" (Maximum speed backwards).
  "CUT ENGINES" (Stops Engines).
  "START ENGINES" (Starts Engines).

Rudder Commands:

• "HARD TO PORT" (Sets rudder to maximum PORT).
  "HARD TO STARBOARD" (Sets rudder to maximum STARBOARD).
  "HOLD COURSE" (Sets rudder to center).
  "PIVOT PORT" (Pivot turn to PORT).
  "PIVOT STARBOARD" (Pivot turn to STARBOARD).

Weapon Commands:

• "CEASE FIRE" (Stops all guns from firing).
  "DEFEND AA GUNS" (Makes the crew fire the AA guns at the nearest enemy aircraft).
  "DEFEND DECKGUNS" (Makes the crew fire the deckguns at the nearest enemy vessel).
  "FIRE" or "LAUNCH"
  ..."BOW" (Fires a bow torpedo from a submarine).
  ..."STERN" (Fires a stern torpedo from a submarine).
  ..."TUBE" (Fires a torpedo from the next available tube from a surface ship).
  "TUBES PORT" (Turns surface ship torpedo tubes to point off PORT side).
  "TUBES STARBOARD" (Turns surface ship torpedo tubes to point off STARBOARD side).

Tactical Commands:

• "BINOCULARS" (Toggles Binoculars on/off).
  "DOWN PERISCOPE" (Lowers periscope (Submarines only)).
  "DOWN TACTICAL" (Lowers tactical periscope or binoculars).
  "EVASIVE" (Enables AI collision avoidance).
  ...NOTE (this has been replaced with "TAKE EVASIVE").
  "MAP IN" (Zooms in on the tactical map).
  "MAP OUT" (Zooms out on the tactical map).
  "UP PERISCOPE" (Raises periscope (Submarines only)).
  "UP TACTICAL" (Raises tactical periscope or binoculars).
  "ZOOM IN" (Zooms in, on the binocular or periscope view).
  "ZOOM NORMAL" (Sets zoom to default 5x setting on the binocular or periscope view).
  "ZOOM OUT" (Zooms out, on the binocular or periscope view).

The only additional voice command I would like at the moment would be to specify the speed.
e.g. "SPEED 6 KNOTS"

The command I really want is one to go back to bridge from any view. I find it a pain to have to hit escape to return when so much is already voice controlled.
I would also like the bridge command to cancel the B-TAC which annoyingly gets in the way sometimes.

e.g. "RETURN TO BRIDGE"

How about adding "HOLD HATCH" so that the crew goes below or up, and you can say "HOLD HATCH" so you stop the timer at 1 sec or so, so you can stay on the bridge, and do what you want untill you want to dive ?

"RUDDER AMIDSHIPS" effectively doing what pressing the 'D' key does - I tire easily.

In binocular/tactical view:
What I would find very useful is being able to specify view direction, especially at higher magnifications (to save on mouse-ball degredation!).

e.g.

"VIEW"

..."FORWARD"

..."AFT"

..."PORT/STARBOARD BOW"

..."PORT/STARBOARD BEAM" (useful for torps on surface ships)

..."PORT/STARBOARD QUARTER"

It would give 8 view directions

This would help in tracking subs (or in my case torpedo tracks heading towards me!)

What does the "TAKE EVASIVE" exactly do? Does it zig zag the boat? Attempt to evade torps? or just collisions?

Archer, it does both

Is there a voice command for launching torpedoes from a destroyer?  Also one for swivelling the launch tubes?

Fire (Launch) Tube (fires the next available tube)
Tubes Port (turns surface ship torpedo tubes to point off to port side)

Tubes Starboard (turns surface ship torpedo tubes to point off to starboard side)

What does the "TAKE EVASIVE" exactly do? Does it zig zag the boat? Attempt to evade torps? or just collisions?

Archer, it does both

Note that ANY throttle/rudder/navigation command given after the "TAKE EVASIVE" will cancel the AI Evasive (which attempts to avoid collisions with other ships and dodge torpedos) since it assums that you (the captain) are back to giving orders about the navigation of the ship. It's a good thing to turn on if you want to man a gun and not have to worry about accidently running into a friendly or right into a spread of torpedos.

The new voice commands that will be in the N.American release (and patch) are:

• "ENGAGE"  (Assigns selected guns to fire on current target).
  "ENGAGE AA GUNS" (Assigns AA guns to fire on current target).
  "ENGAGE DECK GUNS" (Assigns deck guns to fire on current target).
  "ENGAGE TARGET"  (Assigns all guns to fire on current target).

The "HOLD HATCH" suggestion didn't quite make it in but will be in the next update.

Not sure about the status of the other suggested commands, but I bet they'll most likely make their way in as well...