Static Dread Sonar Guide — Triage Crew Tasks

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Label sonar contacts as confirmed, probable, or unknown; then assign crew to the most immediate verified risk without ignoring their condition.

Classify a Static Dread sonar contact by evidence before spending crew capacity on it. Use three labels: confirmed, probable, and unknown. A repeated military-like course may support “probable vessel”; one strange return does not. The official premise explicitly allows contacts that are not submarines or ordinary life.

Sonar-to-task triage

1. Record what the display or report actually shows: bearing, movement, repetition, and any accompanying event.
2. Assign a confidence label without naming an unverified creature or enemy.
3. Check the submarine's immediate essential functions and the condition of the crew members available.
4. Assign the smallest task that answers the confirmed risk. Preserve capacity for a second contact, a systems failure, or a crew crisis.
5. Before a hard choice, state both costs: what happens to the mission and what happens to the person. The game is built around that conflict.
6. After the result, update the contact label and your understanding of the crew member. Do not generalize one scripted event into a universal rule until it repeats.

This is a decision framework, not a fake walkthrough. Steam confirms task assignment, discipline, madness, sonar scanning, and choice-driven horror, while the developer describes the goal as trying to save the crew after a catastrophic aurora event. Neither source publishes every branch or a numeric sanity formula.

For release facts and the larger role of the captain's right hand, return to the Static Dread Submarine guide.

Sources

• Static Dread: The Submarine on Steam
• Static Dread: The Submarine at Solarsuit Games