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Offline J. Carney

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Re: Anyone playing Silent Hunter III?
« Reply #120 on: April 16, 2005, 08:04:53 am »
DAMN!!!

59K DWT of shipping!!!

Dracho, that's probably going to put an upper limit on singe patrol tonnage, you know. ;D +1 for a MOSE AWESOME patrol!!!
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Re: Anyone playing Silent Hunter III?
« Reply #121 on: April 16, 2005, 09:03:27 am »
+1, Dracho!  That's an awesome patrol.
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Re: Anyone playing Silent Hunter III?
« Reply #122 on: April 16, 2005, 10:25:28 am »
plus one for Manitoba and Dracho.  ;D Planes are NOT easy kills, and 50k patrols are OUTSTANDING!

Still waiting for a BB or CV kill. A CL or CA is too easy, IMO, I remember in SH2 after resupply from a German freighter, a CL and 2 DDs come on to the scene, you have to distract or kill the T/F long enough for the resupply ship to escape in the North Sea.

I'll warn you on a BB or B/C or CV that is not parked at Scapa Flow, I've played the Med scenario on SH2 many times where the task force appeared (wasn't my mission objective, but I was tempted), those babies can absorb a LOT of torps. Unrealistic IMO as the Ark Royal fell to one torp.

http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/Ships/Ark_Royal2.html
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Re: Anyone playing Silent Hunter III?
« Reply #123 on: April 16, 2005, 12:33:25 pm »
Know what though?  I accidently fired 2 torps on that patrol by hitting enter when I didn't mean to, and I had 20 gun rounds left when I parked it.  I am betting, with luck and the patience to hunt tankers, and not fat fingering anything, I can manage a 70,000 ton patrol.   ;D

Bagging a capital ship would throw all bets aside.

Quote from: J. Carney on April 16, 2005, 08:04:53 am
DAMN!!!

59K DWT of shipping!!!

Dracho, that's probably going to put an upper limit on singe patrol tonnage, you know. ;D +1 for a MOSE AWESOME patrol!!!
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Re: Anyone playing Silent Hunter III?
« Reply #124 on: April 16, 2005, 12:55:36 pm »
Quote from: Jack Morris on April 16, 2005, 10:25:28 am
plus one for Manitoba and Dracho.  ;D Planes are NOT easy kills, and 50k patrols are OUTSTANDING!

Still waiting for a BB or CV kill. A CL or CA is too easy, IMO, I remember in SH2 after resupply from a German freighter, a CL and 2 DDs come on to the scene, you have to distract or kill the T/F long enough for the resupply ship to escape in the North Sea.

I'll warn you on a BB or B/C or CV that is not parked at Scapa Flow, I've played the Med scenario on SH2 many times where the task force appeared (wasn't my mission objective, but I was tempted), those babies can absorb a LOT of torps. Unrealistic IMO as the Ark Royal fell to one torp.

http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/Ships/Ark_Royal2.html


Actually, Ive sank a BB on SH3 already, but it's in one of the single missions (Bismark).

A King George V can be knocked out with one good 4-tube salvo. It took me another from the stern tubes to finally put him under, but it was very doable.

The Nelson went under with just the 4 fish from the forward tubes.

I also kiled a 'jeep' carrier with a 2 fish spread in the U-505 scenerio and got away with it.

So far I haven't hit any capital ships on patrol (I'm gonna have to hit a few '42-'43 North See convoys to find the BB escorts) but I know that they can be sank easily enough that they are worth actually trying for.
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The advantages of living in the Heart of Dixie- low cost of living, peace and quiet and a conservative majority. For some reason I think that the first two items have a lot to do with the presence of the last one.

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Re: Anyone playing Silent Hunter III?
« Reply #125 on: April 16, 2005, 01:05:49 pm »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenge_class_battleship

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Repulse_%281916%29

These were the capital ships besides the Ark Royal class CV that I encountered in SH2 (except for the Royal Oak scenario at Scapa Flow). Like I stated, for some reason the periscope view did not work (Ubisoft could not even tell me why over the phone) so beyond the timeframe that radar equipped ships and planes came out (I got my arse kicked) I have no clue as to what other capital ships that the game may have offered. I do know it was very rare to sight a capital T/F while on a mission, much less get into an attack position while they zig-zagged. What pissed me off was hitting the Ark Royal in her stern (like her props and rudder would function?) and she would stop for a while (so would the darn escorts), then merrily steam away!  >:(
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Re: Anyone playing Silent Hunter III?
« Reply #126 on: April 16, 2005, 01:07:42 pm »
Glad to see they made it more realistic in torps hitting capital ships!  ;)
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Re: Anyone playing Silent Hunter III?
« Reply #127 on: April 16, 2005, 02:16:46 pm »
I have also yet to see an enemy capital ship....but I did hear one.  I had a warship contact report from BdU and the aggressive little diamond appeared on my map...I spent way too much fuel trying to intercept on a wild stormy night...I got close enough to hear him on hydrophones, but never caught sight of him.

Frustrating, yet compelling at the same time....

I have seen a couple of German Commerce Raiders in the North Sea.
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Re: Anyone playing Silent Hunter III?
« Reply #128 on: April 16, 2005, 05:15:26 pm »
i been playing around with modding the game too.  lol    i have a VIIB with a surface speed of 59 knots lol  u have to see that sucker zip around. but yet the submersed speed is still 8-9 knots top. but i dont use that ship for my legit campaign.  but they do have some awesome mods u guys should chk out.  the weather mod- makes the waves more realistic. stormy clouds mod is far better. the full vulnerability mod is great- on your on your identify book it shows which parts to hit the ships, such as where the ships fuel cells are. makes things go really boom if u hit them in the right spot. u can take out a c3 frieghter with one torp.
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Re: Anyone playing Silent Hunter III?
« Reply #129 on: April 17, 2005, 12:27:05 am »
Well, considering the enthusiasm for this game, I think Ubisoft would be wise to release the destroyer campanion game that pits us against each other in a campaign like they did with SH2.  ;D
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Re: Anyone playing Silent Hunter III?
« Reply #130 on: April 17, 2005, 07:30:35 am »

All i can say is wow, got the game yesterday done the tutorials and will start my first patrol later today.

Loving the gfx and the realism of it all.

Reminds me a bit of Das Boot  ;D
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Re: Anyone playing Silent Hunter III?
« Reply #131 on: April 17, 2005, 07:41:17 am »
Quote from: Jack Morris on April 17, 2005, 12:27:05 am
Well, considering the enthusiasm for this game, I think Ubisoft would be wise to release the destroyer campanion game that pits us against each other in a campaign like they did with SH2.  ;D

I wouldn't mind seeing that as well, though i'de much prefer to see expansion into other theaters (aka Pacific).  When SH2 and DC came out, I was pretty stoked about their interoperability, unfortunately I heard they both had canned missions (in addition to other problems) which totally turned me off.  If they could do a joint system for SH3 that would be awesome (i'de insist on being able to control corvette class vessels as well), but I wouldn't want to see it unless they do it right.
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Re: Anyone playing Silent Hunter III?
« Reply #132 on: April 17, 2005, 11:30:10 am »
Check this out!

The best part is several victims were claimed by nothing but my trusty AA gun. ;D

Edit:  Changed from screenies to links, as Geocities will only transfer stuff a couple of times an hour.  Not sure this'll work any better, but it'll do till I find a better image host.

http://www.geocities.com/vladmir_zhukov/patrol13

http://www.geocities.com/vladmir_zhukov/patrol13killlist

http://www.geocities.com/vladmir_zhukov/patrol13killlist2

http://www.geocities.com/vladmir_zhukov/patrol13killlist3

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Re: Anyone playing Silent Hunter III?
« Reply #133 on: April 17, 2005, 11:40:43 am »
Looks like Dracho best get busy!  ;)

Plus 1 for the patrol!  ;D
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Re: Anyone playing Silent Hunter III?
« Reply #134 on: April 17, 2005, 01:12:02 pm »
very nice +1 for that patrol


any ways heres where u guys add music to ur game or where where ever u installed the game the sound files have to be mp3 though. then u just use the gramaphone to play ur songs u added


D:\Ubisoft\SilentHunterIII\data\Sound\Gramophone
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Re: Anyone playing Silent Hunter III?
« Reply #135 on: April 17, 2005, 04:36:21 pm »
I just picked it up and I have to take it back. Best Buy put the price tag over the DVD-ROM symbol! Gah!
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Re: Anyone playing Silent Hunter III?
« Reply #136 on: April 17, 2005, 04:38:42 pm »
Quote from: Brush Wolf on April 17, 2005, 04:36:21 pm
I just picked it up and I have to take it back. Best Buy put the price tag over the DVD-ROM symbol! Gah!

Can't you D/L the game from the site or something? I mean, there is a way for non-DVD users to get it, ain't there?
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The advantages of living in the Heart of Dixie- low cost of living, peace and quiet and a conservative majority. For some reason I think that the first two items have a lot to do with the presence of the last one.

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Re: Anyone playing Silent Hunter III?
« Reply #137 on: April 17, 2005, 05:35:37 pm »
Quote from: J. Carney on April 17, 2005, 04:38:42 pm
Quote from: Brush Wolf on April 17, 2005, 04:36:21 pm
I just picked it up and I have to take it back. Best Buy put the price tag over the DVD-ROM symbol! Gah!

Can't you D/L the game from the site or something? I mean, there is a way for non-DVD users to get it, ain't there?

I just checked and Direct2Drive does have it however, I had not planned on using plastic. Decisions, decisions. :(

I also just checked the Ubisoft site and it is DVD only which I find frustrating as I was hoping that the format wars would die down before I bought one.
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Re: Anyone playing Silent Hunter III?
« Reply #138 on: April 17, 2005, 06:09:39 pm »
http://www.ubi.com/US/News/Info.aspx?nId=2042

From what their website says, it appears to be DVD only, is this correct?
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Re: Anyone playing Silent Hunter III?
« Reply #139 on: April 17, 2005, 06:12:53 pm »
Don't forget the contest people!

http://pc.boomtown.net/en_uk/articles/art.view.php?id=7904

Hey, ya'll did not tell me this thing has multiplayer capability! I wonder if it is just a scenario or campaign together?
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