Topic: Anyone playing Silent Hunter III?

[Brush Wolf]

Yes Jack, it is DVD only as I found out to my dismay today. Direct2Drive does have it though so there is that option.

[J. Carney]

If you hae a debit card (no intrest) It's worth the hassel of D/Ling it, I assure you.

[Brush Wolf]

If you hae a debit card (no intrest) It's worth the hassel of D/Ling it, I assure you.

I may just do that however, I won't do it until just before leaving for work so it can download while I am working. I am certain it will take awhile even at a high 500Kb rate.

[J. Carney]

If you hae a debit card (no intrest) It's worth the hassel of D/Ling it, I assure you.

I may just do that however, I won't do it until just before leaving for work so it can download while I am working. I am certain it will take awhile even at a high 500Kb rate.

It's 2 GB on a hard drive, so, yeah... you might even need to pack a lunch.

[manitoba1073]

heck u should have keeped the dvd game,  u can pick up really cheap dvd players for comps cheap under 25 bucks. 

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

but yes i think its both on that account JM 

heres a link to some mods for teh game

http://www.subsim.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=30638

[Tirus]

A huge thanks to all the SFC people for recommending this game!

I do a bit of sailing and all that is missing here is the slosh of sea water in your boots on those occasional days when things get a little rough. It is a wonderful thing to look up at the constellations in the sky on a clear night while hunting in the channel.


(WWII Poster)

Playing this brought back a huge rush of almost forgotten memories. Seeing the U-boat at the Museum of Science and Industry as a little kid in Chicago. Building a U-boat model that sat at the head of my bed for years as a kid. The German WWI U-boat recruiting poster I had on my dorm wall at the U.

(1917 WWI Poster)

Reading a book that inspired the movie Das Boot. Watching my favorite movie Das Boot at the theater with a WWII U.S. submarine sonar man who said it was the most realistic war movie he had ever seen.


Heck, I've even got the right style of beard! Well, enough chit chat...time to head out with my crew and see what we can find tonight.

[manitoba1073]

hows this for a loading screen  hehe 

[manitoba1073]

couple more pixs of what i've found and changed.

[Dracho]

Weather mod?  where?

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.

[manitoba1073]

ok ill zip and add it here. 

[Grim]

Cool i'll have to try that weather mod

[CaptStumpy]

OK.

Pick up your Silent Hunter III case and look at the ship on the surface in the top right corner.

Now tell me that ship ISN'T the Argo (ie SpaceBattleship Yamato) from the old "Starblazers" cartoon. You can even see the opening for the WAVE MOTION GUN(tm)!



 

[J. Carney]

LOL, it does have that Yamato-ish outline, don't it?

[IAF Lyrkiller]

DAMN, I want to get this game in the worst way. and i am not kidding.

[J. Carney]

DAMN, I want to get this game in the worst way. and i am not kidding.

Its an excellent way to waste time... but it can fast eat up too much of your time. I've begun a patrol thinking 'I'll just be on an hour' at 8:00 PM on a work night and finished playing just in time to change clothes and head into work!

[Commander La'ra]

I tried to sneak into Gibraltar last night.  I didn't even get all the way up the straight...man that was a hornet's nest.  At one point, I upped periscope and saw a Tribal and Hunt class DD doing search patterns looking for me, accompanied by three PT boats.  I finally extracted myself from that mess, only to be bombed when I surfaced for air by four Hurricanes.  I survived, with no casualties, but they put a hole in my fuel tank, messed up my radio and deck gun, and took me down to 59% hull integrity.

I did managed to torpedo a pair of merchies and a destroyer on the way out, though.  Now I'm wanting to try again.

[Dracho]

What a life-stealing thing this is turning into..4 more tours and I can't get over 20,000 tons (sniff)

I did discover that in addition to the German music, Celtic music is great on the old Gramaphone..

[IAF Lyrkiller]

In less than 24 hours, i will have bought PC3200 400Mhz 512MB stick of ram ($59.00) and SH3($39.99). (cant wait)

I then will need to wait for my parents to leave for about qa week so that i can install the stuff that i bought.

Then we will see who is top dog.

[Dracho]

60142 tons but, boy was it hard.  I lost 4 crewmen in a gun battle with a Destroyer Escort.  1 of which was my trained watch officer, and another was my only trained gunner.  The punk got lucky and hit the conning tower with a 5" round and I could not submerge.  HE shells work very well against destroyer superstructures, and I was even able to blow out his search lights.

I wish I had a film of it because the jackass was trying to plow me under with his ship, but at flank speed I was able to dodge him twice.  The second pass he raked my deck with machineguns and that's when I lost my crewmen.  After blowing out his lights and messing up his command bridge, I started pumping AP rounds into his waterline and he rolled over and sank like a bloated whale.

This may well be close to the max with early war torpedos.  I had two duds, but after finishing the VG-Destroyer, I was able to use my remaining torpedos and gun rounds while plowing through a convoy at night, which was a hoot!  I am guessing at some point the merchants will start sporting guns and it won't be nearly as much fun... for me..

Has anyone else tried the starburst shells yet?

[Commander La'ra]

I just had another 59,000 ton patrol, and yes, it's the middle of 1941 and the merchies are getting armed.  So far, it doesn't seem like all of them...on this run, I had BdU report a neutral convoy (wha?) in the Western approaches.  I figured it couldn't be all neutral ships, so I intercepted, and there it was, a mix of Greek, American, and British ships without an escort in sight.

It was daylight, but I went in on the surface anyway, since I figured if anyone shot at me, it'd be the Brits, and there weren't many of them (I'd already found out some merchies were armed after a gun duel with a 6,000 ton cargo ship earlier).  It turned out that there were only two ships armed, but they both started shooting at me...I didn't shoot back immediately as one of them was Greek and the other American.  I deck-gunned a British cargo ship and torpedoed a medium sized tanker, but then the damn neutrals started getting damaging near misses.  I thought about trying to use the deck-gun to disarm the nearest (the American), but he was too far away for that kind of precision, so I increased to flank and torpedoed a pair of C2s on the way out, both Brit.  Around this time a corvette showed up and started shelling me with much more accuracy than the merchies, so I dived, used two torpedos to finish off the two cargo ships, then went deep and silent.

The corvette depth charged me for about 20 RL minutes, but apparently he couldn't hear me very well...none of the charges was close enough to do damage.

I blundered into another convoy later, but due to a poor job of positioning myself, I only sank another 6,000 ton cargo ship.  I still had six torpedos left though, so I cruised my patrol zone south of Iceland for awhile, and then had to use all but one of my remaining torps to sink a giant cargo ship that I found.

I think your previous assesment is right Dracho:  A 70,000 patrol is possible given the right mix of weather and targets, but you'd have to be damned lucky...