Topic: Anyone playing Silent Hunter III?

[manitoba1073]

done all that too.    but since it only matters on my modded one lol. 

[Brush Wolf]

Then all I can say is that your torpedomen must belong to a French union.

[CaptStumpy]

<loudspeaker comes on>

::blows into mic::

Actung! Actung! To all captains! Patch 1.4b available! Repeat, new patch is up. Recommend all U-Boats return to base for new upgrade.

Good Hunting.

That is all.

http://www.silent-hunteriii.com/uk/updates.php

[IAF Lyrkiller]

<loudspeaker comes on>

::blows into mic::

Actung! Actung! To all captains! Patch 1.4b available! Repeat, new patch is up. Recommend all U-Boats return to base for new upgrade.

Good Hunting.

That is all.

http://www.silent-hunteriii.com/uk/updates.php

I knew about that since last night.

Well, anyways I was cruising of the Grand Banks and intercepted a convoy w/ a fat jiucy T2 tanker. Took the tanker down w/ one eel. I then hit a neutral C3 and still moved. Then that blasted escort comes and DCs me. and as i am on the bottom HOW IN THE WORLD DID HE KNOW THAT I WAS THAT DEEP!!!! I swear this the AI  cheats.

[Jack Morris]

One thing I've noticed about SH3 vs SH2, the depth guage is wrong! Also on SH2 your engines could get damaged by cruising too fast for too long. That crew management is for the birds also.

How far along is everyone? I'm still in the 40 era. I remember in SH2 at 43 I could not play anymore as the aircraft and escorts had badarse radar. Nothing like geting bombed at night. 

[Brush Wolf]

It is the end of June 1940 for me. I am getting ready to restart my 9th patrol after runinning into Lock Ewe while I was on the phone, thought I was on pause. I had a good patrol going to boot, a 7900 ton C3 and a 2500 ton coastal. I survived long enough to find out a Fuji class light cruiser was there though.

As far as the crew management is concerned I am in complete agreement. I installed the No Fatigue mod and while it doesn't actually do away with the fatigue it really slows down the rate.

[CaptStumpy]

One thing I've noticed about SH3 vs SH2, the depth guage is wrong! Also on SH2 your engines could get damaged by cruising too fast for too long. That crew management is for the birds also.

How far along is everyone? I'm still in the 40 era. I remember in SH2 at 43 I could not play anymore as the aircraft and escorts had badarse radar. Nothing like geting bombed at night. 

Spring 1941. Just about ready to switch to a type IX.

[IAF Lyrkiller]

Here are some pics that you may like.




Hit her with one eel and she did not go down.









This Small Merchant got in my way

[Brush Wolf]

Here is a pretty picture and the map showing where.

Edit: Just realized that the map may not really provide any information. The wreck in in Lock Ewe.

[Jack Morris]

I'm in mid-40 myself. Brest really sucks to get out of, first those darn walls then you have a very narrow channel to go through to get to sea. Makes me wish I was back at the haven in Germany.

What does this new patch do? I think the 3 patch was more than enough, except I've noticed a fair amount of dudrounds even though Norway is Germany's property months ago.

What pistol do you guys use? Impact or mags? I still prefer the old steam driven ones even though in clear weather is a dead giveaway to any warships.

How do you set for auto adjust for fatigue? I'm sooo SICK of them bothering me wanting to go chill out in the berths instead of doing some WORK for a while, hehehehehehe.

Awesome game, patrols can take HOURS. I agree on the AI, it rocks the house! If only SFC or EAW or OP had AI like that, it would have been hard WORK to get a CA much less a DN or BB starship.

Who has the record of tonnage now? I play realism level 49 which IMO is pretty decent considering we have to do crew management and crap.

What is the largest class bagged so far? I only saw a CV at Scapa once, the rest of the time it was aux CAs. I am on a patrol right now, and believe it or not, nearby was a ask force going 21 knots, no way I could get close to see what was in it, I'd love to see a TF again like SH2 had one in the Med.

[Commander La'ra]

What does this new patch do? I think the 3 patch was more than enough, except I've noticed a fair amount of dudrounds even though Norway is Germany's property months ago.

Adds a couple of new Allied aircraft, some ships in most of the ports, etc.  Increases deck gun load times, and some other stuff.

What pistol do you guys use? Impact or mags? I still prefer the old steam driven ones even though in clear weather is a dead giveaway to any warships.

Depends on the ship/situation.  In stormy weather I use impact torps...it seems like the magnetics are a lot less reliable in heavy seas.  Most of the time I use magnetic torps, though, since I shoot from very short range for most of my kills and since I also use steam torpedos set to high speed, they don't have much time to malfunction.

[Jack Morris]

Thanks for the advice La'ra.

I had a very strange occurrence yesterday. I was on map mode cruising home to Brest and it shows a ship going 0. So I'm thinking it probably got hit by another u-boat or something, an lo and behold a perfectly functional C3 cargo ship just sitting there! I was shocked!

I bet they were just joyous at seeing you enter Ewe there Wolf!  Don't worry, I finally found out from Dracho why when i first bought the game and played and there was a CV at scapa and nothing would load up! duh, i was cruising around set for silent running and did not pay attention, then th escorts came and decided to bomb the crap out of my boat.

I have also been guilty of running into walls in port because i set it to 6 or 8 so i can leave port faster, yeah, i left faster, like the whole mission faster? 

I guess I'll log off and go put in a patrol. Good hunting! I hope to God Ubisoft can make a big dyna like we had for EAW and OP, that would just be too sweet. I bet Erik wishes to God he had the AI that SH3 has, it's uncanny how good th AI is in this game!

[Commander La'ra]

I bet Erik wishes to God he had the AI that SH3 has, it's uncanny how good th AI is in this game!

Wait till the escorts start getting radar.  I was shadowing a convoy west of Gibraltar...it was daylight, but I was far enough out I could only see smoke plumes and upperworks...and I decided to sneak in for a look to plan my dusk attack.  I could just make out the ship types...over 9000 meters away...when the lead escort opens up on me.  Shells weren't being placed accurately, but I seriously doubt the guy actually SAW anything.  I turned north and cranked it up to flank.  Fortunately, if they chased me, they didn't do it for long.

[Brush Wolf]

Jack, although there is no true auto fatigue setting the "No Fatigue" mod from www.subsim.com will make fatigue much less of a problem so you can worry about sailing your boat.

Getting out of Lock Ewe took almost an hour of real time! I seem to have stirred up quite a hornets nest.

[Jack Morris]

Ya think Dracho is getting withdrawals already?  I also need some help in his field of work, real estate.

[Dallas]

I just got the game today. Already grabbed the newest patch and the No Fatigue mod.
Got me some Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Fudge Brownie icecream and I'm ready to rule
the waves.   

[Jack Morris]

Welcome to the crew Big D! It rocks though some patrols can take hours, and the AI sure ain't stupid like in SFC and EAW, hehehehehe.

I'm in a VII B boat in Dec 1940, already got promoted but no 50,000 ton patrol yet, my luck may have changed, as on this patrol the route took me through the straits of Dover from Brest, France, I'm chugging up along the coast of Britain and bagged 3 T-3 tankers and one C-3 Cargo ship, all with the trusty deck gun! Those tankers burn so nicely  I got all my torps and now I'm gonna go see what is hanging out in Scapa, I've only seen the Illustrious class CV parked there once in 2 careers, so I'm just hoping I keep meeting the 3 class merchants and get to Scapa and bag  a CV or heck, two Aux CAs will do. I'll record some pics so Dracho can dool over that kind of mission. 

One thing Big D, make sure you give out your authorized qualifier badges to authorized crew members after each patrol if the Navy gives ya some. In my first career I was buying better qualified officers and NCOs when I could have made my crew better the whole time for FREE, DUUUUUUUHHHHHH Jack. 

I was wrong about the scope thing, the button  changes it to what I had in SH2 and I like that guage better, it has pretty colors, hehehehehhe, also tells you max depths. Another duh Jack.

[The Bar-Abbas Anomaly]

...and the No Fatigue mod.

Wuss.  All of you.  Wusses, all.

[Jack Morris]

I do not have mine patched to no fatigue mod, but 1 and 2 did not have that fatigue crap, instead they had it where if you went blazing around at high speeds all day and night, well.. Your engines got damaged. Much easier to have auto damage control parties and direct them than having to tell every single crewmember when they can take a leak! 

[Jack Morris]

Achtung! Achtung! If you are playing on the 1.3 or earlier patches and you want to go to 1.4, REPORT TO BASE BEFORE YOU UPDATE, DO NOT UPDATE WHILE AT SEA! Nice of Ubisoft to put that at the bottom of the downloads, I was at sea on that killer patrol with 4 big boys sent to the bottom with only my deck gun!  REFUSAL TO REPORT TO BASE BEFORE UPGRADING TO 1.4 PATCH WILL RESULT IN YOUR BEING BOOTED OUT OF THE KRIEGSMARINE AND HAVING TO DO A LOT OF LABOR TO BE ALLOWED TO COMMAND A U-BOAT AGAIN!

ALSO I TAKE IT WE ALL BOUGHT THE DVD VERSION SO MAKE SURE THAT YOU ALSO PICK THE RIGHT DOWNLOAD.

HAPPY HUNTING

Duh Jack