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I sometimes like toying with foe, if I am on my way back and still have a few torps and I see someone, I'll get close and take out their props+rudder, let them sit there a while (whilst I reload) and then test which areas of the ship are the most effective to hit :D
Weee Im home :) few things to do then Ill be finishing number 6 mission and see how it goes, I fancy a trip to the shallow waters of the Med :)
Lost a complete afternoon on this it really does own :D
Patrol 4 now involves going through the channel me thinks :o
Well, jinxed myself..
Last mission was to Patrol BF18 - of the south west of Penzance.
So, straight through the channel I went. Awaited darkness before going past dover and portsmouth, as I got to Dover, I was stopping every 50km or so and given a qucik scan on the ol' hydra.. 7 (seven) contacts came up at the same time, very long range (manually heard, not SO calling) so I proceed with caution, optimistic that I have found a large convoy.
They get further away, as I am still proceeding with much caution, then all of a sudden, they are much closer, but still out of SO's calling range, so I carry on - then SO is screaming like Hell "War ship spotted, Medium Range, Approaching, Fast, Bearing 349. War ship spotted, Medium Range, Approaching, Fast, Bearing 358. War ship spotted, Medium Range, Approaching, Fast, Bearing 021. War ship spotted, Medium Range, Approaching, Fast, Bearing 332. War ship spotted, Medium Range, Approaching, Fast, Bearing 356"
Oh crap..
Dropped to Periscope, took a look and saw 3 of them charging in my direction, spot lights searching but not trained on my location as of yet, quickly lock one up, let a torp fly, then lock another and let another fly, then down periscope and dive to 21m (am in Channel.. 25m max depth :()
Both missed by MILES.
"All Stop, Silent Running"
"They're Pinging us sir!"
"Depth Charges in the water sir!" (as I hear MANY splashes!)
I heard an almighty explosion, then the usual thumps of depth charges going off.. curiosity got the better of me so I quickly F12'd to have a peek and saw two of the destroyers collided dead above me.
As soon as I saw that, I depth charge errupted *IN* my conning tower.. game over :(
P.S. When you exit after or in a mission, make sure you click "Save and Exit" not just "Exit" thinking it will auto save :(
Unlucky Jenk :(
Im onto number 8 now, number 6 finished with the 3 merchants and 2 armmed trawlers, number 7 a 1100 Norweign Tug, went for a transfer and am now out of Keil...Not very exciting tbh, should have stayed put LOL
I brought the game and gave it a quick go the other day but since i was in a rush i didnt get into it. Ill have to give it another go in a couple of days.
On my 7th Patrol now. Had an excellent game of cat and mouse with two warships following a sinking spree on my 6th patrol. The buggers wouldnt let me go but it was good fun trying to escape them.... Which I did.
Well I had a interesting night. I completed my channel dash and decided to take a closer look at Southend on Sea.
I think one of the bridge lookouts must have been daydreaming becuse when he called out Merchant Spotted we were so close he MUST have seen us - tug boat doing a strange zig-zag course. Anyway - turns out he did see us and the little git called in a Destroyer on us
We played cat and mouse in 25m of water for about 3 hours, 2 depth charge runs went right over the top of us with ASDIC pinging away, searchlights sweeping, but no damage inflicted, we rigged for silent and headed east at 3 knots , ecentually we heard the depth charges going off in the distance, he had lost us :D
So we headed back out to sea and up he East Coast to Hartlepool and found a nice big C2 at dawn heading in the perfect intercept direction. I fired my stern tube at him and scored a lovely hit amidships, but didn't seem to do much damage, so I turn the boat around to use my precious remaining front torp, set the detonation to 1 meter under his keel, and the torp does just that. Might as well have been a dud, exploded underneath him and the just limped off with his cargo on fire :(
So I turn to see if this has attracted any attention and sure enough an armed merchant is heading my way, Its nice and deep here so I've dived and rigged for silent - time to head home.
Anyone know where this game saves games to?? like to back them up. Also where does it put screen shots????
My Docs i think.
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Originally Posted by Dooms
Cheers pal correct :D Means I can move me career between home and work :D
You get to play SH3 at work!?
at breaks :D
And CS
>:|
Patchy patchy poooooo :rockon:
Ooooo version 1.2
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Please note:
The DVD patch is for those people who have installed Silent Hunter III from a DVD, the download patch is for those people who have purchased and downloaded Silent Hunter III from the Internet. Please ensure you install the relevant patch for your version of the game.
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New patches modify game data and in some cases, the saves that are made while in missions will not load properly. We highly recommend, before installing a patch, that “all the Captains should return to bases” or to load a previous in base save (after install) in order to avoid possible problems.
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1.2 Changes and Additions
SHIPS & AIRPLANES DAMAGE SYSTEM
Improvements in collision and damage model have been made for several ships:
* Liberty Cargo
* C2 Cargo
* T2 Tanker
* T3 Tanker
* Tug Boat
* LST
CAMPAIGN DATA
* Netherlands properly enters and exits the war now
* Gdansk is now renamed Danzig when under German control
* Added mine fields and anti sub nets
INTERFACE
* Local time displayed (under the current date) when the mouse is over the current hour (bottom-right corner) in game; this local time will depend on the U-Boot position on Earth (which is divided in 24 slices having 15 longitudinal degrees each)
* Game version displayed in the bottom-right corner of the main menu page
* Data from notepad (top-right section in periscopes or UZO pages) will not be reset on expert mode when the target in view is changing
* A new tool: Angle tool (protractor) on navigation map
* No weapon officer assist option (a new option in difficulty settings); when this option is checked then the Identify target and Solution to target orders from Weapons officer will be disabled
* Wound badge fixed (when drag & drop)
WEATHER SYSTEM
* Solved issues related to rain on time compression (rain will not became invisible after long time compression sessions)
* A more balanced weather system
GAME EDITOR
* Solved Game Editor crashes related to terrain data, mission objectives and triggers
IN-GAME
* Solved the black sun problem and environment texture errors
* The escorts will now make evasive maneuvers while pursuing contact (depending on the crew skill)
MULTIPLAYER
* Ready button issue was fixed
* Message box issues
* The interface to servers list has been slightly updated to reflect the version of the game server and also to show if the server is password protected
* The crash that is happening when chatting in session menu has been fixed.
* Other minor updates
1.1 Changes and Additions
* Career menus were changed. “Continue Career” button was removed.
* The “German Cross in Gold” will now be visible on crew.
* Workaround for nVidia bug mentioned in the Readme (now it will be possible to switch on /off the particle systems using “Ctrl+P”)
* The career “Save& Exit” was modified: now it will be possible to save the game and “Exit to Menu” without adding unnecessary saved games.
* The possibility to return to base from any situation while in a career patrol was changed. The sub will be able to return to base only if is undetected and at surface.