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Silent Hunter 3 and 4

the links don't work for me:(
edit: downloading now <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" /> thanks;)
 
Yer welcome mate, GWX adda a lot of nice eye candy but remember when attacking convoys or task forces to run SILENT an run DEEP, or escorts will murder you, sink em all <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />
 
Been play'n SH4 for over a month now and here are some thoughts on this game. Stock game is pretty buggy,however 2 patches have been released and the latest fixed a lot of bugs and with mods have fixed some other problems.With FSA enabled in ltest patch, the game looks awsome at 1260 x 1024 but requires some fiddling with Nvidia control panel and in game grahic settings to get FPS required for the game to run smooth and of course depends on yer rig when applying FSA settings.Of course you can play game without FSA, but game will not look as good.A high end system is recommended for FSA.

Most of my testing has been done completing single missions and war patrols and have just completed my first career patrol using latest patch, flavor to taste version 1.2 and torpedo more powerfull mods installed with JSME. With these two mods the game is fun snd had no problems.For testing runs was using auto TDC, have not tested manual targetting yet, and playing at 56% realism.

1st patrol summary

Assigned to Asiatic Fleet stationed at Malaya. Sub S18 Class
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set course for patrol grid in Phillipines ran across two Liners and bagged both of them, sank each one with 2 torps anf finshed with deck gun
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After completing patrol grid, compac orderd new patrol grid in East China Sea where came across convoy and sank 3 large merchants with one torp each.
Completed patrolling grid and was orderd to patrol new grid in EAst China Sea and sank 1 large merchant. Running low on fuel , set course for Midway to refit and refuel, then set course for Feemantle Australia as Malaya base had been captured by Japanese.I really like the feature of being able to refit your sub at any port with an anchor icon and continue your patrol without penaltiy. finaly arriving at Freemantle after 8 hours of realtime gameplay, Crew was awaqrded Bronze and Silver star medals and was awarded Medal Of Honor for for sinking 61,382 tons of shipping.All in All, nice patrol cause ran into no bugs,basicaly went without a hitch <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />
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<!--quoteo(post=191965:date=Apr 28 2007, 09:36 PM:name=skull)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(skull @ Apr 28 2007, 09:36 PM) [snapback]191965[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Yer welcome mate, GWX adda a lot of nice eye candy but remember when attacking convoys or task forces to run SILENT an run DEEP, or escorts will murder you, sink em all <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" /><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

yeah, I got it, I intruded a port somewhere next to germany.. sunk 4 c3 Carco's and a oil tanker,
but i'm now trapped in 2 escorts ships, wich are sinking me all the time <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dunno.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":shrug" border="0" alt="dunno.gif" />
 
Escorts sensors have been beefed up in GWX, raiding ports is unrealitic according to GWX developers, only way to evade them is to run sikent and go as deep as possible. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />
 
yeah... got it, man this game is difficult!, but I like that <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/duel_pa.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":ixi" border="0" alt="duel_pa.gif" />
also how can I find some large convoys?
or big battleships <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" />
 
Ironicaly they are docked in ports randomly spawned, but you can find BB and Aircraft carriers in Task Forces randomly spawned, Off the Coast of Ireland is a good spot <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />
 
allrigh Ill do that, got over 100.000 tonage <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=";)" border="0" alt="wink.gif" />
 
Excellent to get 100.000 tons, what realism setting are you playing at ? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />
 
limited batteries, CO2,fuel,dud torpedos, realisic reprair time, and that ting of that sensor..
in fact, very difficult, but I like REAL simulators. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile.gif" />
 
Heh! I kinda get goosebumps when there's a DD over top of my sub drop'n trashcans, shaking the sub, lights flickering away, sneaking away at 2 knots,ordering flank speed ,hard to port when there directly overhead, finaly getting enough distance to safley surface, take in some fresh air and drink a bottle of rum. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/buds.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":drunk" border="0" alt="buds.gif" />

Into my second patrol in SH4 and am currently patrolling the Jawa Sea, the weather is horrendous, huge waves make it near impossible to travel on surface,thick fog and high winds makeing it extremly difficult to get a clean shot away. Make contact with a convoy doing 5 knots. Set heading for intercept, after calculating distance and time to intercept, would put me directly behind convoy due to weather conditions, the best speed I could make was 5 to 6 knots on surface. After reaching intercept course, I locked on to a large freighter with her stern pointing at my bow, not an ideal shooting position and with periscope bobbing up and down, fired a torp at 500 yards and hit her mid stern. Blew a huge hole in the stern, best explosion seen in the game so far, huge orange fireballs in the sky, flames licking the rear deck. Zooming in the free view camera to see how much damage done, noticed the propeller was still turning, although there was near nothing left of the stern, no prop shaft, she was still makeing her escape at 2 knots <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" /> <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />

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Mods I play make the game very playable and fix major bugs in career mode and Radar fix. FTT 2.5, Improved periscope 1.1, Improved bow wave, Torpedos more powefull.
Scuttlebut is development team is back from vacation and will start working on next patch <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rolleyes:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" />
On this paticular patrol, came across a taskforce of 3 Kongo BB, Heavy Cruiser and a half dozen DD escorts at 12 knots. This encounter is diffrent from what I've come across in other patrols as their heading was straight for my sub approching from the stern. Calculating their speed and heading will put my sub approximatly in the middle of the pack. Ordering an all stop and rig for silent running and Periscope depth, made preperations for attack. Laid their quietly as the 3 lead escorts passed by my sub, I was right smack in the middle of the pack with sub in a lousy shoot position due to taskforce heading is same direction sub is faceing. As lead escorts passed by, I was not detected, locked on to nearest Kong BB, he is doing 12 knots and 2000 yards off my starboard, best I could hope for was a few snapshots at a lousy angle, fired a salvo of 4 torps, orderd crash dive and switched to free camera mode and watched the 4 torpedo tracks as they made way for Kongo BB. 2 of the 4 torps missed their mark , as the two torps hit their mark, blew 2 holes in the side of BB slowing him down to 8 knots.
Before my sub could submerge another Kongo BB I had missed comeing up from astern collided with my sub, fortunatly only damaged main pump.Switching back to free camera view, the BB was listing heavily and deck midship is a ball of fire, she went dead in the water.

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Reloading torps and main pump fixed, escorts had been buzzing around trying to locate me, no such luck for them, after escorts moved off, closed in on the Kongo BB as she laid dead in the water, surface the sub and let my gunner have some. He fired a salvo of half a dozen shots and watched as the BB rolled over to her death. Rousing cheer from the crew, orderd course away from taskforce and am now headed for patrol grid. Not a bad way to start a patrol with 32000 tons for my crew and sub <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/keith.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":keith" border="0" alt="keith.gif" /> <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />
 
Only had time to attack one of the BB due to their speed and I quicky had DD escorts all over me. The BB in the picture was sunk.Below thermal layer and at 2 knots, made my escape. With FTT2.5 mod, escorts sensors are better at detecting you than vannila game, so am quite happy to get one BB and escape undamaged, particulry since this happend near start of patrol and had long ways to go complete objectives, always more windows of opportunities, Try not to get to greedy can get you killed. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />
 
<!--quoteo(post=195405:date=May 20 2007, 10:58 AM:name=skull)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(skull @ May 20 2007, 10:58 AM) [snapback]195405[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Only had time to attack one of the BB due to their speed and I quicky had DD escorts all over me. The BB in the picture was sunk.Below thermal layer and at 2 knots, made my escape. With FTT2.5 mod, escorts sensors are better at detecting you than vannila game, so am quite happy to get one BB and escape undamaged, particulry since this happend near start of patrol and had long ways to go complete objectives, always more windows of opportunities, Try not to get to greedy can get you killed. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" /><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Agreed. It was impressive you got one and had a chance for two, but many a greedy captain wound up in Davy Jones locker. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ko.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":ko" border="0" alt="ko.gif" />
 
<!--quoteo(post=195406:date=May 20 2007, 08:35 AM:name=ledhed)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ledhed @ May 20 2007, 08:35 AM) [snapback]195406[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->It looks like I found my next game .<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Excellent game with mods, still more work is being done, FTT2.5 is under 5MB, lots of new sub skins and misc small mods st subsim.
Hope you have a beefy system to run the best grahics, XP and 2Gigs of ram and a good video card.

<!--quoteo(post=195408:date=May 20 2007, 09:19 AM:name=Old Salt)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Old Salt @ May 20 2007, 09:19 AM) [snapback]195408[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--><!--quoteo(post=195405:date=May 20 2007, 10:58 AM:name=skull)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(skull @ May 20 2007, 10:58 AM) [snapback]195405[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Only had time to attack one of the BB due to their speed and I quicky had DD escorts all over me. The BB in the picture was sunk.Below thermal layer and at 2 knots, made my escape. With FTT2.5 mod, escorts sensors are better at detecting you than vannila game, so am quite happy to get one BB and escape undamaged, particulry since this happend near start of patrol and had long ways to go complete objectives, always more windows of opportunities, Try not to get to greedy can get you killed. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" /><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Agreed. It was impressive you got one and had a chance for two, but many a greedy captain wound up in Davy Jones locker. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ko.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":ko" border="0" alt="ko.gif" />
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In this particular patrolthat bagged BB, am stationed off Australia Coast in the Asiatic Fleet, Chose S Class submarine. She's not as pretty ur fast as the Porpoise or Salmon class subs and only has a loadout of twelve torps and a deck gun. Not sure what it is about this little ugly duckl'n, but she kinda grows on ye after a while and I luv this little boat <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />

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Cannot believe this one at all.
Patrol Luzon Straights, got jumped by a pair of Betty's, gunner shot 1st one down but the second Betty dropped a bomb and hit my stern causing bulkhead damage, prop and acouple minor things, Damage control team did an excellent job repairng and was under way in no time. Completed 2 main objectives and a third added by from Compacsub by radio. sunk over 80,000 tons merchant including 3 war ships, Awarded Purple Heart and Medal of honor,return to port to get this message
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Yeah Right! after 7 hours game time I'm gonna really chose Yes, lol. Guess Admiralty don't like it when ye bring your boat back with holes in it. this is ingame screeny, pic has not been doctored in any way.

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Ghost Crew

Was play'n around with AA settings to set up my new video card and when pressed all battlestations button, my crew lost their heads. lol <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />

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