Silent Hunter 5 Tactics & Tips - "How do I?" & FAQ! READ IF YOU ARE STUCK

[XenonSurf]

There is a sort of penalty, but not very severe:
By sinking ships inside your patrol area, or succeeding secondary missions you get points to distribute at the bunker afterwards for improving your sub and crew performance. Everytime you put the crew in 'Battle Stations level 2' they act according to their performance which can be seen if you fire-up the crew window and click on a crew image to see his details. You need to manually distribute a crewman's points (until you read 0 points), don't forget that, especially for sonar man, or they act sub-optimal.

If you skip your orders and patrol elsewhere, then you won't get these crew points or points for your sub, that's it I think.
Also in SH5 there is the quirk that once you enter your patrol zone, you should not leave it early because the time counter to decide if you are successful will be reset if you save the game inside the zone. To avoid that, stay in your zone in 1 go and only save once you leave the zone. Not patrolling the ordered time will also 'only' get you as a penalty no points for your sub and crew. (sorry for my English, this makes it a long text...)

The sticky post for TWoS is a long one, but it's worth to read because it contains many finesses about the game and how you play TWoS, so I recommend to read it.

Cheers,

[italianmarine]

Originally Posted by XenonSurf

There is a sort of penalty, but not very severe:
By sinking ships inside your patrol area, or succeeding secondary missions you get points to distribute at the bunker afterwards for improving your sub and crew performance. Everytime you put the crew in 'Battle Stations level 2' they act according to their performance which can be seen if you fire-up the crew window and click on a crew image to see his details. You need to manually distribute a crewman's points (until you read 0 points), don't forget that, especially for sonar man, or they act sub-optimal.

If you skip your orders and patrol elsewhere, then you won't get these crew points or points for your sub, that's it I think.
Also in SH5 there is the quirk that once you enter your patrol zone, you should not leave it early because the time counter to decide if you are successful will be reset if you save the game inside the zone. To avoid that, stay in your zone in 1 go and only save once you leave the zone. Not patrolling the ordered time will also 'only' get you as a penalty no points for your sub and crew. (sorry for my English, this makes it a long text...)

The sticky post for TWoS is a long one, but it's worth to read because it contains many finesses about the game and how you play TWoS, so I recommend to read it.

Cheers,

one question: If I am on the way to the patrol point and sink ships on the way there, will I get also crew points? Of course the tonnages sunk I can see, but I am wondering if I get the xp.
If I report those contacts I get replies from BdU like:
-act on your own
-Attack contact

Hi guys. So playing TWOS I have a few more things I am trying to iron out.



First is in the top right, when those various buttons are yellowish does that mean I am DISABLING that feature? IE I don't want to drop to TC1 on a random radio messsage, do I make sure its yellow? Or grey?

Second is even though I have map update contacts on in both the realism settings and show xyz in map mode from TDW's patcher, I am still failing to see anything. Multiple times I have gotten spottings from my men to see no visual representation on the map.



Third is which setting (if it is not default) in TDW's patcher do I need to enable to be able to VISUALLY get to see radio contact reports on the map? Like in GWX where you could hover and get the approx. course, speed, and size. It seems here you must manually plot those. Addendum to that question is x1 TC button fro that the one for "On Radio Cntct Rcvd" ??

Thanks!



-USNSR

[vdr1981]

Originally Posted by USNSRCaseySmith

Hi guys. So playing TWOS I have a few more things I am trying to iron out.



First is in the top right, when those various buttons are yellowish does that mean I am DISABLING that feature? IE I don't want to drop to TC1 on a random radio messsage, do I make sure its yellow? Or grey?

Second is even though I have map update contacts on in both the realism settings and show xyz in map mode from TDW's patcher, I am still failing to see anything. Multiple times I have gotten spottings from my men to see no visual representation on the map.



Third is which setting (if it is not default) in TDW's patcher do I need to enable to be able to VISUALLY get to see radio contact reports on the map? Like in GWX where you could hover and get the approx. course, speed, and size. It seems here you must manually plot those. Addendum to that question is x1 TC button fro that the one for "On Radio Cntct Rcvd" ??

Thanks!



-USNSR

I assume that you have activated optional "Real Navigation" add-on?

[Mathias Kaiser]

You can't run a Silent hunter game 5. Hello, I'm supposed to run the problem roughly .When loaded, see the picture. The game is downloaded from Steam, reading at Uplay Mum. Thank you in advance.






[sh5-Screenshot-2020-02-15-12-45-40-43.png](https://postimg.cc/rDTH5w5g)

[Tindahbawx]

Hi guys, I've somehow managed to drag the bottom of my minimap off the bottom of the screen and cannot seem to make it reset position vto where it was above the wee controls on the bottom left, does anyone know how to do this?

[n0mjaS]

is it possible to lower the flag on an uboat? i think i was doing that in sh3 but cant find it here?