[REL] Run Silent, Run Deep - The Campaign

[denny927]

Originally Posted by Roger Dodger

What is winUAE? Some sort of Amiga Simulator? If so, we must talk some more.

Concerning your patrol near Surabaya . . . that puts you one ahead of me. I have never even seen an enemy sub in all the time I've been playing (Japanese or German).

"Chuckadore"

yes is a amiga emulator, is free, and games too, almost all games are free for download, but you must have the original workbench and kickstart....is quite complicated run the emulator at least for me, but you can find milions of tutorial, written, or in a video if you prefer youtube...

as i say, the only problem is find workbench and the kickstart, but if you are already smart on this, you can find them on some "river"....

if not sending a pm...

and for the submarine, yes, im very lucky, find a submarine is a very torture, but after sailing near surabaya was here....next time, not now im in the middle of a new patrol, maybe i can post my log patrol of that mission as proof

[jeff lackey]

Well, posted this on the TMO thread, but it may be a better fit here:

Comments and a question:

Comments: running TMO 2.2 (have 2.5 D/Led but haven't made it back to port yet to install) and RSRD. What a wonderful experience. Some people complain that RSRD provides "too" realistic an experience, in terms of traffic, but I have had some amazing encounters. Chased a lone, large merchant in a storm, out of torpedos (I was heading back to port,) at night, and basically had to let sonar tell me where he was and then fire blind in that direction with the deck guns. I couldn't see him over 200 yards away, but I could see when my shells made impact. It took a long time and a lot of shots, but a lot of satisfaction when he finally went down. He ran and zig-zagged and did everything he could to get away.

Then tonight I was patrolling up near Dutch Harbor, which I don't like due to all of the aircraft, and so I went south to look around. Found a large convoy, warships. Thought I would get a nice cruiser, was lining everything up, then saw it was an American ship! Disappointed, but I decided I'd see where they were going. As they were making their way, they were repeatedly attacked by enemy aircraft. I watched the aircraft attack the cruisers and destroyers, and most were shot down, but some managed to sink a couple of ships. I decided to head in the direction of the aircraft to see if they came from a carrier, and a survivor square showed up on the map where the cruisers had gone down.

Now the question: I have put the submarine right on the area where the survivor square is on the map. But I can't see a survivor anywhere in the water through my binoculars. I have been looking for 30 minutes, real time, looking all around, and nothing. Is there a trick to this I am missing? I really, really don't want to leave this guy in the middle of the Pacific!!!

[magic452]

My experience with survivors is that they will drift some. Check the wind speed and direction and set up a search pattern. Might be hard to find with the bad fog although the pink smoke shows up at quit a distance.

I like to pick them up also, I just try to put myself into their position and think how happy I'd be when I saw a friendly sub.

Magic

[jeff lackey]

Originally Posted by magic452

My experience with survivors is that they will drift some. Check the wind speed and direction and set up a search pattern. Might be hard to find with the bad fog although the pink smoke shows up at quit a distance.

I like to pick them up also, I just try to put myself into their position and think how happy I'd be when I saw a friendly sub.

Magic

I never did find him. For 30 minutes I maneuvered the boat to within 50 yards (and closer, I was afraid I was going to run him over) and searched with binoculars, and didn't see him at all. No smoke either. Middle of the day, sunshine, calm waters. He just wasn't there. Very dissapointing. Searched with the square right next to the boat, at full zoom in, and nothing. Kept looking until his square just disappeared - very sad!

[I'm goin' down]

I have downloaded RSRDC most recent version from this thread and subsim download link. When I try to open the download (i.e. extract it to JGSME) many files cannot be found. The extraction fails. I have TMO 2.5 activated. What is going on? Is their a fix?

[Klaus]

Originally Posted by I'm goin' down

I have downloaded RSRDC most recent version from this thread and subsim download link. When I try to open the download (i.e. extract it to JGSME) many files cannot be found. The extraction fails. I have TMO 2.5 activated. What is going on? Is their a fix?

download it again, may be corupted, try with another browser

[fitzcarraldo]

Originally Posted by magic452

My experience with survivors is that they will drift some. Check the wind speed and direction and set up a search pattern. Might be hard to find with the bad fog although the pink smoke shows up at quit a distance.

I like to pick them up also, I just try to put myself into their position and think how happy I'd be when I saw a friendly sub.

Magic

Magic: How do you pick the survivors? Ever I would pick the downed pilots after Midway battle and never I could do it.

Many thanks and regards.

Fitz

[TorpX]

Originally Posted by fitzcarraldo

Magic: How do you pick the survivors? Ever I would pick the downed pilots after Midway battle and never I could do it.

I think the game will only allow you to pick up survivors, if you have a life-guard mission. But I'm not 100% sure.

[USS Drum]

You have to target the survivors with binoculars and not the TBT you then have to get closed to them then you click the life preserver button in the UI.

[I'm goin' down]

Originally Posted by I'm goin' down

I have downloaded RSRDC most recent version from this thread and subsim download link. When I try to open the download (i.e. extract it to JGSME) many files cannot be found. The extraction fails. I have TMO 2.5 activated. What is going on? Is there a fix?

Originally Posted by Klaus

download it again, may be corupted, try with another browser

that did not work. However, I was able to extract the RSRDC file and get it working. Here is what I did. I extracted the downloaded jzip file directly to the desktop rather than the MODS folder. From the desktop I first dragged the RSRDC folder to JGSME, where it appeared on the right side (i.e. not activated) of the JGSME program. Then I moved the RSRDC desktop folder to the MODS file. Finally, I activated the file in JGSME. Voila!

Why that worked, I have no idea? If someone wants to enlighten me, feel free.

[magic452]

I have picked up survivors at other times but you don't see them very often.

As USS Drum said you must be very close and at slow speed. They can be very hard to see in the smoke, most often where the smoke starts but not always. What I do is use the arrow keys to move the binos and put the mouse on the life ring button, when it highlights click the mouse as fast as you can and hopefully you'll get him. Sometimes there's more than one, so look around near the smoke to check for more. Once I picked up 3.

If there is no pink smoke than you can't pick then up. I've seen several Jap pilots but could not pick them up.

It's a funky system but that's all we got, they sure could have done a better job on this. In heavy seas it's almost impossible.

If you do the Lifeguard war patrol to get some practice you can have some fun.
The survivor furthest to the South West has a birds eye view of Five, yes count 'em FIVE CVs virtually unescorted. You can have your own Sub version of the Marianas Turkey Shoot.

Magic

[magic452]

Originally Posted by I'm goin' down

that did not work. However, I was able to extract the RSRDC file and get it working. Here is what I did. I extracted the downloaded jzip file directly to the desktop rather than the MODS folder. From the desktop I first dragged the RSRDC folder to JGSME, where it appeared on the right side (i.e. not activated) of the JGSME program. Then I moved the RSRDC desktop folder to the MODS file. Finally, I activated the file in JGSME. Voila!

Why that worked, I have no idea? If someone wants to enlighten me, feel free.

What you did last is the way I always do it. Unzip to desktop and copy and past to the mods folder. I than take the desktop version and put it into a save mods folder in case I need it again. That way you know you have a good copy of the mod.

Magic

[I'm goin' down]

Originally Posted by magic452

What you did last is the way I always do it. Unzip to desktop and copy and past to the mods folder. I than take the desktop version and put it into a save mods folder in case I need it again. That way you know you have a good copy of the mod.

Magic

I still have no idea why my attempts to extract the jzip file directly to the mods folder failed. I have never had that happen before, and I would like to understand the cause of the failure.

[fitzcarraldo]

Originally Posted by magic452

I have picked up survivors at other times but you don't see them very often.

As USS Drum said you must be very close and at slow speed. They can be very hard to see in the smoke, most often where the smoke starts but not always. What I do is use the arrow keys to move the binos and put the mouse on the life ring button, when it highlights click the mouse as fast as you can and hopefully you'll get him. Sometimes there's more than one, so look around near the smoke to check for more. Once I picked up 3.

If there is no pink smoke than you can't pick then up. I've seen several Jap pilots but could not pick them up.

It's a funky system but that's all we got, they sure could have done a better job on this. In heavy seas it's almost impossible.

If you do the Lifeguard war patrol to get some practice you can have some fun.
The survivor furthest to the South West has a birds eye view of Five, yes count 'em FIVE CVs virtually unescorted. You can have your own Sub version of the Marianas Turkey Shoot.

Magic

Many thanks, Magic But...Can you pick Japanese survivors? I think the function is only for friends...

Regards.

Fitzcarraldo

[peabody]

Originally Posted by magic452

If there is no pink smoke than you can't pick then up. I've seen several Jap pilots but could not pick them up.

Magic

Not entirely true. If you are in a Japanese sub or ship you can pick them up. The fact that there is no smoke just makes them very hard to find. I asked the question on this forum about why they don't have smoke, they all use the same .dat file, but I did not get an answer.

So the basic point is 'you can't pick up the enemy'.

You can also pick up germans with a Uboat AND you can pick up Japanese with a Uboat or a Japanese ship/sub.

The fact that there is no smoke only makes it almost impossible to find them, I did a test and placed them very close to the ship/sub so I could find them.