Yaaaarrrggghhh!!!!

[Biggles]

I'm shaking of anger!!!!!!!!! I just had the most tense moment in my entire SHIII career, and it just ends!!!!! Not in a glorius explosion, but to CTD!!!!!!!!:damn: :damn: :damn: :damn:

I was playing GWX (what else?) and on my career in october 1940, I was heading for Lorient from Wilhemshaven by taking the route around the british isles. While passing through the waters around Scapa Wlow I noticed a higher DD traffic than what I was used to, but I only dived to periscope depth every time my exellent crew spotted anything. Then, on October 13th, at around 11. o' clock, I got suprised by a Hunt Destroyer (it was brought daylight and calm seas, looks like Bernard had taken over my entire watchcrew). The Hunter became the hunted, when the DD started shelling me with heavy guns, so I crash-dived. This was just north of Scotland.

Then it began. This british captain was good. He was VERY good. It didn't matter how many times I changed the course, depth or speed on my sub, he found me over and over again, dropping depth charges all over the area. It was a miracle that I never got hit. This went on for a long time, while I was lowering my depth all the time. I think the max depth in this area was 120, so I was in trouble.

Then suddenly I noticed that he stopped shelling me with those bloody barrels, and I wondered why, since I could hear "the enemy is pining us sir!" over and over again. I watched on the outside view, and I was suprised when I noticed that he went on in a circle right over me, speeding up and down, but didn't drop anything. Then I understood: He had used EVERY SINGLE DEPTHCHARGE ON HIS SHIP to destroy me.:rotfl: :rotfl: I was relieved, but annoyed.:shifty: I put on Flank speed, but he followed me, so the max time ac. was 8x. so I couldn't basically go anywere 'cause he followed me. Then I got a daring plan.

I ordered periscope depth, and after a while I got up there near the surface.
He noticed of course, and went for a ramming attack, I let him come, since that was a part of my plan. He hit my conning tower, but no real damage was left on my sub. After getting up in position again, I pulled up my periscope, choosed him as the target, ordered the WO to solve an attack plan for my first torpedo, when he was done within seconds, I ordered fire. The torpedo missed my a meter or two. I ordered second torpedo fire when.......

"Silent Hunter III has discovered a failure and will have to be shut down etc............"

I almost threw the bloody screen out my window.....:nope:

[fredbass]

If you haven't done it in a few days since all the uninstalling and installing you've been doing, and now since your game crashed, I suggest you clean up your computer and do a defrag and cross your fingers for next time. :roll:

but your story did sound fun, if that's the right word to use. ;)

[Venatore]

:eek:

[VIICDriver]

And SAVE often.

[Biggles]

I didn't know that DDs could run out of depthcharges....good lesson for everyone here don't you think?

[melnibonian]

I didn't know that DDs could run out of depthcharges....good lesson for everyone here don't you think?
The probelm is that you run out of lives before they run out of charges;) :D :D :D

[Biggles]

I didn't know that DDs could run out of depthcharges....good lesson for everyone here don't you think?
The probelm is that you run out of lives before they run out of charges;) :D :D :D

I'm the living proof that this may or may not be true:p

[bigboywooly]

Yes they do run out
They carry around 200 or so
Trouble is they dont bugger off when they run out
They still keep you pinned down

[U-104]

why not pin you down.

[melnibonian]

I didn't know that DDs could run out of depthcharges....good lesson for everyone here don't you think?
The probelm is that you run out of lives before they run out of charges;) :D :D :D

I'm the living proof that this may or may not be true:p
Hmmmmm attitude, always welcome in the U-Boat familly;) :cool: :cool: :up:

[bigboywooly]

why not pin you down.

?????? eh

[sergbuto]

I didn't know that DDs could run out of depthcharges....good lesson for everyone here don't you think?

What lesson and why for everyone here? It is well know that DDs can run out of charges and it is easy to calculate how many charges each of DDs carries. F.e. in stock version, it is 40 charges per rack/K-gun. Some people count charges during DC-ing to know when it is relatively safe to engage the DD (provided the player survives).

[Biggles]

Have I, in a way, insulted anyone here?

[melnibonian]

Have I, in a way, insulted anyone here?
Sorry mate the attitude thing I said was a joke. I hope you're not annoyed by me. If I did annoyed you I appologise. It was meant as a joke trully

[Rose]

Have I, in a way, insulted anyone here?

Not me, I learned something. :up:

[Biggles]

Have I, in a way, insulted anyone here?
Sorry mate the attitude thing I said was a joke. I hope you're not annoyed by me. If I did annoyed you I appologise. It was meant as a joke trully


haha, not you mate. but i almost thought that U-104 said something bad to me, although I'm not sure what "why not pin you down" means.....

[melnibonian]

Have I, in a way, insulted anyone here?
Sorry mate the attitude thing I said was a joke. I hope you're not annoyed by me. If I did annoyed you I appologise. It was meant as a joke trully


haha, not you mate. but i almost thought that U-104 said something bad to me, although I'm not sure what "why not pin you down" means.....
I'm sure he meant well. i think he was talking about a grammar or spelling issue. It's over now though so......go on stop posting and go play GWX;) :up: :up:

[Biggles]

Have I, in a way, insulted anyone here?
Sorry mate the attitude thing I said was a joke. I hope you're not annoyed by me. If I did annoyed you I appologise. It was meant as a joke trully


haha, not you mate. but i almost thought that U-104 said something bad to me, although I'm not sure what "why not pin you down" means.....
I'm sure he meant well. Go on stop posting and go play GWX;) :up: :up:


I'm going to bed now.....and GWX is bloody hard!:damn:

[melnibonian]

Have I, in a way, insulted anyone here?
Sorry mate the attitude thing I said was a joke. I hope you're not annoyed by me. If I did annoyed you I appologise. It was meant as a joke trully


haha, not you mate. but i almost thought that U-104 said something bad to me, although I'm not sure what "why not pin you down" means.....
I'm sure he meant well. Go on stop posting and go play GWX;) :up: :up:


I'm going to bed now.....and GWX is bloody hard!:damn:
I would continue playing:D :D But if you have to go to bed make sure you dream about GWX;) ;) ;) That's what I do:D :D :up:

[Letum]

Use a program like "Enditall" to get rid of other programs running. It stopped 99% of my CTDs.

[Hylander_1314]

One thing that was causing a lot of CTD's for me was the Windows DEP (Data Execution Prevention) that is in the "My Computer" properties under the advanced tab, then the settings button in the visuals box. Over at M$ there's instructions how to completely disable this. Fairly simple if you follow the directions too. Only took about 5 minutes to do. As it was affecting other games too.

[peterloo]

Sorry to hear that... A complete disaster

What you can learn is to SAVE often, esp. when you try to do perform an attack. Not for getting back once you are killed, but most computer crash occurs at these moments, when the system has to calculate the enemy action and your action busily

[HunterICX]

you know the second that the screen freezer, that second lasts forever...you just see ur career ends in front of ur eyes...and you see XP desktop laughing in your Face....

I heard my mate yell from anger on his computer via Teamspeak he was playing SH3...everything was fine...he was killing a lot as I hear...and at the sudden the PC reboot automaticly....he was gone and when he came back 1 minute he cursed and used very foul language against his computer. while it was his dumb idea to activate that when a XP update has been installed that the computer reboots automaticly...:rotfl:

[Jimbuna]

you know the second that the screen freezer, that second lasts forever...you just see ur career ends in front of ur eyes...and you see XP desktop laughing in your Face....

I heard my mate yell from anger on his computer via Teamspeak he was playing SH3...everything was fine...he was killing a lot as I hear...and at the sudden the PC reboot automaticly....he was gone and when he came back 1 minute he cursed and used very foul language against his computer. while it was his dumb idea to activate that when a XP update has been installed that the computer reboots automaticly...:rotfl:
:rotfl: :rotfl: :damn: :damn:

[_Seth_]

"..There is a clever helicopter pilot whose job is to ferry VIP's from the Seattle airport to downtown. One day he found himself with a passenger in a pea soup fog somewhere over downtown Seattle. No landmarks were visible and the passenger became panicky.
The pilot said "Don't worry" and very gradually let the helicopter down until it was hovering opposite the window of a large, unidentifiable building. The pilot motioned to a woman working in the building to open her window and asked her "Where are we?" The woman responded "You are in a helicopter."
The pilot immediately lifted the helicopter above the building tops, flew a mile and a half, let it down through the fog, and hit the landing pad dead centre. The amazed and relieved passenger said "How on earth did you do that?" The pilot said: "It was simple. The information the woman gave me was perfectly accurate and utterly useless. I knew that she had to be working at the Microsoft Customer Support Centre..." :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:


Q: How many Microsoft support staff does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Four. One to ask "What is the registration number of the light bulb?", one to ask "Have you tried rebooting it?", another to ask "Have you tried reinstalling it?" and the last one to say "It must be your hardware because the light bulb in our office works fine..."

[Biggles]

"..There is a clever helicopter pilot whose job is to ferry VIP's from the Seattle airport to downtown. One day he found himself with a passenger in a pea soup fog somewhere over downtown Seattle. No landmarks were visible and the passenger became panicky.
The pilot said "Don't worry" and very gradually let the helicopter down until it was hovering opposite the window of a large, unidentifiable building. The pilot motioned to a woman working in the building to open her window and asked her "Where are we?" The woman responded "You are in a helicopter."
The pilot immediately lifted the helicopter above the building tops, flew a mile and a half, let it down through the fog, and hit the landing pad dead centre. The amazed and relieved passenger said "How on earth did you do that?" The pilot said: "It was simple. The information the woman gave me was perfectly accurate and utterly useless. I knew that she had to be working at the Microsoft Customer Support Centre..." :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:


Q: How many Microsoft support staff does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Four. One to ask "What is the registration number of the light bulb?", one to ask "Have you tried rebooting it?", another to ask "Have you tried reinstalling it?" and the last one to say "It must be your hardware because the light bulb in our office works fine..."

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Microsoft: the worlds biggest terror-orginasation if you ask me pa....

[Grell]

Q: How many Microsoft support staff does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Four. One to ask "What is the registration number of the light bulb?", one to ask "Have you tried rebooting it?", another to ask "Have you tried reinstalling it?" and the last one to say "It must be your hardware because the light bulb in our office works fine..."

That is funny! :D


Regards,

Grell

[Biggles]

oh yeah, I'd like to ask if someone knows any answer to this one: I was trying the campaign in the black sea, and my first grid-mission was "WEST"....where the heck is that?

[fredbass]

oh yeah, I'd like to ask if someone knows any answer to this one: I was trying the campaign in the black sea, and my first grid-mission was "WEST"....where the heck is that?

Well the West is basically the West half of the Black Sea, but you don't get any renown for doing that so basically just go where you want.

[bigboywooly]

oh yeah, I'd like to ask if someone knows any answer to this one: I was trying the campaign in the black sea, and my first grid-mission was "WEST"....where the heck is that?

Its ummmmmm West
:rotfl:
The west side of the BS
Where all the action is till later in the war when the Russians start grabbing ports back

[U-104]

why not pin you down.
?????? eh

Just because a destroyer runs out of depth charges doesn't mean it has to leave. It was a very common tactic in WW2 to keep a uboat pinned under water even after running out of depth charges.

[bigboywooly]

Ahhh got you now

Yes I know it was the common tactic
Meant that I wish they would bugger off before all my air does