Dave Hansen
04-16-07, 09:56 AM
I am in the middle of my first patrol using GWX 1.03 and the latest version of sub commander.
After playing thru the SH3 tutorials, I plunged into my first career.
Leaving port for the first time with GWX 1.03 was awesome. I spent over an hour real time just leaving port for the open seas and taking everything in/trying out the controls/etc. The immersion factor was something else. I recalled the words of George Clooney as the captain of the boat in the movie Perfect Storm as he left Glouster harbor...felt the same way as U-53 headed out on my first patrol.
I am pretty sure I set everything up for 100% realism.
However, after making three attacks I am not so sure.
When I view the Nav Station (F5), if I have locked on a target I actually see the target moving across this screen. When the lock is lost, the target icon disappears.
Also, there is a line that shows hydrophone contacts that are constantly updated.
Is this playing at 100% realism? FWIF my watch crew is rated at 100%, bar graph completely filled. Also, my sonar man is a senior chief WO with no ratings.
Help is appreciated...I don't want to have to break bad habits for full immersion.
PS-I read someplace that there is a keystroke that allows ease in centering the F5 screen on your U boat, but can't seem to find the posting.
PS2-FWIW...around 3 PM I spotted a merchant at long range (set up GWX with 16km visual range)...plotted its course and attempted to close. Interrupted twice by approaching warships and three time by aircraft...all resulting in diving and running submerged. Anyways, it was about 10 PM and I had found and manuevered into perfect firing position on the merchant I had been tracking. I was submerged, sitting 600m at a dead stop off his port side watching this merchant fill up my scope...licking my chops...with about 15 seconds to go before I fired I caught sight of his flag illuminated by a spotlight...DAMN...a US merchant...I just sat there silently and watched it sail on its merry way unaware of the danger it was in. I probably had invested about 1.5 hours of my time in this ship. As I watched it disappear, I truly had a sense of disappointment that an actual U Boat captain would have had in 1939. At least I don't have a real crew to explain that to.:88)
TXS
After playing thru the SH3 tutorials, I plunged into my first career.
Leaving port for the first time with GWX 1.03 was awesome. I spent over an hour real time just leaving port for the open seas and taking everything in/trying out the controls/etc. The immersion factor was something else. I recalled the words of George Clooney as the captain of the boat in the movie Perfect Storm as he left Glouster harbor...felt the same way as U-53 headed out on my first patrol.
I am pretty sure I set everything up for 100% realism.
However, after making three attacks I am not so sure.
When I view the Nav Station (F5), if I have locked on a target I actually see the target moving across this screen. When the lock is lost, the target icon disappears.
Also, there is a line that shows hydrophone contacts that are constantly updated.
Is this playing at 100% realism? FWIF my watch crew is rated at 100%, bar graph completely filled. Also, my sonar man is a senior chief WO with no ratings.
Help is appreciated...I don't want to have to break bad habits for full immersion.
PS-I read someplace that there is a keystroke that allows ease in centering the F5 screen on your U boat, but can't seem to find the posting.
PS2-FWIW...around 3 PM I spotted a merchant at long range (set up GWX with 16km visual range)...plotted its course and attempted to close. Interrupted twice by approaching warships and three time by aircraft...all resulting in diving and running submerged. Anyways, it was about 10 PM and I had found and manuevered into perfect firing position on the merchant I had been tracking. I was submerged, sitting 600m at a dead stop off his port side watching this merchant fill up my scope...licking my chops...with about 15 seconds to go before I fired I caught sight of his flag illuminated by a spotlight...DAMN...a US merchant...I just sat there silently and watched it sail on its merry way unaware of the danger it was in. I probably had invested about 1.5 hours of my time in this ship. As I watched it disappear, I truly had a sense of disappointment that an actual U Boat captain would have had in 1939. At least I don't have a real crew to explain that to.:88)
TXS