Call me strange, but my favourite part of this game...

[fatty]

...is DAMAGE CONTROL! Seriously, what other part of the game creates so much suspense? Not knowing if you'll get the water out in enough time to level off your boat before crush depth... helplessly awaiting the escort to deliver the coup de grace while your valiant crew struggles to get the engines online.

Nail-biting.

[danurve]

'.. Destroyer comming nearer, .. almost above us now..' :up:

It does rattle ones cage herr kaleun.

Not sure if I could pick out one most favorite thing. But on occasion I do like intercepting - blasting a DD-Escort, no they are not so much for tonnage but make for some of the best Explosions :yep:
Finding, and getting into position on a nice convoy with juicy targets in the center - then getting fish to them past the screening merchants is also quite cool.

[Bindolaf]

"oh man! Wenn iss' es endlich vorbei!"

Chilling

[Penelope_Grey]

My favourite part is when I am being depthcharged. LOL

[Brag]

I guess I just basic. My favorite bit is the last 20-30 minutes as we enter harbour, which I do at TCx1 having a drink. At dockside, I listen to the band.

Like all stupid sailors, once I'm in port I want to go out. Go figure :roll:.

[Umfuld]

It gives me a sinking feeling.

[STEED]

Getting the chance to use my deck gun. :D

[CaptainAsh]

Being depth charged and waiting in the command station to see if the charges are about to exploded close enough to make the ship roll :yep:

[GoldenRivet]

Strange

[Sailor Steve]

I too enjoy cruising the harbor, watching all the ship and planes.

[Telgriff]

My favourite part is when I am being depthcharged. LOL

Ditto. The tense moments of the pinging and silence before things start to go boom.

[Crazy Ian]

Finding, and getting into position on a nice convoy with juicy targets in the center - then getting fish to them past the screening merchants is also quite cool.

I love that feeling when you've basically blown off his bow... and he almost goes crash dive to the bottom at 30 odd knots!

[Hartmann]

Being depth charged and waiting in the command station to see if the charges are about to exploded close enough to make the ship roll :yep:

Try the depth charges shaking mod.. really scary, the sense of breaking up is very intense. :doh:

now is like a giant hammer hitting against the hull, really impressive

[U-418]

Getting the chance to use my deck gun. :D

:yep: Me too. I really do want to shout 'Fire deck gun!'

Sadly I haven't the time for SH3...:damn: Not for for a while.:damn:

[sth128]

My favourite parts are when I manage to hit a destroyer in the ammo pits and you see a chain reaction goes off, and when I make it back to base in one piece.

[Kpt. Lehmann]

My favourite part is when I am being depthcharged. LOL

Masochist!!! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

(Don't worry... I think we all like getting spanked a little bit.:arrgh!: )

(addenda: ...errrmm by depth charges that is! :huh: )

[Ducimus]

My favorite part is being depth charged with the external camera off. Talk about an edge of your seat thrill if you play DiD. Seriously!

[sunvalleyslim]

My favourite part is when I am being depthcharged. LOL
I'm with you Penelope, there's nothing more intense than listening to the pings. Then hearing depth charges in the water, Sir. And waiting to find out how close they really are.............:rock: :rock: :rock:

[Telgriff]

My favorite part is being depth charged with the external camera off. Talk about an edge of your seat thrill if you play DiD. Seriously!

I have external camera but i dont use it during DC attacks....listening to where they explode...ahhh the tension!

[Canovaro]

The sound of destroyers giving up their search. :sunny:

[TarJak]

Love the damage control and coming out alive. About 10% of the time:D

[rb4door]

totally agree on the damage control - its like a game within the game. Such a totally different and nail byting aspect.

I hate unctrolled sinking and trying to stop flooding.
That said, thats the time I most forget i'm sitting in a seat infront of a computer - i'm totally immersed at that stage, doing everything I can to try and save the ship.

Can you imagine what it would have been like to be in a real U boat in WW2 and have DC damage and uncontrollable sinking? I have no doubt it would be up there as one of THE definitions of terror

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

i love the asdic :ping:

it freaks me out when i hear it :doh:
becouse THEN i am already worryed if i would make it or not.

most of the time i get havy damage and sink.
other times i can escape to 200m and head north (standard escape route for me becouse the destroyers come from the east south and west at you).

i am lucky when there is no bernard in my sub.
realy i always have sucsessful misions.

i once got a bernard engineer and i always died :damn:

[Heibges]

I too enjoy cruising the harbor, watching all the ship and planes.

Mine too. As well as backing my uboat into the pens after a patrol.

[Frenssen]

I really like counting the seconds while I wait for my torpedoes to reach their targets. Being depth charged is also exciting.

[Telgriff]

other times i can escape to 200m and head north (standard escape route for me becouse the destroyers come from the east south and west at you).

i am lucky when there is no bernard in my sub.
realy i always have sucsessful misions.

i once got a bernard engineer and i always died :damn:

Always head north? I will certainly have to try that!

I had a bernard for Navigation and actually beached myself heading out from Lorient!

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

other times i can escape to 200m and head north (standard escape route for me becouse the destroyers come from the east south and west at you).

i am lucky when there is no bernard in my sub.
realy i always have sucsessful misions.

i once got a bernard engineer and i always died :damn:

Always head north? I will certainly have to try that!

I had a bernard for Navigation and actually beached myself heading out from Lorient!
well i alway head north and those destroyers dond DC you as much as you go to east south or west.

and my bernard liked to sing in silent running :shifty: the litle basterd...

[shegeek72]

...is DAMAGE CONTROL! Seriously, what other part of the game creates so much suspense? Not knowing if you'll get the water out in enough time to level off your boat before crush depth... helplessly awaiting the escort to deliver the coup de grace while your valiant crew struggles to get the engines online.

Nail-biting.
Try Drifter's Longer Repair times mod if yer serious about more realistic repair times, that IRL could sometimes take days. :up:

From what I understand GWX has altered repair times, though I haven't noticed much difference from the stock version.
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[dcb]

Speaking about things some like and some don't, I must say I really like the much-woed standard damage model. It has an RPG feeling, to start with green crew, struggle to keep the boat working when half of the crew cannot be used, and then develop each of them so that, after some 5-6 patrols they work OK under pressure. It gives a strategic dimension to the crew micromanagement and when I give them medals and promotions I feel this is really of good use.

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

Speaking about things some like and some don't, I must say I really like the much-woed standard damage model. It has an RPG feeling, to start with green crew, struggle to keep the boat working when half of the crew cannot be used, and then develop each of them so that, after some 5-6 patrols they work OK under pressure. It gives a strategic dimension to the crew micromanagement and when I give them medals and promotions I feel this is really of good use.

where can it be found ?
sounds interesting :up:

[Sailor Steve]

...the much-woed standard damage model.

where can it be found ?
sounds interesting :up:
He meant the stock one; the game as it is out of the box.

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

...the much-woed standard damage model.

where can it be found ?
sounds interesting :up:
He meant the stock one; the game as it is out of the box.

oh... never realy payed attention to it...

the stock version is boring... and specialy now i got GWX :smug:

[dcb]

the stock version is boring... and specialy now i got GWX :smug:

I am playing GWX too, but with stock fatigue model introduced via SH3C.
BTW, I was meaning "fatigue model", of course, only it was after midnight when I posted and... well...:oops:
I would have edited it now, but it already got re-posted in quotes.

[mimik]

the final few seconds before hitting the fire button!.. :lol:

[Lovro]

Moments when I give mad orders.

*in the middle of the convoy* "blow and surface the boat"
"set course for scapa flow"
"New deph 3-0-0 meters"


...crew goes "this is madness" I go "NO THIS IS U-BOAT"

[fatty]

"THIS IS DEUTSCHLAND!!!" :mad:

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

"THIS IS DEUTSCHLAND!!!" :mad:

JAWOL :up:.

kneel for the fatherland and sink ships for it's pride :arrgh!:

[minute]

The part I like best is when I stay in deep silence at 20m under the waves and get to hear that faint 'chuf-chuf-chuf-chuf...' in the hydrophone....That's where the fun is - all the rest is routine...:arrgh!:

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

found a new thing i like... looking at my target with a litle klock (i just found) and see if the torpedo hits on time ;)

[Spruence M]

...is DAMAGE CONTROL! Seriously, what other part of the game creates so much suspense? Not knowing if you'll get the water out in enough time to level off your boat before crush depth... helplessly awaiting the escort to deliver the coup de grace while your valiant crew struggles to get the engines online.

Nail-biting.

My favorite part too. :up:

[Shelton]

My favourite is

"SHIP SIGHTED!"

or

"SOUND CONTACT!"

[shegeek72]

'.. Destroyer comming nearer, .. almost above us now..' :up: Are you using a sound mod? My crew doesn't say that (GWX 1.3). :hmm:
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[Penelope_Grey]

No, that is not a standard feature of GWX 1.03

[The Munster]

That loosely translates from German back to English, 'Destroyer in Attack Run' which is my favourite part [in German of course !]
When I hear that, I feel the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end !

[slow_n_ez]

Same here Shelton ... get involved checking messages or messing around in navigation screen and get the watches " SHIP SIGHTED SIR " ..... always think ' GREAT ! we get to blow something up ' :lol:

[Cezbor]

The most enjoyble thing .... after 3,5 hours of dephcharging.... is to go to periscope depth and fire torpedo at your enemy, and then ....... waching how that s.n .. .... is slowly sinking and blowing into pieces:yep:

[Dowly]

My favourite part is when I am being depthcharged. LOL

Same here. :up:

Sometimes, when I'm hunted and it seems they are losing me, I hit blow ballast and make a 'dolphin jump' so they spot me again and I get some more charges after me. :p

[Hakahura]

Nope.....

"Torpedo impact"

[mowgli99]

i also love giving orders right after an atack or evasion from aircraft or escorts etc. "Ahead flank, crash dive, 5 degrees starboard!!" Ah the rush of doing these things quickly

[VolvicCH]

getting to press the "C" button ;)





Have a nice day :)

[jwatch]

Returning from a rough patrol in the dark, fog and rain, then that first glimpse of the lighthouse off the coast... Is there a smell mod, maybe like a scratch and sniff thing where you could smell the grass and pine trees through the ocean mist from a few miles off the coast? Man, what those guys must have endured. My hat's off to veterans from all countries.

[Fenris_Wolf]

It's strangely satisfying to imagine having humiliated all the superior escort ships and their masters by routinely sinking a good sum of tonnage under their protection regardless of their innovative measures. That I have become the black plague of the sea and there are worried fat old men somewhere desperately trying to find a cure while I have personally crippled their supply of alcohol. :|\\

[seaniam81]

My fav has to be the satisfying sound of a Torpedo slaming into the side of... well just about anything.:rock:

The part I hate the most about all WW2 subsims... Knowing after playing SH3 and the problems i have with the torpedos in the Altantic i'm just going to have to deal with them again in the Pacific :damn::damn::damn::damn:

Damn the Torpedos! :rotfl:

[Vipper]

Calm and sunny day, many merchants and cannon full of ammunition...thats my favourite conditions.

[skookum]

My favourite part of SH3 is sitting on the bridge with the console hidden and a cup of coffee by my keyboard in rough seas, especially when there are ships in sight. If they're friendly, often I'll calculate an intercept and see how close I can pass them with out course corrections for the last few KM. Nothing beats looking up at a big ship that's heaving in the swell less than 100 meters away. Nothing about the game is more immersive for me, except perhaps being pinged by a DD. But evading thier wrath is equally satisfying. I'm also a big fan of the 88mm deck gun, but I rarely get to use it.

[Huskalar]

For me it's that moment when a torpedo hits a target where I aimed it to hit it. In particular when I'm in a convoy attack situation and the target is really sweet like a big tanker or something like a battleship. :arrgh!: