i miss rain

[Halface]

when in a storm 15ms wind i dont see any rain...anyone ?

[Jmack]

rain in sh4 its not very pretty to see but it is there ...

[orangenee]

Yeah, I prefer when it doesn't rain.

[Halface]

thanks ok have not seen it yet and iam on my 4 patrol

[UnSalted]

Once you're surfaced and can't see a large freighter until it's 300 yards away due to darkness and rain, you'll stop missing it I bet.

[popeye]

i saw rain once. it looked nice...glad it didnt do that my whole patrol though.

[deamyont]

Dont you miss the N Atlantic in SH3? Months of heavy fog, huge waves and rain. Lots of rain. For months. Never see more than 300 meter in front of the sub, and when you do, that DE is way to close already :cool:

[ReallyDedPoet]

Have seen lots of rain, similar to SH3 as far as how it looks, needs modding:yep:

RDP

[DirtyHarry3033]

You're not missing much, the rain looks like a hyper-active kid with a chalk stick decided to totally slash up the blackboard in his classroom. White streaks all over a black background at night, looks a little better during the day.

Take Unsalted's words to heart, I was running surfaced in a major rainstorm late one night and nearly got cut in half by an unescorted freighter. Never saw him until he was under 200 yds :(

[-Pv-]

Patience grasshopper. When you finally get it you'll be complaining it rains too much.
-Pv-

[switch.dota]

Once you're surfaced and can't see a large freighter until it's 300 yards away due to darkness and rain, you'll stop missing it I bet.
It works in your favor when you realise that sinking that 18 kton liner from point blank also drew in some 4 derstroyers.

Nowhere to dive in shallow waters and the position already compromised. Either surface or be depth charged to death. So I turned head on towards one of the destroyers and surfaced just as he was about to pass overhead. Funny thing is he ended up ramming me and blowing up in the process, with only minor damage to my engine room and aft torpedo room (gg damage model :( ).

For the remainder of the fight, I was on the surface doing 17 knots and chasing destroyers. Due to the impossible visibility (I couldn't make out anything due to heavy rain and darkness), I had some real trouble staying away from destroyers. I was about to ram another one but missed him by inches.

All in all, with the deck gun manned at all time, due to the very limited visibility I was able to go gun on gun with 3 devilish destroyers and still make it back to home base. True, the damage wasn't worth it seeing as how I was really afraid to dive even at periscope depth after this, but it shows what bad weather can do. Provided you get past their sonar you can surface and evade almost any ship. I only fought because I wanted to see how long I'd last.


Also it's kinda funny to do a port recon mission at night in stormy weather - you need to like scratch the peers to see the ships docked there. I almost rammed a docked destroyer because the crew didn't see it :doh: