New to GWX

[bgey]

Hi all!

I've been playing SH3 for a while and just yesterday installed GWX. Hats off to the creators and a big THANK YOU! :up: I already had a career underway and was instantly and very pleasantly surprised by 'operation Juno' in Norway (where I was by pure coincidence). It'll take some getting used to some aspects (positive buoyance for example...) but all in all I was rather blown away. :yep:

One thing I do have trouble with is the "grey ship icons" that appear on the map. Does anybody know how I can get back my red/blue/green ones?

Oh, and a word of caution to others looking to try GWX... returning to port last night (just a couple of km's out) I was immersed in the GWX manual and Bernard had the conn. Next thing I know are the shouts of "Das boot ist be beschädigt"... :nope:

Bernaaaard!!! In his defence though, he states being overawed by all the new things and traffic in port now. :arrgh!:

Good hunting!

Benny

[Brag]

Welcome aboard, Benny :D Enjoy the GWX experience. After you finish the GWX manual, visit my site, you may find it useful.

[Jimbuna]

The contact colour mad is available from my sig :up:

[SmokinTep]

Welcome to the GWX experience.

[GoDeep]

I'm also new to GWX, and I really like what I'm seeing! The world seems to be much more "alive" than it used to be in stock. Actually, my PC is a bit too old to comfortably run SHIII with GWX, but it's worth the loading times! Great job, GWX developers! :up::rock: SHIII + GWX is what SHIII should have been from the start, imho.

Yesterday, I was doing a patrol very early in the war, just off the British coast, southwest of Scapa Flow. I had sank two merchants the night before and was trying to intercept a contact when suddenly I am attacked by two aircraft. I didn't have time to see them, I dived so fast. I'm barely beneath the waves, when suddenly the hydrophone operator reports a contact, warship, closing fast. It's not deep here, about 65 meters, so I drop the boat to 55, order silent running and set my speed to 1 knot. On the hydrophone, I can hear the warship closing, very fast. He is obviously alerted that there is a u-boat here. Since he is going so fast, I doubt he can hear me.

I order a 90 degree turn to starboard and set my speed to 4 knots, to put some distance between my boat and the last location the planes saw me. The warship continues to close. I wait a bit and order 1 knot again.
I can't resist going to outside view and see a destroyer approaching on a zig-zag course. Fortunately, he is heading to my last known location, doesn't know where I am. For the next hour he executes search patters and drops depth charges, but he doesn't get close and never seems to detect me. Of course, this is early in the war... ;)
I managed to sneak out, but thanks to the delay I did miss the contact I was intercepting. :cry:

I've never had this sort of thing happen to me in stock (it's been a while since I played), as far as I can remember, a coordinated attack of planes and warships, after being in a location causing trouble for a while. So it this GWX I'm seeing?

[Penelope_Grey]

Be aware, side effects of GWX may include dead hamsters, de-magnetised fridge magnets... and lately it may cause you to accidentally delete your saves instead of loading them.:rotfl:

Tee hee.

And yes, if they spot you, they will report your position and if help can come, it does!

[danlisa]

GWX can also have a detrimental effect on hair colour.:arrgh!:

Welcome one & all to GWX, enjoy it.

BTW, it's going to get a lot better.:yep:

[Kpt. Lehmann]

BTW, it's going to get a lot better.:yep:

Hooooo yes!

...and you can take that to the bank.:arrgh!: :rock:

[PapaG39]

I'm in the middle of Patrol #10 out of Kiel since installing GWX.
I also did 9 patrols in the standard SH3 & then it transferred me to Brest.

The main differences that I have run across since GWX have been a lot more DD's & Armed Trawlers in GWX. I have mostly kept my distance, but a couple of times they almost got me in that shallow water. It really made for some tense escape manuvering time.
Now I am seeing cargo ships being escorted by a lone trawler & with the rough seas it is almost impossible to hit those little buggers. If you shoot & miss you are surely a dead boat...

After a sinking you had better get away submerged also because aircraft will show up very soon. If they see you then the DD's/Trawlers will arrive shortly thereafter.

It is now August 21st 1940 & I have been informed that Bergen, Norway is now a sub base.
I can't find anything on how to transfer to that base. I don't want to go to Brest after this patrol like I had to do last time. I want to continue on in this career in the North Sea area.

Is there a way to do that instead of shipping to Brest?

I have the Commander thing installed, but haven't figured out how either stay in Kiel or ship to Bergen while keeping my same crew/boat etc...

Of course this is assuming that I make it through this patrol. Right now I have 4 DD's all around me within 10km & a convoy coming up the southern tip of the channel heading east. Things could heat up very fast shortly and the water here is only 17-25m deep...lol..

I may try & just go north on the east shore of England for a couple of squares & see if it is a bit less busy...

[bigboywooly]

Click on the telephone in the office and apply for a transfer to Bergen :up:

[Spruence M]

Click on the telephone in the office and apply for a transfer to Bergen :up:

Thats the 11th Flotilla to be more specific.

[Spruence M]

A tip for GWX newbies.

TURN ON GERMAN VOICES

You can leave the english text, but with the german vioces on, there are a lot more sounds that you hear. Things I never experienced till a couple of days ago, and I've had GWX quite some time.

[Kpt. Lehmann]

Click on the telephone in the office and apply for a transfer to Bergen :up:

Thats the 11th Flotilla to be more specific.

You aren't addicted or anything are you?

You can quit anytime you like right?

<At least that's what I keep asking myself.>

[Penelope_Grey]

GWX can also have a detrimental effect on hair colour.:arrgh!:

It may also result in certain Dev Team members requiring false teeth. :hulk:

[VipertheSniper]

Click on the telephone in the office and apply for a transfer to Bergen :up:

Thats the 11th Flotilla to be more specific.

You aren't addicted or anything are you?

You can quit anytime you like right?

<At least that's what I keep asking myself.>

Ohh that's something that always annoyed me a bit, sure there is the flottila info in the ingame help screen and the manual, but it's not by chance possible to add the location of the base into the "change flottila" screen?

[papa_smurf]

Welcome to the glorious world of GWX! Once you started playing, you will NEVER go back - you have been warned.

[bigboywooly]

Click on the telephone in the office and apply for a transfer to Bergen :up:

Thats the 11th Flotilla to be more specific.

You aren't addicted or anything are you?

You can quit anytime you like right?

<At least that's what I keep asking myself.>

Ohh that's something that always annoyed me a bit, sure there is the flottila info in the ingame help screen and the manual, but it's not by chance possible to add the location of the base into the "change flottila" screen?

The trouble is bases change during the war
The screen would have the wrong bases on as war progressed
- thats if its possible to change the screen
Not looked

[danlisa]

The trouble is bases change during the war
The screen would have the wrong bases on as war progressed
- thats if its possible to change the screen
Not looked

Might be possible with Cmdr.;)

Could probably add updated info via the date folders.

[bigboywooly]

The trouble is bases change during the war
The screen would have the wrong bases on as war progressed
- thats if its possible to change the screen
Not looked

Might be possible with Cmdr.;)

Could probably add updated info via the date folders.

Yeah I though about that after posting
Now I have to have a look
Damn you Cornishman

[Spruence M]

Click on the telephone in the office and apply for a transfer to Bergen :up:

Thats the 11th Flotilla to be more specific.

You aren't addicted or anything are you?

You can quit anytime you like right?

<At least that's what I keep asking myself.>

Well, if I am addicted, there is no one to blame other than you Lehmann and the rest of your team. :rotfl:

[d@rk51d3]

GWX can also have a detrimental effect on hair colour.:arrgh!:



Phew! Lucky me........................ No hair.:rotfl:

[Kpt. Lehmann]

Click on the telephone in the office and apply for a transfer to Bergen :up:

Thats the 11th Flotilla to be more specific.

You aren't addicted or anything are you?

You can quit anytime you like right?

<At least that's what I keep asking myself.>

Well, if I am addicted, there is no one to blame other than you Lehmann and the rest of your team. :rotfl:

Whut?.?. I'm innocent. I only ate one of the cookies.:o

[Kodaita]

I tried to quit a month ago, lasted about 3 days. The last night I had some sort of breakdown and my wife was pretty disturbed when I woke her up yelling something about wasserbomben and Der Kanal. She's a smart lady and immediately woke me up and sat me down in front of the computer, loaded GWX for me, and inserted an IV line filled with coffee. Isn't she great? Although she's getting a bit testy since I haven't shaved in 3 weeks and am I'm starting to smell a bit, but she know dedication to duty when she sees it :D

[GoDeep]

BTW, it's going to get a lot better.:yep:
Hooooo yes!

...and you can take that to the bank.:arrgh!: :rock:

Oh man....and I'm still getting used to release 1.03... :huh:
Curious...curious... :hmm:

You guys did a great job. Without GWX I would have given up on SHIII, but now its replay value had doubled or tripled! :up:

[PapaG39]

And for all of you old timers....I can quit this game anytime I want...
aaaauuuuu....I just don't want to quit right now.

I had to do a quick save & leave for work. Now I'm back and still sitting quiet like a mouse on the bottom in 21m of water with an Armed Trawler about 2000m away heading directly for my position. I don't know if he just turned toward me because that was his normal search pattern turn or if he is coming to blow me into tiny little pieces...
Anyway, I can't quit now I have to wait & see how this turns out..

I checked commander & it didn't say anything about Bergen or the 11th flotilla.
The GWX manual says that a Norway base didn't start until 1943 & I'm in August 1940.

[Jimbuna]

GWX can also have a detrimental effect on hair colour.:arrgh!:



Phew! Lucky me........................ No hair.:rotfl:

But you've still got yer teeth....yes ? :lol:

[TarJak]

The GWX effect!

Me before GWX:

http://www.abc.net.au/wa/stories/Flacco_m1143528.jpg

Me after GWX:
http://candygourlay.com/homesweetshed/images/day3/toothless.jpg

[andylegate]

The above pics are..........disturbing.......... :D

Actually, I'll be so involved with SH3 that I'll neglect things in RL!

But after awhile, I'll actually go several days without touching it, as I'll get busy doing something else or actually playing something new, and the time just runs out.

Then I'll finally go back and load up SH3, and one of the first things that comes to mind is: why am I bothering with all that other stuff?

And then the cycle begins anew! :smug:

[Jimbuna]

A human Hippo!! :o

[bgey]

Thanks all, for the welcome!

The contact colour mad is available from my sig :up:
Ah, much obliged. :up: I'll probably switch back to grey icons someday, just not today.

Benny