What's with the scream?

[andylegate]

Following Kpt. Lehman's advice, I finally got around to loading up the German sound file. It's fun! I don't speak German, but after living overseas when I was a kid and a teen, I love to listen to languages other than my own. I can even understand some of the German!

Well, there I was, trying out the Type XXI mod, just to see what this type of sub can do (I'm impressed with a lot of it, but I can see where early on, things would get too easy).

Now one of my cats was laying on the computer desk, right by my sub-woofer. She was sound asleep. Normally if I get on the deck gun, it jerks her awake, but she's normally like: Yawn, oh he's doing that thing again and goes back to sleep.

I wanted to see how well this Type XXI could crash dive, so I hit the "C" key.

Good Lord!!!!! :o:o:o

My cat literally lept from where she was to my shoulder, her claws painfully sinking in far enough to draw blood! I had also jerked back from the computer! I thought I had just killed someone!

Took about 30 minutes to calm the cat (and my) nerves down again! Sheesh!

[Steel_Tomb]

ALLLLLAAAARRRRM!!!! Flugzeug! ;)...to be fair...if you suddenly saw a mosquito fly out of a cloud firing rockets at you, I think you would scream ALLLLAAAARRRM! Instead of "Oh gosh, not another of those bloody things...down we go lads.":rotfl::p

[Penelope_Grey]

Ha ha !!!

Fantastiche!!:rotfl:

[NiclDoe]

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: WOW thats funny!. i wish i could see this.

[Huskalar]

Good Lord!!!!! :o:o:o

My cat literally lept from where she was to my shoulder, her claws painfully sinking in far enough to draw blood! I had also jerked back from the computer! I thought I had just killed someone!

Took about 30 minutes to calm the cat (and my) nerves down again! Sheesh!:rotfl: :rotfl:

[Brag]

That cat won't be left behind when you crash dive! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[Biggles]

That cat won't be left behind when you crash dive! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

not on my watch no. No one left behind, cat or man!

[Lafferty]

That cat won't be left behind when you crash dive! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

not on my watch no. No one left behind, cat or man!
LOL

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
my cat dosnt do that. she just sleeps on my lap when im at my computer.
when im in my bed she crawls under the blaket (spelling ?) and sleeps next to me...
she's a uber lazy cat :yep:
but she's so cute when she sleeps so i dont blame her for it :p

[Capt. Shark Bait]

Good Lord!!!!! :o:o:o

My cat literally lept from where she was to my shoulder, her claws painfully sinking in far enough to draw blood! I had also jerked back from the computer! I thought I had just killed someone!

Took about 30 minutes to calm the cat (and my) nerves down again! Sheesh!:rotfl: :rotfl:

i'll see your :rotfl: :rotfl: and raise you :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: more. i can picture the cat doin that

[GoldenRivet]

Picture this.

Exclaiming "Alarm" from the watch deck is the crew's signal to get the boat under as quickly as possible or we are all dead. period.

So there you are standing on the watch deck and you see the sunlight glint on the canopy of a Mosquito bomber rolling over in a split S maneuver to dive in and fire it's wing mounted HVAR rockets into your sub.

ONE HVAR rocket is enough to seriously criple your submarine to the point that it either cannot dive at all, or it dives uncontrollably.

Seeing this sunlight glare overhead you and your crew now have about 25 seconds to complete the following

1. Relay the ahead flank order to the engine room
2. Set the stern planes to maximum dive angle
3. Set the bow planes to maximum dive angle
4. Open the main tank vents to full open
5. secure all compartments
6. ready the electric motors
7. all non-essential personnell must run at full tilt for the forward most compartment to put all dead weight in the front of the U-boat to pull the bow down into the water as quickly as possible.
8. Clear all 5 or 6 men from the watch tower
9. close and lock the water tight watch tower hatch

by the time you have completed all of these tasks you have managed to submerge to about 10 meters depth

now your forward momentum is slowed, reducing the dive speed as the diesel motors stop. now is the time to engage the electric motors and shove them to flank speed to compelte the dive process to 70 meters as quickly as possible.

by now the mosquito bomber pilot closing in on you at over 200 knots has launched all 6 of his HVAR rockets at your submarine which he can still clearly see beneath the water at it's current depth.

you have literally only a few seconds remaining to escape disaster.

as you clear 25 meters, the ocean above you is blasted into a frenzy of explosions as your boat rocks violently, the lights fuse and the interior of the u-boat falls completely dark.

Men scramble to re-fuse the lights in pitch black as the beam of flashlights scan the command room passing through showers of salt spray.

with a few minor repairs your boat will be fit for combat again.

you have escaped death by a very narrow margin.

all because a young saior peaked his head down the hatch and exclaimed

ALLAAAAAAAAARRRRRRMMMMMM!!!!!!

[Hanomag]

Too bad we cant get the alarm scream before we hit C...

Would increase the oh sh%$ factor 100% not too mention heart failure...:up:

[GoldenRivet]

would have been a nice feature to set the default action for aircraft spotted or warship spotted to "crash dive"

that way it would be more real life as if a watch crew member announced the crash dive as was usually the case.

the only problem is... it is not always advantageous from a tactical standpoint to resort to a crash dive as the default action... unless you could set the default action to crash dive whenever a plane was spotted.

[TarJak]

GR you beat me to it. Pretty much what he said ^^^^^^

Although making the aircraft default into CD would make for very interesting home port departures when the Luftwaffe do a fly over! There are not too many harbours deep enough to cope with crash dives. :)

[GoldenRivet]

GR you beat me to it. Pretty much what he said ^^^^^^

Although making the aircraft default into CD would make for very interesting home port departures when the Luftwaffe do a fly over! There are not too many harbours deep enough to cope with crash dives. :)

true... but does the option menu pop up when friendly aircraft are sighted?

[PapaG39]

Never have seen a friendly aircraft. I didn't think their were any...

[bigboywooly]

Never have seen a friendly aircraft. I didn't think their were any...

:o

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=123357

They are in the stock game but rarely seen
Radio a convoy report off Norway and you will see plenty

[Hanomag]

I always see a pair of Me's usually when leaving port....early in the war..then they go bye bye :yep:

[The Munster]

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
my cat dosnt do that. she just sleeps on my lap when im at my computer.
when im in my bed she crawls under the blaket (spelling ?) and sleeps next to me...
she's a uber lazy cat :yep:
but she's so cute when she sleeps so i dont blame her for it :p

I used to have a cat like that but she would only sleep under the blanket in the Winter when I used to live in a cold place. Memories :D

Blaket = Blanket

[bookworm_020]

Seeing this sunlight glare overhead you and your crew now have about 25 seconds to complete the following

1. Relay the ahead flank order to the engine room
2. Set the stern planes to maximum dive angle
3. Set the bow planes to maximum dive angle
4. Open the main tank vents to full open
5. secure all compartments
6. ready the electric motors
7. all non-essential personnell must run at full tilt for the forward most compartment to put all dead weight in the front of the U-boat to pull the bow down into the water as quickly as possible.
8. Clear all 5 or 6 men from the watch tower
9. close and lock the water tight watch tower hatch


10. Put the cat out!:o:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

[TarJak]

Thinking more on this you could set the sound to trigger differently for merchies and warships. :hmm:

The one thing you wouldn't be able to stop is the repeat calls when a ship is coming into the edge of your crew's "perception". This is what gives you the annoying repeats of ship spotted.

[NiclDoe]

My dog is more lazer then Mohr's cat. All he does is what his belly rubbed, eat and wanted to lay on top of my pillow and sleep heavily like snoring.

[Ping Panther]

That cat clenching your shoulders at your first German-voiced crash dive would have made a super YouTube posting.

Does the CDive actually shift the non-essential crew to the bow in GWX?

[Blacklight]

1. Relay the ahead flank order to the engine room
2. Set the stern planes to maximum dive angle
3. Set the bow planes to maximum dive angle
4. Open the main tank vents to full open
5. secure all compartments
6. ready the electric motors
7. all non-essential personnell must run at full tilt for the forward most compartment to put all dead weight in the front of the U-boat to pull the bow down into the water as quickly as possible.
8. Clear all 5 or 6 men from the watch tower
9. close and lock the water tight watch tower hatch
10. Put the cat out!

11. Make sure Bernard is secure and in a safe location.:o

[Sailor Steve]

Too bad we cant get the alarm scream before we hit C...

Would increase the oh sh%$ factor 100% not too mention heart failure...:up:
Completely agree. It would be wonderful to be cruising along and suddenly have the watch screaming with no prior warning.

Never have seen a friendly aircraft. I didn't think their were any...
Your sig says you use GWX. You've never seen the Bf-109's orbiting every home base? I love to lock onto them and take screenshots of my boat from above, complete with escort and the plane itself.

[Biggles]

I have two lovely cats. Almost 12 years old, so they don't move around much. 12 years is OLD for a male cat. (they're brothers). Have a tendency to fall over on my keyboard...don't fancy that too much actually.....:shifty: Did it once while playing SHIII actually. Don't remember the result, but it couldn't be good....

probably something like:

me lying in P-depth and are juuuust about to fire away on the H.M.S Revenge when....
(cat jumps up on keyboard and press the "S" button)
Surface the boat!
Nooooooo.......

[Hanomag]

Thanx Steve...109s...not much on planes...just know that allied planes hurt real bad...

wait, aren't Mes ..109s??...or is the Bf just a model designation...Im clueless...:oops:

but anyways..luv to see em flying overhead...gives me a warm fuzzy feeling in a fatherland kinda way..:up:

PS lets put a mod in so we can keep aircraft cover on our home base by paying renown...maybe upgrade to those sweet jet jobs, later on!

Heck while were at it I want more 88mm AA batteries...and maybe a big railgun..Thor or sumptin' LOL :rotfl:

[Rhodes]

Seeing this sunlight glare overhead you and your crew now have about 25 seconds to complete the following

1. Relay the ahead flank order to the engine room
2. Set the stern planes to maximum dive angle
3. Set the bow planes to maximum dive angle
4. Open the main tank vents to full open
5. secure all compartments
6. ready the electric motors
7. all non-essential personnell must run at full tilt for the forward most compartment to put all dead weight in the front of the U-boat to pull the bow down into the water as quickly as possible.
8. Clear all 5 or 6 men from the watch tower
9. close and lock the water tight watch tower hatch


10. Put the cat out!:o:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

"Put cat out" no, bring the cat in (in the sub...):D

[TarJak]

I have two lovely cats. Almost 12 years old, so they don't move around much. 12 years is OLD for a male cat. (they're brothers). Have a tendency to fall over on my keyboard...don't fancy that too much actually.....:shifty: Did it once while playing SHIII actually. Don't remember the result, but it couldn't be good....

probably something like:

me lying in P-depth and are juuuust about to fire away on the H.M.S Revenge when....
(cat jumps up on keyboard and press the "S" button)
Surface the boat!
Nooooooo.......

Have you changed your cats name to Bernard?:D

[Biggles]

Nope. They're named Sune and Zeke. Zeke is the one that loves my keyboard....and newspaper too.....

[andylegate]

Actually, I can remember when I was first in the navy, and on my first ship at the ripe old age of 19 having my eyes bug out and the hair on the nape of my neck stand up. It wasn't from some god awful scream though (that would have done it).

nope, it was around 2100, I was in the radar room, and we were underway off the coast of St. Thomas. Seas were slight.
All of the sudden we had the "BOING BOING" sound of General Quarters come over the 1MC (the 1MC is the ships general intracom). At first, it was no big deal, we have drills all the time, and once you hear the Boing going, you've got less than 3 minutes to set "Zebra" throughout the ship. Normally the Boinging stops and you hear what the drill is for: "This is a drill, this is a drill! General Quarters, General Quarters! Major lube oil leak in the number 2 engine room! All hands man your battle stations! This is a drill!"

Only this time I heard this:
"General Quarters, General Quarters! Major fuel oil fire in the number 1 boiler room! All hands man your battle stations. THIS IS NOT A DRILL!"

I about dropped a brick! A real fire. A real FUEL oil fire! A REAL FUEL OIL FIRE IN A SPACE ONLY 2 DECKS BELOW ME!!!
I kinda froze until the other guys got into the radar room with me and shoved me too, yelling at me to get my battle dress on (that's rolling down your sleeves, tucking your pant legs into your socks and boots, putting your CO2 life vest on around your waist, and belting your gas mask also around your waist, and then helping set Zebra in the space (closing certain valves, hatches, etc).

Was only a small fire that was put out in minutes, and someone ended up loosing their crow for not having the splash shielding around a steam valve (the sheilding helps keep things like flamable liquid from igniting if it gets splashed or squirted on them from a leak).

But still, I learned that day that what I was doing, was not a game. This was the real thing.

Chuckling here. That scream I heard when I hit the "C" key took me back to that very day! I haven't felt like that since then...........until I hit that damn "C" key! :o

:rotfl:

[Roghain]

Too bad we cant get the alarm scream before we hit C...

Would increase the oh sh%$ factor 100% not too mention heart failure

I'd say. :dead:
That would cause me to fall backwards, chair and all, like in the good old days when playing HalfLife, staring intently down the dark airvent then the bloody headcrab jumps out.

[BzT]

Never have seen a friendly aircraft. I didn't think their were any...

In stock SH3, as I was finishing off a freighter with my deck gun, my watch crew spotted a pair of He-111s around AN84 or 81, heading southeast. Date was late August or early September 1940, so one can safely assume they were returning from London. They deviated from their course to and arrived overhead just as the freighter broke apart.

[Patboot]

OT topic got a chuckle from me. Actually my cat seems to like the subwoofer when surfaced...maybe because its warm and makes a low purring sound?

[She-Wolf]

Andy that was SO funny, I can't stop chuckling at the picture you painted. Made my day. Grins :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

[Sailor Steve]

Thanx Steve...109s...not much on planes...just know that allied planes hurt real bad...

wait, aren't Mes ..109s??...or is the Bf just a model designation...Im clueless...:oops:

but anyways..luv to see em flying overhead...gives me a warm fuzzy feeling in a fatherland kinda way..:up:
The company was the Bayerische Flugzeugwerke, or BFW (in English the Bavarian Aircraft Works). Willy Messerschmitt was the chief designer. In 1938 he was made the head of the factory, and it was renamed the Messerschmitt-Aitken-Gesellschaft.

Aircraft designed before June 1, 1938 were designated Bf; designs after that time were Me. The first design to be officially called by that title was the Me-163 rocket fighter.

It doesn't really matter that much; I just like to get it right when I can.

[mowgli99]

So where do you download the language packs nowadays? I've been wanting to for awhile but the main page is down . When i do download the German does it change the text? I just want to hear the German. This topic made me remember that i have been wanting. Sorry if i'm jumping around to much. Thankyou in advance.

[Stealth Hunter]

"AAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRR RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!"
:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
What a great U-boat commander you would have made! And your chief officer could be your precious kitty!:rotfl: :rotfl:

Jesus, if ONLY I had a video.

[Steel_Tomb]

Too bad we cant get the alarm scream before we hit C...

Would increase the oh sh%$ factor 100% not too mention heart failure
I'd say. :dead:
That would cause me to fall backwards, chair and all, like in the good old days when playing HalfLife, staring intently down the dark airvent then the bloody headcrab jumps out.

:rotfl::rotfl: Amen to that...they fly out at you and your like AHHH CROWBAR!!! bloody things were a right neuisance!:dead:

[Sailor Steve]

So where do you download the language packs nowadays? I've been wanting to for awhile but the main page is down . When i do download the German does it change the text? I just want to hear the German. This topic made me remember that i have been wanting. Sorry if i'm jumping around to much. Thankyou in advance.
The fantastic "Alaaaarm" sequence comes from the Das Boot Sound Mod, originally made for SH2. I did a conversion of it for SH3 which is currently unavailable. Most of it, along with some other changes, is included in GWX. If you don't want to use the entire mod (and why anyone wouldn't is beyond me) just replace the 'Sound' folder.

Just go to the options screen and set voices to 'German' and text to 'English'. Job done!:up:

[mowgli99]

what if i already have GWX? Would i do the same thing?

[U-104]

If you already have GWX then go to the options tab on the main menu; go into "sound" and change voices from English to German.

[U49]

My cat literally lept from where she was to my shoulder, her claws painfully sinking in far enough to draw blood! I had also jerked back from the computer! I thought I had just killed someone!

Took about 30 minutes to calm the cat (and my) nerves down again! Sheesh!

My neighbour (native german speaker :D) was just about to ring my door-bell a few days ago, when I had to crash dive.... :ping: He was totally astonished what was happening! "Did you change your door-bell? What was THAT? Sounded terrifying"?

Score one for waking up the crew :up:

[mowgli99]

If you already have GWX then go to the options tab on the main menu; go into "sound" and change voices from English to German.

Well thats easy. Thankyou very much.:yep: