Back to the Atlantic!

[gord96]

played SH3 alot last year with GWX. Loved it. Then stopped playing for months until I decided to give SH4 another shot 2 weeks ago. I was blown away by the beautiful graphics of SH4. Thought I would never leave the warm Pacific. Then tonight I dusted of SH3 again and U-48 sailed out into the Atlantic. I am hooked again. You just cant beat U-boats and GWX! :rock::arrgh!:

[FIREWALL]

played SH3 alot last year with GWX. Loved it. Then stopped playing for months until I decided to give SH4 another shot 2 weeks ago. I was blown away by the beautiful graphics of SH4. Thought I would never leave the warm Pacific. Then tonight I dusted of SH3 again and U-48 sailed out into the Atlantic. I am hooked again. You just cant beat U-boats and GWX! :rock::arrgh!:

Ain't that the truth.:D

[melnibonian]

played SH3 alot last year with GWX. Loved it. Then stopped playing for months until I decided to give SH4 another shot 2 weeks ago. I was blown away by the beautiful graphics of SH4. Thought I would never leave the warm Pacific. Then tonight I dusted of SH3 again and U-48 sailed out into the Atlantic. I am hooked again. You just cant beat U-boats and GWX! :rock::arrgh!:
Both versions of the game are very good. The Atlantic is almost perfect as various mod teams had enough time to work on it. The Pacific version has its moments and there are some good mods out there that can make your experience rewarding. In the end of the day it's all about what you like and how you get the most out of the game. Personally I enjoy the Atlantic and the U-Boats more but I will try the Pacific theater of operations once I have a bit of time.

[gord96]

oh yeah. SH4 is a great game. really I was done with sub sims when SH4 brought me back into them. Wasnt even thinking of SH3 but when I noticed it was still installed on my PC I thought I would start a new career and see how it went. And yeah, SH3 with GWX is almost perfect.

Only thing I miss from SH4 is the cool missions (which you can add yourself with some imagination) and the crew management (I turned on no fatigue with SH3 commander as I dont think a U-Boat commander should have to micromanage his crew shift changes).:p

[Brag]

Good to see you back, Gord! Good hunting :up:

[Tessa]

oh yeah. SH4 is a great game. really I was done with sub sims when SH4 brought me back into them. Wasnt even thinking of SH3 but when I noticed it was still installed on my PC I thought I would start a new career and see how it went. And yeah, SH3 with GWX is almost perfect.

Only thing I miss from SH4 is the cool missions (which you can add yourself with some imagination) and the crew management (I turned on no fatigue with SH3 commander as I dont think a U-Boat commander should have to micromanage his crew shift changes).:p

Haven't personally played or really seen much of SH4, though assume from others that its a quality product. I've often thought of SHIII being like the original Half Life game, or the first two Final Fantasy games on the NES. Relative to now the graphics aren't up to par, but the content and depth of gameplay were so intense that it really didn't matter how good or bad it looks.

SHIII with GWX is beautiful, but still constrained by the graphics to a certain degree. Its one of the games where the content and the community have made it into something so great that you so easily immerse yourself into it even if it isn't full of eye candy ;)

[gord96]

yeah u definatly see the age in SH3 graphics after a few weeks with SH4 on a nice system, but I still love the SH3 graphics alot. Not as crisp but still very nice. The main thing is the water and sky. The water in SH4 is breathtaking but I quickly forgot about it after a few cold nights on a Sept 1940 Atlantic patrol. Those Uboats sure get tossed around, unlike the big fleet boats. :o

And yeah with the crew management thing, I know some people would think its a cheat, playing without crew fatigue, but whatevever. I enjoy the game more without have to check each crewman to see if he is tired. I am sure most Uboat crewmen knew when and where they had to be. Simple drilling and shift changes is a basic part of naval life. :doh:

[LordNeuro"Serbia"]

Sh4 is a good game but sh3 is the U boat war. And theat is theat.:yep:

[Jimbuna]

played SH3 alot last year with GWX. Loved it. Then stopped playing for months until I decided to give SH4 another shot 2 weeks ago. I was blown away by the beautiful graphics of SH4. Thought I would never leave the warm Pacific. Then tonight I dusted of SH3 again and U-48 sailed out into the Atlantic. I am hooked again. You just cant beat U-boats and GWX! :rock::arrgh!:

Ain't that the truth.:D

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[ReallyDedPoet]

Let's remember to keep this one civil in here lads, there isn't any more need be it here or SUBSIM in general for a SH3 vs. SH4. There both great experiences in their own right.

It's been done many times before, do a search and you will see. See how many have been locked as well ;)


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[gord96]

no intentions to start a vs. war.

i like both games. just posted to say that i am excited to be playing SH3 again. The only negative comment was directed at SH3 anyways. ;)

[ReallyDedPoet]

Wasn't pointing any fingers Gord, just reminding folks :yep:


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[Platapus]

I had the same experiences. I have both SH3 and SH4. I recently completed a whole SH3 career so I powered up SH4. It just does not feel right. I think my personal problem is with the SH4 interfaces.

SH3 just works faster interface wise.

Besides the mission of SH3 is more to my liking

I have always wanted to fight a desperate battle against impossible odds :arrgh!:

[magicsub]

is it true in sh4 the water looks like oil?:rotfl:

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

played SH3 alot last year with GWX. Loved it. Then stopped playing for months until I decided to give SH4 another shot 2 weeks ago. I was blown away by the beautiful graphics of SH4. Thought I would never leave the warm Pacific. Then tonight I dusted of SH3 again and U-48 sailed out into the Atlantic. I am hooked again. You just cant beat U-boats and GWX! :rock::arrgh!:
Ain't that the truth.:D
AMEN TO THAT! :up:

[Der Kolkrabe]

yeah u definatly see the age in SH3 graphics after a few weeks with SH4 on a nice system, but I still love the SH3 graphics alot. Not as crisp but still very nice. The main thing is the water and sky. The water in SH4 is breathtaking but I quickly forgot about it after a few cold nights on a Sept 1940 Atlantic patrol. Those Uboats sure get tossed around, unlike the big fleet boats. :o

And yeah with the crew management thing, I know some people would think its a cheat, playing without crew fatigue, but whatevever. I enjoy the game more without have to check each crewman to see if he is tired. I am sure most Uboat crewmen knew when and where they had to be. Simple drilling and shift changes is a basic part of naval life. :doh:

I have SH3/GWX/Scmdr3 & SH4 with U-Boat addon installed my machine, but I'm most my time in Atlantic :yep:

Last night docking port my second patrol, November 1939. Some good night with moon and some windy... 15 m/s... gave my WO Iron Cross after ;)

But it aint fun when SO calls spotted merchant - Large Tanker... but American :damn:
And then when surfing to base, no torpedoes but deckgun have ammo... SO calls -warship spotted... windy nights and no torpedoes when meet HMS Hood :arrgh!:

But it's life :hmm: :yep: :damn:

[Umfuld]

I've played with 504MB of RAM since I bought SHIII (the very same day I bought my PC) and a month or so ago my PC finally told me enough was enough.

Up till then I just had slower frame rates and whatnot. But then it started to just crash my PC when I started the game. As in PC just shut off.

Well someone was able to hook me up with 512MB more RAM and I'm back baby! (Yes, I realize I could have just bought the RAM myself, but I waited until someone scored me some for free - so that's much better, yo)


My specs say it's running at .99Gigs of RAM now, still nothing great. But I'm going to finally give 16k a try. I'm sure it will be an improvement over the 1FPS I got the one time I tried it when I had only 504MB. Let's hope :-?



So yeah, it's nice to be back after the month I was forced to stay on land.


Oh, and if anyone can hook me up with a new monitor for free that'd be cool. Something like 24" or 25" would be fine. My nice one's cord broke and I am forced to use a teeny tiny one. Oh well. I'll just squint for the time being, I guess.

[Jimbuna]

:roll: ................:lol:

Do you want someone to pay your leccy bill as well ;)

[Umfuld]

Actually... nevermind


But shortly after I posted that I got a call and a new monitor is on the way.


lol


Nothing great, but better than what I've been using since the cord on my old tore in two.

Turned out 16k isn't really doable for me. First look at it it seemed alright. But the next patrol was all night sky (even in daytime) and the FPS was very low once more. This may be an issue that have been delt with on other threads, but I'm happy enough in my tiny 8k world. So I'm not gonna even look into it for now.
I'm just happy to be playing some GWX. Haven't played it hardly at all. Good to be back steaming 'cross the Atlantic. I'll be happier when the gard darnit monitor gets here. Jeesh. :p

[Jimbuna]

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