Frustrating bad weather

[Maverick30]

I'm playing with GWX 2.1 and I'm navigating in bad weather for 10 days with heavy clouds, heavy rain, zero visibility (1 km), simple navigating :cry:, I can't see s**t. I'm so frustraded because I haven't spent any torpedoe yet, I have a full storage. What the kaleuns did in real life with so many days of bad weather? They returned to base? I'm not very good in intercepting ships only with sonar :damn:.

[Blacklight]

Did you put the RealWeatherFix mod in ? It does make a little bit of a difference.

[Murr44]

I'm playing with GWX 2.1 and I'm navigating in bad weather for 10 days with heavy clouds, heavy rain, zero visibility (1 km), simple navigating :cry:, I can't see s**t. I'm so frustraded because I haven't spent any torpedoe yet, I have a full storage. What the kaleuns did in real life with so many days of bad weather? They returned to base? I'm not very good in intercepting ships only with sonar :damn:.

I agree that it is frustrating at times. There's a mod by Rubini that apparently provides a fix (you can find it by doing a search; try "Stop the rain" as a search term). The GWX team was able to partially solve the weather problem (check your GWX manual for details on how) but was unable to completely fix it. Weather is now more variable but you will still get very long stretches of bad weather from time to time. It's still a major improvement over stock SH III.

I know that this is cold comfort but bear in mind that the vast majority of U-boats were sunk before they even had the chance to launch their first torpedo. I guess the best advice that I could give you is to have patience & just keep at it. A few weeks ago I went to the US coast in late 1941. The weather was great all the way there (the trip took 2 weeks). Once I got there though it turned sour very quickly. From Christmas Day '41 to New Year's Day there was nothing but fog, rain, high wind & heavy seas. All that I ended up sinking was a crappy little Pelagic Trawler & a Medium Tanker and I damn near ran out of diesel fuel doing that (stayed out a bit too long). I don't think BDU was too impressed with my results.

[johan_d]

I use this in the 3 campaign files:

Fog=3
FogRand=1
Clouds=3
CloudsRand=1
Precip=3
PrecipRand=1
WindHeading=1
WindSpeed=4.000000
WindRand=1
WeatherRndInterval=2

It gives me nice weather changes, some may stay long, couple of days, some are faster, half a day
Just note well, that it seems that the weather change starts after a time spend in the game, it starts after lets say 30 minuts or so.
I also observed that if you are underwater for a while, the weather has a greater change to be different when comming up.

[onelifecrisis]

GWX 2.1 already has RWF.
But even RWF can't fix the stock bug which causes weather to get "stuck" when you save and reload. johan_d, so you save and reload often? I suspect that's the cause of your problem!

[Red Heat]

I like bad weather, its the beter time to hunt...and another thing, looks like you are truly in Atlantic Ocean, in the midle of a Storm... :up: