Questions

[Spike88]

I finally got SHIV working on this computer after having it for a couple months .I set up my realism settings in the options and then started the American career and chose the normal difficulty. Chose Pearl Harbor as my home base, and then set off on my first patrol. They give me an order to patrol Honshu, right off the coast of japan.

I spend the next couple hours trying to get to my destination, which takes me almost a week ingame. The first thing I notice is even though I set my realism to give me limited fuel, I some how have unlimited fuel. Why is this?

Second, does the game give you patrol zones within your gas limit?
I doubt I would've been able to make the trip if my gas was limited.

Third, whats the best time compression setting?

Fourth, I chose the porpoise as my first submarine, and paid 400 renown to get a basic air radar. Whenever I go to its station, I cant seem to get it to turn on, but my Radarman still informs me of planes he picks up on it. Can only he use it?

Besides that, I keep hitting the enter on my numpad to exit time compression and keep firing torpedoes by accident.

[peabody]

I finally got SHIV working on this computer after having it for a couple months .I set up my realism settings in the options and then started the American career and chose the normal difficulty. Chose Pearl Harbor as my home base, and then set off on my first patrol. They give me an order to patrol Honshu, right off the coast of japan.

I spend the next couple hours trying to get to my destination, which takes me almost a week ingame. The first thing I notice is even though I set my realism to give me limited fuel, I some how have unlimited fuel. Why is this?

Second, does the game give you patrol zones within your gas limit?
I doubt I would've been able to make the trip if my gas was limited.

Third, whats the best time compression setting?

Fourth, I chose the porpoise as my first submarine, and paid 400 renown to get a basic air radar. Whenever I go to its station, I cant seem to get it to turn on, but my Radarman still informs me of planes he picks up on it. Can only he use it?

Besides that, I keep hitting the enter on my numpad to exit time compression and keep firing torpedoes by accident.

There are two sets of options, one on the main menu and another in the "Office" click the radio near the window. And select your gameplay for low, medium, hard and so on first. Limited fuel does not get checked until "high" is selected. But if you want to start at 'medium' you select that then go to the "limited fuel" and put a checkmark and you will see the 'medium' change to 'custom'. Each setting has a "preset list of ON/OFF" so if you make selections first then select the realism setting, it could change all you settings.
I think the 'radar' you are trying to use it the surface radar for ships and you don't have it yet, even though the equipment is there is doesn't work until you buy it later.

As for gas limits, from Pearl stop at Midway to refuel. The port with the 'tilted' anchor is your home port and the only place you can end a mission or fix hull damage. All the other friendly ports you can stop to resupply, reload torpedos, and fuel up. Even if you go somewhere you do have enough fuel it is a good idea to refuel as close as you can to your patrol zone, it will give you more time on station.

As for Time compression and fireing torpedos, Welcome to the club:woot:. You are not the first or the last. The - sign is the one to slow down time compression. But there are several people that change that enter key so they don't fire torps by mistake.

Peabody

[Armistead]

Welcome,,,PB covered it well. The options that you use are for single player, that's why they didn't take. With Campaign you must set them in the office radio.

With time compression, I run around 4000 getting across the ocean. Many complain about using too much TC in enemy waters. It may be best to keep it below 2000 until you have radar. Now, if I get near land or bases I slow it way down, an enemy shore gun can kill you before you can react. If you're not using mods, enemy planes show up everywhere and a pain, some mods correct that.


You will notice your game slowing down, sorta lagginf out before you get a contact. This is the tell all sign to get ready. When you see the game doing that, it's hard to stop TC, I hit a button F2, that will take me to my control room and stop TC right away.

When you use limited fuel, make sure you study up...9knts is your friend

Overall the interface is simple, but learning how to use a sub is not. The game is rather historical, play 100% realism pretty dang real with the right mods. Sub Skippers spent years in training learning their subs, how to track, ect.....it takes time to learn how to deal and respond to everything.

[Spike88]

I found the Radio, thank you both.

You think after you set it once you woulnd't have to set it for each individual career.

I wasn't aware you could refuel.

After looking through the key sheet my game came with, I realize that if I hit backspace it pauses the game, ending time compression. I believe in SH3, Enter would do the same, but its been a while since I played. I miss some of the features that game had. Such as some of the reports your crew would give you.


I just started my second career, got told to patrol the zone around Honshu again, I should of refueled at Midway, but didn't. I'm fairly close to the coast, with about 40% of my fuel left, and about 6 torpedoes.
I've sunk 3 ships so far. One small merchant ship, which I snuck up on at night and sank with my deck gun. A Large oil tanker, which I accidentally fired a torpedo, which caused it to start zig zagging. I got lucky because it decided to try running straight away from me, which lead to 3 torpedoes in its stern. After sinking the tanker, I surface to recharge my battery, which is below twenty percent. My sonar man informs me that there is a warship closing in fast, so I quickly crash dive, make a couple direction changes, and then stop dead in the water. I would of slowly sneaked away, but my battery was low. The ship passes us with no incident. I surface, and about an hour later run into my third target, a small fishing boat, which I take down with my deck gun. :rotfl:

Would the real submarine captains have taken down a fishing boat? I can see how it would hurt the Japanese slightly, but it wouldn't really help with the war.

[Torplexed]

Would the real submarine captains have taken down a fishing boat? I can see how it would hurt the Japanese slightly, but it wouldn't really help with the war.

Prior to the famous Dolittle Raid on Japan, U.S. intelligence had failed to discover that Japan had stationed hundreds of fishing boats with radios in a picket line about six hundred to eight hundred miles off of the coast and they ran straight into it which is why the raid had to be launched a day early. The Japanese fishing fleet often doubled as a coast guard sentry fleet. I'd take them out.

[DigitalAura]

they were smart bastards, weren't they? :salute:

[Spike88]

I reached my patrol objective for my first patrol, and spent 3 days in it/around it. But it still said that the objective was incomplete. Is this a bug, or was I not doing something properly?