View Full Version : Ending patrol: Is it like this?
Okay I don't want to spoil anything for the people playing so here's my somewhat-spoiler warning..
This is how I have been playing, but as it's been several months at sea and since I've been "inside" Kiel, I was wondering if this is what everyone does:
Go out, sink ships, expend torpedoes or fuel and return to nearest home port to "Refit", as I haven't finished the mission objective, I cannot "End Patrol" I'm assuming. This means, since I'm in the middle of a patrol, still, that I cannot upgrade or repair my sub..
Does that seem right to everyone else? Or am I just doing something wrong?
I can "Refit" in any German controlled port, but even sailing to Kiel I cannot repair and End Patrol.. somewhat aggrivating though I have 86% Hull Integrity left from my first time out.
Sgtmonkeynads
03-19-10, 02:46 AM
You can return to base when ever you want. It may take multiple missions to complete one mission objective. It took me three missions to sink the 100,000 tons of British cargo, because I kept running into targets of opportunity in the cannal on the way there.
As long as you complete the objective by the time perameter your O.K.
I wish they'd do something different with the whole set up though.
mobucks
03-19-10, 04:12 AM
one thing you missed monkeynads, is that your home port changes from kiel to ummm somewhere much closer to england, check for blue ports that have a sub icon next to them, there you can click end patrol and get upgrades/new missions (sometimes)
I get rebased from Kiel to Wilhelmshaven sometime during my first patrol.
Look for the sub in a diamond icon. That's your homebase.
Chad, you should be able to end patrol even if you haven't completed the objective. I do this all the time. Just check where your home port is. My port changed to Wilhemshaven during my first war patrol.
Look for this icon to see where your homeport is:
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee274/Finnish_Ferret/endmarker.jpg
Carotio
03-19-10, 07:33 AM
Just curious, if someone ends the patrol not having completed the mission objectives, is the player then punished in any way or does he have to just continue untill they are fullfilled?
If anyone knows...
HansLanda
03-19-10, 07:50 AM
When you visit home base and continue the patrol I think the game advances something like two weeks (the time to refit / repair the boat and give the crew some leave). I think this is the only "penalty" when visiting home base.
If you refit then you will not have this time penalty. Sometimes this might be useful when your are starting to run out of time to complete the missions.
No penalties except for the time going forward. Just remember that if you end the patrol, you have to go an request the mission again from the officer in the bunker before you depart again.
SteamWake
03-19-10, 08:51 AM
You can return to base when ever you want. It may take multiple missions to complete one mission objective. It took me three missions to sink the 100,000 tons of British cargo, because I kept running into targets of opportunity in the cannal on the way there.
As long as you complete the objective by the time perameter your O.K.
I wish they'd do something different with the whole set up though.
LOL hes shooting stuff up in the canal :haha: They might get a little miffed at you clogging up the canal with sunken boats. :har:
EAF274 Johan
03-19-10, 09:11 AM
Is there any way to increase the time in between the patrols? In SH3/4 this was done in a cfg file. The values are still there but changing them doesn't seem to work.
With the patrol rate in SH5 it's no wonder the war is over by 1943 :D
Wow, alright thanks guys!
I, stupidly, kept going back to Kiel when in fact my home base did in fact get transferred to Wilhelmshaven :damn::damn::damn:
I can now dock and repair my boat hehe
Wow, alright thanks guys!
I, stupidly, kept going back to Kiel when in fact my home base did in fact get transferred to Wilhelmshaven :damn::damn::damn:
I can now dock and repair my boat hehe
Haha, almost did that myself too. Then read some of the threads here and realised that the home port changes. :up:
Guess I just need to open my eyes and read some more forums and I wouldn't have these problems.
Dowly do you use Xfire to access the web while on patrol?
Nafod81
03-19-10, 01:03 PM
Yeah the relocation happens around October 5-7. So I think you'd have to have a REALLY SHORT war patrol to ever have to return to Kiel.
And for all the hollering I heard in SH3 about the Kiel Canal being excluded. I hate navigating it. (Glad it's included nonetheless).
frau kaleun
03-19-10, 01:12 PM
LOL hes shooting stuff up in the canal :haha: They might get a little miffed at you clogging up the canal with sunken boats. :har:
They don't clog the canal, as you all surely know by now, they just sink into the ground underneath it and disappear.
What you don't know is that they magically travel straight through the earth and resurface in the South Pacific 60 years later, with all their remaining crew alive and well and apparently unaged. Then Steven Spielberg makes a movie about them.
They don't clog the canal, as you all surely know by now, they just sink into the ground underneath it and disappear.
What you don't know is that they magically travel straight through the earth and resurface in the South Pacific 60 years later, with all their remaining crew alive and well and apparently unaged. Then Steven Spielberg makes a movie about them.
What movie would that be? The Abyss?
frau kaleun
03-19-10, 07:33 PM
What movie would that be? The Abyss?
Close Encounters of the Kiel Kind.
Haha
Well that would be interesting :up:
frau kaleun
03-19-10, 08:19 PM
The plot thickens when it becomes clear that the surviving crews can only communicate by humming the same five notes over and over again. After extensive examination of the men, an international panel determines that the five notes in question are actually the last line of something they call "the Tipperary song."
Things don't get really interesting, though, until Richard Dreyfuss shows up with a crudely modelled clay u-boat and crashes the party.
Pan and zoom to Dreyfuss's face,
"We're gonna need a bigger boat."
Cue the "dun, dun, duuuun" music.
frau kaleun
03-20-10, 11:01 AM
And in the touching final scene, a huge mother-of-all-uboats appears over the crest of a giant wave. Before boarding it, Dreyfuss presses a glowing fingertip (his modeling clay was actually radioactive) to a weeping Roy Scheider's forehead and whispers, "I'll be right here." Then he makes his way onto the bridge of the Uber Uboat, drops down the hatch, closes it behind him, and the mystery ship plunges dramatically down into the deeps, never to be seen again.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaand scene. Cue credits to a soaring John Williams "End Title" piece.
I'll see you all on Oscar night. :yeah:
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