The Fog - blind shot

[AS]

Hi all,

I just had a really cool shot at a merchant. Using the Environment Mod 2.0 I got into heavy fog, you know, 200m visibility.

I made out a merchant via hydrophon and chased him for about 4 hours real time (more than 6 in game). I must have crossed her course several times, I probably passed her in 1000m distance without seeing her. As if the fog wasn´t enough, night fell and I had to hurry up.

Finally, when the sun was just setting, I figured out the merchant´s course and followed her blindly (that´s what men do when it comes to women).

Suddenly I spotted a shadow before me and a blurred reflection on the water. The merchant was about 200m ahead of me and I still couldn´t really see her. So I fired a blind shot at the reflection before me, and actually hit her right from behind (I know, one shouldn´t do that). Now I could see what I had hit for the very first time. I finished her off with the deck gun at 100m distance. This was really spooky and I enjoyed this strange chase a lot! Probably the thick fog isn´t a bug, it´s a feature :yeah:

[walsh2509]

talking of fog - 1.02 - I get the call "Smoke on the Horizon" and go up topside, in the distance a fog bank you can't see the Horizon. Guess I have a super watch team.

[senjorlossi]

Nice kill!

Recently I was submerged in the northern channel between England and Ireland when sonar picked up an incoming convoy. When it came close, I raised to periscope depth and: - dense fog, nothing at all to see! Also, it was late December and at 9 a.m. the sun was really low on the horizon, with beautyful rays of light going through the mist.

So I decided to surface and started zig-zagging through the convoy while searching for tankers to fulfill my mission. It was really a thrill to navigate between the columms of ships, never knowing when the next shadow would appear out of the reddish wall around me.
After a while i found a large tanker, set up a rough manual solution (unfortunately the game won´t let you lock onto a target in the mist) and put a torpedo into her side. After the fish went off, things even got more interesting as the ships started zig-zagging and looking for me with searchlights, and the destroyers coming in to look for me. Now I had to look for ships coming from practically any direction, with only seconds to react before a collision would kill me.
Unfortunately, I lost the tanker (which did not sink) and could not find it any more. So I decidet to go for whatever target I could get in front of my boat. Doing that, I got a little bit too adventureous and finally ended up in a collision with a freighter that suddenly appeared out of nowhere right in front of me.


I must admit that this situation was probably the most impressive and thrilling I experienced in SH 5 so far. Seeing ships pass by like ghosts in the mist or seeing their silhuettes against the misty sun was really fascinating.


There is a lot of beauty in this game!

[SteelViking]

By the way you guys, there is a problem with the fogdistances.cfg in Env2.0/2.1 you should unload the mod delete that file from it and reload in JSGME. It will be much better that way.

[senjorlossi]

@ SteelViking:

What kind of problem do you mean?

[SteelViking]

@ SteelViking:

What kind of problem do you mean?

The current fogdistances.cfg has a bug, where fog is so thick that you cannot see a ship at 20m! Now I understand that this kind of fog exists, but it is not real common, and it makes playing the game basically impossible. In all my testing with the bugged file, I was never even able to get out of that fog, and I was in the Mediterranean at the time!

[eon850aye]

and followed her blindly (that´s what men do when it comes to women).



:rotfl2:



So I fired a blind shot at the reflection before me, and actually hit her right from behind (I know, one shouldn´t do that).



:har: Not unless she asks

Dirty minds think alike...:up:

[AS]

Ships are female, because it takes them hours to set sails and get ready. Furthermore, one man alone cannot handle them. :D

[senjorlossi]

Ships are female, because it takes them hours to set sails and get ready. Furthermore, one man alone cannot handle them. :D


And they are female because they are so expensive!


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@SteelViking:
OK, I don´t have enough experience with the new environmental settings yet to tell if the fog is too thick. The only time I experienced it it was like maybe 200 - 300 m and disappeared during the day.

I liked it the way it was, but I will keep an eye on it.

Happy Hunting everyone!