View Full Version : Epic Fail!
Howard313
03-26-11, 03:15 PM
So, it was patrol #17, the first patrol I had with the GWX mod installed, I set to all ahead one-third, and proceeded to plot out my course.
Overwhelmed with all the new features, and the fact I wasn't the only one in port anymore (more ships sailing around me? Awesome!) I used the external view cam to see all the ships and stuff.
Me: This is incredible, Look they even got swastikas on them!
W.O.: Please don't embarrass yourself again Captain, remember the light-boat incident?
Anyway this went on for a good 5 minutes, until my crew started complaining about how we were taking damage, and there was this horrible grinding noise, so i looked back at my ship
and this is what i saw.
http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/1193/failiv.jpg
It turns out the navigator won't use the course you plotted without you telling him "return to course."
Who knew? :doh:
Fish In The Water
03-26-11, 05:04 PM
and this is what i saw.
http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/1193/failiv.jpg
To which you no doubt replied:
"If you don't like the way I drive, stay off the beach!" :haha:
Howard313
03-26-11, 06:24 PM
To which you no doubt replied:
"If you don't like the way I drive, stay off the beach!" :haha:
Lol right! And who knows, after a few more attempts I might be driving the world's first land-based submarine.:know:
Grey pilgrim
03-26-11, 06:31 PM
:haha::har:
Lol right! And who knows, after a few more attempts I might be driving the world's first land-based submarine.:know:
Well at least BDU wasn't dumb enough to give you a brand new uboat. This one looks like it has been through a lot already, or is it from the light-boat incident?
frau kaleun
03-26-11, 07:24 PM
:rotfl2:
Oh I have so totally been there and done that. This is why I always start out of Wilhelmshaven, I ran aground so many times trying to get out of the Baltic into the North Sea that Denmark finally took out a restraining order.
Another little thing you might want to know about plotting courses, if you haven't discovered it already... you want to zoom in REALLY close on the map when you do it if you are plotting a course near land.
Turns out a lot of those "straight" shorelines at low magnification get really "jagged" up close, with lots of little bits that stick out into the water. I plotted a course right over top of one of the little jagged spits of land and didn't realize it until the crew starting screaming about all the damage we were taking. :haha:
Gargamel
03-26-11, 07:26 PM
To: Kaluen Howard
From: BDU
re: New U-boat
Your new expiremental U-boat has arrived, U-Deep 6. PLease feel free to pick it up ASAP.
Attached is a picture for identification.
http://images.somethingawful.com/inserts/articlepics/photoshop/07-25-03-secretweapons/yardpimp_screendoor.jpg
Fish In The Water
03-26-11, 09:23 PM
To: Kaluen Howard
From: BDU
re: New U-boat
Your new expiremental U-boat has arrived, U-Deep 6. PLease feel free to pick it up ASAP.
Attached is a picture for identification.
http://images.somethingawful.com/inserts/articlepics/photoshop/07-25-03-secretweapons/yardpimp_screendoor.jpg
Cool...
Screen doors to keep the fish out!! :rotfl2:
Snestorm
03-26-11, 09:35 PM
:rotfl2:
Oh I have so totally been there and done that. This is why I always start out of Wilhelmshaven, I ran aground so many times trying to get out of the Baltic into the North Sea that Denmark finally took out a restraining order.
But, at least you left Bernard to clean up the mess.
Sailor Steve
03-26-11, 09:51 PM
In SH2 it was worse. I once accidentally overshot a waypoint at high TC and died several thousand feet up a mountainside.
Gargamel
03-26-11, 10:05 PM
In SH2 it was worse. I once accidentally overshot a waypoint at high TC and died several thousand feet up a mountainside.
ScreenShot!
Sailor Steve
03-26-11, 10:49 PM
ScreenShot!
It was eight years ago! Either take my word for it or take a hike! :O:
Gargamel
03-26-11, 11:01 PM
It was eight years ago! Either take my word for it or take a hike! :O:
Do it again!
Sailor Steve
03-27-11, 12:44 AM
Do it again!
How 'bout I send you a copy of SH2 so you can load up the world's worst subsim and hope that sooner or later it will happen to you?
:O::O::O::O::O:
Jimbuna
03-27-11, 09:23 AM
Do it again!
Like Steve said, "it was eight years ago"....besides, the oarsmen have aged and probably can't row as fast now :O:
Gargamel
03-27-11, 01:24 PM
How 'bout I send you a copy of SH2 so you can load up the world's worst subsim and hope that sooner or later it will happen to you?
:O::O::O::O::O:
But.... I've already decided not to play SH5.....
Sailor Steve
03-27-11, 01:39 PM
But.... I've already decided not to play SH5.....
Funny, but be grateful you don't know...
SH 2 was the funniest, especially the fjords campaign. :haha::haha:
Sailor Steve
03-27-11, 06:04 PM
"You died during this mission. Start the mission over again."
"You failed to complete the tonnage requirement for this mission. Start the mission over again."
"You've completed all twenty-one missions. Game over. You can start again at the beginning, but the missions will all be exactly the same again."
I will say that SH2/DC made for some killer multiplay.
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