Tokyo Harbour Recon: Suicide mission?

[Stargazer]

I must have upset someone before I left Pearl Harbour. My mission was straight forward; patrol for merchants near Honshu. And I was doing alright too, and then I figured it had been a while since I'd updated HQ on my progress.

"USS Drum, kicking arse in the pacific, only got three rear facing torps left. Figure it's time I head on back. Expect me in a about a week."

Then a reply comes in: "Dudes aboard the Drum. Rock up at Tokyo Harbour and get yourselves blown up taking some holiday snaps of the pretty ships there."

I've tried a couple of times and both turned out the exact same way. Sneak up at night time, when I start getting reports of nearby warships, go under and go quiet. Tiptoe right under them.

But then the battery starts going flat and then they find me anyway and I get deptch charged in water barely deep enough to bathe in. So I figure it's time to abandon and run like hell.

Go noisy, go diesel, go topside. Get on the deck gun and stick some High Explosives anywhere I see metal. My best so far was to make it for nearly 2mins before some cruiser rear ended me and then opened fire at point blank range.

How on Earth do you guys (who are undoubtedly playing on a more realistic difficulty setting and/or mod) manage to get close enough without getting wrecked and back out again?

Or do I put on my insubordinate hat and just go home without completeing the job? Do they give me a rowboat instead of a sub for my next mission for being useless?

Any and all advice is greatfully received.

Currently running SH4 1.5 Unmodded

Cheers,

Rob.

[pabbi]

Forget it, go home. The only thing they might give you is a brand new sub. If you sank some tons that is.:salute:

[Hinrich Schwab]

Forget it, go home. The only thing they might give you is a brand new sub. If you sank some tons that is.:salute:

Agreed. SH4 is pretty dense when it gives out missions. There is no penalty for saying "no". It is best to make it a habit of not radioing in that your mission is complete. Most of the time, the next mission you get via radio is something suicidal like this.

[Armistead]

That was a silly stock mission as I recall, I know RSRD got rid of it, I would assume TMO has as well.

They're a few crazy stock missions like that, but rather easily done once you learn how the AI reacts, but stock AI is fairly easy.

[WernherVonTrapp]

AND, always maintain strict radio silence.
The radio is only good for one thing, and even that one thing is questionable.
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[Stargazer]

Okey-dokey then... Back to Pearly it is.

I'll admit, I had a pretty dim vierw of Ubisoft Romania when I initially picked up SH4 but the problems I encountered were due to the slightly optimistic suggested hardware requirements on the dvd-sleeve. Since my new PC, it's been a much more positive experience...

But really! Did they not run it through their QC department first? I mean, if this is an unbeatable mission, how the hell was it allowed to stay in? The mind boggles at the attitude of some studio's... You'd think with bugs like this, it was an EA title!

Many thanks for the replies.

Rob.

[DrBeast]

Ah, but then all the modders would be out of a job :haha:

[krashkart]

Ah, but then all the modders would be out of a job :haha:

QFT... and we would be out of a Pacific Theater in which to blow stuff up. :yep:




Topic at hand:

I received orders yesterday to reconnoiter the port at Hiroshima. The water is shallow most of the way in. It's early in the war. The only tin cans on station were anchored and could do nothing more than ping me when I got too close to them. The whole time I kept thinking to myself, "Okay, any minute now the sonar man is going to tell me that their engines just revved up and then we'll be in it up to our eyeballs..."; but anchored ships in SH just sit there with nothing else to do. Sad in a way, but very advantageous when you want it to be. :)

[Hinrich Schwab]

But really! Did they not run it through their QC department first? I mean, if this is an unbeatable mission, how the hell was it allowed to stay in? The mind boggles at the attitude of some studio's... You'd think with bugs like this, it was an EA title!

Many thanks for the replies.

Rob.

Normally, I would insert my Ubisoft rant here, but it is beyond that. The entire gaming industry is quite apathetic, in general, to quality control. It wasn't always like this back in the day where companies had to earn its paychecks. Quite frankly, a repeat of the industry crash of 1983 would be a good, humbling experience for these companies who only cash in on names and not care about the gamer.

[TorpX]

When I get orders that are foolish, suicidal, or plain just don't make sense, I consider that the radio is malfuctioning or the message was 'garbled in transmittion'. He never disagrees.

Normally, I would insert my Ubisoft rant here, but it is beyond that. The entire gaming industry is quite apathetic, in general, to quality control. It wasn't always like this back in the day where companies had to earn its paychecks. Quite frankly, a repeat of the industry crash of 1983 would be a good, humbling experience for these companies who only cash in on names and not care about the gamer.

I agree. It seems to be human nature, that we often have to learn things the hard way. If Ubisoft had invested 20% more effort, they could have had a 100% better game, and I would have gladly paid twice as much for that better game. :yep:

[thumper]

I just mumble to myself..Are you out of your freaking mind?:haha:? Stick it admiral..Then i head for home..:up:

[Sailor Steve]

Submarines were tasked to do certain missions. Some of them were dangerous, but none were guaranteed suicide. What I'm saying is that no American sub was ever told to take pictures in a naval base on the Japanese homeland. I understand that some of the supermods fix this, but I haven't played enough to verify it.

[ijnfleetadmiral]

I rarely radio HQ...even when I send in messages, I rarely - if ever - get replies, not even a 'Good job...return to base' when I've expended all my torpedoes.

-Matt