I finally accepted death!

[Cybermat47]

In every career I've done so far, I've simply reloaded the previous save if I died. But now I've finally accepted fate.

R.I.P. Oberleuntnant zur see Manfred Werner, 1919-1943 :wah: :salute:

[Harald_Lange]

Congratulations! If thats appropriate hehe. I do this too, and so far I've not made it to 1941! On my latest patrol though, I find myself weighing up the risk involved with certain scenarios rather than just piling right in. Much better immersion.

[tat501]

Im going to give this a go! Should be a way to get the old heart rate up a bit!!! I will post an update when I die. Currently in late 39' and haven't died yet so continuing this campaign playing with these rules. Playing OHII btw.

[Fifi]

Playing DID is the way to go in any sim! :Kaleun_Periskop:

[DJRenegade]

I need to try this, someone needs to create a mod that disallows you to open a save after dying lol its too tempting to just re open a save and chase down that convoy that just got me killed.

[GT182]

If you die you can empty out your Saves folder and start over. ;) I've done that 4 times already. I consider it good practice if you do die, as you learn from your mistakes not to get into that situation again.... hopefully. LOL

[gap]

If you die you can empty out your Saves folder and start over. ;) I've done that 4 times already. I consider it good practice if you do die, as you learn from your mistakes not to get into that situation again.... hopefully. LOL

Still too easy: you should instead scratch you SH5 install disc, and throw your PC out of the window :D

[volodya61]

Still too easy: you should instead scratch you SH5 install disc, and throw your PC out of the window :D

:har:

after make sure that no bystanders outside the window..

[gap]

:har:

after make sure that no bystanders outside the window..

War is war... harmed bystanders should be considered as "civilian casualties" ;) :haha:

[Sailor Steve]

Still too easy: you should instead scratch you SH5 install disc, and throw your PC out of the window :D
Nah. Just resolve not to play again for a year. I guarantee it will make you a lot more careful. No more "I sank three million tons in one patrol!"

I'm a long-time miniatures gamer. My friends and I used to joke about the winner getting to smash the loser's figs.

[Dogfish40]

I accept Dead is Dead IF it does not involve a bug. For instance, My Bernard issue with the Merchant ship ramming my boat. If my crash dive order by keyboard was followed through, the boat had just enough time (already at periscope depth) to dive and be missed. Instead the boat surfaced when I pressed the C key.
I reloaded and pressed the 'Dive Button' and the boat did as it was supposed to, the merchant missed our boat and I went on to further attack the convoy.
It was simply a bug.
If however, the C key had worked at periscope depth, and we got hit anyway, I of course would have accepted that as Dead is Dead. :up:

[Sailor Steve]

I accept Dead is Dead IF it does not involve a bug.
Deaths involving time compression don't count. If I'm running at a high TC and something that I should have warning of kills me, then all bets are off. Islands in SH4? The devs screwed up there and I'm not responsible. Planes or ships? The game should be able to handle any TC problems, and I shouldn't have to.

Of course there was that one time I was stalking a lone merchant in the fog, plotted my course and went to 32x. That one definitely was my fault. :dead:

[gap]

I'm a long-time miniatures gamer. My friends and I used to joke about the winner getting to smash the loser's figs.

:o :haha:

I accept Dead is Dead IF it does not involve a bug. For instance, My Bernard issue with the Merchant ship ramming my boat. If my crash dive order by keyboard was followed through, the boat had just enough time (already at periscope depth) to dive and be missed. Instead the boat surfaced when I pressed the C key.

Nah, this is not a good pretext. U-boats weren't bugless. take for istance that one boat that was sunk by a defective toilet flush. Do you think they made in time for reloading the last savegame? :D


Of course there was that one time I was stalking a lone merchant in the fog, plotted my course and went to 32x. That one definitely was my fault. :dead:

At least you admit it :03:

[Sailor Steve]

At least you admit it :03:
Hey! I are not drain bamaged! :D

[gap]

Hey! I are not drain bamaged! :D

drain bamaged? :o

ya thug kids and your craze slanguage... :shifty: :O:

[volodya61]

I'm new here.. I can't understand..
What language you are speaking guys? :D

[Cybermat47]

I'll post the picture of my death up here soon! :D

[Red October1984]

I'll post the picture of my death up here soon! :D

I don't usually post in the SH5 thread...but when I do...I look at Cybermat47 dying.

[Cybermat47]

I don't usually post in the SH5 thread...but when I do...I look at Cybermat47 dying.

:har::rotfl2::har::rotfl2::har:

[godswarrior493]

I would love to do the DID rule, but its really hard for me not to rationalize it away and try again lol

[Red October1984]

:har::rotfl2::har::rotfl2::har:

Well....let's get cracking! I'm not a SH5 usual. The natives are gonna start to notice.

I wanna see your death! :D

[Hinrich Schwab]

Nah, this is not a good pretext. U-boats weren't bugless. take for istance that one boat that was sunk by a defective toilet flush. Do you think they made in time for reloading the last savegame? :D


That incident was the Captain's fault and totally avoidable. They just installed a new type of head so as to remedy the problem of no facilities while submerged. However, the system was overly complicated and the most of the crew, including the captain, was not fully trained on its usage. While playing a standard game of peek-a-boo with a destroyer, Skipper Bernard decides to purge his own personal bilge without asking the one crewman who knows how to work the head what to do. He temorarily floods the head. While controlled quickly, the seawater reaches the batteries and chlorine gas forces them to surface, where the Tommies are waiting.

[GT182]

I blame it on a 'Senior moment' Steve.... just short of dementia. :haha: SH5 will drive you nuts on occasion. ;)

[Dogfish40]

:o :haha:



Nah, this is not a good pretext. U-boats weren't bugless. take for istance that one boat that was sunk by a defective toilet flush. Do you think they made in time for reloading the last savegame? :D



At least you admit it :03:


BBBBBBBBBBut, U-boats didn't have keyboard bugs either. The keyboard bug is going to happen everytime(or any UI bug), it's not by chance and not in the natural world we are trying to simulate. I have lost many boats and I don't mind all that much, but we also have to draw a line when it comes to a given order by way of the only communication we have. If, I ordered crash dive and got smacked anyway, I would have just enjoyed the effects until the death screen. If I order submerge and the boat plunges to it's death everytime I loaded a new campaign would I accept that as losing a Boat? (It would be stupid to do) but all the same, it's a glitch and not a real technical difficulty like leaving the Main Induction open or something as deadly as a malfuntioning toilet:O:
Anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking to the wall.
Gute Jagd
D40

[sidslotm]

I have never managed passed 43, I recon this make a great competition if I could be managed in some way.

[tat501]

And....Im dead....already. January 3 1940. The place - North of Ireland. I am very angry with what happened - it seems to have been terrible bad luck, but maybe I was reckless. Either way, its going to take some time before I start a new career.

Had just about finished a successful patrol, sinking 6 or 7 freighters of varying sizes and a large passenger liner. I had one torpedo left and was going up and down the channel diving to 30 m and listening with the hydro every two hours or so when I found a medium composite merchant....so listened a while, plotted a course. Hit it with 1 torp and finished with the deck gun.

Time to plot a course home, well done boys, lets get back to Wilhelmshaven and celebrate...

Playing with real nav so found my position (dead reckoning due to weather) and started heading home...when out of the fog comes another medium merchant! Unbelievable....I sunk her with the deck gun as night was falling. Being January in the North Atlantic it was about 6pm.

Just as she was sinking I spot smoke on the horizon. Looks like whatever it is was heading my way. Time to get the heck out of dodge.

Starting heading away on the surface at full ahead. Pretty soon I realised that whatever it was approaching was a destroyer. Looks like the ships I'd been sinking in the area had attracted some attention, or maybe one of the two vessels had got a message off.

But, I still liked my chances of slipping away on the surface. Little moonlight, a heavy swell and some rain. No fog though. As soon as it got a little closer I went to ahead slow and started putting some turns between us - depending on which way the blighter was turning. Soon enough another two destroyers turned up and started searching with their lights. I was still hopeful of getting away but then....Bang - one of them opens up with their main gun, and all hell breaks loose. A star-shell goes up and I'm picked out with the searchlight.

I crashed to 80 meters at flank speed and then levelled out, went to silent running and began evasive manoeuvres. Should be ok ....I can get away from 3 1940 destroyers...cant I??

They're harder to shake off than usual. Well crewed it seems - they weren't beginners up there anyway, but about midnight I thought I had done it after finding a bit deeper water, going to 150 meters and waiting till one of them stopped pinging me and I was in its sonars dead zone before doing a flank turn at 90 degrees at full speed and launching a decoy before going back to silent running and letting the speed carry me through the turn. They fell for it and I was away. Or so I thought, because about half an hour later, they came back. And this time they'd brought friends. 8 more destroyers must have been steaming up from Belfast and all of them joined the hunt. It was hell. I tried everything to escape but whatever way I twisted and turned another one was pinging me.

Went to 180 meters in my type VII A and thought that I must be crushed but I wasn't. This hunt went on until about 10 pm THE NEXT DAY! and all the while more destroyers were joining in, until I counted 12 of them looking for me. Eventually, I was running low on battery and air and tried one last trick. I went as deep as I could and went to all stop, hoping they'd scoot on past me. It didn't work. Someone dropped a whole heap of dc's on me and that was that. RIP Jens Mustermann and crew of U-36. 3 Patrols, 37 ships sunk, 214,000 GRT.

Played with 100%realism, Real Nav, IRAI 0.3.00, and many more mods.


Sorry for the very long message but I needed to vent.

[gap]

...or something as deadly as a malfuntioning toilet:O:

:har:

And....Im dead....already. January 3 1940. The place - North of Ireland. I am very angry with what happened - it seems to have been terrible bad luck, but maybe I was reckless. Either way, its going to take some time before I start a new career.

...

Sorry for the very long message but I needed to vent.

Nice story. Enjoyed it from the beginning to the end! :yep: :up:

[Fifi]

Yeah, nice story!
Maybe you should consider changing your IRAI for latest one :up:

[GT182]

:har:

after make sure that no bystanders outside the window..

Or parked cars. :haha:

[Sailor Steve]

I blame it on a 'Senior moment' Steve.... just short of dementia.
I'd ask why you're dragging me into this, but then you probably wouldn't remember why you said it, and then I'd forget why I asked, and then you'd...

Which forum is this?