Please can anyone help me with refitting torpedoes and ammo?

[danu68]

I am an avid player of SH3 AND SH4. I just want to say that after a SH4 mission i went to a port for refitting the sub with new torpedo's and the Cannon with new ammo (i am of course complete empty on torpedo's and ammo for the cannon). I go to the port, and I click on the anchor button on top right.A box appears for refit and i click refit and after that it says "refit complete" but i am still empty on torpedo's and ammo for the cannon.Can anyone tell me how to do the refit step by step??. Many thanks

[in_vino_vomitus]

If you're playing a U-boat then you have to drag and drop the torpedoes manually, and in a US sub you have to drag one torpedo into a tube, from the reserves and refit again, to get a full load - but gun ammo ought to restoc automatically, so it sounds like a game issue. Has it worked OK in the past? how long have you had the game installed? - What version are you running? and what, if any mods do you have installed?

[Webster]

I am an avid player of SH3 AND SH4. I just want to say that after a SH4 mission i went to a port for refitting the sub with new torpedo's and the Cannon with new ammo (i am of course complete empty on torpedo's and ammo for the cannon). I go to the port, and I click on the anchor button on top right.A box appears for refit and i click refit and after that it says "refit complete" but i am still empty on torpedo's and ammo for the cannon.Can anyone tell me how to do the refit step by step??. Many thanks

when you go in to refit with empty tubes you need to move the refitted tubes into the empty slots then refit again to replace the now empty reserves. its a common mistake so just recheck all tubes before leaving port. when refitting it fills all the empty reserve slots but not the empty tubes if you have any.

as far as I know the guns don't have this problem but I never paid attention so I don't know if they might do the same thing or not

[danu68]

I just want to say that after a SH4 mission i went to a port for refitting the sub with new torpedo's and the Cannon with new ammo (i am of course complete empty on torpedo's and ammo for the cannon). I go to the port, and I click on the anchor button on top right.A box appears for refit and i click refit and after that it says "refit complete" but i am still complete empty on torpedo's and ammo for the cannon.Can anyone tell me how to do the refit step by step?? Many thanks

[BrucePartington]

I just want to say that after a SH4 mission i went to a port for refitting the sub with new torpedo's and the Cannon with new ammo (i am of course complete empty on torpedo's and ammo for the cannon). I go to the port, and I click on the anchor button on top right.A box appears for refit and i click refit and after that it says "refit complete" but i am still complete empty on torpedo's and ammo for the cannon.Can anyone tell me how to do the refit step by step?? Many thanks
Have you checked the torpedo inventory (press "T" key)?
The torpedo tubes do not auto-reload during *Refit*, you have to drag one into a tube to start the auto-reload process, which leaves some torpedo storage slots empty.
Then you hit *Refit* again to completely, well, refit.

On the deck gun, when you first go into it, by default it selects the AP (Armour Penetrating) shells, which you may not have. Try selecting the HE (High Explosive) shells to see if it starts loading.

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[Bubblehead1980]

I just want to say that after a SH4 mission i went to a port for refitting the sub with new torpedo's and the Cannon with new ammo (i am of course complete empty on torpedo's and ammo for the cannon). I go to the port, and I click on the anchor button on top right.A box appears for refit and i click refit and after that it says "refit complete" but i am still complete empty on torpedo's and ammo for the cannon.Can anyone tell me how to do the refit step by step?? Many thanks

sounds like a bug or mod class.Make sure you have V 1.5 Any mods? Once you click it you add torpedoes to the reserves, then need to click refit again or move the reserve to the tubes, then click refit again.If not restocking torpedoes on gun ammo at all, its a bug.

[Azgrim]

By the way...
Is there any mod to add refit time?
There's no realism in refitting (refueling, loading torpedoes to sub) while it doesn't take any time.

Currently i have TMO 2.5, but haven't noticed, that refitting required any time.

[BigWalleye]

AFAIK, there is no mod that increases refit time. I usually just kick up the TC and wait a couple of GT hours before departing. It's not the worst shortcoming of SH4, and the workaround is easy. To (probably mis-)quote Rockin Robbins: "Realism is in how you play the game, not in the settings."

[Azgrim]

To (probably mis-)quote Rockin Robbins: "Realism is in how you play the game, not in the settings."
Awesomely said. Will remember that. :up:

[Diopos]

I just want to say that after a SH4 mission i went to a port for refitting the sub with new torpedo's and the Cannon with new ammo (i am of course complete empty on torpedo's and ammo for the cannon). I go to the port, and I click on the anchor button on top right.A box appears for refit and i click refit and after that it says "refit complete" but i am still complete empty on torpedo's and ammo for the cannon.Can anyone tell me how to do the refit step by step?? Many thanks

IIRC, you can not refit when you are playimg single missions but only when you're playing a full campaign/career.

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[Webster]

IIRC, you can not refit when you are playimg single missions but only when you're playing a full campaign/career.

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no you can refit anytime in single, patrol, or campaign, you just don't have a home port in single so repairs are out but refitting is ok

[danu68]

I tried to fire all the torpedo's when I started at Freemantle in the mission "the hunt for the wounded bear" so i had no torpedo's at all left i pushed T letter that took me into the torpedoes room and press the anchor for refit but there is no one torpedo coming in.This is so tough.....very fustration.I do not know what game version i have here in SH4.How can i see that? Thanks

[BrucePartington]

I tried to fire all the torpedo's when I started at Freemantle in the mission "the hunt for the wounded bear" so i had no torpedo's at all left i pushed T letter that took me into the torpedoes room and press the anchor for refit but there is no one torpedo coming in.This is so tough.....very fustration.I do not know what game version i have here in SH4.How can i see that? Thanks
I've just replicated what you describe, in that same war patrol. Fired 6 torpedoes, hit the "anchor" icon, chose "Refit", and the torpedo load-out was replenished.
Your game installation must have a bug.
I suggest you uninstall, and run a clean-up software afterwards, to clean-up left-over files and registry entries, and reinstall the game.

[Webster]

I tried to fire all the torpedo's when I started at Freemantle in the mission "the hunt for the wounded bear" so i had no torpedo's at all left i pushed T letter that took me into the torpedoes room and press the anchor for refit but there is no one torpedo coming in.This is so tough.....very fustration.I do not know what game version i have here in SH4.How can i see that? Thanks

here is what you are missing, the refit anchor WILL NOT RELOAD YOUR TORPEDOS INTO THE TUBES FOR YOU you have to manually do this yourself with the mouse and then WAIT or use time compression since it takes a good 20-30 minutes to reload all tubes. then and only then can you refit again to fill the reserve torpedo slots you just emptied by sending the torpedos to be loaded into the tubes.

even if you have auto loading of torpedos selected when you run out they don't start auto reloading until the empty tubes AND the reserve slots are all full.

trust me it works you just need to do these things in the correct order to get a full reload

[magic452]

The way I read his problem is that he isn't getting any torpedoes at all, no tubes loaded nor reserves. Also no deck gun ammo.

danu68 the way to tell what version of SH4 you have is to load the game and look at the lower right corner of the load screen. It will show V1.something

If it says V1.3 or less you need to go to the UBI web site and download the V1.4 patch, without this the game is unplayable. Install the patch and see if your problem is fixed.

If the load screen says V1.4 or V1.5 than you have a bad install and will need to reinstall the game. V1.5 is the last patch it also includes a U Boat campaign and all the latest mods are for this version, you can get a $10.00 down load of this version from UBI or better yet get the U Boat "Gold Edition" on disk. You should be able to find it on the Amazon.com link at the top of this page. Subsim gets a small cut of anything you buy from this link.

If you need to reinstall, here are some tips.
Put the game in some other folder than C/Program files folder.
Find the SH4.exe file in the main game folder and use it to launch the game, do not use the SH4.gu default launch icon.
Run as administrator if using Vista or above.

This is a great game and is well worth any extra cost and all the patching or adding mods.

Magic

[danu68]

When I load the game it does not say anything in the lower right corner.I have the SH4 game without the U boat campaign mod.Just plain US Submarines no U boat.I do not know what version is this.

[danu68]

When I load the game it does not sahttp://www.subsim.com/radioroom/images/icons/icon1.gify anything in the lower right corner.I have the SH4 game without the U boat campaign mod.Just plain US Submarines no U boat.I do not know what version is this.

[in_vino_vomitus]

Go to the game folder and right-click on sh4.exe. a dialogue box opens, select Properties. When the Properties dialogue box opens, select the Details tab. The fifth line down is Product version. The format is 1, x, x, x. The second x is the information you're looking for. Mine says 1, 5, 0, 0, because I have v1.5. If yours says 1, 4, 0, 0, then you have v1.4 - or whatever it turns out to be.

Hope that helps

[magic452]

In all likelihood you have something less than the V1.4 game.
Go to the UBI web site and download the SH4 V1.4 patch from the Downloads section, it's free, run the patch and it should fix most of the problems with your game.
Anything less then V1.4 is unplayable.

When the game loads you will see a screen that has all the options on it Sub School etc. in the lower right corner of that screen is the V number.
If you have loaded the game using a download or the Silent Hunter Wolfs of the Pacific disk than you need to get the patch and run it to fix the game.

Magic

[danu68]

I did that and it says that i have 1.0.0.0.Still i can play it but i have this problem with refitting torpedoes and shells for the cannon

[magic452]

I did that and it says that i have 1.0.0.0.Still i can play it but i have this problem with refitting torpedoes and shells for the cannon

You have to go to the UBI web site and download the V1.4 patch, it's free.
Here is the download:

http://www.ubi.com/US/Downloads/DownloadFile.aspx?dfId=5146

Download it and run it over your SH4 game.
The game is unplayable without this patch period.

Magic

[danu68]

i downloaded and installed the patch.now the game version is 1.4

[danu68]

:woot:After installing patch 1.4 for SH4 refitting torpedoes and ammo works now.Many things are improved.Hooray!! Thanks Guys for the advices.You are great!! :up:

[danu68]

Would you mind giving me a link where i can get more extra home ports or bases for SH4? THANKS