View Full Version : Could you Imagine the litteral days you would put in if SH5 didn give you fast travel
Krono99
10-05-13, 12:32 AM
That's just crazy. Im on the first mission after the tutorial and ive been going extreme speed ahead which is like 17 knots which translates to well lets see:
1 knot = 1 nautical mile/hour = 1.852 km/h = 1.150779 mile (statute)/hour
Ive been playing most of the night on extreme speed with waypoints made and it cranked to x32 (Like roughly 6 or 7 hours) and im still not to the Britain shore.
I cant imagine how long it would really take if there wasn't that speed boost there. A week at 17 knots if not longer? And if you have it on realism with the gas reserves where you can run out what happens if you spend an actual 7 or 8 days getting there if not longer depending on how much you play and you run out of gas? There's no submarine fuel tankers lol your stranded lol
This is why we dont have many reports of captains flanking around the globe. Cruise speed is a mere 10 knots ..
You are wrong about resuply .. they DID provide so called milk runs, where a regular vessel would meet the sub, and refuel/stock it. It's even modeled in game afaik.
Put TC on 256 or 513 .. you'll be there in a few real minutes.
Distance / speed / 24 = number of days it would take ;) Uboat personel is a special breed ;) But if you look in the radio room, they had solitair :p
Krono99
10-05-13, 01:22 AM
Guess I didn't think about that. It just seems like its taken 6 or 7 hours at extreme speed with x32 to get to my objective lol. What a pita
Wasn't there some real hardcore SH3 players who did just this? Played at normal speed? Thats hardcore, really...
V13dweller
10-05-13, 02:17 AM
That's why you go the the navigation map and crank it up to 1024x time compression, or go higher, like 3000+ and get there in about 7 seconds. :D
SnipersHunter
10-05-13, 02:39 AM
Hmm i dont know what your problem are working fine for me
V13dweller
10-05-13, 03:33 AM
Hmm i dont know what your problem are working fine for me
Who is that directed at?
I guess at OP for not reading TFM ;)
@OP; you cant get time compression over 32 when you are in first person mode, unless you edit main.cfg in your save folder. Go to the navmap, all will be fine then.
Viper37
10-06-13, 04:04 PM
Could you Imagine the litteral days you would put in if SH5 didn give you fast travel
Yes, yes I can. Been there done that, in real life!
Krono99
10-06-13, 05:01 PM
I would to have loved to experienced life aboard a real ship in nonwar times. Out on the ocean. And theres a bit of a problem that I run into when I fast travel long distances. When you fast travel like say half way around the globe or from Kiel to the British shores you run into a problem where the enemy sees you (Or you see the enemy and you dive) And you use your battery. What's happened to me on a few occasions is I fast travel to a certain area I see a enemy ship or even a convoy ship with battleships behind it and they find me and im forced to crash dive. I use my battery up because im 80 meters down and on the surface I suddenly have 3 or 4 battleships just going in circles around my area and they wont go away. I cant surface to charge my battery and while I have 11 torpedoes going to periscope depth to launch them is a bad idea because
I might sink 1 ship but they will get me. So they might as well be 11 big paperweight's lol. I think that's actually happened a time or 2. I flooded and sank lol. Anyway I had to restart and change my tactics. HAve fun all =) :subsim:
Hinrich Schwab
10-07-13, 02:07 PM
Wasn't there some real hardcore SH3 players who did just this? Played at normal speed? Thats hardcore, really...
You called?:Kaleun_Salute:
I did this mainly as an experiment. Having multiple rigs and being self-employed at home made it feasible. I can certainly empathize with the stress, boredom and tension one finds in actual accounts. 90% of a voyage is pure tedium while the other 10% is divided between firing torpedoes and avoiding instant death at the hands of escorts. Trust me, arguing with sleep deprivation while avoiding multiple angry destroyers pinging like no tomorrow is a harrowing experience.
You called?:Kaleun_Salute:
I did this mainly as an experiment. Having multiple rigs and being self-employed at home made it feasible. I can certainly empathize with the stress, boredom and tension one finds in actual accounts. 90% of a voyage is pure tedium while the other 10% is divided between firing torpedoes and avoiding instant death at the hands of escorts. Trust me, arguing with sleep deprivation while avoiding multiple angry destroyers pinging like no tomorrow is a harrowing experience.
Nice experiment you made Hinrich, you for sure deserve the admiration of any hardcore player and realism fan :yeah:
Out of curiosity: how long did your real time campaign last?
Hinrich Schwab
10-07-13, 08:21 PM
Nice experiment you made Hinrich, you for sure deserve the admiration of any hardcore player and realism fan :yeah:
Out of curiosity: how long did your real time campaign last?
I halted the experiment after a few patrols due to severe fatigue.
I halted the experiment after a few patrols due to severe fatigue.
I can imagine it. :doh: Was it with SHIII or IV?
xSmithyx
10-20-13, 08:29 PM
I hate to admit this I play to real time BUT I play to the time I am at.
For example; If I am playing at 10pm and decide to go to bed, get up at 8am, do the things I need to do, I then play SH5 and TC to what my current time is, say 2pm.
I know that is quite sad and boring for some people but for me it's quite an immersive experience to sit there and plot courses and and hydrophone in real time.
Obviously I don't sit at the computer the whole time the game is running but I am always nearby incase I hear the XO screaming at me.
lodebeard
10-20-13, 08:38 PM
I hate to admit this I play to real time BUT I play to the time I am at.
For example; If I am playing at 10pm and decide to go to bed, get up at 8am, do the things I need to do, I then play SH5 and TC to what my current time is, say 2pm.
I know that is quite sad and boring for some people but for me it's quite an immersive experience to sit there and plot courses and and hydrophone in real time.
Obviously I don't sit at the computer the whole time the game is running but I am always nearby incase I hear the XO screaming at me.
I don't see myself being able to play this way, but for some reason I am happy to know someone out there does :P
Greendevil303
10-20-13, 09:04 PM
I would be about 3/4 of the way to my first patrol sector lol.
You know there is some guy out there that lives this ****. Single. Unemployed. Leaves the game running 24/7 at realistic decibels. Puts his character to bed in the captain's rack while he sleeps to the faint sound of the gramophone :O:
I don't see myself being able to play this way, but for some reason I am happy to know someone out there does :P
I agree!
I would be about 3/4 of the way to my first patrol sector lol.
You know there is some guy out there that lives this ****. Single. Unemployed. Leaves the game running 24/7 at realistic decibels. Puts his character to bed in the captain's rack while he sleeps to the faint sound of the gramophone :O:
LOL :rotfl2:
xSmithyx
10-20-13, 10:26 PM
I didn't play the other SH games like this, and I have played SH5 with TC before, but I felt like doing something different.
The joy you feel when you have been stalking a convoy for DAYS and then get to the intercept point and just watch your eels do the work is amazing.
On the otherhand, those DD hunts with IRAI can be quite nervewhacking aswell. Just the otherday I snapped at the fiance because she was talking to me when I was counting the sonar pings from two Tribals. I was in the doghouse for a few hours after that.
I do have the blessing of 2 monitors though, so even though I am realtime playing I am always watching/doing something on the other monitor.
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