Bustoff
11-30-05, 09:17 PM
Hey folks,
This is my first post here so be gentle. :oops:
I was sneaking away from the English port of Hull at 18m going 3 kts when all of a sudden everything stops. I was in the other room at the time and I noticed that there was no longer any sound coming from my PC. I thought SHIII had locked up or crashed to desktop since it has been known to do that, but when I checked my monitor it said that my UBoat was destroyed by collision!
I racked my brain as to what I could have hit. I thought maybe I had struck bottom but at 3 kts I shouldn't have lost the boat colliding with that. So I fired up the Mission Editor and looked at the campaign scripted file. To my horror I found that there was a German (yes German) minefield layed right where I was exiting Hull!!
I feel a little cheated to be honest. There was no explosion sound, no histeria, nothing! The game went from chugging happily along to the instant death screen. Am I to lose a veteran Kaluen this undramatically??? Not a great end to a storied 10 patrol carreer.
Also wouldnt the BDU notify sub commanders of minefield locations!! I am playing dead is dead but I am considering breaking this rule since the way I died was pretty cheap. I understand that there was friendly fire incidents in WWII but I think I would have been notified of a minefield that was laid in 1939 by the end of 1940. At least the mission editor said it was laid in 1939.
Oberleutnant z. S. Bustoff
This is my first post here so be gentle. :oops:
I was sneaking away from the English port of Hull at 18m going 3 kts when all of a sudden everything stops. I was in the other room at the time and I noticed that there was no longer any sound coming from my PC. I thought SHIII had locked up or crashed to desktop since it has been known to do that, but when I checked my monitor it said that my UBoat was destroyed by collision!
I racked my brain as to what I could have hit. I thought maybe I had struck bottom but at 3 kts I shouldn't have lost the boat colliding with that. So I fired up the Mission Editor and looked at the campaign scripted file. To my horror I found that there was a German (yes German) minefield layed right where I was exiting Hull!!
I feel a little cheated to be honest. There was no explosion sound, no histeria, nothing! The game went from chugging happily along to the instant death screen. Am I to lose a veteran Kaluen this undramatically??? Not a great end to a storied 10 patrol carreer.
Also wouldnt the BDU notify sub commanders of minefield locations!! I am playing dead is dead but I am considering breaking this rule since the way I died was pretty cheap. I understand that there was friendly fire incidents in WWII but I think I would have been notified of a minefield that was laid in 1939 by the end of 1940. At least the mission editor said it was laid in 1939.
Oberleutnant z. S. Bustoff