kylania
08-29-06, 01:31 AM
I'm guessing this was karma for "cheating".
I'm on the mission where you go to AN18 (right off the course of England) for patrol. The first time I did this I died randomly almost there. This comes into play later if you're keeping score at home.
Than the second time all is well, I kill a nice juicy 8k freigher but have to go to sleep, so I save and call it a night.
Tonite, rather than finish my mission, I get all stupid and decide to spend 3 hours making dual installs so I can play GW or NYGM at the same time without much fuss.
Finally get the clients installed and my stupid save game crashes me. :( No problem! I'll just do the mission a third time.
This time I do things right, a fresh GW install without all the extra stuff loaded I didn't need. I learn that if I do Ahead Slow during the days I can run submerged no problem whereas Ahead Standard would totally drain my battery.
Than I switch to stopping and doing a hydrophone check everyone in a while. It pays off! A warship. I stear clear. Than another contact! MERCHANT! I pounce... sort of. After getting the general direction and a range of medium (so very close!) I rise to periscope depth and STORM! Can't see a thing, heavy fog, high winds, high seas, rain. So down I do again, after a few hours of trying to get a fix I finally manage to make out a path of travel and using the tricks I've learned about reading these forums I get a speed too! Navigator, set intercept!
I get to the spot where I think he'll be and turn around. Drop to 20, find the signal on hydrophone manually then ask the sonarman for a contact. Bearing 001! Constant Speed! CLOSING!
I set ahead slow and strain to see anything in the periscope. Than out of the fog, a mere 700m away I see him! All back slow, rudder 35 starboard we'll get him as he passes! Tubes 1 and 2.. LOS!!
Two hits and the Tramp Steamer is down!! Than I check the flag, phew British! But after all that work finding him in a huge storm mostly by hydrophone I'd be happy even if I killed a friendly.
So, weather the storm a bit to get my batteries back up to full, then head back to the patrol route.
This time I'm not at 1024x as I was before, I'm coasting along at 32x so my crew can rest before I get into position. I'm just kind of watching the crew do their thing when I notice my rudder is always reading 3 Port. I wonder if there's a problem? So I switch to External View (there's the cheat.. I guess?) and plunge down into the icy waves of the atlantic just behind my boat.
Instantly I'm in panic mode! ALL-FREAKING-STOP BERNARD!! What's wrong? My rudder is off? My ship is pink? I forget to turn off the oven? Nope.. there bobbing up and down gently directly in front of the camera.. is a mine!
Omg! I'd just sailed past one.. and I see another off to the starboard side ahead. Slowly start to back up and turn around. Set a course back the way I can to avoid this minefield (the same one I'd blundered into two days ago at 1024x and would have hit at 32x had I not off handedly wondered about my rudder!).
I get turned around and start to head back the other way. Interested in how massive the mine field was I start to slide under the waves with the camera trying to the find the ones I'd spotted eariler. Since GW's camera is so abhorantly slow (though now I'm thinking it's because i run at 1650x1050 with full AA :o) I have to hit shift and forward a few times to cover more ground.
About now you're probably wondering what any of this has to do with windows? Well, as it turns out, if you hit Shift five times slowly, the same sort of thing you'd do if you were say, looking for mines in a stormy sea, it turns on some ridiciously stupid thing called ShiftKeys. At first I thought my PC had died, it made this tiny little blurp sound, then the screen went black. Than up come the helpful stupid Accessability window and DOWN WENT SH3! :(
Found a merchant in the worst conditions in the middle of the atlantic, narrowly avoided a minefield through a stroke of luck and I'm brought down and lose it all because of a stupid Windows "feature" which I'd thought I'd never installed in the first place.
Oh well...
I'm on the mission where you go to AN18 (right off the course of England) for patrol. The first time I did this I died randomly almost there. This comes into play later if you're keeping score at home.
Than the second time all is well, I kill a nice juicy 8k freigher but have to go to sleep, so I save and call it a night.
Tonite, rather than finish my mission, I get all stupid and decide to spend 3 hours making dual installs so I can play GW or NYGM at the same time without much fuss.
Finally get the clients installed and my stupid save game crashes me. :( No problem! I'll just do the mission a third time.
This time I do things right, a fresh GW install without all the extra stuff loaded I didn't need. I learn that if I do Ahead Slow during the days I can run submerged no problem whereas Ahead Standard would totally drain my battery.
Than I switch to stopping and doing a hydrophone check everyone in a while. It pays off! A warship. I stear clear. Than another contact! MERCHANT! I pounce... sort of. After getting the general direction and a range of medium (so very close!) I rise to periscope depth and STORM! Can't see a thing, heavy fog, high winds, high seas, rain. So down I do again, after a few hours of trying to get a fix I finally manage to make out a path of travel and using the tricks I've learned about reading these forums I get a speed too! Navigator, set intercept!
I get to the spot where I think he'll be and turn around. Drop to 20, find the signal on hydrophone manually then ask the sonarman for a contact. Bearing 001! Constant Speed! CLOSING!
I set ahead slow and strain to see anything in the periscope. Than out of the fog, a mere 700m away I see him! All back slow, rudder 35 starboard we'll get him as he passes! Tubes 1 and 2.. LOS!!
Two hits and the Tramp Steamer is down!! Than I check the flag, phew British! But after all that work finding him in a huge storm mostly by hydrophone I'd be happy even if I killed a friendly.
So, weather the storm a bit to get my batteries back up to full, then head back to the patrol route.
This time I'm not at 1024x as I was before, I'm coasting along at 32x so my crew can rest before I get into position. I'm just kind of watching the crew do their thing when I notice my rudder is always reading 3 Port. I wonder if there's a problem? So I switch to External View (there's the cheat.. I guess?) and plunge down into the icy waves of the atlantic just behind my boat.
Instantly I'm in panic mode! ALL-FREAKING-STOP BERNARD!! What's wrong? My rudder is off? My ship is pink? I forget to turn off the oven? Nope.. there bobbing up and down gently directly in front of the camera.. is a mine!
Omg! I'd just sailed past one.. and I see another off to the starboard side ahead. Slowly start to back up and turn around. Set a course back the way I can to avoid this minefield (the same one I'd blundered into two days ago at 1024x and would have hit at 32x had I not off handedly wondered about my rudder!).
I get turned around and start to head back the other way. Interested in how massive the mine field was I start to slide under the waves with the camera trying to the find the ones I'd spotted eariler. Since GW's camera is so abhorantly slow (though now I'm thinking it's because i run at 1650x1050 with full AA :o) I have to hit shift and forward a few times to cover more ground.
About now you're probably wondering what any of this has to do with windows? Well, as it turns out, if you hit Shift five times slowly, the same sort of thing you'd do if you were say, looking for mines in a stormy sea, it turns on some ridiciously stupid thing called ShiftKeys. At first I thought my PC had died, it made this tiny little blurp sound, then the screen went black. Than up come the helpful stupid Accessability window and DOWN WENT SH3! :(
Found a merchant in the worst conditions in the middle of the atlantic, narrowly avoided a minefield through a stroke of luck and I'm brought down and lose it all because of a stupid Windows "feature" which I'd thought I'd never installed in the first place.
Oh well...