SW. :)

Been working my way through the stickies and downloaded that great video to watch.

Duly noted about speeding up time and when. Also about the planes. While fun, I suspect it's not where I want to be spending my time.

Lurking like a good submariner
 

I do indeed lurk here, and I thank you for the compliment re: Silent War; moreover, I must return the compliment ten-fold: My two favorite PC sims are Flight Simulator (for which I did several add-on structures) and SHIV, which I just think is one fantastic sim. So it’s my hat that's off to you for what you and the team accomplished with SHIV. I’m involved with software and with MMOs, so I appreciate what it takes to create something like this. (Not to mention the modding/add-on community here- when you have this many dedicated folks creating mods and add-ons, it truly speaks to the value of the product.

Appreciate your kind words:)

Brien

Salute!

I think you could easily do my work, but I'm not sure I could handle yours.

How's the next game - Steel Wolves - shaping up?

Welcome to SUBSIM Brien :up:

I'll pass along this information to Neal Stevens (the site owner), he'll be pleased that you have posted here. Nice to see developers visit the site :yep:


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I finally picked SH4 up actually a few weeks ago. I have been enjoying it ever since. I just started manual targeting (never really got into it with SH3) and am having a blast (sorry for the bad pun :oops::lol:). I am by no means new to the sub simming genre. I have been playing them off an on ever since Command: Aces of the Deep and Silent Service for the old NES. I have been following the development of SH4 since before it was released. I just got around to picking it up a few weeks ago. Right around the time it was being released SH3 was having a modding firestorm with GWX, so I was giving that a real good run through. Additionally, at the time I had got Oblivion, then the DLCs for the game and the expansion Shivering Isles. That ate up a LOT of my free time. :oops: Now that I have finally put Oblivion aside for a little while I picked up SH4. One thing I noticed is that SH4 with patch 1.4 runs a LOT better on my computer than SH3 ever did. I run SH4 with 16x AA through my nVidia drivers and have every graphical option enabled with max viewing distances. I LOVE the post processing filters with that grainy effect. I also really like that 3D sound over distance option. That is VERY cool! Since UBM has even more optimizations, I really look forward to seeing how much better SH4 runs! I built my computer three years ago so it isn't the speed demon it used to be. It only has 1GB of RAM (Crucial Ballistix), AMD Athlon 64 3500+, Abit Fatal1ty AN8 mobo, and a nVidia XFX 8600GT (replaced Radeon RX700-Pro after fan died). SH4 just runs so smooth! :D

Patrol Report and back to the depths!
 

Steel Wolves is shaping up to be quite the follow-on. As some may already know, this will be done in two volumes, V1 reaches from 1939 to very early 1943, V2 reaches London... no just kidding- it goes from 1943, to the bitter end. The major add-ons all focus on providing a very robust Allied Intel and Convoy system (capable of "reacting" based on intel levels to submarine presence) the German B-Dienst op-intel system, and the ever increasing effects of technology developments in radar, sonar, tactical-ops. One thing we want to do, is provide the German player (who is BdU/Donitz) the ability to, pre-war, determine some of his future boat-mix. (VIIs v IXs). The Silent War/Steel Wolves system has drawn many conclusions based on extensive statistical study and has applied those conclusions to the underlying system. Steel Wolves will allow the sim enthusiast to explore some what-if ideas, as well as to compare and contrast the nature of the Pacific and Atlantic campaigns. So, we've made quite some progress, but we are rapidly approaching the point where we will be integrating all the new systems and expect the old Maxim of "no plan survives contact with the enemy" to be in full force during this development phase.

Thanks for the invite to update folks on the project! Now back to your regularly scheduled SHIV/III discussions.

Brien

Brien!... You shouldn't have told him that until he told us how his next game (hopefully Destroyer Command 2) is shaping up!!! :up:

"Steel Wolves" sounds fantastic, I for one can't wait!!

Flat out, truth... in a word-- word. Micropose was way ahead of their time. Between Task Force '42 and Darklands, they were thinking 15 years into the future :) Thankfully, the Silent Hunter series has much of the same vision. Of course, I'm just a sandbox sim kinda guy.

Ok... we will have to trade updates then:)

Now why would I want to play a sim if it weren't sandbox design based :D ?

(Ok, I'm exagerating a little bit, but all should be)

The next game you ask? Well, I really can't tell, with us being a big company with dedicated marketing, long projects, etc. Its not my job to say this either...

... for my part, it will either be IT... or naught ...

Yes , to me the mark of a good sim is that you sit down at 7pm, play for what feels like an hour, look at your watch and it's 3am, how did that happen?... I had that with Microprose and I have that with SH, total involvement & superb atmosphere.

& thanks for your thoughts Dan!

Wow- thanks for the neat admiral pix and the silent war tag:) I appreciate that:) Yeah- I've found myself noticing the 3am time while playing SHIV. But I'm quite proud as an aviator to have scored quite a few kills in my beloved SEA RAVEN!

Lessons #3:
Press "Q" before firering torpedoes! ;)

Well, I had fun last night with this, even though I totally blew it with Grayback... sank a Liberty without realizing it!

A question: my first mission was to head to the Marshalls and patrol. So I made it out to the designated area and then began a wide, looping patrol around the islands. The only contacts I picked up were some US ships moving away from Wake Island to the SW. I got those a couple times (hence the Liberty ship disaster...).

My radio log only had info on various Japanese invasions happening, which is why I headed up to Wake. Should I have done that or should I have stayed on station around the Marshalls? I'd sent a radio report when I made it to the Marshalls, but nothing else happened. Do I just do what I want once I'm out there, or do I wait for fleet to notify me of changes, all the while doing several hundred mile loops?

This morning I took out Seawold from Manila and proceeded to sink in about 4 mins as I couldn't get radar to work -- that toggle for on/off wasn't working and for the life of me, I can't figure it out. Off to find some help files here on that.

Edit: just realized -- radar won't be there until '43, right? So of course it wasn't usable on my '41 sub.