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First trip out with the q-ship mod and I ran across one on the east cost of Britain.
I have external cam on for now since I just installed a new skin and wanted to see what it looks like. Kinda blew the surprise because I external-cammed the ship and in fact you can see the guns hidden in the q-ship crates if you look carefully. Sucker shot at me and damaged me even though I was submerged! They saw my scope. Steve |
The experience is a little more dramatic when you have no external cam enabled and come across one whilst on the surface :yep:
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It's especially fun when you approach one submerged and undetected, put an eel into what seems to be an ordinary merch, and then (as I am wont to do early in the war) surface to finish her off with your guns only to start taking damage from her guns before you can even get up to the bridge.
Fortunately they all seem to be smallish vessels and IME one well-placed eel is usually enough to sink them. |
In the First World War the Q-ships became an art form. They carried extra crew whose sole job was to make a good show of abandoning ship. They would take to the lifeboats and everything. Then, when the unsuspecting u-boat would close in to board and lay scuttling charges...
Of course the Brits cried foul when the Germans started torpedoing them from underwater, but what's a poor u-boatman to do? |
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Then they don't like it when we torpedo them from underwater. Then they don't like it when we wait 'til after dark and torpedo them on the surface. *heavy sigh* There is just no pleasing some people. |
I don't believe the hedgehogs and later on squids minded all that much :DL
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One thing I noticed with the q-ship mod was that it is not listed as a q-ship either in the log within SH3, nor in the patrol log listed in Commander.
I used JSGME to install, plus copied the entries as listed in the readme. But I'm not sure I copied the entries into the right files. As I recall the paths to the specified files did not match my install. Steve |
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I'm sure I remember seeing 'Q-Ship' in one of my Commander patrol reports. |
The readme says to modify these two files:
Copy and paste the following line into your C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\GWX3.0\data\Sea\EnglishNames CFG: SCF=Small Coastal Freighter For German players (GermanNames CFG): SCF=kleiner Küstenfrachter For French players (FrenchNames CFG): SCF=petit cargo côtier Copy and paste the following into your C:\Program Files\SH3 CommanderGWX3.0\Cfg\Ship names Cfg: [LOV] 0001=Q Ship HMS Chatsgrove 0002=Q Ship HMS Maunder 0003=Q Ship HMS Prunella 0004=Q Ship HMS Lambridge 0005=Q Ship HMS Edgehill 0006=Q Ship HMS Brutus 0007=Q Ship HMS Cyprus 0008=Q Ship HMS Looe 0009=Q Ship HMS Antoine 0010=Q Ship USS Atik 0011=Q Ship USS Captor 0012=Q Ship USS Asterion 0013=Q Ship Uss Big Horn 0014=Q Ship USS Irene Forsyte For my stock Windows 7 install of SH3 and GWX 3, there is no path for: C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\GWX3.0\data\Sea\EnglishNames CFG: I have: C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\SilentHunterIII\data\Sea\EngishNames .cfg C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\SilentHunterIII\MODS\GWX - Fix French\data\sea\EngishNames.cfg C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\SilentHunterIII\data\Submarine\Engis hNames.cfg C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\SilentHunterIII\data\Land\EngishName s.cfg C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\SilentHunterIII\MODS\GWX - Fix French\data\Air\EngishNames.cfg C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\SilentHunterIII\data\Air\EngishNames .cfg C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\SilentHunterIII\MODS\GWX - Fix French\data\Land\EngishNames.cfg C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\SilentHunterIII\MODS\GWX - Fix French\data\Submarine\EnglishNames.cfg C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\SilentHunterIII\data\Ordnance\Englis hNames.cfg Which file should I modify? Likewise I have no file: C:\Program Files\SH3 CommanderGWX3.0\Cfg\Ship names Cfg: I do have a: C:\Program Files (x86)\SH3 Commander\Cfg\Ship names.cfg Which is the one I modified. |
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Are you using SH3Commander? If not then ignore adding the individual [LOV] ship names but if you are you will need to locate the location of the ship mames CFG file. Isn't there anyone using SH3 Commander and the W7 OS around these parts? :hmmm: |
I came across my first Q ship last night, cheeky bugger even fired at me!
I don't get the Q Ship named in the logs either, not in SHIII itself, or within SHIII Commander. I'm pretty sure I added the lines in the right place. I'm running on XP though, so I can't help with the Win7 installation. At a guess : C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\SilentHunterIII\data\Sea\EngishNames .cfg is the right file within the sim and C:\Program Files (x86)\SH3 Commander\Cfg\Ship names.cfg should be the correct one within SHIII Commander. Like I said though, I could be wrong, because it isn't working for me |
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Are you saying with commander I modify a different CFG file? Steve |
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C:\Program Files (x86)\SH3 Commander\Cfg\Ship names.cfg As I said earlier, I won't have the W7 OS for about a week :-? |
The problem might be that starting with Windows Vista, the UAC in Windows messes up the changes of files when SH3 and/or SH3 Commander are installed inside the Program Files or Program Files (x86) folders. The solution is to install them outside of those files. Example C:\Games\ That way the UAC will not effect changes.
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The fact is the mod was created before W7 was released so I simply can't state what the situation is.....at least until I get the W7 OS. |
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