Yes man, that's why i never lost interest! It's secrets make the game so different. And most of the time they are quite useful and logical, or at least nice little candy stuff. I also like the fact, that you can't find everything in the book. You have to try things yourself and find out the limitations of the game on your own.
Many things like gun or torpedo physics are also modelled very differentiated, but you almost never see the effects like a torp "jumping" out of the water, slipping off a ship's side. Just like in real life special things need special circumstances! :cool:


True, mate. I have not experienced all the mods yet, i think it's a lifetime job to really checck all of them out, and also the combinations... Or you find something new yourself. Small and minor things most of the time, but it is a real PC game wonder to see this happen after a decade! I love that the game is so bloody unpredictable. :rock:

That reminds me of another surprise the game managed to bring me a couple of patrols away. I now have external views on as I'm trying to learn curved fire shooting. I had to shoot two torpedoes very quickly as a destroyer had spotted me. The first torpedo hit under the target's stern mast. The second torpedo was either going to be a near-miss or hit the propellers.

And then...

The explosion from the first torpedo threw the second torpedo off its course :o It slowed a bit, was thrown a little bit to the left, and then continued its run, but turned a bit, maybe something like 20 - 30 degrees from its initial course.

The game never stops its surprises :D

I play with the exterior views on. One day I was observing a potential strike against a warship. It was low visibility, medium fog, and high seas.
At the right moment, through a combination of factors, suddenly, the waves flipped my torpedo out of the water, and it slammed into the upper superstructure or bridge area, like a missile. Boom. The clemson destroyer I hit started careening around like a headless chicken, until it finally slowed down and started to sink. Millions to one odds to be sure, but amazing to watch nonetheless.
This game is capable of so much and I think it may be that other players do not enable the external views, so they don't really see what happens when they strike.
Also, I noticed that the seeking torpedo can be quite sensitive to sound.
Normally they tell you 'go to silent running just before/after you launch from the bow' and 'go silent and deep' if you fire from the stern. My target was hung up on the coast line, making himself an easy hit for me. I fired my last fish (from U-2503, a seeker), which started to run a path towards the ship that was revving and dropping, and revving, to get off the coast line. As I watched from the TDC page, I could see suddenly that my seeker was turning back towards me. I thought conditions were such that this would not happen, but I could see clearly that it was. Quickly I ordered "all stop", to quit all racket aboard my boat, and 'Lo and Behold, the seeker re-acquired the destroyer and started back in his direction...Boom. Even the noise from the auxiliary machinery and pumps is modeled in the game...

In stock SH3 yes you can take out destroyers fairly easily with the deck gun. You can shoot more accurately at longer range than they can.

With GWX it is very difficult, though I have done. But you will take heavy damage.

Steve

Nonetheless, 9 out of 10 times you try to outgun a destroyer on the surface you will die. It is really difficult to sink it before it sinks you. In reality this chance would have been even slimmer, but for a game it's alright.

:arrgh!: