I kinda burned out on the subject of submarines about six months ago. Only recently started dabbling in SH3 again. Glad to see the RUB mod took away one of my bigger pet peeves: The Rackup Easy Renown Lone Merchant. I especially hated seeing them so late in the war.

As soon as we fix a few more things...

I will sail until my eyes bleed

:sunny: :sunny: :sunny:

Right Marhkimov?

Yep!
We'll sail off into the sunset.... :sunny:

:lol:

No, not right now. I've been off it for two or so weeks (shamefully enough, but I really can't play it right now). And before that, there was another month or so that I was too busy to play it.

I will be back to it soon, I hope. It's a shame because I'm supposed to be helping with modding/mod testing :dead:

This is why i will occasinally do unrealistic things for FUN.

Theres two types of SH3.

- You can play SH3 the simulation.
- You can play SH3 the submarine game.


I'll do both. Occassionaly ill play for realsm, and then ill play it like an action game.

My latest antic was modding a type II do have a surface speed of 30 knots, crash speed faster then a C/41, and HP's to match an IXD2 and *tried* to run through the gibralter mission on the surface :rotfl:

I sort of forgot escorts can get up to 35 knots. Was intresting watching all those escorts chase my tail and creep up on me gunning the whole way, bullets wizzing about, shell splash's everywhere! Unrealisic as hell, but damn fun!


I think one thing that adds to the tedium of a campaign is its usually one of two thinigs.
-approach a single merchant and sink him
- approach a convoy and sink a couple

repeat and rinse.

But you know, every now and then, its damn satisfying to rake a trawler or fishing boat with gunfire! (AA guns or heavy flak) :arrgh!:

Planes too. This is one reason i wont install an improved airpower mod. yes, being able to shoot down planes is unrealistic, but is it fun? HELL YEAH! I will fight it out on the surface because of this.


By mixing the ratio realim vs fun gameplay, i manage to keep myself intrested and not bored.

of course i play it ... silent hunter 4 isnt out yet


whats that merchant fleet mod i see advertised up there ?

where can one get it ?

thanks

Wolves at War will prolong your game, i think the reason why SH3 is still on my drive is because of WAW. Every two weeks approx we are of on another patrol all contributing to the atlantic war. Your only allow certain mods though RUB, SH3Cmdr and Waw realism mods (i think graphic mods are ok). And play at 100% or officer help enabled. When we have our orders and we all set sail, its like we are actually off to sea :D

http://wolvesatwar.org/

Haven't played in a few months. Been on the road a bit working on subs. Thinking of uninstalling it and doing a clean install with some mods etc. Kind of lost track of the mods I had put into it.

Constantly. I play strictly for simulation value, and only play campaigns. I finally was able to afford a copy of FS2004, but I find myself having to look for extra time to play it, as beautiful as it may be.

Even when I have SHIV, I'll still play SHIII. Until something comes along I find even more absorbing.

i voted "no".
 

I left a campaign with IX type, transatlantic missions. too much time needed.
maybe in a month or two I'll be back but at the moment I'm bored.

the game deserved best sim of the year award anyway. I've put many many hours of gaming in it.
thanks devs!, thanks sub community!
ciao
ludwig

WaW is keeping me addicted to SH3. :up:

Of course I still play it. Am still in 1942, so many years to go for me !

I voted 'No' because I havn't played for about 2 months.
I'm sure in another month or so I will be back and enjoying it even more than before :yep:

I`m still enjoying the game, especially with IUB and the Improved Convoy mod.

:up:

:up: keep the mods coming...

I play but limit my time and try variations on careers time, crew, etc...with the SHcommander program.

Also using IUb right now.

:lurk:

When I first got it I was on it everynight. Now it's once or twice a week but hey it still rocks :rotfl:

Same here.
I gotta get a life :up: :88) :|\

Been trolling for a while. Been playing HOI2 and finally came back to pick up my campaign again. Finally trying some manual targeting, adds a lot to the satisfaction.

I just started playing this game about three weeks ago, so of course I'm playing it. Still in my first campaign, about a dozen or so missions in, still trying to decide which mods to put in first. I got this game shortly after its release, after remembering the fun I had with SH2 a couple years prior. I had just upgraded my video card, and got SH3 along with a couple other games in celebration, then got home and AFTER I opened it did I realize it was DVD-Rom, which I did not yet have. So I put it on the shelf for later as I had other games to play until the price of DVD drives dropped a bit. Finally got a DVD drive as a X-mas present to myself, only 39.99 at Fry's for a double-layer 16X DVD-RW! That's practically stealing it, in my opinion.

As for this forum, I am already finding that I'm spending way too much time here. Forums are great in that its one of the only ways you can narrow down the earth's 8 billion population to include the most number of people that have that one same particular interest, which of course makes for great conversation, in many ways better than you can find in person I have to admit, at least about that one particular topic.

Yes I still play, because I just got it this month :P

Anyway, I think it has good potential to last for a long while, but we will see. Right now the only reason I don't play it non stop is to surf this forum.

There is one dangerous thing that I see, though. The lame "go to grid XXXXX and stay there for 24 hrs" routine, how about sending me on a different type of mission from time to time? Plus the fact that you allways loose the war on the same day no matter what.

Mmmm... I feel like another mod suggestions is forming in my head :hmm: