hehe i completely agree. you can do other stuff while playing SH3. I start the game up and set course, then go and lift weights, read or cook dinner while listening to the game. :arrgh!:

I had SH3 when it first came out & quickly shelved it.

A couple months ago i was on a wwiiol OT forum and someone posted GWX2 screens. Several of us then started playing and i've told several others about it.

My personal experience...

At this point i don't have much interest in sh4. There are a few things that make sh3 great, the biggest of which is probably OLC's GUI. From my perception there isn't the opportunity for such a realistic experience in SH4.

RDP
Ha. I had that problem with my SH3 from Electronics Boutique.

Problem eventually solved itself!

And as a note on the growth of this forum in particular... I've just joined recently, but I have yet to see this forum with less than 100 people "currently viewing", even at the oddest hours of the night.

Serious and mature games are dying breed, there is less and less of them.If you visit one of the "popular" games forums, by mistake, you will run into total ignorance ,"me first" attitude,insults and ridiculing each other.

Couple that with absolute lack of depth in all present "popular" games, Subsim is becoming oasis for friendly people that want some challenge.As such is more looked after.

There are presently only 2 forums . IMO, where you can have mature, friendly conversation and help, without getting interupted by someone whose general knowledge of vocabulary is limited to undermining text speech.

That would be Subsims and Europa Barbarorum (suprisingly considering from which game it derived)

my 2 cents at least...

Just as a reminder folks that it is against forum rules to discuss cracks or any other illegal software regarding SH3 or for that matter any other games here at SUBSIM.


RDP

Yes I will be waiting like a little kid waiting for Christmas morning:D

Merchant fleet mod where is it, the wait is killing me
 

That and Iambecomelife's merchant fleet add on, (I hope this is still in the works been waiting for an age) His ships are way ahead of anything you can imagine, with the GWX update and the merchant fleet mod you will esentially have a new game!

Does GWX 2.1 include iambecomelife's ships mod? :o

No http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/9708/piratebf4.gif

Hey!

I have been interested ww2 for a pretty long time, and played IL2 and ww2 fps games alot. But somehow I hardly knew anything about the uboat warfare in ww2 when I bought Destroyer Command, mostly because I liked the look of warships and loved the thought of blasting ships to pieces on the open seas!

But when I had been playing DC for a while I started to get pissed on these german underwater vessels that kept sinking my merchants and was impossible to find and sink when they laid deep in the atlantic water.I had no clue what they were and how they worked!!? :doh:

So one day I stumbled over a game where you could actually take command over one of these mysterious, tubes of steel sneaking around under the water(SH3)!
And who would have known, here I am playing SH3, sneaking at convoys and loving the highly realistic simulator!
I'm 23.

So get get to the point, I think one of the reasons people might be joining these forums could be the recent release of games like Battlestations Midway, and other games like that, which somehow looks like it promises more "action" to the buyer. And then they see subs in the game and find them interesting and: "Insert the story of how I began playing SH3 here".

Just a thought.
/Bracer

iambecomelife's ships mod? i
 

Does any one know if iambecomelife's ships mod is still in production or has it been shelved

His ships are the best I hope its still on the way, have asked a couple of times but never get any answer

R

I just bought Battle Stations Midway,not sure if I like it yet,seems very arcadish to me..

What a TOTAL WASTE of money that was - Battle Stations Midway. Total interest in that game lasted about 36 hours and it got uninstalled. Said to self - WTF was that about?

Another tied for 1st place as a money waster - Shells of Fury. Loved the game, but with no ability to save a game, it got marked for the recycle bin as another $20 down-the-tubes.

I live in both worlds - SH3 & SH4.
Tower PC is a brand new Quad-Core, 3 gig RAM, etc. Vista based. Never had a problem with SH4, graphics still amaze me. The enviroment is home based.

Laptop is Vista based, Dual Core, 2 gig RAM, has a girly or weenie graphics card. It has SH3 w/GWX 2.0. GWX graphics AMAZE me with SH3. Laptop/GWX 2.0 time is mainly in use at my get-away place in a rural area on a lake front property. Find it VERY relaxing to be sitting on the porch looking at the lake, meanwhile my laptop is on my picnic table with an intense attack going on in GWX 2.0 as the sun sets.

I try to give both games [Sh 3 & 4] equal time and enjoyment. I also try not to crazy with the MODs. By doing that, I find it keeps both games very stable. i.e. crash free.

I have been playing Silent Hunter since the first game when we would go on the CompuServe forums with the head designer (Carl?) and point out bugs and such. I think I emailed out the first patch to a bunch of folks who couldn't get it. Of course my first subsim was Aces of the Deep. Still have the manual and maps. Loved it.

SH2 was a deep disappointment. Canned missions?

SH3 looked great, but was unplayable on my older system so I shelved it.

I bought SH4 a few months ago when the price dropped down to 19.99 from 49.99 when it first came out and loved the game . . . still do!

I recently rediscovered my SH3 game and thought what the hey and installed it a few days ago. Love it. The patch cleared up the graphical sky glitch I was getting. As soon as I found out how to download GWX 2.0, I am sure I will love it even it more. While there seems more mouse clicking going to get what you want, I am sorry I missed it the first time around.

My favorites are still Aces of the Deep and Silent Hunter, however. SH had a nice clean interface.

In any event, I would imagine the recent price drop on SH4 might be a reason we are seeing more folks on the boards.

Yes, because as we know, the whole world sleeps at the same time.

:rotfl:

[quote=Monica Lewinsky]Ummm. Sun setting beyond the lake and listening to the sweet murmur of distant screws approaching on the primrose path of doom. :D What a way to relax!

I have never played the game. But I think this is the exact reason why people like to buy the game, because it is arcadish! And as I said in my earlier post, perhaps get an interest in submarines and want a pure sub simulator!? You got to start somewhere. May it be Pacific Storm, Battlestations Midway or Destroyer Command....
People like arcadish games, me to from time to time.....

/Bracer

Hi mom

Welcome aboard JackhammerJohn......It's an exciting period at the moment in sub simming terms with both SH3 and SH4 still going strong http://www.psionguild.org/forums/ima...ies/pirate.gif

Ive been looking for some new games or sims,but there just isn't anything out there I am interested in..
I thought about ship simulator,but that to seems arcadish to me,maybe this too is why others have flocked to the SH series so much.
The modders is what keeps me coming back,always something new to try.