Pozdrav, zemljace! :salute:

New to SH5
 

Greetings all,

I have never played SH before. Got interested after watching a 4 part series called Convoy. So picked up the game and thought I would give it a go. So far not so good. Mods? for Sub mostly? Watching some video on youtube. These must be mods there is so much more info on the HUD than I have or the original game. What are the favourites. Game material is so basic. How would you expect to go out to see after the first basic Tutorial. It teaches you nothing about targeting. And suggestions and or direction in training would be greatly appreciated. The game looks awesome and I would really like to enjoy it. Thanks in advance.

Welcome aboard, Kotoc,

All the help you could possibly need is right here on this forum from a bunch of most helpful sailors. You've but to ask.

This link will help you get started in the right direction.......

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...57&postcount=1

Good Luck and smooth sailing

Captain, new contact!
 

Greetings fellow submariners!

I just purchased SH5, and have spent alot of time trying to learn the game, here in the forums.

I took notice of this post, and thought I'd follow protocol and report for duty.

My name is Glenn, and I'm a 30 y/o guy from Oslo, Norway.
I make my living writing for television, with a pronounced goal of using that experience, and get into the gaming industry.
Gaming has been my passion all my life, and simulators and strategy games has always been the "drug of choice".

As far as Silent Hunter goes, I am just a cadet.
I have a little experience from playing Silent Hunter 2 back in the days. But this is too long ago to really benefit my crew to any extent.

The sub sim I spent the most time with, and indeed it was my 1st time commanding a sub, was the game "Wolfpack" for ms-dos.
Anyone else remember this game?
Here you could choos wether to be sub or ship, hunter or hunted.
Good times.

I also played the 688 Hunter/Killer, but as far as i remeber this was not as entertaining. Probably too much sim, too little arcade for me at the time.

That was my previous experience.
Now over to SH5.
Great game, I must say. After all those negative posts on the(predominately the steam) forum, I've postponed buying the SH games.
I've been looking at SH3 for a long time, wondering wether or not to invest the time to learn it (the money is not an issue at 9 bucks).
But i came to the conclusion, that both 4 and 5 looked so amazingly much better, that I just couldn't ignore the graphic aspect.

I've played for a couple of days now. About to finish my 1st real mission. The sinking of 100,000 tons on the west approach.
(I sorta regret not choosing the 50,000 tonnes on east coast of britain instead, but hey.)

And last night I had one of my greatest and most intense gaming moment in a long time.
As I said i was on the "British Supplies" mission, and I' ve just jused all my torps, and have to head back to port for supplies.
Now, usually I choose to go around the north of Scotland, rather than having to cross the english channel. Although sometimes I sneak through the channel.
This is going fairly well, as i alternate between surface and submerged depending on threat levels. Enemy activity wasnæt so bad apparently, I thought to myself.
Then late at night, I spot a lonely freighter a couple of clicks north-east of Dover-Calais straight.
I almost never waste torps on these lonely ships, so I surface and sink him with the gun.
Now while I am about to give him the last few round to sink him, I hear for my first time in sh5, the sound of incoming cannonfire. I cant even see from where, I just hear them whizzing by.
I make a quick decision. "If I cant see him, he can't see me". So i fired the last 3 or 4 shots at the freighter, so it was sinking, and hurried down the hatch. Now I can see my enemy, an English destroyer.
I dived as far as the sea would let me. All of 32 meters... went silent and slowly crept away while shells were raining on the surface.
At this stage it was getting pretty tense and time compressing was out of the question.
So I cept on creeping along the sea bed at a whopping 1kts for a little while, before I realized I might just be screwed on this one.
My sound guy reports 3 more destoyers heading to join the hunt.
As they pack up, I can see that they havent found me, and are circling the wrong area. Just a few hundred meters to my south.
Very pleased, and still very nervous, I continue my stealthy voyage by hiding in the wake of a convoy, finally after, literally hours, I came out the other side. Unscathed. :rock:

I looked at the time, and it was way too late. I think I spent maybe 2 1/2 hours getting through the Dover Straights.
And all because of my lust for a little tonnage. My difficulty is at 25%, which I thought was ok for a total newbie.
I play with limited ammo, fuel, batteries, oxygen, Co2, and all that.
But torping, navigation, listening and such is still a bit above my level.

From this experience, I'm sold.
This is a fantastic game. And I haven't even started with the mods yet.

See y'all! Have fun.

Welcome Aboard Kaleuns :salute:

Thank you all for the welcome and thank you DarkWraith for starting me off with this one.
there are bound to be lots of threads on suitable upgrades and patches so I will start my search. I don't want to make my game unstable though...

Woah there! What the hell is a 'hex editor'? Can't I just download a patch and save it to the file or run it? This seems way beyond me.

If I can't figure this out I am stuck with a game that is, in effect, useless. Seriously thinking of going back to III...

Look at bottom of post #1 of the thread I gave you a link to. There is a link to the patcher app that allows you to enable patches via mouse clicks. Couldn't be easier.

Hello DarkWraith, I appreciate your patience on this. I have downloaded the patcher (I think that is the one I need). I am not savy on this type of thing.

I then looked at this thread for help as I only see a white window when I open
the patcher.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...39&postcount=1

Unfortunately all of the pics describing how to do it are no longer shown...:cry:

So as to not get off the topic of this thread can you move any further comments to the thread I gave you a link to? :yep: Post a new reply in it and I'll respond back :up:

Oooops! Sorry...:oops:

What the heck?
 

I haven't logged in January and it says I have exceeded my downloads. What gives?

Hola
 

Hola, soy Guillermo de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
No hablo mucho ingles; así que disculpen lo breve de mi presentación.

Saludos y hasta pronto.

http://i394.photobucket.com/albums/p...RetratoP02.jpg

Hola :DL Guillermo, Bienvenido a SUBSIM :salute: este forum es el mejor recurso para mejorar el Silent Hunter 5, hasta la vista :yeah:

Welcome to you both :sunny:

hi all
 

Hi all , i'm french (sorry for my english :down:)
my name is M'heidi,i from Nice in France i'v 32y ,and i play sh2/3 long years ago, and now i play sh4/5.
really nice forum ! there is a lot of expert modding here ;) :up:
Thanx for all

Hi, and a big hello from Oz :Kaleun_Salute:

Just thought I would say hi, normally an mmorpg player but waiting for a complete wwii naval game I wonder if it will ever happen.

Until then SH5 seems pretty good for getting in some sea-faring in the warm and dry :)

Welcome to you all :sunny:

hey people decided to come here to try and get sh5 slightly more interesting since for some reason 2 torps on a tanker barely even gives it damage lol