Hello Sniper450, this is a good thread to begin with:

SH5 Mod Guide for Beginners: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=190656

Greetings, Kaleuns! Reporting for duty after a long absence. I'm an old SHIII GWX veteran, now trying something new. Thanks to all the modders who made this game a joy to play.
:salute:

Hi all.
Finally have a PC that can handle SH5 (I hope).
Looking forward to giving it a go and trying some mods
:D

This game is awesome! I have OHII and TDW UI's on board and so far so good...only had an issue that i havent resolved selecting the coastal waters mission. No icon to select but im trying and checking other posts to see what I can find.

Welcome :sunny:

Hi I am Victor from the Netherlands, I used to play SH3 a lot, but it doesn't work anymore on my Eindows 7 system. So now I restarted the nostalgia with SH5, Great mods and great forum! Thanks! :up:

Hi im Joško from Croatia,im 21 and I played all silent hunter games starting from sh2, even tried the first one once.I really want to learn to play SH5 with 100% realism but lack of time and crashing of tutorials with mymegamod 0.5 is keeping me from realising this.Also i dont have an internet conection at home so i am not usualy active at forums of any sort...anyways i consider this forum a heaven for subsimers.Cheers to all:salute:

Good evening all.

I never knew subsim existed!

As a long time fan of Silent Hunter III I couldn't wait for SH4 to arrive.
It sucked. However I think a lot of this was down to the fact that my system was just on the parameters for running it. I gladly went back to SH3.

When I read that SH5 was coming out I was excited for the game and sad that I knew I wouldn't have a system good enough to run it.

It has only been this last week that I have finally got a computer powerful enough (way powerful infact) to run SH5 so I waded into eBay and bought myself a copy of my long awaited game.

Graphics? Blown away. Especially since my new computer can run evrything at max without issue.

Gameplay? Seems to take a little getting used to after SH III.

However I think I have a pretty raw game and I need a good few patches. For example, whin I dive after being up on deck I can still see my crew manning their stations on the deck if I look through the periscope while we are diving! Also my radio and sonar men seem unable to tell me anything at all. The frist I know of enemy ships is when they are in my binoculars.

I have looked at the glitches thread and I am a little disheartened to see it runs to over 80 pages. I haven't a clue where to look for patches and I am so late to this game I am sure I will need many of them.

To be honest I am wondering if it is all worth it and if I shouldn't just reload my beloved SH III onto my new computer and welcome back an old friend.

Or maybe I should just stick to World of Tanks...:cry:

start with this: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...39&postcount=1 :yep:

Welcome to SubSim Ragael and Mr Lucky :sunny:

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: