SH4 rocks with RFB 2!
 

I just loaded everything up again, with the Uboat missions and RFB 2 and I have to say I'm glad I have this sim, and that I can play when I want :)!

The graphics are great and it has all the features you would expect in a sim.

Although you don't have the full walkthrough experience, you can move around enough in the various stations to explore parts of the ship enough to see all the gauges and so on. It has the best balance of simulation, imersion and gameplay imho out of all the SH series. I loved SHIII but it's looking a bit old now.

I'm looking forward to playing a whole campaign again!

I just installed RFB2 and have started a new career. Although my heart belongs to SH3, I am determined to give SH4 a good run. I am still not crazy about the interface for manual targeting, but it is a fun game. :yeah:

Wow, I'm about 180% in the other direction. I love the fleet boat TDC, especially the PK. I love the fact that I can set up a solution, turn on PK and continually check my inputs through sonar pings.

+1 :)

:) .

I have also just recently started playing SH4 v1.5 with RFB 2.0 and RSRDC. Played SH3 with Grey Wolves a fair amount over the last couple of years and really enjoyed the experience...both with 100% realism and DID.

It's a little too early to say which I like the best, but the SH4 experience really is great! I wanted to try the PTO with a US boat...go through the learning curve as a rookie skipper starting from scratch again...also wanted to experience some of the nuiances of sub warfare vs. Japan and with another mega mod.

A couple of years down the road I'll probably think about SH5... after the bugs are squashed and the talented mod community is allowed to work their magic!:yeah:.

I've by passed (so far) the experience of using the PK to update target solutions...constant bearing approach is my tactic of choice early on in my PTO career.

Agree with you about SH4. There's a good five years left in that game. As for SH5, while wait and see...

I haven't used manual target in this game for ages. I hope I can remember how you do it. I remember having problems setting and resetting gyro angles.

Another one here returning to SH4 after a year or so away. I was excited when I heard about SH5's release, but I backed off as soon as I heard about the double whammy of DRM/constant connection and the drastic changes to the UI. I'll wait six months and see what patches and mods are out for SH5 before getting it. As I recall, it took almost a year before SH4 was patched and modded into a respectable sim. I'm not sure my current computer can handle it anyway. I was going to upgrade just for that game, now I can put it off for a while.

So, back to the Pacific! My last outing was over a year ago with version 1.4 and whatever Trigger Maru version was out a year or so ago (with some edits to slightly dumb down the DD hyper awareness). So I bought the 1.5 expansion, and this time I thought I'd try RFB with the RSRD campaign overlay. I like the balance in RFB, it seems just about right to me. I did my first patrol with auto targeting, so I could remember how all the other stuff worked in the game. Next patrol I might try manual, not sure yet. I was good at position plotting for the approach, but not so good at final shooting with manual targeting, last time I tried it.

The RSRD campaign takes some getting used to, compared to the stock game. I'm still trying to get a feel for where the active shipping lanes are, aside from programmed (historical) task force movements. Anyway, I'm having fun, it's good to be back.

RFB 2 together with RSRD rocks ! After my first career in a Fleetboat i´ll try OM with Uboatmissions.

Me too. All the talk about SH5 got me hooked up again :DL

You guys are in for a lot more "fun" when the next patch is released. :D

Hint: it has to do with the Mark 14's reliability. :damn:

Yeah... let me tell you about the fun I had tonight!

I spent hours tracking and positioning myself to take down a task force. I spent more hours evading the escorts after severely damaging a cruiser. Then I surfaced and raced ahead of the damaged cruiser (who had been left behind by his comrades) only to place myself in the perfect position. Yay I'm about to watch my first ship of the patrol explode and sink right?

Wrong. I launch 3 torps and one of them runs in a circle and kills me. :damn:

**** you Mark 14's.

(I do love RFB but I'm still pissed right now.)

I've had my very first circular run a couple of nights ago too. It missed my CT by few feet, luckily I was submerged for the attack. :) Shame we can't have some kind of warning by sonar guy to tell us 'running hot straight and normal', or 'circular run'...

Looking forward to the next patch. :up:

Malakar Straights - hunting my 5th tanker of the patrol.

Quarter moon, partly cloudy skys, flat calm, no wind, tanker 1100 yards.

Fired tubes one and two - Torpedo is a dud sir!

Fired three and four - Torpedo is a dud sir! :damn:

Pack up and ahead back to port kicking dents in the desk - thank you RFB you make this game:salute:


And
Thought things were going to well :DL