Epic Fail!
 

So, it was patrol #17, the first patrol I had with the GWX mod installed, I set to all ahead one-third, and proceeded to plot out my course.

Overwhelmed with all the new features, and the fact I wasn't the only one in port anymore (more ships sailing around me? Awesome!) I used the external view cam to see all the ships and stuff.

Me: This is incredible, Look they even got swastikas on them!
W.O.: Please don't embarrass yourself again Captain, remember the light-boat incident?

Anyway this went on for a good 5 minutes, until my crew started complaining about how we were taking damage, and there was this horrible grinding noise, so i looked back at my ship

and this is what i saw.

http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/1193/failiv.jpg

It turns out the navigator won't use the course you plotted without you telling him "return to course."

Who knew? :doh:

:har::up:

To which you no doubt replied:

"If you don't like the way I drive, stay off the beach!" :haha:

Lol right! And who knows, after a few more attempts I might be driving the world's first land-based submarine.:know:

:haha::har:

Well at least BDU wasn't dumb enough to give you a brand new uboat. This one looks like it has been through a lot already, or is it from the light-boat incident?

:rotfl2:

Oh I have so totally been there and done that. This is why I always start out of Wilhelmshaven, I ran aground so many times trying to get out of the Baltic into the North Sea that Denmark finally took out a restraining order.

Another little thing you might want to know about plotting courses, if you haven't discovered it already... you want to zoom in REALLY close on the map when you do it if you are plotting a course near land.

Turns out a lot of those "straight" shorelines at low magnification get really "jagged" up close, with lots of little bits that stick out into the water. I plotted a course right over top of one of the little jagged spits of land and didn't realize it until the crew starting screaming about all the damage we were taking. :haha:

To: Kaluen Howard
From: BDU
re: New U-boat

Your new expiremental U-boat has arrived, U-Deep 6. PLease feel free to pick it up ASAP.

Attached is a picture for identification.

http://images.somethingawful.com/ins...screendoor.jpg

Cool...

Screen doors to keep the fish out!! :rotfl2:

But, at least you left Bernard to clean up the mess.

In SH2 it was worse. I once accidentally overshot a waypoint at high TC and died several thousand feet up a mountainside.

ScreenShot!

It was eight years ago! Either take my word for it or take a hike! :O:

Do it again!

How 'bout I send you a copy of SH2 so you can load up the world's worst subsim and hope that sooner or later it will happen to you?

:O::O::O::O::O: