Silent Hunter 3 Real Time Stream
 

Hey there everyone, I've mostly lurked here and had my mind blown by the great things you all do for the Silent Hunter community, with amazing mods and giving support and advice on how to play the game. Sometime about a year ago, I started streaming a real time playthrough of Silent Hunter 3 on the Something Awful forums exclusively. That's 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It's some of the most fun I've had with Silent Hunter, rushing down after being woken up by a flurry of Skype alerts telling me that a warship was spotted.

We've had many adventures, such as fighting a Danish warship off the English coast.

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We've taken out a decent number of ships over our time, but my torpedo skills are poor and night assaults on ports are hard. We're onto our fourth U-boat now, one dying to Alt-F4, another dying during a port attack and one going down in my sleep.
So, I've decided to also post a link to the stream here on these forums, and I appreciate any advice you could give on things such as notifications from the game and any remote control for when I'm away.

www.hitbox.tv/herpicleomnicron5

You're a funny guy ! Is your game really running when you're sleeping ?

Welcome to the forum as a non-lurker :arrgh!:

Yes, it's running for the entire length of the patrol, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. I'm running GWX. Just this morning, around 5 AM GMT, 9 AM in game off the coast of Portugal I missed a contact because I was still in bed and I'd muted my phone's notifications, so even though somebody did warn me it just sailed straight by.

Thanks for the welcome, I look forward to posting even more here!

Welcome aboard!
 

That's awesome. I've been playing real time a lot lately while working from home (which provides a nice diversion from work every now and then and makes me take a break which I might forget to do otherwise). I left it on overnight a few times, on occasion being awaken by Schiff gesichtet, I like to play dead is dead so I don't have the confidence to leave it going, plus the first time the GF was woken up by a call out in German, she was like WTF is that? :har:

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Oh that's just hilarious! I'm not playing with permadeath, because I want to see this through to the end of the war. Hopefully if enough people watch then I won't have to worry about the electricity bills killing me before the RN do.

Welcome to SubSim Herpicle :sunny:

Is there an application that tracks the message prompt in SH3 and delivers it to a smart phone?

No, I just rely on other people to message me when something's spotted, although an app like that would really be a godsend.

Haha I imagine someone with a bowl of popcorn, phone at the ready, watching your screen for hours.
I practice software development professionally and I'm always looking for random projects to play with (even if nothing comes from them). I might just take a look at setting up something that tracks the message prompt.

We're back again, after a short spell docked at the Canary Islands. Haven't patrolled around Africa before so I'm quite excited for the change in pace compared to Britain and the Med.