Playing campaign first-time with no external view.
 

Call me a slow starter.
This is the first-time i have ever tried playing without world view. I always use to play with external view enabled so i can view my sub, but what a whole new gaming experience when playing with external view turned off! The WOW factor has tripled. Also makes recognising targets way harder, no press the (.) key to go view what type of ship is it, or no fly view to find that convoy you lost in heavy weather.

Cruising along in a IIA (nov 1939) i decide to enter the scarpa flow, just to test out my first terrifying depth charge experience. The british were happy to help. What a hell of a patrol, getting depth charged late at night with only your sonar man able to tell you whats out there no switching to external to see whether the destroyers are near or far. The tension is amazing.

Did i make it out? no i ended up grounded! Hans ( i blame Hans) yelled out in a panic 'Crash dive' and we hit the bottom hard. while repairing a escort came round we could hear him circling, all eyes watched the ceiling of our sub, swoosh, **** hes dropped them, are they too close, should i move at silent running. Well no need to ponder on what i should do next cos i got greeted with a end career screen.

But im playing with no external view for the rest of the war.

It does make for a different experience. I keep going back and forth (one session with, one session without). When I am using it I usually only look at other ships in my home base, or watch my sub surface and dive.

But you're right-without it the experience is much more confusing...and terrifying.

Re: Playing campaign first-time with no external view.
 

Swoosh, poo poo?!?! What kind of depthcharges are those? :o
"Kaleun, we´re covered in...poo... :doh:

When you type a swear word subsim changes it, Hence Poo Poo. :rotfl: Swoosh, dont you hear that, i always hear a swoosh swoosh about 3 times when depth charges are dropped. I have Surround 7.1 sound.

I use the external view quite often. I just like to watch my boat on a long patrols.

As I`m in WaW now, I try to start keeping the external view off in my other careers as well.

OT: I`m starting my 2nd TCx1 patrol in a few minutes! Last time I sailed for three hours, got bored and hit the TC button to 128. :rotfl:

HAHAHA :rotfl:

I only sail without TC when im sleeping. Turn up the sound and make sure you have a good watch crew on deck. If they see anything they know how to wake me up. "GERMAN WORDS GERMAN WORDS!"

Re: Playing campaign first-time with no external view.
 

Ah, I always blame Hans as well! :yep: :smug:
:rotfl:

Still have to give that a shot, playing without outside view, just afraid I might get claustrophobic (sp?) :lol:

:rotfl: :rotfl: Yup i lasted three weeks in 1x mode, gave up cos i took a liking to drinking lots of beer :rock:

I play WAW as well, but im waiting for my flottila, i completed the training mission wrote out my KTB and now await further orders, its been nearly two weeks now.

If BDU dont hurry up and give me and my crew a flottila, my crew will never want to leave that brothel!

One thing i had to get use to fast, when your watch crew site a ship, theres no more pressing the (.) key to take a sneaky look at whether its a enemy, you really have to hunt it down first.

All i need now is that DAS BOOT music playing when im off to chase a target. When in Das boot they chase the convoy in rough seas and theres that edge you on music playing in the background.

Re: Playing campaign first-time with no external view.
 

Are you at least using the event camera? I just can't get myself to disable the external view. I feel like I'm missing too much....

No, no cameras. i turned off the event camera ages ago cos it use to slow down my computer :rotfl: so she had to go. Yeah your like me at first i found it hard not having any external views, i just about went out of the game and changed it back to enable external view, but im glad i didn't. the first patrol was weird, every time ship was spotted i would press the (.) and nothing happened! Depth charging is even more terrifiying, you simply dont know where that damn destroyer is, it all comes down to your sonar man. My sonar man will probably get a medal after every patrol. Hes more important than ever before.

Just gave me an idea. I am in the process of disableing the "GoBack" function and hotkeys for all stations - except for things like "GoBack" from the navmap to the navigator view, etc. - to force myself to actually run through the sub instead of warping. If I disable the external views as well......wouldn't THAT be interesting? :hmm:

As much as I hate to admit it(cause I do so love the external camera), I may have to start a new carreer to at least try it.....

Good idea :up:

I have disabled the following using a text i found here.
Although i feel its still not enough. Any others you know off?

1) Open commands_en.cfg in your data/cfg folder with notepad or whatever.

2) Find this block:

Quote:

[Cmd16]
Name=Periscope_camera
Ctxt=1
MnID=0x3F020003
Key0=0x72,,"F3"
Page=0x26000000,3702
GoBack=Conning_tower_periscope


just delete the Key0- line:
Key0=0x72,,"F3"

so that it looks so:

Quote:

[Cmd16]
Name=Periscope_camera
Ctxt=1
MnID=0x3F020003
Page=0x26000000,3702
GoBack=Conning_tower_periscope


4. find this block:

Quote:

[Cmd17]
Name=UZO_camera
Ctxt=1
Key0=0x55,,"U"
Page=0x28000000,3718
GoBack=Conning_deck_camera


just delete the line: Key0=0x55,,"U"

To delete the Key for Observation periscope, find and delete the line with Key0=0x4f,,"O"

Quote:

[Cmd58]
Name=Obs_periscope_camera
Ctxt=1
Key0=0x4f,,"O"
Page=0x2B000000,3727


Save and exit, and et voila! Now you have more key shortcuts to the scopes.

But there's one extra temptation we have to get rid of... that's the shortcut buttons on the shortcutbar.

1. Open menu_1024_768.ini in the data/Menu Folder! (Save it first)

2. Find these Line with the CTRL+F Searchfunction in Editor:
[G3F I31]

You will see the complete Block:

Quote:

[G3F I31]
Name=&Periscope
Type=1032;Button
ItemID=0x3F020003
ParentID=0x3F020000
Pos=1,-44,40,41
Materials=4
Display=0;No stretch
Mat 0=data/menu/gui/layout/Shortcuts.tga
Crop 0=0.0078125,0.169922,1,1
Mat 1=data/menu/gui/layout/Shortcuts.tga
Crop 1=0.0078125,0.169922,1,1
Mat 2=data/menu/gui/layout/Shortcuts.tga
Crop 2=0.0078125,0.169922,1,1
Mat 3=data/menu/gui/layout/Shortcuts.tga
Crop 3=0.0078125,0.169922,1,1
MatFlags=0x1
TexFmt=0x9
Font=1
TextFlags=0x0
StatesColors=0xB0B0B0FF, 0xFF, 0xFFFFFFFF, 0xFFFFFFFF
ToolTipText=2712


3. For deactivating/deleting the Shortcut, just set the semicolon (
before this line in the Block:
;Pos=1,-44,40,41

The semicolon will delete the button from the view and so you can't click on it no more.

Now you won't see the Icons for Bridgeview and UZOview anymore!

Actually, I find it easier to remove it from the commands.cfg file. You just find the correct block,

[Cmd16]
Name=Periscope_camera
Ctxt=1
MnID=0x3F020003
Key0=0x72,,"F3"
Page=0x26000000,3702
GoBack=Conning_tower_periscope

and remove the "MnID=0x3F020003" line. The icon will still show up, but I understand the commands.cfg file more than the menu.ini file.

Let's see, I'm removing ALL hotkeys for anything that I can access with the mouse - F2-F12, Hydrophone, radio, Launch torp(maybe), dive, surface, rudder(The new IuB adds these to the crew), etc...

Things like radio messages you have to use the ketboard for, I believe. The only problem with this is the observation scope resides in diferent places for different subs. With one sub, it's in the aft compartment, with another, it's in the conning tower. Also, Is there any way to access the deckgun or flak guns without using the keyboard or menu?