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howzz1854 · 12-21-09, 04:52 AM

sorry i just had to vent back there.

i was so mad that my wife didn't know what the helll i was banging the table for. i had to explain to her the previous 8 hours of my life were pretty much meaningless.

to answer all your questions,

it's version 1.5 German u-boat missions. the game wasn't modded. this also wasn't the first time playing this game. I actually been away for about year and half two years now, and the other day i decided to pay it a visit again. it's been so long i almost forgot just how buggy this game is. now that i come to think of it, i think the last time i quit this game was also because it crashing on a long mission.

i notice that those save game crashes do seem to happen more likely when you prolong your mission, ie. doing multiple objectives, resending messages and receiving more objectives, and refitting the ship and travel far. basically to my observation, i think somehow dragging a mission on long seem to likely cause the save games to crash.

I have since restarted the campaign, i was looking around this forum and found some cool mods that i wanted to add but couldn't last night because i already started the campagin, now i actually could. for one ever since i played SH3 couple years back, i missed the wonderful detailed uniform/medal mod, and the entire realistic grey wolf expansion mod. so today i managed to install RUIM uniform mod along with the DAS BOOTS mod.

i just hope those save game crash don't creep up again, although somehow i get the feeling that it will. I"ll have to try to keep my patrols short from now on, even tho sometimes it's hard NOT to kill everything that's in your way and be tempted to refit and kill some more.

does anyone know which mod i can get to potentially patch up those instability? if there is any mods for that?

oh and, does anyone know how the game system rewards the medals? it seems rather random that sometimes i get a Iron cross for doing very little while other times i would sink like 36000 tons in one patrol and receive nothing. is there a particular step i have to follow in order to receive the medals? i am a huge fan of WWII NAZI stories (not a political fanatic, just fascinated by history around that time) and i love those fancy Iron cross/knights cross. back in SH3 i earned all the way up to Knights cross with oak leaf diamond sword.

thanks for all your patience, i could tell i am not alone.

12-21-09, 04:52 AM	#5
howzz1854 Swabbie Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 12 Downloads: 7 Uploads: 0	sorry i just had to vent back there. i was so mad that my wife didn't know what the helll i was banging the table for. i had to explain to her the previous 8 hours of my life were pretty much meaningless. to answer all your questions, it's version 1.5 German u-boat missions. the game wasn't modded. this also wasn't the first time playing this game. I actually been away for about year and half two years now, and the other day i decided to pay it a visit again. it's been so long i almost forgot just how buggy this game is. now that i come to think of it, i think the last time i quit this game was also because it crashing on a long mission. i notice that those save game crashes do seem to happen more likely when you prolong your mission, ie. doing multiple objectives, resending messages and receiving more objectives, and refitting the ship and travel far. basically to my observation, i think somehow dragging a mission on long seem to likely cause the save games to crash. I have since restarted the campaign, i was looking around this forum and found some cool mods that i wanted to add but couldn't last night because i already started the campagin, now i actually could. for one ever since i played SH3 couple years back, i missed the wonderful detailed uniform/medal mod, and the entire realistic grey wolf expansion mod. so today i managed to install RUIM uniform mod along with the DAS BOOTS mod. i just hope those save game crash don't creep up again, although somehow i get the feeling that it will. I"ll have to try to keep my patrols short from now on, even tho sometimes it's hard NOT to kill everything that's in your way and be tempted to refit and kill some more. does anyone know which mod i can get to potentially patch up those instability? if there is any mods for that? oh and, does anyone know how the game system rewards the medals? it seems rather random that sometimes i get a Iron cross for doing very little while other times i would sink like 36000 tons in one patrol and receive nothing. is there a particular step i have to follow in order to receive the medals? i am a huge fan of WWII NAZI stories (not a political fanatic, just fascinated by history around that time) and i love those fancy Iron cross/knights cross. back in SH3 i earned all the way up to Knights cross with oak leaf diamond sword. thanks for all your patience, i could tell i am not alone.