I just purchased SH3 and I have to say I've only made it through the first Navigation lesson and I'm LOVING this game!
LOL I feel like I'm, what 8 years behind lol!
It's great that all you good people did all the hard work, debugging, modding, etc.. for those of us coming around this late.
Anyway, the only other sub sim I played was Aces of the Deep years ago.
So, I purchased SH3 and decided to apply the Living Silent Hunter 5.1 add on. I didn't want to get crazy with add on's yet. I downloaded this as well as GWX(?) but I will try this for a while first.
Anyway I do have a couple of questions:
1) Menu music vs. Gramaphone. I downloaded a bunch of ogg files so I can have some cool old music playing, but it seems that the game menu music never stops. I enjoy listening to the menu music but I would like it to stop once I decide to play the Grammaphone. I don't understand the four symbols that show up, especially the one on the left. There is map looking thing with an arrow.. then what looks like a reverse, then stop, then forward. Where does it explain these buttons? Can I have both the Grammaphone music AND the "dramatic music" that seems to show up when I move around?
2) I'm a beginner but I always like to play sims in "realistic" mode. I decided to set everything to historical 100%, then I changed the following:
External view: I will probably turn this off sooner or later, but I just like to enjoy the cool view occasionally.
Allow assistance (or advice) for the fire control computer thingy lol.
While I enjoy entering my own values and trying to determine the AOB, range, velocity, etc.. with the LH3 addon, it seems the ID manual is a little messed up, so I need assistance ONLY with identifying ships. I will still enter data manually.
What do you think of this? I am taking the lessons now. I'm NOT concerned about having it too difficult and getting my butt handed to me, I just enjoy the simulation and I don't want to run with training wheels.
Any suggestions for a beginner other than just go practice?
