New newbie with some questions

[quitefrankly]

Hello everyone, I just registered here, hoping to get some help from you all. I have some very newbyish questions, but I couldn't find answers to them anywhere. I should mention, I really know nothing about this game. Ok, heres the questions

1) Sometimes when I set off on a mission, (about 90% of the time actually), the crew on my sub are constantly reading out numbers... It seems to be like they are just reading numbers randomly. A few times, it seems to be ok, and they only speak when I issue a command, or when a ship/plane is spotted etc. So sometimes its great, because nobody is talking apart from "ship spotted at 33 degrees" (or whatever). But most of the time... all I hear the WHOLE time, is "21, 44, 66, 325, 3 , 54 3 5 3 2 4 5 3 2 , 4 53 2 , 4 5 , 3 2 4 5 , 3 2 4 5 , 2 3 , 5 3 2 , 5 4 2 , 3 4 5 3 , 2 4 5 2 3 4 5 2 3 5 , 2 3 4 5 , 23".... :p Just an endless stream of numbers basically. They still say normal things when I issue a command, but the constant stream of numbers is maddening. Anyone know why that is happening?


2) I did the sub school, and then moved on to the Campaign. I LOVED this game at first, but now I am really starting to worry The first mission said, "Disrupt Merchant Shipping". So I gleefully sailed out to the location and blew up a bunch of merchant ships. The second mission said, "Disrupt Merchant Shipping", so hmm... I did it again, which was ok I suppose. The third mission said.... "Disrupt Merchant Shipping" I did it YET again, and it was really starting to get boring. Then guess what? The forth mission said! "Disrupt Merchant Shipping". This is just ridiculous, and I was convinced either I was doing something wrong, or the game was bugged. But then the 5th mission came along, and happily! It said, "Photograph the x Harbor", so I sailed off and photographed all the ships. But then... the next mission asked me to do the exact same thing in the exact same harbor! I did it again grudgingly, and then the NEXT mission has just asked me to do the exact same thing again So I just quit the game and now I'm wondering if I will ever find the motivation to go back and play it

Is this normal? Am I doing something wrong? Is the game bugged? (- I should mention, I never return home until it says "Mission Completed" in my log book. And when I get back to the base, I click on end patrol, and I get the misson success debrief screen. But it still seems to give me the same missions over and over atleast 2 - 3 times before it goes on to the next mission. Its so boring



3) How are you meant to act on the missions? Do I just go straight to the objective and complete it and sail back, and kill any stuff that gets in my way? Or are we meant to do the objective AND go hunting all over the world on each mission? Its just that while im sailing towards my objective, I often hear things on the radio saying things like, "Burma" (or somewhere), is being invaded, please help out. But that places is about 20 thousand miles away, so do I just ignore those messages or do I go out of my way? And lastly, do the missions ever get any more exciting? Do I stay in the same bit of ocean forever, doing the same kinds of missions over and over? ALSO:

4) There is a "Transfer" button on the telephone in my barracks room or whatever. When/why do people transfer? Do I do it whenever I get bored of this part of the world? Or does it reset my career? Do I get different missions in a new part of the world?

5) The planes I shoot down, don't seem to show up in the damage/score at the end of a mission. Does that mean its best to just try to ignore/avoid the planes whenever you come across them on a mission?

6) How do you know who was injured during a mission? I get a bunch of medals to hand out to injured crew members after a successful mission, but I don't know who to give them to. I'm also not sure who I should promote and why.


Thanks in advance guys. Sorry if these have been answered before, I did search but didn't find anything.