What's with the scream?

andylegate · 10-11-07, 02:31 PM

Following Kpt. Lehman's advice, I finally got around to loading up the German sound file. It's fun! I don't speak German, but after living overseas when I was a kid and a teen, I love to listen to languages other than my own. I can even understand some of the German!

Well, there I was, trying out the Type XXI mod, just to see what this type of sub can do (I'm impressed with a lot of it, but I can see where early on, things would get too easy).

Now one of my cats was laying on the computer desk, right by my sub-woofer. She was sound asleep. Normally if I get on the deck gun, it jerks her awake, but she's normally like: Yawn, oh he's doing that thing again and goes back to sleep.

I wanted to see how well this Type XXI could crash dive, so I hit the "C" key.

Good Lord!!!!!

My cat literally lept from where she was to my shoulder, her claws painfully sinking in far enough to draw blood! I had also jerked back from the computer! I thought I had just killed someone!

Took about 30 minutes to calm the cat (and my) nerves down again! Sheesh!

Steel_Tomb · 10-11-07, 02:36 PM

ALLLLLAAAARRRRM!!!! Flugzeug!

...to be fair...if you suddenly saw a mosquito fly out of a cloud firing rockets at you, I think you would scream ALLLLAAAARRRM! Instead of "Oh gosh, not another of those bloody things...down we go lads.":rotfl::p

Penelope_Grey · 10-11-07, 02:38 PM

Ha ha !!!

Fantastiche!!:rotfl:

NiclDoe · 10-11-07, 02:39 PM

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: WOW thats funny!. i wish i could see this.

Huskalar · 10-11-07, 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by andylegate

Good Lord!!!!!

My cat literally lept from where she was to my shoulder, her claws painfully sinking in far enough to draw blood! I had also jerked back from the computer! I thought I had just killed someone!

Took about 30 minutes to calm the cat (and my) nerves down again! Sheesh!

:rotfl: :rotfl:

Brag · 10-11-07, 02:44 PM

That cat won't be left behind when you crash dive! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Biggles · 10-11-07, 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Brag

That cat won't be left behind when you crash dive! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

not on my watch no. No one left behind, cat or man!

Lafferty · 10-11-07, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Biggles

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Originally Posted by Brag

That cat won't be left behind when you crash dive! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

not on my watch no. No one left behind, cat or man!

LOL

Kaleu. Jochen Mohr · 10-11-07, 04:18 PM

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
my cat dosnt do that. she just sleeps on my lap when im at my computer.
when im in my bed she crawls under the blaket (spelling ?) and sleeps next to me...
she's a uber lazy cat

but she's so cute when she sleeps so i dont blame her for it :p

Capt. Shark Bait · 10-11-07, 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Huskalar

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Originally Posted by andylegate

Good Lord!!!!!

My cat literally lept from where she was to my shoulder, her claws painfully sinking in far enough to draw blood! I had also jerked back from the computer! I thought I had just killed someone!

Took about 30 minutes to calm the cat (and my) nerves down again! Sheesh!

:rotfl: :rotfl:

i'll see your :rotfl: :rotfl: and raise you :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: more. i can picture the cat doin that

GoldenRivet · 10-11-07, 07:33 PM

Picture this.

Exclaiming "Alarm" from the watch deck is the crew's signal to get the boat under as quickly as possible or we are all dead. period.

So there you are standing on the watch deck and you see the sunlight glint on the canopy of a Mosquito bomber rolling over in a split S maneuver to dive in and fire it's wing mounted HVAR rockets into your sub.

ONE HVAR rocket is enough to seriously criple your submarine to the point that it either cannot dive at all, or it dives uncontrollably.

Seeing this sunlight glare overhead you and your crew now have about 25 seconds to complete the following

1. Relay the ahead flank order to the engine room
2. Set the stern planes to maximum dive angle
3. Set the bow planes to maximum dive angle
4. Open the main tank vents to full open
5. secure all compartments
6. ready the electric motors
7. all non-essential personnell must run at full tilt for the forward most compartment to put all dead weight in the front of the U-boat to pull the bow down into the water as quickly as possible.
8. Clear all 5 or 6 men from the watch tower
9. close and lock the water tight watch tower hatch

by the time you have completed all of these tasks you have managed to submerge to about 10 meters depth

now your forward momentum is slowed, reducing the dive speed as the diesel motors stop. now is the time to engage the electric motors and shove them to flank speed to compelte the dive process to 70 meters as quickly as possible.

by now the mosquito bomber pilot closing in on you at over 200 knots has launched all 6 of his HVAR rockets at your submarine which he can still clearly see beneath the water at it's current depth.

you have literally only a few seconds remaining to escape disaster.

as you clear 25 meters, the ocean above you is blasted into a frenzy of explosions as your boat rocks violently, the lights fuse and the interior of the u-boat falls completely dark.

Men scramble to re-fuse the lights in pitch black as the beam of flashlights scan the command room passing through showers of salt spray.

with a few minor repairs your boat will be fit for combat again.

you have escaped death by a very narrow margin.

all because a young saior peaked his head down the hatch and exclaimed

ALLAAAAAAAAARRRRRRMMMMMM!!!!!!

Hanomag · 10-11-07, 08:18 PM

Too bad we cant get the alarm scream before we hit C...

Would increase the oh sh%$ factor 100% not too mention heart failure...

GoldenRivet · 10-11-07, 09:22 PM

would have been a nice feature to set the default action for aircraft spotted or warship spotted to "crash dive"

that way it would be more real life as if a watch crew member announced the crash dive as was usually the case.

the only problem is... it is not always advantageous from a tactical standpoint to resort to a crash dive as the default action... unless you could set the default action to crash dive whenever a plane was spotted.

TarJak · 10-11-07, 09:27 PM

GR you beat me to it. Pretty much what he said ^^^^^^

Although making the aircraft default into CD would make for very interesting home port departures when the Luftwaffe do a fly over! There are not too many harbours deep enough to cope with crash dives.

GoldenRivet · 10-11-07, 09:32 PM

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Originally Posted by TarJak

GR you beat me to it. Pretty much what he said ^^^^^^

Although making the aircraft default into CD would make for very interesting home port departures when the Luftwaffe do a fly over! There are not too many harbours deep enough to cope with crash dives.

true... but does the option menu pop up when friendly aircraft are sighted?

10-11-07, 02:31 PM	#1
andylegate Medic Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: SC, USA Posts: 168 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	What's with the scream? Following Kpt. Lehman's advice, I finally got around to loading up the German sound file. It's fun! I don't speak German, but after living overseas when I was a kid and a teen, I love to listen to languages other than my own. I can even understand some of the German! Well, there I was, trying out the Type XXI mod, just to see what this type of sub can do (I'm impressed with a lot of it, but I can see where early on, things would get too easy). Now one of my cats was laying on the computer desk, right by my sub-woofer. She was sound asleep. Normally if I get on the deck gun, it jerks her awake, but she's normally like: Yawn, oh he's doing that thing again and goes back to sleep. I wanted to see how well this Type XXI could crash dive, so I hit the "C" key. Good Lord!!!!! My cat literally lept from where she was to my shoulder, her claws painfully sinking in far enough to draw blood! I had also jerked back from the computer! I thought I had just killed someone! Took about 30 minutes to calm the cat (and my) nerves down again! Sheesh! __________________ My Real Life Navy Brag Page Below http://www1.freewebs.com/andylegate/

10-11-07, 02:36 PM	#2
Steel_Tomb Ace of the Deep Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Cambridgeshire - UK Posts: 1,128 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	ALLLLLAAAARRRRM!!!! Flugzeug! ...to be fair...if you suddenly saw a mosquito fly out of a cloud firing rockets at you, I think you would scream ALLLLAAAARRRM! Instead of "Oh gosh, not another of those bloody things...down we go lads.":rotfl::p __________________ _______________________________________________ System Spec: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4Ghz \| 4Gb Corsair XMS2 Dominator DDR2 PC-2 6400 RAM \| XFX GeForce 8800GTS 640mb PCI-E \| Creative X-fi sound card \| 250Gb HDD \| *Rest In Peace Dave, you will be missed.*

10-11-07, 02:38 PM	#3
Penelope_Grey Sea Lord Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: UK Posts: 1,893 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Ha ha !!! Fantastiche!!:rotfl: __________________ I SURVIVED THE FIRST EVER SUBSIM WEREWOLF HUNT - and... I actually won the game for the humans too!

10-11-07, 02:39 PM	#4
NiclDoe Grey Wolf Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: In the Air or hiding from Black Swans Posts: 760 Downloads: 6 Uploads: 0	:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: WOW thats funny!. i wish i could see this. __________________ The Crazy Wolf

10-11-07, 02:44 PM	#6
Brag Navy Seal Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Docked on a Russian pond Posts: 7,072 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	That cat won't be left behind when you crash dive! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: __________________ Espionage, adventure, suspense, are just a click away Click here to look inside Brag's book: Amazon.com: Kingmaker: Alexey Braguine: Books Order Kingmaker here: http://www.subsim.com/store.html For Tactics visit:http://www.freewebs.com/kielman/

10-11-07, 04:18 PM	#9
Kaleu. Jochen Mohr Ocean Warrior Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: in my sub Posts: 2,741 Downloads: 47 Uploads: 0	:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: my cat dosnt do that. she just sleeps on my lap when im at my computer. when im in my bed she crawls under the blaket (spelling ?) and sleeps next to me... she's a uber lazy cat but she's so cute when she sleeps so i dont blame her for it :p __________________ Gruß

10-11-07, 07:33 PM	#11
GoldenRivet Subsim Aviator Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 8,726 Downloads: 146 Uploads: 0	Picture this. Exclaiming "Alarm" from the watch deck is the crew's signal to get the boat under as quickly as possible or we are all dead. period. So there you are standing on the watch deck and you see the sunlight glint on the canopy of a Mosquito bomber rolling over in a split S maneuver to dive in and fire it's wing mounted HVAR rockets into your sub. ONE HVAR rocket is enough to seriously criple your submarine to the point that it either cannot dive at all, or it dives uncontrollably. Seeing this sunlight glare overhead you and your crew now have about 25 seconds to complete the following 1. Relay the ahead flank order to the engine room 2. Set the stern planes to maximum dive angle 3. Set the bow planes to maximum dive angle 4. Open the main tank vents to full open 5. secure all compartments 6. ready the electric motors 7. all non-essential personnell must run at full tilt for the forward most compartment to put all dead weight in the front of the U-boat to pull the bow down into the water as quickly as possible. 8. Clear all 5 or 6 men from the watch tower 9. close and lock the water tight watch tower hatch by the time you have completed all of these tasks you have managed to submerge to about 10 meters depth now your forward momentum is slowed, reducing the dive speed as the diesel motors stop. now is the time to engage the electric motors and shove them to flank speed to compelte the dive process to 70 meters as quickly as possible. by now the mosquito bomber pilot closing in on you at over 200 knots has launched all 6 of his HVAR rockets at your submarine which he can still clearly see beneath the water at it's current depth. you have literally only a few seconds remaining to escape disaster. as you clear 25 meters, the ocean above you is blasted into a frenzy of explosions as your boat rocks violently, the lights fuse and the interior of the u-boat falls completely dark. Men scramble to re-fuse the lights in pitch black as the beam of flashlights scan the command room passing through showers of salt spray. with a few minor repairs your boat will be fit for combat again. you have escaped death by a very narrow margin. all because a young saior peaked his head down the hatch and exclaimed ALLAAAAAAAAARRRRRRMMMMMM!!!!!! __________________

10-11-07, 08:18 PM	#12
Hanomag Grey Wolf Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: LI NY Posts: 964 Downloads: 13 Uploads: 0	Too bad we cant get the alarm scream before we hit C... Would increase the oh sh%$ factor 100% not too mention heart failure... __________________ "Only if I can save first..."

10-11-07, 09:22 PM	#13
GoldenRivet Subsim Aviator Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 8,726 Downloads: 146 Uploads: 0	would have been a nice feature to set the default action for aircraft spotted or warship spotted to "crash dive" that way it would be more real life as if a watch crew member announced the crash dive as was usually the case. the only problem is... it is not always advantageous from a tactical standpoint to resort to a crash dive as the default action... unless you could set the default action to crash dive whenever a plane was spotted. __________________

10-11-07, 09:27 PM	#14
TarJak Fleet Admiral Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 17,052 Downloads: 150 Uploads: 8	GR you beat me to it. Pretty much what he said ^^^^^^ Although making the aircraft default into CD would make for very interesting home port departures when the Luftwaffe do a fly over! There are not too many harbours deep enough to cope with crash dives.