100 percent realism is a different game...

ExFishermanBob · 06-08-14, 10:39 AM

Having played for quite a while at about 84 percent, I stepped things up to 100 percent realism and realise what I was missing, with automated targetting and the like. It is a LOT scarier now, and I spend much more time on deck (if that's the expression). I don't launch torpedoes from 12Km - in fact I'm desperate to get really close as I'm now terrible at targetting (well, hitting, anyway).

I thoroughly recommend it, if you haven't tried it.

Jimbuna · 06-08-14, 10:43 AM

True that

Aktungbby · 06-08-14, 01:00 PM

YUP! nothing fancy; get close; mind the eel arming distance-300 meters; fill the scope; lead slightly... und LOS BBY!! Oswald Boelke's Dicta applies to the Kreigsmarine too! Properly mated to Kretschmer's "one eel one ship" dicta and adroit 'polishing off' use of the deck gun should satisfy any 'itchy neck'!

maillemaker · 06-09-14, 10:08 AM

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Having played for quite a while at about 84 percent, I stepped things up to 100 percent realism and realise what I was missing, with automated targetting and the like. It is a LOT scarier now, and I spend much more time on deck (if that's the expression). I don't launch torpedoes from 12Km - in fact I'm desperate to get really close as I'm now terrible at targetting (well, hitting, anyway).

Yup, I'm on my second career playing dead-is-dead with 100% complete realism, including no map contacts.

Totally different game.

I made a 4-hit torpedo shot at 3000-4000 meters the other day and was absolutely ecstatic! Normally I don't go for anything beyond 1000-1500 m if I can help it. I only made the long-range shot because I had a radio contact update about the convoy and so knew the speed exactly.

Otherwise, unless you have time to do fixed-wire speed measurement speed estimation is just that - an estimation. You have to get in close to get a hit.

Steve

ExFishermanBob · 06-09-14, 02:50 PM

Absolutely: I'm currently at the stage of get as close as possible and fire straight down my keel (i.e. with no data transferred to the computer).

I now also run away screaming like a girl when I hear or see a combat vessel of any type.

ninja turtle · 06-09-14, 05:58 PM

That's the exact % I use but you've inspired me to go 100% and dead is dead when I start my type II sub career very soon

flag4 · 06-10-14, 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by ExFishermanBob

I now also run away screaming like a girl...

the screams of men are much more historically correct in this situation - and how they must have screamed...

Fourfifties · 06-10-14, 10:05 AM

I just came back to the game a few weeks ago and am finding it to be really immersive now. Once you switch to manual targetting/no map updates this game really comes alive. I'm using GWX with OLC GUI for targetting and the whole process is very rewarding. Hit a tanker from 5km away the other day! I do almost the entire approach/attack from the deck. I can't believe that when I first played this game years ago I pretty much spent the whole time staring at the chart.

06-08-14, 10:39 AM	#1
ExFishermanBob Difficulties Numbing Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: AN19 Posts: 470 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	100 percent realism is a different game... Having played for quite a while at about 84 percent, I stepped things up to 100 percent realism and realise what I was missing, with automated targetting and the like. It is a LOT scarier now, and I spend much more time on deck (if that's the expression). I don't launch torpedoes from 12Km - in fact I'm desperate to get really close as I'm now terrible at targetting (well, hitting, anyway). I thoroughly recommend it, if you haven't tried it.

06-08-14, 10:43 AM	#2
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,500 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	True that __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

06-08-14, 01:00 PM	#3
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 29,995 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	YUP! nothing fancy; get close; mind the eel arming distance-300 meters; fill the scope; lead slightly... und LOS BBY!! Oswald Boelke's Dicta applies to the Kreigsmarine too! Properly mated to Kretschmer's "one eel one ship" dicta and adroit 'polishing off' use of the deck gun should satisfy any 'itchy neck'! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!

06-09-14, 02:50 PM	#5
ExFishermanBob Difficulties Numbing Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: AN19 Posts: 470 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	Absolutely: I'm currently at the stage of get as close as possible and fire straight down my keel (i.e. with no data transferred to the computer). I now also run away screaming like a girl when I hear or see a combat vessel of any type.

06-09-14, 05:58 PM	#6
ninja turtle Frogman Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Ellesmere Port, UK Posts: 291 Downloads: 249 Uploads: 0	That's the exact % I use but you've inspired me to go 100% and dead is dead when I start my type II sub career very soon

06-10-14, 10:05 AM	#8
Fourfifties Swabbie Join Date: May 2014 Posts: 8 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	I just came back to the game a few weeks ago and am finding it to be really immersive now. Once you switch to manual targetting/no map updates this game really comes alive. I'm using GWX with OLC GUI for targetting and the whole process is very rewarding. Hit a tanker from 5km away the other day! I do almost the entire approach/attack from the deck. I can't believe that when I first played this game years ago I pretty much spent the whole time staring at the chart.