SH3 ending?

[Yahoshua]

Hey ya'll.

I was in port when the war ended but....no cinematic or anything?

After all those hours I spent in front of my comp dodging DC, shoting down aircraft, and gleefully smiling at my first kill with a torpedo are rewrded with.....NOTHING????

Did the devs. really screw this one up or something? Cuz there has to be SOMETHING at the end.

[Dowly]

Germany lost the war, you lost. Losers dont get anything. Live with that.

The only point in SHIII for me is the Wolves at War virtual campaing.

www.wolvesatwar.com

[STEED]

[Yahoshua]

Ya know Dowly, ya don't have to be a complete (expletive) and rub it in like that.

Of course Germany lost the war. I wanted to know if there was a grand ending cinematic like the sub being scuttled or something. All I needed was a simple answer.

Thx for that post Steed. I was in port when the war ended so...I didn't get to see that.

[Enigma]

When I get that radio message, im giving the crew an option. Get off now, or come with your skipper. Where im taking this boat, I cant tell you. But they will never find us there.

[zombiewolf]

Yeah where is the Were-wolves mod.
Those fanatics that refused to surrender

[tbarak]

Hey Yahoshua you should chill dude and maybe loose the hyper sensitivity. Dowly was stating the obvious and maybe you took it wrong, so no need to insult people.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Yahoshua

Ya know Dowly, ya don't have to be a complete (expletive) and rub it in like that.

Of course Germany lost the war. I wanted to know if there was a grand ending cinematic like the sub being scuttled or something. All I needed was a simple answer.

Thx for that post Steed. I was in port when the war ended so...I didn't get to see that.

Sorry, didnt meant it like that. I just dont think that games like this need a ending movie.

And it got my eye when you said "Did the devs. really screw this one up or something? Cuz there has to be SOMETHING at the end.". As I´m pretty pissed with the dev team to release 3/5 of the game they intended to. Deadlines suck.

Anyways, no hard feelings? Here, let me buy you a beer ->

[Threadfin]

I'm currently on my 18th career. Only one time have I survived until the end, and that was my 10th career. Here's a post I made on another forum after surviving the war last June. For the hell of it I loaded all slots with GNAT and Falke.

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We recieved no radio message at sea indicating an end to hostilities, so we continued to patrol until about the 28th of May. We were hanging north of Scapa near the battleship location from the previous patrol. Sunk a couple of destroyers and destroyer escorts with the acoustics. Also sunk a Norwegian fishing trawler as we were leaving Flensburg. Wanted to test the twin M42 and he was the unfortunate target. What a great gun. I opened fire from 3500 meters, and 50 seconds later he was sinking. Just little bursts as the pitching brought the crosshairs up and down. I couldn't even really tell if I was hitting him. Highly recommend this gun for AA defense and other general purpose duties

Finally, on the last day of the patrol we found another King George task force. Got into a great position and fired a 4-shot spread of GNAT and Falke. Unfotunately the one GNAT went after a DD, and as the depth was set to 9.5 meters that eel was lost. The 3 Falke locked onto the King George but their turn toward the engines made them miss altogether, and as they were going 20kts, and the task force 21 kts, they were never going to catch up. The irony is they would have all run under the BB if they weren't acoustics. In desperation I came back up to PD and raised the snorkel. Surely the TF would start to zig and the eels would hit. But no reaction. Dammit! Surface. That'll get their atention. We pop up expecting a barage and nothing! Guess they know the war is over. We sail alongside the task force until they pull ahead, a final salute and the war is over.

The only thing I noticed that could have been a sign the war was over aside from the Tommies not shooting at me, was the German ports turned green on the map, but I didn't notice the date. And soon after I was no longer being hounded by A/C.

Career 10 was an exciting one, here's the final tally. 151k warship tonnage

Patrols=20
TonnageSunk=894397.000000
MerchantTotalTonnage=742974.000000 (7900 tons per, fat SoBs)
WarshipsTotalTonnage=151423.000000 (9400 per, mmmm BB)
ShipsSunkNb=110
MerchantTotalShipsSunk=94
WarshipsTotalShipsSunk=16
PatrolCraftSunk=0
CorvetteSunk=0
FrigateSunk=0
DestroyerEscortSunk=3
DestroyerSunk=6
MineSweeperSunk=0
LightCruiserSunk=1
HeavyCruiserSunk=0
EscortCarrierSunk=4
AircraftCarrierSunk=0
BattleCruiserSunk=0
BattleShipSunk=2
MineLayingShipSunk=0
AuxiliaryCruiserSunk=0
PlanesDownNb=1

Including 4 liners which aren't listed as a type.

Our boat suffered no casualties during the course of the war. We had two patrols cut short by damage which forced a return to base, one of those patrols was a blank as we were hit soon after leaving port, the other after only one sinking. Both of those patrols were in the XXI. The battery/recharge thing needs fixing, as it virtually eliminates the XXI's submerged endurance and range advantages. The sonar and snorkel-top radar need fixing too.

The VIIC/42 is also a disapointment. I see no difference between it and a vanilla VIIC, aside from the two additional external torpedo slots. The range is the same as a VIIC, when it should be much higher, and the crush depth, which should be the real advantage to this boat, by at least 100 meters, is also the same as the VIIC.

[Salvadoreno]

I think the ending totally suites how the uboat kapitans felt. "is this it? All my years of toil, fear, bloodshed ends like this?" Ive never completed a full career, but i wanna survive from 1943-1945 and i bet that when that message comes in, ill feel a sense of relief, dissapointment, etc etc... No more depth charges, no more screaming aircraft, bla bla. Even though they could have made it totally great by giving you a choice to scuttle your boat, sail with a black flag, or run home. But my imagination lets me run wild

[deadactionman]

Just a thought here guys...

What could possibly make up for the hours and hours spent sitting at a computer pretending to be a sub captain? I love the game and thoroughly enjoy searching the seas for ships to sink, but to me, it's more like a simulator... and simulators don't have, or need an end sequence.

I guess everyone plays the game differently.

[Yahoshua]

Sry I blew up Dowly....I had just finished giving a tongue lashing to some kid on another forum and was still fuming from it, and I was wrong to take it out on you.

I'll take the beer (St. Pauli Girl?).

I was just thinking that there could've been a short ending sequence of the U-boat getting the message that the war had ended and the captain informing the crew of the news but leaving their last decision up to the players' imagination or something. I didn't expect that nothing would happen.

I may be used to seeing an ending sequence for a game but at least it would give a little more closure for the ending.

[andy_311]

Come 9/05/45 a message will pop up the war has ended no build up,no nothing by right you should surface and surrender and return to base,
Did that last time never again 3 C class dds opened up on me,so I took them out and the entire convoy they where escorting surfaced to be attacked by 6 sunderland they destroyed both ny deisel engines.
Take heed the war ends on the 9th May 1945 all ships are still your enemy till 10/05/45 you can even surface and sail dead centre of a TF and they won't open fire at you. got some pics on my other pc to prove it when I find them will post them.

[slow_n_ez]

Well , I am dry docked I guess.... I just tried to leave Bergen on May 20th, 1945 after getting my boat ready and they told me the war had ended ..... That was my 3rd carrerr so I kinda knew what to expect.... first time I got the message during in game with the bit STEED posted ..... ... oh well .... Trroughtout all my journeys into places most folks don't get to go I found some killer fishing spots I am going to go check out

[The_Blockade_Runner]

After the war you could always do what these U Boats did :hmm: :hmm:



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