Dead is Dead

[jazman]

When I played IL-2 offline campaigns, I would play "dead is dead." That means when I get killed, the career is over, no restarts, no reverting to last saved. I lost a few nice kill totals that way...

Is that a feasible approach in SH3? Do many play this way? How hard is it to make it through, say, a patrol? A year?

For those of you who play this way, how is your play different than if you weren't playing this way? Sure, I expect you're more cautious, but _how_ more cautious?

I'm really looking for tips on playing to sink ships AND survive.

[TarJak]

I play DiD and have been able to get to around 10-15 patrols without dying. I use SH3Commander with realistic career length on and by that stage you are getting retired by SH3C.

You have to be much more aware of the risks and make sure that Bernard isn't around to screw things up as well. It means that you tend to not go after some things that you might have before and when you get damaged you sometimes turn around without reaching your patrol grid. This happens a lot to me in post 1942 careers when the air cover is getting heavy and viable targets are harder to acquire.

When i learn the basics i cheated But now i `am not reload my save game when i miss all 4 fishes or more depends on tipe of a uboat (happen some time), and when my boat sunk with all hands wich happens usually at the biggining of 1943. GWX is a dangerous place i should say .

[Canovaro]

I have played did from the beginning, and I do 10-20 patrols with it.
Just be careful, while still trying to get enough renown to prepare your ship for the next patrol.

[Brag]

I managed 18 patrols. I think I would have gone longer had I been less confident in the success of my evading tactics.

You may want to read the article on survival on my webbie

[Puster Bill]

Dead is dead, and east is east and west is west, and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce, they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.

I play a modified form of 'dead is dead'. If I get killed because I left the game running when I went to go see what mischief my son is getting into, or because I had to take a leak, or something, then I don't worry about reloading from my last save. Usually that kind of thing happens when I think there is no one else in the area, and I get caught on the surface by aircraft at dusk or dawn.

If, however, I get killed fair and square while I'm sitting there, then I'm dead and I abandon that career.

[vedrand]

Originally Posted by jazman

Is that a feasible approach in SH3? Do many play this way? How hard is it to make it through, say, a patrol? A year?

Of course it is feasible, and much more then that, it makes the game much more realistic and imemrsive, you have to be more careful about stuff. One of the means of achieving it, or not getting unpleasant surprises is keeping thr time compression at 128 top. i like doing stuff...like reading a book while on patrol.
and then each time i get to see sunset alive i think to myself... one more day in this bloody war is over and ur stil alive as you know that the war takes roughly some 2500 days... you...well see the light at the end of the tunnel. so my opinion is. did mode is the only right one for this game.

and btw i flew quite a bit of il2/46 (mostly online). and the reason why i mostly flew coop servers is exactly the fact that once you are dead... you can not do anything more in the given mission

[Canovaro]

Originally Posted by Puster Bill

I play a modified form of 'dead is dead'. If I get killed because I left the game running when I went to go see what mischief my son is getting into, or because I had to take a leak, or something, then I don't worry about reloading from my last save. Usually that kind of thing happens when I think there is no one else in the area, and I get caught on the surface by aircraft at dusk or dawn.

If, however, I get killed fair and square while I'm sitting there, then I'm dead and I abandon that career.

Me too, did but not while you take a leak or when the pc crashes or something. Sounds fair.

[nikbear]

Originally Posted by Canovaro

Me too, did but not while you take a leak or when the pc crashes or something. Sounds fair.

Same way I play as well nice to know I'm not the only one who plays like this

Originally Posted by nikbear

Same way I play as well nice to know I'm not the only one who plays like this

There's more of us

[Ubåtskapten]

Yap, I do the same.

[XLjedi]

I like starting in the happy times and seeing how long I can live.

Right now, I think I'm midway thru my 3rd patrol in my shiny new VIIB, it's still easy-going lone unescorted merchants.

[ReallyDedPoet]

Originally Posted by Hadrys

There's more of us

Nice perspective


RDP

[Iron Budokan]

I play DiD, too.

[SmokinTep]

I'm only dead if I screw up. If I step away and something happens, then I 'll go back to last save.