How realistic do you play SH3

[Sailor Steve]

100% tame? Are you using GWX?

DID is Dead Is Dead; i.e. if you are killed you NEVER reload a saved game. Makes it much more challenging.

For those two mods type the names into the advanced search function.

Destroyer behaviour? Again, are you using GWX?

[slow_n_ez]

19 % here ... I just wanna blow some stuff up ....
that is if my pansy crew will stay awake no non-fatugie mods works.. not even in the sh3 commander settings ...... and I don't play in a hurricane either... weather never stays nice either except for the first 2 days I leave port ... I sit at 30 meters ( so I don't get run over ) and sometimes sit there for 2 weeks waiting for it to get nice enough to see something to shoot at

[Cerberus]

Apologies if all this has been said before, but...

Realism Heh? What does that mean?

Let us suppose a kaleun set sail from Willhelmshaven & announced to the crew :-

"I have available to me a stabilised periscope, reliable torpedoes, unlimited fuel, a device for determining exactly how visible we are to our enemies, and a whole host of other wonderful aides.

These devices would greatly increase our chances of carrying out our mission & staying alive.

However I'm not going to use any of them because it would be unsporting."

Said kaleun would then find himself carrying out an internal inspection of one of the torpedo tubes followed by an external examination of the boat's hull.

Get real.

[Sailor Steve]

But they didn't have any of those things, so how real should we get?

[Cezbor]

I'm on 60% realism, but eager to see more. Mayby next mission I'll turn to 80%:hmm: Good hunting for all of you guys

[We're taking damage!]

Have only recently begun 100% careers.

Most careers have been DiD, the one or two careers where I was sunk and then magically not sunk have usually been abandoned and deleted before too long.

Started playing at 75%, used auto stabilize, auto targetting and no duds. Didn't care so much about the eye candy with the external cameras, mainly didn't want to sail and sail and search and search just to miss with my last torpedo or have a dud.

to 100% now but it's still the stock game. Still enjoying myself immensely!

I am trying to be more realistic but I do not faithfully carry out all the directices in the U-Boat Commander's Handbook, I still try for lucky single torpedo sinkings. But I am letting my crew take more of a role, I have not been personally manning the guns or flak and I let the Weapon's officer do all the number crunching.

I really enjoy micro-managing my crew, I will not have a senior LT onboard until I am a senior LT myself at the very least. I have been spending less and less reknown lately.

*editted to add: Been lurking here at periscope depth for quite some time now, hello to all the forum members and a big thank-you for being the best online gaming community I have ever seen!

[Sailor Steve]

Well, WELCOME ABOARD then!

[Jimbuna]

Welcome aboard Kaleun

[Frostyvegi]

Overkill all the way!

Oh.. hi, I'm a new poster and a new SSIII player (old time SSI fan though.. ahhhh the simplisity of EGA graphics! :P).

I always play hardcore level no matter what game it is. Even if I'm a total noob (which I am just barely above the level of in SSIII after having it for only 2 days). However, I have just made a decision to turn on free-cam as it would give me a great tool to use to find out why my torpedo's keep missing (or if they are just tinging off the hull due to a bad angle).

[Trygvasson]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

100% tame? Are you using GWX?

DID is Dead Is Dead; i.e. if you are killed you NEVER reload a saved game. Makes it much more challenging.

For those two mods type the names into the advanced search function.

Destroyer behaviour? Again, are you using GWX?

Thanks for your help Sailor Steve. Yep, using GWX. Not consistent in my use of DiD(I just learned that acronyme); in an interesting tactical situation, I sometimes save and experiment, to see what I works and what doesn't. That's how I found out that on a perfectly calm sea, at night and with light fog and the moon in the right place, you can take out an armed trawler with your deck gun if you start shooting from long range let him approach - but no way in hell against a destroyer. And that's how I learned how to take out destroyers using one torp with around 75% accuracy. I'll detail that tactic in another post, look for "Anti-Destroyer Tactics".

[dcb]

Taken straight from Gameplaysettings.cfg.

LimitedBatteries=true
LimitedCompressedAir=true
LimitedO2=true
LimitedFuel=true
RealisticVulnerability=true
RealisticRepairTime=true
RealisticShipSinkingTime=true
ManualTargetingSystem=true
NoMapUpdate=true
RealisticSensors=true
DudTorpedoes=true
RealisticReload=true
NoEventCamera=false
NoExternalView=false
NoStabilizeView=false
NoNoiseMeter=true
NoWeaponOfficerAssist=true

This gives 82% realism, IIRC.

[baggygreen]

I play at 74%. I'm so damn terrible at math i'll never go to manual targetting, i love my eye candy, and map updates are handy when trying to track convoys - Otherwise i avoid using it.

[U-Cass]

Originally Posted by desirableroasted

I don't know how many of you ski, but I find SH3/GWX a lot like skiing... once you get through the first rough couple of days, you are suddenly having a GREAT time. Sure, you are on the baby slopes (stock SH3, low reality), but you are having a ball. Eventually, though, that gets tame, so you venture out on the blue slopes (GWX, low reality, or whatever). And you have a ball.

Most of us stay on the blue slopes. Some of us learn to have fun on the reds (GWX, 70%+ reality). A few of us end up being good at and enjoying black-slope moguls (GWX, full realism).

74% is my "I'm having a ball" level right now.

Same here. Have been playing for some time had a over year off playing and just got back into the game. Last time I played RUB was the only mega-mod (maybe NYTM not sure) around. I tended to make my own mega mod.
So get back into the game and GWX is here and has basically all I had and lots lots more. 74% and I am finding it a bit too samey so have download OLC's mod and am about to give it the Full 100% (but really not sure about missing the external camera, or flag spotting in the dark!). Will just have to wait and see if the extra difficulty equals more enjoyment....

[Koondawg]

Ive gotta confess...when I play I have moved all my puter stuff into the shower...when I get hit I turn on the water...you know for that realism factor...

[sasquatch]

This is my first career. I'm trying out 74% realism. Too early to try manual plotting. I haven't done trig in over 4 years...