Ahoy All + help from vet players

BigBANGtheory · 12-26-09, 02:40 PM

Hi everyone, my first post and all that

With the recent publicity of SH5 I picked up a cheap deal on SH4 + Uboat Missions but despite a real desire to get into the fray I am really struggling with this game and would appreciate some advice from the community.

On the Plus side:
I'm a 30yr+ player not opposed to patience, I played SS2 back in the 90's, I've seen and enjoyed movies like U571, Run Silent Run Deep, Torpedo Run. I own the directors cut DVD of Das Boot 'the series' rate it as the 2nd best TV-mini series of all time (and pity people who have only seen the film version). I have a degree in applied Physics so maths and trig doesnt put me off, I was a world class player in a well known RTS game, and I enjoy the epic space FPS/Sim X3 (which isn't for the faint hearted). I have played through the subamrine school missions, watched some vids like Dick o'kanes advice on navigation, sonar etc (which was throughly entertaining, seriously cool bloke). I have decent PC hardware and can run SH4 on max setting + force antialiasing through my GPU driver, for a game released in 2007 it looks pretty damn smart.

On the down side:
Ok so I am playing SH4 + Uboat missions but no mods becuase I wanted to learn the vanilla game first. There is no easy way to say this I should like the game, I want to like the game, but I'm just 'not getting it', in a nutshell I am not finding it entertaining.

Now I should point out that my purpose here is not to ridicule the game in anyway but rather learn to appeciate it and get into the swing of things mainly becuase I want to play SH5 next year and I like what I see so far.

As a newb player what should I be doing that I am currently not?

Thanks in advance for the good Salty Sea Dog Samaritan's helping out a skipper currently lost at sea.

12-26-09, 02:40 PM	#1
BigBANGtheory Officer Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: British Waters Posts: 243 Downloads: 98 Uploads: 0	Ahoy All + help from vet players Hi everyone, my first post and all that With the recent publicity of SH5 I picked up a cheap deal on SH4 + Uboat Missions but despite a real desire to get into the fray I am really struggling with this game and would appreciate some advice from the community. On the Plus side: I'm a 30yr+ player not opposed to patience, I played SS2 back in the 90's, I've seen and enjoyed movies like U571, Run Silent Run Deep, Torpedo Run. I own the directors cut DVD of Das Boot 'the series' rate it as the 2nd best TV-mini series of all time (and pity people who have only seen the film version). I have a degree in applied Physics so maths and trig doesnt put me off, I was a world class player in a well known RTS game, and I enjoy the epic space FPS/Sim X3 (which isn't for the faint hearted). I have played through the subamrine school missions, watched some vids like Dick o'kanes advice on navigation, sonar etc (which was throughly entertaining, seriously cool bloke). I have decent PC hardware and can run SH4 on max setting + force antialiasing through my GPU driver, for a game released in 2007 it looks pretty damn smart. On the down side: Ok so I am playing SH4 + Uboat missions but no mods becuase I wanted to learn the vanilla game first. There is no easy way to say this I should like the game, I want to like the game, but I'm just 'not getting it', in a nutshell I am not finding it entertaining. Now I should point out that my purpose here is not to ridicule the game in anyway but rather learn to appeciate it and get into the swing of things mainly becuase I want to play SH5 next year and I like what I see so far. As a newb player what should I be doing that I am currently not? Thanks in advance for the good Salty Sea Dog Samaritan's helping out a skipper currently lost at sea.