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Old 05-02-10, 01:05 PM   #1
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Thanks! I will give it a try.
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Old 05-02-10, 04:14 PM   #2
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Is it possible for the weather to be too bad for the insertion? I have some nasty weather with waves topping 10+ feet and 15m/s wind strength. I sat in the same place 68' deep water at periscope depth then came up and waited but no launch command ever appeared after 2 hours of sim time.

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Old 05-02-10, 04:39 PM   #3
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I doubt it. I like using the external cam. The Navy Seal was paddling upside down!
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Old 05-02-10, 07:45 PM   #4
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Hmm I wonder what is going on then because I haven't seen any buttons or commands for launching this spy aka catman onto land.

Did I have to be there by a certain time window?

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Old 05-02-10, 11:19 PM   #5
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There is not real time window.
Try moving a little and than go to PD again and resurface.
You need to be about 1500 yards or less sometimes to launch.
Might even need to go out of the area a little and than come back in???

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Old 05-03-10, 11:22 AM   #6
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You need to be at a dead stop or almost and very close to shore (as mentioned previously).

One thing you should be aware of. Once the dinghy is in the water you might hear a horrendously loud crashing/grinding noise as if you've collided with something. Don't panic. It's just the dinghy bumping into your sub. For some inexplicable reason the devs completely missed the fact that they used the same sound effect for the rubber dinghy bumping into you as the sound effect used for ship collisions. There is no seperate sound effect for the rubber dinghy so if you change the collision wave file to something more suitable then your ship collisions will end up with THAT file instead.

For all the praise heaped on the devs this simple little thing is something I'll never forgive them for. Relatively easy to fix and yet numerous patches later no joy.
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Old 05-05-10, 11:15 PM   #7
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I will try...I may need to reinstall SH4 into a different folder because I can't seem to get rid of the kernel.dll and ntdll.dll crashes. I am beginning to wonder if that has something to do with it. Is there a minidump file for SHIV?

Edit: is that possible with steam?

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