Weather limits for u-boat operations

[Hottentot]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

The weather patterns for SH3 are not to everyones liking and this I can understand....you'll never please all of the people all of the time.

Bad weather in the Atlantic often went on for days or even a week or two [snip]

At least for me the crux of the issue is not the bad weather or how long it lasts, but that it seems to be very predictable. When I leave on patrol, the weather is always perfect, no clouds, no wind, no nothing. Then always, all the sudden, it turns into a storm with the same parameters: 15 m/s wind, fog and rain that lasts for undefined time.

It's as if there were nothing in between, for example, dense fog or some rain but without wind. Only rarely have I seen even strong wind without the omnipresent storm clouds. And the fact that it seems to happen on every single patrol just makes it annoying.

I can't comment how realistic this is, since I haven't spent enough (read: any) time sailing around the Atlantic in different seasons, but what I can say for sure is that in my opinion it's not fun. The repetitive weather has often been a major reason for why I have quit a campaign. Because of it's nature, Silent Hunter 3 is already quite repetitive game (which is not necessarily a bad thing), and a weather would be great element to make it more varied and giving different challenges each time.