SH3 Newbie Guide, FAQs, Tactics & Tips, Links, & other helpful stuff

[NeonSamurai]

Well this thread is here to help those new to our SH3 community. However i am by no meens trying to snub any other people's work from this or other communities. I will refer you to my 3rd post

If i missed any major links feel free to let me know and ill add them

If you feel i failed to mention a current popular supermod. Just say which and i will add it provided it meets my criteria. Which is only that it be current (Ie work hasnt stoped on it many months ago, and its features havent been rolled into another mod or surpassed), popular (this one is a tough one to gauge, i mainly use player feedback as a method of determining use), easy for a new player to install, and easily available for download.

Also I will alter my original post to clarify some things.


The purpose of this thread is to try to help new players get situated and learn the game, the mods section i included was because i saw alot of questions about mods so i went with the ones i know are used by most in this particular community. I did not from the start intend this post to be a anywhere complete list of the mods out there, just to give the newbies something to start with and go from there. I also intend to keep this thread as neutral and unbiased as possible with reguards the mods out there. So if you feel i am unfairly representing (or not representing) a super pack, feel free to contact me and i will try to resolve the issue. I am also intentionaly limiting the mod listing to super packs and associated external apps, otherwise it would get far to complicated for those starting out.

[Harmsway!]

Excellent post. Nice and easy to read and understand.

[Dekessey]

Excellent post
Thank you!

[buck28]

This post is very informative and a must for the newbees to read! Great Job.


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[SteamWake]

Good post.

Unfortunatly the community manual is temporarly not available.

[Gizzmoe]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

Unfortunatly the community manual is temporarly not available.

It is!

http://www.communitymanuals.com/shii...itle=Main_Page

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by Gizzmoe

It is!

http://www.communitymanuals.com/shii...itle=Main_Page

Different URL than the anchor post. But thanks.

[Gizzmoe]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

Different URL than the anchor post.

Oh, good to know. I´ve corrected the link.

[robj250]

I just installed a new hard drive which is partitioned. So therefore I have a drive D: and a drive E: on this hard drive.

My original files for everything I had before is on drive C: I have to transfer all these data files to drive D:

Where I think I'm going to have problems is that Windows has "My Documents" on drive D:

The reason I had the hard drive partitioned was because if I had to reinstall Windows, it would be installed in drive D: all my programs will be installed on drive E:

So that means Silent Hunter III will be installed on drive E:

I copied the "My Documents" file to drive E:

Now what I need to know is where will the SH3 career folder be created?

How can I make the SH3 Career folder to be created in the My Documents folder on drive E:

[kylania]

Originally Posted by robj250

How can I make the SH3 Career folder to be created in the My Documents folder on drive E:

With Windows XP you can right click on the My Documents link from your Start Menu, choose Properties and set the default location for your current user's My Documents folder. Since that sets your system default, to E:\MyDocs or whatever, then SH3 should automatically save it's campaign files to E:\MyDocs\SH3

That is of course assuming that it's not hard coded to C:, but I believe it just uses your default My Documents location, which you can change through the rclick / Properties of the link on your start menu.

[robj250]

Originally Posted by kylania

With Windows XP you can right click on the My Documents link from your Start Menu, choose Properties and set the default location for your current user's My Documents folder. Since that sets your system default, to E:\MyDocs or whatever, then SH3 should automatically save it's campaign files to E:\MyDocs\SH3

That is of course assuming that it's not hard coded to C:, but I believe it just uses your default My Documents location, which you can change through the rclick / Properties of the link on your start menu.

When I did that, it created the folder Documents and Settings, is that what I should have done?

[kylania]

Oh ya know what, you might wanna use the Move.. button. Create the new file you want to use for ALL your documents (your permenant My Documents location) then use the Move... button find that folder and select it.

[robj250]

Originally Posted by kylania

Oh ya know what, you might wanna use the Move.. button. Create the new file you want to use for ALL your documents (your permenant My Documents location) then use the Move... button find that folder and select it.

Okay, I'll give that a try.

Edit: It would not let me nove it as it said it's part of windows.

[RustySubmarine]

I have just downloaded the Grey Woves add on and was wondering, does it affect realism to the extent, that a newbie would have difficulty using the sim with these mods.
Can it be played with the same options as the initial SH111 install?

[kylania]

Sure, you can use the same realism settings as normal, you're not forced to use manual targetting or no weapon officer help or no cameras or anything. Newbies will be able to play just fine really. To be honest, the only "vanilla" SH3 I played was the Navigation tutorial. After that I liked the game so much I looked for add ons and have been using GW (and lately NYGM) since "the beginning" for me.

A few things you will find more difficult and cannot easily change are:

Damage model is changed. Ships sink by flooding rather than just damage. Meaning you need to hit multiple times in various places and wait longer for a ship to sink now.

Along with the above, deck gun is slower, does more damage per hit, but is less effective due to the above changes to how a ship sinks. Previously a ship had X numbers of hit points and if you exceeded that, say by shooting the bridge with your deck gun, you'd sink the ship. No longer.

All contacts are grey. No more red = bad guy, green = neutral. You'll need to risk and approach to get close enough to ID a target now. Sometimes you'll end up creeping up and getting into firing position of a friendly tugboat, othertimes not.

That said, it's a superb mod and definately worth running. It's beautiful, more lively and really adds enough to the game that even with it's more difficult aspects it's rewarding and enjoyable.