Noob errors

U777 · 08-07-10, 01:10 PM

1. Forgot to move the watch officer from the forward bunks to the tower.

2. Tried to sink a torpedo boat with the deck gun.

3. Forgot to set the torpedo crew to load automatically, discovered the error when trying to sink a freighter and found all my tubes to be empty thus requiring a 180 to use one of the stern tubes.

CherryHarbey · 08-08-10, 05:32 AM

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Originally Posted by U777

1. Forgot to move the watch officer from the forward bunks to the tower.

2. Tried to sink a torpedo boat with the deck gun.

3. Forgot to set the torpedo crew to load automatically, discovered the error when trying to sink a freighter and found all my tubes to be empty thus requiring a 180 to use one of the stern tubes.

That watch officer is the laziest man on the boat, pretty soon, kicking him out of his bunk every time you surface is one of the things you do without realising you are doing it.

Arctic wolf · 08-08-10, 07:27 AM

I was starting my second patrol from Kiel. In free cam mode, moving around admiring my new emblem while my boat's slowly moving forward at 4/5 knots. Suddenly I press "p" (didn't really know what it did back then). Before I know it I get screeching noises from my boat and my crew trying to raise hell with damage reports all around.

Ohhh so it dives to periscope depth with "p"? Lesson learnt at the cost of 45 lives.

Gerald · 08-08-10, 07:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Arctic wolf

I was starting my second patrol from Kiel. In free cam mode, moving around admiring my new emblem while my boat's slowly moving forward at 4/5 knots. Suddenly I press "p" (didn't really know what it did back then). Before I know it I get screeching noises from my boat and my crew trying to raise hell with damage reports all around.

Ohhh so it dives to periscope depth with "p"? Lesson learnt at the cost of 45 lives.

Arctic wolf · 08-09-10, 01:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Vendor

Lol I think only my bridge was visible so I could admire my emblem better. And also I think it was the 7th flotilla base, the shallow one.

I kinda love going into free cam mode and looking at my boat from underwater. It's lovely.

Tolkemec · 08-09-10, 02:30 AM

And what about spending 3 hours real time making an approach to get to 500 meters of a juicy merchant, carefully preparing the perfect solution for a one torpedo kill (because of course I have only one torpedo left), putting the mouse in the fire button waiting for the right time... the right time, the right time...

...

And then just forgeting where the cursor is, and thinking it is in the periscope lens, pushing it to rotate the periscope only to hear loud and clear TORPEDO LOSS!

... and there it goes, swiming happily onto the horizon.

Back to base...

sharkbit · 08-08-10, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by CherryHarbey

That watch officer is the laziest man on the boat, pretty soon, kicking him out of his bunk every time you surface is one of the things you do without realising you are doing it.

Mod of the Year to the modder who can fix that. I assume it is a hard code thing though or it would have been done.

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....pretty soon, kicking him out of his bunk every time you surface is one of the things you do without realising you are doing it.

It does become second nature after a while.

frau kaleun · 08-08-10, 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by sharkbit

Mod of the Year to the modder who can fix that. I assume it is a hard code thing though or it would have been done.

It does become second nature after a while.

Yep, it just becomes part of the routine. I give the order to surface the boat, then hang out in the crew management screen until the rest of the watch appears up in the tower, then drag the lazy WO up there with them. My hands and fingers have pretty much memorized the process at this point.

08-08-10, 07:27 AM	#3
Arctic wolf A-ganger Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Under the Iceberg Posts: 71 Downloads: 107 Uploads: 0	I was starting my second patrol from Kiel. In free cam mode, moving around admiring my new emblem while my boat's slowly moving forward at 4/5 knots. Suddenly I press "p" (didn't really know what it did back then). Before I know it I get screeching noises from my boat and my crew trying to raise hell with damage reports all around. Ohhh so it dives to periscope depth with "p"? Lesson learnt at the cost of 45 lives. __________________ Damn the torpedoes, Full speed ahead!

08-09-10, 02:30 AM	#6
Tolkemec Torpedoman Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: BCN Posts: 118 Downloads: 131 Uploads: 0	And what about spending 3 hours real time making an approach to get to 500 meters of a juicy merchant, carefully preparing the perfect solution for a one torpedo kill (because of course I have only one torpedo left), putting the mouse in the fire button waiting for the right time... the right time, the right time... ... And then just forgeting where the cursor is, and thinking it is in the periscope lens, pushing it to rotate the periscope only to hear loud and clear TORPEDO LOSS! ... and there it goes, swiming happily onto the horizon. Back to base... Last edited by Tolkemec; 08-09-10 at 05:15 AM.

08-07-10, 01:10 PM	#1
U777 Medic Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Chicago Posts: 159 Downloads: 11 Uploads: 0	1. Forgot to move the watch officer from the forward bunks to the tower. 2. Tried to sink a torpedo boat with the deck gun. 3. Forgot to set the torpedo crew to load automatically, discovered the error when trying to sink a freighter and found all my tubes to be empty thus requiring a 180 to use one of the stern tubes.