Soul Crushing Saved Mission Bug. Any way to fix?

[Pisces]

Originally Posted by Stargazer

Fudge!

Okey doke. I've got a new policy now...

1) Save regularly
2) Don't overwrite the previous save
3) Don't bother saving if the external cam flips to any vessel other than my own.
4) Save regularly
5) Save regularly
6) Don't overwrite the previous save
7) Save regularly
8) Don't overwrite the previous save

Another important one to add to the list:

NEVER save submerged!

You might be able to succesfully reload a savegame. But at re-entering the SH3 world the uboat might experience the "dive of doom" causing uncontrollable crash dives. Savegame-errors is something the developers did not take enough beta-testing time for. This makes playing Sh3 a btch sometimes. Especially if you are attacking a convoy and have to save because of real-life considerations. You really need to be alone and safe in the game, before you can actually save it and trust those savegames to work.

So what is the rule on the external cam? What is the range on it and how big is the bubble of world that is loaded into the 3D Engine.

If I could have it in Km's then I peronally won't have a clue what you're on about (since I'm a philistine and only understand miles) but I'll know what it means in terms of my nav map when next I look at it.

Think of ranges as just numbers. You do not have much of a distance reference at sea anyway. Besides, al distances in SH3 are reported in (kilo)meters. So it makes no sense giving it in miles. The visibility ranges aren't realistic anyway so 'getting the feel for it' is moot.

It depends on mods and the weather. Stock SH3 has a max visible environment of 8km. GWX and other mods can increase it to about 16km. Later it has been extended to 20km (can't remember the name of the mod). But the hydrophone bubble is 34 km if you listen yourself. (and perhaps it magically extends the bubble to 40km whenever something has come inside of the 34km. I noticed this to happen in SH4, but might allready be in SH3 too) The hydrophone crew only responds to units within 20 km or so. They seem to have bubbles in their ears.

So to be (somewhat) sure there is no unit in the vicinity you have to move away atleast 40 km from the nearest unit to be on the safe side. And then do a hydrophone check yourself to make sure nobody is around. (And not forget to surface ) Assuming you could hear them in the background noise. Then you are ready to call it a day.