New SH3 player, loving it! just a few questions

[Sailor Steve]

WELCOME ABOARD!

Originally Posted by jscharpf

I just purchased SH3 and I have to say I've only made it through the first Navigation lesson and I'm LOVING this game!
LOL I feel like I'm, what 8 years behind lol!

I've had the game since it was new, and I start over every time a new mod I like comes out. I've never progressed beyond 1940. You're not that for behind.

Anyway, the only other sub sim I played was Aces of the Deep years ago.

And I still play that one as well.

So, I purchased SH3 and decided to apply the Living Silent Hunter 5.1 add on. I didn't want to get crazy with add on's yet. I downloaded this as well as GWX(?) but I will try this for a while first.

And you made a good choice. GWX provides the most rounded, complete experience, in my opinion anyway, but LSH3 is quite good.

1) Menu music vs. Gramaphone. I downloaded a bunch of ogg files so I can have some cool old music playing, but it seems that the game menu music never stops. I enjoy listening to the menu music but I would like it to stop once I decide to play the Grammaphone. I don't understand the four symbols that show up, especially the one on the left. There is map looking thing with an arrow.. then what looks like a reverse, then stop, then forward. Where does it explain these buttons? Can I have both the Grammaphone music AND the "dramatic music" that seems to show up when I move around?

I went into the 'Sound' folder and deleted all the mood music. They wanted a "movie" experience, and I wanted a realistic experience. I don't seem to have music following me around in my life, and neither did they.

Just my opinion, of course.

2) I'm a beginner but I always like to play sims in "realistic" mode. I decided to set everything to historical 100%, then I changed the following:

For the most part they aren't so much "realism" levels as "difficulty" levels. In some ways the game is harder than it was in real life.

External view: I will probably turn this off sooner or later, but I just like to enjoy the cool view occasionally.

Same here. It is nice to see what you can, and to take pictures of it.

Allow assistance (or advice) for the fire control computer thingy lol.
While I enjoy entering my own values and trying to determine the AOB, range, velocity, etc.. with the LH3 addon, it seems the ID manual is a little messed up, so I need assistance ONLY with identifying ships. I will still enter data manually.

I suck at advanced math, so I use the WE assistance, but in manual mode. It's a cheat, but if feels better than full auto mode.

Any suggestions for a beginner other than just go practice?

No. The good thing about a game is that you can "die" and still come back to learn from the experience. Gotta love it.

[jscharpf]

Thanks for the tips! I will remove the stupid mood music.
When I have to run silent I want to run silent lol!

However, I DO love the menu music

One thing for sure, I would not have made it on a submarine. I get seasick (for real) playing this game lol!

[Gerald]