First timer with SH5 needs help and pointers

Von Due · 08-18-21, 12:42 AM

Thanks tons, Alpheratz!

Yeah I was confused over what you said there about the ID book since apparently I can't use it in the tutorial, which is peculiar to say the least. Now on my first test patrol, it's there alright! Sweet!

Seems there are more peculiarities with stock SH5 than I thought. The sound man is doing sod all, I have to manually listen to get any bearings (no map updates). No way I have found to communicate with the sound man, no track target, no report closest, nothing, he's just sitting there with his feet up pretending to be working.

I am beginning to wonder if my crew is active at all.

The deck gun mechanism is a bit of a mess if I can't tell them to hold fire.

EDIT: Looking through the config file for commands, there seems to be commands for everything I remember from SH3 like track/report nearest, hold fire, target water line, report weather and so on and so on but no keys have been bound to these. Not sure if I'm ready to mess around with that file yet. Been way too long since I did any editing of the SH3 files.

08-18-21, 12:42 AM	#6
Von Due Sea Lord Join Date: Jul 2012 Posts: 1,690 Downloads: 30 Uploads: 0	Thanks tons, Alpheratz! Yeah I was confused over what you said there about the ID book since apparently I can't use it in the tutorial, which is peculiar to say the least. Now on my first test patrol, it's there alright! Sweet! Seems there are more peculiarities with stock SH5 than I thought. The sound man is doing sod all, I have to manually listen to get any bearings (no map updates). No way I have found to communicate with the sound man, no track target, no report closest, nothing, he's just sitting there with his feet up pretending to be working. I am beginning to wonder if my crew is active at all. The deck gun mechanism is a bit of a mess if I can't tell them to hold fire. EDIT: Looking through the config file for commands, there seems to be commands for everything I remember from SH3 like track/report nearest, hold fire, target water line, report weather and so on and so on but no keys have been bound to these. Not sure if I'm ready to mess around with that file yet. Been way too long since I did any editing of the SH3 files. Last edited by Von Due; 08-18-21 at 01:18 AM.