Why Silent Hunter 4 is a love/hate relationship. - Page 2

ryanwigginton · 11-21-07, 07:06 AM

This game truly is a roller coaster at times. Great highs... followed by frustrating lows. Times when I think.. 'Wow, this game has really polished up nicely' and also times when I think 'What a bloody complete waste of time!'

First of all my setup... TM, RSRD, NSM and (of course) ROW.

1941 and first patrol in a Porpoise. Upon reaching my patrol area I encountered my first contact; 3 huge liners, two destroyers escorting. The convoys bearing is such that I can't quite catch them at periscope depth, but maybe I can get the attention of the trailing destroyer. I'm at flank speed, I get within about 3000 yrds of his port side before I see his signal light flashing and he slowly turns towards. I'm ranting.. I sunk both destroyers with a single torpedo (was very pleased with myself!). As you can imagine I'm rubbing my hands togethor now. I have 30,000 tons of liner at my mercy so I hit the surface and it's ahead flank to catch 'em up. Because I had NSM installed I knew these big ships would sink slow so instead of wasting torps I ordered the gun crew to begin firing at rear one while I lined up shots from the bridge on the lead. The idea being to slow 'em all right down by putting a couple of torps into each rather than hammering 4 or 5 into a single ship at once and over-killing. Well, I bit off more than I could chew and after drawn out engagement (including a few misses) I ran out of ammo with all three still on the surface even though each of them had taken at least two hits. Luckily, one of them went down eventually -the other two got away.

I head back to Jawa since my base at Manilla is being overun. It's a short run, so I go ahead full and I bump up to about 4000 time compression. However as I near the base and am just about to pull it out of time compression the docking option box pops up. As most of you probably know, you can't pull out of tc while this is up. I go to hit end patrol but the options grayed out! Panick, err.. ok re-arm/re-fuel! anything.. just remove this STUPID menu!!.. no sooner have I driven straight onto the concrete of the dock and the crew are dutifully calling out damage reports. I sigh, put her into reverse seconds before the game displays the all informative death camera. I go to check my saves and break down in tears as I see the entry at the top is Autosave leaving base.

Why I love AND hate this game. It has the same affect on you as a high maintenance blonde at times!

11-21-07, 07:06 AM	#1
ryanwigginton Weps Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Nottinghamshire Posts: 368 Downloads: 68 Uploads: 0	Why Silent Hunter 4 is a love/hate relationship. This game truly is a roller coaster at times. Great highs... followed by frustrating lows. Times when I think.. 'Wow, this game has really polished up nicely' and also times when I think 'What a bloody complete waste of time!' First of all my setup... TM, RSRD, NSM and (of course) ROW. 1941 and first patrol in a Porpoise. Upon reaching my patrol area I encountered my first contact; 3 huge liners, two destroyers escorting. The convoys bearing is such that I can't quite catch them at periscope depth, but maybe I can get the attention of the trailing destroyer. I'm at flank speed, I get within about 3000 yrds of his port side before I see his signal light flashing and he slowly turns towards. I'm ranting.. I sunk both destroyers with a single torpedo (was very pleased with myself!). As you can imagine I'm rubbing my hands togethor now. I have 30,000 tons of liner at my mercy so I hit the surface and it's ahead flank to catch 'em up. Because I had NSM installed I knew these big ships would sink slow so instead of wasting torps I ordered the gun crew to begin firing at rear one while I lined up shots from the bridge on the lead. The idea being to slow 'em all right down by putting a couple of torps into each rather than hammering 4 or 5 into a single ship at once and over-killing. Well, I bit off more than I could chew and after drawn out engagement (including a few misses) I ran out of ammo with all three still on the surface even though each of them had taken at least two hits. Luckily, one of them went down eventually -the other two got away. I head back to Jawa since my base at Manilla is being overun. It's a short run, so I go ahead full and I bump up to about 4000 time compression. However as I near the base and am just about to pull it out of time compression the docking option box pops up. As most of you probably know, you can't pull out of tc while this is up. I go to hit end patrol but the options grayed out! Panick, err.. ok re-arm/re-fuel! anything.. just remove this STUPID menu!!.. no sooner have I driven straight onto the concrete of the dock and the crew are dutifully calling out damage reports. I sigh, put her into reverse seconds before the game displays the all informative death camera. I go to check my saves and break down in tears as I see the entry at the top is Autosave leaving base. Why I love AND hate this game. It has the same affect on you as a high maintenance blonde at times!