Endless storm? (gwx)

06-20-07, 06:05 PM

"Isn't the weather gorgeous out there?"
"No Chief, you can't make me go up there, no f... way!"

It rains, pours, wind tries to roll over the boat and at 1200 hours visibility reaches impressive 250m... Most of the time the weather is like that. It's impossible to hunt anything! Recently near Gibraltar I was following a convoy, took some time to get close to it (find it) and after these few hours, when I started the hunt with 7-9m/s, no rain, now I found myself in a middle of hell. I was going flank and "ship spotted!" Quick glance from the bridge and full reverse!! Merchant was 300m in front of me. Fired 3 eels into some shadows, 3 hits, 1 sunk, gave it up and headed for Thalia. After resupply, the sea is dead calm, no wind and I'm doing morning "exercises" with DD's near Gibraltar (Tribal Class is already a new fish-home).

When I start the patrol the weather is always like on a postcard... after some time after leaving port I keep doing circles having no idea where I am. I was amazed when reached Iceland and except high wave it was beautiful.

I'm doing longer patrols each time and the weather doesn't change, like now it was raining for 2 weeks and only near land wind dropped to 9m/s... so I docked at Thalia. Forgot to stay there for few days with x1024 to see if it helps.

Is this normal? I can remember 2/10 patrols with mostly good hunting weather... rest of them had just very few good moments. I was shocked at first when I launched GWX but now I'm just so tired... especially when trying to navigate manually.

Another Q: does it make any difference who is at the hydro station? I've got my well trained Funker Heinz with 9 patrols, 320 experience, 1 class Cross and... he often can't hear a thing when he's most needed to give me constant readouts. Right now when playing with DD I've gave him time to rest before the next one, put in his place a good sailor who right away started to report far contact... It just doesn't make sense. Is the Funker only for Funk and Hydro doesn't matter?

Except the weather thing, GWX rocks! Can't wait 1.04!

PS as usual it was meant to be a short Q but just love to write here

KeptinCranky · 06-20-07, 07:17 PM

weather can be real nasty like that, but I'm running the SH3 weather program which seems to make it a lot more variable.
although I'm now in the North atlantic and all it varies is amount of fog and wind direction, it's a constant 15 m/s gale, but that's to be expected in October.

as for a heavy storm starting almost exactly on the dot 4 days after you leave port, I've noticed that too, I try and work around/through it by going for far patrol areas so I can get out of the really nasty weather.

as for Funkers, yes I have noticed the same but with 2 skilled funkers and a full efficiency bar I get a few more hydrophone contacts, although I tend to check up on them personally a lot

what they do seem to affect a lot is the amount of radio contact reports you get, and believe me it's quite significant:hmm:

blue3golf · 06-20-07, 07:44 PM

My first couple patrols the weather was horrible for most of the trip, until I got out by the Bay of Biscay, then I had calm seas and fog. Lately though I've had clear sailing throughout patrols so luck of the draw I guess.

Avatar · 06-20-07, 07:45 PM

Weather is very predictable in sh3. That huge storm sets in, usually right about the time I want to save and that resets the weather from what I hear. I tried the weather mod and my game went nuts. Sh3 commander wouldnt load and an error prompt came up. GWX was fine though. I just uninstalled sh3 commander and reinstalled it after I uninstalled the weather mod, and everything is fine. I guess what Im saying is becareful by backing up those files that are about to change.
I winder if GWX crew can do anything about this?

Reece · 06-20-07, 07:58 PM

If you want better weather you can edit with notepad the following in all 3 campaign mis files right at the top: (stock)

[Mission]
Title=GWXR1.02FULL
MissionType=0
MissionDataType=1
Year=1939
Month=1
Day=1
Hour=12
Minute=0
Fog=0
FogRand=0
Clouds=0
CloudsRand=0
Precip=0
PrecipRand=0
WindHeading=0
WindSpeed=5.000000
WindRand=0
WeatherRndInterval=5
SeaType=0
Briefing=

06-20-07, 08:24 PM

Thx for the input, I've changed the random parm to 1 and will see what happens. I prefer sudden weather brakedowns than constant storm...

Just sunk W&V during a beautiful sunset! My exercises in the mouth of Gibraltar continues

BTW From now on my sonarman will be my medic!
BTW2 Crews medals and skills are way to fast i think. Half a year at sea, another half at the docks and my crew looks like a bunch of perfect shiny killer robots with medals top to bottom...

Schöneboom · 06-20-07, 08:36 PM

Guten Abend, Hadrys,

Your description sounds exactly like the vanilla SH3 weather pattern: perfect near your base, lousy almost everywhere else! On my last patrol it was so awful for days (rain, huge waves, & fog: the Grand Slam) that after wasting 2 eels I decided, "Maybe if I head home, it'll get better, & then I'll hit something." And sure enough, while crossing the North Sea east of Scapa, the skies cleared up.

The down side was I didn't realize this until my lookouts spotted a DD coming towards us, and I dropped out of 1024X TC -- I was chugging along merrily in broad daylight, and you could see for miles. Whoops!

A case of, "Be careful what you wish for!"

Reece · 06-20-07, 09:45 PM

Quote:

sounds exactly like the vanilla SH3 weather pattern

I was having almost every day stormy in GWX so I changed to stock as above & now I have a good veriety! Go figure hey!

06-20-07, 06:05 PM	#1
Hadrys Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Endless storm? (gwx) "Isn't the weather gorgeous out there?" "No Chief, you can't make me go up there, no f... way!" It rains, pours, wind tries to roll over the boat and at 1200 hours visibility reaches impressive 250m... Most of the time the weather is like that. It's impossible to hunt anything! Recently near Gibraltar I was following a convoy, took some time to get close to it (find it) and after these few hours, when I started the hunt with 7-9m/s, no rain, now I found myself in a middle of hell. I was going flank and "ship spotted!" Quick glance from the bridge and full reverse!! Merchant was 300m in front of me. Fired 3 eels into some shadows, 3 hits, 1 sunk, gave it up and headed for Thalia. After resupply, the sea is dead calm, no wind and I'm doing morning "exercises" with DD's near Gibraltar (Tribal Class is already a new fish-home). When I start the patrol the weather is always like on a postcard... after some time after leaving port I keep doing circles having no idea where I am. I was amazed when reached Iceland and except high wave it was beautiful. I'm doing longer patrols each time and the weather doesn't change, like now it was raining for 2 weeks and only near land wind dropped to 9m/s... so I docked at Thalia. Forgot to stay there for few days with x1024 to see if it helps. Is this normal? I can remember 2/10 patrols with mostly good hunting weather... rest of them had just very few good moments. I was shocked at first when I launched GWX but now I'm just so tired... especially when trying to navigate manually. Another Q: does it make any difference who is at the hydro station? I've got my well trained Funker Heinz with 9 patrols, 320 experience, 1 class Cross and... he often can't hear a thing when he's most needed to give me constant readouts. Right now when playing with DD I've gave him time to rest before the next one, put in his place a good sailor who right away started to report far contact... It just doesn't make sense. Is the Funker only for Funk and Hydro doesn't matter? Except the weather thing, GWX rocks! Can't wait 1.04! PS as usual it was meant to be a short Q but just love to write here Last edited by Hadrys; 06-20-07 at 09:05 PM.

06-20-07, 07:58 PM	#5
Reece CINC Pacific Fleet Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Down Under Posts: 34,693 Downloads: 171 Uploads: 0	If you want better weather you can edit with notepad the following in all 3 campaign mis files right at the top: (stock) [Mission] Title=GWXR1.02FULL MissionType=0 MissionDataType=1 Year=1939 Month=1 Day=1 Hour=12 Minute=0 Fog=0 FogRand=0 Clouds=0 CloudsRand=0 Precip=0 PrecipRand=0 WindHeading=0 WindSpeed=5.000000 WindRand=0 WeatherRndInterval=5 SeaType=0 Briefing= __________________ *Sub captains go down with their ship!*

06-20-07, 08:36 PM	#7
Schöneboom Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: San Francisco, CA Posts: 651 Downloads: 36 Uploads: 0	Guten Abend, Hadrys, Your description sounds exactly like the vanilla SH3 weather pattern: perfect near your base, lousy almost everywhere else! On my last patrol it was so awful for days (rain, huge waves, & fog: the Grand Slam) that after wasting 2 eels I decided, "Maybe if I head home, it'll get better, & then I'll hit something." And sure enough, while crossing the North Sea east of Scapa, the skies cleared up. The down side was I didn't realize this until my lookouts spotted a DD coming towards us, and I dropped out of 1024X TC -- I was chugging along merrily in broad daylight, and you could see for miles. Whoops! A case of, "Be careful what you wish for!" __________________ Dietrich Schöneboom, U-431 "Es wird klappen, Herr Kaleun. Ganz sicher."

06-20-07, 07:17 PM	#2
KeptinCranky Ace of the Deep Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Netherlands Posts: 1,050 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	weather can be real nasty like that, but I'm running the SH3 weather program which seems to make it a lot more variable. although I'm now in the North atlantic and all it varies is amount of fog and wind direction, it's a constant 15 m/s gale, but that's to be expected in October. as for a heavy storm starting almost exactly on the dot 4 days after you leave port, I've noticed that too, I try and work around/through it by going for far patrol areas so I can get out of the really nasty weather. as for Funkers, yes I have noticed the same but with 2 skilled funkers and a full efficiency bar I get a few more hydrophone contacts, although I tend to check up on them personally a lot what they do seem to affect a lot is the amount of radio contact reports you get, and believe me it's quite significant:hmm:

06-20-07, 07:44 PM	#3
blue3golf Weps Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Traverse City, MI Posts: 352 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	My first couple patrols the weather was horrible for most of the trip, until I got out by the Bay of Biscay, then I had calm seas and fog. Lately though I've had clear sailing throughout patrols so luck of the draw I guess.

06-20-07, 07:45 PM	#4
Avatar Commodore Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Way out there Posts: 603 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Weather is very predictable in sh3. That huge storm sets in, usually right about the time I want to save and that resets the weather from what I hear. I tried the weather mod and my game went nuts. Sh3 commander wouldnt load and an error prompt came up. GWX was fine though. I just uninstalled sh3 commander and reinstalled it after I uninstalled the weather mod, and everything is fine. I guess what Im saying is becareful by backing up those files that are about to change. I winder if GWX crew can do anything about this?

06-20-07, 08:24 PM	#6
Hadrys Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Thx for the input, I've changed the random parm to 1 and will see what happens. I prefer sudden weather brakedowns than constant storm... Just sunk W&V during a beautiful sunset! My exercises in the mouth of Gibraltar continues BTW From now on my sonarman will be my medic! BTW2 Crews medals and skills are way to fast i think. Half a year at sea, another half at the docks and my crew looks like a bunch of perfect shiny killer robots with medals top to bottom...