SH3 Help!

GulfCoastTiger · 08-28-09, 11:24 AM

Hello all, this is my first post on this forum and from browsing around it seems like a great community!

I'd like to start off saying I'm truly not a sim fan. Well, especially of Flight Simulator. Growing up watching my dad play that game... sitting in that cockpit... just coasting for hours seemed like the prime example of sheer boredom. I'm a huge fan of FPS, RPG, and RTS games. Anyway, last week I was scrounging around the Steam store and ran across SH3. Just $9.99 and had a metacritic score of 90?? I had to investigate! Review sites were just raving and raving about the game and I thought to myself.. "Well, I really don't enjoy simulation games... but this seems actually really interesting and i've always loved Sub movies!" With that said I decided to do it.

Hands down best $10 I could ever imagine spending. The atmosphere. The gameplay. The realism. Such a rewarding experience! Okay, enough wasting your time (im just on cloud 9 with this game lol) and on with my probably ignorant questions.

1.) Renown. So I start in 1939 as my starting point (no mods installed) and I do my patrols. Now, my question is... what all effects the amount of renown you gain from your mission? I've sunk 1 enemy cargo ship and 2 neutral cargo ships in 5 patrols. But I almost believe that I got more renown, or just as much, finishing a round with no ship sunk compared to one where I sunk a neutral cargo ship. If someone could explain the renown system i'd really appreciate it.

2.) I'm starting to get better at intercepting boats and getting myself in great position to hunt down ships. My question here is on what do I base how much lead I need to give my torpedo? Can anyone give me a general way of finding how much I need to lead my shots to be more precise? I know im supposed to try to fire between the bearing 350-10'ish. I feel like im just kinda guessing when it comes to leading my shots.... which of course it'd feel better if i KNEW what I was doing then just saying "Hmm okay this seems like enough lead.... FIRE!

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3.) Me being a beginner, is GWX really worth it? It seems like, from what i've read, that GWX is just an all-praised piece of modding work in all it's glory. Would you suggest I install GWX no matter my experience? Also does it change the campaign?

That's all the questions I have now guys, I realize this post is obnoxiously long but it'd appreciate it if someone could lend me some advice. Even if you just want to pick at one of the 3 questions it'd help me enjoy the experience that much more. Thanks so much SubSim community!

08-28-09, 11:24 AM	#1
GulfCoastTiger Swabbie Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 10 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	SH3 Help! Hello all, this is my first post on this forum and from browsing around it seems like a great community! I'd like to start off saying I'm truly not a sim fan. Well, especially of Flight Simulator. Growing up watching my dad play that game... sitting in that cockpit... just coasting for hours seemed like the prime example of sheer boredom. I'm a huge fan of FPS, RPG, and RTS games. Anyway, last week I was scrounging around the Steam store and ran across SH3. Just $9.99 and had a metacritic score of 90?? I had to investigate! Review sites were just raving and raving about the game and I thought to myself.. "Well, I really don't enjoy simulation games... but this seems actually really interesting and i've always loved Sub movies!" With that said I decided to do it. Hands down best $10 I could ever imagine spending. The atmosphere. The gameplay. The realism. Such a rewarding experience! Okay, enough wasting your time (im just on cloud 9 with this game lol) and on with my probably ignorant questions. 1.) Renown. So I start in 1939 as my starting point (no mods installed) and I do my patrols. Now, my question is... what all effects the amount of renown you gain from your mission? I've sunk 1 enemy cargo ship and 2 neutral cargo ships in 5 patrols. But I almost believe that I got more renown, or just as much, finishing a round with no ship sunk compared to one where I sunk a neutral cargo ship. If someone could explain the renown system i'd really appreciate it. 2.) I'm starting to get better at intercepting boats and getting myself in great position to hunt down ships. My question here is on what do I base how much lead I need to give my torpedo? Can anyone give me a general way of finding how much I need to lead my shots to be more precise? I know im supposed to try to fire between the bearing 350-10'ish. I feel like im just kinda guessing when it comes to leading my shots.... which of course it'd feel better if i KNEW what I was doing then just saying "Hmm okay this seems like enough lead.... FIRE!". 3.) Me being a beginner, is GWX really worth it? It seems like, from what i've read, that GWX is just an all-praised piece of modding work in all it's glory. Would you suggest I install GWX no matter my experience? Also does it change the campaign? That's all the questions I have now guys, I realize this post is obnoxiously long but it'd appreciate it if someone could lend me some advice. Even if you just want to pick at one of the 3 questions it'd help me enjoy the experience that much more. Thanks so much SubSim community!