YOU MEAN THAT'S it???

VonGlaus · 01-28-10, 01:10 AM

Spoiler Alert: We win the war!

So I'm cruising of the coast of Okinawa in August of 45. Get a radio announcement on the 12th that we dropped an A-bomb yesterday! Then (as near as I can tell) at 0001 on the 15th allofasudden BAM. Goes to end game screen, and in little characters it says "The war ended".

That's IT? Where's the bands? Where's the Parades? Where's the suicidal destroyer that refused to acknowledge the message?

Man, talk about anticlimactic. But hey, I survived to the end of the war! Take that, Ducimus! Of course, now I have to install your latest patch
...and start over
...at the beginning of the war
...in an S-boat.

Been nice knowing everybody.

Letum · 01-28-10, 01:33 AM

It's all about the journey.

VonGlaus · 01-28-10, 02:38 AM

I really, really wanted to get on a Japanese radio frequency and broadcast, "All your base are belong to us"! Then I could have sued for copyright infringement 40 years later.

Boy, are S-boats a giant leap backwards! Where's my radar? Who took my stern tubes?

Armistead · 01-28-10, 03:31 AM

It can differ a little depending on where you are, in port or not, but sadly not much to it. I was hoping to pull my sub into Tokyo Bay for some SS's.

Ducimus · 01-28-10, 04:21 AM

You know there is that ending cut scene / movie. I'm assuming it played for you. That, is a heck of a lot more then what we got in Sh3. All you got was a radio message and that was it.

urfisch · 01-28-10, 04:41 AM

yeah. this is really poor. you fighted and survided the war and all you get is this. also the death screen in sh3 was poor...just a cut and water in the back, with your boat in it..."you are dead"...

lol

Torplexed · 01-28-10, 05:38 AM

We've had a few players inquire if you can see the Hiroshima or Nagasaki mushroom clouds in the game if you're in the right spot.

Nope. Not included. You'd probably fry you eyes out anyway.

Most US subs were ordered returned to the United States at war's end. I wouldn't count on parades or bands in-game though.

jerm138 · 01-28-10, 09:25 AM

It would have been nice to add something like a message telling you to surface and tune in your radio. Then when you surface you hear actual audio recordings of radio reports from the end of the war, and you can hear your men cheering too.
Then it could take you to a cut-screen with actual historic photos and videos of submarines at the end of the war, with background music or more radio reports.

Word boxes could flash up on the screen telling the history of submarines immediately following the war, maybe tell what happened to key players like Swede Momsen.

Something like this would tie up the end of the game nicely and wouldn't really take up much resources or programming time.

I haven't reached the end yet, though... so I'll have to wait and see the movie Ducimus mentioned.

Ducimus · 01-28-10, 12:55 PM

If you install the rad smacker video player you can preview all the movies.

In TMO, i haven't checked the cfg files to make sure they all play right. Right now im rerwriting all the patrol missions and flotilla assignments for TMO, so it would be a good time to make sure all the movies are playing when they should. Particuarlly the end movie.

If anyone whos made it to the very end of the war, and has NOT seen the end movie, let me know, cause i need to fix that. The end movie is a great synopis of the whole shebang.

VonGlaus · 01-30-10, 01:56 AM

I don't remember seeing any movie at the end, but I did have a good scotch in me by then. I got several static photo screens telling me how I fared after the war, that was all. I guess I should be happy I survived, right?

aanker · 01-30-10, 12:17 PM

I was disappointed too - I'm not satisfied with the end screen with wording describing me as being an industrialist with a statue for the pigeons - anyway my point is, in Silent Hunter I - SHCE - the end movie had the sub sailing beneath the golden gate bridge with a fireworks display overhead. SH1 made me feel like I did something.

It's OK though, I understand, ( caution you may need to close your eyes for this next part): What would UBI know about winning a war when they're experts at building German U-Boat games.... ha! ( for the sensitive people, that was intended to be a joke )

If you can't win, I guess it's like he said up there, "it's all about the journey".

Happy Hunting!

Art

PS: also, there are suppose to be 48 stars not 50 on the US flag in 1945. Alaska and Hawaii didn't become states until the 50's.

aanker · 01-30-10, 12:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Letum

It's all about the journey.

Insert cool graphics here

Feel free to use any of these sigs for your self. Vive la resistance!

Thanks Letum! I will put them to good use ;-)

Happy Hunting!

Platapus · 01-30-10, 02:20 PM

I had the same issue with SH3. it would have been nice to have some sort of ending other than a Porky Pig type

gdgdgdgdgdgdgd That's all folks

I'm goin' down · 01-31-10, 02:09 AM

Bitch, Bitch, Bitch.... bla, bla, bla. At least you made it to the end of the war. My computer motherboard ended my career with the blue screen of death at the precise moment one of Ducimus' destroyers laid a depth charge down on top of me. All I can do now is visit the forums and listen to you guys whine about a game's ending that I will never see. %&#@*!

You will get a victory parade in SF when after you return to port.

That is credit enough.

VonGlaus · 01-31-10, 11:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by I'm goin' down

Bitch, Bitch, Bitch.... bla, bla, bla. At least you made it to the end of the war. My computer motherboard ended my career with the blue screen of death at the precise moment one of Ducimus' destroyers laid a depth charge down on top of me. All I can do now is visit the forums and listen to you guys whine about a game's ending that I will never see. %&#@*!

You will get a victory parade in SF when after you return to port.

That is credit enough.

Heh. Thanks for putting it back in perspective!

Hmmm, just HOW realistic is Ducimus making this sim, anyway?

01-28-10, 01:10 AM	#1
VonGlaus Gunner Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 92 Downloads: 30 Uploads: 0	YOU MEAN THAT'S it??? Spoiler Alert: We win the war! So I'm cruising of the coast of Okinawa in August of 45. Get a radio announcement on the 12th that we dropped an A-bomb yesterday! Then (as near as I can tell) at 0001 on the 15th allofasudden BAM. Goes to end game screen, and in little characters it says "The war ended". That's IT? Where's the bands? Where's the Parades? Where's the suicidal destroyer that refused to acknowledge the message? Man, talk about anticlimactic. But hey, I survived to the end of the war! Take that, Ducimus! Of course, now I have to install your latest patch ...and start over ...at the beginning of the war ...in an S-boat. Been nice knowing everybody.

01-28-10, 01:33 AM	#2
Letum Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: York - UK Posts: 6,079 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	It's all about the journey. __________________

01-28-10, 04:41 AM	#6
urfisch Sea Lord Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Deep down in Germany Posts: 1,969 Downloads: 42 Uploads: 0	yeah. this is really poor. you fighted and survided the war and all you get is this. also the death screen in sh3 was poor...just a cut and water in the back, with your boat in it..."you are dead"... lol __________________

01-28-10, 05:38 AM	#7
Torplexed Let's Sink Sumptin' ! Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 5,823 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	We've had a few players inquire if you can see the Hiroshima or Nagasaki mushroom clouds in the game if you're in the right spot. Nope. Not included. You'd probably fry you eyes out anyway. Most US subs were ordered returned to the United States at war's end. I wouldn't count on parades or bands in-game though. Last edited by Torplexed; 01-28-10 at 05:53 AM.

01-28-10, 09:25 AM	#8
jerm138 Watch Officer Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 332 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	It would have been nice to add something like a message telling you to surface and tune in your radio. Then when you surface you hear actual audio recordings of radio reports from the end of the war, and you can hear your men cheering too. Then it could take you to a cut-screen with actual historic photos and videos of submarines at the end of the war, with background music or more radio reports. Word boxes could flash up on the screen telling the history of submarines immediately following the war, maybe tell what happened to key players like Swede Momsen. Something like this would tie up the end of the game nicely and wouldn't really take up much resources or programming time. I haven't reached the end yet, though... so I'll have to wait and see the movie Ducimus mentioned. __________________

01-28-10, 02:38 AM	#3
VonGlaus Gunner Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 92 Downloads: 30 Uploads: 0	I really, really wanted to get on a Japanese radio frequency and broadcast, "All your base are belong to us"! Then I could have sued for copyright infringement 40 years later. Boy, are S-boats a giant leap backwards! Where's my radar? Who took my stern tubes?

01-28-10, 03:31 AM	#4
Armistead Rear Admiral Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: on the Dan Posts: 10,880 Downloads: 364 Uploads: 0	It can differ a little depending on where you are, in port or not, but sadly not much to it. I was hoping to pull my sub into Tokyo Bay for some SS's.

01-28-10, 04:21 AM	#5
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	You know there is that ending cut scene / movie. I'm assuming it played for you. That, is a heck of a lot more then what we got in Sh3. All you got was a radio message and that was it.

01-28-10, 12:55 PM	#9
Ducimus Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 12,987 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 2	If you install the rad smacker video player you can preview all the movies. In TMO, i haven't checked the cfg files to make sure they all play right. Right now im rerwriting all the patrol missions and flotilla assignments for TMO, so it would be a good time to make sure all the movies are playing when they should. Particuarlly the end movie. If anyone whos made it to the very end of the war, and has NOT seen the end movie, let me know, cause i need to fix that. The end movie is a great synopis of the whole shebang.

01-30-10, 01:56 AM	#10
VonGlaus Gunner Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 92 Downloads: 30 Uploads: 0	I don't remember seeing any movie at the end, but I did have a good scotch in me by then. I got several static photo screens telling me how I fared after the war, that was all. I guess I should be happy I survived, right?

01-30-10, 12:17 PM	#11
aanker Pacific Thunder Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yellow Sea Posts: 1,896 Downloads: 236 Uploads: 14	I was disappointed too - I'm not satisfied with the end screen with wording describing me as being an industrialist with a statue for the pigeons - anyway my point is, in Silent Hunter I - SHCE - the end movie had the sub sailing beneath the golden gate bridge with a fireworks display overhead. SH1 made me feel like I did something. It's OK though, I understand, ( caution you may need to close your eyes for this next part): What would UBI know about winning a war when they're experts at building German U-Boat games.... ha! ( for the sensitive people, that was intended to be a joke ) If you can't win, I guess it's like he said up there, "it's all about the journey". Happy Hunting! Art PS: also, there are suppose to be 48 stars not 50 on the US flag in 1945. Alaska and Hawaii didn't become states until the 50's. __________________ " Bless those who serve beneath the deep, Through lonely hours their vigil keep. May peace their mission ever be, Protect each one we ask of thee. Bless those at home who wait and pray, For their return by night and day."

01-30-10, 02:20 PM	#13
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,365 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	I had the same issue with SH3. it would have been nice to have some sort of ending other than a Porky Pig type gdgdgdgdgdgdgd That's all folks __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

01-31-10, 02:09 AM	#14
I'm goin' down Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Notify command we have entered the Grass Sea Posts: 2,822 Downloads: 813 Uploads: 0	you were lucky Bitch, Bitch, Bitch.... bla, bla, bla. At least you made it to the end of the war. My computer motherboard ended my career with the blue screen of death at the precise moment one of Ducimus' destroyers laid a depth charge down on top of me. All I can do now is visit the forums and listen to you guys whine about a game's ending that I will never see. %&#@*! You will get a victory parade in SF when after you return to port. That is credit enough.