DL'd and installed GWX3....

[Tynan]

Greetings all. I took everyone's advice and got GWX3, and oh man, it's like what SH3 should have been but the devs didn't have time for lol...
Ok first off the Realism setting is at 80%. I'm not going directly to 100% until I get the hang of things, having been on 2 Patrols already and not fired a single torpedo (no opportunity). The only settings that are not checked are: -Dud torpedoes (I just don't want to think about that...)
-No Weapon Officer assisted targetting (I want him to do his job)
-Manual torpedo targeting (it seems atrociously complicated)

Starting first "official" Patrol for GWX now.

[Dissaray]

Good luck on your campain, GWX is a whole differant monster. I was personaly hopin' that UBI would have just "barowed" GWX and updated the graphics for SH5 but, alas, it was not to be.

Those setings are good for just starting with GWX, I personaly jumped in befor I had SH3 all figured out so I had to start lower. Dud torpidos aren't as scary as it sounds, if you keep your torpidos inside a 20degre arc when it impacts the target you don't get a lot of duds. And later in the war they are almost a non-issue.

Manual targeting also isn't as scary as it is made out to be by some. I found some good tutorials, both writen and as vidio, and wrote down all the steps I needed to do in my own words to better understand the process, and that worked a trick for me; well that and the use of some other mods that add some neto tools for target data gathering.

[Kpt. Lehmann]

SINK'EM ALL guys!

Really glad you enjoy our work.

[Pappy55]

After GWX I just cant go back to vanilla SHIII..

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Pappy55

After GWX I just cant go back to vanilla SHIII..

Why would anybody want to?

But there are lots of good add-ons for GWX as well: The Kiel Canal Locks mod, DD's newest Open Hatch mod...

And don't forget to optimize your career with SH3 Commander. It does for your career what GWX does for the game itself. You'll never look back.

[Jimbuna]

Enjoy the GWXperience

SINK EM ALL!!

[Pappy55]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Why would anybody want to?

But there are lots of good add-ons for GWX as well: The Kiel Canal Locks mod, DD's newest Open Hatch mod...

And don't forget to optimize your career with SH3 Commander. It does for your career what GWX does for the game itself. You'll never look back.

I may have to get that Kiel Canal mod.

[Sailor Steve]

It's a good one.



But better are in the works.

[Tynan]

Turning due East after leaving the Wilhelmshaven docks, I plotted a course for the Straight of Dover and decided to do a test run of the Batteries and Oxygen. I wanted to establish how long the Batteries would hold out while submerged at Ahead Standard.
I submerged to P-depth and pinged the DuK (Depth under Keel). 18 meters. I dived to 20 meters and the DuK became 10 meters. I figured it wouldn't get much shallower than that because the course I set pretty much followed parallel with the shoreline. Big mistake.
Time compression at 8x, moving along, turned due North at next waypoint to leave the Bay, an hour later, then BAM....systems were getting knocked around left and right. I immediately surfaced and did damage control. To my horror, the DuK (while surfaced!) read 12 meters?!
Probably the only complaint that I have so far is the depth of the ocean in this game. It's just not realistically deep enough. The continental shelf at 5km out from shore should be at least 80 to 100meters, not 12-20...
Anyway it wasn't a total loss. Everything repaired, leaks repaired, and going steady at 14kts.

[Sailor Steve]

Were you still in the North Sea? There are places that are deeper, but you should never go below periscope depth, just in case.

Out in the Atlantic it's plenty deep, but in the Nordsee, be careful.

[KiwiVenge]

I realize with the dodgy release of SH 5 you guys here are probably being inundated with mod's for SH3 questions so thought I would tack my question on the end of this thread

After installing the latest GWX supermod are there anymore 'must have' mods?

[KL-alfman]

Originally Posted by KiwiVenge

I realize with the dodgy release of SH 5 you guys here are probably being inundated with mod's for SH3 questions so thought I would tack my question on the end of this thread

After installing the latest GWX supermod are there anymore 'must have' mods?

I visited the SH3-mods-forum recently and was overwhelmed by the massive amount of newer mods just released or soon to be.
there is FM's "interior", SH5-water for GWX, the wide-screen mod by Rubini, the new Wilhelmshaven andsoon. I really lost track which one to install immediately. so I tried just the SH5-water, and it is awesome. the colours are great, the foam on top of the waves realistic and the sky very "atlanticy" pale. it even corrects the unrealistic high-waves at 15m/s wind which bring you down below 10m and when sometimes the hydro tells you he got a bearing .....

[Jimbuna]

You might want to try the Q ship mod (available from my FF page)...but there are many other mods to choose from.

A tip: Try to use only those that are installable via JSGME because they are then easily removed without causing damage to your game installation.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by KiwiVenge

After installing the latest GWX supermod are there anymore 'must have' mods?

I won't play without the GWX Integrated Orders mod, which comes with GWX so you may have it enabled already.

SH3 Commander isn't really a mod but I wouldn't want to do without that either. JSGME is essential for the hassle-free enabling and disabling of the vast majority of whatever mods I do want to use or experiment with.

I had DD's OH v3.09 (or whatever the latest one is) and took it off for a bit but put it back on cuz I missed it so much.

A 16K atmosphere mod is nice if your system can handle it, GWX has one that comes with the install, I've been using that but will be trying out a different enviromental mod after I finish my current patrol and then see which I like best.

There are so many, really, a lot depends on what elements of the game are most important to you since those are the ones you will want to add to, change, or enhance.

[Sailor Steve]

Here's a list of all the mods I was using when I had to stop playing. I'm looking forward to some of the new ones coming out, especially the corrected harbors.

GWX 3.0
GWX 3.0 16km Atmosphere
(GWX 3.0 Enhanced Damage Effects) Too much for my card
GWX 3.0 Open Hatch
GWX 3 St Naz and Schluese and other units
Assisted Plotting Mod
Clean Nav Map
Community Units
Das Boot Clothes
Das Boot Officers - AIL
Das Boot Sound Mod - DBSM Team
DFa UpDnRot + Flags - Anvart
Eagle Tower
English-To-German Names - Phoenix3000
Exhaust Smoke for Water Streams - Racerboy / Philipp Thomsen
Historically Accurate U-Boat Emblems - Conus
Kiel Canal Locks Mod - Trainer/Nautilus 42
Lifeboats & Debris - Rubini
Modified Searchlight Beams - OLC
New Freecam Mod - Asanovic7
New Compass Graphics U-505 - Hitman
No Rank Or Medals On Crew - Dertien
Open Hatch - Diving Duck
Port People - Pascal
RB Exhaust Smoke For Water Streams - Philipp Thomsen
Remove GWX Compass - ichso
Remove Station Labels
Rick's GWX Recognition Manual
Rowers For Lifeboats - Privateer
Seabed Repair Mod
SH3 Contacts - Nicolás
SH3 Weather
Simfeeling 6-Dials Mod - FLB_Sale U-999
Small Moon Mod - AIL
TDC Dials In Periscope View - FLB_Sale U-999
Type IIb AI Camo - Sean (changed to IIA)
Type VIIb Early War Skin
Ultimate Aircraft Sounds
Water Streams - Rubini

And of course SH3 Commander - JScones
Ship Names mod - Sailor Steve
Randomized Loading Screens - Sailor Steve