Locating Merchant Ships

theglenlivet12 · 03-20-10, 09:51 AM

Sorry if this has been posted before, but I did make an effort to find the answer on the forums and couldnt find anything.

I am brand new to the SH series and watching youtube videos of campaign play, it looked pretty fun and I thought Id have a go. I completed the tutorial no problems and figured out how to select the next mission (eventually) and headed for the coast of England. I played for 5 hours last night. I saw 3 squads of planes and was spotted by an escort. Any time I saw a merchant ship, it just seemed to disappear, no matter how close I got to it. I tried going to peri depth, staying on the surface and even extreme speed ahead, but it would either seem to flee, matching my speed or simply disappear. Then Id always have some blue line shortly after drawn off the right or left of the ship that seemed to shadow me, saying it was a warship. I tried one time even turning into it to see if it really was a warship, and it just mirrors my moves and stays a short distance away. Im starting to think that it cant be this hard. Im playing on medium settings. Is there something Im missing or did I just get a bad install? I hope to figure this out because so far, this isnt a whole lot of fun

03-20-10, 09:51 AM	#1
theglenlivet12 Mate Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 54 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Locating Merchant Ships Sorry if this has been posted before, but I did make an effort to find the answer on the forums and couldnt find anything. I am brand new to the SH series and watching youtube videos of campaign play, it looked pretty fun and I thought Id have a go. I completed the tutorial no problems and figured out how to select the next mission (eventually) and headed for the coast of England. I played for 5 hours last night. I saw 3 squads of planes and was spotted by an escort. Any time I saw a merchant ship, it just seemed to disappear, no matter how close I got to it. I tried going to peri depth, staying on the surface and even extreme speed ahead, but it would either seem to flee, matching my speed or simply disappear. Then Id always have some blue line shortly after drawn off the right or left of the ship that seemed to shadow me, saying it was a warship. I tried one time even turning into it to see if it really was a warship, and it just mirrors my moves and stays a short distance away. Im starting to think that it cant be this hard. Im playing on medium settings. Is there something Im missing or did I just get a bad install? I hope to figure this out because so far, this isnt a whole lot of fun