I'm pretty sure there's no max dive depth in the mod, I think the default crash dive is actually set to 150m. (I lowered it) I've willingly gone under 150m a bunch of times though and ONCE recovered from being stranded on a ~200m seafloor.

I've also had the "save game failed" issue a few times, and couldn't find anything online that seemed to be a similar issue someone else had. And be warned, if it does happen, don't try to overwrite existing saves as it will corrupt them and they'll get removed. What area were you in when it happened? For me it was doing an eastern British coastal waters patrol. Also whenever it happened I had some other weird things happened: my watch officer and the rest of the watch would never go on deck when I surfaced, wounded crew members would never recover, and I couldn't use the XO's Silent Running ability. ("cannot comply", setting engines to silent running does the same thing BUT it doesn't make the soundguy shut the hell up and stop screaming) I haven't had issues with depth keeping when I get the save error though, though I believe in either/both the TDW Generic Patcher and Options File Editor programs there is something related to a depth keeping bug. Might want to double check that's enabled.

Wish I knew what the deal is with "save game failed", it happened to me a few times during this one patrol which I had to replay a few times. I also was going to try returning to base when I got the bug(s) to see if it would do an enter base autosave but I got a CTD when I got close to the port. I've heard it is best to not save often when on a mission, especially near other traffic, as it causes issues as well as resets the 48 timer for patrols.

Is there any way to greatly increase visibility at night? Adjusting Gamma doesnt help, i would like to enable Dynamic Env - Brighter Nights addon but i think it will screw up modlist stability, Thanks for any help.

Hi CJ

Check this out.

Post #170 How To Improve Underwater Visibility

Peter

I've also experienced the same issue few times after some fast cowboy convoy attacks with a extended use of 32/64 TC . :hmmm:

The issue is very rare which is both good and bad (hard to catch)...

So please, describe me in more details your convoy engagement after which "Save game failed" bug kicked in...

I'm particularly interested in ship kills during your convoy attack.

So far I can only confirm that sometimes when enemy freighter is destroyed the game will fail to create red destroyed mark together with common WEPS message in message area but in the same time your ship score in captain log will be increased. When this happen the game saving function will most likely become corrupted...This will mostly happen with imported DAT ships and possible cause may be TC during certain crucial moments...:hmmm:

I found the working stadimeter thanks. I am still in the first Mission. I reported the task force and Danzig port turned red. Sinking that taskforce is sooo hard. How can I determine a ships course at greater distances? Using the stadimeter is pretty unaccurate I guess. And ... well how can I dock in harbour??

I think I've got it! :yeah:
My previous theory is not correct. It's something related to destroyed KDB hydrophone and it's going to be fixed pretty soon.

It seems that if KDB receiver is destroyed while TC is used the game will fail to calculate damage properly and game saving function will become corrupted. If this is the case , the issue should be easy to fix without even campaign restart ... :yep:

I have two little questions:

- What is the name of the font "vanilla" in SH5?

- @ Vecko: What is the name of the font in your signature?

(Only to make my own signature for SH5 TWoS)...

Many thanks and best regards.

Fitzcarraldo :salute:

Comic Sans MS and Arial Black...:salute:

Many thanks...but:"Anlauf...." is Arial or Comic Sans?

And the other font I´m thinking is that in the SH5 main menu.

Best regards.

Fitzcarraldo :salute:

Since installing TWoS 1.4, I have not had a single torp explode on target. I have had quite a few hits but none have gone off. Is this correct for the German G7a torp?

Edit: I've just read the Wikipedia on these torps and they were useless like the American Bliss Mk 14 during the early years of the war and I also noticed that with the latest Generic Patcher snapshot included with TWoS 1.4, the options make for more realistic torps so I'll not complain about the amount of duds!!

Cant remember really, it was long time ago...:-?


Don't use magnetic detonators until late 1940 (or something like that). Use impact detonators and depth settings not deeper than 2-3 m. If you manage to score a hit with angle close to 90 deg there is a really high chance that torpedo will do the job... :yep:

:subsim: Cheers!

Basically, what happened was that I happened across a task force of, I believe, the HMS Queen Elizabeth and her destroyer screen. I decided to sneak in during the night and sink her because why not. I got within 2.5km, fired a spread of 4 torpedos and then promptly turned tail and ran as fast as I could the other direction.

2 struck her around the turrets and she exploded, which seemed to annoy the destroyer screen somewhat, and they spread out to find me. I couldn't outrun them so I decided to crash dive and wait them out. The problem with this was the fact that if I stayed above 100m they would invariably find me and circle above me indefinitely, doing no damage but never giving up no matter how long I left the simulation running. If I went below 100m they would immediately give up, however I would be sinking uncontrollably unless I blew ballast to get above 100m again (this happens every time I go below that depth no matter what and is very, very annoying).

If I did go below that depth and lose them I would thereafter not be able to save the game at all. Out of curiosity, since there seemed no other solution, I cheated and edited the save file to place me several dozen miles away from the location I was in after sinking the battleship, and doing this caused the screen to forget about me instantly. When I got closer to them I saw that the destroyed ship had been replaced magically by the HMS Barham. The only other way to get out of this situation was to simply not have attacked the ship at all.

I don't always get the save failed problem, but I do always seem to sink uncontrollably below 100m, which really makes escaping destroyers essentially impossible. I don't know why it's doing this.

EDIT: I just tested it again and this time I safely got to 103m and managed to maintain that depth, although for some reason the sub refused to go below that despite being ordered to do so. I safely returned to the surface. It seems that even the slightest damage to the boat is what makes it invariably sink when below 100m. Doesn't seem entirely realistic to me.

Strange behavior indeed and it shouldn't be like that ...:hmmm: No such problems in my game.

Do you use some additional mods by any chance? If not, then your mod enabling process has somehow gone wrong.

Save game failed bug is hopefully fixed with latest patch.
Sometimes is best solution to command all stop in order to get rid of pursuing destroyers.

You will find few useful tips on how to maintain extreme depth in FAQ and tips area...:yep:

I don't have any other actual mods. I have a few tweaks and things I have made to a few minor files (such as days in port etc) but nothing big. I don't think that's causing it. Next time I need to dive that deep (as usual my boat is heavily damaged) I'll put the diveplanes up as far as they go and see if that helps.

I do generally do all stop and it sometimes works. Other times the destroyers circle indefinitely for no particularly good reason.

One question, why every change i make on the "TDWs Option Editor" does not appear ingame.

Entry found: SH5InstallPath=C:\Ubisoft\Silent Hunter 5
Entry found: LastMenuTXT=C:\Ubisoft\Silent Hunter 5\MODS\The Wolves of Steel 1.04\data\Menu\menu.txt
Entry found: LastOptionsFilePath=C:\Ubisoft\Silent Hunter 5\MODS\The Wolves of Steel 1.04\data\Scripts\Menu\

You need to disable the mods via JSGME do the changes and reactivate.

Regards.

Fitzcarraldo :salute:

Thanks :rock:

I didn't remember that little detail :D

Another annoying testuser
 

Greetings, Grüss Gott, and all.

:)

Praising and Polishing:

After a long period of SH3 + GWX 3.0 I decided to test my new machine, and bought SH5. Despite the graphics, I almost had my heart stopped at the first test run, that I gave money for THIS pile of ******, even with a few selected mods it seemed an arcadised, and simplified version of every silent hunter, tailored for the braindead mainstream gamer, who have speed up reflexes for boom-headshot, but nothing else inside their skull.

Luckily I gave a try to Wolves of steel after that...
First, let me say that you are wrong, this project is -almost- as great in the meaning of enhanced simulation experience, as GWX...

First of all, it startes from a horrible pile of rubbish, and turn it into a Silent Hunter game, so thats a LOONG headstart against GWX, which is superb work, but stock SH3 is just... Stock, not a simplified console game. So when GWX can directly start to enhance the simulation, Wolves Of Steel first -restores- (almost) all the main SH3 functionalities into SH5.. And thats a VERY great thing, as this is the only reason I kept playing this.

So for me WOlves of steel is a lifesaver. Especially as SH5 + WOS saves load eight times faster than SH3 + GWX saves on the same machine XD

Of course the tons of AI tweaking and fine tuning, years of testing, and enhancement of damage scheme, etc. are better in GWX, but hell, GWX is also started from an 1.0. And I know that development for WOS is currently stopped, but as with GWX, it can start up again.

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Now, after the big praise (which I can't echoe enough, especially the real navigation + ability to -correctly- use stadimeter for range, and sextant to shoot latitude, with even the fine tuning for every aspect ratio) I need some help, as there's no such thing as manual yet. (I read all the documentations for all the mods before I started to post this)



The damage scheme problem:

With all map contact updates turned off, I was able to surpass (after 4 dead savegames...XD) the mythical baltic mission, with one lousy small merchant gunned to death, (german man-o-wars destroyed -everything else- before I could even have a blink at whats floating in the area) I went to Kiel, and FINALLY started the "free" patrol mission on the eastern shores of Britain.

After some fabulous miserability trying to find myself in real nav, (good progress made, I can find my latitude sometimes more precise than my navigator's celestial, (according to visual dead fix on the exit of ports, etc.) but longitude... huh. I can only tell the -timezone-, from the dusk/dawn. Which is still a LARGE area of sea in W-E direction :DD ) I made it near the given area of patrol.

There I found my first target, a Hog Islander. I saw a jeep onboard, but I think it still wasn't a troop transport, but a simple one. Also according to the recognition manual, troop transports could be USA only, and this was bearing a UK white ensign flag.

There I made a savegame, calculated range, speed, (overcalculated by 1 knot as almost always... It's not 11, thats for sure, more likely 10.) bearing and angle on bow is 90 90 like always when I try to ride easy, and so I started to destroy that bastard.


As with every testgame, I made several attempts to eradicate the poor islander. Here's the reloads with their respective outcome:


1.: Hit by 1 torp, impact, went in a half circle, stopped after a hour, sank until water washed over sometimes its stern, stopped there hanging. Hours, nothing.
SHot with gun until the bow broken off. Game counted it as sunken. Bow sank, rest of the ship stopped floating, like it's freezen in place, but does not sunk.

2.: hit by 2 torp!! between bow and middle, holes next to eachother. GREAT holes. SHip went a half circle, stopped after a hour, sank to half of the waterline, stopped there hanging. Hours, nothing. 10 hours and nothing...
Shot it until it broken EXACTLY into two halves. Both halves remain floating dynamically, but was stuck together when their cracked ends started to sink... Ship counted as sink, but remained there without sinking. All parts still reacting to water physics, not like in the first attempt, but never sunk.


FROM HERE ON, I USED MAGNETIC INSTEAD OF IMPACT.

3.: hit by 3 torp. First 2, right after the middle, exact same spot, very big hole. Went a half circle, stopped after a hour, sank til middle of waterline, but nothing else. several hours, nothing. Fired 3rd torpedo that one set to impact, hit the stern. Very huge explosions, fire, smoke, big hole. ANd nothing changed. For hours.

4.: hit by 2 torp, exact same spot, behind the middle- great explosion, ship instantly broken into two halves. The two halves closer ends sank just a very little, but hanging there, floating, and the ship still never went underwater. Counted as sank.

5.: hit by 2 torp, reproduced the same behaviour as in attempt 2, just I dont used the gun, but waited for at least 10 hours... nothing. Half sunken, stopped, like most of the time.


Actually I enevr was able to put the rest of the ship underwater.

Now I understand that for some reason all modders like to lower torpedo damage, and I know that on some cases middle sized merchants was able to crawl out of harms way with even 3 torpedo hits, but in the MAJORITY of the times even a 6000 ton merchant was instantly sunk by only one torpedo.

What is the problem, that this Hog islander never capsize, and never even tilt to either side, only sometimes gets it stern lower than its bow, (no problem that the bow was hit, or the stern, the bow never get's lower than the stern...) but usually only the whole ship equally sink half way, then stop there floating?? What's the problem? Why can't I put it under the water? :DD and why is there arent any flooding, or any kind of behaviour instead of
uniform half-sunk, and a slightly lower stern on each attempt? It's a 4000 ton ship, and not even 3 torpedo is enough for it, when even 2 is -should- be too much in 7 times out of 10.


So what's the thing Im missing here, and how the damage and flooding scheme is working?


Thanks, with respect
Good winds, and Godspeed


Daniel