Stories and Patrol Logs + Screenshots and Videos (merged)

[FooFighters]

Here are some pics from my first patrol with patch 1.2.. man it looks sweet.
Usually I start outside Pearl.. but this time I started in Pearl.
Hawaii looks so sweet in the evening

To be honest.. I did not do anything yet.. then only watch these amazing game graphics.. I love this game

[sqk7744]

Originally Posted by FooFighters

Here are some pics from my first patrol with patch 1.2.. man it looks sweet.
Usually I start outside Pearl.. but this time I started in Pearl.
Hawaii looks so sweet in the evening

To be honest.. I did not do anything yet.. then only watch these amazing game graphics.. I love this game

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= Wow!

{SQK7744 reaches for camera, becomes Lt. Werner again... (braces for grease towel)}

[Weigh-Man]

Man, I need a new computer

[Deep Six]

Here's a few screenies after patch 1.2

Everything enabled
All sliders maxed out....
And still getting 50+FPS

I love my "Big Rig"...











Not even started a mission yet still drooling!!!

Deep Six

[Gildor]

I snuck up on a convoy, fired a spread and hit about 4 different ships. A small tanker was disabled so I waited for the convoy to move off so I could finsih off the tanker.

I lined up and shot from 2000yrds. Good thing too because the sucker blew up real bad. I mean: I watched a deck hatch or something fly up in a graceful arc, spinning in the air and flying directly at me. It flew over me and landed about 200 yrds behind me with a big splash. I have never seen that before. I followed it with my binos as it arched towards me. I didnt even have time to take a screenshot or order the boat out of the way.

Amazing.

[SteamWake]

Nice !

Couldent help but notice 5th shot from the top the wires seem to be drooping !

Un acceptable...!!! :rotfl:

[ccruner13]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

Nice !

Couldent help but notice 5th shot from the top the wires seem to be drooping !

Un acceptable...!!! :rotfl:

wobbly superstructure weee



and im finally jealous of somones uberrig.

[JRT]

Looks like they fixed the AA Gun problem.

And who says the escorts wont' get in the convoy and mix it up......


I had to edit this in Photo-Shop to get it lighter...





Jeff

[Dane]

Great pictures!! Stunning

[panthercules]

Got this one after loading up the new patch and sinking the Mogami in sub school (dang cruiser went down so fast after my second torp hit under her forward main turrets that I couldn't get my sub surfaced in time for any decent screenshots ) - running with my 7950GT at 1280x960 with 8x AF and 8x AA and all graphics settings (except some terrain stuff) maxed out - looking really sweet in game



Gotta love the tell-tale radio antenna on the mast of the sampan - I know the patch ain't perfect, but much appreciated nonetheless - way to go DEVs

I did manage to get the following shot of the Mogami's last moments, playing around with the saved replay function while my boat was still submerged a few hundred yards away:

[Ilpalazzo]

Praise 1.2 for aa and af. Game looks nice and smooth.

My current desktop screenshot from sh4. If anybody is interested.


Think I might mess around with it. Maybe add a soft glow or something. Still not entirely sure about which settings and levels of aa/af I like the best so I am not sure if the screen is all it could be.

[munfis]

Sometime 1943 (wasn't paying too much attention...), I steam out of Brisbane on my way to patrol the bismark sea. I take a little shortcut through the channel north of rabul (Risky, i know, but it offers some good oppertunities sometimes). I patrol around for a while, then sonar picks up a mass of ships coming my way. Its not coming on very fast, so i reckon its just merchant ships or something. Get into a attack position... Periscope up. Carriers, not sone, not two, but 6 carriers in the middle of a small flotilla of light cruisers and destroyers. Two columns of carriers, a chance too good to pass up. I move into a position where i am in between the columns, and open and prepare all tubes. Man, that many carriers going past less than 300 meters away is noisy!!!

All tubes away, 6 forward at the Taiho fleet carrier and 4 aft at the Taiyo escort.
I must have hit the escort carrier in the magazines or fuel storage, because it basically evaporated. The Taiho starts to turn to port, and speeds up, so my torpedos hit along the back. Generally when that happens with merchant ships, It stays afloat, and I thought the carrier would stay up, but nope. Very quickly it floods and sinks away. I go down to 200ft and slink away. However, the engagement wasn't over, the destroyers gave me a pounding, then turned away.

A few game hours later, there is still a warship on the surface according to sonar, so i come up and look through the scope. There is a carrier there, down at the bow, dead at the water. It was the Shokaku. Evidently one of the torpedos that missed hit it, or something, i couldn't really explain it, i hadn't aimed a torpedo anywhere near it. Not being one to pass up on an easy kill, i put my last 4 torpedos into it, and it went down.

All in all, along with the merchant ships sunk in this patrol, i had 82000 tons of shipping sunk.

Not too bad i think.

Side note. Both the main carriers i sunk were historically involved in the Battle of the Phillipine Sea, so who knows what effect i could have had on history here. Ironically enough, both these carriers were sunk by submarines in that battle...

[AVGWarhawk]

@Ilpalazzo

I stole your screenshot for my desktop..hope you don't mind and thanks

[stabiz]

I guess those who said FSAA wasn`t that important are feeling rather embarrassed right now. God damnit, this game looks sweet.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by stabiz

I guess those who said FSAA wasn`t that important are feeling rather embarrassed right now. God damnit, this game looks sweet.

It is not all that important to me . I did however set my card at X4. Looks about the same to me. Only exception, my wires look better. Other than that, I just wanted my EE to work without the fog...FPS killer. I got it and I'm good to go. I still like PPF better Go to the start of this thread and see my pics w/o AA. Look good to me. My deck rails and wires look fine. My cannons have no jaggies. I was ok without the AA. I'm still a fan of PPF in this game.

Now go make another movie man.....I need to see some of your excellent work!