Silent Hunter III

[Ack-Ack]

I know this is an old game but for some reason I never picked it up until I saw it at a local computer store for $5.  Which mods are recommended?  Looking for mods that add to the game play as well as some that improve the gaphics.


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[lengro]

I know this is an old game but for some reason I never picked it up until I saw it at a local computer store for $5.  Which mods are recommended?  Looking for mods that add to the game play as well as some that improve the gaphics.


ack-ack

I went on to SHIV when it was released - but for SHIII I would suggest GWX 3.0 which is a collection of many good mods. Look at subsim.com.
There were many bugs at release, but I think official patches and unofficial mods have nailed most of them. Still, never save a campaign while submerged or close to enemies - in worst case you can't load your savefile again.
 

[Die Hard]

Definitely go with GWX (Grey Wolves eXpansion). It completely transforms the ok stock game into a truly great U-boot sim. Happy hunting Herr Kaleun! 

[Fulmar]

SH4 has great graphics, but I'm a lazy man.  I didn't have to sail usually as far to get to some action.  I mean man, the Pacific Ocean really big, even at 8192X time compression.  I use the Trigger Maru expansion (1.63).  It seems to tweak the original pretty good.  It took a long time for the original game makers to fix a lot of simple bugs in the game (mainly repeat missions).

[SFRT - Frenchy]

In SH4 I wished the creew would auto this macro "airplane detected - dive to PD 20 min - surface". Countless aircraft interruptions coupled to long distances killed it.

[Angus]

I used to spend time on the old DOS Silent service, and later Aces of the Deep. I enjoyed both, so I am curious how Silent Hunter is in comparison...?

[Curlew]

hahahha silent service, I love it, my first ever computer that went to me and my brother ran on win 95 and came with that came, I remember playing it soooooo much, always lost 

[Wingnutt]

I like SH3 better than SH4, sh4 is just a  series of "aircraft spotted" over and over and over and over and the german boats are more fun anyway.

[Fulmar]

I like SH3 better than SH4, sh4 is just a  series of "aircraft spotted" over and over and over and over and the german boats are more fun anyway.

There's the expansion for SH4 that lets you do German missions in the Pacific.  And the Trigger Maru mod helps eliminate aircraft problems (though not entirely I've found).

[Ack-Ack]

Thanks a lot guys, downloading GWX now.  Got the next couple of days off so I think I'm gonna be burning some time with this game.


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[Reschke]

I hate the aircraft issues in SH4. Also you can never find the carrier that those Zekes and Vals seem to operating from 2500 miles out in the middle of the ocean near Midway in 1944...

Other than that I like the game and play it about once a week or so.

[Simaril]

Didn't one of the SH's have an evil rootkit installation or something? Seem to remember warnings to stay away because the program wrote crap into the system without permission or notification.

Or am I confusing it with a different game?

[bozon]

There is a way to change the parameters of the air encouters in the ini files. I remember that when I had SH4 I disabled aircraft because it was so annoying. Not only the frequency, not also the fact that It came out of time acceleration when the planes were already attacking the sub.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Didn't one of the SH's have an evil rootkit installation or something? Seem to remember warnings to stay away because the program wrote crap into the system without permission or notification.

Or am I confusing it with a different game?

Yep SHIII installs the starforce rootkit.

[Fulmar]

It's hard enough finding big title games that don't have SecureROM on them.