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[runyan99]

I think the current weather situation in v1.3 is botched.

I've only died twice in this game, and the fog got me both times.

Once while running on the surface at 512x time compression at 2/3 speed. I figured my Time Compression was too high, my speed was too high, and I didn't respect the weather. Fair enough.

Next career, I was on my fourth patrol when the rain and heavy fog set in. And in this game when they set in, they never seem to go away. I mean constant rain and heavy fog for a month straight. That can't be realistic.

Well, I didn't want to make the same mistake, so I was running submerged at night, and at 1/3 speed at only 64x TC surfaced during the day. Not even hunting really, just staying at sea and waiting for the weather to break. I actually started running on the surface only long enough to charge the batteries, but for days and days the weather never goes away, and in time I spent more and more of the daylight hours on the surface.

Eventually CRUNCH, I run into something again. End of career.

I've never been sunk in combat. Just rammed in the stupid fog. If the month-long fog doesn't go away in v1.4, I'm just going to head back to port as soon as it sets in. There is no point in staying at sea.

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I have the ooposite problem. Even since upgrading from 1.1 to 1.2 I get no weather at all. I leave on patrol after patrol with clear, 2 inch waves, no clouds, no fog and it never changes even after going to iceland in December and over 40 days of game time. I even re-installed the game and started a new career. No weather changes of any kind no matter where I go or how long I patrol.

On my 1st patrol in version 1.1 I got rough waves on my way back with torpedoes expended. I warped it back to port and had calm seas returning to dock. That's when 1.2 came out and I upgraded while in port and left on patrol two with clear weather. I've not seen any weather since and cannot do anything to fix it.

To increase the annoyance, it takes many game our to see if you can patrol long enough to activate the weather changes while fighting crew fatigue, planes and destroyers.
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[BobV_07]

Yep, I have mentioned this prob before. The weather needs some help.

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I talked to Ubsoft tech support about this and they say mine is the only case of this happening they have ever heard of. Needless to say there is no fix and with me being the only person in the whole world with this problem, no motivation to fix it.
I have what is for me a crippled game that is not able to hold my interest. They can talk about SHIV all they want but it's a no buy for me. I'm about to delete this thing and go buy Dangerous Waters. I needed a new tea coster anyway since my SHII disk snapped in two.
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[Illustrious789]

Only case my ***... I have the same problem. The sad thing is, I came across the perfect convoy (7-15 Cargo + Tanker: only 1 escort!). I was heading back to base becuase of ad weather. So for the fun of it I turned towards the convoy and shot all 4 torpedoes blind. 1 hit and set one cargo ablaze and another hit and destroyed another Hurrah for my luck. I was disturbed that I couldn't of sunk 4 for 4 torps though...

[ESPY05]

I'm on the 2nd patrol of my first career and have been fighting the weather SW of Ireland the whole time. Rain comes and goes, but the 15km winds never go away.

So last night, I had four fish left (2 bow, 2 stern) and only about 35% fuel so I decided to start to head back to port. I always run in to something on the way home and figured I wouldn't have any trouble using up the last four torps.

Sure enough, come across a T3. Perfect opportunity, right? So I position myself for a stern shot and fire. It hits, and slows him down, but only to about 5 kts. So I turn, overtake, and position for shot from the bow tubes. First = dud. So I turn, overtake and try again. This time it hits, but still only slows him to a stop. One stern tube left. I get into position and fire...dud.

So here I sit in rough waters looking at a dead T3 with no more torps. I'm sure I'm not the first to experience this frustration. I'm confident there's no chance of waiting for the winds to die down so I can man the deck gun. Agreed?

[Maj_Solo]

Originally posted by blue_76:
yeah, i've noticed most of this foul weather in the north seas.. specially close to ireland.. i think its exaggerated, but some will argue that thats the way it is in real life..
with the fog, my guess is that they're trying to simulate the poor visibility during bad weather, not that there is fog in such gale conditions.. whats more frustrating is the conditions when you encounter a convoy, seems most of the time i stumble on a convoy, i get poor visibility..

they don't know ****, but it is a challenge that is fun, a game config perhaps, relistic weather or nasty weather. I mean you get the same ****ty weather down near the equator too, for days and days, there isn't that much energy difference down there, heck I was at the Maldive islands near the equator and it was calm calm calm calm calm calm ..... you want me to continue? I don't know what it is called in english but there are belts near the equator which sailors don't like at all, so ..... why the same universal weather all over the place .....

I have to add, isn't the enegy difference low in the winter in the northern seas too, I mean calm cold weather????????? Isn't it the spring and autumn that is supposed to stir things up???????

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Yes, in most places in the world spring and fall are the most extreme weather because of the rapid change and warm air meeting cold air.

Between Africa and the Caribbean the Summer is the worst for Hurricanes because it takes a LOT of very warm water to generate one.

Anyone seen evidence the seasons have any affect or does the weather appear totally random?
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[Grey004]

A good rule of thumb,in predicting bad weather in the North Atlantic is;

Draw a line from the base of the Bay of Biscay (Northern Spain)due west and another from Freetown ,again due west.

In the northern portion coming west to east in autumn you'll generally get heavy seas ie: gale force winds,overcast and rain,very rarely fog and never fog when the winds blowing a hoolie.

In the Winter the same but from the north.

In Spring running east to west you'll get some bad weather,again not as much fog.

In Summer you'll have occasional gales and a lot of fog which will clear after a day or two when the temperature of the sea and air match.

South of the line from the Biscay to Freetown,you'll get the same but going in the opposite direction.

[Pv-]

Glad to see the 1.4 patch is pending. It's taking a lot of patches to make the game play as most of us expected it to.

I finally got a wx change by totally removing SHIII including my saved games, re-installing from the US 1.1 DVD and patching immediately to 1.3. The only concession I made was using my old acadomy log file so I wouldn't have to go through all that again. Roughly 1 1/2 days into the new career the wx changed from the typical 5 knots from the north no clouds, fog, rain to NO wind and a glass sea. Needless to say I'm the target for everything the allies can throw at me. I'm hoping to yet another wx change to something I can hide and sneak with. Three days of this weather that even a pond hopper can't hide in. In the North Atlantic in the fall no less.

Although the improvements in the 1.3 patch are notable, the loss of the bridge and hydraphone voices reporting contacts is BADLY missed and a HUGE detractor from the game.

My best guesses are the 1.2 patch and or saved career snafoo killed my weather.

1.4 patch PLEASE...
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