Video Games Silent Hunter III SUCKS

[cawimmer430]

I've recently began playing Silent Hunter III and I thought it was a cool game until I began saving missions. Turns out the save game feature was not properly tested and although my missions load, a few seconds later I get the message that my U-Boat has sunk and everyone is dead. I get this stupid message all the time after I every saved game I load. I could be in peaceful waters, surfaced with not a single enemy ship nearby and I will always get the same friggin message.

A non-working save game feature just kills a computer game for me, especially in this type of game. The only place the save game feature works is when you are in a friendly port. On a lot of career missions I am sent out to patrol in the middle of the Atlantic for weeks and months at a time. And although you can fast forward time by the 1024 factor, it will still take a good 20-30 minutes for you to go from bases in Germany or France to a place halfway in the Atlantic. It takes even longer when you're forced to dive because of enemy air activity or armed surface vessels.

I can't save a game when my U-Boat is in the middle of the Atlantic. I need to return to port. Seriously EPIC F_CKING FAILURE @ UBISOFT ROMANIA.

I made a thread about this on the Subsim forums and that's where I found out about how this game wasn't properly tested before it hit the market. How the hell did it get such good reviews then? Worse, there seems to have been no PATCH released that would correct this fault.

My question is: Does anyone here know of a patch that corrects this problem? It really sucks to return to port every single time to save a game.

 

[ahmet_cagri]

I haven't played the game so don't know if it works but here is the latest patch from gamespot
Silent Hunter III v1.4 DVD Patch

Silent Hunter III v1.4 DVD Patch for PC Download at GameSpot

hope it fixes, good luck

 

[CarGuy]

Hey, it's ROMANIAN, what did you expect?

Wimmer tsk tsk, you have become a gamer which means less GCF entertainment from you.

 

[coolraoul]

Hey, it's ROMANIAN, what did you expect?

Wimmer tsk tsk, you have become a gamer which means less GCF entertainment from you.

I'm gonna work in Bucarest for the next 2 years, so please, refrain from criticizing that outstanding country (that I will discover next month)...

 

[klier]

^ Wow, that's some exiting stuff Raoul! Be ready for a culture shock
....and blood drinking vampires...

 

[coolraoul]

That indeed will be a shock: I'm changing the work (lawyer to teacher in law), the country.. and I do not speak Romanian!

I made a post in Curbzone about it, but since it doesn't get much exposure, I'll make one in GCF too I think. Maybe some members are from/live in Romania?

 

[cawimmer430]

I haven't played the game so don't know if it works but here is the latest patch from gamespot
Silent Hunter III v1.4 DVD Patch

Silent Hunter III v1.4 DVD Patch for PC Download at GameSpot

hope it fixes, good luck

Thanks. I've already downloaded this patch and installed it before I started playing. It apparently fixes a lot of things except the save game bug.

 

[cawimmer430]

Hey, it's ROMANIAN, what did you expect?

Wimmer tsk tsk, you have become a gamer which means less GCF entertainment from you.

Ha!

It's a great game but the save game feature is just a total fail. And because I cannot save during a mission I have to return to port to properly save. If I am out in the middle of the Atlantic and I have to return to a port in France or Germany (later Norway), well, that's a very long journey! Plus, the Allied warships and aircraft out there are a real threat.