I used to play SH3 with some 30 odd freeware mods up to a short while ago; I now play SH3 with the super mod Grey Wolfs along with Silent Hunter Commander. Grey Wolfs has made this game a lot better and much more realistic for me.

Anyone still playing the stock version or have you been doing a spot of tweaking as well?

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Regards, Richard

tweaking seems to be one of the only ways to go with a game that has been out for while, but that is my opinion...

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"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." -Winston Churchill

True, there are all kinds of mods that correct errors in the game to better sound and a new U-Boat skin or airplane and dials, the list goes on and that's just the small mods. As I said in my first post I now have the super mod Grey Wolfs and it has bought life back into the game.

Ok, let's open it up a bit more to other games I have installed new aircraft in Combat Flight Simulator and some single missions. I have done the same for CF3 but had no luck with CF2; I think I made some changes to the IL2 series as well.

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Regards, Richard

Most games get a good share of mods in them. Change the AI, or add new skins, or new levels, etc.

Oblivion, NWN, NWN 2, Call of Duty, Rome: Total War, Medieval 2 Total War, Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord, etc etc.

Not all are great, but some definately make a world of difference. The Rome Total Realism Mod felt more like an entirely new game, but its scope was huge!

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I here Grey Wolfs is about to be updated even more here's some info.

http://www.users.on.net/~jscones/GWX/GWX_MANUAL_EN.pdf

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Regards, Richard

Please read the link in the above post if you’re going to give this a try.

Here's a link to download GWX better be on broadband will take any where from 30 minutes to an hour.

http://www.users.on.net/~jscones/GWX/

Don't forget the Dec23rd patch and if you got Silent Hunter Commander you will need GWX Cfg files for SH3 Commander
The JSGM is part of the GWX so no panic there; just use that to install the Dec 23rd patch.

A second patch is on the way.

I've been playing GW up to Jan and then I moved over to GWX and they made it even better.

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Me in my U-47 saying hello to KM Deutschland. SH3/Grey Wolfs 2.1
Regards, Richard

To install GWX

Uninstall SH3 and delete SH3 Folder in My Documents

Uninstall Silent Hunter Commander (if you’re using it)

Reinstall SH3 with patch 1.4
Install GWX
Install Dec23 Patch
Install Silent Hunter Commander 2.7
Install GWX Patch for Silent Hunter Commander (and don't forget to roll back your Silent Hunter Commander after you done this}

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Me in my U-47 saying hello to KM Deutschland. SH3/Grey Wolfs 2.1
Regards, Richard

SH3....I pushed it off the hard drive months ago, but I got intrigued by GWX a few weeks back.

I decided to spin SH3 up again a few days ago with GWX.

I was stunned by the massive improvements this mod made to the sim. THIS is what I expected out of the box for SH3.

Now, SH3 will have a permanent home on my HD thanks to GWX!! [img]graemlins/rk.gif[/img]

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"Sink 'Em All"-Uncle Charlie

I had a clean install of SH3, installed the patch, and just finished DL GWX...installing now. Hopefully its as good as everyone says!

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Don't forget the Dec 23rd patch as well from here

http://files.filefront.com/GWX___Dec.../fileinfo.html

Just pop that one in to the MODS Folder which was created by the JSGM then click on the JSGM and enable the Dec 23rd patch.

When the next patch is released I shall post it here.

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Me in my U-47 saying hello to KM Deutschland. SH3/Grey Wolfs 2.1
Regards, Richard

Ah, thanks for pointing that out. Can you point me in the directiob of a good guide as far as 'hunting' goes? I tried the tutorial last night vs. merchant ships, and i may of hit the ships 4 times, but my torpedoes were all duds. Luckily, one exploded a few seconds later and stopped the trawler dead in the water. I even raised the level AND switched to impact but same results.

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Hmm... i DL the Dec23rd file into the MODS folder, its a *.7z -type file, so i cant install it?

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Are you need 7zip to unzip it try here.
http://www.filehippo.com/software/compression/

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Me in my U-47 saying hello to KM Deutschland. SH3/Grey Wolfs 2.1
Regards, Richard

Thanks for the help Richard! Much appreciated and noted.

Up until today, i'd never heard of a 7-z file. Not very tech-savy you see. Now, time to go hone my Hunting Skills (and hope the fish in the water explode on impact this time around!)

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http://www.communitymanuals.com/shii...cating_Targets

http://freenet-homepage.de/latemail/The_Hunt.PDF

http://www.paulwasserman.net/SHIII/

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Regards, Richard

Glad to help.

You may be interested in this mod.


You can get it from here
http://hosted.filefront.com/OceanBlue/

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Regards, Richard

Thanks Richard! I'll be sure to include all these links in my SHIII Review (once the ww2n.com part of the site comes out) with credit to you.

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I have been a big fan of the Silent Hunter series since I picked up SH1. And now the series has come full circle with SH4 coming out next month.

Good Hunting Mussolini. [img]graemlins/salute.gif[/img]

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