Silent Hunter 4: Wolves of the Pacific | USS Plunger | Ep.8 - Like Waiting for a Bus
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Welcome to a new Patrol, Rookie Capt Buck O'Hare sets off on his first patrol aboard the USS Plunger to hunt Japanese shipping in the area.
Mods used:
Fall of the Rising Sun Ultimate (1.8)
Moonlight Sonar Lines
OriginalFOTRS_Dudz
UMark Invisible
FOTRSU_1.8_Sub_Skins_in_4k
Mods can be found at Subsim - www.subsim.com...
ABOUT THIS GAME
Hunt, hide and kill as you take command of U.S. submarines and crews and navigate the treacherous waters of the Pacific during WWII.
Silent Hunter, the industry-leading naval warfare simulation franchise for over a decade, returns to its roots with next-generation graphical realism, immersive gameplay, innovative crew evolution and more action than ever before.
Developed by the same Ubisoft team that delivered Silent Hunter 3, the "king of sub games", to worldwide critical acclaim, the 2007 installment offers the most memorable, accessible and empowering submarine simulation experience ever.
Hollywood Blockbuster experience: Lifelike graphics and spectacular audio/visual effects offer an incredibly immersive gaming experience. Witness the historical accuracy and the amazing attention to detail from the breathtaking Pacific settings to the more than 75 authentic-looking war machines such as the U.S. Gato class submarine, the Japanese battleship Yamato and the H6K flying boat.
Large Scale Naval Engagements: Epic naval engagements can be witnessed by players either firsthand or via radio messages and orders from high command.
Innovative crew evolution: Earn upgrades and experience to guide the evolution path of crewmembers, making your men the most effective naval force in the Pacific theater.
Immersive single player gameplay: Diverse mission objectives and events combined with unique rewards make each campaign a new experience. Commandeer various U.S. submarines and progress your career as a naval officer via improved dynamic campaigns in Career Mode, or dive into 'instant actions' and single patrols for a quick fight.
Addictive Online New Adversarial Mode: Join forces with up to 8 friends via LAN or 4 via internet in either cooperative or adversarial gameplay modes. Scripted and generated mission types allow for epic online battles and unlimited replayability.
Scalable learning experience: Selectable difficulty levels allow players to choose how challenging of a simulation to play.
Easy to control: An upgraded and streamlined interface makes moving around the submarine and controlling it much easier than ever before.
Please note that the online features for this game are no longer supported. The Multiplayer mode / Co-op mode will no longer be accessible.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
MINIMUM:
Supported OS:Windows® XP/Vista Only
Processor:2GHz Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon (4 3GHz Pentium or AMD Athlon recommended)
Memory:1 GB (2 GB recommended)
Graphics:128 MB RAM DirectX® 9-compliant, video card capable of rendering Pixel Shader 2.0 (256 MB RAM recommended) (see supported list*)
DirectX Version:DirectX 9.0c or later (included)
Sound:DirectX 9 -compliant sound card
Network:128 kbps upstream or faster (512 kbps upstream or faster needed to host online games)
Hard Drive:6 GB
*Supported Video Cards: ATI® RADEON® 9600/9700/9800, X300 to X850, X1300 to X1800NVIDIA® GeForce™ 6200/6600/6800/7800
Those junks were loaded with tons of ammo. So using the machine gun was a pretty cost effective way to deprive the enemy of ammo.
Here in the Pacific against the Japanese has certainly been an entirely different war compared to the U-Boat war in the N Atlantic, eh? Don't be complaining about the lack of IJN escorts, Taff! If you are assigned a patrol area off the Japanese home islands, I reckon you would have your fill of escorts, lol! Indeed, I have read that in the real war around the home islands, IJN destroyers sometimes teamed with IJN submarines - a formidable combination. So, you might keep that possibility in mind. By the way, those "fishing" junks blew up like oil tankers - I'd say it would be a very rare cargo of fish that would produce such fireworks!!!!!
To this day, I wish for nothing more than for someone to take Silent hunter 3 and remake it up to today's standards and graphics. Nothing else. No changing anything else about it, just update it like B-17 is getting.
im tired of the German U-boat Das Boot perspective id like to see other navies sub warfare its like seeing 101st Airborne at utah for the 1000th time thats why i enjoy SH4 even though its not as good overall.
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The Idea is quiet frankly boring as the U-boat campaign is already way too covered by multiple games.
Heck an even better idea is to cover the french (both sides), italian and british sub campaign covering the south atlantic the Med and the Indian ocean
@@gotanon9659 How many of those games are modern ones? Silent Hunter 3 is considered to be the best Sub sim there is, Ever. A simple remake of it would be a shoe in for the sub community. It's not about which side you're covering it's about modernizing a classic to run well with updated graphics on modern PCs
Even if the crab/fishing boats were just that, every one sunk is taking food away from the IJN/IJA.
Tried to make sure this was the right video cuz I’m binge watching.. love the series.. going under the BS and sending two out the rear was a Brilliant idea fyi
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you wonderful sausages!
Really good play, keep this up and you might really damage the IJN's war effort
I love watching your videos. Thank you for making them!
I often find myself going back to older Taff playlists when I'm not feeling well. There's something overwhelmingly uplifting listening to Taff talk to bus passengers like they are real people.
Did you see that sailboat went for a gun! It was self defense.
It was coming right at us jimbo!
Great episode taff, your more merciful than my brother in law.. he never hesitates or even thinks of letting the enemy fishing boats go.. he always says "can't trust them" and "they've likely got half a dozen gun crews aboard", which fair enough that was quite the case at times. Nothing beats real ships with a few thousand tonnage, also a relief to see the Mk.14s functioned this time.. you'll likely be stuck trying to rely on those in regards of the enemy's armed merchants in various areas, but nothing stops you going gun action like a pirate 😁. The small fishing boat kill was a cherry on the cake in this one. Great episode, really.. was fantastic. Keep up these awesome episodes, fantastic series. Well done mate 👍
In real life, the situation was that the vast majority of even finishing vessels was under the authority and ultimate control of the IJN. And as the war progressed, virtually every ship of that type directly supported the Japanese war machine. Admiral Lockwood himself noted this during the war. There were very few 'civilian ships' as a result, although doubtlessly, many of the crews wished they were someplace else and were caught up in a war that made them sitting ducks.
@@bbb462cid So you know? It's disturbing when you take it into account, effectively everyone was fair game, mind you I suppose that meant at least there was no need to worry about holding back I regards of targets, the only vessels I would always consider NEVER firing at are hospital ships. No matter how much I hate my enemies I'd not fire at the hospital ships 👍
There's quite a few reports of US submarines engaging in "gun battle" duels with japanese fishing boats during the war.
With the japanese opening fire with small arms to prevent US submariners from manning their deck guns and US sub crews trying to suppress the japanese guns with their own small arms from the conning tower.
These engagements were, in fact, so frequent subs built after 1942 had their conning tower sides built out of high tensile steel instead of mild steel so they would be able to resist the impact of rifle caliber ammunition.
Honestly the only question one needs to ask to figure out the intentions of such boats is "Why would an unpowered coastal vessel have such long radio aerials on their main mast?"
@@fernandomarques5166 That's why whenever I play IL-2 1946 or anything in which regards the IJA or IJN.. I just pull the trigger.. I hesitate when it comes to hospital ships or the red cross though. I've not played silent hunter 4 before but my brother in law always says 'just sink em'.. which I would do.. but like I said I've not played the game. Great historical fact you gave there my friend.. that's what I love about being in the war in the Pacific.. for those reasons alone anything goes. Thanks for putting that on.. have to be merciless and tough out here, the IJN and IJA broke more laws of war than anyone else, best be tough my friend.. that's what wins the Pacific war 👍
Something that got me thinking in both this and the previous episode. All of those non-motorised vessels, none of them were flying any identification flags, so how would one know they were hostile? Local fishers were often not flying any identification flags, especially at that point in history
Local fishermen generally use small rowing boats or small sail boats weighing somewhere around 10-20 tons generally much less
You can also ram the junks and you take no damage. The junks were loaded with important food. Japanese troops often got canned crab meat for rations.
Thanks again
And a Happy New Year everyone
reminder of Guns of Navarone...
Another great video
Fishing boats could have radios, and provide the IJN with intelligence!
Your WWII sub stuff is top notch! Thank you
Those "fishermen" look like they are wearing military uniforms !
I always assume all fishing boats are doubling as spy/radio ships. Take away their fish, good sir!!!
Oh and please get that bofor asap!
I second that emotion, lol! 40mm bofor cannon are excellent!
I wish there was a cat and mouse game with subs and destroyers that was multiplayer
Should have made those crab boats give you a few crates of crabs in exchange for smashing their radio and not sinking them
After setting them on fire, Taff should have a least stopped for some cooked soft-shell crab...
@@papasmurfette007 maybe he's allergic, who knows^^
My country from the Philippines 😊
They are not smugglers....they are Swedish lol an even worse Crime against Taff lol Taff put some crew on the deck gun in the duty roster page to speed the reload up
23:23 are you able to check that floating cargo from the sunk ships to see if it contains any food or other useful items for you?
no you can not, though it would be neat if a mod was made to allow that or to board unarmed small boats to search for intel or take prisoners as happened IRL later in the war
My logic for the small vessels is every time they’re hit critically there’s a massive explosion, is the just a game mechanic? Maybe, or I’d like to think they’re smuggling weapons and ammo, even if it’s just rifles and grenades
It's just a game mechanic, most of the time when a ship sinks it generates that same explosion it typically doesn't mean anything though there was a time when I was playing a modded version myself that I put a torpedo into a run of the mill looking freighter and all of the sudden it blew up like that 7-8 times in rapid succession from bow to stern and within seconds it was under the waves. So ammunition ship? Who is to say that the mod didn't make that a possible spawn?
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At the end of t he war, Japan had great difficulty supplying it's outposts, relying on small vessels - fishing boats etc.
@MrLBPug In 1942 Japan had military vessels to transport supplies - fast destroyers etc.
Go check out the crates that ships leave and see what you find
Thank you Taff, that was a good amount of progress
What would happen, if anything, if the deck gun lobbed a star shell into a wooden boat?
When will the Centrifugal Offensive resume?
Those fishing boats operating 1500 miles from Japan aren't feeding the Japanese civilian population. Go get 'em. Incidentally, starving the Japanese civilian population is also part of your job.
Look up unrestricted submarine warfare meaning Mr. Taff
...as well as the US announcing that it would pursue that course, early in the war
Can you board and search those fishing boats?
The US was implementing unrestricted submarine warfare against Japan so aside form properly marked hospital ships, if it flew a Japanese flag then it was a valid target to be sunk without warning so no, sinking the fishing boats is not in fact a war crime.
Taft, your crew is Canadian so there is no war crime.
If its red its dead. So any non allied ships go boom
Related question for anyone familiar. Did the Japanese military let civilian fisherman in their occupied territories like the Philippines, Malay, etc keep their vessels or were they impounded or stolen for cargo/patrol purposes?
There were certainly civilian fishing vessels allowed to continue operating by the Japanese. Firstly, so that the Japanese didn't have starving populations on their occupied islands, but also so they could take much of the food themselves. Japanese food supply to bases was always second fiddle to troop movements and ammunition supplies - particularly when for Army bases rather than IJN bases, as the Army leaders were far more brutal even to their own men...
In essence, the civilian crews were retained on "their" ships but the IJN was allowing this as these ships were getting food for, and gathering intelligence for, the Japanese military. In a way they were auxiliaries of the Imperial Japanese Navy and played a direct role in the war
At the very least, "fishing vessels" acted as IJN early warning picket vessels. The USS Hornet encountered a couple on the Doolittle Raid in early 1942.
@@jamesrussell7760they were tasked with that job, even
They are not smugglers....they are Swedish lol an even worse Crime against Taff lol Taff put some crew on the deck gun in the duty roster page to speed the reload up