Falling asleep to Pacific Aces

Dakar23 · Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 32 Location: Missoula, MT

I'll admit more then once to start a campaign I'll set time compression to x2 or x4, head to an interior station, and turn my monitor off, and my surround sound up. The ambiance of this sim is so that I can now fall asleep to the pocketapcketa of the diesels or the hum of the motors, listing to the muted foot falls and the various knocks and bumps of a fleet sub at war.. However should a ship be sighted or a sonar contact appear, I'm ready, hopefully, to roll out of bed and take command. Skipper never sleeps ya see, I just rest my eyes.

Um...anyone else to this? Or am I just taking it a bit far?

horsa · Joined: 07 Jul 2002 Posts: 2693 Location: Halifax, England

There was a guy over on the SH3 forum who posted a description of a mission he did in REAL TIME . Much the same thing . Read books, went to sleep etc and was roused only by alarms, sightings etc . Got to admire that ..... the ultimate sim experience.

Bruno Lotse · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 9:18 pm Post subject:

I did exactly that. Every evening back from work I would fire up my SH2 with 4x time compression and proceed with my evening routines wrapped into sounds of diesel, ocean, wind and stuff from SH2 patrol. I LOVED it! That kind of immersion, up to 3 real time months on a single patrol. Any problem on board - I had to quit whatever I am doing and attend to my main duty - UBoot Kommandant. Oh, those excruciating hours of creeping away on Shleiffahrt from a British destroyer above you. Do they hear us? Would they nail us?! Would we see another day? Oh, man. Oh, that joy of seeing Norwegian fjords again after months at sea.

Once I was in my kitchen doing dishes. I was just doing dishes. ALARM!!! ALARM!!! Flugzoig ausgemacht!!! Plane! I dashed from my sink. There was a chair with a stack of clean dishes. In the rush I hit them. They slammed on the floor. I rushed over them to my post at PC to command TAUCHEN!!! TAUCHEN!!! Dive!!! Dive!!! Hell with dishes. we gotta survive!!!. Well, I had a load of broken stuff, but who cares as we made it.

Another time I was in dumps and to sort it out - took quite a lot of beer. Being absolutely sure that nothing bad might possibly happen (heck, we were in the middle of Atlantik) retired to my bunk. Sometime in 3 am I woke up because of hellish noise - alarms, yells, groans, noise of spurting water (SH2 has a great sound pack from Das Boot) What the hell? We ran aground in the middle of the ocean. Bloody Sable Island!!! Verdamnt! Next day I had to talk to my superintendent as my neighbors did not appreciate my last night troubles. Firstly they thought something real bad was happening (it was bad enough for our boat - we had to sail back to the base), then, when they sorted out the true reason, they lodged a complaint. I love SH2.

Dakar23 · Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 32 Location: Missoula, MT

Just got a wireless keyboard for my comp. Now I can instanly rely the basic commands, crash dive being more important BEFORE i have to head for my computuer room. Ain't technology grand?

DeepSixNiner · Joined: 14 Sep 2002 Posts: 401 Location: Victoria, Canada

You guys rule!

That Das Boot sound effects update sure makes it easy to "immerse" yourself in the sim. All you needed, Bruno, was some smoke to cough on when you woke up.

I've tried letting SH run while I sleep, but I've never woken up to a live boat.

Cheers.