Same career mission every time!

[mcsquared]

I been playing SH IV in the "Career" mode. I've played about eight missions, however, every mission I get is the same: a Photo Re-con of Tokyo bay. I've managed to do it successfully everytime but there's got to be something wrong to keep getting the exact same mission everytime I return to Pearl Harbor. Any help would be appreciated.

[Splobb]

Yes I have the same problem. I started out with a photo recon mission like yourself, which was actually quite eventfull as it happened.....sunk 1 destoyer and 4 merchants, got a medal and was happy as larry. The second mission was an agent insertion mission.....talk about boring...i ran on the surface all the way there and all the way back and didn't see one plane or merchant the whole time. Pretty ridiculous if you ask me...I strolled right up to the coast of Japan during wartime and didn't see so much as a fishing boat.
Anyway after that I got 2 more agent insertion missions which were also pretty uneventfull. It was at this point I realised that the campaign must be seriously broken, so I decided not bother again till they fixed it. I haven't tried the campaign again since going to 1.2, but I assume its still broken as there is nothing in the readme file about it. I've also seen numerous people on here complainng about the very same thing so we're definately not alone. Sometimes i wonder whether UBI beta test their games at all!!!

[Tobus]

Sometimes i wonder whether UBI beta test their games at all!!!

I am starting to think that the betatesters are the ones that bought the game.

[gonzlor]

Sometimes i wonder whether UBI beta test their games at all!!!
I am starting to think that the betatesters are the ones that bought the game.

Yep :know:

[macky]

I believe the issue is from setting realism, if you have unlimited fuel for example, there are times when missions repeat.

[perisher]

I believe the issue is from setting realism, if you have unlimited fuel for example, there are times when missions repeat.

I run with fairly high realism but I still get repeat missions. Of course, in real life a boat could get a repeat mission, some boats were "cloak and dagger" specialists, like HMS/M Seraph, but most boats probably never did a single special mission in their entire time in commission. I think SH4 gives out too many special missions.

[AVGWarhawk]

I believe you can also stop at Wake and just refit. I believe this will generate a new mission. Also, you do not need to keep going to the mission. I have blown off a mission for convoy action:yep: if I come upon them. When I see fat juicy targets, all of a sudden, using my Kodak to take pictures of ships seems secondary to me and my crew. Also, I ran into the repeat mission, I said screw it and went off to find my own thing to do. Eventually, on the same patrol I had blown off the repeat, the finally gave up on the first mission and I was handed another mission.

I look at this way, I'm the Skipper and I take my sub/men were I want. Come back to port with 5-6 sinkings and you are still a hero:smug:. If they want me to go back to the same harbor, they can do it themselves....it's a dangerous mission anyway:roll:

[SteamWake]

Ive gotten the same mission twice in a row but 8 ! :hmm:

I read somewhere that phoning home (radio in mission reports) help with the randomization.

If its true or not I dont know but I do it anyhow Pac likes to hear from us anyhow.

[AVGWarhawk]

Ive gotten the same mission twice in a row but 8 ! :hmm:

I read somewhere that phoning home (radio in mission reports) help with the randomization.

If its true or not I dont know but I do it anyhow Pac likes to hear from us anyhow.

Yes, radio contact helps. For instance I sighted a convoy, called it in. SUBCOM said great and come on home. Then a minute or so later it said to attack the convoy. So I did. After that I radioed in my kills and the usual good job come on home when your ready.

[tater]

I'm rereading Silent Running right now, and they made ONE contact report their first patrol, it was telling Pearl what they did and that they were RTB. I'm on the 3d patrol right now, and no radio use mentioned yet.

That was typical as far as I know.

[swash]

I've never had 8 missions the same, but I had to start a new career with 1.2.

My first mission in the new career was an agent insertion near Qingdao. Once the agent was dropped off (star turned grey), I moved back out to sea, radioed base and received a reply giving me a new mission to patrol the East China Sea. Now I'm heading to the patrol area. I didn't have to return to base nor refit at Midway.

[1mPHUNit0]

If you jump like a gorilla on your keyboard
maybe this help to randomized something...
vey very interesting this SH$4.
I'm joking but....
:p:p:p
There is a dynamic campaign...so and so very frequently

[SteamWake]

There is a dynamic campaign...so and so very frequently

? :hmm:

[yellbird]

Don't feel bad I am playing career and had to drop off the spy 3 times at the same place and 3 times I had to get Photos at the same place, now I have finished 3 things on this mission sunk 29 ships and have been a sea 2 months and it will not let me End Patrol even though I did everything it required. :damn: Now what?





I been playing SH IV in the "Career" mode. I've played about eight missions, however, every mission I get is the same: a Photo Re-con of Tokyo bay. I've managed to do it successfully everytime but there's got to be something wrong to keep getting the exact same mission everytime I return to Pearl Harbor. Any help would be appreciated.

[Mudrik]

I seem to always get the "patrol east china sea" mission. So many times that I applied for a transfer to Freemantle as it's a bit closer than Pearl.

I still seem to spend hours at max time compression traveling between home base and mission objective though = very tiresome.

[Argus00]

First patrol: deploy at Honshu, once there to engage and sink merchant shipping. 5 ships, +27000 tons, blah-blah.

Second patrol, photo recon of Kasu... something harbor. So I take pics, then sink those big juicy sitting ducks (merchants only), return to Pearl, medals, party.

Patrols 3 and 4, same as the second... with the notable difference that on patrol 4 there was a midget sub docked in the harbor.

On all patrols, I've been sending progress reports (it helps me keep track of my total tonnage sunk) and also reporting convoy sightings of my own - couldn't engage though (out of torps). This hasn't helped in triggering a new type of mission - or even the same type mission but in a different enemy harbor. On the fourth mission, I thought that maybe I wasn't supposed to sink what I'd just photographed, so i went North a bit to Hiroshima where lo and behold I had an awe inspiring sighting of the Yamato, which I sankwith 3 shots. So, just photos in the designated harbor and engaging elsewhere hasn't helped either, because guess what my mission orders are for patrol 5... So this would be my 4th repetition of the same mission.

So, has ANYONE managed to get past this repetition issue and actually experience a "dynamic campaign"? Or was it just some marketing hype?

PS - I guess SH3 had a more dynamic career, because I only had the same misiion given to me 3 times in a career.

[Stew U-582]

There shure is a problem here. All Ive seen is patrol of tokoyo every time , 8 missions. allthough i did get a new sub after 3rd mission

[banjo]

I too have been assigned the same mission over and over, and I do not have unlimited anything and I report back frequently.

[AVGWarhawk]

I too have been assigned the same mission over and over, and I do not have unlimited anything and I report back frequently.

Do what I did, I got the repeater and said not this time. I went to the South China Sea were there a lot of vessels to sink. When I did this my mission moved on after I spotted a convoy and reported. You only loose a few hundred renown anyway if you do not go. Your the Skipper, do your own thing and forget about the repeats. One repeat, OK, two repeat and forget it. You'll find me were the shipping is:yep:

[Ping Jockey]

I agree with "TOBUS" we are the beta testers.:yep:

[mcsquared]

After nine straight photo re-con missions of Toyko Bay, I finally got a insertion mission. Oh, I did get a new sub after about the sixth photo re-con mission.

[maerean_m]

In a Patrol Area objective all you have to do is to stay in an (aproximatively) 100 km circle for 48 hours. That's it. No need to sink any ships. Just stay alive for 48h.

ALL objectives given at the begining of the mission must be completed before RTB (returning to base). Otherwise you won't be given a new set of objectives and you'll feel like the mission is repeating. In fact, is the same old mission.

[mcsquared]

"ALL objectives given at the begining of the mission must be completed before RTB (returning to base). Otherwise you won't be given a new set of objectives and you'll feel like the mission is repeating. In fact, is the same old mission."

Been there, done that! Successfuly completed ALL nine photo re-con missions before I was given an insertion mission. This game has a bug in it. Also it takes a long, long time to go back to Pearl Harbor. I have the game on max time compression once I'm out of Japanese waters and find myself doing other things while the sub returns to Pearl.

[Stew U-582]

My missions seem to be working now. Most of the time I get patrol but I am getting deploy/sink and photo recon. Maybe we just havnt been patient enough.