You might wear panties, but I, sir, wear knickers that are in a twist!

I'll get a new file up ASAP. Apparently there are some bugs with the latest 7z compression format. Hang in there. :)

It would be nice to know what it does/doesn't touch ?
:cool:

Alright, the link has been fixed and should be working correctly now. :)

Thanks Luke! Happy New Year to you and the team!:woot:

Looks and runs great! :up: Although, I just sunk a 10 000 t tanker that would not register on sonar in a 1943 Gato. It had a deck gun that didn't fire at me and there was no sound of it sinking and breaking-up on sonar either, which was always a nice touch. The circular radar grid looks great but is a bit intrusive when the radar blips are so small.

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Was this disabled in 2.0? i know i was able to allow map contact updates on 1.5

Only briefly tried one of the "Single Missions". I liked "Historical" better, but oh well. I liked the tweaked interiors that I saw (1942 Gato: extra lights on the Sonar panel, and around the control room).

Wanted to ask a question. I enabled a couple of mods which were compatable with the last version. I don't seem to see any problems (Yet) since I don't think these mods conflicted with anything added in 2.0. I may be wrong, so if Luke or anyone else feels there may be a problem, please say so. The mods are: Keldunks tweaks, which included exhaust smoke, and less Limber Hole water streams. Arclight's color filter for the Obs. scope., and the EAX sound mod (forget who the author is). Like I said, I'm useing the versions which were compatable with the previous version of RFB.

Also wanted to say I love the new wind sound. I wish someone could fix the problem with the "sound duration". I hate the way sounds, particularly thunder, cuts off abruptly:damn:

Looks terrif; wasn't quite ready for no map contacts, but adjusted quickly and managed to sink a large old merchie no problem at all. Not sure how hard it's going to be tracking and sinking at night, though.

Ditto the issue already noted on the small radar blips. Would not the radar operator be able to give bearing and range if asked?

No map contacts, 2.0 is coming out of my install. Guess I'll stick with 1.5

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Downloading 2.0 again, thanks for the hard work and quick fix guys.

As far as no map contacts, well i will try it, will be pain not being able to have a "display" for air contacts but will manage.

Perhaps someone out there could whip up a mod for RFB 2.0 that brings back map contacts but in the fashion of TMO, the small black dots instead of the stock style silhouettes.Just a thought.

Some questions on 2.0....


IS there a way to get the conning tower free view, such as in the control room.Only view in CT i have been able to get is the sonar and radar stations.I HATE being stranded in the control room, esp in a gato where the captain always was during an attack etc.

Also, no planesmen except at GQ? kind of funny for boat to dive when on normal watch without planesmen .

Overall though, i am liking what i see, good job.Hopefully there is a CT view and i am just missing.I tried right clicking and it took me back to the control room, blah.

I guess my thing with no map contact is, The stock game gives me the option of either having it on or off. So whats the point of forcing it on me off when i can chose via the game weather or not to want it?

I understand one can argue the fact its not 100% "realistic", but give the players some leverage on how they decide how they want to play their game.

Re: no chart contacts:

Sadly, there is no perfect solution for chart contact plotting in SH4. Ultimately, either the player is given one of two choices:

• Being given too much information (i.e., chart contacts automatically plotted and updated in real time)
• Being given too little information. (i.e., no automatic plotting of chart contacts).

Until something changes with the game's coding (hopefully with SH5) RFB (and the future RUB) will continue to defer to the latter choice. Trust me, I want a more realistic plotting system as much as you guys, but we can only work with the game engine's coding so much.

At Hitman: I'm glad the team included your binocular/TBT FOV changes. Not to be a wise #ss or anything, but did the real Fleet Boat binoculars have the range markings in them like the mod? I'm just asking because I really don't know.:hmmm:

How do you install this?

Click on the hatch that leads to the conning tower (it will be highlighted when you mouse over it), and you'll be taken to the conning tower free view camera.

Another one of those design decisions we had to make, given the way the game is coded. In reality, two of the lookouts would man the dive planes when the boat submerged. Otherwise, the dive planes would not be manned while the boat was on the surface. The choice, then, was to either add six seamen to the boat's roster that would otherwise not be part of the ship's complement or to leave the planes unmanned, except at GQ. Of course, we went with the latter choice as the lesser of two evils.

Yes they did!

Bausch & Lomb released several different models/versions of their binoculars for Navy use, and many came with ranging reticle :up: see table below:

Hitman, did I get all the settings right in cameras.dat? I just want to make sure I implemented your mod entirely correct.

Download not yet complete, but I will report tomorrow ASAP :salute: (It's past midnight here :shifty: and I'm off to bed)