SUBSIM Radio Room Forums - [TEC] SH5 Singleplay Campaign Progress

Prelude:

Due to broken OSI application which is slipped by Ubisoft to legitimate SH5 owners, many (if not all) SH5 players will experience problem which is manifested as game's inability to update gamesave Camaign.cfg file, the file which is really important for player's progress and campaign transfers.
The problem it self is best known and can be observed as infamous SH5 "tonnage bar bug"...
I have removed this distracting element from the game but even without arcade tonnage bar, the problem has another ugly side effect which is reflected in game's inability to update macro objective/campaign status. This means that upon reaching individual campaign ending date, campaign transfer will not be initiated and player will be doomed to continue without any side missions, objectives and with shipping/units settings characteristic only for early war...

However, there is workaround for this issue which will allow the player to continue campaign and which is IMO even more realistic that stock instant "jump" from patrol to bunker when final ending date of individual campaign is reached.

Before we start you should know that all SH5 gamesaves are stored in "My documents/SH5/data/cfg/SaveGames" folder and they are named something like "0000000d" or "00000001a" ect... In order to track down your gamesaves better, you should sort your gamesave folders by date modified and especially pay attention to time of gamesave creation because this is the best indicator which will help you to match your silly named gamesave folders to those shown in ingame save/load menu.

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Originally Posted by kevinsue (Post 2441146)

Just for info, you can confirm the actual title of the gamesave (what you typed in when you made the save) if you open "ReplayInfo.rep" file with notepad contained in that particular gamesave.

OK, so you have reached first campaign (Coastal Waters) ending date (1st June 1940), campaign transfer failed to initialize and you have lost all objectives visible in upper left corner of your navigation map. This is what you should do...

SH5 campaign progress workaround

1. Replacing files
- Make your best speed to your home port, end patrol there and make a manual gamesave when you enter the bunker. Note the time of gamesave creation, we will call this one "Last CW bunker save"...

- Then, exit to main menu and start new campaign in which you wish to continue your career using "silentotto" cheat (in this case Happy Times). Again, make a manual gamesave when you enter the bunker, we will call this one "New HT save"...Exit to main menu and minimize/alttab the game...

- Now, go to your SH5 SaveGames folder and locate your "New HT save". In it, you will find folder named "Campaign-2019-xx-xx_xxxx" with 4 files in it (sometimes there will be only 3 files in it):
Campaign.cfg
CampaignMission.mis
CampaignProgress.cfg
CampaignMission.tsr

- Copy these files from your "New HT save" and paste them to an equivalent location in your "Last CW bunker save", overwrite and replace all files.

Now, all necessary campaign files are replaced and we are almost done.
The only thing left to do is to edit our flotilla settings located in CareerTrack.upc file.
Note that flotilla settings are not necessary for Coastal Waters to Happy Times transfer because both campaigns features the same 2nd Flotilla (or for example PB to TP to FY transfer, 9th Flotilla)...

2. Flotilla settings
- Open with notepad CareerTrack.upc file located in your recently modified "Last CW bunker save" and you will find there these lines responsible for flotilla settings:

Code:

[CareerTrack 1]

ID=IDCareerTrack1



[CareerTrack 1.CareerStatusHeader]

ID=ID

UserPlayerNameDisplayable=Cpt.Kurtz

CareerOptionsDate=1939-08-31 13:00:00



[CareerTrack 1.CareerStatusLast]

ID=ID

Reason=CSS_LastStatus

NameDisplayable=NULL

CurrentDate=1939-09-29 17:36:57

UniqueID=3957285610582654

Title=NULL

Text=NULL

EntryStatus=0

PlayerRankAchieved=Captain-Rank-10

PlayerCurrentLastPromotionDateTime=1939-08-31 13:00:00

CurrentFlotilla=2ndFlotilla

CurrentFlotillaBase=F2Wilhelmshaven

CurrentSDepartureDescription=979352,6.42534e+006,180.777

CurrentUPCFlotillaUserPlayerUnitType=F2VIIA

CurrentDifficulty=Realistic

...

...

- Now depending on which campaign you wish to enter, you should edit your flotilla settings to match following (Click "Spolier"):

- Save your changes and now you are ready to continue your career. Start the game, load your modified "Last CW bunker save" , request your secondary mission and patrol grid and happy hunting!

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