There were several upgrades, carrier upgrades and many bug fixes in v1.2.
All these units, bug fixes and upgrades were incorporated into 1.3 with several other upgrades added.
As AOTD Mad Max writes himself in it's readme:
Version 1.3 is an complete new Mod.
All Upgrades, Bug fixes and Carrier-Upgrades must be disabled and the new V1.3-Version should be enabled !!!
Changes :
1.) Campaign
- Some Bugs are gone
- little bit more Harbor traffic
- more single merchants and small convoys
- more and stronger sub hunter groups
- less Japanese airplanes
2.) New Units
- IJN Akagi Carrier
- Whale chaser
- Akita II Class Freighter
- Old Fleet tanker
- Wheel steamer build by Rowi58
- reworked Equiped-Files of some Japanese DD´s ( more K-Guns in late war )
- all Ships heavy reworked ( Reflections on Water )
3.) New Japanese Weapons
Some Japanese Units got ship to ship Rockets from 1944.
Take care, they are very strong !!!
4.) Effects/Sound
- some new sounds and speech-files
- better graphics for explosions
5.) Other stuff
- resized dials for telegraph and diving gauges for better gameplay in small resolutions
- Ki-settings reworked
I think it's clear that 1.3 is a richer and much more stable platform to start working with, it was v1.2 with it's bugs that expelled me from FOTRS before many years, otherwise we (I'm unofficially considering myself a part of the team
) should incorporate all of the previous changes Maddy mentioned into 1.2
About the sound of v1.3... The only changes I've made is to delete the 4 creaking sounds from the sound folder, as it caused a clock-like ticking sound when underwater for a long time, and change the amb_submarine_interior sound from Thomsen's SoundPack v3.2. These changes eliminated the ticking sound and I've had no crashes or unwanted side effects the past month or so.
This is just my opinion, not trying to force it or something
I'll test the v2.0 sounds tonight on 1.3
Billy, over & out.