What is CRITICAL_FAIL and how to trigger it?

haskell · 07-23-17, 05:06 PM

Hi! First post after joining the forum, spent weeks playing this game now. Poking around the game files, I see several mentions of CRITICAL_FAIL, for example in file

Code:

D:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Cold Waters\ColdWaters_Data\StreamingAssets\default\campaign\campaign002\language_en\events\content\ending_critical_fail.txt
D:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Cold Waters\ColdWaters_Data\StreamingAssets\default\campaign\campaign002\language_en\events\event_campaign_critical_fail.txt

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The content in these files hints some sort of nuclear apocalypse, but I don't know how to trigger it. If I intentionally fail the last hunting SSBN mission I get a blockage ending (edited, not peace talk one)

Julhelm · 07-23-17, 05:40 PM

Think you have to damage the boomer, then get killed or lose him.

jenrick · 07-23-17, 11:15 PM

Just sit in port, loading an unloading TLAMS in the '84 campaign to advance time. You'll see it after a while. No need to even leave port.

-Jenrick

haskell · 07-24-17, 01:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jenrick

Just sit in port, loading an unloading TLAMS in the '84 campaign to advance time. You'll see it after a while. No need to even leave port.

-Jenrick

I tried that. After the first mission failed due to running out of time loading/unloading TLAM, I stuck at the next scene where my sub is at 50ft in an ocean and no HUD, no control. Think that will break the game...

Aktungbby · 07-24-17, 01:19 AM

Haskell!

longface · 07-31-17, 08:45 PM

I never really understood the logic behind the final scenarios, either. Not mentioning that a strategic nuclear exchange probably wouldn't be an extinction-level event (close for the targeted nations but not necessarily for the world), I never got how the player sinking a boomer would lead to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Also, reading game files, I saw a reference to endings where NATO either withdraws all naval assets from the North Atlantic (what???) or the player gets arrested and deported to a Soviet gulag, how would that be triggered?

SeaCadt07 · 08-01-17, 07:03 AM

I'm pretty sure a strategic nuclear exchange between USSR and NATO would be an extinction level event.

Check out a movie call On the Beach. It's actually about what would happen to a sub crew after all the missiles have flown

Thomas_Jefferson · 08-01-17, 12:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by longface

I never really understood the logic behind the final scenarios, either. Not mentioning that a strategic nuclear exchange probably wouldn't be an extinction-level event (close for the targeted nations but not necessarily for the world), I never got how the player sinking a boomer would lead to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Also, reading game files, I saw a reference to endings where NATO either withdraws all naval assets from the North Atlantic (what???) or the player gets arrested and deported to a Soviet gulag, how would that be triggered?

I was nearly sunk the other day deep in enemy waters. I surfaced and abandoned ship, only to be "rescued" by the Soviets and promptly arrested. The excerpt said that I would not likely survive my time in the POW camp.

longface · 08-01-17, 05:01 PM

No, it was about returning to Holy Loch (probably after NATO loses), where you are encountered by MPs and arrested, deported, and sent to gulag.

07-23-17, 05:06 PM	#1
haskell Nub Join Date: Jul 2017 Posts: 3 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	What is CRITICAL_FAIL and how to trigger it? Hi! First post after joining the forum, spent weeks playing this game now. Poking around the game files, I see several mentions of CRITICAL_FAIL, for example in file Code: D:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Cold Waters\ColdWaters_Data\StreamingAssets\default\campaign\campaign002\language_en\events\content\ending_critical_fail.txt D:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Cold Waters\ColdWaters_Data\StreamingAssets\default\campaign\campaign002\language_en\events\event_campaign_critical_fail.txt . The content in these files hints some sort of nuclear apocalypse, but I don't know how to trigger it. If I intentionally fail the last hunting SSBN mission I get a blockage ending (edited, not peace talk one)

07-24-17, 01:19 AM	#5
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 27,896 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	welcome aboard! Haskell! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe"

07-23-17, 05:40 PM	#2
Julhelm Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: The Icy North Posts: 690 Downloads: 189 Uploads: 0	Think you have to damage the boomer, then get killed or lose him.

07-23-17, 11:15 PM	#3
jenrick Bosun Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 64 Downloads: 28 Uploads: 0	Just sit in port, loading an unloading TLAMS in the '84 campaign to advance time. You'll see it after a while. No need to even leave port. -Jenrick

07-31-17, 08:45 PM	#6
longface Watch Join Date: May 2017 Posts: 24 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	I never really understood the logic behind the final scenarios, either. Not mentioning that a strategic nuclear exchange probably wouldn't be an extinction-level event (close for the targeted nations but not necessarily for the world), I never got how the player sinking a boomer would lead to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Also, reading game files, I saw a reference to endings where NATO either withdraws all naval assets from the North Atlantic (what???) or the player gets arrested and deported to a Soviet gulag, how would that be triggered?

08-01-17, 07:03 AM	#7
SeaCadt07 Swabbie Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 11 Downloads: 209 Uploads: 0	I'm pretty sure a strategic nuclear exchange between USSR and NATO would be an extinction level event. Check out a movie call On the Beach. It's actually about what would happen to a sub crew after all the missiles have flown

08-01-17, 05:01 PM	#9
longface Watch Join Date: May 2017 Posts: 24 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	No, it was about returning to Holy Loch (probably after NATO loses), where you are encountered by MPs and arrested, deported, and sent to gulag.