[REL] FOTRS Ultimate Project

[max-peck]

Originally Posted by Sniper450

Throwing myself out there to Beta test FOTRS if there is a need for another tester. Have a lot of free time on my hands unfortunately and have been playing 1.3v the past few weeks. Just another willing hand here if you need it. No hurt feelings if not needed.

Definitely send RockinRobins a PM about this
I think he is looking for Beta testers
And I am sure he should be online shortly


Other news:
Have just started a patrol January 1942 out of Surabaya in the USS Pike (Porpoise class)

Have been given a patrol area a couple of hundred miles south of Davao

Hopefully I will pick something up

Will report back

[cdrsubron7]

Originally Posted by max-peck

Definitely send RockinRobins a PM about this
I think he is looking for Beta testers
And I am sure he should be online shortly


Other news:
Have just started a patrol January 1942 out of Surabaya in the USS Pike (Porpoise class)

Have been given a patrol area a couple of hundred miles south of Davao

Hopefully I will pick something up

Will report back

Of course you're pick'in something up. You're buying the beer and the pizza at the Royal Hawaiian for you're welcome back party.

[Moonlight]

Originally Posted by propbeanie

Brother max-peck! Say, the beta 29 by itself is not quite fit for human consumption. You'll want to find the "NewCLupdate.7z" and the "ModifiedBismarkMiniMod.7z" files in the InspectionAndExchange folder over there. Some of the CL were turned "off" due to issues, and the Bismark -er- Bismarck... caused troubles also.

I'm just using the 100_FalloftheRisingSun_Ultimate_v0.29_Beta_EN without any of these fixes, where can I download the highlighted files from?

[propbeanie]

Depends upon what you were given as a link. Do you have the "Folder", or just the file. If you just have a link to the file, I'll do a little "private" area for the CTDs. Of course, by the time we get that, RR will have the 30 version out...

[max-peck]

Well - that was a complete bust

6 contacts

3 Dutch
2 Australian
1 US

What a waste of time

Never mind - Feb '42 out of Surabaya
I have just been asked to land an agent on Sumatra

This involves transiting the Java Sea

I bloody hate the Java Sea

I have had so many TMO careers ended there

Might as well just ask me to drive my sub into the local swimming pool - for all the good it will do me

[propbeanie]

Originally Posted by max-peck

Well - that was a complete bust

6 contacts

3 Dutch
2 Australian
1 US

What a waste of time

Never mind - Feb '42 out of Surabaya
I have just been asked to land an agent on Sumatra

This involves transiting the Java Sea

I bloody hate the Java Sea

I have had so many TMO careers ended there

Might as well just ask me to drive my sub into the local swimming pool - for all the good it will do me

Excellent job max-peck! Another Insertion to be stamped-out...

1. What was your first assignment(s) then? I know, the last time I went out of Manila / Surabaya, all I encountered of the enemy early in the war was airplanes... In a sugar boat... ain't much room to crash dive there, is there?

[Rockin Robbins]

Originally Posted by max-peck

Well - that was a complete bust

6 contacts

3 Dutch
2 Australian
1 US

What a waste of time

Never mind - Feb '42 out of Surabaya
I have just been asked to land an agent on Sumatra

This involves transiting the Java Sea

I bloody hate the Java Sea

I have had so many TMO careers ended there

Might as well just ask me to drive my sub into the local swimming pool - for all the good it will do me

Good news! It's near Thanksgiving! Bad news. You're the turkey.

Great to have you back. Hope you have a better cruise next time. Note that the AI is really high--I'd say 50% more intelligent than TMO. It's really tough.

I didn't like the sonar sound much--seemed way to quiet to me. And there was no depth charge splash sound. I'm looking for a solution to that tonight.

[propbeanie]

"With God as my witness, I thought turkeys could ~fly~..."

It sure would be nice to know when Bungo Pete is dropping you some presents...

[max-peck]

Originally Posted by propbeanie

Excellent job max-peck! Another Insertion to be stamped-out...

1. What was your first assignment(s) then? I know, the last time I went out of Manila / Surabaya, all I encountered of the enemy early in the war was airplanes... In a sugar boat... ain't much room to crash dive there, is there?

I would think twice before you stamp out all the special missions

Having read Silent Victory recently I was surprised by the number of times Boats in the South West Pacific were diverted to Troop insertions, troop pickups, commando raids, supply runs, photos of beaches for upcoming operations, do weather reports for upcoming hit and run raids (Halsey springs to mind before the Coral Sea) etc...

It was a lot more than I thought it would be

Admittedly - not once did a boat out of Pearl get asked to photograph Tokyo Harbour
Admittedly - that one is just frikkin' dumb

From what I remember reading Silent Victory - this kind of special operations stuff happened to the boats working out of Surabaya/Freemantle for the first two years or so - until they figured out it was better to use subs to attack enemy shipping.
To be honest with you I have a feeling a lot of the High Brass did not know what to do with Subs, so they tried everything

Anyway - the point of my post.
By all means stamp out the specials from subs operating out of Pearl/Midway

But please do not eliminate them for Boats operating out of Surabaya/Freemantle, at least for the first 2 years of the war

It looks like in this case the DEVS got it more or less right

By all means eliminate the more ridiculous ones (infiltrate Singapore Harbour - I am looking at you )

But a lot of them I think still work

I know this is a team effort, and we also have RR as COB

If necessary I will re read Silent Victory, make notes, cite passages from it to back up my position.

Then what the hell - maybe we can put it to a vote?

What say you team??



Then again I am well aware FOTRSU is a democracy run on the principle of one man one vote

RR is the man - he has the vote

[max-peck]

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

And there was no depth charge splash sound. I'm looking for a solution to that tonight.

I am sure I figured out the solution to that when I was trying to mod it into my install of Op Monsun

I cannot remember for sure now, but I know it involved turning up the volume using SH3D in a file that could only be opened by SH3D (ie it was not a cfg file)

Try looking in Data/Sound/Sh.sdl

[Rockin Robbins]

Originally Posted by max-peck

I am sure I figured out the solution to that when I was trying to mod it into my install of Op Monsun

I cannot remember for sure now, but I know it involved turning up the volume using SH3D in a file that could only be opened by SH3D (ie it was not a cfg file)

Try looking in Data/Sound/Sh.sdl

Thank you. We're on our own as nvdrifter's Depth Charge Splash Warning is lost at sea....

[propbeanie]

Is it in GFO?... I remember hearing it somewhere just not too long ago...

max-peck, some places would call it a dictatorial democracy, but we lovingly refer to it as an autocratic democracy...


Edit: check the "P18_&KGun_water_splash.wav" and the "_hyd" version

[max-peck]

Originally Posted by propbeanie

Edit: check the "P18_&KGun_water_splash.wav" and the "_hyd" version

Yeah - that rings a bell

Maybe Ducimus just used a sound editor to make that WAV file louder?

Don't even know if that is even a thing - just thinking aloud here

[propbeanie]

Originally Posted by max-peck

Yeah - that rings a bell

Maybe Ducimus just used a sound editor to make that WAV file louder?

Don't even know if that is even a thing - just thinking aloud here

There's a controller for it somewhere, and I do remember seeing it, but whether it's in the SH.SDL or in the DAT files for the ships, I do not remember...

[Lt commander lare]

I would like to see lifeguard Duty added to Fall of the Rising sun if it's not already added.

Lt Cmdr Lare