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Old 10-16-18, 02:17 PM   #1
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Hello eveyone, I am just starting with SH5 after years on and off with SH3 (with GWX).



I finished installing yesterday, along with the latest TWOS and played with some of the realism options and historical missions... and boy was I lost.


It looks like it is quite the learning curve for this one if coming from SH3/GWX. Are there any simplified guides? I see the links here in the stickies, but it seems daunting to go through all of it (which I will as time goes on) but are there any simple guides to be able to get started the right away?


I also see through the JSGME that there are a bunch of optional mods, any of those that you would consider essential? So far, I haven't enable any.


Beyond those found in JSGME, are there any other ones that I should add to a SH5/TWOS install?


I really look forward to learning this one and I hope it provides as much enjoyment as SH3/GWX did for me over the years.


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PD. Saludos a los capitanes españoles, veo que hay unos cuantos por aqui.
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Old 10-16-18, 02:48 PM   #2
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It seems daunting at first, but in my opinion; much of the complexities of say the tools for aiding with trigonometry et al; they're more at home in the classroom; as the angriffsscheibe, AoB tools etc are great, but you can still get by making best-guesstimates. I still love that they exist though, point being that you can get stuck in and have success without knowing how they work, but it helps.

The parts that affect game-play which I enable in JSGME are;

Encrypted BdU Orders
Real Nav'

This means that I need to decrypt occasional BdU messages (not all, but I'm working on that), also I will not receive map position updates (for anything), I either have to do the navigation myself (Dead-reckoning, Celestial Navigation, known point triangulation, etc), or rely on the Bootsmann to give me good fixes (he makes mistakes, especially if it's only DR upon DR).

I'm not aware of any quick guides for it overall, F1 gets you the controls list, the TDC functions as one would expect from most other SHs.

I've gone a slight step further and had the HUD hidden until I need it, but that's not necessary.

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Old 10-17-18, 11:35 AM   #3
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Thank you! I will certainly try those that you mention, the Real Nav sounds really really interesting, I just don't think I am yet ready for it when I barely can get out of port


The TWOS strong suggestion to manually save when you get in the bunker when starting a campaign, is it before or after receiving the orders and accepting the mission? Or before I even ask the gentleman about any orders?



I also saw in some videos for that first mission in the campaign if you report the contacts they do get attack by planes and a task force... do I need to report hourly, just once and how long until friendlies appear?


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Old 10-17-18, 12:42 PM   #4
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Welcome to SH5

- you need to save as soon in bunker, then exit and reload.

- just report once should make it
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Old 10-18-18, 09:53 AM   #5
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Well... crap! I spent a few days trying out the historical missions to get familiar and stuff. Yesterday I was ready to start the campaign, so excited. I get home from work and fire it up... after the Ubisoft loud splash screen, boom the computer shuts down. Ok, just a fluke, tried again, shut down, I panic. So, I uninstall everything, clean the registry and reinstall SH5, plus patch and start it again (no TWOS) it blows up again.



I am thinking windows must have pushed an update or something that makes the game not run... or maybe a graphic card driver update? I saw here to try compatibility mode (windows 7) and disabling the "Display Scaling On High DPI Settings", but no matter what the whole thing crashes and restarts the laptop


Any ideas guys? Its a windows 10 with AMD card in case the info helps... hopefully I can get it to work again...



Thank you!!
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Old 10-18-18, 11:03 AM   #6
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Is it a graceful shutdown/restart, i.e. it warns you, or does it just turn off without ceremony? Because if it's the latter it could be overheating and need a blasting out with compressed air.

My install is on Win 7 64, via Steam and I don't see anything from Ubi, just the TWoS screen etc, so this could be a Win 10 related problem.

I see comments about running the game as admin, too, for me it prompts me each time.
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Old 10-18-18, 11:20 AM   #7
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I always play with Uplay & Steam off line
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Old 10-18-18, 11:39 AM   #8
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No ceremony and no warning, it just restarts. I don't think is a Uplay problem because the ubisoft splash screen comes up and completes. Last night when my original install had TWOS it blew up when that screen was loading (black screen after Ubisoft's and then instead of the TWOS loading screen it would just restart). When I had just SH5/patch, after the ubisoft screen finishes, the intro video starts, and finishes then black screen and restart. So annoying... I suspect some sort of windows update that happened sometime yesterday (since it worked fine the night before). UGH!

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Old 10-18-18, 04:07 PM   #9
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Hi J
Welcome to SH5.
Do not install in the Program Files (x86) directory by choice as this has restrictions which can affect your applications.

Post #180 How To Stop Uplay Crashing To Your Desk Top?

Post #240 Changing AMD Radeon GPU Settings > Essential Settings

Start a new installation or re-install by launching the game without mods and check when the game loads to the main menu you can see v1.2.0 in the top corner.

Post #410 How To Start A New Campaign In SH5 > Pictorial
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Old 10-19-18, 09:23 AM   #10
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Thank you, it worked! I think it was the amd card settings, some of them had changed (probably an update set it up to defaults).



Started the campaign, reported the task force and the two enemy ships got pummeled by 3 ship force and aircraft, but Bdu was none too happy that I just sat and watched, I got scolded! Then proceeded to sink a merchant, it took four torps, one was a dud, 2 missed and finally the last one was a hit. It's 9/2 at night and still patrolling the area, though I received a message late 9/1 that my new port is Kiel, I should head over there soon...
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Old 10-19-18, 01:30 PM   #11
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Cool you get it sorted

Those 2 first destroyers were good to sink, because you’ll see as time goes on, it’s gonna be an other story...
As yourself, i sat down watching the great Luftwaffe job. I regret now i didn’t try to get some war ship easy tonnage
Almost in 41 now, i fear them and sail away most of time...
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Old 10-29-18, 04:40 PM   #12
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Things are moving along. I finished last night my second patrol of the first campaign (Coastal Waters). Lots of duds (I might have to stop shooting from 90 degrees and see if that helps) and some misses.



I had 3 torps left and was heading back towards base when at night, I stumbled upon a decent convoy, moving fast at 12 knots and either unescorted or scort was on the opposite side. I was able to lock and follow target (space bar and x) with the UZO. As I approached the convoy, I dived for a periscope attack since maybe some were armed merchants and didn't want to risk it. I could see the ships with the attack scope, but could not lock them or follow them . The ships looked like shadows... it was weird and kinda halloweenish hahah! I got frustrated since I couldn't lock the targets to get the data... so I just fired by estimation and 2 missed but 1 hit a large ship for 10k tons. Not too bad.


Has anyone experienced the issue of not being able to lock the target? It was night and maybe some fog and the darned periscopes would not lock.. (the UZO did).
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Yes Javigato, it’s normal you can’t lock even if you can see them.
Often with fog...
Just be patient or try to close more
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How close? Because I aint great at estimating ranges visually, but they were no more than 800 feet in front of me
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How close? Because I aint great at estimating ranges visually, but they were no more than 800 feet in front of me
Did you mark your target with "space bar" key? Modlist?

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Has anyone experienced the issue of not being able to lock the target? It was night and maybe some fog and the darned periscopes would not lock.. (the UZO did).
Also, in game's terms , this has no sense at all, because if your visual sensors do not detect the target, it is quite irrelevant which optics you use...
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