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Old 02-14-18, 01:18 AM   #1
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The title pretty much says it all, but in my couple years of being a fan of SH3, I have not found any definitive list of recommended mods anywhere. What mods do you probably more experienced people recommend?
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Old 02-14-18, 02:14 AM   #2
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Due to the dated sh3.exe, which crashes a lot, my first recomendation would be: do not overload, keep it as light in loading times as possible. Being 20 minutes in a i7, 16gb ram, and 1060ti only to see your game crashes at the end of the loading, despite you had a lot of caring about do not save close to other ships or underwater, is devastating. And if you want to play with the SH3Gen (it gives you some intelligence about the enemy)... you would need almost 45 to start playing a mission.

That automatically discards WAC (I love its features, tho), LSH, and maybe GWX.

The only light super mod is NYGM. However, it lacks from some eye candy or a gui where at least you have a chronometer, or you had some way to calculate ship speeds. And, I think it's imposible evade a single escort. The eye candy is easily solved with some environment, like OLCE2 or MPE5/6. The GUI is also easily fixed with Ahnenerbe + Fix for NYGM. And NYGM has a mod to restore the radio contacts (hey, when bdu send you a message about enemy position, at least you should see where it was reported last time). However the escorts playing like gods force you to torpedo them before they deep charge you.

I did my own mod soup, but I miss hard a basic supermod features, the sinking of merchants due to flooding. If it wasn't due to this feature (and maybe the detailed radio messages), I would still play to my own combination. Now I'm playing the NYGM with the extra mods I said you.
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Old 02-14-18, 04:45 AM   #3
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Hi JL
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to see your game crashes at the end of the loading,
Compatibility issue can be overcome.
!. Windows 10 needs to be run in Windows 7 compatibility mode as OS10 does not like SH3.
2. Applications should be run as Administrators.
3. Gpu needs to be correctly setup.
Post #6 Running Applications As An Administrator.
Post #7 Changing Nvidia And AMD Radeon GPU Settings

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Old 02-14-18, 05:39 AM   #5
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NYGM has intelligent destroyers and enemy sensors. If you want a challenge go there.

My recommendation

NYGM
MAGUI F or Ahnenerbe gui
M.e.p.5 for environment
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Old 02-14-18, 12:28 PM   #6
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I always recommend SH3 Commander, which is not a mod but an external tool that lets you control several game parameters - deck gun reload times, crew fatigue rates, wave heights with different weather, more realistic crew loadouts, time spent in base between patrols, and a lot more - with a single mouse click. It also adds historically accurate names to the ships you sink, and has a database of all known crewmember names, which it then recombines into separate names giving a total of 1.7 billion possible names.

The best part is, it works outside the game which makes it reasonably stable.
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