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[Polak2]

while they look great, it's probably not worth starting again with all my painting and database tweaks

To contrary....
DW is such a really great, deep and in a way "special" computer simulation, that making any contribution and effort in order to improve its graphics, interface or any of its visual quality IMHO should be (and is) always greatly appreciated.
Sure that all that maybe just small blip in comparison with magnitude of changes and vast improvements brought to us by RA Team, but everything counts when talking how to preserve popularity of the true gem of naval simulation.

I also want to mentioned here FPSchazly's and others gameplay videos and tutorials , which is always met by great interest and true appreciation.Those all are the important steps, which make the already great simulation even greater and spread its popularity among newcomers and new fans of this genre.

I only wish that Sonalyst looked at this effort and recent revival with approval and perhaps even second it by releasing some of the informations about the game files and maybe even editing tools to make it happen even more.

[KilooliK]

Originally Posted by FPSchazly

Be sure to check out the Lada if you want a towed

If you want to report bugs, you should submit them directly to the RA forums at redrodgers.com

The Lada doesnt seem to be able to launch a SSM above the surface of the water. Ive launched them at 25m, 35m, and 55m, and none of them take flight. They all go "gray" and sink to the bottom. Fired at 4knots. Even tried snapshots. When they do manage to break the surface and miss, it wont let me assign the target to another SSM tube. I have to do a snapshot with waypoints.

The difficulty increase with the RA mod takes some of the fun out of DW. Using my Kilo, it took me 6 Klub ASM and 6 Test 71 torpedoes before I could manage 1 hit on a french destroyer, on medium difficulty. Even guiding the torpedoes manually. If the torp is in line and looking good, about to make a hit, the contact will suddenly disappear and reappear 500 yards in another direction. The torpedoes also become stupid once they close to within 500 yards and turn every which way, except in the direction of the target. And missiles ALWAYS get shot out of the air. Always. Especially on hard. Kinda worthless. You have a better chance at ramming a boat then you do at shooting it with any weaponry. Boats also seem to be able to outrun and outmaneuver my torpedoes. I switched to the Akula lll in hopes the Sizzler ASM, with its supersonic warhead, would be able punch through a ships defenses without getting shot out of the air. Only 1 out of 7 made it through. And all were in supersonic stage. Damn those boats are tough..

And they seem to always know your location and heading, even if they arent shooting at you. Almost impossible to get behind a boat, in an effort to use wake homing torpedoes for a higher hit percentage. The boat always keeps its nose in my direction and bounces around the map. With its nose pointed at me. Really?

Dont get me wrong, this mod is great. Lots of platforms and new weapons. I just dont think it should take 6 torps in order to luck out and get 1 hit. And missiles should have a much higher hit %. If they were this easy to shoot out of the air, every single nation would discontinue their usage because it would be a colossal waste of money to shoot them. Kinda a buzzkill.

[Castout]

Amazing update. It looks like I'm on my way to finish my own old scenario, Gibraltar transit Hard version. Victor II is an amazing SSN!! The thing is the propeller seems to cavitate at all speeds above 40 meters of depth...even at 0 knots...Is this a bug? Seems the sub has a propeller designed to maximize speed since it has so many blades....

Originally Posted by Polak2

To contrary....
DW is such a really great, deep and in a way "special" computer simulation, that making any contribution and effort in order to improve its graphics, interface or any of its visual quality IMHO should be (and is) always greatly appreciated.
Sure that all that maybe just small blip in comparison with magnitude of changes and vast improvements brought to us by RA Team, but everything counts when talking how to preserve popularity of the true gem of naval simulation.

I also want to mentioned here FPSchazly's and others gameplay videos and tutorials , which is always met by great interest and true appreciation.Those all are the important steps, which make the already great simulation even greater and spread its popularity among newcomers and new fans of this genre.

I only wish that Sonalyst looked at this effort and recent revival with approval and perhaps even second it by releasing some of the informations about the game files and maybe even editing tools to make it happen even more.

Fantastic post, I agree completely.

Also, Stewy1's seawolf looks great, it makes a true difference to the vanilla boat I think!

[KilooliK]

Ive been playing with the MH-60 Seahawk the past couple days. Its weapons are amazingly accurate. Hellfire's are almost a sure hit against boats and other aircraft. Love how in RA you can target surface/air targets with Hellfires. As it should be. Though they are light on the damage side. MK-54 is also deadly against boats. Havent tried it out against subs yet.

Hunting subs with the Mh60 can be a little tiring as many subs survive one or even two torpedoes in RA. This is arguably authentic though, especially some Russian subs are very sturdy, the typhoon for example.

Remember that you can return to base to rearm with aircraft in DW.

Originally Posted by KilooliK

Ive been playing with the MH-60 Seahawk the past couple days. Its weapons are amazingly accurate. Hellfire's are almost a sure hit against boats and other aircraft. Love how in RA you can target surface/air targets with Hellfires. As it should be. Though they are light on the damage side. MK-54 is also deadly against boats. Havent tried it out against subs yet.

[FPSchazly]

Originally Posted by Polak2

I also want to mentioned here FPSchazly's and others gameplay videos and tutorials , which is always met by great interest and true appreciation.Those all are the important steps, which make the already great simulation even greater and spread its popularity among newcomers and new fans of this genre.

I only wish that Sonalyst looked at this effort and recent revival with approval and perhaps even second it by releasing some of the informations about the game files and maybe even editing tools to make it happen even more.

Originally Posted by Nippelspanner

Fantastic post, I agree completely.

Thank you for the kind words

I agree it would be very nice if Sonalysts would release the source code, however, even doing something as small as gathering that together would require some lost money on their time (if they got no compensation)... which is assuming the source files even exist anymore.

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Hi guys,

I love the RA mod for DW but i think there are not much missions to play.

What i think will be really interesting is a bunch of "realistic" missions. I mean that kind of mission starting from "cold war" (Victor I era) up to today (Borey era).

In those kind of missions the point will be to stay undetected and collect info and no to sink a fleet.

The torpedo firing can be during exercises with friendly naval forces firing blank torpedoes and missiles

What do you think?

[KilooliK]

Originally Posted by Nippelspanner

Hunting subs with the Mh60 can be a little tiring as many subs survive one or even two torpedoes in RA. This is arguably authentic though, especially some Russian subs are very sturdy, the typhoon for example.

Remember that you can return to base to rearm with aircraft in DW.

I also like the 50 cal's mounted on both sides of the Seahawk. Not that it really does much in the effort to sink a ship, but its a nice touch. The Seahawk is super vulnerable though. Easily shot down if youre not really careful when employing your attack plan

And my Kilo always dies when hit by a Seahawk torpedo lol

Originally Posted by Dimitrof

Hi guys,

I love the RA mod for DW but i think there are not much missions to play.

What i think will be really interesting is a bunch of "realistic" missions. I mean that kind of mission starting from "cold war" (Victor I era) up to today (Borey era).

In those kind of missions the point will be to stay undetected and collect info and no to sink a fleet.

The torpedo firing can be during exercises with friendly naval forces firing blank torpedoes and missiles

What do you think?

While I like cold war Era missions myself, dw doesn't provide much possibilities for good missions without the use of weapons. They are in fact the most tricky missions to create.

[FPSchazly]

Originally Posted by Nippelspanner

While I like cold war Era missions myself, dw doesn't provide much possibilities for good missions without the use of weapons. They are in fact the most tricky missions to create.

My thoughts exactly. Those types of missions were very tense in real life, reading about them is very exciting, but as Nippelspanner said, DW isn't really built to make that style of mission particularly exciting, unfortunately. That's not to say it couldn't be done, but yeah, I would say it would definitely take a lot more work than a normal-type mission.

Crazy Ivan made some of those kind of missions for Sub Command (the Delta IV missions). I played those again and again but i need something new... Definitely i can't make something like that by myself. I say it just for those who can

[MR. Wood]

Hey guys I will get off my ass at some point been super busy in real life with getting deadly sick, I will make this promise to all of you I will start making Missions once again expect a few in about a month currently working on a few other things. They will be cold war missions with some older boats just wish we had a few more playable older ones from around the world would create a lot of veracity. Which is something I am also working on

MR. Wood

[swampy]

Im having problems with the uuv. It just keeps going at 15knots no matter what I do, and I cant enable it.
Am I doing something wrong or is this a 1.41 problem?