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pythos
02-21-08, 11:00 PM
Okay all, this is problably the fith time I have posted concerning this problem the game has had since it came out.

I am talking about the bogus and broken upgrade system for the conning towers of our assigned boats.

I have read here that the way the upgrade system works is it is a random chance that your boat gets a tower upgrade following a patrol. Well concerning this feature, mine seems to be DOA, and has never worked.

Frankly I am sick of it. I think the idea that it is random is nonsense. The probabilty of a boat getting upgraded in the actual war was based soley on wether the boat made it back to base in a serviceable condition.

Ubi dropped the ball on this one and the result are careers in a boat exactly the same as it was when assigned to the skipper for his first patrol, and having this same boat throughout a carreer.

I personally hate the way the upgrade system was done. It is obviously broken or works intermittently.

Anyone here have any idea what controls this random chance, and knows how to make it a 100 percent probability that the tower gets upgraded at the correct date. The tower on my S-boat still lacks an AA platform three months after the date it should have changed acording to the UPC Data file.

If no one knows, can the ones here with contacts with UBI itself get some info concerning this?

This is something that for me almost ruins the game and one that just simply not have left the devs computers before shipping.:down:

I appologize my tone, it is just this is a very annoying problem that has become quite frustrating.

AkbarGulag
02-22-08, 01:09 AM
I understand your frustration. Personally it never really bothered me as a fixation... but maybe because changing MOD's and patches prevent me from ever completing a campaign. It would be nice to be able to buy these items like in SH3, I kinda miss that aspect. A 100% chance for upgrade MOD? , that would be useful... maybe a poll in the public forum to 'feel' the water would be a start.

andycaccia
02-22-08, 08:52 AM
Random you say??
Well, I must admit that I never ended a campaign, nor gone as far as 1943 (first quarter)...but I always recieved the conning tower upgrades (even if I did not like them: I prefer the old, big, black turret mod. '41...tastes:D ). Maybe the chance of getting such upgrades is hard coded somewhere in the game...iI only know that there are dates, models, compatibility etc of conning towers in the .upc files.

Are you sure pythos that is REALLY random?? Couldn't it be simply a game bug?
I say this because the game structure looks like theese upgrades were made to be certain and automatic...not random and/or optional

Wilcke
02-22-08, 10:46 AM
Don't know if you are interested but Trigger Maru addresses this issue. You may want to go to the thread "stickied" and check out the FAQ and README.

pythos
02-26-08, 09:03 PM
I have the latest version of TM (which I like), but see nothing in the FAQs about it.