No German voices in U-boat missions??

[demowhc]

I fired up the u-boat missions expansion (which kicks ass btw) to find that all my german sailors have american accents..I had a look through the menu but couldnt seem to find the option like in SH3 to change the language of the voices.. Have I overlooked a setting somewhere?

I know it's only a few voices but it really bugs me :damn: lol


eh..actually I wonder if you could use an SH3 sound mod and just change the file names to suit (if they need to be changed at all?)

[Boris]

Yeah, I think this is a big problem in SH4... I'm pretty sure it's like this anyway:

You can't change the language once the program has been installed, so you have to change the language in the installation language.

I accidentally installed SH4 in German once, and couldn't find the setting to change the language anywhere, so I had to reinstall selecting English.

EDIT: Checking the main.cfg in the SH4 my documents folder, the langauge settings are totally gone as compared to the SH3 main cfg. No idea why they would have gotten rid of this.

[demowhc]

ah you see I would like the text and menu's etc to be in english, but the german sailors to speak german..when they speak in an american accent it kind of ruins the immersion..

It would be good if, like in SH3, you could set the characters to speak in german while the game runs in english.


I'm sure a simple sound mod could fix the problem..and will just have to remove the sound mod whenever I want to use an american sub, or the americans will all be speaking german! :smug:

[Boris]

I'm actually not sure if SH4 even has German voices... but you can try installing using the German language option and see if it does. If this is the case, then just copy the speech folder out of that installation, and paste it into an English installation.

Alternatively chuck in the SH3 speech files and see what happens.

[demowhc]

yer I dont have Sh3 to grab the speech files from, that was my first idea..

I'll try install in german and see if the sailors speak in german..

[Boris]

Well if they don't, then it's really poor form to release a U-boat mod without German voices.

[demowhc]

any chance of a uploading the SH3 german voices files?? or where I can find them?

[Steel_Tomb]

To be perfectly honest, I'm not surprised. Its the typical kind of oversight that the devs would make. Although it would be cool to play U-boats in the Pacific, its just a sales ploy. Not really a huge amount of content added IMHO.

[STEED]

To be perfectly honest, I'm not surprised. Its the typical kind of oversight that the devs would make. Although it would be cool to play U-boats in the Pacific, its just a sales ploy. Not really a huge amount of content added IMHO.

Ching ching go the money tills. :88) :roll:

Not my cup of tea, due to the fact you could call it a what if add on. No thank you I got better things to spend my money on like a good WW2 book. ;)

[Seeadler]

Although it would be cool to play U-boats in the Pacific,
U 862 was the only German U-boat in the Pacific and sunk an American merchant ship on the Australian east coast, all other German Monsun U-boats operated from the island of Penang (Malaysia) in the Indian Ocean and South China Sea.

[Boris]

Yeah, but not buying this addon could ruin Ubisoft Romania, and that means ruining the development of WW2 sub-simulations for years to come.

[DavyJonesFootlocker]

Well, that's Ubi for ya. Allowing Hollywood to make the expansion with American voice overs.:lol:

[M. Sarsfield]

U 862 was the only German U-boat in the Pacific and sunk an American merchant ship on the Australian east coast, all other German Monsun U-boats operated from the island of Penang (Malaysia) in the Indian Ocean and South China Sea.

According to uboat.net, it looks like at least 4 operated in the Pacific...
http://uboat.net/maps/indian_ocean.htm This map only shows where the boats were sunk.

If they only restricted themselves to the Indian ocean, they wouldn't have built satellite bases in Singapore and Java.

[STEED]

U 862 was the only German U-boat in the Pacific and sunk an American merchant ship on the Australian east coast, all other German Monsun U-boats operated from the island of Penang (Malaysia) in the Indian Ocean and South China Sea.

According to uboat.net, it looks like at least 4 operated in the Pacific...
http://uboat.net/maps/indian_ocean.htm This map only shows where the boats were sunk.

If they only restricted themselves to the Indian ocean, they wouldn't have built satellite bases in Singapore and Java.

From the same site
U-862 IXD2 Class became (I 502)
http://uboat.net/boats/u862.htm

[M. Sarsfield]

I just came across that before you posted. Looks like they are sort of contradicting themselves... OR... the other boats sunk in the Pacific were supply boats moving material to and from Japan.

[STEED]

http://www.combinedfleet.com/I-502.htm

http://www.ubootwaffe.net/ops/boat.cgi?boat=862

[M. Sarsfield]

That's interesting that allied bombing forced them out of Penang and into Java for their base of operations.

[Sailor Steve]

I'm sure a simple sound mod could fix the problem..and will just have to remove the sound mod whenever I want to use an american sub, or the americans will all be speaking german! :smug:
Or be like the guys using different supermods, and have two installs. It's what I intend to do, when I can finally run it.

[4user]

reinstall SH4 in german will not change the voice. only the menu.txt changes to german language

for german voices we've got a german language patch.
dont know but if i remenber well somebody criticized that the voicesfiles are out of sh3

the patch can found here ( Silent Hunter 4: Wolves of the Pacific - Deutscher Sprachpatch | 161,0 MB) (http://www.ubi.com/DE/Downloads/Info.aspx?dlId=2170)

installorder is:
- stock game
- languagepatch
- other patches 1.4 or 1.5(whatever)

but i dont know if it works anymore, wanted to hear the crew to speak english on amarican subs and befor buy the addon i want to hear some good response

[M. Sarsfield]

Spaxspore just released a mod to enable German crew voices...
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=131792

Not sure if this also affects the US Campaign, since he didn't mention anything about that in his release notes. To be safe, make this the final mod in your mod list. It can easily be removed before starting a US career.

[demowhc]

the german voice patch did the trick :up:

[tennozan]

And praytell, what German voice patch would that be?

I really don't want to listen to English voices in my U-boat...:doh:

[Boris]

See the SH4 mods section

[ElAurens]

*SIGH*

What a waste of an add on.

So many types that are much more important to the Pacific war, like say, Japanese submarines, and what do we get?

More frigging U_Boats.

I purchased SH4 because I was bored to tears with the Atlantic and U-Boats, and wanted a good Pacific sim, UBI fails again.

[kiwi_2005]

This would be easy to grab German voices from SH3 and put them in Uboat addon:hmm: Might have to make some slight changes for them to work but this shouldn't be a problem.

Damn! No sign of Uboat addon in NZ yet:damn:

[kiwi_2005]

*SIGH*

What a waste of an add on.

So many types that are much more important to the Pacific war, like say, Japanese submarines, and what do we get?

More frigging U_Boats.

I purchased SH4 because I was bored to tears with the Atlantic and U-Boats, and wanted a good Pacific sim, UBI fails again.

Yea i hear ya, but it is still cool to command the Uboats :) Im looking forward to it.

[ElAurens]

Well, I'm not gonna touch it for at least a year. Maybe the bugs will be worked out by then, and I can find it in the bargain bin for not much money.

And hopefully by then someone will have made playable IJN submarines.

[stabiz]

Okay, you have spent all your ranting points now.

[ElAurens]

I have only just begun to rant!

:lol:

[CCIP]

I have only just begun to rant!

:lol:

But you've already spent them. I declare this forum to be minimum rant-tolerant. Viva no-rant-revolution! :arrgh!:

[d@rk51d3]

reinstall SH4 in german will not change the voice. only the menu.txt changes to german language

for german voices we've got a german language patch.
dont know but if i remenber well somebody criticized that the voicesfiles are out of sh3

the patch can found here ( Silent Hunter 4: Wolves of the Pacific - Deutscher Sprachpatch | 161,0 MB) (http://www.ubi.com/DE/Downloads/Info.aspx?dlId=2170)

installorder is:
- stock game
- languagepatch
- other patches 1.4 or 1.5(whatever)

but i dont know if it works anymore, wanted to hear the crew to speak english on amarican subs and befor buy the addon i want to hear some good response




Cheers Mate!:up:

- and, welcome aboard.:arrgh!:

[ElAurens]

I have only just begun to rant!

:lol:

But you've already spent them. I declare this forum to be minimum rant-tolerant. Viva no-rant-revolution! :arrgh!:

Are you saying sir that honest criticism is not allowed?

There are quite a few of us that find the content of this addon to be quite, well, unbelievable, in light of the rather unfinished state of SH4. You would have to agree that the Pacific War, as portrayed in SH4 is incomplete and that many details are indeed incorrect. While the modding community has gone a long way to address some of these faults, many are hard coded, and can only be rectified by the developers, but instead we get a U Boat type that never put to sea.

I would hope that you can see our frustration.

[clayton]

I have only just begun to rant!

:lol:

But you've already spent them. I declare this forum to be minimum rant-tolerant. Viva no-rant-revolution! :arrgh!:

Are you saying sir that honest criticism is not allowed?

There are quite a few of us that find the content of this addon to be quite, well, unbelievable, in light of the rather unfinished state of SH4. You would have to agree that the Pacific War, as portrayed in SH4 is incomplete and that many details are indeed incorrect. While the modding community has gone a long way to address some of these faults, many are hard coded, and can only be rectified by the developers, but instead we get a U Boat type that never put to sea.

I would hope that you can see our frustration.

Incomplete? Unbelievable?
My god man, ...your men have super powers... and there's nothing 'cooler' than sailing around the Indian Ocean in a Walter boat with super human Germans.

[CCIP]

I jest, in part.

However, how about we save the critiques of a product most of us haven't played yet until after we have it?

I think it's true that from the perspective of some (in fact many) of the purely sim players, the priorities on development of the add-on might seem a little odd. My hope, though, is that for all the features it introduces to draw in new players, what it has under the hood will be very good for us in the long run.

Otherwise let's keep realistic here, too. Sure they got many aspects of the war wrong. But I don't think there's ever been a sim on the market that got them more right, and at the same time offered the features and graphics that SH4 does. I think some of us are basically a little bit spoiled, when we shouldn't be. The modding community treats us too good, but we forget where the games actually start...

Personally, however this one comes out (and there's really no chance they can totally blow it), it's a little special. I can't hide my enthusiasm for taking a U-boat out on the ocean and trying out the cool new features. If it turns out a little gamey, I'll try to like it for what it is and wait for the modders to swoop in for my purist needs.

The real question here - is it worth 10 bucks? Since I bet most of us here make a lot more than that in one hour on their job, what are the chances it's not?
I'll tell you what I think when I get it. But honestly, I just don't see how it could not be.
Likewise, even if you spent $50 or more on SH4, unless you've worked your butt off modding it instead of playing it (and we got those types) - you've probably got more play value out of it than what you paid for! So I'd like to keep a positive tone here until there's enough reason to get negative.

[Boris]

I have only just begun to rant!

:lol:
But you've already spent them. I declare this forum to be minimum rant-tolerant. Viva no-rant-revolution! :arrgh!:
Are you saying sir that honest criticism is not allowed?

There are quite a few of us that find the content of this addon to be quite, well, unbelievable, in light of the rather unfinished state of SH4. You would have to agree that the Pacific War, as portrayed in SH4 is incomplete and that many details are indeed incorrect. While the modding community has gone a long way to address some of these faults, many are hard coded, and can only be rectified by the developers, but instead we get a U Boat type that never put to sea.

I would hope that you can see our frustration.

You're right to be a little frustrated at the state of SH4, but that is exactly what they did with SH3 too. They left the modders with a misshapen ball of clay, and the male modders made it really, really, ridiculously good-looking.

This is obviously not the way it should happen, but it is the way that it does.

[CCIP]

They left the modders with a misshapen ball of clay, and the male modders made it really, really, ridiculously good-looking.


:o

Of course you may be right as I haven't known any female SHIII modders either, but... :lol:

[demowhc]

To me this expansion feels like what SH4 should have been from the start..and i must say i quite enjoy it :D plus the extra features are cool, it almost feels like this was the game they intended but rushed SH4 out the door..

the only problem i had was the american voices for german crew..but all i had to do was copy the german voices from the SH4 patch over to this and its almost perfect(when the repair report came in he sounded american again :p )

most of the mods i used that worked for stock SH4 seem to work for this except i havnt tried RFB, and i know i will get blasted for saying this but i really prefer the game without all the ROW mods etc..
i previously used every ROW mod plus the pacific add on but i think they did a pretty good job this time..infact the sunrise when i was playing just before looked much better just had to get a few mods for the bow spray and limber holes and it looks great :up:

i would really like to make the wake from my sub about 50% more transparent becasue it looks far too bright to me..it might just be my vid cards or screen settings but everything else looks perfect...my wakes look like bright white cardboard cut outs..

[Boris]

They left the modders with a misshapen ball of clay, and the male modders made it really, really, ridiculously good-looking.

:o

Of course you may be right as I haven't known any female SHIII modders either, but... :lol:

I wrote misshapen ball of clay and from then just couldn't resist paraphrasing Zoolander... so :lol:

[Wilcke]

Don't be frustrated! From what Dan posted, there have been some significant changes done to the guts of SH4 in version 1.5 that will allow expansion, ships, campaign layers, plus streamlining the load process.

Modding will take care of the rest!

Its all good. Regardless of whether you like the U-Boats or not, SH4 is going to move forward. Time to have fun! I know I have fun every time I fire it up!

Happy Hunting!

[DavyJonesFootlocker]

This add-on appears to be a disappointment, no? I was hoping that they would've expanded on the Pacific scenario.

[ReM]

I LOVE U-boats and have really never given SHIV a fair chance because I prefer the Atlantic theatre.

I am willing to buy this add-on, but not for the U-boats, but because of the improvements made to SH IV, something like a 1.5 mod.

Is it worth spending the money if you regard it as mostly a patch or are there only slight changes made to the overall gameplay of SHIV?

Any insight would be appreciated.....

[stabiz]

This add-on appears to be a disappointment, no? I was hoping that they would've expanded on the Pacific scenario.

Uhm ... no.

[kiwi_2005]

German voices for uboat addon

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=131792

[ElAurens]

This add-on appears to be a disappointment, no? I was hoping that they would've expanded on the Pacific scenario.

Uhm ... no.


Um... yes.

[Boris]

This add-on appears to be a disappointment, no? I was hoping that they would've expanded on the Pacific scenario.
Uhm ... no.

Um... yes.

Um... no

[ElAurens]

Well, I will now leave you U Boat Kool Aide drinkers, but just bare in mind that those of us playing SH4 are gravely dissapointed in the lack of real content in this add on, and are absolutely not looking forward to the "Germanification" of SH4.

[LukeFF]

Well, I will now leave you U Boat Kool Aide drinkers, but just bare in mind that those of us playing SH4 are gravely dissapointed in the lack of real content in this add on, and are absolutely not looking forward to the "Germanification" of SH4.

So, you speak for everyone when you say SH4 players are greatly disappointed by the content of the add-on? Nice logic there.

[Boris]

Well, I will now leave you U Boat Kool Aide drinkers, but just bare in mind that those of us playing SH4 are gravely dissapointed in the lack of real content in this add on, and are absolutely not looking forward to the "Germanification" of SH4.

Cynic :nope:

Those of us playing SH4? It's not like I don't play the pacific campaign too. You speak of the 'Germanification' of SH4 as if it's some sort of an infestation. I'm sorry your precious SH4 isn't pure anymore.

[Friedmann]

Well, I will now leave you U Boat Kool Aide drinkers, but just bare in mind that those of us playing SH4 are gravely dissapointed in the lack of real content in this add on, and are absolutely not looking forward to the "Germanification" of SH4.

Good, can you leave the thread then so us rational people can discuss the voice issue with the add-on?

Perhaps you can start your own thread about the desanctification of the shrine that is Silent Hunter 4.

Anyway thanks to those that posted info about the voice issue with the add-on. It kinda ruined my attempt to play the game last night.

Very much looking forward to giving it a shot later :)

[Wilcke]

Well, I will now leave you U Boat Kool Aide drinkers, but just bare in mind that those of us playing SH4 are gravely dissapointed in the lack of real content in this add on, and are absolutely not looking forward to the "Germanification" of SH4.

So, you speak for everyone when you say SH4 players are greatly disappointed by the content of the add-on? Nice logic there.

I hope this is funny! I am having second thoughts! Oh well here goes nothing, my apologies :88)! Now where is that big bucket of cool refreshing Kool Aide?

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