U-Boote Kurs West! release

[Der Schmutt]

U-Boote Kurs West! v1.0 release!


Here it is.
I have created an extra-version for users of the English Strategyfirst copy from the game. The file you have to download is named UKW!v1.0ENG.exe.

Here's the readme:

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U-Boote Kurs West! v1.0 | Modpack for 1914-Shells of Fury (for English version by Strategyfirst)
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1.) Features
2.) Install
3.) Notice
4.) The crew
5.) Thankslist

1.) Features:
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-Five new Ships: Sailingship "Preussen", Dreadnought BB, 2 Q-ships (Norway and Dutch camo), Swedish collier
-Authentic flags for all British ships (White Ensign/Red Ensign)
-NPC-uboats (Petrolboats)
-More neutral traffic
-Different enemy traffic
-Eight new weather conditions in campaign modes (based on CB..'s weather mod)
-New water textures (by CB..)
-New MG reticule (by Chock)
-Periscope crosshair (by Chock)
-More realistic torpedo reloading times (Petrol 11,5 min., Diesel 10 min., UC II 8,5 min.)
-Object viewer showing all ship types and English Short 184 torpedobomber now (German descriptions)
-New title song
-German crew voices to 13 commands and events
-Reloading sound for the deck cannon
-Deck cannon range set to 2.500 meters in auto mode (manual 7.000 meters, same as in stock)
-Max. speed, weight, draught and range of all warships is set to values of historical origin
-Max. speed, weight and draught of all merchant ships set to realistic values
-Merchants of same type but different nations have little different tonnage
-New rank and medal system
-Menu and loading screens enriched with WW1 paraphernalia, i.e. photos, postcards etc. (screens appear in German language)

2.) Install
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Run .exe file, follow instructions.

3.) Notice
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1. Use AA (game settings) and AF (graphics acc. settings). STRONGLY RECOMMENDED!!!
2. Saved games from the 1914-SoF stock game can NOT be used!!!
3. When starting engines in the beginnig of any mission, 3-4 voice samples will play simultaneously.
4. Dutch Q-ship hull may have some texture flickering on long range distance.
5. Rain stops when entering pause mode on bridge.

4.) The U-Boote Kurs West! crew:
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Modding:
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CB..
Chock
Der Schmutt

Game Tester:
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Franky
T.T.
Droehni and Foeni

Idea, conception, creation:
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Der Schmutt

5.) Special thanks to:
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www.marinesims.de (http://www.marinesims.de)
My wife
Flo
Hueseyin
Tom Smutje
Johann

***Enjoy U-Boote Kurs West!***


readme.txt path ...Strategyfirst\1914 - Shells of Fury
UKW!files path ...Strategyfirst\1914 - Shells of Fury\UKW!files

Download: http://hosted.filefront.com/DerSchmutt (http://hosted.filefront.com/DerSchmutt)


Please post any questions, comments, critics.

Enjoy U-Boote Kurs West!

Greets, Der Schmutt

[balto63]

Time to download :rock: :rock: :rock: :rock:

Thanks a lot for your mod Der Schmutt :up:

Ciao

[horsa]

Downloading :up:

[FloydRoses]

Downloaded and istalled.
Good less a SMALL problem.
I see in mission, all Black:damn:
SKy and Whater are completely black!
I Have this:

ASUS M3a32mvp wifi deluxe
4gb (3,5 recognized by O.System)Ram 800mhz, Kingstone
Athlon X2 64 Dual core 6000+ 3.2 Ghz
ATI RADEON HD3870 512mb DDR4
Win Xp Sp3
Lastest Catalyst 8.4 April 2008
DirectX 9,0c Mar. 2008.

Whatta hell doesn't work?:damn:

[ALTEN]

Thanks for this mod Der Schmutt.
Unfortunately i'm having the same problem as FloydRoses, the sky is permanently black.

Win XP SP2
ATI X800 GTO

[AFRIKAKORPS]

Yep, Im having the same problem too, the sun is still sunny but the sky is pitch black. Also, are the menu words supposed to be in German? Because it has been years since I've spoken any German :D

[Der Schmutt]

Hm, kind of strange, the modpack actually does not contain any changes of skytextures.
Weather changes made do not effect any texture or graphic files and worked well on my system (2x Pentium4, WinXP SP2, Geforce 7600GS), and the ones of several friends of mine. (We're all Nvidia users.)

Did everything run well in the SOF stock game before?
Are there ATI users only having this problem?
I've heard about SOF does not fit with some newer ATI's. There are some available tools (ATI Tray Tools by Ray Adams i.e.) to solve the problem: "Pixel Shader Override" must be set to "2.0".

Some Nvidia users confronted with the same problem there?
Please reply if UKW works on your system or not.

You can create a multiple install with SOF by creating a copy of the stock game (like SH3, i.e.). Just for comparing stock game/modded game.

@AFRIKAKORPS:
Yes, some menu words are in German, mission briefing text is still in English.


Greets

[balto63]

In wich subdirectory SOF must be installed so you mod will find the game ???
I've mine installed under "C:\Programmi\Strategy First\1914 - Shells of Fury\Game"
I've XP Italian.
TIA

[Der Schmutt]

You can type the path of your installed SOF in the "Directory" window of the UKW!installer program, so your SOF will be found.
The only important is "...\Strategyfirst\1914 - Shells of Fury", but that's the default, anyway.

Btw, how does it type in stock game directory, "Strategyfirst" or "Strategy First"?
I'm shure it was "Strategyfirst". Am I wrong?

Greets

[Randomizer]

Hi. Thanks for this mod, just completed an August 1914 patrol, no issues with the sky or the textures as noted by some. Out for 16 days, four merchants for 9000+ GRT. Great summer weather throughout and spotted schnooner Preussen passing through my patrol area. Very impressive ship!

Only one small thing, in the gasoline-powered boat Ahead Slow (3-kts) is actually faster than Ahead One-Third (2.3 or so kts) when submerged. I do not recall this being the case in the unmodded SoF but could be mistaken.

Must try to improve my almost none-existant German skills...

Anyway, nice piece of work; thanks again.

Good Hunting

[Der Schmutt]

So it works, that's fine! One who likes it, that's even better! :)

Only one small thing, in the gasoline-powered boat Ahead Slow (3-kts) is actually faster than Ahead One-Third (2.3 or so kts) when submerged. I do not recall this being the case in the unmodded SoF but could be mistaken.


It's the same in stock game, typing and speed are in change by mistake (related to German version).
I thought, they had fixed it before releasing the English issue.

Thanks for response and information. :up:

Greets

[Panama_Red]

I have duel ATI 3780 cards and had the same "black sky" problem. Since I loaded your mod using the JSGME tool, I was able to start testing to find out which of your files was causing the "black sky" effect.

After testing, I disabled your UKW weather file (which then allowed the regular game weather file to work) and all is fine with the sky now. I may not have all your extra weather effects, but at least I can enjoy the rest of your great mod.

Thanks

[FloydRoses]

I wan't to remove Catalyst 8.4 drivers (many games requires this to work correctly).And Install At tray tool.
Hmm.... by my point of wiew, ths problems is in ATI VGA owner.
Need a ATI fix for this mod/game.

[balto63]

You can type the path of your installed SOF in the "Directory" window of the UKW!installer program, so your SOF will be found.
The only important is "...\Strategyfirst\1914 - Shells of Fury", but that's the default, anyway.

Btw, how does it type in stock game directory, "Strategyfirst" or "Strategy First"?
I'm shure it was "Strategyfirst". Am I wrong?

Greets
In my PC is: "C:\Program Files\Strategy First\1914 - Shells of Fury\Game\1914-Shells of Fury.exe"

The main menu now is in German :cry:
Don't like Tipperary is a subsim from the Kaiser point of view would have preferred a "Uboot lied"
BTW now it's all ok.
Sea and sky is black :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: my video card is ATI RADEON 2600 PRO

Ciao from Italy

[Der Schmutt]

I have duel ATI 3780 cards and had the same "black sky" problem. Since I loaded your mod using the JSGME tool, I was able to start testing to find out which of your files was causing the "black sky" effect.

After testing, I disabled your UKW weather file (which then allowed the regular game weather file to work) and all is fine with the sky now.

Thanks for testing and information.:up:
Does it work when switching off AA and AF?
Seems ATI cards don't get along with the new "Weather.txt" file. Hmm, I just couldn't get any clue why.:hmm:

Btw, it's important not to exit a mission in progress by pressing "Alt+Ctrl+Del" (Task Manager). This may causes graphic malfunction or crashing when return to game, even when using Nvidia cards.


Don't like Tipperary is a subsim from the Kaiser point of view would have preferred a "Uboot lied"

I took in Tipperary (version by Albert Farrington, 1915) for tribute to the German movie "Das Boot" by Wolfgang Petersen.

[balto63]

Don't like Tipperary is a subsim from the Kaiser point of view would have preferred a "Uboot lied"
I took in Tipperary (version by Albert Farrington, 1915) for tribute to the German movie "Das Boot" by Wolfgang Petersen.

I now that was in "Das boot" I think any of us subsimers has seen it :up: :up:
If I take a "Uboot lied" convert it and change it's name in intro.wav will work ???

TIA

Do you think to fix the problem for the ATI graphics ??

[Der Schmutt]

If I take a "Uboot lied" convert it and change it's name in intro.wav will work ???

Yes, it will.:up:


Do you think to fix the problem for the ATI graphics ??

Putting in the stock "Weather.txt" is the only idea, by the moment. I'll try to check out some other way but I'm afraid it's a basic problem with ATI cards.

[balto63]

Thank you for your fast replay.

I'll try with the new file :up:, and will overwrite the weather file with the old one but please try to find a solution for the ATI card.

Ciao from Italy

[Der Schmutt]

Due to some problems with ATI cards I've created some kind of hotfix. I don't know if it works, so please check out and reply.

The file you need is named "UKW!_ATI fix (alpatest)", it's a modified "Weather.txt"

Copy to "...Strategyfirst\1914 - Shells of Fury\Game". "Yes" to overwrite. (Don't forget backup!)

Download UKW!_ATI fix (alphatest): http://hosted.filefront.com/DerSchmutt
not available anymore

Greets

[balto63]

Hi Der Schmutt
No change after copyng the new file it seems allways to be in a dark night

Ciao

[Panama_Red]

Same here, no luck with your new "hotfix" weather file and my ATI cards. Only the original 1914 SOF weather file works okay.

[Der Schmutt]

Ok, here's another one. This should run with your ATI and bring you little shaped off UKW weather conditions.
Sorry, I haven't anyone around using an ATI for testing, so please check out and reply again.
If it doesn't work I've got another one, but it will be strongly shaped off.

The file you need is named "UKW! ATI fix #2", and again, it's a modified "Weather.txt"

Copy to "...Strategyfirst\1914 - Shells of Fury\Game". "Yes" to overwrite. (Don't forget backup!)

Download UKW! ATI fix #2: http://hosted.filefront.com/DerSchmutt
not available anymore

@Panama Red:
With using the stock weather file you gave the hint to me :up: , but it will cause some problems (sooner or later) due to UKW specific weather conditions scripted to mission scripts.
Thanks again!

Greets

[FloydRoses]

Appling fix #2.......nothing...PITCH BLACK.:damn:
Sorry man.:cry:

[Der Schmutt]

Anyone the same experience with fix #2?

Here's fix #3.
NOTICE: RENAME THE FILE BEFORE INSTALL!!! FILENAME MUST READ "Weather.txt".
(Can't upload two files with identical names.)

Copy to "...Strategyfirst\1914 - Shells of Fury\Game". "Yes" to overwrite. (Don't forget backup!)

Download UKW! ATI fix #3: http://hosted.filefront.com/DerSchmutt
not available anymore

If all this doesn't work, use the SoF stock Weather.txt file.
CAUTION: You have to change the weather condition "heavysea" in ...Game\Scripts\ServerScript 3006, 3009, 3019,3032, 3042, 3047 into any other from the stock weather file (sun, sunrise, rainsun, i.e.).

Greets

[cgjimeneza]

Hi
just wanted to say that you have taken me from sh4 as my weekend relax to SOF, it feels and acts different. On a Geforce 7300GS looks okay

gracias amigo :rock:

Carlos

[Panama_Red]

Tried Hot Fix #3 and still no luck yet. I just wonder why your weather file does not work when the game playing fine with the original werather file ???

It sounds like I may have some problems in the future playing your UKW-SOF mod since your new scenarios are tied into your new weather file.

[balto63]

Bad news also from me Der Schmutt.
Installed both fix the last is even worser than the second, all black; in the second I could see the clouds.

Ciao

[VFC_Baxter]

Me too, all black here. I seem to recall I couldnt use the weather mod from cb's site either.

[Catfish]

Hello,
i remember having the dark sky problem with my vanilla version of SoF back then, as well i remember the sim was quite resource-hungry for its price and appearance (my ATI 9600 was definitely suffering). I canot remember what i changed to get the graphics display right, but it finally worked.

Only to mention this might not be mod related - try a vanilla install first and change the graphic settings until that works ...

Greetings,
Catfish

[Der Schmutt]

@Catfish:
Thank you! :up:

All fixes are not available anymore!

Guys, I believe the black sky and sea problem could not be solved with a fix.
U-Boote Kurs West! has been downloaded for about 250 times and there are only very few (5) having this graphics problem.
Try out changing graphics settings, as I wrote before, with some ATI's you have to use a tool (tweaker) for setting Pixel Shader Overrun to 2.0.

Greets

EDIT:
I'm checkin' out someone near using a newer ATI for take a look at it by myself.
This may will take a little while.
Meanwhile, try changing your settings, please.

[Der Schmutt]

Got information about some ATIs and running UKW!:

ATI X850 Pro: O.K.

ATI X1950 Pro: black sea and sky, O.K. after switching off Pixelshader with ATI Tray Tool.

ATI 3850: O.K.


That's all for now, I'll reply any new information immediately.

Greets

[Der Schmutt]

The textures ARE the same, it probably depends on some changes done in "weather.txt".

[Lewis Wingerter]

At first I was also getting the black sky with UKW, but I was using a Nvida card.

I looked at the stock weather .txt and Der Schmutt(great Mod!) weather txt and

found that he had change all the texture = volumeSky from .tga to .dds. I change them back and it work fine for my card. I hope this will help with ATI.card

[Der Schmutt]

Hm, sounds interesting, thanks L.W.!
In my stock game (German copy) the volumeSky textures are all .dds and in fact, I did not change them.
So this might be it.

Greets

[Panama_Red]

DS:
I to want to report that renaming your "volumesky.dds" files inside your new "Weather.txt" file back to "volumesky.tga" cured my black sky problem.

If you wil notice, the SOF "volumesky" files are ".dds" files, but the original SOF "Weather.txt" file still refers to them as "volumesky.tga" files. As a result, changing them back to ".tga" files in your "Weather.txt" file allows them be be read as originally intended.

Thank you Lewis for catching this.

[balto63]

Wonderfull
I'lm give it a try.

Thank a lot to all of you.

31/05 17:18

I've changed from dds to tga and now it's all Ok; I'm an Ati user.

Thanks again to all of you and thanks to Der Schmutt for the favolus Mod :rock: :rock:

[Panama_Red]

Hopefuly with this "Weather.txt" file fix, DS will upgrade his UKW mod so everybody can use it without problems. :up: :up: :up:

[Der Schmutt]

Thanks to all of you, guys!!!:up:

The fix is online now.

Black sky fix for U-Boote Kurs West: http://hosted.filefront.com/DerSchmutt/

Install: copy the file to "...Strategyfirst\1914 - Shells of Fury\Game", "yes" to overwrite.

Cheers, Der Schmutt

[Buddahaid]

Got information about some ATIs and running UKW!:

ATI X850 Pro: O.K.

ATI X1950 Pro: black sea and sky, O.K. after switching off Pixelshader with ATI Tray Tool.

ATI 3850: O.K.


That's all for now, I'll reply any new information immediately.

Greets

I have an ATI 850xt and I needed the hot fix to cure the black sky and the ATI tray tool to set the shaders for 2.0. The tray tool fixed regular hard crashes that forced reboots. Ran it for hours in external view without a problem where before it wouldn't have lasted 15 minutes.

Buddahaid

[Templar]

Hello to all! Would it be possible to get a download link for the english version of this mod? The filefront link does not contain the mod. Thank you.

[Templar]

Thank's again :rock:

[horsa]

Mod list thread also updated

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=125170

[Der Schmutt]

Hi everybody,

after a long time gone I'm back again now, had some action at my work and take care of my family.
Somehow both versions of the UKW! mod have disappeared from filefront.com. Don't know why and how, by the moment I'm into uploading again, new links will be posted soon.

Thanks to Mikhayl, horsa and others for creating and posting alternate download sources!!!:up:

Greets, Der Schmutt

[Der Schmutt]

UKW!v1.0ENG is online again!!

The "new" link is similar to the one before:

http://hosted.filefront.com/DerSchmutt/ (http://hosted.filefront.com/DerSchmutt/)

Greets

[izzy1960]

THis sounds like ag reat add on, but I can not find the exe file above. At the web site is only the sound and voice mod, sky fix and ship mod for speed. THere was no exe file. Is this somewhere else?

[Der Schmutt]

And again they have dissapeared! Grumble!
I'm uploading again...

[Der Schmutt]

UKW! is uploaded again!

http://hosted.filefront.com/DerSchmutt/ (http://hosted.filefront.com/DerSchmutt/)

[izzy1960]

I immediately downloaded and started playing. After the installation, I did play a senerio and noticed the sky was dark. I did the weather fix and it looks good. It was great to see the dreadnought ship as well as other models.
One Question, I did download the Eng version, but noticed still the captains log and most of the menu screens are still in German. Did I download the correct version?

Please do not misinterpurt my question. I'll learn German before I uninstall. This mod is great! I love the sound of the loading process and the voices for commands.

Just a checking question. Thanks again for the repost. I do hope that more is to come. I would love to contribute, just that computer literate.

Good hunting

[Der Schmutt]

Hi,

thanks for commendation first.
You have the right version, "Eng" is related to mission briefing text (before starting any mission). All menu screens are in German, hope it's not a real problem. Log is in German because I don't own an English copy of the game and ship types and names are also in german.

Greets

[mikedora]

Hi

I am _really_ impressed by the Kurs West mod for SOF. This sim seems to be one of those that gradually comes to life as more and more enhancing mods come through.

There's just one thing that puzzles me. The installation notes refer to using "AA (game settings) and AF (graphics acc. settings). " What are these AA & AF settings, I can't find them!

Thanks

Mike

[Der Schmutt]

Hi mikedora,

AA = anti aliasing, AF = anisotropic filter.
Both can be activated and adjusted in your VGA card settings, AA is also adjustable in game settings of SoF:
Hauptmenue (main menue) -> Einstellungen (settings) -> Grafikeinstellungen (graphic settings) -> switch "2xFSAA" or "4xFSAA" to "JA" (yes).

Greets, Der Schmutt

[von mitter]

i have installed kurs west.just doing the training missions.i dont see any crosshairs on scope there is no speech etc.does this mod only apply to the campaign.in my program files i have two folders,sof and kw.should i drag and drop the kw folder into the sof folder,or is there any way to tell you are playing kurs west in the start menu.many thanks.

[Der Schmutt]

Kurs West effects campaign, training and single missions.

Maybe your installation path is incorrect. If you simply d&d the UKW folder into the SoF folder, the installation will also be incomplete.
You can type or copy/paste the path of your installed SoF in the "Directory" window of the UKW!installer program, so your SOF will be found.
UKW must be installed to "...\Strategyfirst\1914 - Shells of Fury", but that's the default, anyway.

Late reply, I know...:zzz:

Greets

[ReallyDedPoet]

Have had SOF for awhile, but have not played it much. I will have to give this mod a go.

Thanks :yep::up:

[mark2398]

I tried the link above, but it seems that the file has disappeared again. :wah:

DerSchmutt: Would you please fix it again?

Thanks and Cheers to all your hard work for the community. :rock:

Mark

[Der Schmutt]

Cheers, Mark!:up:

I'm uploading again, UKW will be available in circa 1 hour.

Greets, Der Schmutt

...once again a late reply, haven't been in here for a while.

[Highbury]

Hello there

I just decided to re-install SOF. My computer at the time it came out really didn't handle it well and it had just never made it's way back on to my PC until I started reading about this mod recently. My only problem is however the German. I know it is only a small portion of the text, but I am admittedly useless in anything but English and a bit of Quebec French.

Is there anything I can do during install to minimize the amount of German this mod inserts into the game? Maybe leaving out new menu screens etc where it will not mess up any new options you may have added. (I don't know if there is anything new in the menu.. can't read it! lol)

Any advise would be welcome, and thanks for working on mods for this game.

[Buddahaid]

I don't know of any fixes for the remaining German text, but there are only a few screens that really use it, and I would think you might just take notes before modding to UKW.

Buddahaid

[Highbury]

Yeah will have to do that, and it shouldn't be much of a problem. I just thought I should ask, better then just living with it and not knowing ;)

[Kptlt Thomsen]

DS:
I to want to report that renaming your "volumesky.dds" files inside your new "Weather.txt" file back to "volumesky.tga" cured my black sky problem.

If you wil notice, the SOF "volumesky" files are ".dds" files, but the original SOF "Weather.txt" file still refers to them as "volumesky.tga" files. As a result, changing them back to ".tga" files in your "Weather.txt" file allows them be be read as originally intended.

Thank you Lewis for catching this.

I know I'm a latecomer on this..but I just got SOF today and DS's new mod..Happy to report that renaming the .dds files back to .tga in the weather.txt file worked here as well....late I know...but thought I would report anyhow.

Danke

Kptlt Thomsen (the lesser known one) lol
:up:

[Schnee]

Is this file still available ? Tried D/L the ENG .exe fil but said file was unavaliable?

[Luftace]

Hello all, just recieved my copy of SoF, downloaded the UKW ENG mod, but when I try to run the mod, I get a message saying the file is not recognized and windows wants me to pick or search for a program that can open it.:hmmm: I am running windows vista 64 and the game itself runs fine. If you need more info than that, I will gladly post it. TIA

[Panama_Red]

You have to convert the [1] at the end of the downloaded file to .exe and it will become a regular executable file that you can then "execute".

[Luftace]

DOH!! sure enough, that's all I needed. Thanx much for the quick replay

[Sepp von Ch.]

Please, reupload this UKW mod! Thank you!

[raymond6751]

Der Schmidt !

I just bought the game and tried to download your mod. No luck.

Please provide a good link.

[Raider M]

Here is the link to U-Boote Kurs West:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/downloads.php?do=file&id=327

[Sepp von Ch.]

And the geramn version of this mod please?;)

[Helmsly]

Hello there

I just decided to re-install SOF. My computer at the time it came out really didn't handle it well and it had just never made it's way back on to my PC until I started reading about this mod recently. My only problem is however the German. I know it is only a small portion of the text, but I am admittedly useless in anything but English and a bit of Quebec French.

Is there anything I can do during install to minimize the amount of German this mod inserts into the game? Maybe leaving out new menu screens etc where it will not mess up any new options you may have added. (I don't know if there is anything new in the menu.. can't read it! lol)

Any advise would be welcome, and thanks for working on mods for this game.

Before I installed this excellent mod I made a copy of my game (Copy of 1914 - Shells of Fury).

After I installed the mod I also noted a lot of German in the menus.

To help alleviate the issue a little I copied the menu files from my original copy to the mod copy. All the files were in this folder:

C:\Program Files\Strategy First\1914 - Shells of Fury\Game\Textures\MenuScreens

I copied all the files in the "MenuScreens" folder from the original copy to the modded copy.

There are still a few places with German but the main menus and graphic settings are all in English once again. As a bonus - The Kurs West splash screen is still in place too.

I hope that helps.

Also, thanks much for a great mod! :)

[Lindley]

Great Mod very well done.:up:
Could you explain the New rank and medal system please?
I have sunk so far a total of approx 49,000 tonnes and I have had one promotion to Oberleutnant zur See.


No medal so far I thought you would get the Iron Cross 2nd Class after the first ship sunk before any promotion etc.

[MichaelJR]

Hi there. Just experienced a weird D/L problem with UKW. Most mods at subsim going down smoothly by hitting the link, finding their way automatically into the D/L file. This one goes only after using "save target..." and manually completing the target file. I downloaded the english file now because no german one is available (seems Der Schmutt has left this community long ago) and will try to manage to master the english directory into the german file order as someone obviously did something like this before.

Besides that and in case i would fail :hmmm: I politely ask if everyone has a german file at hand and would pm me or knows a link for d/l? This would be really great and in any case thanks in advance :yep:

Michael

[spudweasel]

After downloading and installing the U-Boote Kurs West v1.0 mod, it took me forever searching through various forum posts to find the fix for the rare black sky and black water issue that some users of the mod, like me, have needed. That fix was no longer available for DL. So I attached my fixed weather.txt file to spare someone else the trouble. The fix was not my doing. But it works. Just install the mod and then replace the weather.txt file with the attached one.