New random Campaign for SH2 available

[Hitman]

OK, only 5 people said they would like to have it :roll: , but anyway, here you go, for anyone interested. I tried to contact Rossbach to tell him I was using part of his code, but the mail was bounced back :-?

Link: http://rapidshare.de/files/5821469/install_pack.rar.html

It's only 0.5 MB big, so easy download even for 56k. Have fun and feedback here. :up:

From the README:


This Campaign generator pack has been written entirely through a rework of Rossbach’s original one, and has a lots of features implemented, including:

- Random career length (Minimum 5 maximum 7 missions)
- Random convoy routes each time you generate a campaign, and also each time you restart the same mission
- Random convoy composition (3 Templates with real names for ships)
- Random radio traffic, including reports from other U-Boots, orders from BdU to you or to other subs, SOS messages and intel messages
- New units like soviet submarines, destroyers and battleships (Also present in the vehicle viewer)
- New Type VIIC model by sergbuto with Deck gun removed and improved wake
- Random chances of encountering stragglers, soviet submarines, aircraft and patrols
- New weather file and effects
- Modified sensors to prevent your U-Boot from detecting convoys at surface at 100 kms (50 NM) distance
- Random british Hunter Killer Groups
- Small Wolfpacks on certain missions
- A solution (Thanks to CB) has been implemented to prevent part of the saved game bug (No aggressive escorts), but if you save you will still lose radio messages and medals.
- The same technique will provide escorts that patrol around the convoy, and not simply stay on a fixed position.
- Optional no map icons mod by CB: You will only see grey generic icons on your map and will need to identify visually any unit encountered.



EDITED: The readme states wrongly that Redwine DCs mod is included. It is NOT include, but is highly recommended :arrgh!:

[MarkShot]

Thanks.

[Bruno Lotse]

Thank you Hitman. :up:
Cannot run it right now. But I've got you campaign and will sail off as soon as current weather cleared.

[Piter_]

Thanks a lot :D

[Smaragdadler]

Vielen herzlichen Dank! :sunny: :up: :sunny:

[horsa]

Having fun with this HM, but its showing up my inexperience as a campaign player.......

First patrol out out of Trondheim , minor bump getting out of the harbour (I need to eat more carrots .. the Arctic is very dark )

Reach patrol zone ... no targets .

Set course to return to base .

Dive to avoid an enemy aircraft .

All clear. Order boat to "surface" . Conning tower emerges above water then sub mysteriously and involuntarally goes back to periscope depth. :cry:

All attemps at surfacing ( including blowballast ) fail.

Batteries run out ... sub comes to a halt at periscope depth.

CO2 levels rise . Crew asphyxiated . :(

Don't think I'll be getting a medal .

[Hitman]

Hi sailor :) seems you finally got hooked with pig boats :P

First patrol out out of Trondheim , minor bump getting out of the harbour (I need to eat more carrots .. the Arctic is very dark )


Yes, exiting Trondheim requires a bit of practice: Set time compression to 4x (Eliminates waves) and speed to halbe fahrt voraus. As soon as the Boot is out of the pen, turn left with full rudder until you point to the exit of the harbour (There are two peaks of mountains visible right on the exit...point the bow there). Once out of the harbour turn starbord (right) and plot your course out of the fjord in the map. BTW would love to see again that screenshot you did with hi-res textures for the fjords :up:

Reach patrol zone ... no targets .

BDU will ask you to return after four weeks in patrol (It's also random, but should be in around 4 weeks), but it might happen that you don't locate any convoy in the meantime. Do you stay that long in the patrol area?

Dive to avoid an enemy aircraft .

All clear. Order boat to "surface" . Conning tower emerges above water then sub mysteriously and involuntarally goes back to periscope depth.

All attemps at surfacing ( including blowballast ) fail.

Batteries run out ... sub comes to a halt at periscope depth.

CO2 levels rise . Crew asphyxiated .


Don't think this has much to do with the campaign :hmm:

[horsa]

BDU will ask you to return after four weeks in patrol

4 weeks !! ….. My God no wonder so many of them lost their minds . :o No I just meandered around for a few days
Quote:
Dive to avoid an enemy aircraft . All clear. Order boat to "surface" . Conning tower emerges above water then sub mysteriously and involuntarally goes back to periscope depth. All attemps at surfacing ( including blowballast ) fail. Batteries run out ... sub comes to a halt at periscope depth. CO2 levels rise . Crew asphyxiated .


Don't think this has much to do with the campaign

No I didn’t think the campaign was the problem . I wondered if some of the more experienced Uboat capts ( which in my case means everybody else ) had ever come across this . Surely this wasn’t due to my little bump ? I’d dived and surfaced a few times successfully before it went into refusal .

BTW would love to see again that screenshot you did with hi-res textures for the fjords

I'll see if I've still got it

[Panama Red]

Downloaded and thank you for releasing this Arctic Campaign.

[FUBAR295]

Hitman,

Thanks. Only 5 of us responded to your post, but 18 down loaded before me. A silent majority.

Good Hunting,
FUBAR

[The Old Man]

Thank You Hitman :-)
long live sh2, pac, d.c.
Roy

[TLAM Strike]

Could someone send me this? Send to billds9{at}yahoo.com

I would like to have this on file if I get the urge to play some SHII again...

BTW the link gives a broken DL, which is why I ask.

[Rossbach]

Well, well, well... Hitman, you have finished the enhanced campaign project we started on spring 2004. :D In the face of the release of SH3 I lost the interest already long time ago, but your persistence is impressive. Thats :up: :up: :up:

Hitman, I have took some freedom. First I have published your version on website http://web.starman.ee/rossbach as Hitman's edition of Arctic Kampaign 1944 so everyone, who are interested can download the campaign from there without any hazzle.

And changed the package file over to zip file. I hope you don't mind :roll:

For informatin for those still playing SH2 - it's a "must", especially after Hitman's major rework, surpassing even the SH3 in some sense with its focus and atmosphere that you are part of something.

Well Done, Hitman!

Rossbach

[horsa]

Yep, I must endorse that. SH2 does not deserve to be a dead game. I love the recent SH3 for many features but SH2 has its own atmosphere, and many aspects of the game have never been fully exploited . This Arctic Campaign is one example. :up:

[Hitman]

Hey, great to see you here again Rossbach! :D :D

Yup I finally managed to do a version of my own of your brilliant tool...its simplicity and efectiveness is even today, 3 years after the creation, outstanding :up: and even an idiot like me, with zero knowledge of scripting in VB has been able to understand how it works and rework it :huh:

I would love to add many things more, but I don't know if I will have the time for it.... :doh:

Thanks for your support!

[TLAM Strike]

Ok I reinstalled SHII, applyed the patch, High Rez, PM, then this and when I start a mission I get a blank screen. Any idea whats wrong?

[Hitman]

Copy here the janus error you are getting (If you press ALT+F4 in the screen blanker it will dissapear and a notepad archive with the janus log should be visible). :doh:

[TLAM Strike]

Ummm there is no janus error log being displayed... :huh:

I'll reinstall again tonight and see what happens...

[TLAM Strike]

Tue Jan 29 11:46:00 2002
Error -1 [(!(bResult))]
DirectX code: "Unrecognized error: 0xffffffff"
\Projects\Ultimation\Janus2\WWII\Sources\WWIISUnit .cpp
Line 133

[MadMike]

Hitman,
Forty-eight downloads already when I visited the site... have been away from Subsim.com for a while and I almost missed the post.
Looking forward to the new campaign.

Yours, Mike

[Hitman]

TLAM that seems to be a missing unit...strange :-?

Did you apply the official patch 1.1 for SH2 prior to PM 1-03 and the mod?

Check also that you did the install properly.... :doh:

[TLAM Strike]

Everything is installed properly. I tested it right before installing the random cam and it worked fine, once I install that it stops working.

[himmelreiter]

Hitman

Thank you for the new Arctic 1944 campaign. Just donwloaded it and will use it when - in the middle of december - my vacances begin (temperatures should then align with those in the game :D )

I'm also more a reader then a poster here: I suppose I'm a hardcore subsim gamer, but my very little spare time doesn't allow me the active development of mods.

I suppose many of the downloaders here have a similar problem.

Keep SH2 running! I still like it.

[Raptor]

BUMP
:rock:

This needs to see the light of day again for those SH2 diehards amongst us (like me)

Raptor

[Reinhard Hardegen]

Thank you, I will look at it too.:up:

[Reinhard Hardegen]

Bad link, does any one have it so I can play it?

[Raptor]

by Rossbach 10/25/05: Hitman, I have took some freedom. First I have published your version on website http://web.starman.ee/rossbach as Hitman's edition of Arctic Kampaign 1944 so everyone, who are interested can download the campaign from there without any hazzle.

And changed the package file over to zip file. I hope you don't mind


Use this link. Read the FAQ page as well.

[Hitman]

Wow, thanks for bumping guys it :D

Incredible it's already 2 years ago .... :o .... time flies away faster than you think :nope:

Anyway great memories, and fun gameplay as far as I remember...come to think of it will give it a try again :arrgh!: let's dust off the old SH2 CD:up:

[The Old Man]

Thank you for the new campaign hitman, you are right it is hardcore, I haven't sunk nothing yet & keep getting killed LOL
Roy

[Hitman]

BUMP for smecsty :up:

Get the campaign generator from Rossbach's site and have fun. Recommended is to install Jiim's mods (Environment/Interfaces, etc.) and the Arctic campaign :D

[Smecty]

BUMP for smecsty :up:

Get the campaign generator from Rossbach's site and have fun. Recommended is to install Jiim's mods (Environment/Interfaces, etc.) and the Arctic campaign :D

Thanks, Hitman, but unfortunately both your old site (http://rapidshare.de/files/5821469/i..._pack.rar.html) and Rossbach's are dead in the water. If somebody has this file I'd love to try it!

Cheers,

Smecty

[Hitman]

I added it to my filefront page :up:

http://files.filefront.com/SH2+Arctic+Campaign+Generrrar/;10306521;/fileinfo.html

[Smecty]

I added it to my filefront page :up:

http://files.filefront.com/SH2+Arctic+Campaign+Generrrar/;10306521;/fileinfo.html

Way to go, Hitman! Snagged it and a big thanks!! :D

Smecty

[aanker]

I added it to my filefront page :up:

http://files.filefront.com/SH2+Arctic+Campaign+Generrrar/;10306521;/fileinfo.html
Amazing - after all these years it's still there.... another Bump Sir!

Happy Hunting!

Art

[Hitman]

Cheers Art :up: