The map color changes are intentional and designed to mimick the type of map used for naval plotting given the limitations within the game engine.

Ships can now only be sunk by causing the ships to flood. You must strike different compartments in order to cause the ship to flood and sink. The lower on the haul you strike the faster it will flood. HP damage is no longer a factor meaning increasing the damage they cause may still lead to slow sinking if the damage isnt spread between compartments.

Hogan's Alley is for the remaining crew watch after the officers are placed in the conning tower.
This is to "rig for depth charging" the way the damage models have been changed would cause the crew to be killed or injured even though they are off duty the game engine sees them as being on the bridege and therefore exposed to depth charging.

Thanks for looking into it dude! Ducimus got us below 450 ft by setting the radar depth to something crazy like 800 ft. You had to stop the dive with the "A" key to level off at 550 ft as an example.

On a greater point, did Ducimus not allow you guys to incorporate some of the great fixes he came up with in RFB? Along with the deep dive fix he fixed the angle when diving and also added some cool buttons on the conning tower wall. I used the General Quarters button all the time.

In a perfect world I would just add the great work you guys did with the sub damage model plus the ship damage model to TMO. That is really all it was lacking.

Just my two cents though. Thanks for all the hard work.
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Is it me or is the horizontal centerline of the scopes missing? :hmm:

stronger torps
 

what file did you change in S3D??? and to what values??? with this armored ships a bit of a stronger warhead is needed

The semicolon key should take your boat to radar depth (it's just the "snorkel depth" command re-named).

Bearing.dds in /Data/Menu/Gui.

Thats the problem. Radar depth only takes you to 38 feet. How do we dive past 450 ft?
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We decided to leave one fan static in that control room, like we also did with the other interior models (except the S boats, since there is only one fan in the control room).

As is written in the manual, ;) even though it looks like the off-duty crew is below decks, the reality is that the game's code simply shows them as being inactive for that compartment. They do not move anywhere else when off-duty. In other words, a crewman stays in his assigned compartment at all times until moved by the player, regardless of whether or not they are on duty. In order for the new submarine damage model to work, we had to create "Hogan's Alley" so the player could truly move the bridge crew below decks when submerged. But, I am writing too much here. It's all explained in the manual. ;)

It's historically correct, and we specifically asked Nisgeis to create it this way:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...Norway1945.jpg

That's a 1945 Kriegsmarine map of the Norwegian coast. Light blue water is deep water, dark blue is shallow.

Did you even bother to scan the manual?

Its almost like he is complaining about to much realism :lol:

Completed my first patrol and I can say it was a good challenge. It's almost too frustrating to play, just like it was for real. :lol: ;)

Noticed 1 thing when I got back to port though; empty tubes aren't filled, but empty reloads are filled like they should. Check your torpedo load-out before heading back out, or you might find yourself a couple short.

BTW about the locking issue; doesn't seem to happen if you're using the TBT. Had no issues at all with the TBT, but using the scopes is a b***h. Dunno about using the scopes while surfaced though, I'll try that next time and see if the issue remains. Would be kinda weird if it only happens when you're submerged. :hmm:

We did this to circumvent a problem whereby the S boats would be re-loaded with Mark 14s after completing a patrol.

Thank you RFB team!!!! Job well done!!! I like everything about this mod. It was well worth the wait....

I hope you continue to refine RFB after some much deserved R&R

I do look forward to a day when W_clear's mod will work with RFB (though PE is very good too):up: :rock: