First patrol: deploy at Honshu, once there to engage and sink merchant shipping. 5 ships, +27000 tons, blah-blah.

Second patrol, photo recon of Kasu... something harbor. So I take pics, then sink those big juicy sitting ducks (merchants only), return to Pearl, medals, party.

Patrols 3 and 4, same as the second... with the notable difference that on patrol 4 there was a midget sub docked in the harbor.

On all patrols, I've been sending progress reports (it helps me keep track of my total tonnage sunk) and also reporting convoy sightings of my own - couldn't engage though (out of torps). This hasn't helped in triggering a new type of mission - or even the same type mission but in a different enemy harbor. On the fourth mission, I thought that maybe I wasn't supposed to sink what I'd just photographed, so i went North a bit to Hiroshima where lo and behold I had an awe inspiring sighting of the Yamato, which I sankwith 3 shots. So, just photos in the designated harbor and engaging elsewhere hasn't helped either, because guess what my mission orders are for patrol 5... So this would be my 4th repetition of the same mission.

So, has ANYONE managed to get past this repetition issue and actually experience a "dynamic campaign"? Or was it just some marketing hype?

PS - I guess SH3 had a more dynamic career, because I only had the same misiion given to me 3 times in a career.

There shure is a problem here. All Ive seen is patrol of tokoyo every time , 8 missions. allthough i did get a new sub after 3rd mission

I too have been assigned the same mission over and over, and I do not have unlimited anything and I report back frequently.

Do what I did, I got the repeater and said not this time. I went to the South China Sea were there a lot of vessels to sink. When I did this my mission moved on after I spotted a convoy and reported. You only loose a few hundred renown anyway if you do not go. Your the Skipper, do your own thing and forget about the repeats. One repeat, OK, two repeat and forget it. You'll find me were the shipping is:yep:

I agree with "TOBUS" we are the beta testers.:yep:

After nine straight photo re-con missions of Toyko Bay, I finally got a insertion mission. Oh, I did get a new sub after about the sixth photo re-con mission.

In a Patrol Area objective all you have to do is to stay in an (aproximatively) 100 km circle for 48 hours. That's it. No need to sink any ships. Just stay alive for 48h.

ALL objectives given at the begining of the mission must be completed before RTB (returning to base). Otherwise you won't be given a new set of objectives and you'll feel like the mission is repeating. In fact, is the same old mission.

"ALL objectives given at the begining of the mission must be completed before RTB (returning to base). Otherwise you won't be given a new set of objectives and you'll feel like the mission is repeating. In fact, is the same old mission."

Been there, done that! Successfuly completed ALL nine photo re-con missions before I was given an insertion mission. This game has a bug in it. Also it takes a long, long time to go back to Pearl Harbor. I have the game on max time compression once I'm out of Japanese waters and find myself doing other things while the sub returns to Pearl.

My missions seem to be working now. Most of the time I get patrol but I am getting deploy/sink and photo recon. Maybe we just havnt been patient enough.