Biggest enhancement is the objectives you'll recieve in the campaign game. Other then that, added nomograph, realistic crew config, and a couple other items.

Salvos are sort of a manual affair. First open all the tubes you intend to fire. (you can do this now, and they'll stay open until you close them, or shoot the torpedo), when your ready to fire, use the salvo dial to direct spread, fire a torpedo, adjust spread, fire the next torpedo. .. use your F6 map and watch the torpedo tracks as you use this dial if your confused. If you need more explantion, ill post screenshots later.

Challenging, is a synonym for harder. "realistic" doesnt necessarily mean harder, but challenging does. That said, i always keep in the back of my mind, that this is NOT the atlantic. fear not, i wont go overboard. Infact, im pretty much done tweaking the AI, its other things i want to make harder. Like harbor raids for instance.


Tell me about it. :roll:

Ok dumb question. I loaded up the mod, but the Career choices at startup still begin on Dec 8th. How do I get the start on the 6th?

Edit. Whoops, never mind, I see you haven't actually been able to do the 6th thing. I thought it was just the movie you were talking about.

Hi all
I play flavored to taste 2.5 for the moment :up:
I just got my first photo recon assigment : carrier force in Rabaul and i'm on my way over there.
But while i'm doing that a question pops up in my head (remembering the photo recon missions in SH I ).
There was a deadlinedate ...take photo before X date and they had to be taken by daylight.
Can't see it here in SH IV ... a'm i wrong ?
Can't find anything about it in the dutch manuel i have .

Maybe an idea to look at in future modupdates ....a timelimit to get those pics done ?

momo55;)

If i still have the mission dates correct (ill have to doublecheck on that), in the career start.cfg, change both the start dates for that start entry to 4th december 41. The game does things 1 day ahead. By setting the date to the 4th, you should start on the 5th, which means you'll leave for patrol on the 6th.

If that doesnt work:

i may have the mission dates off because i had to go back and edit things when i decided to scrap it. In the misisonobjectives.upc (i think thats the name :roll:), at the very bottom you'll see two missions i added. Make sure they're available on the 5th of december. Failing that, change it to the 4th.

Then check the flotilla.upc for the boat type you want ot use, and make sure the first mission dates are correct. Should start on the 5th.



All said, it will probably work for you quite easily. Enjoy the jap flyover at 0730, december 7th, 1941. (didnt finish scripting things :roll: )

>>I just got my first photo recon assigment : carrier force in Rabaul and i'm on my way over there.
>>

I hope that one works out. I looked at the file for it, and that misison objective file for that assigment scripts the carriers in, and i assigned that mission within the time parameters given by Ubi, so i just assumed it would work. If it doesnt, let me know, ill have to change that if it doesnt.

When it comes to mods, I have always been a cherry picker, a little here, a little there. I rarely use any mod without making a little tweak for myself. Tonight I tried TMaru - the whole package, unchanged, nothing added - something I have never done with any large mod package before.

Nice job Ducimus :up:

Congradulatons, ill bet that will be the new acryonym that this mod will become known by once the "FTT" name fades away (if ever. :lol: ) Glad you like it.


As always, im looking for feedback on the AI, and partcularly the campaign mission assigments.

Yep that worked. Saw three waves of Jap planes, some had torpedos.
I never did hear Roosevelts speech though. I did get some announcements over the radio, and on the clipboard, but nort the speech. Is there something else I need to enable for that?

One other thing. I use the clear water mod, which adjusts something in the scenery.dat file, which of course changes yours. What does the change to the wave atenuation do exactly? I likes my clear underwater views.

So the Trigger Maru is a new class of merchants? Thats so cool!!!! When is it going to come out?

AAaaaaaaaaaargh. Mkay, did a patrol with this new incarnation, and I have one question: What did you do to the friggin DDs!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, and this isn't a complaint. It's a compliment.

My 5th mission on my current (well, ex actually) career. Found one convoy and sank two tankers and a merchant no problem. Heavy fog, rain and wind might be a contributing factor.

Next convoy (still en-route to patrol area) encountered was in calm weather. Sank a Huge euro liner, and tried to sink an old large liner behind me. Four fishes and no luck, but I'm digressing. The three DDs was on me like a pack of wolves. Hungry wolves. I've never seen such aggressiveness. Not only that, they got lucky by spamming DCs and nearly sunk me. Not once, but goddamned twice. Well, the second time was pretty easy by them. I was doing full ahead just keeping level depth whilst pumping out water. Making noise like an average death-metal band with a non average PA system. Had to do an emergency surface after the second hit by DCs, and get the hell out of there. Suffering a visible hole in my hull even after an inspection during egress. Yes, I got hit by some lucky gunner whilst surfaced. But I did manage to shoot out one of the DDs during my mad dash for safety.

Did not reach my patrol area (both peris out, and hull damage, no reason to continue mission really. Back to base it was). Talk about aborted mission. Luckily I could still dive to peri depth at least. Thus avoiding airplanes.

Back to base I got the pleasant message that I was no longer wanted as an active subcommander. I think this might be a bug though. During the medal sequence after docking, I got a purple heart for my efforts (I had quite the few wounded sailers on my roster after this mission), recognized as commander of my Gato sub on its 5th mission (or rather, it said 4th mission). And also two other medals, but as commander of my last sub, the Triton, on mission 0.

Yup, got retired, and that after a mission with over 40k tonnage, and a history reaching well over 300k.

Time to get careful :D

This mod is not about a new class of merchants dont u read the first post?

Excellent mod!! :D
After finally downloading and installing. In command of the USS Grayling well to say the least I wasnt expecting my first mission to head in the the bungo straights:o, I had to go do a photo recon in Tsursaki Harbor. On the way in no Bungo Pete, atm I`m on my way out of the harbor.

Ducimus,

First of all; Thanks a lot for making your mods. It must be time consuming and maybe frustrating at times. I did play the Vanilla game, and after installing your first FTT mods, the game grew increasingly better and more challenging. I'll install the Tmaru mod later this day.

Question, when using the "report nearest visual target" I get a bearing and a (I presume) estimated distance. This distance is in feet. I have a calculater on my lap to devide this number by 6076 to get the distance in miles, so i can plot them (playing 100 percent realism). Is it possible at all to get the estimated distance in miles, or yards right away??

Another question. The radar operator gives a heads up of a contact like "350 long distance". He can actually measure the distance with gradually increasing accuracy when closing the target, he doesn't do that however. Is it possible at all to do this, as it makes plotting a lot easier.

And one last thing. Whenever I reach a refit tender, i get refitted in a nanosecond. I think it should take time, and furthermore it's maybe more realistic that the tender has only a couple of torpedoes, AA ammo, Deck gun Ammo and diesel for you. And after refitting you cannot refit there for say two weeks.
Just a thought.


EDIT
I installed the mod using GMSE. After the loadup screen, in main menu I loaded my save game (in port) and got a new mission. The loadup screen for that new mission is filling out the red bar, after that should come a screen that says "please wait", but than at that moment I ctd. Tried new career, same result. Threw every other mod out but yours, still ctd.
Deleted the movie files (0KB) => ctd.:damn:




Please, advise. (FTT 2.4 works well)

:help:

Please keep up your great work, don't get burned out, and have fun.



Greetings Bando

...great modder = great mod!
Thanks Ducimus! It works fine...

:up::up::up:

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Ducimus,

I cannot thank you enough for your endless hours of work. I am fairly good with computers, but tinkering with the game files is pretty much beyond my skill set. I wish I could help, but all I can do is applaud your efforts. I am however, the Grand Poobah of Heating and Air Conditioning for a worldwide distibutor and if you ever need advice in those matters I can provide it.

You have done a fantastic job so far and I will be using TTM as so as I finish my current patrol.

Currently I am using FTT 2.5 and for the first time I am having FUN playing the game. I have had endless hours of enjoyment with Silent Hunter 1.3 and was very dissapointed with the original state of SHIV , until I installed your MOD. Great stuff!

I skipped SH III because I just couldn't handle fighting for the Third Reich. Too many family menbers were sent to the gas chambers. So with an operating SHIV I am back in the fray, avenging Pearl Harbor. Good for me, not so good for the IJN.

Again, thank you, You are the best.
Get it close, get hits and make like a hole in the water.
Good Luck and Good Hunting:arrgh!: