AVGWarhawks first impression
 

I like it. Thanks for the uboat stuff. Really cool. But........thanks for the extra stuff in SH4 Fleet boats:rock: New textures and interfaces. Torpedo page, crew, machinery pages are great. This was just 5 minutes of looking around. For $10.00, I'm happy with this add on.


I see huge potential for great mods here.

Sounds really good, I'll be trying it out soon then I guess. You won me over. :)

Check out the credits:up:

Dave Bunnell
Deepblue from over at the UBI Forums
I'm guessing Dan's Dad?


Class act UBI!!

Anyway,

The game FPS for me has increased. :D

The courier dropped this off this morning :rock: I kissed the package:) First mission in Penang IXD2 had to go to Bangkok and drop of supplies at base, next orders are to either head back to base of go hunting so im off hunting in the Indian ocean.

Only thing i wish is the crew had german voices and i was hoping i could go visit the engine room:roll: Still patch to 1.5 from what i could see when installing and smoother gameplay.

Stupid question but will the RSRD 300 mod work now with uboats installed? I got asked to test a mod for the american campaign - rscd 300 needs to be enabled.

Anyways quite happy with the addon, good to command a IXD2 in all its glory graphics :up:

Check out this thread, the issue is the 1.5 patch.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=131862

Looks like Luker is on the case! RSRD is much needed!

What's the workaround?
 

MultiSH4? Pointers?

Us blind dragons have a hard time getting around without RSRD.

Seriously, for $10 it's a good deal.

I hope they sell a million . Good on them for doing this .

There is a lot of new functionality buttons. Small icon that lets you know your men are at battle stations. One that tells you that you are submerged. Not sure why on that one. Anyway, I have been able to up my resolution by two and have not lost any FPS. If I get all of this for $10.00, if I give you $10.00 Dan, what else can you get me:D

Agreed. There has been a huge peformance increase in the addon. My improvement is in the region of 15-20 fps using exactly the same settings as 1.4. Good Job.:up:

Hey, AVG, you tried the 'Call for Air Support/Recon' yet?

This small additon is awesome and well implemented.:rock: :rock:

Not yet Danlisa. Really just starting my first patrol. I was busy looking over the Uboats and those goodies. I have started a fleet boat career. Thus far, I'm thinking I got my $10.00 worth and more:up:

Check this out, I was at 1024x768 to keep my FPS good. Now I have jumped two resolutions and no FPS loss!!! Now my message box can go down on top of the orders bar. It is just super nice now. Steady FPS as well. This is from a 4 year old 3200+, 2 gig and 7800GS card. :D


http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q...152333_937.jpg

Are the US crew voices fixed or are the unused phrases implemented?

JCC

I don't think anything's been done in the sound department at all acutally :hmm:

First impressions. Liked the look of the captains quarter, had fun viewing the IDX. Go on deck, massive FPS hit. Was pretty close for me earlier, but 25-30 frames was easily playable. Now its 12-18 :cry:

Really. In my own (and most other cases I've heard) we seem to have got an FPS boost outside. :hmm:

Check your drivers again perhaps?

Yea, thats the impression I got also. I got no idea. Not even sure my graphics card is able to get drivers anymore. Being an intel driven Ati card.

Another thing I noticed, the campaign layers for the expansion, specifically the air layer, have 8 times the detail and effort of the entire American campaign. The American campaign in now truly the poor brother of SH4.

The upside is, the developers have used historic names for all the airbases in the expansion. So borrowing form the U-boat missions will be a priority. In fact, we may as well chuck out the old aircover (IJ) from SH4 and import the new one onto the original campaign. Even the allies now have aircover from Pearl all the way to the suez, including dedicated Carrier groups patroling the Indian ocean. They even used waypoints to build this up as a patroling feature, very unlike the American Campaign. Where waypoints just arent in there for the campaign at all.

I thought the release notes here said 14 new aircraft (typo, must have been addition number 14?). It isnt, it's about 3. Upside is NZ finally got the boats it should have, they even gave us a plane as well ^^

The time and effort for the addon is far greater than that of the American Campaign, so in that respect, the addon deffinately gives you bang for buck :up:

I haven't looked into the data but I am cautiously optimistic! I'd love to see a little bit of traffic reduction though. It was obviously geared to gameplay so it seems like some of the shipping lanes are over-saturated or get active at wrong times in the war...

What we could really use with air bases in the American campaign though is implementing the scout plane feature, and fast! It totally substitutes the random map contacts for single ships that you get with scout plane reports - and the scout planes can be lost too... and no contacts for you outside air cover! Cool feature, definitely need this in all campaings now.

Wow really :o Now THATS an improvement. This gets more exciting all the time. I'll try anf get my frames up and have a look at this stuff.

Anyone know of any other massively cool extra features?