Living vs nygm
 

Have done gwx for years and trying to get back I to sh3 I just read there is a 2022 living sh3 version? Makes me want to try it, but I've never tried nygm either. What's the main differences between these two?

I know living supposed have more eye candy but come on, it's sh3.

One question I do have an ultrawide I remember this game being hard enough for 16:9 so I'm not sure either of these can do an ultrawide monitor. But I'm ok with black bars on the side

Edit** just read all about this one Alex mod. So that's basically gwx updated?? Maybe I'll give that a go

Salute,

for me i found Living to take for ever to load, and had way tooooo many ships running around, so much so that you could, if you wanted, use all torps before even reaching your assigned patrol area.

NYGM, is quite good. I like it, and the old eye candy isnt that bad. Can also add wide-screen mods to it.

But for me the Onealex mod currently is the best. It to takes a while to load, but all the best eye candy is in it. Easy to install, and it has a few extra's that I only found out by watching others vids.

I found LHS far too easy and sinking vast amounts of shipping to be almost without challenge. The opposition was lame and in a 1943 career off Freetown in a Type IXC, I was once attacked by no less than five Liberators, shooting down four, and taking zero damage. I deleted the mod after that fiasco and have never returned to it.

LSH looks pretty and it is easy to rack up huge scores, if that's your thing. Some Players enjoy this but I much prefer the much more difficult NYGM and although stock NYGM is fairly spartan for visual effects, Fifi's mod adds much eye candy and makes some functional changes without watering down perhaps the most effective enemy in the Silent Hunter pantheon.

You cannot go very wrong with Onealex 1.53 either.

Just $0.02 CAD.

-C

NYGM is the most realistic of mods. The escorts are ruthless, keeping your boat at depth while motors are stopped was impossible, and that was what makes it awesome.

Play NYGM with 100% realism is perfect.

You can get all this same experience with the Onealex mod, escorts are tough as hell and aircraft is deadly just as in Fifi's hardcore mod. Maybe a touch less deadly with the merchant weapons or depth charge explosions then Fifi's but very similar difficulty wise with the exception that Fifi's UI is tailored for manual targeting players only with the hardcore UI. You can't go wrong with either really, Onealex has a few more effects then Fifi's NYGM. Regular NYGM without Fifi's hardcore mod though is a let down compared to Onealex, so if you do go with NYGM make sure that you add on Fifi's hardcore rework mod along with it.

I'll rate all newest regularly updated mega mods for you here as I played them all but realize this is just my own personal opinion, others might differ in their views:

LSH3 2022 version - very easy difficulty wise, focused primarily on graphics rather then realism/gameplay. Lots of ships in ports but not much in terms of variety of ships compared to Onealex or Fifi hardcore mod. Good stability, difficulty level 3
Toyotagt86's mod compilation - based on GWX 3.0 normal difficulty, but has realism features built in. Similar to Onealex in terms of graphics/realism but lot less ships and missing a few graphical enhancements. Good stability and very easy installation, difficulty level 5
Onealex mod compilation - based on GWX 3.0 like Toyotagt but harder difficulty wise, most ship variety of any mega mod. Full of realism features to make historic gameplay and has the most graphical effects. Very good stability and very easy installation, difficulty level 8
NYGM Fifi's hardcore steel coffin rework - Toughest megamod of the lot difficulty wise, tailored for manual targeting players (UI mod). Full of realism features to make historic gameplay, also has lot of ships but less graphical effects then Onealex. Excellent stability and easy installation, difficulty level 10

Is the onealex mod different to the onealex mod compilation?

If so where do I get the latter?