Same career mission every time!
 

I been playing SH IV in the "Career" mode. I've played about eight missions, however, every mission I get is the same: a Photo Re-con of Tokyo bay. I've managed to do it successfully everytime but there's got to be something wrong to keep getting the exact same mission everytime I return to Pearl Harbor. Any help would be appreciated.

Yes I have the same problem. I started out with a photo recon mission like yourself, which was actually quite eventfull as it happened.....sunk 1 destoyer and 4 merchants, got a medal and was happy as larry. The second mission was an agent insertion mission.....talk about boring...i ran on the surface all the way there and all the way back and didn't see one plane or merchant the whole time. Pretty ridiculous if you ask me...I strolled right up to the coast of Japan during wartime and didn't see so much as a fishing boat.
Anyway after that I got 2 more agent insertion missions which were also pretty uneventfull. It was at this point I realised that the campaign must be seriously broken, so I decided not bother again till they fixed it. I haven't tried the campaign again since going to 1.2, but I assume its still broken as there is nothing in the readme file about it. I've also seen numerous people on here complainng about the very same thing so we're definately not alone. Sometimes i wonder whether UBI beta test their games at all!!!

I am starting to think that the betatesters are the ones that bought the game.

Yep :know:

I believe the issue is from setting realism, if you have unlimited fuel for example, there are times when missions repeat.

I run with fairly high realism but I still get repeat missions. Of course, in real life a boat could get a repeat mission, some boats were "cloak and dagger" specialists, like HMS/M Seraph, but most boats probably never did a single special mission in their entire time in commission. I think SH4 gives out too many special missions.

I believe you can also stop at Wake and just refit. I believe this will generate a new mission. Also, you do not need to keep going to the mission. I have blown off a mission for convoy action:yep: if I come upon them. When I see fat juicy targets, all of a sudden, using my Kodak to take pictures of ships seems secondary to me and my crew. Also, I ran into the repeat mission, I said screw it and went off to find my own thing to do. Eventually, on the same patrol I had blown off the repeat, the finally gave up on the first mission and I was handed another mission.

I look at this way, I'm the Skipper and I take my sub/men were I want. Come back to port with 5-6 sinkings and you are still a hero:smug:. If they want me to go back to the same harbor, they can do it themselves....it's a dangerous mission anyway:roll:

Ive gotten the same mission twice in a row but 8 ! :hmm:

I read somewhere that phoning home (radio in mission reports) help with the randomization.

If its true or not I dont know but I do it anyhow Pac likes to hear from us anyhow.

Yes, radio contact helps. For instance I sighted a convoy, called it in. SUBCOM said great and come on home. Then a minute or so later it said to attack the convoy. So I did. After that I radioed in my kills and the usual good job come on home when your ready.

I'm rereading Silent Running right now, and they made ONE contact report their first patrol, it was telling Pearl what they did and that they were RTB. I'm on the 3d patrol right now, and no radio use mentioned yet.

That was typical as far as I know.

I've never had 8 missions the same, but I had to start a new career with 1.2.

My first mission in the new career was an agent insertion near Qingdao. Once the agent was dropped off (star turned grey), I moved back out to sea, radioed base and received a reply giving me a new mission to patrol the East China Sea. Now I'm heading to the patrol area. I didn't have to return to base nor refit at Midway.

If you jump like a gorilla on your keyboard
maybe this help to randomized something...
vey very interesting this SH$4.
I'm joking but....
:p:p:p
There is a dynamic campaign...so and so very frequently

? :hmm:

Don't feel bad I am playing career and had to drop off the spy 3 times at the same place and 3 times I had to get Photos at the same place, now I have finished 3 things on this mission sunk 29 ships and have been a sea 2 months and it will not let me End Patrol even though I did everything it required. :damn: Now what?

I seem to always get the "patrol east china sea" mission. So many times that I applied for a transfer to Freemantle as it's a bit closer than Pearl.

I still seem to spend hours at max time compression traveling between home base and mission objective though = very tiresome.