Problem Ending 2nd Patrol - GWX 1.03 Campaign
 

Hello fellow submariners,

I'm at the end of my 2nd patrol during a GWX 1.03 campaign. I've made it to Wilhelmshaven (my home port for the campaign), but now the "Exit Patrol" is greyed out. I've left the harbour and re-entered twice and nothing changes. I've just gone into Cuxhaven, and still the same thing happens.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Cheers,

Tim.

what realism settings? also you must be within 25 KM of any port in order to exit patrol at 100% real

Thanks for your reply, Golden Rivet. I'm on 100% - but the "Exit Patrol" was greyed out while I was actually inside (not just within 25 km of) Wilhelmshaven and Cuxhaven harbours! :confused:

You can't teleport back to base at 100% realism setting :arrgh!:

Thanks for your post Jimbuna, but I'm not trying to "teleport" ... I actually completed the assigned mission and afterwards reached Wilhelmshaven but then I experienced the problems described above.

In the interim, using the last saved game, I tried to end the mission within the 25 km radius, but outside the immediate vicinity of Wilhelmshaven harbour. It showed the "Exit Patrol" and I was able to do the awards, promotions, etc. However, after getting out of SH3 then re-entering it, the mission showed as "Dead" as if I had done a "teleport".

For some reason, it is like the game is not recognising Wilhelmshaven as the home end point, but treating me as I'm raiding an enemy port.

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What date are you currently at? Has Wilhelmshaven been captured and your home base been changed?

Thanks for your questions Danlisa - I'm in November 1939 and the start and finish bases are still shown as Wilhelmshaven. Cheers!

Very Strange.:-?

Since the start of this current patrol, have you enabled/disabled any mods and/or made any changes to SH3Commander (if you are using it).

Negative on all counts...and I'm not using SH3 Commander.

I don't want to lose this mission as I bagged just over 50,000 tons. Is there any possibility that figure of 50,000 tons is causing SH3 or GWX to throw a wobbly?

No chance at all.

There is one way to fix this but I think you'll have to let this patrol end as dead. After this you can edit a cfg file, I think it's in the patrol.cfg which you'll find in My Documents under your career name. There will be a line in that cfg relating to your patrol status i.e Dead or Alive, depending on the value, you can change it so you are alive again.

I'm sorry I can't be more specific as I'm away from my installation but hopefully, someone will respond with the correct hack.;)

If it continues to happen after this patrol, I suggest a reinstall after checking the GWX parts with the MD5 mate to make sure none are corrupted.

Oh, BTW. Was this a clean install of GWX over a clean version of SH3 1.4b, all mods removed, SH3 folder in My Documents removed & SH3Cmdr rolled back? Soz, gotta ask. Most common problems are caused by residual files from a previous install.

Don't flame me for asking but:

Are you surfaced?

No mate, I'm not one to flame people - and it's a perfectly reasonable question. Yes, I am surfaced.

Danlisa, thanks once again for your willing and helpful advice. I will follow that lead with the cfg file. In regard to GWX, there was no need for an SH3 Commander rollback, and because our hard drive irrecoverably crashed a short time ago, it was a completely clean reinstallation once we got the new hard drive.

Thanks to everyone so far. Please feel free to add more advice...

Hooray!
 

Quite strange, but when I went into the patrol and career cfg files as Danlisa suggested, somehow [Patrol 003] was squeezed between two separate lots of [Patrol 002]. :confused: I deleted [Patrol 003] and the second [Patrol 002]. In addition, I noticed in both the patrol and career cfg that there was no "Dead" or "Alive" line, but there was a "Finished" line that had "true", whereas all the other similar lines were "false". :confused: I took the opportunity to change that line to "false".

Lo and behold, my 2nd patrol showed as a saved patrol at Wilhelmshaven, not "Dead". I am currently in progress in my 3rd mission, having already sunk 24,000 GRT of enemy shipping. :D :D :D :D

Special thanks to Danlisa :up: , but thanks also to the other contributors. :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool:

Cheers,

Tim.

Cool.


Now go and sink em all.

@ Acorn Minor

WooHoo.:rock: Sink 'em all.

Glad you got it sorted & sorry if I was not as clear as I could have been, it's hard to recall details when not near the files.

Carry on.:D