[MOD] Midnite's No Arcade, Just Simulation
 

[Update 06/15/2012] Here you can get Vers. 1.1: http://www.file-upload.net/download-....-1.1.zip.html


Ahoy Captains,

after playing PT Boats for a longer period now, i think the game would really profit from reducing some arcade elements, taking a first step to make it more like a real life simulation. As i read here and in other forums it seems that most of you share my opinion... :03:
So i proudly present my second mod for PT Boats: Midnite's No Arcade, Just Simulation.

Here you can see what is changed:

At first, i completely removed the arcadish radar screen. Instead i created a fully functional compass in the style of a "constellation" of the U.S. Navy. Please don't ask how long it took me to get it a smooth running... I nearly got mad... :damn: Also the "zoom switches" in the lower left corner are gone now. I replaced them by some metal optics, corresponding to the rest of the panel.

http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/177...imulation1.jpg


As second thing, i removed the green and red dots that show up friendly or enemy units when you look through binoculars or gun/torpedo sight. Now you have to identify spotted ships for yourself... or just watch who is shooting at you. :03:

http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/2...imulation2.jpg

Do you know this big fat red marking arrow that shows up when you target a ship for your crew? Well, it's gone now. I made it much smaller and transparent. Now, it doesn't jam up the battle scene anymore...:cool:

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/8...imulation3.jpg

Same thing for the icon of torpedo solution: Less colourful and also transparent now. Even much better at night.

http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/333...imulation4.jpg

And of course the corresponding icon for a bad torpedo solution.

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/2...imulation5.jpg

At the moment, i do some final work on it, but i think i could release my new mod within the next days.

I hope you like it... Feedbacks are welcome! :yep:

Cheers, midnite1977

You might want to remove the health bar as well both from the sim and tactical views.

is this a good sim or is it to arcade\easy? i have got it on order :hmmm:

Very cool Midnight! Looking forward to the mod release.

Cheers

Skipper

Thank you, Skipper. :salute:

Due to very few spare time during the last days and some extra work to be done on my mod, the release took a bit more time than expected.

But now Vers. 1.0 is ready for action. :03: Check out main post for download.

Have fun!

midnite1977

This are just great news!!!
Thanks a lot!!
Modders like you would give life to this sim that was greatly created and poorly released.

Thanks a lot!!!

:salute: :yeah:

Its good sim, quite challenging and great in so many ways, but...
It just a shame that it has suff all in the way of features.

Basically from the main menu, you get:
1) A Linier SP campaign (mission based and its not too long either)
2) MP death match.... vs CPU or humans (PT boats only)
3) bugger all else. :down:

Hardly surprising they has so much trouble finding a publisher...

This is awesome. Thank you much!

Ahoy Captains,

an updated version of my mod is now available in the first post.

changelog
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v1.1 (10/05/2010) markers for torpedo solution now are reduced to half of size and arrow removed
v1.0 (12/27/2009) initial release


http://www3.pic-upload.de/06.10.10/ylk6eubfu87q.jpg

http://www3.pic-upload.de/06.10.10/1s3da55s2gan.jpg

Have fun!

midnite1977

nice

download link updated

Hello midnite,

could you please please update the download-link one more time?

its deleted again.

Thx, Lionelli!

The link is down.

Indeed - link down, and this DOES look like an awesome mod!