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haskell

07-23-17 05:06 PM

What is CRITICAL_FAIL and how to trigger it?

Hi! First post after joining the forum, spent weeks playing this game now. Poking around the game files, I see several mentions of CRITICAL_FAIL, for example in file

Code:

D:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Cold Waters\ColdWaters_Data\StreamingAssets\default\campaign\campaign002\language_en\events\content\ending_critical_fail.txt

D:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Cold Waters\ColdWaters_Data\StreamingAssets\default\campaign\campaign002\language_en\events\event_campaign_critical_fail.txt

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The content in these files hints some sort of nuclear apocalypse, but I don't know how to trigger it. If I intentionally fail the last hunting SSBN mission I get a blockage ending (edited, not peace talk one)

Julhelm

07-23-17 05:40 PM

Think you have to damage the boomer, then get killed or lose him.

jenrick

07-23-17 11:15 PM

Just sit in port, loading an unloading TLAMS in the '84 campaign to advance time. You'll see it after a while. No need to even leave port.

-Jenrick

haskell

07-24-17 01:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jenrick (Post 2502350)

Just sit in port, loading an unloading TLAMS in the '84 campaign to advance time. You'll see it after a while. No need to even leave port.

-Jenrick

I tried that. After the first mission failed due to running out of time loading/unloading TLAM, I stuck at the next scene where my sub is at 50ft in an ocean and no HUD, no control. Think that will break the game...

Aktungbby

07-24-17 01:19 AM

welcome aboard!

Haskell!:Kaleun_Salute:

longface

07-31-17 08:45 PM

I never really understood the logic behind the final scenarios, either. Not mentioning that a strategic nuclear exchange probably wouldn't be an extinction-level event (close for the targeted nations but not necessarily for the world), I never got how the player sinking a boomer would lead to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Also, reading game files, I saw a reference to endings where NATO either withdraws all naval assets from the North Atlantic (what???) or the player gets arrested and deported to a Soviet gulag, how would that be triggered?

SeaCadt07

08-01-17 07:03 AM

I'm pretty sure a strategic nuclear exchange between USSR and NATO would be an extinction level event.

Check out a movie call On the Beach. It's actually about what would happen to a sub crew after all the missiles have flown

Thomas_Jefferson

08-01-17 12:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by longface (Post 2504029)

I was nearly sunk the other day deep in enemy waters. I surfaced and abandoned ship, only to be "rescued" by the Soviets and promptly arrested. The excerpt said that I would not likely survive my time in the POW camp.

longface

08-01-17 05:01 PM

No, it was about returning to Holy Loch (probably after NATO loses), where you are encountered by MPs and arrested, deported, and sent to gulag.

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