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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
Razark pretty much hit the nail right on the head.
Operation Monsun is the only SH4 u-boat campaign, and it's a good one. So good, in fact, that the only things that keep me playing SH3 are the graphics mods and SH3 Commander. OM doesn't have any of the cool harbor stuff, or GWX's blimps or LSH3's awesome Harbors and Kiel Canal trip, or Commander's crew and ship names. If those things were ever done for SH4 I would give up SH3 forever. That's how good it is.
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I am by far no expert on Operation Monsoon as I am now on my second patrol since I've installed it. But from first and second looks, I'm pretty impressed.
First thing I noticed on first patrol was I started in the sub bunker. It was excellent. Other subs, bands playing, cranes overhead moving torpedoes around, other ships being loaded/unloaded. This was in Lorient by the way.
Headed out and got harassed by planes and then ran smack dab into a large enemy convoy. The AI seemed a bit smarter. 3 came to hunt me while 3 stayed with the convoy. After about 6 hours of long negotiations 4 escorts found their way to the bottom. With the last two torpedoes in the stern, 1 tanker joined them. Two of the escorts were taken out with the cannon only (they came in sequence, not all at once, lucky me).
The weather changes but not so often as in TMO. The patrols so far have been very long, One to Charleston SC and one to Port of Spain (south america). Fuel management is required. This also limits my ability to give chase for long.
OM needs more looks from the players I think. I think a lot of folks are missing out on a great mod here. It is also the biggest mod of them all when you consider all the patching and upgrading you have to do to get it all.
The things I installed (OM 705 > OM 705to720 > OM Patch > OMEGU 300 > OMEGU Patch) doesn't change the default look and feel of the interface though. To me it seems more like stock SH4.
I'm not real sure what the OMEGU part is supposed to be doing. It was in the instructions for installing it. So I did it.