[Hylander_1314]

Even in stock, the weather report button should be found when you click the button for the Watch Officer, but if you go to your SH4 folder, then open up the Data folder, then the CFG folder, look for the Commands.cfg file, and open it with notepad or wordpad.

Click on Edit, then find for the open file.

Type in weather in the search box, and click find or find next, whatever it says initially.

You should find this command,

[Cmd261]
Name=Report_weather
Ctxt=1
MnID=0x3F250006
Key0=0x57,c,"Ctrl+W"

So, Ctrl+W should get you your weather report. But I haven't played a stock game in over 3 years. Like USS Drum said, "Get TMO", or any of the other supermods. Try them all, and figure out what works best for you.

For ambience in the game, there is a ton of radio station mods with oldtime radio programs, and music of the era. Really cool to cruise around the Pacific and listan to Armed Forces Radio out of Hawaii, Midway, or Wollongong. Or NBC Radio out of San Francisco, or Radio Saigon, or Tokyo Rose on a Japanese station.