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Originally Posted by ValoWay
hey,
I'm not a sh4 guy but recently felt like toying with TMO a bit after my last sh3 career was ended early thanks to a bug.
Does anybody mind explaining what the FOTRS mod does? Is a manual part of the download where I could read up on it?
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And remember we are FOTRSU, Fall of the Rising Sun Ultimate, to differentiate ourselves from the original FOTRS by a completely different group of modders.
How would I characterize the mod. I'd say that it's primarily an eye candy mod: better environment, better and more ships, terrific explosions, shells shrieking overhead, incredible smoke, in fact sound and graphics are very much totally redone. It's not fair to compare, but we like to think of ourselves as the GWX of Silent Hunter 4.
CapnScurvy did a complete optical remake of out periscopes, TDC and binoculars so you can actually measure things with the gradations scale and the optical size of objects is correct. Side by side with the originals, the new optics are visually stunning in their improvements. And the interior cameras have all been moved and recalibrated. The control room camera, for instance, reflects your ascending or descending attitude as the deck pitches below your feet.
FOTRSU is also a difficulty mod, much in the way TMO is. Enemy ships are much smarter, sometimes too smart at present! The keyboard layout is changed, similarly to TMO keyboard but with some tweaks. We more than doubled the ship makeup of the Japanese navy.
This is not a mod you'll start up and wonder what's changed. The impact is immediate and memorable. And it's only the beginning of what FOTRSU will become: a revolution, putting the player in charge of his own supermod for the first time in nine years, with FOTRSU Certified Mod Plugins and a system to prevent mod conflicts.
In a real sense, the base mod that is available for download now is only a prelude to completely changing the way Silent Hunter is played.
Did that help?
Okay, here's the clincher. When you press the apostrophe button to straighten out the rudder, for the first time in 9 years of Silent Hunter 4 the helmsman will call out "Rudder amidships." It's THAT good!
