[Immelmann]

Many thanks to the mod team for all the hard work. Among all the changes, I especially look forward to running decks awash in the moonlight once again. I dislike being possibly among the first to submit what might turn out to be an actual bug report for 0.71. But hey! That is what this is all about anyway. Right? As a preface, I do not remember any of this happening in 0.63. So that may not be the most welcome news to the team. Well here goes.

Using multi-SH4. My first copy of the game remains the clean and un-modified install to use as a source to copy from for an additional install to a separate game folder. Clean installed by copying over and I also removed and renamed the entire contents of my second SH4 folder (different name of course) in documents before going any further. Activated 0.71, and only 0.71, using JSGME. Started it up and went in to reset display graphics resolution and display preferences and exited the game in order to make the settings take hold. Restarted the game and then changed my gameplay preferences to those of my liking. Of particular importance to me is the ability to use a free camera, and have manual targeting on and available. I don't care for the event camera jumping in and interrupting whatever I am doing either. So I set that to off. Realism now set to a value of 63. I wanted to jump in somewhere in the middle of the war and not start from Dec. 8 '41. So I chose a new career starting in mid '42, Pearl, Tambor. Difficulty normal. This is where things go sideways. I let the first patrol load and find that I have NO free camera available to use. This despite me having gone in before starting a career and setting it to available, or on. Now I seem to remember having run 0.63 on normal career difficulty while also being able to use the free camera with no problems. I'm fairly certain of this. Repeated this several times. Checking gameplay settings after exiting back to the main menu. Continued to find that the game has changed my gameplay settings, on it's own, to a value of 85. What is especially perplexing is that the game has also switched my manual targeting to off. Which I find quite counterintuitive for a higher level of difficulty (realism). I reproduced this outcome multiple times. So I got to thinking and thought I would try starting the same career with the difficulty set to easy. That worked and the game allowed me to set and keep my gameplay settings at 63 with free camera and manual targeting on. I could swear that I was running 0.63 with realism set to 63 and career difficulty set to normal, free camera, manual targeting on and available to me. Am I losing my mind here? Screenshots to show my preferred realism settings of 63 and game changed realism settings of 85 when a career difficulty of normal is selected at the initial career setup screen. You know the screen. It is the one where you get to give your skipper a name, lol. Screenshots below. Please don't torpedo, depth charge, or deck gun, the messenger. Thank you mod team. (edit: Ok lets leave the event camera out of this for now, lol.)

Preferred gameplay settings:


What the game changes them to unless a career difficulty setting of easy is selected at beginning of career: