Update 4 is now available, and just in time for the American Thanksgiving holiday! Changes are as follows:
* Completely re-worked Soviet airborne ASW sensors, including adding additional sonobuoy types such as the Korshun series, reworking sonobuoy loadouts, and modifying the sensitivities of both active sonobuoys and dipping sonars, which were often way too powerful. I can expand on this in a future post if anyone is interested.
* Added SSBN mission patrol zones and waypoints in the polar cap, Barents Sea and Kara Sea (in real life HQ is NOT going to tell a sub skipper to search the entire Barents Sea in hopes of somehow running into an SSBN bastion!)
* Added multiple new SSBN Bastion missions and made them much more varied. A new one in the Kara Sea is especially difficult.
* Modified sea ice zones for the winter time period of the scenario, using data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center and the Norwegian Polar Institute. I had thought that sea ice was placed automatically by the game engine based on the season, but this does not appear to be the case. Sea ice zones in the original campaigns appear to have used data from mid-summer.
* Added missions specifically targeting Soviet ASW forces.
* Modified mission frequencies and eliminated a bug that caused Insertion missions to happen too frequently.
* Created additional artwork for “mission end” screens.
* Fixed a bug that spawned unescorted Soviet merchant vessels in random locations.
The mod can be downloaded here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D47...ew?usp=sharing