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Old 10-10-05, 04:09 PM   #1
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I get the impression from reading various posts that no further versions of SHIII are being planned. Has anybody started working on a US Pacific theater mod for SHIII? Joe S
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Old 10-10-05, 04:25 PM   #2
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Interesting idea, I have a question along similar lines....

-Can new user made units be inserted into the engine?

-Can new playable units be made? (I would think not since I have not seen a mod that allows playable torpedo boats yet)
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Old 10-10-05, 05:01 PM   #3
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It's possible to create new units for the campaign; I recently made a Japanese flying boat as an air unit for a Pacific campaign (if we get around to it).



http://rapidshare.de/files/5001669/H...g_Boat.7z.html

I'm also working on an American cruiser. Someone successfully made a playable British submarine, so it should be fairly easy to model the playable US, British, and Dutch subs that fought against Japan. We'd need to do some 3d editing and, obviously, changes to uniforms, medals, and interface screens.
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Old 10-10-05, 05:40 PM   #4
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I really would enjoy a Pacific mod after reading about wahoo.


but I guess its not to be for SH3?
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Old 10-10-05, 05:55 PM   #5
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Dont the modders need the SDK before they can even think of making a pacific addon? I remeber having alot of fun play the pacific aces mod for SHII, yet i dont think they the modders had the sdk code, so maybe it can be made with out it, and if so then why aint one made, cos it would be so cool seeing how the US subs look "Detail wise" in SH3. They even looked damn good in SHII.

Then all we would need is ubisoft to make Destroyer Command 2 for destroyer player verse U-boat player online
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Old 10-11-05, 07:39 AM   #6
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The modders have infact made a tool on their own that enables them to add new boats, so I guess its a start...
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Old 10-11-05, 02:02 PM   #7
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Err, I have a pacific mod that makes the boat a GATO class boat... It only has a couple of missions, but I downloaded it a while ago. (Can't even remember where I got it it was so long ago now...)
But I know there is one.


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Old 10-11-05, 02:06 PM   #8
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The big problem is in remodeling and reskinning the interiors, creating new skins, and re-recording all of the voices and commands in English/American/Polish/whatever.

And getting all of this to work... You'd need a seperate .exe as well, with alternate versions of the front end, interface, etc...
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Old 10-11-05, 02:19 PM   #9
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Err, I have a pacific mod that makes the boat a GATO class boat... It only has a couple of missions, but I downloaded it a while ago. (Can't even remember where I got it it was so long ago now...)
But I know there is one.
Yeah, it was part of one version (the "final" version) of the World Mod by "Combatplanes". That sub had nothing to do with the GATO, it had less torpedo tubes and used German torps. Amateurs!
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Old 10-11-05, 02:41 PM   #10
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Shortly after the release of SHIII there was a brief mention of a possible SHIV in 2006. Since it is very unlikely there would be an entirely new game engine making SHIII obsolete so soon, the rumors have been that this will indeed be a Pacific version.

Nobody seems to have heard anything lately, but I still have my hopes up.
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Old 10-11-05, 02:46 PM   #11
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Err, I have a pacific mod that makes the boat a GATO class boat... It only has a couple of missions, but I downloaded it a while ago. (Can't even remember where I got it it was so long ago now...)
But I know there is one.
Yeah, it was part of one version (the "final" version) of the World Mod by "Combatplanes". That sub had nothing to do with the GATO, it had less torpedo tubes and used German torps. Amateurs!
I believe it!
It was such a tiny, crappy sub in that mod that I had a hard time believing anyone would be crazy enough to board it in dry dock much less take it out into the open sea!

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Old 10-11-05, 04:38 PM   #12
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is a huge work. but sh2 pacific aces was done finaly.


the most difficult thing is replacing the units and the interface.
(can the damage model work well with new units?)

replacing uniforms, new sounds or use the same of the pacific sh2.

redoing the campaign , sensors files, convois rutes....
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Old 10-11-05, 06:57 PM   #13
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Do you really think there is no prospect for a Ubisoft pacific theatre add-on? Blizzard puts out expansions for its games as a matter of course, and it just seems like a no-brainer to me.

I don't know how well SHIII is selling, but I would certainly shell out for such an expansion.
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