[WIP]Campaign 1943-1945

[Wolfling04]

Hey All,

I'm going to try my hand at making my first ever mod, I know scary for some one that has never published a piece of art.

If I can get this to work my overall goals are to make three versions:
(with permissions granted, as I have not talked to these modders yet)

Lite Campaign compatible
Reduced Mission Tonnage compatible
A standalone version

Right now, until I can learn how to actually add a campaign to the actual game, my main goal is to make the Black May campaign extend to the end of the war.

Anyways, on a last note please understand this will be no fast process as I have to play through the already three month long Black May campaign just to see if the changes I already have done have worked and if they did I will most likely play until early-mid 44' to make sure everything is working.

[THE_MASK]

The beginning of something great If it doesnt work out then no worries , i have failed modding on a daily basis . Hopefully this will work though .

[Wolfling04]

Thank you sober for what you said, honestly, for a great modder as yourself to say that to a new modder gives me inspiration.

After digging into the campaign files deeper, To me it kinda looks like Ubi ran out of time and didn't get to finish the campaign the way they had wanted.

Ie. All port traffic and u-boats (the two properties I have looked at thus far) are set to all exit the game 1945 12 31.

[Ragtag]

Nice, I hope you pull it off. What i also would like to see is the possibility to continue campaigns. As of now, when you reach your goal the campaign quits auto. Same in historical mission.

But my biggest wish is an open campaign with selectable start dates/year aka SH3 and SH4 but i guess that would be asking to much. Would it be possible to import the SH3 campaign for instance and make the nescassary tweaks?
Sh5 contains tons of files from SH3 and 4. I would'nt be surprised if the old campaign stuff is in there somewhere
Anyways, looking forward to this one and kudos for taking on this project.

[SteelViking]

Good luck with this endeavor Wolfling04, I really hope that all goes well for you.

[Jimbuna]

Wishing you every success....this would have a major positive impact on gameplay

[DavyJonesFootlocker]

I want a Type XXI boat!

Good luck with the campaign.

[Reece]

Originally Posted by Ragtag

my biggest wish is an open campaign with selectable start dates/year aka SH3 and SH4 but i guess that would be asking to much. Would it be possible to import the SH3 campaign for instance and make the nescassary tweaks?

Ditto!
Either way, good luck!

[7thSeal]

Hope you succeed with it, that would certainly be another must have mod if you do.

[Wolfling04]

Originally Posted by Ragtag

Nice, I hope you pull it off. What i also would like to see is the possibility to continue campaigns. As of now, when you reach your goal the campaign quits auto. Same in historical mission.

Ragtag, If I understand correctly, when you reach the date of 6/1/1943 it just quits, no special message or anything?

edit: After sitting in port and docking a few times to speed up time I finally reached June 1st and I didn't like what I saw so back to the drawing board.

[Wolfling04]

BY GEORGE, I think I got'er

The reason why the game would auto quit or stop your campaign is because there was no more patrols to complete, this is my guess so far. I need to do some more testing.

Anyways, Its currently like June 25th 1943 in my game, I just started a patrol (started the 11th of June)

Still need to sink the required amount of tonnage for the current patrol to make sure that the game will not stop after I complete the required amount of tonnage.

No promises yet, but it's looking up.

[Wolfling04]

Originally Posted by Ragtag

But my biggest wish is an open campaign with selectable start dates/year aka SH3 and SH4 but i guess that would be asking to much. Would it be possible to import the SH3 campaign for instance and make the nescassary tweaks?
Sh5 contains tons of files from SH3 and 4. I would'nt be surprised if the old campaign stuff is in there somewhere
Anyways, looking forward to this one and kudos for taking on this project.

An Open Campaign will be my primary goal once I can get everything to work properly, (actually make it playable till the end) and get have the option to get rid of the first mission, (the tutorial mission).

As far as the SH3 campaign unfortunately will not work since that campaign is controlled by only a few files and not several to a lot like SH5 is.

[andycaccia]

I have modded (only a little) the u boat campaign in sh4, so it is surely possible to do the same in sh5. The problem is how to make a whole new dynamic campaign and add it to the game.. what do you have in mind?

[Alex]

Good luck mate !

[Wolfling04]

Originally Posted by andycaccia

I have modded (only a little) the u boat campaign in sh4, so it is surely possible to do the same in sh5. The problem is how to make a whole new dynamic campaign and add it to the game.. what do you have in mind?

Right now, just extend the Black May campaign until the end of the war. As long as I can still sink the amount of reqd. tonnage and still continue the campaign.

So far I have gotten past June 2nd 0000 1943 (that's when the campaign would just end).

First versions would be a very basic campaign enabling the player to continue past June 2nd 1943. With no additions to the campaign, meaning no "patrol area" to patrol and no required missions to complete IE. Sink 150,00 tons of enemy shipping here. Pretty much take your boat sail where ever you want and sink whatever you want.

Later versions, I have plans to go as far as adding historical missions, adding more missions and campaigns u-boat upgrades and torpedo upgrades if there are any that aren't in game. last but not least allow the player to start in any campaign.

As far as adding new missions/campaigns to SH5 I do not think it will be that hard. As the single traffic/convoys/taskforces are all campaign generated meaning, the campaign decides when/where to spawn them and where to send them (from what I have looked at thus far).

There is only one downside to modding the campaign in anyway in Sh5, new campaign mods MUST be installed before starting a campaign, they cannot simply be installed while in port as the changes WILL NOT take affect, I have learned this in my testing so far. (atleast with the changes I am making)

Also, I want to thank ALL of you for your support (even though I haven't even released anything yet lol), I have tried modding in the past but always got burned out or frustrated because I couldn't/didn't want to learn any of it. This time though I actually got this game early enough to learn the ins and outs of it and I just hate failure now days (guess I can thank my career for that)

edit: I just left Brest for my first patrol, its July 25th 1943 and I just got badly bombed thanks to IRAI, and on my map I also see lone ships being reported so I know the game is still producing ships/planes.