Some info on "hero skills"

[gruntington]

From what I can see, green icons denote "passive" skills that are active at all times and do not run out. Yellow icons are skills that are limited in time and scope, and need to be activated.

The ones I have tried so far are the green propeller icon that adds surface and submerged speeds. Each hero with the icon boosts speed by about 1.5. Ive experimented with multiples of the same skill, and it seems they can be stacked. Ive had 4+ heros with the skill and my surface speed was a steady 25 knots.

Second hero skill I like is the green headset icon. It seems meaningless at face value, but with experimentation I found that each hero with the skill adds approximately 5% to 10% increase in spotting friendly and enemy convoys and ships. It also seems to stack, as having 4+ of the same skill allowed me to see all convoys and individual ships, in real time, all the time, for 1 grid square in each direction at full zoom out. Thats pretty damn impressive.

Another I tried was the green deck/flak gun skill. It looked to me to have no effect at all.

The only yellow skill I have come to like is the torpedo loading skill that halves loading time. I keep 2 on board and using both at the same time can fully reload all tubes in seconds.

Anyone else has info, feel free to add your 2 cents.

[maerean_m]

Yes, abilities are designed to stack up.

[M. Sarsfield]

Have you pulled into any ports to use the hero menu icon (on the boat)? How does that work, anyway?

[gruntington]

One of the buttons at the bottom of the screen is the crew skill options, its on the far right. If the skill is passive, its a round icon. If its a limited skill, its a square icon. You press the square button and the skill activated, and you see a little timer on the square that shows you the time remaining in use, and then the time needed to recharge the skill. For instance, torpedo expert for reduced reload time. Its active for like 10 minutes, then goes grey for another 50 minutes or so as it charges up again.

[gruntington]

I currently have 3 expert radiomen, and my update rate for surface contacts is very good now. Almost at spysat level. If I knew how to upload image files, I would post some pretty interesting screenshots.

On a side note, to boost your rank so as to have access to carrier and cruiser groups, go here in windows explorer C:\Documents and Settings\USER\My Documents\SH4\data\cfg\SaveGames\00000000 then open CareerTrack.

There you will see PlayerRankAchieved=CO-Rank-7 , and be sure to change the value to 7. I think thats the highest rank.

Im going to see if I can find the description of hero skills in the save games to see if I can change values there as well.

[ccruner13]

C:\Documents and Settings\USER\My Documents\SH4\data\cfg\UserPlayerContextGE

in the 'specialabilities.upc' you can change whatever you want regarding special abilities

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by gruntington

If I knew how to upload image files, I would post some pretty interesting screenshots.

www.photobucket.com

Follow their directions. It's really very easy. They will tell you how to upload images. Once you have one ready, just click on the bottom line 'IMG Code' and it will automatically copy the picture. Then just right-click here and click 'Paste', and it's done.

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by maerean_m

Yes, abilities are designed to stack up.

I figured that out the instant i had a gato doing 25 kts surfaced and 11 submerged. :rotfl:

[looney]

how to activate the abilities?

[gAiNiAc]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

I figured that out the instant i had a gato doing 25 kts surfaced and 11 submerged. :rotfl:

Duc, you modded the hero abilities in the last version of TMO correct?

[looney]

But how to activate the abilities?

I can't figure it out.

[looney]

bump??