[TEC] Playable Surface Ships

[digitizedsoul]

All -

I would like to spawn a thread about playable surface ships for SH5. I know that it took some time with SH3,4 before anyone started generating these mods because of their stray away from the fact that this is a "Sub" sim

However, myself included there are a vast number of us who adore controllable surface ships, and I personaly enjoy making missions around them for multiplayer.

Trust me 8 guys in multiplayer each with a cruiser or DD makes for some very fun times.


What is different between SH3 / 4 and our beautiful new platform when it comes to this aspect of modding?
I assume we will still need to use one of the playable sub's and just change all the controllers, etc.

[Stormfly]

good idea, i love surface battles also

[Chaoic16]

Excellent idea and with powerful scripting that is available for modding, we could turn any existing ships into drivable ships as a first step!




Chaoic out...

[Snipey16]

I too would love to see some playable surface ships. I dream of using the Hipper in the campaign.

[Sledgehammer427]

Since I'm the only one who is on the Surface Warfare Mod team, who, as far as I know, has a copy, I will make an unofficial statement as the second-in-command.
We have stated before that we want to build playable surface ships for SHV. once we get a couple more members on the bandwagon and figure out how to build playable ships, you should see some start popping up. I like the idea of a playable surface ship in campaign mode, with the truly dynamic campaign that is provided, one battleship can change the war faster than one U-boat. I have hopes we will get to talking about this on our private forums soon. I'll see if I can keep everyone updated.

[digitizedsoul]

I would love to help, although I don't know how much I could.

Just tell me where to start!

[ivank]

Originally Posted by Sledgehammer427

Since I'm the only one who is on the Surface Warfare Mod team, who, as far as I know, has a copy, I will make an unofficial statement as the second-in-command.
We have stated before that we want to build playable surface ships for SHV. once we get a couple more members on the bandwagon and figure out how to build playable ships, you should see some start popping up. I like the idea of a playable surface ship in campaign mode, with the truly dynamic campaign that is provided, one battleship can change the war faster than one U-boat. I have hopes we will get to talking about this on our private forums soon. I'll see if I can keep everyone updated.

As 1st in command, I agree. Once we get the Royal Navy/Royal Australian Navy part of the Surface Warfare Mod done, I would love to do the Kriegsmarine in SHV. I will get a copy in June when I come back from vacation.

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[Hartmann]

Originally Posted by Sledgehammer427

Since I'm the only one who is on the Surface Warfare Mod team, who, as far as I know, has a copy, I will make an unofficial statement as the second-in-command.
We have stated before that we want to build playable surface ships for SHV. once we get a couple more members on the bandwagon and figure out how to build playable ships, you should see some start popping up. I like the idea of a playable surface ship in campaign mode, with the truly dynamic campaign that is provided, one battleship can change the war faster than one U-boat. I have hopes we will get to talking about this on our private forums soon. I'll see if I can keep everyone updated.

Yes a big battleship can wipe out one or more convoys disrupting the material flow to england.