Getting back into my Submarine

[Spike88]

It's been a while since I last played a subsim(even though I've been hanging around the forums. ) And I feel like reinstalling SH4, especially since I never really got any far with it or any of the super mods.


I'll be installing RFB2.0 for my super mod, and after playing a campaign with the stock campaign, will install RSRD.


I would like suggestions for minor mods that will help me get the most out of the game. So any help would be appreciated.

[Rockin Robbins]

One thing for sure. Keep your installation as simple as possible if you don't want mod soup. Just a casual survey of Subsim will reveal a ghastly number of people with "what's wrong" questions who have lists of a dozen or more mods. Don't go there!

With RFB or TMO you can safely add sub skins, missions, custom keyboard layouts, a different bearing plotters and........practically nothing else if you want gameplay to be what the designers intended. Do not add environmental mods. Do not add Webster's GFO components, do not add mods to add or subtract floaty stuff in the water. Resist!

In restraint lies the way to happiness.

[Spike88]

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

One thing for sure. Keep your installation as simple as possible if you don't want mod soup. Just a casual survey of Subsim will reveal a ghastly number of people with "what's wrong" questions who have lists of a dozen or more mods. Don't go there!

With RFB or TMO you can safely add sub skins, missions, custom keyboard layouts, a different bearing plotters and........practically nothing else if you want gameplay to be what the designers intended. Do not add environmental mods. Do not add Webster's GFO components, do not add mods to add or subtract floaty stuff in the water. Resist!

In restraint lies the way to happiness.

Then I guess I'll just install SH4, and RFB and be done with it. I was looking for floaty stuff mods, but do not want to deal with my game screwing up.

[WernherVonTrapp]

You can add RFB, RSRDC and the Merchant Skinpack without any probs. I also run the Coral Sea Skinpack for my fleetboat. Oh yeah, I also have "sobers betters sand" and "sobers better rocks" (they're basically environmental skin packs), along with more map labels. No problems with gameplay either.

[Spike88]

Thanks, I'll try those out. Installing SH4UBM now.


Quick question, how does RFB work in regards to UBM?

[tater]

I'd not bother with the stock campaign, it has NO redeeming qualities.

[WernherVonTrapp]

Originally Posted by Spike88

Thanks, I'll try those out. Installing SH4UBM now.


Quick question, how does RFB work in regards to UBM?

Sorry, never played the UBMs. Maybe somebody else can comment on that.

[Schwieger]

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

One thing for sure. Keep your installation as simple as possible if you don't want mod soup. Just a casual survey of Subsim will reveal a ghastly number of people with "what's wrong" questions who have lists of a dozen or more mods. Don't go there!

With RFB or TMO you can safely add sub skins, missions, custom keyboard layouts, a different bearing plotters and........practically nothing else if you want gameplay to be what the designers intended. Do not add environmental mods. Do not add Webster's GFO components, do not add mods to add or subtract floaty stuff in the water. Resist!

In restraint lies the way to happiness.

argh, so I can't dl the mod that this vid is advertising?

Originally Posted by tater

I'd not bother with the stock campaign, it has NO redeeming qualities.

target rich environment not good for you? lol

[tater]

Dunno, the 60+ Akizuki DDs in the initial invasion convoys instantly destroy any sense of realism (given there were only 12 during the whole war, and ZERO were art sea during that part of the war).

[Rockin Robbins]

Originally Posted by Schwieger

argh, so I can't dl the mod that this vid is advertising?


l

Personally, I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. It is already incorporated into TMO as much as it can be without destroying gameplay. RFB also includes environmental modifications. Even with the incorporated environmental mods, RFB went through a very trying period where you couldn't lock the periscope on a target because of unwanted interaction of different tweaks.

Environmental mods are first on the list of "don't go there!" There be dragons. Let the supermodders work out what can be used without destroying gameplay. They work closely with the environmental modders in a way that you can't hope to.

[Spike88]

Just loaded a save in the middle of a patrol. Took damage for no apparent reason. No enemies nearby nor did I hit any land masses. Found it odd, and now my antennae refuses to fix.

[WernherVonTrapp]

Hmmm, antenna? Were you submerged when the damage occurred?

[Spike88]

No. I saved on the surface at night. The only thing was that I wasn't at all stop. I believe I was going Standard.

[WernherVonTrapp]

Ahh, I see. For a minute there, my wheels were turning so, just for future reference, if you ever smell wood burning, that's just me thinking. BTW, I have had situations in the past where I received damage during high TC but the damage was so minor, didn't notice it until I had the occasion to use the scope, radar or antenna. Sometimes I discovered the damage a few hours after it happened, sometimes a couple of days.

[Spike88]

Originally Posted by WernherVonTrapp

Ahh, I see. For a minute there, my wheels were turning so, just for future reference, if you ever smell wood burning, that's just me thinking. BTW, I have had situations in the past where I received damage during high TC but the damage was so minor, didn't notice it until I had the occasion to use the scope, radar or antenna. Sometimes I discovered the damage a few hours after it happened, sometimes a couple of days.

This was medium damage(despite the Hull being undamaged). And all but one sailor in the front compartment had taken damage.


So is there a Color Contacts mod for RFB?