Anyone have experince in playing multiplayer with SHII and DC?

[Admiral Von Gerlach]

ok, got em

i see the 1.1 patch, got that

but there are TWO Projekt Messerwetzer patches....both uploaded on the same date:


Projekt Messerwetzer Destroyer Command patch v1.03 (4.30 MB)
Projekt Messerwetzer multiplayer patch (6.44 MB)

do we add them both AFTER we do the 1.1? thanks

[horsa]

Yes, both after patch1.1 .

[kaptkirkU4467]

I was a core tester for the SH2/DC upgrade PM>
"Projekt Messerwetzer".

You can have a real nice online game with 4 to 6 players.*we had 8 once and it worked fine.*
One person must be the host,give his ip to other players then start the server.
The players wait 4 to five min and then connect.
The read me for PM will have all the info for set up.There are a few SH2/DC players around..I play DC on the laptop.Vista works well with it.
Any questions ..I'll do the best to remember how it all works.

I also have a large stash of SH2/DC mods...sound,missions and the resupply at sea mod.

However,I will not be home till next Saturday,and thats were the disks are.

Also..to get rid of the SH2 screen blanker..the black screen of death.

Go to the SH2 icon,right click and in the properties target box fix it to read:
Shell/Shell
Not Shell/Exe or what ever it says.

That stops it.

[Admiral Von Gerlach]

Kapt, thanks you VERY much for that info esp the tip on the BSOD that will be very helpful and I would be very interested in getting some of those mods if you can find them. I hope to collect resources for all of this, as it is important to find things when we can.

I see from studying the notes that the top number is about 11 and I think it would be awesome to be able to play an engagement with multiple players using both surface and sub surface units. I have a lot of learning on the helm to do with all of this but thanks so much for your kind post and it is very good to hear from you.

UPDATE: ok, i just checked the models for SHII in the model viewer and i am wondering...are there any mods to improve the default ships? some of them are just god awful... the US Battleships for instance, and the US cruisers, they need to be lowerred to the waterline about almsot half, and there are no heavy Italian units making it impossible to make campaigns for some of the Med events.... so i am curious if anyone made or can make improved ships. PS.. i found the download section..i see ship mods that make help a lot, i was very hopeful there were sone.

Good news is that there seem to be enought units for a lot...but

no Japan? or maybe i was rushing thru things....

i love the period menu screens they are cool.

Another question: i see Fletchers Mega mod, it looks great but does anyone knoow how to disable one of the features? the generic contact image? i want to be able to see what is coming at me, i enjoy realism but not to this degreee....the read me says:

* New Contact ID Mod. When a surface or air contact becomes visible on the map, you will only see a generic grey icon. No other information will be available to you. Greater emphasis has been placed on your sound man, as it was historically. This will incorporate changed icons, changed sound files, changed messages (for several stations), etc and should provide for more realistic gameplay and challenge.

but many of the other features of this mod look good.

final question, I am assuming we cant play multiplayer with mods loaded? or can we if we have the same ones?

[kaptkirkU4467]

Mod play...all must have the same setup,or it will drop the odd mod.
When we started it was with Teamspeak and we all sounded off that we were mod free or what we had in.

I tested the fireball mod with people who were stock and it worked,so that ones ok to have in if others dont.

When I do get home,I'll put the sh2/dc stuff on a new disk or send it zip files by email,you pick it.
I think I have 3 or 4 disks of stuff from the test days and just about every mod..the Das Boot sound mod is the best.

I even have the "play BB" mod by Gstew that lets you command a battleship.

Fletchers Mega mod...dont know,maybe Sailor'Steve might know about it.I delt with SH2 on the test/script side.

[Admiral Von Gerlach]

wow, thanks so much. I snagged what was here on the mod list, but would love to have anything you can share. mmm, well maybe a disk would be easiest for you ...but either way

i will pm you my addy and e mail too

thanks so much, much appreciated.

[kaptkirkU4467]

Ok.DVD disk or CD?