What Mods are you guys using?

Obviously I don't run all of these all the time (currently testing one or two), but here is my current set:

GWX 3 Gold
SH Commander 3
GWX - No Medals on Crew
GWX - Enhanced Damage Effects
Longer Repair Times - v2.04 (Full w/ OLC GUI Fix)
OLC GUI v1.2.7
Lifeboats & Debris v4
Pascal's Black Binoculars
Pascal's Port People
SH5 Water for GWX v0.9 20km
Seafloor SF v3 Final
Sliderule + AOB Tools for OLC GUI
Torpedo Damage Final v2
Type IX Splint Camo (Skin)
WB's Renown Replacement
Thomsen's Sound Pack v3.2cg

[frau kaleun]

GWX 3 St Naz and Schluese and other units V4
WB's GWX campaign with VonDos' ships v2.7
TMT v2 + ThomsensShips V4.2
WB - TMT fix
WB - add Q ship
GWX - Alternate Loadscreen - Full Circle
GWX3.0 Contact Color
Waterstream+Exhaust Combi V2.3 for GWX3
Waterstream+Exhaust Combi - Single Exhaust for TypeII
WBNN Mission Orders Lite
Rapt0r's Unis V2.0 Grey [All Leather No Medals] Modified
FK's Valkyrie Cap Emblem
SH-5 Water for GWX 3.0 V0.9 Atlantic campaign (default)
Sobers 3D waves
Foam
LifeBoats&Debris_v4
DD_OH_V3.09_with_GWX_Integrated_Orders
DD_OH_V3.09_ConningDeckCam_Fix_20091210230737
Grey Brown Cloth Map
FK's Sound Mod
Scirè-Tikigod- repeated order
OLC's Modified Searchlight Beams for GWX3
GWX - Enhanced Damage Effects
GWX - Captain America's Officer Icons
Pascal_Port_People
b25_SF@Grass_1024_V2
sobers real smoke darker and a brown tint1.1
Flags_enlighten
Torpedo damage Final
electric torpedo trail fix
Turm 7B Your Way
Black Boat - VII - NZ

A couple of these are very minor mods I did myself, a couple are combinations of two or more things that I combined for compatibility's sake or so I could enable a mod together with all the desired options/fixes for it in one fell swoop instead of enabling them all separately.

[Sailor Steve]

Again? Seems like I do this at least once a month.

Permanent install:

GWX 3.0
GWX 3 Wil, St Naz and Schluese and other units - Bigboywooly
GWX Community Units
Das Boot Officers - AIL
Small Moon - AIL
Das Boot Sound Mod SH3
DBSM SH3 Speech Fix
Ultimate Aircraft Sounds
Spirit of Machines - Einbecker
Torpedo Fire (German) v1.02 - Ktl_KUrtz
No Rank Or Medals On Crew - Dertien
Remove GWX Compass - ichso
Simfeeling 6-Dials Mod - FLB_ U-999
Clean Nav Map
Assisted Plotting Mod
English-To-German Names - Phoenix3000
Historically Accurate U-Boat Emblems - Conus
Halo Not Visible Through Body - Anvart
New Compass Graphics U-505 - Hitman
Port People - Pascal
My Favorite Uniforms - New Uniforms and Das Boot Clothes
Realistic Blueprint Damage Screens - Pascal
Remove Station Labels
SH3 Color Icons - Capt. Teach
SH4 Maptools for SH3 - Racerboy (aka TheDarkWraith)
Waterstream+Exhaust Kombimod v2.3 - Rubini/Racerboy/h.sie
Modified Searchlight Beams - OLC
U-Boat Bases Map with New St. Nazaire - meduza
Lifeboats & Debris v4 - Rubini/Privateer
Open Hatch v3.09 - Diving Duck
Open Hatch Conning Deck Cam Fix - Diving Duck
Type VII Real Skin

JSGME Installs:

SH5 Water for GWX 0.9 20 Km -
GWX Ships Buoyancy and Draft Mod
GWX DFa Flags and Pennants 2010 - Anvart
Clearsky Clouds - Rubini
FM30_UpDown - Anvart
FM New Interior - FlakMonkey
FM NI Fix for FM30 UpDown - FlakMonkey
Conning Tower Open Hatch
Aces Multimod Compatability Fix v1.3 release - Aces
SH4 Effects for SH3 - Racerboy/TheDarkWraith
Torpedo Damage Final -
Decks Awash + Fuel Economy - Wreford-Brown
Extras for Wilhelmshaven Campaign - Wreford-Brown
No Continuous 'Ship Spotted'
Ricks GWX Rec Manual Final
Seabed Repair Mod
Searchlights Removed -
Sober's 3D Waves - Sober
Type IIa Flags & Pennants - Anvart
Type VIIa Features - Wreford-Brown

Rotating installs with JSGME:

Type IIa Tuneup Dark
VIIB Early War Skin -
New Freecam Mod - Asanovic7
Type IIb AI Camo - Sean (changed to IIA)
Always reinstall My SH3 Text Files

Tools:

SH3 Commander - JScones
SH3 Weather - Sqweetis
SH3 Contacts - Nicolás

[JScones]

I'm pretty much behind the times here, running only:

GWX 3 St Naz and Schluese and other units V4
GWX - 16km Atmosphere
GWX - Captain America's Officer Icons
GWX - Integrated Orders
GWX - No Medals on Crew
My Visual Tweaks*
LifeBoats&Debris_v4
GWX_ships_Buoyance&draught_mod
Unofficial_rockets_fix_GWX3.0
WBNN Mission Orders Lite

*includes GWX-TA1.3_Moonmod-Small, Tails - grey + coloured, Torpedo damage Final, HurricaneReskin_Dowly and Foam512.

Are there any majority-agreed core, or essential, GWX3 mods?

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by JScones

I'm pretty much behind the times here, running only

GWX 3 St Naz and Schluese and other units V4
GWX - 16km Atmosphere
GWX - Captain America's Officer Icons
GWX - Integrated Orders
GWX - No Medals on Crew
My Visual Tweaks
LifeBoats&Debris_v4
GWX_ships_Buoyance&draught_mod
Unofficial_rockets_fix_GWX3.0
WBNN Mission Orders Lite

Are there any majority-agreed core, or essential, GWX3 mods?

Aside from Commander (I know, not really a mod, but still) I can't ever see not using Mission Orders Lite. Or Integrated Orders. In fact I don't use any mod that interferes with the commands.cfg files unless I can make it compatible with IO with a manual edit. That plus something that gets the rank/medals off the clothes and preferably puts the crew in more casual and realistic attire. And an environmental mod with at least a 16k atmo, with those it's kind of a toss-up depending on mood. But I wouldn't want to go back to the 8km atmo.

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

Aside from Commander (I know, not really a mod, but still) I can't ever see not using Mission Orders Lite. Or Integrated Orders. In fact I don't use any mod that interferes with the commands.cfg files unless I can make it compatible with IO with a manual edit. That plus something that gets the rank/medals off the clothes and preferably puts the crew in more casual and realistic attire. And an environmental mod with at least a 16k atmo, with those it's kind of a toss-up depending on mood. But I wouldn't want to go back to the 8km atmo.

To be fair, SH Commander can technically modify files, and alter your U-Boat name, wind, gun reload, etc... I suppose that makes it a mod.

I'd use Mission Orders Lite myself, but I still haven't completed a full campaign, so I want to see everything. Once that's done, it will probably be at the top of my list, so I can end the suffering.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Hans Uberman

I'd use Mission Orders Lite myself, but I still haven't completed a full campaign, so I want to see everything. Once that's done, it will probably be at the top of my list, so I can end the suffering.

[HW3]

JScones,

The long awaited Merchant_Fleet_Mod_3.2 adds alot of really good looking merchant ships to the sim.

The latest version of GWX 3 St Naz and Schluese and other units V4 is GWX 3 Wilhemshafen,St Naz,Schluese and xtra ships V6, and it is worth the upgrade.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by frau kaleun

In fact I don't use any mod that interferes with the commands.cfg files unless I can make it compatible with IO with a manual edit.

I keep a folder on my desktop with a list of all the mods I use, a copy of each mod for easy reinstall, and a copy of every in-game file I've altered, including Commands.cfg the way I want it. After every mod reinstall I put in my own files, so they are always the way I want them.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I keep a folder on my desktop with a list of all the mods I use, a copy of each mod for easy reinstall, and a copy of every in-game file I've altered, including Commands.cfg the way I want it. After every mod reinstall I put in my own files, so they are always the way I want them.

I've got a folder on my external drive where I unzip all the mods I download, so I can go in and peruse the files they add/use without messing about in any of my MODS folders in the program files. I've learned never to enable a mod without looking at what files it adds or (especially) overwrites. But then JSGME makes this easier, if I get a notice there that something from another mod is being overwritten and I wasn't expecting it I know I gotta go back and recheck some things.

I've manually edited the game's basic.cfg file so that never gets overwritten, if I have to make more edits for an additional mod I just do it manually (and like you I keep a copies of the original and all the edits, with notes about what got changed). More and more though I'm finding it easier to do those edits through Commander and let it overwrite stuff when the game loads, that way the file that's in the game folder is the original but all my desired changes are still there when I'm playing.

[OSU]

I feel so small.

GWX 3.0 Gold
GWX - Alternate Load Screen - Full Circle
GWX - Main movie - "Bas Boot"
Alt Msg Font Typewriter
GWX - Enhanced Damage Effects
GWX - No medals on crew
ACM-GUI Reloaded - h.sie's Edition V1.15
ACM-GUI Type IX Salvo Selector
ACM-GUI DepthCharge-Shake V1.8

[JScones]

OK, so after some extensive analysis using a representative sample size of GWX players (OK, so four responses means a sampling error of around +/-50%, lol), I have concluded that that over 75% of players use the following mods:

LifeBoats&Debris_v4
Waterstream+Exhaust Combi V2.3 for GWX3
SH-5 Water for GWX 3.0 V0.9 Atlantic campaign
Torpedo damage Final
GWX 3 St Naz and Schluese and other units V4
Pascal_Port_People