which mods. help?

[Admiral Halsey]

Originally Posted by TorpX

After you get a taste of the game with GFO, I recommend these:

RFB_2.0 .......................................(Real Fleet Boat)
RFB_2.0_Patch_23April2010
RSRDC_RFB_V575 ........................(Run Silent Run Deep Campaign)
RSRDC_RFBV5xx_Patch1
Improved Ship Physics 1.1 ..............(improves physics of your boat)

This provides many improvements with only five mods. RFB (Real Fleet Boat) aims to achieve the most realistic gameplay and changes many elements. RSRDC (Run Silent Run Deep Campaign) changes shipping traffic and missions to historical volume/pattern. Stock has excessive traffic and isn't well configured.

ISP is my baby. It improves the acceleration, diving, turning, sea-keeping, and battery performance of your boat. By improving, I mean making it more realistic. It also has stronger storms.


Note that you must have v1.5 of Silent Hunter 4 to run these mods (as most others).


Also, when you install and enable these mods (using JSGME), you should start a new career, and avoid experimenting with a lot of mods within this career. Playing 3 card Monty with mods will likely make for problems.

And when you finally want a real challenge I suggest downloading TMO. Those destroyers make late war allied ASW seem easy.

[Snarf]

Don't forget to adorn your Captain's office with a lovely wood or marble sub model
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...o=file&id=4434
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...o=file&id=4433

also a Digi camo paint job (not WWII era realistic, but adds nice eye candy)
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...o=file&id=4377

These can be added on top of any of the other mods.

Many thanks for the quick responses. Very helpful.

I will try GFO first, then, and see how that goes! Then move on to some of the others after reading what they do. Where do I read what they do, though? I don't see headers for each mod. Do I just search for them?

Originally Posted by notreallysure

Many thanks for the quick responses. Very helpful.

I will try GFO first, then, and see how that goes! Then move on to some of the others after reading what they do. Where do I read what they do, though? I don't see headers for each mod. Do I just search for them?

most of the mods here at subsim have a mod release thread page with all that info and you can ask questions about the mod there or there should at least a description of the mod on the download page where you download it but most mods also include details with the mod in the documents folder or a "read me" text file

[Sinkmore]

FWIW
I'm just a noob. I played Sh4 vanilla (don't), then RFB+RSRDC for 2 months (excellent, no complaints). I recently (3-4 days ago) loaded up TMO+RSRDC+OTC+Traveller's mod (plus I tweaked the sea colors, they were too cheery for me.) Plus some incidental mods. So far that's been stable and I am very happy with it.

[THEBERBSTER]

Mods will often have a document folder that contains a readme that explains what the mod does.

Webster's mods are always informative as is the Scaf mod.

[Phrozin]

Originally Posted by Snarf

Don't forget to adorn your Captain's office with a lovely wood or marble sub model
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...o=file&id=4433

These can be added on top of any of the other mods.

Oh Man, That's not right! Now I want a wooden model on my desk.. in real life... Guess it's time to bust out the lathe and gouge. I'm gonna need some more band-aids!

Thanks again. In fact, I went for TMO and like it a lot, so far. Superb work on all these mods. Amazes me. I'm tinkering with the environment now.