New guy with some questions

[Captain_Leavitt]

Originally Posted by THEBERBSTER

Using Real Navigation has got nothing to do with maths.

The main difference is you do not have waypoints.

The main requirement is plotting a course with your ‘Compass’ and then making the direction change.

Your Navigator gives you 2 hour positional updates and you can do your own at any time.

You do not have to play at 100% as its your choice.

You can change any of the settings in Gameplay Options to change from the default ‘Realistic’ to your ‘Custom’ settings.

If you want to use ‘Map Contacts, Event Camera or External Camera, or No Dud Torpedoes, its your bloody game you can do what you want.

You do not have to have ‘Auto Loading Torpedoes.

If you want to turn it off permanently then use TDW’s Options File Editor Viewer.

Thanks again for the info and the link. By the way when I was talking about auto torp I meant auto targeting. I always manually reload. There will probably be some mods that I leave out for my first campaign just to get a feel for everything then install them for a second tour after I'm more familiar and comfortable. Speaking of which how much will the ai difficulty ramp up if I use IRAI? I don't want stupid ai but I don't want to get steamrolled either lol.


EDIT, I downloaded 1 mod today and now I can't download anything else. This is the second time I've had this problem. When does the available downloads reset? Is it based on when the last time you downloaded a file was?

[THEBERBSTER]

Stock IRAI is like shooting at a goal with no goalkeeper.

IRAI 41 will give you a challenge

IRAI 39 is less challenging but you will need the mod patch that goes with it.

Go to the Download Tab select SH5 go to the Patches Icon

You may have to look around to find both parts or try Google

Dwnload Link

IRAI_0_0_41_ByTheDarkWraith

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=171973&highlight=irai_0_0_41

[THEBERBSTER]

The IRAI 39 patch 1 if you want to use it with the main mod.

Link to download

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom//downloads.php?do=file&id=4252

[Captain_Leavitt]

Originally Posted by THEBERBSTER

The IRAI 39 patch 1 if you want to use it with the main mod.

Link to download

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom//downloads.php?do=file&id=4252

Thanks again. I just got my digital copy of sh5 through amazon and I only paid 6 bucks plus tax. Dirt cheap! Now to start getting stuff working. FYI, I used the link on the subsim main page so enjoy the commision

[Captain_Leavitt]

i just got the game installed and made my uplay account. got a message saying I don't meet the min system req because my graphics driver is out of date but it's not. I have the latest nvidia driver for my gtx 660. Is this going to cause a conflict or should I just ignore it? Also I've heard mention of playing in offline mode. Is this recommended?


EDIT, After reading the OH2 v2.5 page I noticed it said to play the tutorial in stock without mods then after you get the green tick exit the game and install mods. What is meant by (green tick)?

[Echolot]

got a message saying I don't meet the min system req because my graphics driver is out of date but it's not. I have the latest nvidia driver for my gtx 660. Is this going to cause a conflict or should I just ignore it?

Yes. Just ignore.

Also I've heard mention of playing in offline mode. Is this recommended?

Yes.

What is meant by (green tick)?

Something like: Click. (Mission completed).

[Captain_Leavitt]

Originally Posted by Echolot

Yes. Just ignore.

Yes.

Something like: Click. (Mission completed).

Thanks

[Captain_Leavitt]

Here's a super noob question lol. Is there a difference between install order and load order?

[THEBERBSTER]

No its just different terminology.

[Captain_Leavitt]

Originally Posted by THEBERBSTER

No its just different terminology.

Thanks for the clarification.

[Captain_Leavitt]

Well I just did the tutorial and that was absolute garbage. The worst tutorial I've ever played! I don't know what the hell ubisoft was thinking. Despite all the people complaining about sh4's tutorial it was far better and more in depth then this. Half the mandatory functions weren't even enabled and most things had absolutely no info forcing you to guess at everything all while being shot at lol. My only saving grace was my knowledge of previous titles.

The graphics were good though Not as good as they'll be once i'm done with it I wanted to say gratz on the generic patcher. Out of 8 torps I fired only 1 actually made it to the target and detonated. The rest were duds or prematures. This is as it should be in 1939. I already can't wait till later in the war so torps actually do what there supposed to lol. It gives a sense of what the real captains had to go through early on. Few more days and I'll be completely moded and ready to play for real.

[THEBERBSTER]

Duds can be completely removed in Game Play Options.

[Captain_Leavitt]

Originally Posted by THEBERBSTER

Duds can be completely removed in Game Play Options.

The duds weren't the biggest problem. Out of the 8 I fired 1 hit, 2 were duds, and the rest were prematures. Thats a little over half my total supply for premies. I might tweak the lvls a tiny bit in generic patcher but in all I'm very happy with the changes it made to the base game.

[THEBERBSTER]

Are you using TDW's Generic File Patcher?

What you are describing is not normal game play.

Check out my Tutorial Post #61

[Captain_Leavitt]

Originally Posted by THEBERBSTER

Are you using TDW's Generic File Patcher?

What you are describing is not normal game play.

Check out my Tutorial Post #61

I was referring to playing the stock tutorial with no mods. What I did was install the game, update to v1.2, toggle start in offline mode, installed and set up generic patcher, played the tutorial till I got the green tick, exited the game, started installing mods. I did it this way as described so I would have no problems when I use open horizons v2.5. So the torpedo problems I described were just with the generic patcher and nothing else. In the process of installing mods now which leads me to a new problem.

TDC'S NEW UI V7_5_0. I cannot extract all the files. I keep getting a error message when extracting telling me some files couldn't be unzipped. So all I have is the dials folder which contains the American and any folders. WTH am I doing wrong here? For reference I'm using the latest version of winzip.


EDIT, I would like to use REAL German flags in place of the stock ones. I know they weren't included for legal reasons but you KNOW they were there so I figured I'd use them for immersion sake. Is it part of any mod or will I need a standalone mod? If it's a standalone where would I install it going by sobers mod list?


EDIT2, I just got it to download ALL the files. Apparently I had to be more specific then usual with my extract path. In any rate I'm back in business.