Mission icons on map confusion

kylania · 05-15-10, 08:33 PM

The "Iron Cross" icons that you "accept" before leaving port are "missions". They are part of the campaign and can be finished over the course of many patrols, as long as they are finished before their listed date. These are more strategic goals than anything. You don't have to finish them, but doing so can help unlock things later on.

The yellow patrol objective icons are assigned during a single patrol. While they are often in the same area as the strategic missions, they aren't part of them or linked to them directly. You don't have to finish them, but doing so gets you more Renown you can spend on upgrading your u-boat. They also include some other types of things like photo recon, dropping off spies or intercepting convoys.

Search patterns are broken in Silent Hunter 5 v1.2.0. Hopefully they'll be fixed someday.

Seefer · 05-15-10, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by kylania

The "Iron Cross" icons that you "accept" before leaving port are "missions". They are part of the campaign and can be finished over the course of many patrols, as long as they are finished before their listed date. These are more strategic goals than anything. You don't have to finish them, but doing so can help unlock things later on.

The yellow patrol objective icons are assigned during a single patrol. While they are often in the same area as the strategic missions, they aren't part of them or linked to them directly. You don't have to finish them, but doing so gets you more Renown you can spend on upgrading your u-boat. They also include some other types of things like photo recon, dropping off spies or intercepting convoys.

Search patterns are broken in Silent Hunter 5 v1.2.0. Hopefully they'll be fixed someday.

Thanks for the clarification.

Quite how newcomers are expected to figure this out from the lame documentation is beyond me. I suspect Ubisoft's DRM is not the only reason you need an Internet connection to play their damned games, you also need access to the online community of players for help that should be in the manual or in-game tutorials

Or I guess you could buy one of their "Official Game Guides", also known as "The Actual Game's Manual"

05-15-10, 08:33 PM	#1
kylania Silent Hunter Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 3,528 Downloads: 118 Uploads: 0	The "Iron Cross" icons that you "accept" before leaving port are "missions". They are part of the campaign and can be finished over the course of many patrols, as long as they are finished before their listed date. These are more strategic goals than anything. You don't have to finish them, but doing so can help unlock things later on. The yellow patrol objective icons are assigned during a single patrol. While they are often in the same area as the strategic missions, they aren't part of them or linked to them directly. You don't have to finish them, but doing so gets you more Renown you can spend on upgrading your u-boat. They also include some other types of things like photo recon, dropping off spies or intercepting convoys. Search patterns are broken in Silent Hunter 5 v1.2.0. Hopefully they'll be fixed someday. __________________