[WIP]Campaign 1943-1945

[Wolfling04]

Originally Posted by andycaccia

I have modded (only a little) the u boat campaign in sh4, so it is surely possible to do the same in sh5. The problem is how to make a whole new dynamic campaign and add it to the game.. what do you have in mind?

Right now, just extend the Black May campaign until the end of the war. As long as I can still sink the amount of reqd. tonnage and still continue the campaign.

So far I have gotten past June 2nd 0000 1943 (that's when the campaign would just end).

First versions would be a very basic campaign enabling the player to continue past June 2nd 1943. With no additions to the campaign, meaning no "patrol area" to patrol and no required missions to complete IE. Sink 150,00 tons of enemy shipping here. Pretty much take your boat sail where ever you want and sink whatever you want.

Later versions, I have plans to go as far as adding historical missions, adding more missions and campaigns u-boat upgrades and torpedo upgrades if there are any that aren't in game. last but not least allow the player to start in any campaign.

As far as adding new missions/campaigns to SH5 I do not think it will be that hard. As the single traffic/convoys/taskforces are all campaign generated meaning, the campaign decides when/where to spawn them and where to send them (from what I have looked at thus far).

There is only one downside to modding the campaign in anyway in Sh5, new campaign mods MUST be installed before starting a campaign, they cannot simply be installed while in port as the changes WILL NOT take affect, I have learned this in my testing so far. (atleast with the changes I am making)

Also, I want to thank ALL of you for your support (even though I haven't even released anything yet lol), I have tried modding in the past but always got burned out or frustrated because I couldn't/didn't want to learn any of it. This time though I actually got this game early enough to learn the ins and outs of it and I just hate failure now days (guess I can thank my career for that)

edit: I just left Brest for my first patrol, its July 25th 1943 and I just got badly bombed thanks to IRAI, and on my map I also see lone ships being reported so I know the game is still producing ships/planes.