"Must Have" mods?

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Originally Posted by Hylander_1314

The megamods for SH4 v1.5 are:

RFB (Real Fleet Boat)

TMO (Trigger Maru Overhauled)

FOTRS (Fall Of The Rising Sun) by a German mod team, but very good. Lots of added extras. Also has DD ship add-on for more varied types of escorts.

GFO (Game Fixes Only) It's the stock game without the personality crisis.

OM (Operation Monsun) Lets you play a Pacific oriented Uboat campaign.

Each one of the above has it's merits, and will appeal on different things. I lke to "kit bash" them and cobble together the things I like from all of them into my own custom game, as long as it doesn't mess with the core files that upset things like sensors and what not.

But on top of those there are a bunch of individual little mods that are incorporated to the ones above, so before adding them, make sure you read the documentation to see what was used in making the mega mod, so you aren't just adding something that is already there.

Also, avoid the older enviornmental mods as they can and do "break" the game as it throws the AI sensor abilities out of whack.

Webster has a bunch of cool little tweak files that can be used in the mega mods without messing them up. Again, make sure whatever mod you use, says that it is okay to use it. Sometimes they can't be made to work with all of them, and you have to get a mega mod specific version. Just try to avoid a huge "mod soup" and you should be okay.

Another as mentioned previously, is CapnScury's mods. For TMO and RFB he has a cool mod called:

OTC (Optical Targeting Correction) A very useful mod especially if you plan on manual targeting. It corrects a lot of resolution issues so that things remain constant from screen to screen when you change locations in the boat, and it also gave me a huge frame rate boost, even though I was getting fantastic rates to begin with.

Just make sure, that you read over all the documentation that comes with any mod, as we all get anxious and wanna get out there and blow up Tojo's boats, and blow off the techie stuff, and it bites us all at one time or another.

Oh, and JSGME mod tool is a must! Use it for adding and removing mods.

And just one last piece of advice, make sure, that when you add or remove a mod, just to be safe, do it while you are in port. Avoid doing it at all costs while on patrol, or you can ruin your day literally.

Thanks! I've currently got TMO, I'll be sure to check out Webster's and CapnScurvy's mods.

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Stock 1.5 lets you play a Pacific-oriented U-boat campaign. OM lets you play a full-blown Atlantic campaign, just like SH3, including all u-boat types, only with the SH4 improvements.

Does OM work over TMO? Or do I just have to disable TMO?

And what is "S3D"? I searched in the downloads section but I couldn't find it.

Sorry for all the questions, I've had SH4 and lurked here a long time, but I'm still fairly new to the SH4 modding world