[REL]Equipmen Upgrades Fix by TheBeast

[Berlorian]

Heya all,
I was just curious as to where the free upgrades went as i had old verion of "upgrades fix"v1.0 with "upgrades available"v1.0 or something like that.

And the upgrades were free and did not cost renown.
unlike now where i upgraded a uboat after saving renown then got new boat and lost all upgrades.

But yeah i liked the fact they were previously all free. as it was more realistic. im sure during ww2 uboat pilots didn't pay for their upgrades or torps.
or is this a mod feature im missing.

[TheNorseWind]

This seems good, i have camos, 10mm deck gun, some new AA guns, torpedoes and a few upgrades, but not all as i can see in the posted image

Hi, i just installed this but i don't know if it is working for my current campaign. I don't have brown page for u-boat upgrade screen like in the first post. ( gray default screen page ).

i don't have any new upgrades either, this may be due to date being March 1940, not sure. For example, screenshot in the first post has Wintergarden Flak gun and there are 3 options. In my game, it is named rear deck flak gun and there are only 2 options.

Any help is appreciated.

[Laffertytig]

im getting the following error message when loading sh5

#OPEN ERROR:# data/menu/skins/german/gui/upgrade/Periscope.dd'

using the list below ive narrowed it down to 'Equipment_Upgrades_Fix_v1_4_byTheBeast'



i should add that the game is at version 1.2 and is fully patched using the generic patcher.

ps, i tried unistalling all mods and installing only this one mod. i still get the error. is it incompatible which something the generic patcher has altered. i uninstalled all the patches and the game runs with this mod so it seems to be be an issue with something the patcher has altered. anyone been here before?

my heads tellin me to walk away from sh5 and its modding nightmare and never go near it again at least until someone creates an installer like gwx had.. ive already spent around 4 hours getting to this point and its unlikely to get any easier right.

i would happily pay for it as well, anything to avoid all the BS we have to go through to get this game to a reasonable level.






Mods List sobers 0900 23092013 (correct order)
Accurate German Flags
sobers game loading tips V8 SH5
DBM Background Video
SteelViking's Interior Mod V1.2
SteelViking's Interior Mod V1.2.2 Patch
sobers multi color mod V5
DynEnv v2.9 - 1. Main Mod
DynEnv v2.9 - 5.c Ambient Settings - Darker Nights-No Murky Waters
DynEnv v2.9 - 12. Sounds
Small_trees_SH5_V1
sobers smoke screen V1 SH5 (DynEnv compatible)
sobers water splash anim SH5
sobers best ever fog V22 SH5
sobers base sky mechanics V1
sobers better terrain v3 SH5
sobers waves mod V12 27032013
sobers more trees SH5
SH5_7A_Conning_Fix
Fuel Gauge WoGaDi_SteelViking's Interior
Equipment_Upgrades_Fix_v1_4_byTheBeast
Equipment_Upgrades_Fix_v1_4_Patch_1
#Equipment_Upgrades_Fix_v1_4_Patch_1_HotFix
Equipment_Upgrades_Fix_v1_4_Patch_1 (available by date) V9 by sober
EUF_UBoat_FX_v0_0_3_ byTheBeast
SH5 Longer Repairs v.1
FX_Update_0_0_22_ByTheDarkWraith
FX_Update_0_0_22_Torpedoes (modified for torpedoes failure patches)
AI_sub_crew_1_0_2_TheDarkWraith
NewUIs_TDC_7_5_0_ByTheDarkWraith
NewUIs_TDC_7_5_0_alt_officer_wounded_by_Torpedo
NewUIs_TDC_7_5_0_Real_Navigation
NewUIs_TDC_7_5_0_RadCapTools_0_2_alpha
Submarine's .sim&cfg (modified for engine ratio + independent control patches)
Sjizzle's - Charts for NewUIs part1_07.06.2013
Manos Scopes-patch for 16x9
IRAI_0_0_39_ByTheDarkWraith
IRAI_0_0_39_ByTheDarkWraith_Patch_1
R.E.M_by_Xrundel_TheBeast_1.2
R.E.M_by_Xrundel_TheBeast_1.2 - no hyd on surface - NewUIs-IRAI compatible
Depth Charge Fix Reduced Explosion Range
Cerberus62 Corrected Depth Charge Projector 1.0
Reworked Morale and Abilities v.1.1
MFCMCCDLite
Speech fixes and additions (english version)
sobers green crew training V4 SH5
TDW FX Fix for Sobers chimney smoke
Church's Compass Dials Mod v2.2 - Option Two
OPEN HORIZONS II_full v2.2
R.S.D. - Reworked Submarine Damage v4 by vdr1981
SkyBaron's Leigh Light for SH5 1.1
Sobers Terrain fix for OH2 V2.2
RPM Hydrophone merchants 2.1 -for OHII full v2.2-
Expanded Navies by Cybermat47 v.1.0.01
smaller flags for Warships 1_0b
sobers Lights Cfg V5 SH5
Trevally Tutorial - All v0.2(for OHIIv1.3)
Trevally Automated Scripts v0.6
Trevally Harbour & Kiel Canal Pilot v3.1
Trevally TDC Help v2
MadMaxs_SH5_Subdiesel (mono) v2
sobers hud sounds V1 SH5
sobers no footstep sound mod
sobers Realistic contrast V6 SH5
sobers_realistic_underwater_FX3
EQuaTool 01.01 by AvM - Large Style
AOB slide ruller for TDW UIs and MO by stoianm
Warfox deck crew always whispering SH5 German Version
gap - HD 1 deg Scope Bearing v 1.0
Shadow Improvement ModLR
sobers bad weather deck gun V5 SH5
sobers map colors SH5 V1

[TheBeast]

High all!

Not back yet but have some time to write a message.

If you have unlocked any Skin or other Reward from U-Play, bad news, the game will overwrite a file at each game start "UpgradePacks.upc".

Possible Solution :
overwrite the file UpgradePacks.upc in "Silent Hunter 5\data\UPCDataGE\UPCUnitsData" after each game start (alt tab and copy the file)
-or-
Prevent Sh5.exe to have any access to internet (with windows firewall for example), ban any incoming and outgoing traffic for sh5.exe.

Thank you Choum for reminding me about this...

Regards!
TheBeast

[vdr1981]

@Laffertytig,
Yes, I remember something like that...It's something related to generic patcher if Im remember correctly . Try to disable render patches first...Also, with the quick look to your moddlist I can tell you that you should update R.S.D., v4 is rather old...

[Trevally.]

Originally Posted by TheBeast

High all!

Good to hear from you

[Koranis]

Hello,

the patch 1 is down, I can't download it. Is there any other mirror I could download it from?

thanks!

[volodya61]

Originally Posted by Koranis

Hello,

the patch 1 is down, I can't download it. Is there any other mirror I could download it from?

thanks!

Just tried, everything is OK.. try again - http://www.mediafire.com/download/1s..._4_Patch_1.rar

[Koranis]

I'm worried now, because everytime I click on download it says that it cannot access it, as if there was no page. I downloaded the main file with no problems though.

EDIT: The problem was on my side, antivirus... thanks and sorry for bothering you.

[Raven_2012]

I will keep my eye out for historical dates for Equipment in Documentaries and Books. I will take notes on them. That's first step in getting it together with dates. It won't take long to change them in game file, hard part is gathering all the historical accurate dates or very close to them.

[gap]

Originally Posted by Raven_2012

I will keep my eye out for historical dates for Equipment in Documentaries and Books. I will take notes on them. That's first step in getting it together with dates.

The British interragotion reports are also a good resource, and they often give an idea of the actual value and usage made of each equipment year by year.

While collecting information, keep in mind that some equipments started being tested aboard a few selected boats, or they were pretty rare during their whole service anyway. This is when you might want to apply an high reward cost for them.

On the contrary, some others (or the very same equipments, after their evaluation period) were considered as standard, and they should be available for free.

Moreover, a few equipments were forcedly retired from service (the deck gun, some radars/RWR receivers, etc.). I am not 100% sure about it, but I think there are settings in game for unfitting automatically (by date) previously selected upgrades.

Last, the stock game uses just 2 or 3 basic antennas designs shared by most of the radars and RWR's portrayed in game, and several U-boat sensors which at some moment started being used by the German, are not featured in SH5. Keep me informed if you spot any of the said unaccurate/missing sensors, and I will model them and import them in game

Originally Posted by Raven_2012

It won't take long to change them in game file, hard part is gathering all the historical accurate dates or very close to them.

[Raven_2012]

I would need a list of all equipment used it game. Would the Equipment Upgrade chart be the best bet? Are all the equipment show on there, besides inaccuracy in dates? I would think so, except for the Deck Guns.

Originally Posted by gap

The British interragotion reports are also a good source, and they often give an idea of the actual value and usage made of each equipment.

While collecting information, keep in mind that some equipments started being tested aboard few selected boats, or they were pretty rare during their whole service anyway. This is when you might want to apply an high reward cost for them.

On the contrary, some others were considered as standard, and they should be available for free.

Moreover, a few equipments were forcedly retired from service (the deck gun, some radars/RWR receivers, etc.). I am not 100% sure about it, but I think there are settings in game for unfitting automatically (by date) previously selected upgrades.

Last, the stock game uses just 2 or 3 basic antennas designs shared by most of the radars and RWR's portrayed in game, and several U-boat sensors which at some moment started being used, are not featured in SH5. Keep me informed if you spot any of the said unaccurate/missing sensors, and I will model them and import them in game

[gap]

Originally Posted by Raven_2012

I would need a list of all equipment used it game. Would the Equipment Upgrade chart be the best bet? Are all the equipment show on there, besides inaccuracy in dates? I would think so, except for the Deck Guns.

I don't think that chart is complete. The best way to proceed, is getting EUF's UpgradePacks.upc file, and reviewing all the items featured in it, one by one. Let me know where you start from: I have good informations on some equipments

[Mikemike47]

I starting asking others if they had time to fix the upgrade pack related to dates starting here at post #165. I always thought the answer was in UpgradePacks.upc

While reading the The Beast's documentation in the Equip_Upgrade v1_4_Patch_1 ReadMe.txt, it states:
Adjusted data\Objects\Sensors\Coatings.sim
- Reorganized all Coatings in the Coatings.sim file to place them in Order that makes sense."

Are dates affected by this coatings.sim?