Campaign dates for Wolves of Steel

[maillemaker]

My reply was in relation to Steve's other thread on the same day where he implies that he does not want to do missions and campaigns but just to do his own thing not worrying about mission dates.
I do not know why he started a new thread and just continued with a new question on the other one from the 13th as they are both related threads.
Peter

Because no one could give a good answer to whether or not the game AI ships proceeded if you did not move from campaign to campaign, so I decided to try and stick with the campaign dates.

Steve

[vdr1981]

Originally Posted by maillemaker

Because no one could give a good answer to whether or not the game AI ships proceeded if you did not move from campaign to campaign, so I decided to try and stick with the campaign dates.

Steve

If you don't trigger campaign transfer on campaign chapter ending date, the war will continue for you but without any visible objectives, side missions and sea/air traffic characteristic only for early war period (1939/mid 1940)...
Campaign transfer can be a bit tricky to triggers but there are several tested ways to do so...All of them are linked in TWoS FAQ and Tips section...

[maillemaker]

the war will continue for you but without any visible objectives, side missions and sea/air traffic characteristic only for early war period (1939/mid 1940)...

So basically the war gets stuck at 1940 as far as targets of all kinds go?

Steve

[maillemaker]

Ok I ended my patrol on June 5, 1940, which means I was at sea a tthe endof the Coastal Waters Campaign on June 1, 1940, and now when I ask for mission orders we are still at Coastal Waters Campaign with no missions available to select.

Guess I have to go look at the Mama thing.

Steve

[maillemaker]

The WoS install page says:

- How can I pass from one campaign chapter to the next one? (IMPORTANT)
Campaign transfers in TWoS are date controlled. This means that, in order to trigger the campaign transfer, you will have to be ON PATROL when ending date of your current campaign chapter is reached, preferably somewhere at open sea without AI units in your vicinity. This is important so pay special attention not to skip this date due to badly timed docking...The end date of first "Coastal Waters" campaign is on 1st June 1940, "Happy Times" ends on 1st march 1941 ect. Check ending dates for other campaigns here.

Now, there is a catch... Due to certain broken aspects of SH5's launcher, there is a possibility that even upon reaching campaign chapter ending date, campaign transfer still may fail to initialize (your patrol just goes on without any visible objectives). In this case, you should load your previous gamesave (made before campaign chapter ending date) and use one of these two methods (this or this) to trigger campaign transfer correctly... For this method to work, the TDW patch which disables Uplay browser should be disabled (by default in TWoS). Note that Mama's solutions with TWoS can be necessary only when you expecting campaign transfer, on campaign chapter ending. Before that date, you can load your gamesaves with or without these tweaks, there will be no significant impact on campaign progress.

Can someone provide a link to detailed instructions on how to do this?

Steve

[vdr1981]

Can you be more specific? Which part exactly is unclear to you?

In this case, you should load your previous gamesave (made before campaign chapter ending date) and use one of these two methods (this or this) to trigger campaign transfer correctly...

Did you try to do this procedure?

[maillemaker]

Thanks, I did some searching and found those threads.

I did the Mama OSI priority fix, and it appeared to work. My mission did not end exactly on June 1, 1940, but like a day later the game abruptly ended, and showed all my objectives as "finished".

Then I was shown my awards, and then a splash screen saying the war continues.

Then I was presented with campaign selection, and I selected Happy Times, and then the game started in the bunker, with a fade in from black and then CTD.

I seem to get a CTD when selecting the Happy Times campaign as a new campaign using silentotto also.

These are the mods I am running:



I did go into the generic patcher and disabled the mod that makes you have to manually start charging the batteries.

Steve

[THEBERBSTER]

Hi Steve
I would suggest you use Vecko's work around which will guarantee you can move from Total Germany to Happy Times successfully.
It is easy to understand and importantly it works.
The Wolves Of Steel & OHII Single Player Campaign Progress – Workaround By vdr1981
Peter

[vdr1981]

Originally Posted by THEBERBSTER

Hi Steve
I would suggest you use Vecko's work around which will guarantee you can move from Total Germany to Happy Times successfully.
It is easy to understand and importantly it works.
The Wolves Of Steel & OHII Single Player Campaign Progress – Workaround By vdr1981
Peter

Yeah, that's one of the available otions...