[REL] War Ace Campaign (WAC) 5.0 2017

[MG Mike]

Hello Han,

Would be lovely if you could fix that. It is my favorite way to "walk" on deck or climb down again.. And i like the function with the 0 button. Stand in front of the periscope occular, click on it to watch and hit the 0 to go back where i was before.. It inforces the feeling to move real through the boat.

With all the other mods that wac 5.0 contains SH3 is going to bee perfect..

Is the usage of a widescreenmod in combination with full interiors that critical???
Perhaps i will try it and look what will happen..

A question concerning the diesel engine sound.. In type II and VII allmost not noticeable.. In type IX ultra loud. Well the diesels are directly after commandroom, i know, but when i go in the other boats in engineering room there must be a loud diesel too, or not?

[ericlea]

sounds are not the best of wac5.0

try this mod : https://www.dropbox.com/s/c3myq46vh3...20WAC5.7z?dl=0

it is top !

(all sounds in this mod are from SH3_GWX3.0_REWORKED_RUS + Sound 1.03 from Poul)

[Howitzer]

This looks pretty awesome, thanks to everyone who put this together!

[Diddigsb]

Heftig, Thx.

[schlechter pfennig]

Couple of quick questions:

1) Is Stiebler's Stiebler4B Addons for V16B1 compatible?

2) The Kiel canal outbound and inbound courses do not seem to work.

3) Is there a way of changing the "ship spotted" voice? (I find it irritating and annoying)

4) The course compass only shows true; is there an option to show relative? (i.e. if I'm headed dead East, and want to go North, true is 0 degrees, and relative is 270)

Thanks!

[schlechter pfennig]

I've been playing GWX for years, and honestly love it. However, it has one serious flaw for me: I cannot save a game and reload it; it constantly CTD if I try and load a saved game. Considering I usually play a max TC of 128, a single patrol can sometimes take me several real-time weeks to run. I sometimes (rarely, admittedly) get a CTD or freeze during a patrol, and sometimes a BSoD when I try and sleep or hibernate the PC, so losing a 8-12 day long patrol due to an inability to save and load a game has, frankly, made GWX unplayable/unenjoyable to me now.

I've heard that WAC is a good variant, so I've decided to try it. So far it seems pretty positive. Love the exquisite graphics! Here are some observations/feedback I have:

1) It takes forever getting in and out of harbors/ports, or near them. Unless I decide to change the default TC, I'm stuck at 8x for a very long time getting out to sea.

2) I keep getting a repetitive "No officer at helm station" even when there is an officer there.

3) Sound/voices aren't a consistent volume: some sounds are low, others are screechingly high. (I'm not talking about "panicked" voices, as those are going to be louder)

4) I would like to be able to "lock" the interface so that it remains displayed.

5) There seems to be a minor mismatch on the graphics of the interface; sometimes when I click on a "command" the messages just above move instead. As well, it is a copper-plated b*tch to scroll through the messages; I can't just click to display the last one, instead I have to select a new command to have the messages reset to the latest one.

6) More of a FYI: in a Type VII, the helm officer's position sometimes has him stand with a pole through him, other times his left foot is in a box of food (As I said, this is an FYI; I understand the difficulties in working with the animations).

7) No ability (that I can see) to easily set a course based relative to the boat as compared to compass true. (For instance, if I want to set course 36 degrees relative to my current course).

8) No ability (that I can see) to quickly return to center bridge view/position.

9) No shortcut to UZO view.

10) Seem unable to enter the conning tower any more.

11) Extremely difficult to see flags and identify them, even in clear weather. At 1,000 meters using binoculars, UZO and/or 10x attack periscope, I cannot identify flags.

This is my current mod setup:

WarAceCampaign 5.0
WAC5.0 Campaign_Atlantic_Baltic
WarAceCampaign 5.0 Patch_5.01
WAC5.0 Full_Interior
WAC5.01 H.sie Supplement to V16B1_Atlantic_Baltic_Campaign
O2-Gauges v2
torpedo trail and wake fix
SH3 patched with H.sie V16B1

[HanSolo78]

@schlechter_pfennig

Thx for your feedback and observations so far.
Some things I am aware of.

-Harbours are very big sind detailed in WAC
It could be made a 'start at sea' add in for some (all) harbours.

-never got that message, wondering a Bit

-About the voices and their difference I know
I have never been an audio ace in SH3.
There is this Addon which might please you:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/c3myq46vh3...20WAC5.7z?dl=0

-Locking the GUI ist also possible using stock GUI and getting old usage behaviour back: https://www.mediafire.com/file/k0qnq...ock_SH3_GUI.7z

-the wrong posititioned helms man who stands in the pole in interior is a known bug.

-to return to central bridge position F4 should work.

-UZO by key command is disabled in WAC5.0

-going into conning ist broken with full interiors
Maybe command_en or der from Manos GUI will fix

-maybe the new flag animations are responsible for the bad view?

[schlechter pfennig]

If I start a new career in August/September 1939, it's smooth sailing. But as time progresses I start getting more and more CTDs, until by September 1940 I can't leave Wilhelmshaven without a CTD (either during loading, or within kilometers of leaving the harbor locks).

This is my current mod setup:

Sh3Weather
Sh3Commander
WarAceCampaign 5.0
WAC5.0 Campaign_Atlantic_Baltic
WarAceCampaign 5.0 Patch_5.01
WAC5.0 Full_Interior
WAC5.01 H.sie Supplement to V16B1_Atlantic_Baltic_Campaign (with all of the options selected for h.sie's hardfix except Wolfpk less contact reports)
O2-Gauges v2
torpedo trail and wake fix
WAC_5.01_WhaleChaser_Fix
Visible Flags_moderate
Zones Config
Dials scroll speed
Auto Plot Kiel Canal WAC5
damage texture 1.0
no officer at helm station fix
Gameplay Settings Realism Adjustment

After (literally) several days of experimenting, the most likely culprit seems to be the WAC5.0 Campaign_Atlantic_Baltic mod. If I do not have that enabled I'm able to create a new career in October 1940 (Type IXB, 2nd Flotilla, Wilhelmshaven) and successfully travel several days without a CTD.

My current system specs are:

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3820 CPU @ 3.60GHz, 3601 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
Installed Physical Memory (RAM): 16.0 GB
Adapter Description: AMD Radeon (TM) R7 370 Series
Adapter RAM: 4096 Mbytes

Any advice/suggestions would be appreciated.

Danke!


Update: I also experience CTDs at times simply pressing F5 (nav map), F7 (crew/station window), or shift-U (mount UZO). For instance, I'm just passing through the outer lock doors and press F5 to examine the map, and the game CTD.

[HanSolo78]

@Schlechter_Pfennig

Try without Full Interiors! I suspect them responsible for random CTD.

[zeus]

Hello
I installed the war ace campaign 5.2 and noticed that there are not changes Wheater. I have sailed from Germán port and now In the north of England and I do not change the wheater

Is this normal?

[Fifi]

Originally Posted by zeus

Hello
I installed the war ace campaign 5.2 and noticed that there are not changes Wheater. I have sailed from Germán port and now In the north of England and I do not change the wheater

Is this normal?

For weather, best is to patch with H.sie (without the weather fix checked) and activate Stiebler Env Sim Act 10 last on Jsgme.
Best weather ever finded for me

[zeus]

is it possible to patch the two patches?

I mean the 4gb patch and Hie

I tried and I get a message of incompatibility with .exe

[mikey117us]

Patch hsie first, next apply 4gb patch. Always have
A stock SH3.exe stored as a backup. I usually rename it _SH3.exe, or
-SH3.exe

[U-190]

[ivanov.ruslan]