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05-08-18, 09:07 AM | #5941 |
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Report for Propbeanie
New Career out of Midway as of 12/8/41; USS Grayback (SS-208) Gar class, 75% realism:
1. In port at Midway as of 10/05/1942: 2. Five patrols; 239,504 tons of shipping and a couple of escorts; 3. Finally offered a surface radar (SJ-1 Improved); I was expecting a surface radar set after the third patrol, ending in Mid-July 1942; 4. Surprised there was no offer for a new boat after five successful patrols. (sigh). 5. Preparing to go out on sixth patrol. End Report. EDIT: After completing sixth patrol received offer made (and accepted) for USS Balao, apparently already at Midway, as the base did not change. Date of transfer appears to be 11/20/42 according to the Office calendar. Strange that the brand new boat only had the older SJ Radar, whereas my previous command had been upgraded to the SJ-1 Improved after the fifth patrol in that vessel. No other anomalies detected so far. End Edited Report.
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05-08-18, 09:23 AM | #5942 | |
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Thank You
Before we get too far along, I'd like to express our gratitude to those modders that have recently given us permission to use their work. On behalf of propbeanie, s7rikeback, cdrsubron7, Rockin Robbins, XTBilly, max-peck and myself, I'd like to say THANK YOU for allowing us to use your work in the coming version:
ZUIKAKU1944 noshiro Sergbuto JU_88 Jeff Groves (Privateer) Keltos01 AOTD_MadMax DarkFish Hitman ETR(3)SS Florida Sailor Without a doubt there are other contributors that, knowingly or not, have contributed to the project.......Ducimus, lurker_hlb3, vickers03, jimimadrid, Nisgeis, aanker, sober, fred8615....... As you can see, there's more than just a few involved that have given inspiration, ideas, solutions to issues, that have been used in the mod to get us this far. I'm sorry to say, there are many more that have provided "insight" into correcting the Stock game that I've missed not giving credit. An example would be someone's post that points to a "possible problem/solution", that was further expanded into action taken to correct. It's really a Community effort when it comes down to it! I fully expect someone to come along in the future expanding what we've explored, to further take the game beyond our efforts......and that's a good thing! Again....Thank you!! ======== One other note, we're not done yet!! There's still work to be done, but we're happy to keep the "ball rolling" with the next Beta.
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05-08-18, 12:09 PM | #5943 |
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Smoke on the horizon!!!!!
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05-08-18, 10:30 PM | #5944 | |
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Hopefully, it's a ship, and not our sub with an electrical fire...
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05-09-18, 05:15 AM | #5945 | |
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http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...+tower+upgrade
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05-09-18, 06:40 AM | #5946 |
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That is one of the threads...
I did just find the other: Of refits, new commands, rank, and retirements specifically Post #10 Finding a "balance" with all that info will be the "fun" part of all of our future "testing"... ahem... ~Lots~ of testing... |
05-09-18, 07:17 AM | #5947 | |
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To clarify, following that sixth patrol in the GAR, I went direct from that boat to the Balao, bypassing the GATO entirely. Another small surprise was that usually when offered a Balao class you have to pick it up at Mare Island/Treasure Island. Not so this time. It was delivered to me at Midway!
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05-09-18, 08:01 AM | #5948 | |
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Regarding this Balao upgrade prior to its intended actual game appearance (it's not supposed to be present until early 1943)!
Propbeanie is right that it takes a lot of testing.......long wait times to load the game, play a test mission, calculate results, unload the game etc., etc. We've made changes for the yet to be released Beta version. BUT, when we do release the upcoming version we will have all of you to help in trying it and giving feedback!! This is where the "rubber really meets the road", when the community puts the mod thru its trials and we see what shakes out?? As I said, we've made significant changes to this upgrade issue, only time will tell how well we've done?
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05-24-18, 06:39 AM | #5950 |
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A bit late but we're coming up on a release here after I get four okays from the team. Lots of juicy changes coming up! I think you'll like it.
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05-24-18, 06:49 AM | #5951 |
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And it isn't Christmas eve!! Thank you team!!!
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05-25-18, 01:21 AM | #5952 |
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Cool, will have to give it another try.
Drivers have improved so maybe I won't get lag in the tower like I did. Barracuda |
05-25-18, 03:29 AM | #5953 | |
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A small anomoly
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Patrolling in Davao Strait on 4/11/44 (16:37 Base Time) at approximately 126-0E, 05-58N, Balao encountered a large group of troop ships headed by a Hatsuharu class Destroyer and trailed by two other escorts. The Hatsuharu destroyer was all black, except for highlighted turrets. Probably not the game's fault, but the Hatsuharu made a run at me that I evaded with minor damage, and since I was at periscope depth and he was now behind me, we prepared to fire a stern torpedo as he reached effective range (about 400 yards). As I raised the scope the game crashed, freezing my whole system. I had to reboot. It could have been a hundred different reasons, but it was the first time a game crash has taken down the whole system. I was able to reload a previous saved game, find the same convoy (Hatsuharu still had that black skin, and this time took it out with a down the throat shot at 600 yards. No crash. No freeze. Probably something in my system or environment. Anyway, this post is just in case you hadn't see this skin before.
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05-25-18, 06:41 AM | #5954 |
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The Hatsuharu again... - and Davao Gulf again...
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05-25-18, 08:19 AM | #5955 | |
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To chime in about the Hatsuharu, this "skin" issue is one we worked on some time ago. Our efforts have yet to be released, but soon will with the next version of the Beta. Sooooooo, let's cross our fingers, and expect the thing is "fixed" in the future version.
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