New to SH5!

[ouPhrontis]

It seems daunting at first, but in my opinion; much of the complexities of say the tools for aiding with trigonometry et al; they're more at home in the classroom; as the angriffsscheibe, AoB tools etc are great, but you can still get by making best-guesstimates. I still love that they exist though, point being that you can get stuck in and have success without knowing how they work, but it helps.

The parts that affect game-play which I enable in JSGME are;

Encrypted BdU Orders
Real Nav'

This means that I need to decrypt occasional BdU messages (not all, but I'm working on that), also I will not receive map position updates (for anything), I either have to do the navigation myself (Dead-reckoning, Celestial Navigation, known point triangulation, etc), or rely on the Bootsmann to give me good fixes (he makes mistakes, especially if it's only DR upon DR).

I'm not aware of any quick guides for it overall, F1 gets you the controls list, the TDC functions as one would expect from most other SHs.

I've gone a slight step further and had the HUD hidden until I need it, but that's not necessary.

[Javigato]

Thank you! I will certainly try those that you mention, the Real Nav sounds really really interesting, I just don't think I am yet ready for it when I barely can get out of port


The TWOS strong suggestion to manually save when you get in the bunker when starting a campaign, is it before or after receiving the orders and accepting the mission? Or before I even ask the gentleman about any orders?



I also saw in some videos for that first mission in the campaign if you report the contacts they do get attack by planes and a task force... do I need to report hourly, just once and how long until friendlies appear?


Thanks!

[Fifi]

Welcome to SH5

- you need to save as soon in bunker, then exit and reload.

- just report once should make it

[Javigato]

Well... crap! I spent a few days trying out the historical missions to get familiar and stuff. Yesterday I was ready to start the campaign, so excited. I get home from work and fire it up... after the Ubisoft loud splash screen, boom the computer shuts down. Ok, just a fluke, tried again, shut down, I panic. So, I uninstall everything, clean the registry and reinstall SH5, plus patch and start it again (no TWOS) it blows up again.



I am thinking windows must have pushed an update or something that makes the game not run... or maybe a graphic card driver update? I saw here to try compatibility mode (windows 7) and disabling the "Display Scaling On High DPI Settings", but no matter what the whole thing crashes and restarts the laptop


Any ideas guys? Its a windows 10 with AMD card in case the info helps... hopefully I can get it to work again...



Thank you!!

[ouPhrontis]

Is it a graceful shutdown/restart, i.e. it warns you, or does it just turn off without ceremony? Because if it's the latter it could be overheating and need a blasting out with compressed air.

My install is on Win 7 64, via Steam and I don't see anything from Ubi, just the TWoS screen etc, so this could be a Win 10 related problem.

I see comments about running the game as admin, too, for me it prompts me each time.

[Fifi]

I always play with Uplay & Steam off line

[Javigato]

No ceremony and no warning, it just restarts. I don't think is a Uplay problem because the ubisoft splash screen comes up and completes. Last night when my original install had TWOS it blew up when that screen was loading (black screen after Ubisoft's and then instead of the TWOS loading screen it would just restart). When I had just SH5/patch, after the ubisoft screen finishes, the intro video starts, and finishes then black screen and restart. So annoying... I suspect some sort of windows update that happened sometime yesterday (since it worked fine the night before). UGH!