[REL] Real Fleet Boat 1.12 is here

[Camaero]

Thanks for your work Beery! You are responsible for making some of my favorite games even more amazing. From your B17 2 mod, to RuB, and now this.

[Gammel]

Thx very much for that PTM update!

[rulle34]

Great work and thank´s to you and your team

[hmatthias]

Beery, the mod is great, and I am really enjoying it. I do have a few quick questions though.

1. Where did the range at current speed and range to end hotkeys go? I noticed that Ctrl-G and shift-G do nothing now, and they did in the last version.

2. I am trying an Alutians Island tour, just to see what missions I get. I got assigned to patrol around Kodiak Island, AK. Was there Japanese presence there? Will I find any ships to sink there, or will I just patrol for a while and find nothing? Just curious if the campaign layers have been changed to increase traffic. If this is a "secret", then don't worry avbout answering this one!

Thanks again for your great mod!

[WWSandMan]

From the other RFB mod thread :

(Beery wrote to SandMan) Use JSGME to remove #1 and then install the latest one ....

Thanks for the info, and the updated version.

[Beery]

Originally Posted by hmatthias

Beery, the mod is great, and I am really enjoying it. I do have a few quick questions though.

1. Where did the range at current speed and range to end hotkeys go? I noticed that Ctrl-G and shift-G do nothing now, and they did in the last version.

I haven't touched them. I have no idea what might have removed these hotkeys. Were you running any other mods before installing the latest version of RFB? CCIP's UI mod perhaps? If so, that would explain it, as RFB conflicts with that mod and will remove all of its functionality.

2. I am trying an Alutians Island tour, just to see what missions I get. I got assigned to patrol around Kodiak Island, AK. Was there Japanese presence there? Will I find any ships to sink there, or will I just patrol for a while and find nothing? Just curious if the campaign layers have been changed to increase traffic. If this is a "secret", then don't worry avbout answering this one!

There was never a Japanese presence around Kodiak Island, but boats were sent out there in 1942. The Aleutians campaign is really there for the hardest-core of the hardcore realism fans and roleplayers who want to see how a career in the Aleutians really was. As the mod gets more mature we will be putting in some actual Japanese traffic, but it won't be much (and none anywhere near Kodiak Island), and a player who plays an Aleutian career will find that it's hugely less rewarding than any other campaign.

Aleutian campaign players will be simulating a career spent in what amounts to a backwater of WW2. There will be no glory here - only a harsh job in the toughest of environments. 1000 tons of enemy shipping here is about the equivalent of 50,000 tons elsewhere. I'd say 99% of players will hate it and want to transfer ASAP, which is probably how the real commanders there felt, but unlike us they didn't have the ability to transfer at will. The Aleutian campaign will be a real test of a player's endurance.

[W_clear]

I can't download it .

[Gizzmoe]

Originally Posted by W_clear

I can't download it .

Why not? What happens?

[W_clear]

I can not open http://www.beerymod.com/SH4/RFB112.7z

Could you upload MOD to http://manage.hosted.filefront.com/ place? ====THANKS

[Max Peck]

Perhaps a dumb question, but I cannot get the options for the realism to change before starting a career. I change the options in the menu, then go to start a career and the realism setting is back. I like what the mod does, I just prefer to not have to manually figure out the TDC stuff, I also like having the event camera on.

[Gizzmoe]

Originally Posted by W_clear

Could you upload MOD to http://manage.hosted.filefront.com/ place? ====THANKS

Ok, here it is:
http://files.filefront.com/RFB1127z/.../fileinfo.html

[W_clear]

You are very kinds.Thanks a lot.

[hmatthias]

Thanks for your help, Beery. I had a feeling the Alusian campaign was like this. As for the hotkeys, I'll sort this myself, just wanted to make sure I didn't do anything wrong. I did get the hotkey update, so that is probably where my problem lies.

[Beery]

Originally Posted by hmatthias

Thanks for your help, Beery. I had a feeling the Alusian campaign was like this. As for the hotkeys, I'll sort this myself, just wanted to make sure I didn't do anything wrong. I did get the hotkey update, so that is probably where my problem lies.

You'll probably want to re-install the hotkey mod over RFB. I'll probably add those hotkeys into RFB too, but I missed them when I was looking at stuff to put in the commands.cfg file. I wanted to avoid doing a whole change back to SH3's hotkey system because I felt that a lot of players might be coming to SH4 as their first sub sim and it would be confusing if the keyboard cheat sheet thingy didn't match up.

[Beery]

Originally Posted by Max Peck

Perhaps a dumb question, but I cannot get the options for the realism to change before starting a career. I change the options in the menu, then go to start a career and the realism setting is back. I like what the mod does, I just prefer to not have to manually figure out the TDC stuff, I also like having the event camera on.

The inability to change realism settings and have them stick for a career is a problem with the standard game, which is one of the reasons I changed all settings to suit full realism (minus the free camera)

There's a very easy way to set all the settings so that it never changes on you:

Go to the Data\Cfg\Gameplaysettings.cfg file. Open it up in any text editor (Wordpad works) and edit the 'Easy', 'Normal', 'hard' and 'realistic' settings until they all conform to your preference. Save this file, then save a copy of it outside the game so that you can always install it later. Then when you go into the game your preferences are always the same even if the game tries to trick you into a lower or higher setting.