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11-15-08, 11:30 PM | #1 |
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time to revisit SH2!?
I've been away from subsim for sometime and catching the bug to go back on patrol. Funny thing is I am thinking of setting up my old system again to play SH2 rather than SH3 on my current PC. Eventhough SH3 has many great things going for it, I think I really miss the old game! I spent so much time modding SH2, it got to a point where I could never finish a mission because i would stop mid game to change/improve something. Those damn sounds were never just right :rotfl: The manual targetting in SH3 was all wrong for a U Boot and I never could find away to deal with the crew management in a way that seemed right. Anyway, Hi again to all the old guard still tinkering away with this game.
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11-16-08, 06:03 AM | #2 |
Pacific Aces Dev Team
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Hi Lafee, long not seen you
Yeah, SH2 was nearly a vice of his own If it had the old AOD gameplay, I would still play it today even despite the old graphics.
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11-16-08, 10:58 PM | #3 |
Chief
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Hi Hitman, it has been a long time! One could almost say the graphics were outdated when it was released
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11-17-08, 04:21 PM | #4 |
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I have to get SHII off my brother.
My rig would probably play SHIII but with Starforce I won't risk it. If I put SHII back on my PC what are the mods that I need? I think I still have the fix that Neal paid for. |
11-22-08, 01:36 PM | #5 |
Weps
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Want to play with SH2? Here's two single-player campaigns you can join. Both utilize monthly-issued historical missions.
Join the third rendition of The Atlantik Kampaign. Register for the forum at http://s2.invisionfree.com/Atlantik_Campaign We also use SH2 together with Pacific Aces for our monthly "Pacific Aces" campaign. http://z4.invisionfree.com/PacificWo...ex.php?act=idx
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11-29-08, 07:44 AM | #6 |
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That's cool but what upgrades user mods are best for SHII?
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11-30-08, 12:09 PM | #7 |
Chief
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the mods list is extensive! I think the hard part will actually be tracking them down. I suggest going to the archives and finding the SH2/classic sub games thread and do a search there for the mod lists. I will try to compile a list for as well but no time to do it today.
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11-30-08, 03:04 PM | #8 |
Pacific Aces Dev Team
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LIST OF ESSENTIALS (Many more things are available, but this is minimum specs to make SH2 rock enough )
Graphics: 1024 res from subsim plus fixes (Service pack) Any good watermod Vickers Torpedo slicks plus fireball add-on Many good interface mods out there, I heartly recommend: Darkstream's translucent pannels, Bergen Paints Menus, all of Jiim's mods, etc. Sound: Projekt Swordfish Gameplay: Fletcher's Mod or CB's DesV5 Mod Campaigns & Missions Floater's Kriegstanz Subsim's 2nd Kampaign Rossbach's Artic campaign generator Aces Kampaign V2
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11-30-08, 04:17 PM | #9 |
Navy Seal
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What about Project Messerwetzer or whatever? Is that the thing Neal paid for?
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12-01-08, 08:06 AM | #10 |
Pacific Aces Dev Team
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Theoretically it is only required for multiplayer. In single player it fixes also some issues and gives you manual control of diving planes, so I guess it should be added to the list
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12-08-08, 01:45 PM | #11 |
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I really liked SH2/PA, but there was one show stopper issue for me. You cannot save/reload, since it breaks the AI.
So, aside from completing one patrol in single playing, what do you do about this? I had a solution on my old machine. It went like this. I had a separate SH2/PA Win XP partition. It was a clone of my main system partition, but I did not maintain it. Whenever I had enough of a patrol, I would flip back to the desktop and hibernate. When I rebooted my SH2/PA partition, the game session would once again be running and I could continue without the AI going brain dead. Although the above solution works, I consider it to be too much trouble when I can choose between AOD, SHCE, and SH3/GWX. SH2's AI was on par with SH3's in terms of being unimpressive. I still prefer AOD for superior game play. --- Manual dive planes. I gave up using that. It was so incredibly effective it felt like cheating. You could take the boat down or up at a staggering rate.
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12-08-08, 05:52 PM | #12 |
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I got tired of scripted missions after one time through. I'll take SH3 or AOD for a real career any day.
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12-08-08, 07:35 PM | #13 |
Ace of the Deep
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That was the brilliance of Kriegstanz and PA.
They generated what would have effectively been a rather static campaign for SH2 each time you played a campaign. However, since each generated campaign was different from the last ... they effectively achieved a dynamic campaign using a static/linear game engine. It was truly brilliant. I was really impressed.
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12-10-08, 12:08 AM | #14 |
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Funny thing that you guys opened thread about SHII, because I just installed it and I am having troubles running it under WinXP/SP3.
Is there some sort of guide or tricks how to install and run it?
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12-10-08, 07:06 AM | #15 |
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Hi,
I'm thinking of buying shii. Surfing around I discover 2 versions of SHII: The classic version and..... and this version.... Can somebody tell me what the differnces are/ Thanks.
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