[REL] Fall of the Rising Sun Ultimate, full release

[KaleunMarco]

Originally Posted by william"hawkeye"

I can't seem to download anything off of Subsim directly for whatever reason. is there another website that I can download this mod from?

and....another alternative is to d/l the Opera browser and use it.
Opera is very similar to Chrome without the tracking baggage of Chrome...and of course, no issue with d/l from Subsim.
i made the change a few months ago when i encountered the same difficulty as you.

[3catcircus]

I'm using Brave Browser on my phone and can download with no problem. On my desktop, firefox also works

[Macgregor the Hammer]

Originally Posted by 3catcircus

I'm using Brave Browser on my phone and can download with no problem. On my desktop, firefox also works

There's yet another very light weight browser out called Midori. I use it in Linux. It's ported for Windose. No frills, very low overhead and very little tracking. It's excellent for downloading. I do wish Subsim had an FTP site. That really streamline D/L's!

[Mad Mardigan]

Originally Posted by propbeanie

Found the culprit... some of the "angular" docks are problematic at best for placing the ships, so rather than waste time noodling and fiddling about with the difference between 91.337862 versus 90,998123 degrees for placement, the ship has been moved to a "straight" portion of the dock, set to 270.000000 degrees... lol - if it drifts into the dock still, we'll tack it up to an accident, or if the spring of 1942, Jimmie Doolittle, and in 1945, US carrier strikes or maybe Fluckey was at work... In between? why, weather, of course...



Copy that!

Little side note: We have made it through the Flotillas and PatrolObjectives files, found more issues (surprise surprise surprise)


... and still have a few more corrections to make there. If life does not get in the way, we should be able to finalize the files this weekend, given we don't find anymore surprises. Some of the finds are "historic", and after FotRSU, we might build a collection for Webster...

Ahoy, propbeanie, ol' chap... Roger that.!

1 side note... reloaded up the save, after giving the escorts the slip so as to make for home port... & I had the damage board lit up red... just about all the bow tubes damaged some & a pump, if I recall it right. nothing major, thankfully. No crew injuries or casualties, either... knock on wood. Put the damage crew to work on it & had everything ship shape in no time.

did make it known to another in the Dark Waters thread, that sometimes you can save with no reports of damages, only to load back up that save & have your damage control section screaming bloody murder about a crap ton of damages or, as in My case.. relatively minor damage reports...

This is a case of such being the case.

Any way.. am well on My way making for home port Brisbane.

Just out of curiosity, on return to Brisbane.. is it feasibly possible to put in for a transfer to Freemantle.? With being based there, is easier to get to the Philippines & the surrounding area quicker.. am hoping it is possible to do...

Have got some time, so I can hold off before making port to find out a definitive answer to that inquiry...

M. M.

[KaleunMarco]

Originally Posted by Mad Mardigan

Ahoy, propbeanie, ol' chap... Roger that.!

1 side note... reloaded up the save, after giving the escorts the slip so as to make for home port... & I had the damage board lit up red... just about all the bow tubes damaged some & a pump, if I recall it right. nothing major, thankfully. No crew injuries or casualties, either... knock on wood. Put the damage crew to work on it & had everything ship shape in no time.

did make it known to another in the Dark Waters thread, that sometimes you can save with no reports of damages, only to load back up that save & have your damage control section screaming bloody murder about a crap ton of damages or, as in My case.. relatively minor damage reports...

This is a case of such being the case.

Any way.. am well on My way making for home port Brisbane.

Just out of curiosity, on return to Brisbane.. is it feasibly possible to put in for a transfer to Freemantle.? With being based there, is easier to get to the Philippines & the surrounding area quicker.. am hoping it is possible to do...

Have got some time, so I can hold off before making port to find out a definitive answer to that inquiry...

M. M.

probably.
possibly.
it depends on the boat you are driving.
early in the war, some boats are restricted to certain home bases.
in any case, you have to make port and dock before you can transfer to another eligible base.

[Mad Mardigan]

Originally Posted by KaleunMarco

probably.
possibly.
it depends on the boat you are driving.
early in the war, some boats are restricted to certain home bases.
in any case, you have to make port and dock before you can transfer to another eligible base.

Gato... am gonna hold on to it for a while.. think Balao is the next sub up for offering, if I recall that info rightly.. with the Tench, after that...

Is close to mid '43 for Me now...

M. M.

[KaleunMarco]

Originally Posted by Mad Mardigan

Gato... am gonna hold on to it for a while.. think Balao is the next sub up for offering, if I recall that info rightly.. with the Tench, after that...

Is close to mid '43 for Me now...

M. M.

you should be able to transfer to the "Asiatic" squadron once you make port in Brisbane. my FOTRSU PC is unavailable at this time and so i cannot verify this but i think you will be able to transfer toFremantle/Perth in a Gato mid-43.

[propbeanie]

Originally Posted by Mad Mardigan

Ahoy, propbeanie, ol' chap... Roger that.!

1 side note... reloaded up the save, after giving the escorts the slip so as to make for home port... & I had the damage board lit up red... just about all the bow tubes damaged some & a pump, if I recall it right. nothing major, thankfully. No crew injuries or casualties, either... knock on wood. Put the damage crew to work on it & had everything ship shape in no time.

did make it known to another in the Dark Waters thread, that sometimes you can save with no reports of damages, only to load back up that save & have your damage control section screaming bloody murder about a crap ton of damages or, as in My case.. relatively minor damage reports...

This is a case of such being the case.

Any way.. am well on My way making for home port Brisbane.

Just out of curiosity, on return to Brisbane.. is it feasibly possible to put in for a transfer to Freemantle.? With being based there, is easier to get to the Philippines & the surrounding area quicker.. am hoping it is possible to do...

Have got some time, so I can hold off before making port to find out a definitive answer to that inquiry...

M. M.

Originally Posted by KaleunMarco

you should be able to transfer to the "Asiatic" squadron once you make port in Brisbane. my FOTRSU PC is unavailable at this time and so i cannot verify this but i think you will be able to transfer toFremantle/Perth in a Gato mid-43.

I also do not have v1.39 available on this computer, but I just so happen to have my mitts on the next iteration of the mod, which has minimal boat date changes, and the Gato is indeed available at Fremantle from July 1942 to the end, so a transfer there should be possible.

As to issues when loading a Saved game - it can get rather wonky when reloading a Save, especially if you have been listening to the shortwave radio and / or been into or near an anti-submarine net and / or taken damage and / or recently fired your deck gun or shot a torpedo. You can often have a cacophony of sounds going off on the re-load. The whole thing should square itself within a matter of a couple of minutes, but that is what the stock game does, so it has something to do with the "buffers" the game uses. I think it is related to the same thing as what happens when it re-sets the "clock" in the game, for damage sustained, but not yet repaired, in that the game will take you back to the moment it happened, instead of from where you were when Saving the game. The weather does the same thing. High Time Compression will compound all of that, which was one reason FotRSU was restricted to 1024x for a few versions. But then we thought, "we're not the TC police..." and put it up to 4096x again... No further though. If you want more, edit the files yourself. We are considering going back to 2048x, which is a good compromise... more later though. Fingers crossed for a good test period.

[Mad Mardigan]

Originally Posted by KaleunMarco

you should be able to transfer to the "Asiatic" squadron once you make port in Brisbane. my FOTRSU PC is unavailable at this time and so i cannot verify this but i think you will be able to transfer toFremantle/Perth in a Gato mid-43.

Originally Posted by propbeanie

I also do not have v1.39 available on this computer, but I just so happen to have my mitts on the next iteration of the mod, which has minimal boat date changes, and the Gato is indeed available at Fremantle from July 1942 to the end, so a transfer there should be possible.

Ahoy, KaleunMarco... propbeanie...

Made port & after getting into the office, went to see of doing a Transfer... & No dice.! There was a Transfer Option, but it weren't Freemantle on the options menu for Transfers.

T'was only Pearl or bust.! only...

Which, was not something I'd want to do... I already left Pearl so as to be closer to the front... I don't want to do the 2 steps back shuffle off to Buffalo dance routine...

Am off on patrol 9, & will see of doing that patrol and check to see if Freemantle comes up as an option for a transfer when I get back into port once more.

Midway & Tulagi, were in the page, but were non clickable... which, as I understand it.. I'd maybe want to avoid a trans to Tulagi...

Just to be clear, Pearl, Midway, Freemantle, Brisbane.. I know of, are safe trans points... any others I can add to that list, propbeanie..???

M. M.

[propbeanie]

I am at the other computer, and in v1.39, Fremantle has the Gato on 1st July, 1943. So either I mis-read the year on the other computer yesterday, or it was changed from the next version... either way, a sign of oldmanitis... - If a choice is on the list after clicking on the phone, after you click on the name, it should "bold" and show focus for a possible transfer. Were you not able to click on the bases showing on the list? There are certain timeframes where it is indeed possible to thread yourself through the Advance Bases with some of the boats, but it is a rather complicated spiderweb, with landmines liberally planted throughout, so it is best to not attempt, unless you spreadsheet the flotillas, and make a plan prior to your first move. We are attempting to have said documentation with this next release, so that a person can decide beforehand how "historical" they want to be. Some of the Advance Bases will transfer their boats, others won't, and most of the "normal" bases will not transfer automatically either, leaving the player's options open, hopefully. No one wants to transfer to a dead-end location, nor have a CTD absolutely ruin their immersion...

[Mad Mardigan]

Originally Posted by propbeanie

I am at the other computer, and in v1.39, Fremantle has the Gato on 1st July, 1943. So either I mis-read the year on the other computer yesterday, or it was changed from the next version... either way, a sign of oldmanitis... - If a choice is on the list after clicking on the phone, after you click on the name, it should "bold" and show focus for a possible transfer. Were you not able to click on the bases showing on the list? There are certain timeframes where it is indeed possible to thread yourself through the Advance Bases with some of the boats, but it is a rather complicated spiderweb, with landmines liberally planted throughout, so it is best to not attempt, unless you spreadsheet the flotillas, and make a plan prior to your first move. We are attempting to have said documentation with this next release, so that a person can decide beforehand how "historical" they want to be. Some of the Advance Bases will transfer their boats, others won't, and most of the "normal" bases will not transfer automatically either, leaving the player's options open, hopefully. No one wants to transfer to a dead-end location, nor have a CTD absolutely ruin their immersion...

Ahoy, propbeanie..

Ok, so Freemantle is a viable option to transfer to in a Gato... just NOT until July.. if I am understanding that correctly... If that is correct, then I got a wee bit of a wait, then. Is like April, right now of '43, in game. I count mid year being the middle 4 months.

When I clicked on the phone when I was in base (before heading out on My 9th patrol.. ) the ONLY locality, that was open to do a Transfer to, was Pearl. It was noticeably clickable. Midway & Tulagi, were not, were duller & not noticeable as to being able to be selected.. at all. Could see them but no indication that I could click on them to select doing a transfer there...

At this rate, am going to hold on to the Gato... for a good while, & just bide the time til I can then see of doing a transit back to Freemantle as My base...

Will see of maybe taking a Balao as a new boat, in early on '44... that is, if I don't get blasted to kingdom come in the meantime... or I get the heave ho by Command, to a desk job or training post... or drummed out due to PTSD...

M. M.



p.s

Will look forward to that documentation, so as to be able to historically plot out base transfers & hopefully the snafu's being squashed... not causing issues like was faced by... (dang, know who it was, just can't recall the name.. but any who..) with the Tulagi> forward base from there incident.. confirmed by Me & KaleunMarco...

[3catcircus]

Couple of questions - I'm not all that familiar with FotRSU's specific modifications.

Wondering if the SCAF mod is incorporated (or needed) or if the OTC mod could be incorporated (or needed).

[propbeanie]

SCAF was basically a pre-cursor to OTC, with OTC being a full-blown fix for accurate targeting. What FotRSU does have though, is all of CapnScurvy's optics from OTC, so what you see on the bridge, in the binoculars and in the periscopes, are all relatively accurate renderings of what you should see. They are all "balanced", in other words, such that they will look the same at 1000 yards in any view you might choose. Compare his imaging in the OTC release thread for the mod with what FotRSU has, and you will see that he brought all of that into FotRSU. It was going to be in his "Day of Infamy" mod (a lot of his pix are lost to PhotoBucket), but brought all of that with him when he joined the team, including the Kamikaze and Okha suicide bombers that a player can be rudely introduced to in late 1944 if you are not careful from Luzon Straits on north, or anywhere near an airbase. We keep hoping that CapnScurvy will one day take a "short" break from his automobile restoration project (maybe when it gets too hot outside this summer hint-hint) and make an FotRSU-compatible OTC, and maybe even an in-between mod with at least his range input wheel and ship length added to the RecMan, but that for now, is his baby. There are too many aspects of the mod yet to do that are "basic" for what the vision for this mod originally was, to attempt to make an FotRSU version of his mod, even if we did have his permission, which I'm certain he would grant. For now though, we're thankful for what we do have of CapnScurvy's modifications, which just makes FotRSU that much more "Ultimate".

[KaleunMarco]

this is a narrative and not a criticism.

November 1944. We shoved off from Saipan just after Thanksgiving.
Sailed to the ECS to patrol.
while doing nothing in particular, we picked up a cargo ship being escorted by one DD/DE. we made decent speed and caught up to her from behind, manned the guns and blew her to kingdom-come.
as the escort began to come about, we pumped a few shells into her and bam, she went up like a Roman Candle. unfortunately, approx one second later, SH4 also blew up like a Roman Candle.
so frustrating.

[propbeanie]

Did you ID the ships?