Modders on their way to immediately made a better and more stable game mod than the devs have managed for the main game in the past however many years its been out

Haven't touched the game since post launch. Everything in here has me excited to give this a go. Not that I was opposed to mines and subs, they just were poorly implemented in my opinion. Thank you for the hard work

Pretty sure I've figured out why the AI is running away, I left a post in the patch feedback thread on the games labs forums. Anyways, long story short, I'm 99% sure it's down all down to the range of the player's ship cannons, hence why early campaign the AI will practically brawl with you. Still not possible to fix without access/understanding to the AI logic as it's shown in the game files.

These changes sound really great. Gonna try it right away.

Having tried this out, yeah, this has reinvigorated the game for me. It feels way more stable and better put together. It feels like a *game.* My one complaint is that torpedoes still seem a little finnicky.

love this idea! everything you did makes sense to me, especially the ship-building stuff. for me, building the ship is the most fun and you making balance easier is a great idea! couple of ideas/suggestions for the future: make it optional for obsolete designs staying around optional for the player. I understand that may be impossible since the AI would keep using obsolete as well. make subs optional? I do find them annoying but seems realistic. make mines optional? same reason. make a randomizer of sorts that forces different countries (player and or AI) to adhere to different rules for ship builds. for example one country is forced to use max beam while another has to use a minimum beam, min or max displacement for ships for political reasons, no quad turrets, always -10% max gun barrel length, for research must focus on a specific topic, or two topics or even 3 topics. I realize that since you made the AI better this suggestion could make the game very difficult. As for sonar and depth charges, I know in the Koei game, Pacific Theatre of operations II or PTO 2, made for Super Nintendo back in the day, you could not put sonar and depth charges on bigger ships so what you did does make sense to me. battleships would never be without escorts. I watch all your videos. keep up the good work!

thanks for this mod Bro, trying it out right now :)

I So wish this was all in the base game, can't wait to try it out!

Great to see you working on this...I can't think of anyone more suited to doing this than you. Your hard work is appreciated! Not sure if I'm a big believer in the removal of acoustics from capital ships. In order to force the player to do something historical (build CLs and Ds) the mod does something ahistorical? I can see problems with this, such as when the support ships are lost in a big battle, leaving the capital ships totally unable to defend against torpedoes...it could turn out to be a way to game the system in an unrealistic way. Cool that you're looking at the naval academy. I enjoyed that part of the game, but hated that the major patches totally reset them as not completed. Is there a way to prevent that? Also, is it possible to add realistic historical missions to the academy? Missions which use actual historical ship builds instead of random ones? It seems like it would be possible, since the Hampton Roads academy missions do use the actual Monitor and Virginia. Perhaps an entire section of such historical scenarios could be added, which I think would be interesting.

One thing really want is AA guns like 20-40mm auto cannons (think Oerlikons or bofors) with 800-120rpm (depending on tech and caliber). I think with the reduced fire and partial pen changes you made would prevent them from melting armored ships but could pose a serious threat to destroyers and torpedo boats thus forcing you to put some armor on destroyers. Could also be an allowed weapon for transports making them slightly less vulnerable to small vessels.

Oh well, it would be interesting to see all-or-nothing armor scheme working as it is intended to do (ship extremeties don't need armor as all important components are inside the citadel). Well, with the overmatch, having one or two inches of bow/stern armor should do the trick, except that you can still receive brutal damage in those areas..

I shall definitely be giving this a try, from watching your games, things seem much improved. Many thanks for all the work that is going into this. Also, I know you are not a fan of 1890-1900 period, is it possible to make specific changes to improve the pre dread era ?

I'm not playing anymore (can't replace stolen Hardware) but cane back to watching the YT vids just in time to see the process with the Japanese Campaign. This is the shocker to say, but finally the game iscas i imagined ut could be. Do you need to be perfect in every aspect if the game... NO. Will the game AI whip your arse ifvyour sloppy? ... H YES But mostly uts a far better experiance that as it is more consistent I'd say this is whatvwe got the game for. BM fantatic effort and best in the future. Finalky I thing with this mod and the AI soon having fleet ships the Seas of UAD will be alive again. Bloody Well Done.

I don't think you mentioned it when covering the gun stuff, but does this mod tweak reload values of guns to make it so big guns don't take literal minutes to reload even with auto loading? And does it adjust accuracy similar to the balance mod?

Mr Munro, does the mod take away the different number of gun barrels accuracy debuff? I would love to get to build some ships with a mix of twin and triple main gun turrets without incurring a big accuracy penalty.

Can you reduce the crew loss requirement for transport surrenders?

does this improve the naval academy aswell or change it? Have you played the missions with the mod? (campaign)?

any change to ships resistence from shells and flooding in my campaign playing s the british it take like 5 salvo from ai ships and i am down 75 structural damage

Do you know how to make it so you can carry more than two shell types? it would be useful to carry Apcbc and semi Ap and He at the same time

Bit of a shame that the Submarines are gone, but playing with them I don't think I'll miss them massively, if at all.

WOOOOO

The one thing I've noticed, for several patches now, is the gargantuan cost of vessels (especially on early modern 45-50 thousand ton battleships). Is there any way to tweak these (preferably in an economy reblance (see: size down) in comparison to what it's at now? Out of most things, Offsets and costs (of which, NAR only really helps with balancing) and the one thing that makes capital ships, especially later, annoying to keep in fleet.

This all sounds awesome. I'd still love to be able to invade minor nations. Especially if they are allied to a power I am at war with (surely that's how alliances work!?). Anything that helps turn speed out will be great. Naval academy definitely needs help. I went there before starting a campaign (assuming it was a tutorial mode) and it nearly put me off the game :/

Where do I drop the ship designs I’m sorry if I missed it in the vid or another but I can’t find it I also read the change logs in the game but didn’t see it mentioned

Hey brother Munro, ive sponsored for UA Dreadnoughts to be reviewed next on twitch from the Lorerunner. What mods would you recommend to give the game the best experience it can. Its ok for you to say this one of course 😁. Always happy to watch your videos and keep up the great work.

Hey BrotherMunro, I have recently installed the latest version of your mod and have followed these exact steps. Unfortunately it does not seem to work as I am left with a blue screen. Is this a bug or have I done it wrong?

Can you remove flaws added by higher tier tech? Flaws have been shown to make turns take longer. When there are hundreds of ships in the game and each of them has 20-30 flaws it really starts causing issues with turn timers.

Any ideas to fix all enemy invisible ships ?

i hope the weight saving from armor is shifted elsewhere, the game really relies on getting that weight saving to allow improvements in capability.

..I havent even goit the update that lets you change barrels left?

7:20 542t of crew.... If we assume that every crew member weight is 80kg we get around 6.8k crew members on a ship of that size... Math is not mathing.

I would like to see playable minor nations

I have to say this mod is NOT for me. Basically I am totally Sick! of torpedoes as even in the vanilla game they are massively, Massively!! overpowered. The AI never fires my torps but is a deadly shot with its own and the AI usually packs heaps of torp launchers with max reloads which if can fire one launcher at a time. I'm sick of having torps being launched at me from 10km-20km+ and just sail into my fleet to cause mayhem I do agree with totally removing Sumbs as in the later time periods it turns the game into a click fest but for me personally I'd want torps severely downgraded. I want to play UA Dreadnought not UA torpedo mayhem

I really hate the torpedo changes.... kills the 1890 starts, and forces people to only play one way, forget that some of us liked to not really use destroyers. It's the same nonsense the devs are doing with subs and FORCING the issue, the "I know better" mindset. I understand it's not a payed mod etc etc... you pit it out there, it's open to critique. I wish we could just have the balance mod back so I can go back to enjoying the game. The forced game play style changes make me not want to play the game anymore.

Like your attempt at a mod, but your audio stinks. Your voice fades in and out.