would be a good thing

I just want to make sure that i make this clear…The person that discovered the way to bypass the DRM to allow mission progress was a legal owner of SH5 that was unable to play due to spotty internet. The solution was originally posted to ubisoft’s forums, but they swiftly removed it (heaven forbid anyone else see!). Fortunately they didn’t remove it in time to prevent somebody seeing it, and the information has already spread around the internet, with copies of the posting appearing in links on sites like the pirate bay. 7 days ubisoft. JUST 7 DAYS.

NEVER bet against the internet. These are the only people in the world balsy enough to challenge the church of scientology. These are the people that governments seek not to prosecute, but to offer jobs in information security. Hard to immagine that governments are being more proactive about realising that you cannot defeat them, only hope to get them to join you…but its the truth. You hear that ubisoft? You officially fail worse than the US federal government.

I installed bow, configured Typing that game and so.. I ve GET TOTALLY ****ED Mad BECOUSE i paid for it and its MINE MINE MINE!!!! Angry UBISOFT MOTHER****ERS! Smash
Which idiot from zou developed that freaking protection of that ****ing DRM ?
I want play in my house up in the forest when i have NO INTERNET in anyway, cable or radio, so what im supossed to do?
IDEA!
I’ve searched forums with potential cracks and scene of crackers only to find that we have no any working solution ( when we use one of them we don’t have possibility to advance in campaign becouse our mission progress is stopped , no matter how good we did our patrols or how many ships we sunk) , its sucks.
So i discover solution by myself and hues what its working!

SO MY BROTHERS IN THE SEA!! Lets roll our campaign without any illegal cracks! **** THE UBI and **** the Pirtaes!

S T E P 1 -> LEARNING the GAME STRUCTURE Briefing) lets choose briefing and listen news about situation on the front.

After that lets look on the upper left side of the briefing screen, You will see grey menu with crosses and orange triangle icon below them.

Crosses are MAIN camapign OBJECTIVES called MISSIONS. Each Cross represent one of the MISSIONS that will show up on the specific date.
Yes, yes you are thinking good – its a simple script text trigger, well stated in some of the game CFG FILES. Lets left theory of that for later now.
Each MISSION have 2 main PARAMETERS , represent by the MISSION WAYPOINTS and MISSION PROGRESS BAR (that small bar , you can see after click at MISSION WAYPOINT – it is shown under MISSION DESCRIPTION).

Okay, MISSION PROGRESS BAR is the MAIN PAIN for us all here.

NOW …

Lets leave our lovely Dock for a while and press ALT+TAB .

Lets follow to the Silent Hunter 5 install directory, lets use a template location for an example:

F:\SH5

so we go there.

Inside our main game folder we go to the DATA : F:\SH5\DATA next to the CAMPAIGNS : F:\SH5\DATA\CAMPAIGNS ,
here lies our kingdom of evil.

Lets take a look at Achievments.cfg file with little help of WORDPAD.
As you can see here we have CAMPAIGN MISSIONS rewards and their ID names .

Now lets take a look at another folder inside called CAMPAIGNPROJECTS so F:\SH5\DATA\CAMPAIGNS\CAMPAIGNSPROJECTS

here we have 2 main interesting files/folders

One is called COMMON (folder) and rest are the names of each CAMPAIGN in the game, first is TOTAL_GERMANY (folder).
Its a first CAMPAIGN we can play after the tutorial and a door to the whole game.

Main problem to player without net connection , using no net crack is that game BLOCKING , MISSION BAR PROGRESS and we can’t have our MISSIONS completed, they just last
in the CHIEF NAVY COMMANDER [CNC] after return from our patrol, no matter how well we complete MISSION OBJECTIVES (i.e. sunk 50.000 tonnage, sunk ships at Coast of UK etc) , MISSION CROSSES nad MISSION PROGRESS BAR stay at zero level. When MISSION is complete, MISSION CROSS should change from empty symbol to metal/silver cross symbol.
Okay.
But ,lets focus on the fact that MISSION TRIGGERS are updating , becouse they are closely linked to the PASSING CALENDAR DATES, (just above MISSION menu – left upper corner) , as well as in the game and same in the script text files. So best exmaple is mine campaign, after skipping tutorial (its a must to skip that, becouse if you don’t do that you don’t have starting mission choices in the first talk to [CNC]. When i skipped tutorial moronic mission” INVASION of POLAND” i have 2 missions to choose 1″BRITISH SUPPLIES” and 2″BRITISH COASTAL WATERS”.
So i choose 1 (supplies) and sail to my first real patrol.
As time passed by i get third mission while being at open sea (that damn stormy Atlantic) called “BLOCKADE of GERMANY” , so mission pop-ups depended on DATE is working.

Thats the fact.

Lets get back to our F:\SH5\DATA\CAMPAIGNS\CAMPAIGNSPROJECTS folder.

Lets enter folder with TOTAL_GERMANY campaign.
There will be file called: CAMPAIGN.CFG open it with WORDPAD.

Lets take a closer look at first section of that file (all campaigns have exactly same structure in files):

—————————————————————————————–
in >>> … <<>>ITS A MAIN CAMPAIGN INFO in GENERAL<<>>ITS A MAIN CAMPAIGN OBJECTIVES and VICTORY INFO in GENERAL<<>>ALSO WE HAVE MAIN CAMPAIGN COMPLETE and FAIL INFO , and SCRIPT NAME<<>>>ITS A START OF MISSION TREE text files, and here we have MISSION NAME/
ID name of the OBJECTIVE/POINTS of CAMPAIGN TRIGGER/ MISSION NAME/ID name of the OBJECTIVE/POINTS of to continue to next CAMPAIGN (side paths in campaign)its is called OBJ, as you can see we have also
“ObjActivationAchievements=” its a required OBJ to have if TRIGGER of some of the missions should work
and same thing to some campaigns <<<>>>Below they are lines with above mission’s SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES “PERSOBJ” [PO]
as You can see we are given objectives of the tutorial mission here, look at
the :
“IsTonnage=false
Tonnage=0
NumOfShips=3
“We can see that its not important how much tonnage we gonna sink but number of ships, in this mission we have to sink 3 of them ” , yes second idea we have here is, WAIT these mission OBJECTIVES have progress, when we sink these 3 ships we have MISSION COMPLETE STATUS and can go further, yes without need of connection to the UBISOFTCKERS SERVERS (try with patch no net), it works, why? We must get closer look at that mission and compare it to others. Lets take a look at the below line called: “RelatedMapLocations=” , look after = we have nothing , no specified area of operations not like in the for example WESTERN APPROACHES circle (its a British Supplies mission), interesting ? huh?<<>>>That’s all , in this file below we have next mission SCRIPT TEXTS
same scheme like above. WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT take closer look and note that we have
2 more important things here (look at first 2 blocks of text:
1) “VALUE POINTS” [VP]
2) ” IS COMPLETED=false” / “IS FAILED=false” trigger <<>>TYPE HERE TRUE<<>>TYPE HERE TRUE<<>>TYPE HERE TRUE<<>>TYPE HERE TRUE<< DANCING WITH THE TEXT FILES AND SCRIPTS >>enter that line i mean Happytimes40<<>>enter that date i mean 19400610<<>>make sure it is YES<<<
Interior=data/Interior/NSS_Uboat9/NSS_Uboat9
UnitType=200
MaxSpeed=19.3
MaxSpeedSubmerged=6.9
Length=87.7
Width=7.6
RenownAwarded=140

[Salvo]
1=1,3,2,4
2=1,2,4
3=1,3,4
4=1,4
5=2,3
6=1,3
7=2,4
8=5,6

[Properties]
PeriscopeDepth=14;meters
SnorkelDepth=15;meters
CrashDepth=70;meters
MaxDepth=500;meters
SurfaceDepth=8;meters
TorpLaunchMaxDepth=20;meters
StormConditions=12,0.4;max wind speed [m/s], max rain intensity [0,1]

[EngineProperties]
AllStop=0.00
AheadSlow=0.20
AheadOneThird=0.30
AheadStandard=0.6
AheadFull=0.80
AheadFlank=1.00
BackSlow=-0.2
BackStandard=-0.40
BackFull=-0.53
BackEmergency=-0.66

Okay!

You’re missing a crucial point here. Prince of Persia failed because it was a shit game. I should know, I actually PAID for a legal copy. Waste of money. Don’t let that stop you blaming the pirates for everything though.

When I want a MMORPG, I log into my EQ2 account.

So. No AC2 for me. Maybe better that way… *eyes stack of work on desk* ^^

It’ll certainly be quite the feather in their cap, won’t it?