How to unlock new U-Boat types (Blueprint)

[A Can O Monster]

Hi Skippers, I am wondering how you obtain the new U-boat types.

I Started my new campaign when the beta dropped on the 27th on a 1939 Start date.
I'm currently on my 5th Patrol in the Atlantic and Im looking to Upgrade from the Type IIA to the Type IID.

[SpaceBikerV]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/494840/discussions/0/4335357045506773394/

[ждун]

as you progress in tonnage war campaign you get a ship upgrade blueprint as reward.

[sodjay]

I got one for completing the raid on Scapa Flow.

[Kitsuka]

If you zoom all the way out on the map, you can see all the campaign objectives. By clicking on them, you will be able to see their rewards. Doing this will show you which objectives offer blueprints. New campaign objects are unlocked as time goes on and as you change your port.

[ramjbjb]

Well, I was quite surprised in my current youtube campaign when I got my first blueprint out of the Tonnage War campaign, second stage. Took me four relatively brief patrols in a Type IIA, and it seems with that single blueprint I can unlock any other submarine I want to...

Judging by the viewers votes, seems I'll be out in a Type VIIC for my next patrol :).


So, you should be able to unlock new submarines relatively easily, just go on Tonnage War missions until you get your blueprint :).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78d0JdlLm8g&ab_channel=ramjb

[Alex Paen (ljekio)]

No, after IIA comes IID.
Although this may be due to the realism settings, on high the next boat can only be obtained sequentially.

[ramjbjb]

negative, I play on expert, only things enabled are map contacts, external views (hey, it's a youtube career after all, need those to get fancy shots for the videos :D), and that's it.

Got one blueprint on Tonnage War, and I just unlocked a TypeVIIC. Which is totally out of whack, btw, as the first Type VIIC was put in service in November'40, and in the career we're in mid-december 1939... But it's what the viewers voted for :P

Just began my first patrol on it. U-410. Type VIIC, coming out from a Type IIA.

https://youtu.be/nm3G0mOrxdo

[Alex Paen (ljekio)]

This happened to me at the beginning, when I just installed UBOAT and played on easy settings. The career that started after was 100% and devoid of this, I could not open VIIB bypassing IID

[FlyinJ]

Originally posted by Kitsuka:

If you zoom all the way out on the map, you can see all the campaign objectives. By clicking on them, you will be able to see their rewards. Doing this will show you which objectives offer blueprints. New campaign objects are unlocked as time goes on and as you change your port.

I'm not seeing a blueprint reward in any of these campaign "cards" on the campaign screen. Even the greyed out future ones.

So far on my 1939 IIB start I have completed the mining campaign and the tonnage campaign. I've done about 12 missions on top of that and zero blueprints.

Is there some other thing that needs to be done to acquire them?

[SpaceBikerV]

No. It just means there aren’t any campaigns availabile in that time frame with a blueprint.

[SpaceBikerV]

List of campaigns with blueprints:

Tonnage War in stage 2
Black Pit in stage 2
Last Stand in stage 2
Battle of the Mediterranean in stage 2
Northern Waters
Mediterranean Operations
Atlantic operations Stage 3

You don’t need to do anything special. You just complete these and you got one

[ramjbjb]

Originally posted by SpaceBikerV:

No. It just means there aren’t any campaigns availabile in that time frame with a blueprint.

Well then either I'm playing another game, or there are campaigns in that timeframe with a blueprint. Tonnage war step 2 gave me a blueprint. I actually completed what I had left of step 1 and the whole 2nd step in my 3rd patrol with U-4, at the end I was given a blueprint.

Unmodded game (At that point, for my 4th patrol in my brand new Type VII I'm using Sinking physics overhaul, and a couple map tool mods).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78d0JdlLm8g&ab_channel=ramjb

If you don't want to see the whole thing, check my return to base rewards.

[FlyinJ]

Originally posted by SpaceBikerV:

No. It just means there aren’t any campaigns availabile in that time frame with a blueprint.

Oh ok. Someone earlier said they got one from Scapa Flow, but the campaign card for Scapa Flow in my game doesn't have a blueprint reward in it.

[FlyinJ]

I just returned to port and immediately got a mission letter telling me that my IIB was being taken away from me and they were giving me a new ship. The mission says to talk to the warehouse guy to get my new boat, but when I do that it just shows me the same screen with the IID on it but it won't unlock without a blueprint.

I can't get any missions from the mission giver either. I'm just stuck in port with this "talk to the warehouse guy to get your new boat" mission with no way to get it.

Am I missing something here

[SpaceBikerV]

I don’t know the mechanics behind forced boat change because it’s relatively new, but there is no Type IIB in the game. Only A and D, just so we’re clear