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Originally Posted by privateer
One thing you may want to worry less about is the crew.
Your LifeBoat men don't move about.
The New Life Boat Men will.
Along with Survivors in the water.
All new animations are being created from scratch!
If all goes well?
You'll see a preview hopefully in a day or two.
At that time I'll introduce you to a Very Talented 3D Artist.
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You know, that's what I love about this game.
I remember back in 2005, when I thought we would never be able to add new ships to the game.
I remember finally being able to add new ships, but having to clone the ID's manually, for hours or days on end.
I remember thinking we would never have the Type XXIII.
I still recall gritting my teeth and bearing the storm front/weather bug, because after all, it would never be fixed, and at least it didn't crash the game, so who were we to complain?
I can recall being used to so-so aircraft models, because this was a naval sim, and we couldn't expect the planes to have transparent canopies & other "eye candy" - could we?
Other things, such as Channel Forts, lightships, airships, V-1 bombs, and a playable S-Boot campaign seemed so far-fetched I don't think I ever imagined them.
Now it looks like we're about to see another milestone, so congratulations in advance. Just seeing all the different things people come up with is an adventure in itself - even more than going out on patrol.
Plus, not to sound too hokey, but it's especially satisfying to finally address the "sensitive issues" that we simmers were shielded from when they decided not to include survivors. Although this will always be a game to us, playing an overly sanitized version just insulates us from History even more. The fact is that during the war, real lives were lost (about 9 lives for every ship lost in the Atlantic IIRC). I can understand the dev's decision, but perhaps ignoring this reality is itself callous, in an ironic way.
OK, enough preaching.
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