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Old 07-01-17, 02:23 AM   #9
wathomas777
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Fast Attack was my favorite too, but it had a fatal flaw.

2 hour mission timer.

There was a particular TASM mission that was just stupid. The timer was basically arbitrary and on this particular TASM mission it was nigh impossible to get to the launch point and get you birds away AND TO DESTINATION prior to end of mission.

And if your birds were still in the air when timer expired too bad.

Killed all enjoyment for me. Went back to Red Storm Rising. Spent way too much time on SSN 705 playing that one. Even had a way to edit the save game file so that once you saved the game you could edit your ship name and hull number.

Cold waters is pretty good. Basically a graphical update to RSR. But it's very "3d view" dependent which I find annoying. But it appears to be very moddable so we'll see.

But for mix of realism and playability, Fast Attack won hands down. Now if only we could kill the mission timer.....
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