Camera views?

[MarkShot]

Just curious what folks do?

Enjoy the eye candy and play with external views and event camera on or go 100% real and see the war from inside the hull?

Myself, on one hand, I am disinclined to introduce the "cheat" information available via these extra views. On the other hand, one of the motivations to play this game over my older classics such as AOD and SHCE is the vastly improved world graphics.

Tough decision.

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Also, I understand that simply leaving these additional views available but not using them will affect the behavior of the dynamic campaign. Is that true?

Thanks.

[TarJak]

Its a game and I like to look at ships sinking. I don't use it to "cheat" honest. I play at 94% so I can take screenies and see what's going on.

[SmokinTep]

Same here. I like to look around at times.

[Vacillator]

Same here (but I'm not at 94% yet!).

In the early days I used to cheat by 'flying' across to ships to check their flags. Tut, tut...

[Brag]

I pause the game, use external to take screenies. Since I do use torpedo officer, realism is 74%. I also play DID.

[Sailor Steve]

I don't use it to "cheat" honest.
:rotfl:
You should have seen the reactions I got the first time I said that!

I also use external view because I like looking at all the stuff going on in the harbors, and it does look cool when ships explode.

[HM.Medico]

I use my external view to see ships being blown to crap, and on my "fun" account I use it to ID what ship I'm up against so I know whether or not I should be buggered to engage :rotfl:

However, I am only playing on 34% realism, give me a few more weeks and I'll be up to the 60-70% areas.

[Umfuld]

I found when I had external enabled I couldn't resist cheating a little by checking the flags. So I don't have it enabled anymore.

Of course the fact that my video card is probably WAY below what it should be and it started crashing with all the extra mods and stuff made my decision a bit easier.


I never thought it was cheating all that much though. I have pretty good eye sight and felt I should be able to I.D. a flag in light fog from 1000m. : /

[MarkShot]

How does the realism percentage affect the behavior the dynamic patrol engine?

Thanks.

[Avatar]

I also would like to know about the realsim settings and the dynamic campaign. I have just started playing and I'm at 53%. 53 was my old football jersey number in JV football. I was assigned to play outside linebacker, but I weighed about 100 lbs back then. Not to good for a LB. But to rest assure you, I played about 3 mins the entire season. WOOO!

[Bindolaf]

I have realism at 97% but I miss the external view. On my second "career" (which is going nowhere) I have external view enabled and I like to set the camera on the bridge of ships and watch the torpedoes approach. I never use the camera to target, it seems really hard. I get lost using it all the time and have to recycle through an internal view to get my bearings :) Come to think of it, I don't know what I have left off and don't use 100% realism. Something annoying no doubt.