Does anybody still play Silent Hunter 2?

[Red October1984]

It's the only Subsim I have except Silent Hunter Mobile for Iphone. I'm wondering if people still play it and if it's possible to still play online. I'm looking to get a new computer so.......

[Manic Fred]

Hi, i've ordered Destroyer Command, so i would be also interessed in playing online for the future. Hope it will arrive next week, so i'd give it a try offline first.

Fred

[Egan]

Silent Hunter 2 was fun enough in it's day, but I don't think I could ever go back to it now.

Don't get me wrong, in several respects it was superior to the later titles (I'm thinking of engine management, random damage, able to manually control red lighting and, IIRC, it also had a far better simulated acoustic environment than the later games,) but in so many ways it was utterly superseded by SH3. The campaign was awful for a start and while I don't think a sub sim has ever had a better career mode than Aces of the Deep, the campaigns in SH3 and SH4 were genius compared to what SH2 shipped with.

I'm sure there are still people playing it on line with DC - I thought DC was better, to be honest, and I would love someone to make a new version of it.

[Red October1984]

@ Maniac Fred
When I get my new computer, we can play. I won't get it til Christmas tho.

[mapuc]

I do play it sometimes.

Right now I struggling with P-A

Only thing I get is blank screen :(

Markus

[Red October1984]

I like your Signature. Nice touch.

[mapuc]

I like your Signature. Nice touch.

I got the idea, when we had the meeting in copenhagen. At the same time Inglourious Basterds was running in the cinemas in copenhagen. It's from there I got it. I change the word as you can see.

Markus

[Red October1984]

What kinda stuff happens at the SUBSIM meets?

[pescador11]

What kinda stuff happens at the SUBSIM meets?Wine, Women and Song. :D Just kidding RO. I wouldn't know. They do sound like they have a blast though. BTW RO I've been playing PA and its a blast. I'm sure you'll enjoy it.
Pescador11

[Sailor Steve]

What kinda stuff happens at the SUBSIM meets?
The only on I've attended was the 2008 meet in Houston. You can read the whole story here:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=129586

And the "good parts" version here:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=143186

And the short version is that we got together and had a great time. Went to the Seawolf park and couldn't spend the night on the sub because of the wreckage caused by hurricane Ike, but we helped clean up the park. Went shooting at the range, visited USS Texas (BB-35), discussed the future possible sub sim that turned into SH5, and mostly got to spend time with people we only knew from Subsim. Good food, good people, good times.

[Red October1984]

Sounds really fun. I've only been to U-505. And there wasn't much to see I remember but that was back before I liked submarines so I would love to go again or go see other subs.

[CptChacal]

I loved DC and would love a new version (or a mod for SH4 or SH5).
I never had any luck playing it against SH2 online, the server would crash after about one hour.

[mapuc]

I loved DC and would love a new version (or a mod for SH4 or SH5).
I never had any luck playing it against SH2 online, the server would crash after about one hour.

I loved DC too. There are many of us here that, like you, would love a new version, but that would never happen.

A DC that's comp. to SHIII and SHIV.
One could always hope, that there are a few, computerfreaks out there who loves DC and developed a newer version.

Markus

[QUARRY]

Silent Hunter 2,had in my opinion, no further good graphics, which was not entirely unexpected.

[oche]

DC is great with all the Fletcher Mod, but is getting old. I'd too like to see a "modern" version of DC using at least a game engine similar or equivalent to SHIII.

PA is great too!.

[Red October1984]

I have never ever played DC

[Sailor Steve]

I loved DC and would love a new version (or a mod for SH4 or SH5).
The problem there is that DC and SH2 were made for each other, literally. SH4 or SH5 would have to be rewritten to accomodate them. It might be possible but would probably be easier to make a whole new set of games that worked together.

I never had any luck playing it against SH2 online, the server would crash after about one hour.
Subsim (with help from donations) put up the money to make them work better. You needed to download Projeckt Messerwetzer, which fixed all that.

I have never ever played DC
The biggest flaw in SH2 was the so-called campaign, which was just a series of unrepeatable single missions. There was nothing dynamic, or even random, about it.

Destroyer Command was the same, but destroyers aren't sent out to patrol vast areas of ocean and sink merchant shipping, so DC felt more real in that respect. The only really positive thing I can say about either one is that the multiplayer was great.