Always good to hear from old friends. I got email from some guys who have not been here since 2004 :)

Yes , German u-boats

Good news and review, thank you! I might try the game. I hope someone create a very simulation (hardcore) uboat game, not weighing on graphics for the priorities. Price it high for targeting only hardcore customers in the first place. Of course awesome graphics would be awesome but let's have a sim whose focus is to listening...

Traducir Thank you
 

Thank you very much for your information, I am grateful for that.

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:yeah:

Hi All, received an interesting mail shot which brought me here:

Nice review Neal, based on this write up, I bought it last night. :yeah:

Still to put time in on it but first impressions are impressive, especially for a tablet. I hope Panic Ensues can expand and develop this gem of a title further.

Also:
On your Kindle 7, press & hold the Volume & Power Button down. Native screen capture. Sometimes, in your review, your "external tool" was wonky. (DSLR or Camera Phone?) :03: I did chuckle.

...just downloaded it. and I like it so far. and for £4.16 I cant complain. doesn't work on my small htc, but that's no fault of the game - the screens too small.
I think with some polish and a few changes ie depth charge red square doesn't need to come 'over' the screen - but this a niggle. the ocean is pixelated - but again, just a niggle. the destroyers move way to fast as well. but all these things can be altered.
im impressed with it and have already spent well over two hours acclimatising myself with it.
nice job to the Devs...bring on the polish:up:

Hey, you 're just trying to trick me into shutting down my kindle :woot:
Thanx for the feedback. Lol. Yeah, "external tool" = camera phone. :subsim: It's hard to keep the tablet lined up and play the game.

I was hoping someone would call me on that. :shucks:

Crash Dive
 

Thanks for the heads up Neal. I read your review and decided to buy Crash Dive and was pleasantly pleased with the app. It is heading in direction that I want an app of this type to go. Hopefully there will be little updates and improvements coming from listening to the comments of other users.....escorts too quick to evade...for example. The game ran smooth but I could not get through the combat tutorial.... after locking on to the required number of ships, the game just kept on running and never continued to the next phase...what ever it is.


I did not notice a save feature.
I'm only to the medium difficulty level so far but is it possible to save a mission. Seems cruel to have to start each scenario from the beginning each time after fighting for an hour or so and then having to quit for what ever reason.

Unfortunately the game can't be saved mid-mission. Patrols can be saved any time you're on the main Patrol map, but also not in the middle of an engagement.

Happy hunting!

-Scott

Save Games
 

Thanks for the reply.

Sorry to be the party pooper, but this hardly compares to Silent Hunter.

It's not bad for $7 but the review really made it sounds like serious simming on my tablet which I'd love. Instead there are tons of things that just don't add up.

Where's fuel? War Patrol also seems to end as soon as resupply spots run out (quickly) forcing you to simply head back to base and stop.

The ships you take down are from a very small list of ships and you'll see the same ones even in the same patrol and even after you sunk them.

The AI is a bit weak in that corvettes will often gather together in a group on a single side of a convoy leaving it wide open to attack.

Again, for $7 it's not bad, but it's definitely not much in the way of qualifying as a sim.

Agrajag, you make some good points, and I agree with you. Yes, Crash Dive is not a simulation on par with Silent Hunter 3, 4, 5. I would contend that it is comparable to SH1, though. Not as simulation based, but not too far off. Although it is not a "serious" simulation, I think it does have much of the same feel and gameplay as SH1 and Aces.

The fuel is consumed during a war patrol, there is a status bar at the top of the map screen that shows its state. I would argue that the resupplies are too frequent--real U-boat skippers usually did not resupply 3 times in a patrol, :) so going back to base and ending the patrol is right.

Definitely agree, would love to see more variety. BTW, Scott, what is a Clickitat class tanker? :hmmm:

Again, I agree. There are areas such as this where the AI could use additional attention, but I would still say the overall AI rates good. Not great, not perfect, but perfectly playable.

I hope this does not come off as argumentative, I appreciate the feedback. :salute:

Neal

No issues from me. Enjoyed the review. I just got a bit of a different idea in my head based on the review than what I experienced and much of that is my own heady desires overriding what you wrote.

The chance to play a real sub sim on a tablet was a real desire. Instead this is a very nice, but fairly limited, experience. Worth the money for sure.

Klickitat
 

Oh well, that's certainly something I did not know, thanks!

Quite right, and a stupid misspelling at that, since I spelled the individual ship name correctly about 3 lines below that in code. :doh:

When I was looking for a T1 Tanker to add to the game, as soon as I saw pictures of the amazingly un-seaworthy-looking Klickitat I knew that had to be the one. I can't imagine crossing the Atlantic in something with such a low freeboard... :o

http://panicensuessoftware.com/Crash...atAOG-64-1.jpg
USS Klickitat AOG-64