How realistic do you play SH3
 

Hi lads,

after my thread about aircraft madness in 1943 I realized that we have 2 camps here. Realism freaks and arcade players. Somehow I never imagined playing this sim like an arcade and was crawling slowly to a point in which I'm now. I wonder how many of you treat it very serious and play the impossible like me. It's not a thread about % because for me you can play realistic with external view on, simply not using it to cheat. I play as realistic as possible, try to get more and more info how it was done and try to overcome engine bugs while not exploiting it's weaknesses. Maybe even we can gather ourselves, share some ideas to make our experience even batter?

Overkill
My choice: 100% realism + longer repair times mod (you should try it) + real navigation from time to time + did + many immersive things that happen only in my head (not using externals, not doing port raids, not trying to shoot Mosquitos etc, attack DD only if no other option).

Hard
If you're doing hard or realistic settings with stock options and accept everything what and how the game gives to you - as is. No matter if with GWX as most of us have it.

Arcade
Shoot everything with a deckgun, you could play Doom3 as well without seeing a difference ;)

i play at 74% realism and still blasting the heck out of DD's :arrgh!:

I play 100% occasionally, but I just can't resist the beautiful exterior views.

I've edited the gameplay file to give me 100% credits while being able to watch my boat surfing early morning waves or a 160m long Whaler going down :arrgh!:

Have never played at 100% yet. I still like to be able to have the free look with the camera. Sometimes I like to be on the other ship watching a torpedo come at you.

I play at 84 % realism. Have map updates as I find plotting too time consuming, weapons officer assist for the same reason. I like to take screenies so external view stays for that. I'm serious enough to have a website with articles on tactics, a sort of mini-manual useful to Kaleuns.

Full realism except for manual navigation.
I also have rules like DiD and no harbour raids and such.

I Being Percieved as the worst kind of pariah dont actually just play
Uber games. Uber was and remains a fun learning project, but when
I play I play both ways, normally Uber is for missions and Standard
subs for career. I have been a student of the subject for two
decades now, and have yet to grow bored of it.

when I do play the Standard game I play at around 70%
I still feel that if I was captaining that my plot would be
manned so I dont do manual shooting very often anymore.
also I tend to disable crewfatige as I think that the dept
heads and first officer would do the crew Micro management.

M

I play bang on 60% realism.

Never will give up on external camera for my screenshots :lol:

84%. Gotta have my external views for the eye candy.:cool:

I play 95% realism. The only 'cheat' I use is stabilized view, because I'm not that good at guesstimating distance on a bouncing sea.

I don't do anything that's not mentioned in the Uboat Commanders Handbook.

25% realism. :)

I play on 90% realism cause I like to take screenshots in free cam mode.:D

Though I’ve been eager to start using the Longer Repair Times mod in career it seems to conflict with the GWX Late war sensors schnorkel antennas mod. Therefore I'm not using the LRT as I would have to disable it anyway, if I against all odds, survive to the later years of the war when the GWX Late war...-mod becomes important.