Your Realism
 

Shipmates-

I'm kind of curious of what other skippers are using in regards to keep the game authentic.
My current settings:
- Limited batteries, compressed air, oxygen, fuel.
- Realistic damage, repair time, ship sink time & reload times.
- Manual targeting and no assistance from the weapons officer.
- Using noise meter.
- No un-stabilized view (realistic sensors unchecked)
- No dud torpedo's.
I am using contact updates, enhanced sensors (realistic unchecked).

I used the default settings for awhile and I found the sim getting boring.

So where are you at? :salute:

Currently running at 52% realism after moving to manual targeting. All the consumables are limited and I have realistic reloads and sensors, but realistic repair time didn't get checked on the last patrol somehow. I keep the maps updates, external and event cams on, dud torpedoes off, and have a stabilized view.

While I admire the hardcore S-boat drivers who play as authentically as possible, I don't yet seek to emulate them; I'm still having fun at this level. I have a 1945 Balao/Tench with full sensors, deck guns, and Mk 16s in 1941. The invasions, whlle still unstoppable, are much bloodier affairs now.

Always 80%, just external camera on for screen shots, and maps contact on.
The last one is just laziness because i don’t really need it...

:Kaleun_Salute:

Map contacts only. Essential for late-war U-Boat careers and not unreasonable for Fleet Boats in the Pacific. Everything else is checked and no event camera or external views allowed - ever. Usually works out to 88% difficulty depending upon the Mod.

-C

I've often wondered that the term 'realism' is a exchangeable with 'micromanagement'!

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Thanks peeps :salute:

I would say that it's a colossal red herring and that when any gamer claims "realism", it is only because in the computer game context, the word doesn't actually mean what they think it means.

Just $0.02 CAD

-C

Map contacts on, external camera on. Everything else off.



External camera: I like to see the pretty explosions and such.
Map contacts: Otherwise, I'll lose track of the picture.

Here is what I play my campaigns at:

https://i.imgur.com/kdmd5Duh.jpg

My next one will be with no map contact updates, as I've been wanting to give that a whirl.
I've never play with dud torpedoes, i have enough frustration at work, LOL.

Everything checked except No map contact update and No stabilize view.

100% No map contacts, external cameras, nothin.

I play in real time too. I literally let it run for 13 days while going from Honolulu, to Midway, to the Japanese coast.

I have no good answer as to why.

I usually just leave Map Contacts on. Need to pretend my crew actually do something. Rest is at the most realistic setting possible. (Within the game.)

I already got my hands full calculating my torpedo solutions. I can let the other guy do the other part.

Realism--gotta try that someday....
 

You guys are an inspiration!:Kaleun_Thumbs_Up:
Someday, I'll plumb the depths of realism in SH4. For now, realism isn't even on my BPS-12 radar, because I loaded the Skipjack mod, got a few Mk45 nuclear torpedoes on board, and I'm having great fun trying to outrun the 11kt rooster tail. One convoy, one torpedo.
My dad was a plank owner on Snook 592, so I guess it's a bit of a trip down memory lane for me....Cheers!:Kaleun_Cheers: