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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins
More like inconsistent, a factor RFB reproduces masterfully. Somehow, it telepathically knows when you've said "Japanese ASW is crapulent!" and deals you a couple of elites. 
Yeah, don't do that. All environmental mods have undesirable side effects, even what is included in RFB. The RFB Team just realized that just about everyone would layer some environmental stuff on there anyway, so sought to balance eye candy with gameplay. It's mostly successful. But loading anything environmental on top ruins the gameplay balance.
Ducimus had the same problem with TMO, eventually leading him to remove environmental mods altogether. That's a situation for SH5 to work on. Wonder if they will? |
Yeah the elites are good. I can't make a completely sound judgement because I have the camera on. So the few times I've set myself up with the SH3 Mission editor to sink some task force ships I was able to watch where the DD and DC's were going and move the hell out of the way (i.e. cheat tsk tsk).
I imagine if I had had the camera off I probably would not have survived some of those encounters. Even though I was very deep very silent and it was early days 42.
I agree the Real Environment or the other environment mods may have undesirable effects with regard to sensors, but it looks so good. And aside from the encounter last night I still find the DD's are often pretty good (depending on their rating) at spotting you from distance even at night IF you're surfaced and putting up a good bow wave say by shadowing a task force too closely at high speed.
Some lead DD's have even detected me at periscope depth while I've waited for a cpl 'o Kongos to pass. That was a Marshall Islands carrier task force in early Feb '42 and the DD's were rated:Veteran.
Detection is one thing though, I'm obvioulsy gonna have to turn off those options sooner rather than later to see how well are at killing me... Yay.
