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Originally Posted by SeaQueen
The thing is, since ships can be at sea for weeks or months at a time, you're probably not going to want to play just one vessel for the entire campaign. You'd probably want to be able to say, "today I'm going to be a 774 over here" and then when that gets boring, you could jump into the AEGIS cruiser way out because TBMs are coming over the horizon, or a DDG-1000 attached to an ESG because Marines have called for naval surface fires.
Of course, if you WANTED to you could just stay in one vessel and drive doughnuts in the ocean for days at a time between engagements. It's up to you.
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Eh, that's what time compression is for. I don't see any reason why you couldn't play the whole war as a single platform, as long as you choose one that's going to have some action. You know, don't choose the sub that's doing a barrier outside a base that may or may not deploy any boomers, choose the one with some offensive ASUW and strike tasking, for example. The total number of "encounters" might be low, but that's just how it goes.
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Having a dynamic campaign a la Falcon 4 is not going to happen.
Be realistic. Even in flight sims, no one cares anymore for that kind of experience.
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Wow. I've only been gone from the Falcon 4 community for about a year, but when I was there all anyone ever played was campaigns, both offline and in MP. I have a hard time believing that has changed so quickly.
I don't think it's an unrealistic expectation in any case. Getting a new sim anytime soon is the pipe dream. But if we get one, I'd be surprised if it didn't have a campaign feature considering the disappointment caused by the lack of a true campaign engine in DW and the success of the campaign based SH series. I think a dynamic campaign engine is simply part of the consumer's basic expectations at this point in time.