Okay, maybe this thread offers me the opportunity for a general rant
A few days ago, I was about to give up playing DW and stick to SC - maybe I still will. Anyway, I find it comforting that other people (
lots of other people) feel the same.
The major issues I have with DW are:
1) The general scope of the sim. Hard to describe it, but I think you know what I mean. A weird mixture of commanding a platform but having to do everything yourself. (Though that's the case with 688 and SC as well). That
could be fine in itself if it weren't for the incompetent autocrew. Instead of thinking how to improve the game, every new SCS product just offered more of the same.
Something which would really have helped the sim would have more tools on the Nav screen, perhaps à la SHIII. Just inserting dots, manual solutions and circles is not that much. What about baffles? Incoming torpedoes? Water depths that don't require my cursor to move around the map? No, I have to
remember all of those things just because. An A4 sheet of paper offers more situational awareness than the simulated map of a 2 billion $ submarine.
2) Lack of dynamic campaign. I know, I know, it was a deliberate decision on the part of SCS to create a mission-based campaign in order to avoid the simple "go hunt" feeling (i.e. just a series of randomly generated missions with little immersive effect), but I think it still sucks. And it sucks because I know what to expect, even if the details change. Apart from that, many of the missions I find simply to be boring, and the scenario corny.
3) Bugs. BUGS. Not even the ones concerning sensors, platform behavior and the like. It took me hours or even days of tweaking before I got rid of the infamous "sound bug" (stuttering music / sound effects), and if I had not replaced the original water textures of DW with those of SC, the sim would look quite weird (my notebook doesn't have a graphics card that supports the shader effects of DW). Not much of an issue, but: Why screw something up that has worked in the previous game?
And I needn't mention the real bugs that were mentioned in countless threads.
I think I can understand Nexus7 here. The modding community has done a great job, but I often think that this is piecemeal and there is something that they might have overlooked. Let alone the fact that it ought to be the job of the company who made the product to iron out these flaws in the first place. It's just that if a product ships out with that many flaws, I tend to become suspicious, even if they are gotten rid of eventually.
Don't get me wrong. I
really like DW, or at least I try to. But sometimes, I wonder if it's worth the effort. Maybe if I would play some multiplayer, I could get more fun out of the game
