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Originally Posted by Mittelwaechter
Do these AI Uboats have to 'exist'?
The imagination would be good enough for me.
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Yes they need to actually exist
just like all the other units actually exist. If you are prepared to go down the 'imagination' route where do you stop?
Would you be ok if they scrapped aircraft or destoyers and we just 'imagined' there were there instead?
If I want some imagination, Ill just switch off the PC, sit in a dark corner 'imagining' being a Uboat comander
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Originally Posted by Arclight
Problem is depth-sounding is done with active sonar. An AI sub taking a depth reading regularly would alert any escorts in the area.
I think it's a more realistic expectation to have wolfpacks in multiplayer only, I just don't think any AI is capable of effectively commanding a sub.
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Come now, it not as if an AI sub has never been done before, as i said - far more complex thing have been coded than this, Ai subs need not be much more complicated that Ai for an aircraft in a flight sim.
In reply to your first point, I wasnt suggesting for a second that the Sub actually 'pings' the ocean floor. All that matters is that it can determine the depth. Just an aircraft can determine where the ground is with out needing to physically do anything special.
As you say above DW has AI subs, it is NOT an unrealistic expectation at all.
It is no more unrealistic than expecting a full 3d sub interior with crew going about their business. - that would have been much harder to code than a poxy AI sub.
(And they have managed that just fine.)
If not enough people support the inclusion of Wolf packs for SHV - or say they dont care - then no, the devs definatley wont bother....