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Originally Posted by WEBSTER
1 if DD go after the wolfpack will you be left alone? this makes the game too easy.
2 if the DD do go after you then how many? if destroyed will any more come after you? if all DD come after you as they do in sh4 right now then this would be a realism killer and would look stupid.
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1) But in reality thats exactly what made the packs so successful! (in the early days of the wolfpack), the pack got between the convoy lanes and the escorts where overwhelmed to the point they could do little more than intimidate the uboats with gun fire and force them to dive - before moving on.
Since the packs struck a night the escorts had an difficult task to pin point the Uboats with out any radar equipment.
Unlike SH3 /SH4 Convoy Escorts would not hunt the Uboat until is was lost or sunk while leaving the convoy to sail off into the horizon - their orders were to stick to the convoy like glue.
Wolf packs will hopefully help remedy this pretty major flaw in Escort behaviour (of the past two games)
People tend forget, you wont likely be attacking in Wolf packs for 80-90% of your career. So overall it will not effect the games difficulty.
If it does happen that way on occasion, then count you self lucky and sink some tonnage while the escorts are preoccupied.
2) Again this is unrealistic behavior for convoy Escorts.
However the escorts AI in SH3/Sh4 is already capable of handling mutiple threats and its really no different from the way AI Bots respond to you and team mates in Squad based First person shooter like ArmA or Battlefield 2. You can test it in SH3 or 4, fire up a mission where some hostile DDs have to choose between you and some other freindly vessels.... then see how they deal with it.
In short I'm saying what ever happens with Wolfpacks, it will work much like any other game where you have AI team mates.
Secondly, whilest it will be a nice part of the game, you will still be hunting alone 90% of the time.
Having Wolfpacks is not going to turn SHV into a Naval RTS or a Squad based naval sim.
I think some folks are reading too much in to it.