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Medzell · 03-10-10, 03:32 AM

I've played a few hours to get the feel of things even though I have yet to install a new graphics card able to handle enough video memory to run it properly which makes "walking" around the boat all but impossible.

Because it doesn't "light up", the bearing readout in the scope and particularly the UZO while making night surface attacks is AWFUL.

I also seem to have a problem getting the guncrew back OFF the gun. The dialogue with the Watch Officer allows manning the gun but I have yet to find how to get them to stand down again. There seems to be a similar problem with the Flak gun guy the only difference being he doesn't GO to the flak gun in the first place.

The Auto Mode TDC, once you get the hang of it, is really very simple to use successfully. In manual mode it's a bit "untidy" in the input phase and the Stadimeter is very poor. Again a huge problem is the "dark" readout figures.

Plotting is made more difficult because of the detection area shading which makes reading headings, etc very hard.

One other thing I noticed (and this MAY be caused by my current graphics capability being insufficient) is that the stop watch runs slow at normal 1x speed. I had to set the time to 2x to carry out a proper mark, time, mark plot to get target speed.

I hope over the coming weeks a lot of these problems can be corrected/modded because it's quite obvious the game is heavily biased towards Auto TDC which is, in all honesty, FAR too simple once you get a feel for the new display.

Is it just a plain old shoot-em-up kind of game when set up in Auto TDC mode? Yeah, pretty much I'm afraid. Can it be modded to make it far more Manual TDC friendly regarding being able to read the figures of the plotting tools, read the figures in the scope or UZO at night and fixing the Stadimeter? I hope so or it'll be back to SH3 for me. (You'll notice I didn't say "back to SH4". That's because SH4 started us on the slippery slope which has lead us to SH5 as it is straight out of the box).

03-10-10, 03:32 AM	#484
Medzell Mate Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Scotland Posts: 54 Downloads: 309 Uploads: 0	Annoying I've played a few hours to get the feel of things even though I have yet to install a new graphics card able to handle enough video memory to run it properly which makes "walking" around the boat all but impossible. Because it doesn't "light up", the bearing readout in the scope and particularly the UZO while making night surface attacks is AWFUL. I also seem to have a problem getting the guncrew back OFF the gun. The dialogue with the Watch Officer allows manning the gun but I have yet to find how to get them to stand down again. There seems to be a similar problem with the Flak gun guy the only difference being he doesn't GO to the flak gun in the first place. The Auto Mode TDC, once you get the hang of it, is really very simple to use successfully. In manual mode it's a bit "untidy" in the input phase and the Stadimeter is very poor. Again a huge problem is the "dark" readout figures. Plotting is made more difficult because of the detection area shading which makes reading headings, etc very hard. One other thing I noticed (and this MAY be caused by my current graphics capability being insufficient) is that the stop watch runs slow at normal 1x speed. I had to set the time to 2x to carry out a proper mark, time, mark plot to get target speed. I hope over the coming weeks a lot of these problems can be corrected/modded because it's quite obvious the game is heavily biased towards Auto TDC which is, in all honesty, FAR too simple once you get a feel for the new display. Is it just a plain old shoot-em-up kind of game when set up in Auto TDC mode? Yeah, pretty much I'm afraid. Can it be modded to make it far more Manual TDC friendly regarding being able to read the figures of the plotting tools, read the figures in the scope or UZO at night and fixing the Stadimeter? I hope so or it'll be back to SH3 for me. (You'll notice I didn't say "back to SH4". That's because SH4 started us on the slippery slope which has lead us to SH5 as it is straight out of the box).