I do not like the new UI at all! When I buy a WWII Subsim I want to feel like I'm in a WWII Uboat and not in Captain Kirk's Enterprise. I do not insist at all on having good ole SH3 or SH4 back, but I want the nostalgic feeling of a WWII Sub, otherwise I could play a modern Sub Sim.
I disagree with Ducimus that reducing the UI in the way ubi did it is a progress. Why should this reduction of operability be a step forward in any direction?
However, I do like a new approach to Crew management whrere the role of the Captain is more tactical and more faced towards managing the crew and giving orders. But first and foremost I'm a great fan of the technical side of the Sim. And as a Captain I'm the boss and therefore I want to be able to operate all the main systems in the boat by myself if I like to. And what's the use of being able to walk through all the compartments of the boat, when I can't touch anything in there?
At least the TDC in the tower, the brain of our boat, should work properly and not being just a dead graphics peace to stare at.
That's why I do appreciate the work of Dark Wraith very much to bring us back operable dials and switches.
So why not going on in new directions keeping the good things of the past? Why doesn't ubi make everyone happy, the RPG fans as well as the technical nerds, if everything would be implemented in the Game engine? That's why I hope very much that modders like DarkWraith will go on with their work to bring us as much of this "technical realism" back as possible.
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