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I am only using map updates "on" to get more familiar with how the game works. It's amazing the attention to details. For example, the visual sighting range of the escorts (the grey circle) is influenced by the height of your periscope. In the example above, if my periscope was fully extended, it would already have been spotted. As you can see, from the bar in the upper left corner of the screenshot, my periscope is barely breaking the surface and the carrier was obscured by waves 80-90% of the time.
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Isn't that the very definition of "dumbed down"? In SH4 I have to play with map updates since there's no realistic and "manual easy" way to switch between periscope and the map for marking contacts. Of course it could be done and some are doing it, but it's not very realistic either to have to do both.
But at least in SH4, map updates only give the basics. Now here you get magical "they will detect you inside this circle but not outside it" information?
There's a lot of potential under the hood of the new engine, but it will take a while for the modders to put it into actual use.