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Originally Posted by ETR3(SS)
Yes but to most people SH4 doesn't have "teh pwnzor zomg uboots!" in it.
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Yeah i know what you mean. SH4 DOES have uboats in it however, and you can get some cool things going on for them. It just doesn't cater specifically for uboats, Amazingly enough, the German side has more cool features that the game supports. Full KM grid, and player abiliites for instance. The US side has none of these things, and yet, because it's not Uboat only, it simply doesn't exist.
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Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat
U-Boats, U-Boats...I never understood the obsession some players have for WW2 U-Boats
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It's all about Das Boot. That movie has done more to propagate the uboat myth and romance more then anything else I'm aware of.
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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
When SH4 was released there was a huge (and I mean HUGE) outcry.
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Yeah i remember that. Not fondly i might add. I didn't realize just how close minded a lot of people here are until this outcry happened. Some of the comments were so heinously ignorant, they defy belief. As a result, my personal opinion of many things took a nose dive during this period.
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Most of the U-boat supporters had the opposite complaint - US fleet boats are boring because the war gets easier as time passes,
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Honestly, I think your typical "u-boat supporters" know diddly squat about US fleet boats, or the pacific campaign. I chaulk it all up to willful ignorance. Because If it didn't happen in Das Boot, it just didn't happen. I know that sounds spiteful, but everything ive read here over the years leads me to think this.
Anywho this topic used to bug the crap out of me. Not so much now. In my mind it doesn't matter what other people say, think, or do; because I know, *I* have read up on the history of, played, and modded for both Uboats and fleet boats - equally. Not everyone here can say that, and i think it makes me a better player/submarine enthusiast/subsimmer/whatever.