Hello,
i always thought of AoD being better than Silent Service or the later Silent Hunter (1), not that those were bad, but AoD was somehow - better
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It is also a theory of mine that the AoD AI was not too good. But remember you had no real clue on the AI - since you never saw your submerged boat, or any destroyer dropping ash cans, or any destroyer's course circling above your boat from outside everyone tends to say AoD is more realistic or had better AI.
Solution: Just turn your exterior camera off - so you will only experience what you experienced in AoD. But even me with my realism-kick certainly has a hard time turning off this exterior camera and beautiful graphics ...
I do not second the view we need a bilge-metre, this is the same crap as this 65-percent-damage info. You should see the damage (leaks, broken-down pumps and the like) and decide yourself how damaged your boat is. The damage modelling in SH3 is wrong in a way that U-boats would seldomly die suddenly from a depth charge, because the pressure hull did not really suffer - the sealings, pumps and trim tanks did. Maybe we could simulate an assistant mechanic telling his views of the damage helping you decide, like it was in reality ...
Greetings,
Catfish