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Originally Posted by ColonelSandersLite
one shouldn't ignore a subsim just because it isn't das boot.
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Why should fidelity to some overwritten and preposterous movie be our yardstick for measuring the quality of a submarine simulation? It boggles my mind that an anti-war propoganda movie with little regard for the professionalism and quality of the German sailor or U-boat would command such worship, especially on the left side of the pond.
Das Boot depicts German submariners as sniveling cowardly and very sloppy seamen who didn't even bother to conduct a sonar sweep before they surfaced and were nearly run down by a very loud and obvious charging destroyer.
I certainly PRAY that a submarine simulation is better than that. Even the justifiably despised SH5 exceeds that poor standard.
It would be more appropriate to measure a sub sim by comparison to the Beatles'
Yellow Submarine. At least Admiral Halsey is in that one!
lol!
As far as the mods go, just about all of them require and were written for U-boat Missions, patch 1.5. There is much more to v1.5 than just the addition of the German craft. Memory is handled much better, the game loads faster, is more stable and that's just what I remember right now. Playing with 1.4 is playing an obsolete version. With the give-away price of 1.5 Gold, there's no excuse not to have the latest.