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Originally Posted by maillemaker
If you turn off map contacts, it really changes the game. You will find that instead of playing the game from the map screen, you will start playing it from the bridge or the periscope. Additionally, you will develop a much keener sense of angular perception relative to your boat. Unless you have time to ID ships and do a good fixed-wire speed check, you will also find yourself guessing at speeds a lot more.
I think these qualities were paramount in real uboat commanders' minds.
Everyone should try at least a patrol with no map contacts.
Steve
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I originally started playing Silent Hunter 5 with the intent to have it as real as possible. Two things caused me to lower the realism under 100%.
1) Manual targeting was not even possible since I was unable to calculate distance to target properly using stadometer, which was broken at the time, or binoculars. I allowed map contacts so that I could measure distances, and it worked perfectly. Perhaps too perfectly though. I felt myself longing for that fog to mean something. Struggling to make visual contact through weather conditions, or manually spotting a target is terribly missed. An immersive factor that I sacrificed to measure distances.
2) External view was something that I could not bear to give up. Having committed to all this hardware so that I could meet the latest graphical demands, it just wouldn't make sense, if you're not going to enjoy all that eye candy Silent Hunter 5 offers. And so I allowed external views, promising myself that I'd only use it asthetically, during uneventful patrol periods, but not tactically, to spot targets and identify course, or true bearing. I broke my promise pretty early on, and again, I paid the price with an immersion breaker. Attacks were too easy even on hardest settings. It just wasn't challenging enough.
So to sum that up.
"Allow external view" and "allow map contact updates", were the two reasons I lowered my realism settings, taking it off of 100% realism, to 82% or something like that.
So now I've returned after a fair while and there have been updates to several mods. I noted Sobers mega mod and figured that's my best bet. With all these mods, is it possible for me to go 100%? Does stadimeter work and uzo work for measuring distance with Sobers mod list?
I think it's time now.
Training rudders are comming off, as soon as I get the last of Sobers list.
