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No exaggeration? Would you say SH5 with WoS is better than SH3 with GWX?
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I played SH3+GWX for years, until I finally survived the war playing Dead is Dead.
The thing about SH5 is it just has highly superior graphics compared to SH3. SH3 is good, but SH5 is great. The flames are photo-realistic. The smoke is nearly so. Something in WoS has added smoking portholes, windows, and ventilators. The ship damage animations are also spectacular. And the damage is 3-dimensional rather than wallpaper as in SH3. The ability to move around the entire boat in SH5 also makes for a more immersive experience. Especially if you play 100% realism with no map contacts - then your game experience
is the uboat, rather than playing mostly from the map.
SH5 does not match the extensive variety of ships that you will find in SH3+GWX. And of course SH5 is limited to the Type VII variants, which, to me, is the biggest disappointment.
The biggest shock to SH5+WoS is you have a glass uboat. It will take damage if someone drops a wrench inside. In SH3 the mantra was "stay out of shallow water". In SH5 the mantra is "stay IN shallow water" because if you take a hit in SH5 you are going to the bottom. At least if it's shallow you can sit on the bottom and maybe patch things up and surface again later. In deep water you will never fix things before you hit crush depth. In SH5+WoS, past 1942 you had better never be detected or you are done for. Best bet is to lob torpedoes at convoys from 5000 meters from the outer pickets using steam FATs and hope for a hit either directly or from the ladder program.
Acoustic torpedoes in SH5 are not as effective as in SH3 where they are basically magic missiles. In SH3 you need only fire them in the general direction of the enemy and they will lock on and do their job. In SH5 they need a much closer track to target and the target has to be moving at high speed to attract the fish. It's entertaining to fire one at an escort as part of a salvo at a convoy, so that when they escorts hit the gas to come looking for you it attracts the homer. But really it's a waste because by the time you get acoustic torpedoes convoys have so many escorts that you have achieved nothing. Better to through 4 FATs at the convoy and leave undetected.
Steve