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Originally Posted by CDR DPH
A long time ago, I had Silent Hunter I & II, 688 and maybe one other title. I did not play these very often because I enjoyed limited success. I currently own Cold Waters and play it all the time.
I am somewhat impatient. I don't mind learning how to best do things but I do get discouraged if I can't seem to make steady progress towards improvement. I appreciate decent graphics, good story lines/scenarios, and I really love guided torpedoes. I don't necessarily have to man every work station all the time and I do not particularly like having to drill down to the minutest detail to produce a favorable result although I accept some tasks on a sub do require a degree of finesse.
Of all the subsims currently available, that will run on Windows 10 with as few modifications as possible, that do not require and advanced degree in seamanship to enjoy, which would you pick if you could pick just one?
Thanks.
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I own Cold Waters on a Windows 10 system but something feels very off with it to me. I was on here months ago asking if there could be sub interiors for it so that I could feel attached to my boat but that never got implemented into the game unfortunately.
I just don't feel attached to my sub in Cold Waters and that kills the immersion for me but just like you, I love being able to control guided torps in the game. But the game makes me feel chilled and cold inside my body because I feel like I'm outside the sub in that cold water and not in my boat. I served in the U.S. Navy and I've been in some freezing cold water before in the North Atlantic and so it makes me feel chilled to my core when I don't feel like I'm inside my boat. I feel warm and snug inside a cozy sub or surface ship when there's interiors. I used to play Command Aces of the Deep long long ago when I was a teenager and I loved the warm and snug feeling I had being underwater and looking up through the scope at the moon in that game, with the waves above lapping away at my scope and listening to Mozart. Years later after that, and after I had served in the U.S. Navy, Silent Hunter III got released and it brought that feeling back I had years before playing Command Aces of the Deep.
I'd say Silent Hunter III is my all-time favorite SubSim. I mean, it was a huge hit for sub lovers when it came out and it's still very popular. People had their complaints, but overall, Ubisoft made a very good SubSim with that one. UbiSoft upset a lot of people by poisoning it with StarForce though. But I still installed it and enjoyed it and with mods found on here, the game is phenomenal.
I really wish they'd make Silent Hunter III with the graphics of Silent Hunter V (or better) and full sub interiors with full crew and allow for more than 4GB of RAM to be used for mods.
I would also like to have Cold Water 2 get released with sub interiors. Even if it's just freaking panels/stations like in Dangerous Waters! Just something that allows me to feel connected to my sub like I'm inside the bloody thing.
And I hate the campaign map in Cold Waters. It's like Red Storm Rising in how you drag your mouse on the map to travel and it feels like you're pulling your sub through a sea of taffy or something. I always hated that, even back in 1989 when I played RSR for the first time on an old IBM 386 system with a 5.25" floppy drive and a joystick.
I like how travel is done in Silent Hunter III, IV, and V where you can use time compression on the map and you can go back to the 3D world at normal time any time you want. I don't like having to wait for my sub icon to run into an A.I. icon on the map for battle mode to begin in the 3D world. I want to be able to explore the ocean at any time or travel via time compression at any time on the game map with waypoints I set.
U-Boat looks promising on Steam. It's not out yet but I like the crew management aspect and interior views I've seen for that game so far. I've heard from some who got beta keys that there's no campaign right now and there's still tons of features that need to be implemented for it. I'm hoping the Devs make it into a really awesome subsim though.
OH, one more thing! I want a freaking XCOM: Terror From the Deep remake with modern graphics. Is that too much to freaking ask for after all these years?! Loved being able to fight aliens under the sea and on tropical islands.