Several quick wish list items came to my mind..
1. Enemy submarines, seemingly dismissed in Neils interview by UBI. The Japanese submarines posed a significant threatto our submarines and many were engaged and possibly sunk by them. The enormous variety and abilities of Japanese submarines made for interesting adversaries. Midgets, Seaplane carriers present interesting scenarios for missions. Find the mother ships and sink them. Track down and kill a submarine seaplane mobile base etc. I think knowing there may be periscopes looking for you as well is to important a facet of the game to simply dismiss.
2. The ability to fire colored flares from the conning tower (red, white, blue, green) for special signals in Wolfpacks, identification, turn points,etc. Historically accurate flares were used a lot.
3. Pilot recovery, including approaches, enemy air overcap, and some neat twists like encountering both enemy and allied survivors and recovery. Could be interesting if a crew might obtain vital sea lane intelligence from those adrift if they are recovered.
4. Ability to dump oil, the famous torpedo launch of fake debris, dead crew, to confirm to the enemy a sinking...
5. The inclusion of the historical torpedo fusing difficulty.
6. The use of Deck guns and machine guns on light vessels and wooden vessels. Realistic debris, damage, explosions initiated, fuel leaks, fires started. Incendiary shells (white phosphorous) for surface tanker attacks.
7. Realistic AI reaction to radio messages from sub and intercept for location.
I'll keep growing the list but my impression is that time is short and so is manpower at UBI for this project.
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UBI might do well to keep a certain amount of the metadata on servers that only game owners can access and download to their PC's. Thus certain elements of the game might grow over time and extend the development of certain game elements beyond the initial release date...
Laters...
