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Originally Posted by CCIP
I would still suggest that people avoid shunning modern sims. There seems to be some snobbish attitude involved in this as well; I think people often fail to see past the 'fire and forget'. I've run into this far too often with flight sims, and I've gotten quite tired of people putting down Falcon 4.0 just because it has missiles. Sure IL-2 is more visceral, but to be honest, I still prefer the modern flight sim done right - it offers a lot of unique challenges and puts a lot of emphasis on building situational awareness from a lot more sources than just your Mk.1 eyeballs.
The point is that there is a lot of good stuff in modern simming. I do, however, believe that it doesn't belong in the SH series, let alone in a current engine that is slowly being tuned to being 'just the thing' for a WWII-era sim (and thus saving a lot of time and money in the development process of SHIV and possibly further expansions/titles).
What I think needs to be realized here that building a proper modern sim will take a lot more than a few pretty models of SSBNs and torpedoes that run further and faster. Just look at DW - it's being developed by a team of military-contract professionals, and yet it still has the modelling far from perfect. I don't believe a simplified sim is a sim; it's unlikely that it will gain support from the community in the long run and would probably kill the series (even if it initially sells alright). And if a proper modern sim is to be done, then you might as well start from scratch. And that will take a lot of money that Ubi is probably not willing to invest.
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Hear hear, re your F4 comments
Anyone who thinks a-a missles are some kind of magic bullet in F4, obviously haven't played it much