[Iron Budokan]

For a while there I was playing 256x or higher and found the game becoming too arcadish. Which was fine for instant fun and all and always shooting off the torpedoes at targets. But of late I have come to run patrols around 1x and never more than 32x.

I much prefer this, especially with GWX. There is simply too much to miss if you're zipping along at 1024x...and in my opinion the game becomes less of a sim and more of an arcade shooter at higher time compressions.

Now to be fair I don't expect to be running a 1x patrol deep into the Atlantic along the convoy routes. (Hm...maybe I ought to rethink that.) But I do like keeping my TC down much more than I used to, I find it adds realism. Now I no longer just "surface" at 256x after running on batteries during the day but find myself coming to periscope depth and taking a look around first. And doing trim dives and what not. Much more fun for me...but then again maybe that's just me. Dunno.