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Oesten · 01-10-07, 08:53 PM

Getting to grips with Shells of Fury now (done four training missions, lol!)

It's a bit tricky coping with the game text being all in German. Might have to do something about that!

The game is pretty limited compared to SH2 or SH3, obviously the developers had nowhere near the resources of Ubisoft, it's definitely a budget subsim. I miss having the ability to zoom all over the place with the external camera and look things over. In SOF there is an external camera, but it can't move - only rotate. So you only see a side view of your boat as the camera POV is alongside it. This is very unfortunate!

Also the external camera only works if you are surfaced, so you can't watch yourself firing torpedoes underwater. Pity.

Still enjoying the game though, it does make me feel as though I'm in WW1.

01-10-07, 08:53 PM	#109
Oesten A-ganger Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 79 Downloads: 11 Uploads: 0	Getting to grips with Shells of Fury now (done four training missions, lol!) It's a bit tricky coping with the game text being all in German. Might have to do something about that! The game is pretty limited compared to SH2 or SH3, obviously the developers had nowhere near the resources of Ubisoft, it's definitely a budget subsim. I miss having the ability to zoom all over the place with the external camera and look things over. In SOF there is an external camera, but it can't move - only rotate. So you only see a side view of your boat as the camera POV is alongside it. This is very unfortunate! Also the external camera only works if you are surfaced, so you can't watch yourself firing torpedoes underwater. Pity. Still enjoying the game though, it does make me feel as though I'm in WW1.