I hadnt noticed the radio transmissions being any different that SH3. You hit "M" and have the option to read messages, send a status report, send a contact report. This is the first I've heard of changing radio frequencies and all that, I'll have to give it a shot.
As far as machinegunning lifeboats, I havent tried that but I will lol. One thing weird about the lifeboats though, is that all the ones I have seen so far have no one in them, just empty rafts floating around. A bug maybe? Not sure. Downed pilots appear in the water, but enemy life rafts are all empty so far.
I havent experienced any problems with the event camera not working, however I have noticed that the framerate drops way down on the system I was on when the event camera comes on. Which was kind of surprising, so we ended up turning it off.
As far as performance goes, there are a lot of graphics options in the game. The biggest system hog as far as I can tell is the option to make the water clear so you can see a few feet underneath it. My friend and I experienced a big difference in performance with that option on and off. When the game lags though it doesnt manifest in "choppy graphics". Its more like the mouse is slow to respond and everything just seems to have a delay to it. It got old fast so we turned the "clear water" off. Game looks really good with and without it, so it isnt a big deal. The bottom line though is that with all the graphics options off this game should run pretty smoothly on any computer that can play GWX as far as I can tell. If you want all the bells and whistles and for the game to still run smoothly you are going to need a pretty high end machine. The good news though is the game looks beautiful even with all the graphics options turned off, so those of you with average machines should be able to enjoy the game just fine.
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