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Originally Posted by ParaB
Yesterday I played a multiplayer game of SH4 and chatted with a couple of guys about the general gameplay. What surprised me a bit was that obviously everybody except me regularly completes 100k tonnage patrols, sinking battleships and carriers left and right. When I told them that I often suffered from dud torpedoes or a bad manual aiming I got the reply "well, always save before firing your tops, then you can reload if you miss".
Errrr... this got me wondering a bit.
For me my failures are an essential part of the SH4 atmosphere. If I save/load for every attack until I get the perfect result, what's the motivation to play the game at all? Every patrol will yield the same success.
OTOH only when you miss a battleship or suffer from duds will you appreciate the feeling of triumph next time you actually hit a big target. And only if you complete a patrol with a meagre success you will come to appreciate a really good patrol.
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That is gameplaying... personally I prefer simulation - simulation doesn't need saves to get a high score.
However, with the game in it's current state, it is a bit too easy to get high tonnage patrols by basically sailing into a harbour, shooting up the place and sailing out. You can do it undetected and, as far as I can tell, even when things start exploding the AI doesn't seem to bother with seriously looking for you, and certainly the fighting vessels in the harbour don't suddenly wake up. You only need a battleship or two, or a couple of carriers to get into the 50K range straight off.
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