Yes in these days of graphical extraveganza you tend to forget that most of us grew up with no external viewpoint, playing games such as Silent Service, Silent Service 2, and even the original Silent Hunter none of which had that facility.
I too find that the claustrophobic nature of sub warfare is brought home much more dramatically by turning the external cam off. And the new "walk around the sub" mods help to compensate for their loss whilst actually adding to the realism.
Haviing said all that I'll now contradict myself a little in that I would like to see what the surface units under my control in "U-Boat missions" are up to whilst playing in strategic mode, which I don't believe is possible?
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