Replayability. That's absolutely key to sand-box shooters, of which both Wolfpack and Destroyer - The U-boat hunter are BOTH examples of. Both also suffer from the same problem, namely that once you've mastered aiming torpedoes and evading escorts, there's nothing else to learn, and little replayability. This is chiefly because AI always sucks, and AI actions, be they of the convoy itself, or of AI escorts are always, relatively speaking, as dumb as a fence-post.
Wolfpack seriously needs PVP via player operable escorts, and likewise Destroyer needs human operated Uboats for either game to be able to retain players in the long-term. The addition of all crew-compartments has been good, and I look forward to learning to operate the engines and e-motors, however, in my personal view, it was an error not to move quicker to the PVP playable escorts instead. YMMV of course.
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