It has been possible to operate the Uboat from release on day one, last year in march. In the beginning you had to run from station to station to operate controls. This switching of attention to each station does take a bit of a toll on how well you manage your command. It's easy to make mistakes or forget to do things. With the recent addition of bot-crew you have them as extensions of your person to control those functions. They are a proxy. You control them through an overlay interface in your personal view. (they also appear as 3d crew vacating the spot whenever a player comes near) This video gives a good representation of how you control them:
It's a personal choice of course. But it does make it better to have other players focus on their particular station in the boat (you are totally free to be flexible and change responsibilities among yourselves at will) and collectively perform better then the sum of it's parts. It does however place more emphasis on cooperation and trying to maintain order in what quickly can end up in a chaotic bunch of people.
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