Your playing style?

[DigitalAura]

Just curious how you all choose to play this game.... because I take note every time I read your posts that it would seem most of you are all 'die-hard', sonar-only, 'duds-on' realism fanatics. It would seem that most here start a career and accept whatever outcome happens during their campaign. ("Hey, I found a convoy but couldn't hit anything in the bad weather!" <--duh...I naturally start the scenario over again until I can clean up!)

Do you save your game prior to each encounter? Do you reload that save game if it doesn't go exactly as planned? Do you save the game again after finally having success with that scenario?

My impression is that I must be the only person playing this way. I don't want to, but it's a habit from my RPG days I guess. I love the realism, but I want the HOLLYWOOD ending! Sometimes I spend days on the same battle, trying different approaches until something works. Heck, I'll even reload if only one of three torps makes a hit! (I guess I'd make a lousy captain, but I bet I learn quicker this way!)

I'm curious to hear what some of the vets here do.

[AVGWarhawk]

Fanatic? Not me. I play 100%. I do not save prior to the battle. The outcome is the outcome. Dead is dead. Playing this way makes you command your submarine a bit different when you know you can not hit the reset button.

[DigitalAura]

*sigh.

It's as I thought. So, then explain to me what you do when you spend several hours just getting from POINT A to POINT B, in career mode, and then a plane sinks you. Do you start a new campaign?

Here's another one: Do you use time compression? How often and in what circumstances? Do you just warp to each new engagement?

[AVGWarhawk]

Yep, dead is dead. If I'm bobbing around for hours and sinking half the Japanese navy getting myself sunk in the process....DiD. Start over again. Again, you become a bit more cautious with your submarine. I time compress for sure. I stay around x1024 or a bit more it I'm leaving Pearl. I TC between engagements but only at like x512.

[Armistead]

I play like I have a gun to the back of my head and if I die it goe's off......hehe.. Seriously, I play 100%, no contacts, but have the cam enabled. I don't use it in battle unless I just don't have time to play.

No saving in battle. I use to not save at all, but that get's old when something stupid happens. After never finishing a career, I did use two saves to see the end. Right now I'm in mid 44 and still alive. I'll save when I get near Japan and after finishing attacks. I have rushed and run into land...I'll use my save....

It is slow play this way. During tracking and attack using TC is about impossible. You can spend hours attacking a small convoy that you could do with minutes using contacts and cam. It can be frustrating. I will use the cam when attacking single merchants or small stuff. I know I'm gonna win anyway and not gonna spend hours at this.

Why it takes time, nothing compares to not using the cam during an attack. Overall it's a cheat tool you can use to steer and watch everything when the scope is down. Without it, you're left to just the scope and tactics. Why being charged, it gets fairly real when you're just in the sub and can't see what's going on above.

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[DigitalAura]

yeah, I agree about the cam. I'll have to try a career this way... where Dead is Dead! LOL

[AVGWarhawk]

Try it...all of a sudden charging warships on the surface with cannon blazing is not such a good idea. Taking outlandish chances stop.