Manned ships?

[TDK1044]

I'm going to be interested to see if some adjustment is made to either put lifelike crews on the ships that we attack, or at least to let us hear alarms when a ship is hit. One thing I found to be poor in SH3 was the fact that you were always attacking a ghost ship with no sign of life at all.

I understand that this is a judgement area for the DEVS, in that there are RAM considerations here and they also don't want people using their sub to smash into people who have jumped overboard. However, in my view there needs to be some sort of a compromise so that you do feel that you are attacking a 'manned' ship and not a ghost ship.

It seems pointless to me to build high levels of detailed historical accuracy into the game and then not allow any sign of life on any of the ships. The sub captains knew that they were killing people when they sunk a ship...it came with the job.

[Boris]

I don't see this happening for SHIV, but they had better have this in SHV.

Crews on deck, releasing lifeboats, jumping over the side etc. Would be cool.

[AJ!]

They did say crews would have proper animations this time, but i assume thats just for the sub crew.

While having a fully animated crew running round the decks may not make it into game i dont see any reason why they wouldnt include alarms going of on a ship thats been hit or is just about to go into battlestations

[Corsair]

There is sometimes some sign of life when they start shooting back at you...

[TDK1044]

Originally Posted by Corsair

There is sometimes some sign of life when they start shooting back at you...

But only from the ship itself. There's nobody manning the gun.

[Corsair]

Originally Posted by TDK1044

But only from the ship itself. There's nobody manning the gun.

Would be worried if I was close enough to see it.