My thoughts on UBOAT

[SquidB]

I've been playing subsims since Silent Hunter. For me the pinacle was SH3 with GWX, Ive played it for years and often come back.

I avoided Uboat whilst it was in early access but when I saw it had been released and was on sale on Steam I thought I'd try it out. I played through the tutorials and it was 'ok'. I was luke warm to it.

Then a couple of weeks later I ramped up the difficulty settings and got some Mods that further added realism. I must say I was blown away.

My favourite warstory from a patrol is when I got depth charged after attacking a convoy and ended up with the boat flooded and leaking on the seabed at 260 meters. The escorts lost me and withdrew, I managed to plug the leaks but the boat was too heavy to surface. Furthermore due to my depth the pump couldnt pump out the water due to the water pressure. I almost quit, but then I thought i would try something.

I turned on the electric compressor, trying to build up the pressure in the boat to force out the water. Of course this used up a lot of my remaining oxygen but I was dead anyway right? Well it worked, and the pump managed to get the boat bouyant again an I managed to surface. It was a total Das Boot moment and an amazing experiance. Since then I've been hooked.

Of course its not perfect but SH3 was far from perfect vanilla. I cant wait to see what the modders manage to do with it. Really looking forward to it getting a mega mod ala GWX.

If youve not tried it or havent for a while I would recommend giving it another go.