OK - Curiosity Got The Better Of Me

[rascal101]

OK as a big opponent of the DRM I admit curiosity and love of the SH series got the better of me - so I bought the game, I suspect not unlike a few others who at first said they would never do so!

A few observations

The graphics are good there is simply no denying - and over all I'd say the game has alot going for it - it's like Ubisfot has thrown us bone and asked us to make a meal of it -

To my mind none of the new elements promised in the publicity make any sense, sure there there but there is not much coherance or rational so without knowing what these amasing new crew abilities are its difficult to know why you need bother with them at all

I imagine as the game is modded that most people will just come to ignore the so called interactivity with the crew - its repetative and banal and adds nothing to the game.

Ask the guy to man the deck guns - he says sure thing and nothing happens - same with flak gun - sometimes some other guys turn up at the gun, or they dont - either way you have to do all the aiming and shooting - or have I missed something

Old one eye gets upset about something - something about the guys being lewd - you tell him there, there and that seems about that

Not sure about enemy anti submarine warfare - sure the destroyers do come looking for you but they dont seem all that interested in killing you - a bit lite on depthcharging

Aircraft - the RAF is out there - just flying around - dont worry they never attack you, they dont even seem to notice you.

Special Abilities:
With no instruction on how these are suposed to work one can never really know if your guys are using them - in fact often despite your being the captain they outright refuse use them

Player controls:
There's no rudder - no ability to fine tune steering
No Depth Under Keel
The clock in the command room does not match the time on the stopwatch
No music for the long boring bits between engagements

TDC - interesting this kind of works - you just got to fiddle with the angle on the bow, the rest of it is straight forward - its the angle on bow thing you have to master - if your in close with the enemy say within 900m it doesn matter - but for long range shots it does - there is a fine yellow line wich moves in relation to where you're putting the the angle on the bow - you can use this to lead your shot - its a bit hit and miss but so's the rest of the game.

I cant get the dam game to work in German - tried to reload and got everything in german with no English subtitles tried the steps outlined in one of the posts dealing with this issue but the files refered to dont exist

The DRM isnt an issue - I dont like it on principle but it has not caused any hassles

Overall the game is kind of there - but kind of not there - the missions dont saeem to mean anything - you trundle out to do your patrol in your dedicated patrol area. Your not registered as having arrived until you've sunk something - if you score under the amount specified in the orders, say 50k or a 100k then, well then nothing happens, and not much happens if you do

When you run out of torps you go home, get some new ones and do it all again

Seems the mod team have started their thing which is good - this baby's going to need a lot of TLC to make it coherent - as it is it seems very childish

It might do nicely for kids with out much real interest in the period or the genre' but it cant hold much for any one whose interested in a simulation - kind of like trying to compare the orignal Brother's in Arms, with Medal of Honour - the one tried to provide an accurate simulation of the war and of the period and the tactics therein the other just didnt care

Regards to all

R