Are they TRYING to kill the submarine genre?

jmatt · 11-29-07, 01:11 AM

Okay, it's a rant.

But I have spent 2 weeks trying to figure this game out. The manual is a joke, we all know that. But do I have to really spend endless hours searching this site to try to figure out how to play this game? Unpaid modders and players have contributed a hundred times more instruction on what to do than Ubisoft has.

In career mode, I get the same missions one after the other. They send me to patrol the Marshall Islands and I go night after night of gameplay without an enemy contact. It's preposterous.

I keep setting radar (which I have) to continuous sweep but every time I check it's in focus mode or switched off, etc, etc.

I'm not a complete noob, I've being playing sub sims since Gato on the 1984 Mac, Silent Service, Red Storm Rising, SH3, 688I, etc but the complete lack of instruction makes me wanna hang it up. Players need action.

I'm sure that old hands have no problem with finding fun and excitement with the game -- but players that don't eat and breathe sub sims should be able to have fun without weeks and weeks of seeking help on the internet.

It's no wonder sub sims have such a tiny following. How can Ubisoft be so short sighted? How can they expect players to go two nights in a row (4 hours per night) without firing a single torpedo?

I'm just about done. There are more entertaining ways of spending my time than endlessly searching for information that should have been in the manual.

11-29-07, 01:11 AM	#1
jmatt Nub Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 4 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Are they TRYING to kill the submarine genre? Okay, it's a rant. But I have spent 2 weeks trying to figure this game out. The manual is a joke, we all know that. But do I have to really spend endless hours searching this site to try to figure out how to play this game? Unpaid modders and players have contributed a hundred times more instruction on what to do than Ubisoft has. In career mode, I get the same missions one after the other. They send me to patrol the Marshall Islands and I go night after night of gameplay without an enemy contact. It's preposterous. I keep setting radar (which I have) to continuous sweep but every time I check it's in focus mode or switched off, etc, etc. I'm not a complete noob, I've being playing sub sims since Gato on the 1984 Mac, Silent Service, Red Storm Rising, SH3, 688I, etc but the complete lack of instruction makes me wanna hang it up. Players need action. I'm sure that old hands have no problem with finding fun and excitement with the game -- but players that don't eat and breathe sub sims should be able to have fun without weeks and weeks of seeking help on the internet. It's no wonder sub sims have such a tiny following. How can Ubisoft be so short sighted? How can they expect players to go two nights in a row (4 hours per night) without firing a single torpedo? I'm just about done. There are more entertaining ways of spending my time than endlessly searching for information that should have been in the manual.