Projekt Messerwetzer pointless?

Smecty · 05-13-08, 08:03 PM

Hi all,

This is my first post to this forum, so let me give you some background first. My first subsim was a CD version of AoD back when I had a 486. That game was truly immersive - if you'll pardon the pun

- and I'll never forget the time I was on the ocean floor, dead silent, trying to fool some escorts above in a late-war scenario. I heard their props churning for a while, and then it went quiet. Aha, I thought, fooled them. Nope. I was just getting ready to begin to move again when WHAM a depth charge went off and I nearly jumped out of my seat! That game was wonderul and I loved the interviews, too.

Fast forward to today. I play a lot of games in a variety of genres (but not shooters, which tend to bore me), and hadn't played a subsim in a while. Recently got the jones to do so again, and bought SH3 at bargain bin prices, only to find out about its dreaded starforce copy protection. Well, to be short, I've never installed that game ... I just don't trust it. So I hauled out a copy of SH2 that I had purchased years ago and had never opened ... it was still in the shrink wrap!

It installed flawlessly on my new Dell rig (with Vista Home), and then I discovered this forum and the fact that there were literally tons of mods for this game. Yay! So I started finding as many of them as I could in an attempt to load what a number of posters here have stated as a good mix of mods: the 1.1 patch, Vickers Oil Slick and Fireball, Fletcher's enhancements, the rainmod, Projekt Schwertfisch+PS SP2, etc.

But here's my question: is there really any point in adding PM 1.03 at this point in time? It seemed overwhelmingly aimed at multiplayer play, which I assume is deader than a door nail at this point in time what with SH3 and SH4 out there. I know that UbiSoft doesn't support this game on its servers anymore, so what's the point in adding it? I'm really looking forward to just an immersive - that word again!

- solo situation trying to replicate all those great memories playing AoD.

Thoughts?

Smecty

05-13-08, 08:03 PM	#1
Smecty Swabbie Join Date: May 2008 Location: Eastern Massachusetts, USA Posts: 14 Downloads: 20 Uploads: 0	Projekt Messerwetzer pointless? Hi all, This is my first post to this forum, so let me give you some background first. My first subsim was a CD version of AoD back when I had a 486. That game was truly immersive - if you'll pardon the pun - and I'll never forget the time I was on the ocean floor, dead silent, trying to fool some escorts above in a late-war scenario. I heard their props churning for a while, and then it went quiet. Aha, I thought, fooled them. Nope. I was just getting ready to begin to move again when WHAM a depth charge went off and I nearly jumped out of my seat! That game was wonderul and I loved the interviews, too. Fast forward to today. I play a lot of games in a variety of genres (but not shooters, which tend to bore me), and hadn't played a subsim in a while. Recently got the jones to do so again, and bought SH3 at bargain bin prices, only to find out about its dreaded starforce copy protection. Well, to be short, I've never installed that game ... I just don't trust it. So I hauled out a copy of SH2 that I had purchased years ago and had never opened ... it was still in the shrink wrap! It installed flawlessly on my new Dell rig (with Vista Home), and then I discovered this forum and the fact that there were literally tons of mods for this game. Yay! So I started finding as many of them as I could in an attempt to load what a number of posters here have stated as a good mix of mods: the 1.1 patch, Vickers Oil Slick and Fireball, Fletcher's enhancements, the rainmod, Projekt Schwertfisch+PS SP2, etc. But here's my question: is there really any point in adding PM 1.03 at this point in time? It seemed overwhelmingly aimed at multiplayer play, which I assume is deader than a door nail at this point in time what with SH3 and SH4 out there. I know that UbiSoft doesn't support this game on its servers anymore, so what's the point in adding it? I'm really looking forward to just an immersive - that word again! - solo situation trying to replicate all those great memories playing AoD. Thoughts? Smecty