sinking merchants is boring

[Battle Stations]

Originally Posted by P_Funk

I always felt like the excitement came from the difficulty and my own precision. Conquering the math, the situation, the weather, the technology.

Of course, I play manual targeting. I too got bored sinking merchants when it was simply a matter of point and click and a guaranteed explosion.

Without manual targeting I wouldn't have a whole lot to put my energy into. Maybe role playing I guess.

Course I'm one of those weirdos that plays Arma2 heavily modded with my friends, and rolls around a middle eastern map patrolling in humvees, stopping in towns, checking buildings, and not finding any enemies for 45 minutes straight and still find it fun. Its the same as SH3/4 though in that after 45 dry minutes if you've let your guard down suddenly your opportunity shows itself and you can either react in a way that wins, or mess it up.

That said, a good task force always spices up a dreary patrol. Nothing gets the blood pumping like a 25 knot target that you only get one (manually targeted) shot at.

Tell me about it, on Arma 2, I find it fun just driving a transport truck and being logistics, not even fighting, just driving supplies, ammo and support.

On SH4 I like a have 100% Realism settings and end up just lying in wait for some unsuspecting transport to come past (sometimes they never do)