SUBSIM UBOOT dev team interview

[Vince82]

Thank you for this preview, onkel.

The choice for distance compresion is innovative/risky. Time compression is what everybody was used to for the past decades, it worked well.

I like that 1st person view is included, manual periscope, plotting and torpedo data probably (TDC). Ship recognition manual??, stadimeter??

Aircraft will be dangerous. This means not cruising on the surface at daytime when enemy is expected and recharging at night. So real live tactics are needed.

scripted missions I don't mind that. As long as they are interesting. I did read something about this on the Uboot Campaign page.

I think only modelling the VIIc is a smart decision but covering the war all the way to 1945 is way too ambitious and unnecessary. Why not until black May 1943? Enough time for 15 or more patrols I would say.

UBOOT, pledged

[Onkel Neal]

Hi Vince,

you betcha.

I am going to use my crystal ball to say, from what I have learned, that there really won't be much need for TC. I am guessing that contact will be made more frequently than SH games, and in between engagements, the game will have a lot of crew and boat chores to entertain the player. And I think that will be ok, UBOOT is not trying to be better than SH5, it's trying to provide gameplay that the SH and other subsims did not focus on. And that could be a lot of fun, we will see.