Alternative to Dangerous Water?

[Molon Labe]

Originally Posted by jrivett

I have a lot of trouble with that statement. I mean, I understand your point, but I don't think that excuses how terrible the sonar autocrew is. I'm a software developer, and as such I know that shipping a product with a feature that is effectively broken is a very bad idea. At least, if you get bad reviews because of it, you have no right to complain. And the sonar autocrew is so utterly useless that it is effectively broken. I was prepared to man the sonar station in tricky or difficult situations, but assumed that the autocrew would be able to handle basic tasks with some degree of competence. In that I was seriously disappointed.

I don't think you did understand the point. DW shipped with a LOT of bugs and broken features, many of which continued through the 1.04 patch and some of which were never solved. They deserve to take criticism for that--including for not having autocrew that can do everything that was advertised. I'm not letting them off the hook for that.

BUT, that is still a separate issue from using autocrew performance as a measure for the fidelity of the simulation. Because the autocrew is not designed to simulate anything, it is simply illogical to criticise the product as if it does. This takes nothing away from the argument that they were wrong not to "finish" the product before shipping it.