Multi-player....The Black Sheep Flottila

[martes86]

Originally Posted by PaulH513

I have read many of the threads here about the long awaited SH5 and have found only 1 thread that somewhat alludes to the multi-player aspect of the game and I have to assume that there is indeed a small percentage that actually play MP.

Most of you from what I gather play campaign or single missions and that's fine, whatever floats your boat. I can well imagine that there are some who have tried to play as a wolf pack with others online but got quickly discouraged with connection issues, CTD, ping problems, ego trips, cheat mods, insufficient RAM or my all time favorite....the host killing the game when he gets ripped by a depth charge. Most of these problems can be eliminated by having Teampeak, Ventrillo, etc. to be able to communicate to the others in the map and come to a mutual agreement on game play.

Well, the focus is on other features for SP, so the MP part gets usually forgotten. We at the 24th Flotilla have been asking for a long time for a reliable adversarial mode, like what was archieved in SH2/DC, but for the moment, only coop mode is being done (though we don't give up on the thought that a future addon or new sim might add this kind of functionality).
Since we the MP tournaments are a very important part of our community that we want to be able to keep alive, we're struggling to offer our members new ways to have fun, but it's really hard to play stock SH3 (SH4 never really took off for us) after 5 years and not get any boredom in the process. In our case, when people stops playing, it's because they're bored of the game (coop is so fun until you get bored of playing the same stuff, and sinking the same ships all the time in the exact same way) or because they don't have any spare time. They may play at times, but they're no longer regulars like they were at first.

Since we love realism in our MP, we don't allow any voice programs (they're not needed actually, and I don't think it's the solution, it tends to get noisy, we even disallowed the chat msgs in SH2 for submerged subs) unless it's an MP training mission, since we have our own Naval Academy to teach new captains how to have fun online, and do stuff the historically right way.

Cheers

[PL_Andrev]

Originally Posted by martes86

We at the 24th Flotilla have been asking for a long time for a reliable adversarial mode, like what was archieved in SH2/DC, but for the moment, only coop mode is being done.

Don't stop ask!
Something interesting must be in add-on, right?


I'm waiting too for ADV mode. Unfrortunatelly Akella doesn't allow the use of Battleships...