About the SH5 campaigns - what you like/dislike

[Dignan]

Originally Posted by Zedi

I think this is very doable. I finished twice the whole SH5 campaign and the overall feeling was that Im all alone, that this is MY war and I fight against the whole world. Is like playing a pirate game where my objective is to hunt ships all by myself.

So I will try to bring more life in the game by launching the kriegsmarine at the sea. The SH5 campaign is full with allied traffic, but almost no german taskforces around except the shore.

I did a quick test to see how the AI will behave when encounter the enemy on surface, here is the result posted on screenies topic. The germans are deadly precise and I had a great feeling seeing this short battle taking place, the feeling that Im not alone anymore and Im a soldier, not a mercenary or pirate.

This has always been a problem with the SH series. No sense of any other subs or allied ships being "out there with you." However, sometimes I still wonder if they are there but you just don't often see them because the ocean is a BIG place.

Only a few times have I encountered allied ships but I have.

1. In SH4 I've tracked targets, set up solutions and all but fired the torpedo when I saw that it was actually a New Zealand or Russian merchant.

2. In SH5 I once saw a German merchant transiting the English Channel heading west. Not sure what he was doing but I noticed he was getting attacked by British planes. I made the decision to man the flak guns and head towards the ship's position to assist. Unfortunately, it was sunk by the planes before I could get there.

3. And my all time most immersive moment....in SH4 about halfway between Pearl and Japan I ran into a US Task Force with about 3 carriers, some cruisers and a handful of destroyers heading West towards Japanese waters. It was awesome. I surfaced and joined the parade for a while but it was too costly on my fuel consumption and eventually let them press on their high speed.

So, I think allied ships are out there but I think if someone is able to mod the campaign layer to add more it would definitely add to the immersiveness of the game.