Immersive techniques for the true subsimmer!

Flobster · 10-20-20, 04:58 PM

This is a great thread! Thanks for all the tips and discussion. I've recently got back into subsimming (still mostly SH3.) I enjoy anything that allows me to suspend the feeling that I am in a mechanical flatworld filled with robots.

One thing I have been doing this time around is grabbing radio snippets from YouTube for the specific date I am playing in. If you search for "radio september 5th 1939" or whatever, you'll usually find something from the archive.

One channel that has been useful in this regard is the 'The World War II News and Old Time Radio Channel' found here:

Most of the videos feature the channel owner reading a selection of newspaper articles followed by an hour or more of US radio from that specific day. It amounts to a huge amount of audio content. Much larger than anything a mod could include for the in-game radio.

If you're someone who spends a lot of time at low TC watching the waves go by, I find it adds a lot to the sense of time and place.

10-20-20, 04:58 PM	#11
Flobster Nub Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 4 Downloads: 108 Uploads: 0	This is a great thread! Thanks for all the tips and discussion. I've recently got back into subsimming (still mostly SH3.) I enjoy anything that allows me to suspend the feeling that I am in a mechanical flatworld filled with robots. One thing I have been doing this time around is grabbing radio snippets from YouTube for the specific date I am playing in. If you search for "radio september 5th 1939" or whatever, you'll usually find something from the archive. One channel that has been useful in this regard is the 'The World War II News and Old Time Radio Channel' found here: Most of the videos feature the channel owner reading a selection of newspaper articles followed by an hour or more of US radio from that specific day. It amounts to a huge amount of audio content. Much larger than anything a mod could include for the in-game radio. If you're someone who spends a lot of time at low TC watching the waves go by, I find it adds a lot to the sense of time and place.