How many of you play DiD style?

[Safe-Keeper]

Yup.

I really get that feeling of "Nooooooo! Damn!" when I'm taking heavy damage or when I'm otherwise really close to death. Especially when I've had a great patrol or survived for over a year.

[Jimbuna]

DiD...THE ONLY WAY I KNOW

For me, while part of the allure of SHIII (and RUb and GW) is being able to play commanding a sub, much more of the allure is the ability to simulate doing do in a very realistc fashion.

I guess, from what I've read so far, I'm into the 'total immersion' aspect. And part of that is the understanding that, in real life, there are no reset-buttons to fatal goofs and/or miscalculations.

Admittedly, in the beginning, while I was learning the commands, and gaining experience in 'this-does-that-and-most-likely-will-result-in-<blank>' I did a lot of 'save-and-recover's. But after the first week I switched to full realism, with the exception of torpedo data still being automatic (now and then I play manual data only, but I justify using auto as an actual U-boat would have three people involved in data collection and input while I'm just a feeble singleton player) and, once I felt I knew what was what, I started a career with the understanding and acceptance that dead would be dead.

Now I have, at times, made exceptions to that. One, for instance, was learning --the hard way-- that my home port was mined (ouch). I hadn't realized that RUb included that. Another was encountering an aircraft while on patrol, where my boat had one heavy and two light flak stations. My normal response to sighted aircraft is to become very interested in running a crash dive drill. But this time I wanted to see what it was like to actually engage an enemy aircraft.

It's painful.

Ouch.

There are times I leave port for a patrol that I'll 'stand on the bridge', gazing sternwards, watching the dock recede behind. I imagine what it was like, seeing that for real. Thinking, 'Will I ever see this again?' Wondering if that might be my last sight, ever, of home.

There was the time I spent two and a half real-time hours trying to evade four DD escorts. It seemed nothing I did worked. I finally kept creeping, meter by meter, lower and lower, until I finally hit a depth where my hull started cracking and getting damaged. I crept up one meter then kept trying to silent run my way free, all the time hearing virtual non-stop pings and the occassional high-speed screws overhead. Again I kept picturing what that must have been like for real. Dust heavy in the air from prior ash-canning. The air thick, clammy, humid. Unable to see the ships above; no idea where they were, if this next attack run had your name on it . . .

It just wouldn't be the same for me if I simply nonchalantly went, 'Oh well, I'll just reload the last save'.

Albrecht von Hesse

[Dantenoc]

Do I play Dead is Dead?.... well, let's put it this way: I've never seen the end of he war

[Myxale]

I also do DID!

IT makes everything more nevre-whackin' if a you know that re-load is no option!
This is half the fun!

[Marriott]

I play DiD, and haven't finished a war yet

[vonBimmell]

I reload saved games.
I used to do this for a living in the real world, and now I play for fun.
I like to try different strategies for the same situation and see how it turns out.

[rifleman13]

DiD!

As the French would say it, C'est la vie!

[KeptinCranky]

Yes, DiD for me, not by design at first, just forgot to save during patrols , but stuck with it later on because it just felt right to do it that way, learn from mistakes and such

[sharkbit]

I voted DiD.

I still want to see the whole war though. I don't want to go back to Aug. '39 every time I die and see if I get further along.

So after my first career using GWX2.1/SH3 Commander came to a nasty end near Narvik in April '40, I started a new career, in a new boat, with a new crew in May '40.

I plan on doing that throughout the war so I can experience all phases of the war, hopefully with as few careers as possible.

[Brag]

Without DID, it would be too much like an arcade game

[Lible]

I've been completely DiD no matter what happens so far. But I'd probably load a earlier savegame if I had some gamebreaking bug (e.g 100 miles per hour speed to the bottom)

I really can't understand the people who start from '39 and try to get as far as possible. This is nowhere near real life. My longest career so far has been 10 patrols. Yes, I retired.

[papa_smurf]

Have always been playin Did, ever since I got the game.

[UnderseaLcpl]

My DiD experience is tempered by reloading due to stupid sinkings.
Hitting our own mines, being rammed by German ships and running aground because "I'll leave it at 1x while I go pick up some groceries".

[nikbear]

DiD herewhatever kills me finishes that career,and its quite fun starting a new career anyway and giving your new kaleun a personality in your head and how he will fight 'His' war