How many of you play DiD style?

[Chisum]

Originally Posted by Wildhawke11

i want to feel just a fraction of the fear those brave men must have felt at times in those iron coffins.

Be sure that you can feel it in no-DiD too.

I remember the first time that I have been fatally hit on SHIII, I was terrified in front of my screen and during the hellish descent of the boat to the Neptune world, I had cold sweats(that was really a "total immersion" !).
After being killed, I stayed 20 minutes to do nothing and think it was really a horrible thing.
I did not understand why we were out of the game so quickly, before this horrible window saying that the career is over, all hands lost, and it took me some time to understand that to die like that was just as brutal.

Probably that we love horrible things because we re-play every time. Danger is like a drugs and it's probably also why these courageous man left again on sea despite the risks they knew they were taking.
In my opinion, a normal man would have refused to left again.


I don't know what you thing about it.
But I'm sure that I feel it perfectly in no-DiD.



(It was a hard text for a no-english man. Apologizes if mistakes)

[Parkera]

Yeah i play DiD. Adds to the feeling when your 200m deep being depth charged with flooding and damage trying to fix it all and get out cause ya dont want to die. If i do die, i will then start a new career in the same month/year with a new commander and boat.:p

[msalama]

If i do die, i will then start a new career in the same month/year with a new commander and boat.:p

Yep, the same thing. DiD, 100% realism, a new Kaleun continues where the previous one croaked it. Haven't gotten through the war yet, not even close HOWEVER... Oberleutnant z. S. Johannes Lang, the commander of U-33 a Type VIIB Unterseeboot, just tied up at Lorient after his 10th war patrol on 22th of March 1941, having altogether sunk 146940 tons of Allied shipping so far! Happy times indeed

To each his (or her) own, DiD makes life in late war patrols interesting to say the least. That's where one misses the renown that vanilla awarded for reaching the patrol area and returning alive. Type VII careers in starting summer '44 tend to be rather short and violent sometimes and just getting home is an accomplishment.
Good Hunting

[Adriatico]

I set myself a rule: savegame on contact with "something"... and 3 attempts to plan and execute an attack/escape combination... :
1 in game attack and 2 reloads allowed.

Seems to me as fair common ground between fun and real life sim.

It's pointless to get killed every 1942... as well as being successful from 20 attempts of convoy raid...

If I had to choose Yes or No... would be closer to DiD.