If a sim is hard, it is realistic? NO. I hate the sensor programming. - Page 3

JScones · 05-21-08, 03:08 AM

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Originally Posted by _Seth_

Just remember; SH3 is NOT a simulator. It was never intended to be a simulator. When SH3 was released, it was an arcade game, something like a "shoot-em-up" game IMHO.

Well, if this is the case then someone forgot to tell UBI marketing, because my DVD case for SH3 CLEARLY states: "COMMAND THE MOST IMPRESSIVE, REALISTIC AND GRIPPING NAVAL SIMULATOR". Not much ambiguity in that statement.

And my manual includes numerous terms like "based on historical reality".

Methinks there's a disjoint somewhere - either the marketers didn't read the brief correctly, or the devs wildly misrepresented their product. :hmm:

johan_d · 05-21-08, 05:25 AM

lol JSCones, just like As Real As It Gets on a anothor sim..

Sailor Steve · 05-21-08, 07:41 AM

Well, I think based on what some of the other material said pre-release that what they really intended was a u-boat movie simulator, hence the background music and the Event Camera. What we have is a game that does a pretty good job of simulating the feeling of being there, no more. But no less - I like the way it feels.

On Seth's comparison to flight sims, I'd say it stops when the combat starts. I'd be amazed to ever see a WWI combat flight sim that duplicates the problem of having to fight the winds that always tended to carry fights to the German side of the lines.

_Seth_ · 05-21-08, 07:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

What we have is a game that does a pretty good job of simulating the feeling of being there, no more. [.......]
On Seth's comparison to flight sims, I'd say it stops when the combat starts. I'd be amazed to ever see a WWI combat flight sim that duplicates the problem of having to fight the winds that always tended to carry fights to the German side of the lines.

Spot on, matey! 10 points coming your way!

Nicolas · 05-24-08, 09:03 AM

I think that in the game, with gwx, two things are bad, first you can sink ships near england and they not come to get you, i mean 3 ships dissapeared and not a single dd comes, that is the worse realistic, the lack of, sub hunters. And you can make with patience 90,000 tons of single merchants without messing with convoys, so i think its to easy finding single merchants or its bad the response from allies.
About convoys, its hard... most players get dead when attacking convoys so this part suppose to be realistic. But you can't speak about a high realism using auto targeting this settings should be the 70% of realism, the auto targeting its like having the weapons fire system of a nuclear submarine...

05-21-08, 07:41 AM	#33
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Well, I think based on what some of the other material said pre-release that what they really intended was a u-boat movie simulator, hence the background music and the Event Camera. What we have is a game that does a pretty good job of simulating the feeling of being there, no more. But no less - I like the way it feels. On Seth's comparison to flight sims, I'd say it stops when the combat starts. I'd be amazed to ever see a WWI combat flight sim that duplicates the problem of having to fight the winds that always tended to carry fights to the German side of the lines. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

05-21-08, 05:25 AM	#32
johan_d Samurai Navy Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 556 Downloads: 113 Uploads: 1	lol JSCones, just like As Real As It Gets on a anothor sim..

05-24-08, 09:03 AM	#35
Nicolas Commander Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Uruguay Posts: 453 Downloads: 196 Uploads: 4	I think that in the game, with gwx, two things are bad, first you can sink ships near england and they not come to get you, i mean 3 ships dissapeared and not a single dd comes, that is the worse realistic, the lack of, sub hunters. And you can make with patience 90,000 tons of single merchants without messing with convoys, so i think its to easy finding single merchants or its bad the response from allies. About convoys, its hard... most players get dead when attacking convoys so this part suppose to be realistic. But you can't speak about a high realism using auto targeting this settings should be the 70% of realism, the auto targeting its like having the weapons fire system of a nuclear submarine...