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View Poll Results: How realistic do you play?
Overkill 63 21.58%
Hard 201 68.84%
Arcade 28 9.59%
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Old 08-10-07, 01:19 AM   #121
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84%. I had the external view turned off for a while, but turned it back on to watch ships sink....better for screenshots.
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Old 08-10-07, 05:23 AM   #122
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80% Realism ( I leave w.officer assistance just for recon ships, plus noise meter and no contact map update).
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Old 08-10-07, 09:40 AM   #123
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I sail with map updates on, event en external camera on. That's it. The rest is all checked.

I tried without the external camera. It gave a lot of immersion, but strangely enough, I got bored.

Turned it back on and my gaming urge is back. I use it less often now though. Guess that's a good thing.
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Old 08-10-07, 09:50 AM   #124
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Damn, I've turned my ext cam off today, how freakin immersive!!! Rarely I was tempted to see what's going on but now it turns out that it gave a good idea of things up there. Now it's the real deal!!

Turned on weapon officer assistance not to loose my eyes trying to figure out what is this and get some help. Works nice if you use is reasonably.
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Old 08-10-07, 10:55 AM   #125
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Playing without external camera is more inmersive for me. It´s true that you lose the awesome images of convoys, your own boat, your torpedoes exploding (or missing ) and so many things, but I get myself more involved in my role when after launching you down periscope, dive and look ay the chronometer... waiting for "Torpedotreffer!"... and later you can be chased for an hour or two by the escorts and you can look only at the hydrophone and your chief directing speed and manouver.
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Old 08-10-07, 12:12 PM   #126
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That's why I don't use the external view when enemy ships are nearby.
It's a real relief if you see the daylight again after hours of DC evasion (and perhaps after several gaming sessions too ).

It's a matter of self diciplin not to look where this torpedo went which should have made impact 20 seconds ago. But I wouldn't give up those beautiful external views when sailing lonly the wideness of the Atlantic
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Old 08-10-07, 02:09 PM   #127
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Playing without external camera is most definitely more immersive, but those who want to avail themselves of screenshots really don't have much choice. i suppose the happy medium is to keep the external camera enabled and just condition yourself not to use it during gameplay
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Old 08-10-07, 02:46 PM   #128
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When turning it off you get more realism % and therefore more renown. For those who keep saving for a XXI in case they get this far
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Old 08-10-07, 07:02 PM   #129
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I have map updates on and weapon officer assistance. Tho Im learning to figure out where ships are so next step will be map updates off. When I mastered that Ill start to learn how to target myself. Those loney and easy targets i try to figure it out myself, and ask the final solution from the weapon assistant. Most of the time im pretty close now.
External cam is on as well, for the soley reason i want to record my missions for a nice video
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Old 08-12-07, 04:58 PM   #130
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When turning it off you get more realism % and therefore more renown. For those who keep saving for a XXI in case they get this far
If you download NYGM you can look at the files they changed and change your own so the realism and renown are always at 100%, no matter what settings you actually use.
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Old 08-13-07, 01:45 PM   #131
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External camera on and everything else checked. Just gotta see the visuals when a need them.
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Old 08-14-07, 10:18 AM   #132
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Realistic.

100%, No TC, dont shave or shover for months, etc.

And if I loose, I drown myself in the bath tub.
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Old 08-16-07, 12:47 AM   #133
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Realistic.

100%, No TC, dont shave or shover for months, etc.

And if I loose, I drown myself in the bath tub.
id say thats 150% realism:rotfl:
and that you're a SH3 fanatic:rotfl:
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Old 08-16-07, 02:24 PM   #134
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84% - got external view and weapon officer assistance, though I don't really NEED the latter. External view is just plain fun!!!
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Old 08-16-07, 03:06 PM   #135
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wow I can't believe it, this thread is still alive, most threads here die after one day and visit Valhalla for ever

hardcore restrictions to using F12 key + weapons officer enabled kicks ass, try going that way, it's very pleasing for realism fans!
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