
They already made the mistake with SH5 and the game is flopped. It simply must not be that I lose myself in a (fight) game in micromanagement and the actual fight falls far behind. It is enough if I have to take care of the bunkering in general. It should be enough to give him a daily or weekly order and he automatically takes care of the crew (can't be that I as Kaleun have to get him every load of coffee from the camp).

But the "normal" player would rather play 1-2 hours in the evening, fire a few torpedoes (without worrying about the calculation of course and speed or the navigation) and still have an exciting submarine feeling. The "fully professional" wants to control everything himself, crew, Approaches computer (in German "Vorhalterechner"), navigation, energy management and everything as close as possible to the state of the art and in "real" time. This is besides the status of the EA (everything works somehow, but nothing is right) especially the balancing act the users expect here. This happens every time Alarm is sounded.Īn Unmotivated and useless crew makes this game not worth playing. Instead all but one of my officers were in the rack and the crew was casually strolling around as if nothing bad was happening. Alarm was sounded (Battlestations for us American types) That means go do your job as efficiently as possible so you don't die. The water coming in is weirdly represented by shimmering when looking up the bridge trunk.Īll that said, I took a look at what my crew was doing and nothing makes any sense. This is because the crew didn't shut the bridge upper or even lower hatch. The boat dives and is inexplicably filling up with water. (American Submarine crews during WWII could dive the boat in around 8 seconds - German and Japanese crews were on par.) Finally the boat actually dives after an incredibly slow amount of time. I load from my saved game and repeat this a few times.

The boat sits on the surface and gets bombed to bits. That said the "crew" behavior completely breaks this game beyond the various bugs and glitches.Īircraft spotted so I hit the button to crash dive. Preface: I realize this game is a long way from being complete and I look forward to the progression.
