I know pretty graphics are verboten on this forum, but when you're playing a simulation of an activity that heavily relies on the eyeballs (spotting ships on the ocean, specifically), you're going to be staring at the graphics quite often.
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Desert Bus already fulfills this game-play niche nicely, so don't bother.įinally, there's a mod for SH3 called The Grey Wolves, which spiffs up a lot of detail issues and bugfixes, as well as making the graphics a lot prettier. The game won't let you advance time by more than 4x if the water is shallow, which can make the 98 kilometer journey take about three real-time hours. And 4) Don't try to sail the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal or any other area of tight navigation.
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3) Multitask while sailing, such as watching a movie or reading a book. 2) Just because your guys spot a ship doesn't mean you have to go chase it down and inspect it. 1) Abuse time-compression as often and greatly as possible. I'll offer four pieces of advice on time-management. If you're into simulation or U-boats though, it does pay off. On a different note, the attention to historical detail, namely the incredibly unreliable triggers on torpedoes and paper-thin hulls of the U-boats, will make learning to play the game an exercise in frustration. The load times (especially with mods) don't help. You spend most of your gameplay mashing the time-compression button waiting for something to happen. And the gameplay consists of two principle activities - blowing up unarmed merchants, and running for your life from things can easily kill you - which makes it rather satisfying when you're not actually dead.Īmong its bad points: Sailing is the fine and ancient art of get soaking wet and deathly ill while very slowly going nowhere at great expense, and SH3 models the mind-numbing tedium of repeatedly crossing the North Sea in a floating can very accurately. The attention to detail is almost perfect (there are problems). It can be a very painful game.Īmong its good points: The immersion is great, and made greater by mods you really feel like you're in the boat. The first is your horribly inefficient and underwhelming 1939-model U-boat and technology within it. The well-armed and ever vigilant warships and airplanes of the Allied Nations are your second greatest danger. The Silent Hunter series are simulationist videogames where you get to captain a submarine in great detail, and SH3 makes you Kapitan of an Unterseeboot in the Kriegsmarine. And there's no reason to stuff up Janet's thread, so here we go. I've just gotten into it, as other people have, and I want to talk about it. About a week ago, Janet started talking about this game Silent Hunter III, and she made an LP thread for it.