WWII games

[Admiral Yi]

What's the deal on Hell's Highway?  I'm in the market for a new game too.

[Caliga]

I just started playing it this afternoon, but so far I like it way better than the first game of the series.  For one thing, when I shoot people, I sometimes on occasion actually do hit them

For another, the graphics are much better and the destructible environments are always fun.  I did a fight in a Dutch farmstead earlier where there was a car between my machine gun team and the Germans, and over the course of a few minutes it got shot to pieces.  Neat stuff.

[Caliga]

So I just started playing Silent Hunter IV and I started an espionage mission (basically I gotta drop an agent off somewhere on the coast of Hokkaido) from Pearl Harbor... and when I started navigating out of the harbor I noticed all the battleships were wrecked in a historically accurate manner.  

edit: Also I'm commander of the USS Pollack.   Does my sub have: screen doors.

[Ed Anger]

So I just started playing Silent Hunter IV and I started an espionage mission (basically I gotta drop an agent off somewhere on the coast of Hokkaido) from Pearl Harbor... and when I started navigating out of the harbor I noticed all the battleships were wrecked in a historically accurate manner.  

edit: Also I'm commander of the USS Pollack.   Does my sub have: screen doors.

Did your XO: just rage quit?

[Caliga]

Yes, but since we're 300 clicks west of Midway, I think he's probably regretting that decision right now. 

[Ed Anger]

Yes, but since we're 300 clicks west of Midway, I think he's probably regretting that decision right now. 

He is used to lots of liquid in the face.

[Razgovory]

Ok, my first impression of Brothers in Arms is that it fucking sucks. 

I could have told you that.

The game (the first one at least) has a hard-on for flanking. Nothing got hit until you ordered a flanking attack.

Yeah, it's all but impossible to hit a guy who has 1/4 cover in that game.  Course they'll shoot you down in a matter of moments.  Not enough grenades either.  Still I had some fun with the game.  Graphics weren't very good though.

[Caliga]

Yeah, it's all but impossible to hit a guy who has 1/4 cover in that game.  Course they'll shoot you down in a matter of moments.  Not enough grenades either.  Still I had some fun with the game.  Graphics weren't very good though.

Hell's Highway is like a hundred times better.

[Caliga]

He is used to lots of liquid in the face.

True, salty liquid even. 

[Caliga]

On my first war patrol:

* I sailed right to Japan and dropped my secret agent off.  You even get to see the little dude row his inflatable raft ashore.  I decided to wait till he got ashore and it was approaching dawn, so I dove to periscope depth but hit a reef before I quite got there.   My hull and pumps were slightly damaged.

* Shelled some Jap towns along the Hokkaido shore, just because I wanted to be sure to kill some of the little yellow bastards in this trip.  THIS IS FOR PEARL!!!!

* Sank an ocean liner (6900 tons) off the coast on the way back.  It had two destroyer escorts, and I did an end run and hit it almost simultaneously with two torpedoes, which caused it to sink within like a minute.  Then I spent the next twelve hours evading the destroyers.  I only saw a few lifeboats from the sinking ship and I hope it was loaded with troops that didn't get away.

* On the way back to Pearl, a Mavis (Japanese long range patrol boat) spotted me one morning.  It made two passes at me dropping bombs, but missed both times.  On the second pass I managed to shoot it down.  One of the crewmen parachuted out and seemed to land in the ocean unhurt.  I could see him bobbing for a while and tried to rescue him, but then he seemed to disappear (unsure if the game simulated him drowning or if 'survivor' units just automatically disappear after a while).

* That dude might have radioed back to base about me, because Betty bombers and even a wing of Zeroes harassed me for the next couple of days.  I took a couple of shots at them but eventually got tired of that and just dove every time they were spotted until they stopped bothering me.

Overall a pretty cool patrol, I think. 

[Tamas]

WTF are you on easy, dude?

And airplanes WILL harass you along jap coasts, quite annoying in fact, make sure to equip the air search radar

[Caliga]

No, 100% realism, why?   

I'm actually shocked at least one of the torpedoes I fired wasn't a dud, given the history of American torpedoes during WWII.

Also, as I did not jack my prestige up at the beginning, I did not have a radar set.  I 'bought' one after I returned at the end of the patrol however.

[Tamas]

No, 100% realism, why?   

I'm actually shocked at least one of the torpedoes I fired wasn't a dud, given the history of American torpedoes during WWII.

Also, as I did not jack my prestige up at the beginning, I did not have a radar set.  I 'bought' one after I returned at the end of the patrol however.

so you did targeting calculation yourself? For first patrol? Against destroyers? If you did not, then you got screwed as I did: if you select X difficulty settings in the main menu, those get overwritten when you start a campaign and set its difficulty. To play a given campaign with custom difficulty, you need to set it within the campaign (somewhere on the bookshelf is the options menu)

If you did all that on your first run calculating speed, range, and angle yourself, then hats off, sir 

[Tamas]

No, 100% realism, why?   

I'm actually shocked at least one of the torpedoes I fired wasn't a dud, given the history of American torpedoes during WWII.

Also, as I did not jack my prestige up at the beginning, I did not have a radar set.  I 'bought' one after I returned at the end of the patrol however.

You can buy a radar from 500 prestige and you start with 1000

[Caliga]

Dude, this is like my fourth sub sim.  Been doing target calcs since the original Silent Service. 

Also I did the torpedo training thing twice before starting the career, just to make sure I understood how to do it in this particular game.

I did get extremely close to the liner, I have to admit... probably dangerously close.  Actually I would have gotten even closer if the destroyers hadn't spotted my scope and zerg rushed me, at which point I fired my torps and crash dove.