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Title: Silent Hunter II/Destroyer Command
Post by: Kronos on March 19, 2002, 03:51:59 PM

Has anyone played this online?  Am d/ling the patch right now, but it is 23 megs...... so is taking a bit.  :)

Title: Silent Hunter II/Destroyer Command
Post by: Kratzer on March 19, 2002, 05:28:23 PM

Destroyer Command got a 2.5 out of 10 from gamespot.  I'm not touching that with a 10 foot pole.

Title: Silent Hunter II/Destroyer Command
Post by: moose on March 19, 2002, 05:33:44 PM

that was a crap review by a bias reviewer.

its much nicer.

Title: Silent Hunter II/Destroyer Command
Post by: capt. apathy on March 19, 2002, 08:38:57 PM

be warned silent hunter is not win xp compatable.
i had issues with it dropping to desktop and leaving just the black screen program running(prevents you from seeing your desktop when switching station views)
  I wrote to tech suport and explained the problems, they told me how to disable the black screen program so i could drop DIRECTLY to desktop when the game crashes and not have to kill the black screen program

Title: Silent Hunter II/Destroyer Command
Post by: Fishu on March 20, 2002, 05:00:30 AM

Yea, that review was bias crap.

Even if some Quakes and MOHAAs gets plus 90 points in reviews, I wouldn't give those more than perhaps 70 - and most points coming from graphics, while gameplay wouldn't get any points.

With this assumption, can be said that the reviewer was obviously playing wrong type of a game.


What do we learn? never trust your opinion on reviewers :)

Title: Silent Hunter II/Destroyer Command
Post by: capt. apathy on March 20, 2002, 07:10:31 AM

update,
 just out of curiosity i reloaded sh2 on my machine and aplied the patch. it seems to be working now.

Title: Silent Hunter II/Destroyer Command
Post by: Mighty1 on March 20, 2002, 07:34:12 AM

I bought it but it wouldn't work with my XP machine so I put it on the shelf. I guess I'll have to download the patch..thanks.

Title: Silent Hunter II/Destroyer Command
Post by: Saintaw on March 20, 2002, 09:36:01 AM

Silent Hunter two is pretty cool, lookin forward to DC.

Running under Xp here, no probs.

Title: Silent Hunter II/Destroyer Command
Post by: Pei on March 20, 2002, 09:36:48 AM

I had DC installed and it crashed and froze repeatedly. The last incident fried my harddrive so now I'm not playing anything.
Needless to say DC isn't going to be installed on the new drive when it arrives.

Title: Silent Hunter II/Destroyer Command
Post by: Vruth on March 20, 2002, 06:08:08 PM

You guys are all dicks for blaming DC for fluffing your system.

Destroyer Command is a great addition to the DCE series.  I own Silent Hunter II AND Destroyer Command.

Both work fine with XP, and with ME (I upgraded recently).  Destroyer Command review on Gamestudmuffins was obviously biased.  If you look up the type of reviews the reviewer did before this one, not even the same genre.

Would you hire a studmuffingy french pastery chef to fix your Porsche? No.

If you like Naval/Action sims, DC is packed with lots to do.

V

Title: Silent Hunter II/Destroyer Command
Post by: Fishu on March 20, 2002, 10:48:43 PM

Played today first times DC/SH2 interop.
Tried to go for 2 vs 2 matches.
Some CTD's, especially if I tried to host more than one other player besides me :confused:
and in one game two out of four dissapeared and one game lasted for an hour and one uboat was already well warmed up when host CTD.

Anyway, took long time to get anything happen, but nonetheless it was quite fun.
Especially after you've finally got the long awaited 'pong' :D

Title: Here's my update :
Post by: Kronos on March 21, 2002, 02:20:47 AM

Have been able to finish one game online, 3 subs v 1 DC.   Destroyer got killed, I was still in the back of the pack.


other than that, everytime I've tried to play it has Disconnected.
From what I understand, they released that patch as a beta version.  Fine with me, its free play, although, u think guys are bad here for whining?  Sit in the lobby of SH2/DC during primetime.  SHEEESH!

When you can get a game rolling it is quite fun though.