Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter

I haven't played Destroyer Command, a standalone addon to Silen Hunter 2 because it seemed so complicated at a time. I am so glad that, after watching Wolfpack345 streams, I gave a chance to this game. The game is highly customizable and at the same time it is not babysitting you. You can left management of multiple tools to your crew and focus on commanding the ship. And it is great, gosh, so great! It is still demanding, but there is no need for micromanagement, you can be the captain, not some omnipotent deity, I really, really recommend the title to anyone interested with naval combat or simulators. I also recommend reading "Cruel sea" for immersion :)

Unfortunately I cannot recommend Destroyer: The UFO Hunter. I've completed it all in 50 hours and I don't want to play again. The graphics and the ambient is nice. The BSO is very well done, and it support dynamic music. However is always the same tune. The idea of escorting a WWII convoy is the reason I purchased this game again in GOG... Major problems: - The interface is very bad. You will be switching frenetically between screens which aren't well organized. I would join SONAR and COMBAT tabs in just one. It's annoying how TRR subscreen dissapear just when you need to DC. - Poor shortkeys. It lacks a lot of shorcuts, like rudder full left/right/centre or release depth charges. - Voice acting will saturate you soon with unuseful information. However, you won't get target depth/noise information as frecuent as you need. And there is no way to force him to tell you. You will need to use the TRR in automatic. - Uboots are like UFOs. Uboots make impossible turns from time to time. Also they are faster in surface than most of ships, I think they reach 35-40knots while surfaced (in real life it was 18 knots). But your Flower class ships, which should have around 17-18knots, however they max speeds seems around 8 knots. - UBoots always go full and noisy speed underwater and you don't have an hydrophone for fast location! - The AI of the escorts and merchant is quite poor. Do not thrust them! These bad things are minor: - The general campaign is a little boring with the same acting once and again. The animations are creepy - The explosion sound of the merchant is very ugly - I finished the 8th campaign mission with the scores S, A, S, B, and my final score for the mission was.... C??? - Pretty unrealistic to find too many suicidal uboots About stability. It crashed me two times.

So far I'm having lots of fun with this. You can set the difficulty which is nice especially starting out. The only 2 things I have negative to say is that the tutorial regarding sub targeting could be a bit better. I would go more into using the DRT to line up your shot more before you get too close to the target. Also, I would have loved to voice act this. The voice acting is not very good, and with as much of it as there is, I find myself skipping it quite a bit. Other than those 2 minor issues, I this this game is addicting and defnitely worth a try

It is not too easy to play, but it is very funny....