Destroyer Command 2...a RANT! by CaptainCruise

[Deamon]

I am wondering how many of you gentlemen wouldn't mind if the next DC would play in WWI ?

[Sailor Steve]

Since I designed my own WW1 tabletop miniatures game years ago, I suppose I might find that not only acceptable, but preferable.

[Bubblehead1980]

so I got DC patched and up and running with both the 1.1 and the operation hefen blah blah.So where do I go to run a MP ame? Anyone still playing? Would like to try it out.

[Sailor Steve]

My stuff is currently in storage, along with everything else I own. If I ever get it back I'd love to play again.

We used to run it on Mirc. I'm not sure how it works, but maybe someone will know. There used to be a whole other website called Sub Club. Neal has recreated it here; just look for it on the main forum menu page. Not many people go there, but who knows?

[Bubblehead1980]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

My stuff is currently in storage, along with everything else I own. If I ever get it back I'd love to play again.

We used to run it on Mirc. I'm not sure how it works, but maybe someone will know. There used to be a whole other website called Sub Club. Neal has recreated it here; just look for it on the main forum menu page. Not many people go there, but who knows?

ill try to check it out.when you get your stuff out steve, let me know.Id like to give it a run.I played an atlantic campaign last night and managed to sink a u boat en route to Iceland, was fun.Just wish could see the charges blowing up around the boat and if the boat would surface.I take it you can surface in MP since running SH 2 Never played SH 2 so not sure how it works.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Bubblehead1980

I take it you can surface in MP since running SH 2 Never played SH 2 so not sure how it works.

Oh yeah! I scored a kill once because the guy running one of the u-boats was trying to fly it like a plane. Operation Metzerwesser (or was it Messerwetzer?), the patch that fixes the multiplayer problems, also lets you control the u-boat dive planes. This guy tries to come from deep under to periscope depth in a big hurry, misjudges and hits the surface. I'm close by, get a call of "Submarine spotted!" I go directly to the map, click on the icon, order "Attack With Guns," and 10 seconds later five 5"/38s have blown him out of the water.

Another time in the middle of a game one of the u-boats suddenly reported himself dead. Seems he tried to come up in a hurry and forgot to center his planes. Halfway through the loop everything came unglued and he sank himself.

[Bubblehead1980]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Oh yeah! I scored a kill once because the guy running one of the u-boats was trying to fly it like a plane. Operation Metzerwesser (or was it Messerwetzer?), the patch that fixes the multiplayer problems, also lets you control the u-boat dive planes. This guy tries to come from deep under to periscope depth in a big hurry, misjudges and hits the surface. I'm close by, get a call of "Submarine spotted!" I go directly to the map, click on the icon, order "Attack With Guns," and 10 seconds later five 5"/38s have blown him out of the water.

Another time in the middle of a game one of the u-boats suddenly reported himself dead. Seems he tried to come up in a hurry and forgot to center his planes. Halfway through the loop everything came unglued and he sank himself.

Nice.Hopefully can play soon.

BtW, had something happen in a career mode.I was escorting a battleship to the Panama Canal in 1942.Somewhere around Cuba a report of "torpedoes sighted" came out, I was on the starboard flank, went to ahead flank, left full rudder and GQ, heading to intercept, went to the area the fish were located with active sonar, stopped and listened as well, couldnt find anything.

There was some type of lighted area on the map I went to but never could get anything, so after an hour rejoined the TF and continued on, was only attack of the patrol, very anti climatic.

Any tips?

[Sailor Steve]

Been too long. I don't remember.

[CaptainCruise]

Originally Posted by Bubblehead1980

so I got DC patched and up and running with both the 1.1 and the operation hefen blah blah.So where do I go to run a MP ame? Anyone still playing? Would like to try it out.

If I remember correctly, with the new multiplayer setup I think the way we played was one player with the fastest computer is the host and sets up everything, gives his IP number to the players and they all connect. After the PM patch and the switch from RunTime to DirectPlay, it didn't use an outside server anymore.

As long as the host had a fast machine with plenty of memory, and you didn't load up the game with 12 players and 30 AI ships, things usually ran OK and lag wasn't a serious issue.

If you still have the PM patches for SH2 and DC, look in the "readme" text files for info on how to set up a multiplayer game. I think a whole page or three was just about how to set up multiplayer games with the new patches.

One last thing. There may be a big advantage playing multiplayer games now. Compare the computers we use right now with what was available back in the day. We were all using single core CPU's, most not running anywhere near the speeds we have now. And memory.....HUGE plus now. For example.....I used to use between 512MB to 1.5GB of old school DDR SDRAM memory. PC3200 speed, which worked out to PC400. Now in this day and age we average anywhere from 2GB to 16GB of up to DDR3 memory which is I think almost 10 times faster, not to mention using 2GB to 16GB worth. My current laptop uses 8GB with a fast intel 4-core i7 CPU, and this thing would probably run laps around my old overclocked AMD Athlon XP3000 CPU, nForce2 based rig. It was fast for that time, but the stuff we use now can run these older games like butter, and maybe host larger amounts of players and AI content. I'd be seriously curious to see how a 5v5 or 6v6, or even more..... SH2 vs. DC match played out on our modern uber machines.