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804:: My U-boat men! Six years of U-boat war lie behind us. You have fought like lions. A crushing material superiority has forced us into a narrow area. A continuation of our fight from the remaining basis is no longer possible. U-boat men! Undefeated and spotless you lay down your arms after a heroic battle without equal. We remember in deep respect our fallen comrades, who have sealed with their death their loyalty to the Führer and Fatherland. Comrades! Preserve your U-boat spirit, with which you have fought courageously, stubbornly and imperturbably through the years for the good of the Fatherland. Long live Germany! 204: 554: 549: 544: 539: 534: 997:- podstawowa wersja gry obsadzała nas w roli kapitana U-Boota na Atlantyku, podczas gdy ten mod dodaje okręty podwodne marynarki amerykańskiej i wody Pacyfiku. Poza tymi dodatkami Pacific Aces wzbogaca grafikę, dźwięk i strukturę misji w kampanii oraz wprowadza szereg poprawek do mechanizmów rozgrywki." (March 15, 2010, in Polish) 893:
Gave source code to subsim.com a fund raising drive netted more than $ 7000 to jump-start Project Messerwetzer Skilled volunteers and playtesters rallied to the call a free 5MB to 6MB patch that will be finally polished and playtested. The original crippling flaw, multiplayer instability, has been
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was developed with multi-player support as a notable feature. Players were able to connect with other players, and engage in sub vs. sub combat. Furthermore, connectivity to the separate game
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After release, instability with the multiplayer feature was found to be commonplace, yet Ubisoft never resolved this issue by releasing another official
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and finally escaping to Buenos Aires, Argentina at the end of the war, whereupon Dönitz sends a final message.
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was first announced in 1999, and originally developed by Aeon Electronic Entertainment, the developers of
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as the last act of the Battle of the Atlantic. The campaign, which has the player being sent notes from
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was one of the game's technical advisers, and a series of interviews with him appears in the game.
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Subsim Review served as the gathering place for Projekt Messerwetzer, the project that brought
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appears in this mission), then battling in the North Atlantic, before passing through the
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80/100 in 2005 and named it "the new WWII subsim benchmark".
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which ultimately fixed the issues. Since then, unofficial
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Silent Hunter II: Interview Update with Rick Martinez,
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to the Allies ultimately gaining the upper hand in the
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Index


Developer(s)
Publisher(s)
Ubi Soft
Director(s)
Writer(s)
Composer(s)
Kevin Manthei
Platform(s)
Microsoft Windows
NA
EU
Genre(s)
Submarine simulator
Single-player
multiplayer
World War II
U-boat
Ubi Soft
PCs
Windows 95
98
ME

U-boats
Battle of the Atlantic
World War II
multiplayer
HMS Laurentic
HMS Patroclus

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