One week review - favorite new feature

This new stand alone release based on the legendary War in the Pacific from 2 by 3 Games adds significant improvements and changes to enhance game play, improve realism, and increase historical accuracy. With dozens of new features, new art, and engine improvements, War in the Pacific: Admiral's Edition brings you the most realistic and immersive WWII Pacific Theater wargame ever!

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Actually I got three............1) Patrol zones 2)waypoints 3) repair system...................well make it 4............Andy's new and improved AI in a gorilla suit [:D]!!!!

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It's hard to pick just one new feature that's my favorite, but if I had to it would be the repair process.  I can now see how long a ship will take to be ready, assign priority repairs (Repulse is down below 60 flotation damage as a result of Singapore concentrating everything they've got on fixing her), switch between different levels of repair based on the ship and its damage, and the delay is realistic too.
 
Also like the waypoints, patrol zones, and while loading is a pain when you forget to switch a LCU to strategic a day or so in advance, I like it.
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Well I have found one feature that I do not like...........the one that makes me late for work most days.
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I love to finally be able to name task forces.  It makes it so much easier to manage all the supply and transport convoys by giving them a description.  
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I think the naming of TF's, repair, patrol, options with merging, refueling etc of the TF's are my favorites.

If I could get those lazy staff officers off their butts to give me a ETA of unloading and loading... [8|]
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The way the PT boats actually do something besides being target drones for the Jap gunners is a real joy too [&o].
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To many to list.

So I'll name the last thing I stumble upon.

In the editor you can edit both normal and extended aircraft weapon loads.
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ORIGINAL: PrivateWar

Well I have found one feature that I do not like...........the one that makes me late for work most days.


"WORK"?.......I think you were not told of the basics, which are:

1. Marry a woman who makes enough to pay the light bill.

2. Marry a woman who has the time to bring you food, beverage, toilet paper and a bucket.

3. Quit your job.

4. Don't (under any circumstance) answer the door nor the phone.
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It sounds corny but the support that Matrix games and the staff have given this game over the past six years.
 
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ORIGINAL: PrivateWar

Well I have found one feature that I do not like...........the one that makes me late for work most days.


We probably won't be able to make a patch to fix that.
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If I had to name just one thing, it'd be the glorious new map, with 40-mile hexes. But virtually everything mentioned in this thread is also on my list of favorites. :)
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Amen to whoever suggested having an option for only seeing certain animations.  I hate having to ESC through endless air-raids and ground attacks in China just to get to the juicy parts in the central/SW Pacific.

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The map has my vote but I have to say I do like the new air to air system as well.

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ORIGINAL: m10bob

ORIGINAL: PrivateWar

Well I have found one feature that I do not like...........the one that makes me late for work most days.


"WORK"?.......I think you were not told of the basics, which are:

1. Marry a woman who makes enough to pay the light bill.

2. Marry a woman who has the time to bring you food, beverage, toilet paper and a bucket.

3. Quit your job.

4. Don't (under any circumstance) answer the door nor the phone.


Someone should have told me all of this a while ago.
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Sure you just don't remember it? [:'(]
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Favorite new feature? Fans who made it. Thanks for showing the pacific blue.
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