I've never used a ship simulator of any kind before so really didn't know what to expect from SSE. I like sims in general though and wanted to have a go; well after the initial problem of not having an activation key I'm quickly realising there's a lot of enjoyment to be had from the game.
So far I've (in free roam) navigating ice floes in a supertanker (successfully!), sank Greenpeace's Esperanza after colliding with Fort Denison in Sydney harbour (it was heavy fog and I wasn't au fait with the map/radar
) and piloted the Rainbow Warrior up in to Padstow Bay (I grew up ten miles from there
), narrowly avoiding grounding her while turning-around to head back out to see.
There's been some quirks; the frame rate is fine for the most part but I'm finding if I keep the external camera in a fixed position for long the FPS takes a nose-dive until I move the camera - after which it's back to normal. A couple of scenery-objects have disappeared and reappeared before my eyes (depending on the angle of the camera) and after sinking the Esperanza decided to jump back out of the water and land on it's side. Shame I didn't have a video recording of that...
Now all I need to figure out is how to download the pre-order content (the extra vessel
)
