Tank Squad missions can be pretty intense. When you’re not scanning scenery for dialed-in AT guns, trading AP rounds with T-34s and KV-1s, or attempting to evade mortar barrages, you’re often dealing with aggressive enemy infantry, directing your own dismounts, or calling in arty and air strikes. It’s generally great fun, but I think I’m going to need to partner TS with a good wind-down game in order to keep ersatz battle fatigue at bay.
The game I’m hoping will cool my fevered brow while I slay my way from Luchki to Hill 252.2 is Ultimate Fishing Simulator 2, a £10 (until May 16) angling sim that left Early Access on Friday.
Having browsed the forum and perused this month’s ‘mostly positive’ Steam reviews, I’m not expecting perfection. However, as I remember enjoying the demo and v1.00 looks reasonably well endowed in the map, species, and tackle departments, I’m optimistic UFS2 will ultimately earn its keepnet.
While there’s no British venues and fly fishing isn’t possible, the US, Polish, Slovak, German, Russian, and Thai locations are home to around sixty different fish types including sizeable sturgeons and sharks capable of producing lengthy battles.
The game will earn extra brownie points if it manages to relax me with ambience alone. In my dream angling sim, it really doesn’t matter if the fish don’t bite. Breeze-bent reeds, rustling willows, burbling warblers, and restless dragonflies are reason enough to ‘play’.