Good bell curve with the survey.

First impressions last night were; it was like dancing with a pair of really nice and expensive shoes that were too big for my feet.

Other than that it is an excellent and fresh departure from what the grognards had set as a bar for a hardcore sub simulator. I can see where Dan and the devs were going with this, at least I can guess at it pretty well.

Overall I like it, but it may not be my cup of tea at this point in time. Will definately get started on the campaign. I patrolled the St. Lawrence last night and was astonished that on an old 5 year old PC, this thing ran pretty smoothly, in driving rain, plenty of wave action. The boat was pitching and rolling all over the place.

Of course in the coming months more of the inner workings will come to light. I liked the familiar structure from SH4. I am adding the fine German/ DBR/BBC Radio mod for tonights foray.

Its a good thing!

My Little First Impressions Review, short and sweet. I am on 100% realism.

Everyone else Gripe. Interface/UI is not intuitive and down right frustrating. Thing's are missing. I don't necessarily demand it the way it use to be but when I cant figure out how to turn without looking it up, there is something wrong.

Shootin Stuff: I could hit the Polish Ships(hurt a little bit being Polish), torpedo went where I wanted them to go(which didn't always happen in SH4 for me so I am happy about that). I am just worried about when I am up against ships that move. I get this feeling I will be leading with my periscope and not the TDC.
I LOVE THE DECK CANNON. I love it, love it love it. Only problem is I don't know how to releave them, the crew sat on deck, even after I came into port. Poor guys hadn't moved in 2 days.

Overall things like Campaign, subdocks, walking around inside the ship. I just love it so far. So far has really made me feel like a captain. I was frustrated and mad trying to figure stuff out, but the trip back to Kiel, walking around up top, actually having to pay attention to not get rammed by other vessels in the harbor. I followed a KM DD into port, we were side by side. I don't know everything just felt right.

Pretty much what everyone has said but it makes more sense when you actually play it you see what they mean. They managed to mess up the main parts of the game but got all the little things right. Other than the big problems it really has the feel of an A title and not some little side burner project thrown together for a niche market.

Im still waiting to buy not sure if my PC can run the thing anyways....

I can only say SH3 GWX is working as intended!!! :arrgh!:

AND NO ..I DIDNT VOTE! :salute:

I cant play this game without it locking up every 5 minutes... Between those it runs great...

i have read somewhere that if your machine can run sh4 you will be able to run sh5 but a lower level of detail - which, if i choose to buy sh5 will be good for me. i have voted but can't remember how !!!:rotfl2:

and like you Hanomag, sh3 +gwx is working well and wonderful for me. and to think i got myself into such a steam about sh5 - whether to buy or not and the whole drm thing. i have not bought it and at the moment i am glad i have not. i reckon it will take 6-12 months for it all to settle down, then i will visit e-bay and scoup up someones unwanted copy at a reasonable price.

just had a look at amazon and it has gone down from 34.99 to 26.99 - is this an omen?

what ever happens to sh5 i whish it well - coz it's all we got for the next installement.

Bon Voyage...

...i'm off to the east coast of england - just heard about a convoy :sunny:

Is there any point to even play the campaing if things truly are so bad that after you load a savegame crew morale will be at 0, if you keep timeacceleration on you'll end up dead, destroyers wont depthcharge you etc? Or is these examples still an issue after patch 1.01? :dead:

I have bought SH5 which arrived yesterday but so far have not installed it after reading so many posts of issues and bugs with it.

I think i may wait for a further patch to be released by Ubi before starting off with it, as at the moment, it seems abit incomplete, (though the graphics from the screenshots look excellent).

Just a headsup...

I tested it on a rig with ...

Intel P4 3.0 hyperthread
2 GB DDR ram
7600GT 512mb
XP Pro SP2

Set SH5 Graphics at medium and it played without a hitch.

btw all compadibility boxes checked green

I bought it. Can't play more than 15 minutes of a mission after the tutorial though.

DOing some needed cleaning of my PC in the meantime, will give it another go until tonight.

Holding off judgement until I've cleared all possible problems on my end.

Been playing for a bit and I like it.

Buggy, sure, but mainly in the graphics. Gameplay works out fine.

Nice improvements, ship sinking behaviour for example, came across AI sub in canal, lot's of AI surface ships there as well, detailed harbours, etc.

Needs some polish (well, quite a bit), but that I blame on Ubi and too tight of a deadline. Lot's of love went into from the devs. Nice descriptions, little trivia during loads, historic details into the campaign, etc.

Personally I have no problem with the interface or controls, though it is a big switch from SH3/4.

All in all, it's playable out of the box, something that couldn't be said for at least SH4 (was late to the party for SH3). Though I'd like to note I'm only just through tutorial and into 1st patrol, having made contact with unescorted convoy.

For what it lacks, there's a ton of potential to make up for it, and I'm sure the devs will be ironing out some niggles soon enough. Once the modders go to work on this, I believe it will quickly surpass even the mighty GWX (no disrepect intended).

Yep, my experience exactly.
I can run SH4 with TMO at 1680x1050 with all the nice bells and whistles switched on.
I can run SH5 at 1680x1050 with most bells and whistles switched off, except hi res textures and environments. Shadows seem to be the main FPS killer. Turning them completely off really maxed my FPS.

As you have been told, if you can run Sh4 without struggling, you can probably run this.

Actually there is a pretty negligible difference for me between SHIV and SHV performance. At least for my ATI card, it's very well optimized.

I got the game today,and i been playing for a few hours,so far i don't like it,my main concern was the DMR, is been a none issue so far,the interface is a mess,it will take time for me to get use to it.My main problem is the TDC,what happen to it,there is no tdc,how u setup a quick shot ? the tdc in Sh4 in my opinion was great,you setup a salvo in seconds,measure the distant ,angle of bow and estimate the speed and shoot fast and fun to play with,even the torp holes on the ships look better in sh4,at least the graphics are better than the previous games. :hmmm: oh btw did they recycle the music from Sh4?

Would vote it as good, but could use improvement.

I really like how they fixed auto TDC. Manual TDC was too tedious for me, but the auto calc in III and IV was super easy. I can no longer hit targets from ridiculously bad angles and ranges, but a proper attack positioning and relatively short range is easy enough.

No morale bug here. C02 levels decrease on the surface as well. Also would like to report I attacked a convoy in the British Coastal Waters area outside Aberdeen and the escorts gave chase.

Control's definitely require some getting used to, and I'd really like #1 A compass to steer my boat, and a viable return to course option (I can't for the life of me get the double click to work).

For Nvidia users I strongly suggest rolling back to driver 9621, as 9675 caused massive problems with my game.

Agreed. Needs polish, but playable out-of-the-box.
That's probably the biggest switch people will need to make, it's a whole new way to control the game.

Compass is definitely missed, though I manage just fine without. Double-click for RTC doesn't work for me either. :hmmm: