Silent Hunter 6

[scrapser]

I'm almost afraid to create this thread. I found an old post in the archives where someone discovered Ubisoft has laid claim to URL's "silenthunter6" and "silenthunter7". This suggests they are at least thinking that far into the future. At this point my main concern is whether Silent Hunter 6 will be a Pacific clone of Silent Hunter 5 (one sub, campaign ends years before the war ends, DRM, the whole fiasco). I tried Google but got no hits and I'm sure this is well ahead of the game (pun intended) but I'm wondering what people here would like to see (maybe Ubisoft will take some hints).

I would like to limit the wish list to WW2 since Silent Hunter is a WW2 submarine simulation franchise. If they want to do WW1 or something modern, I think that should be a new series. So what would you like to see? Suggestions for either Pacific or Atlantic (or both) are all valid.

[ETR3(SS)]

1. Go back to the Pacific.
2. Fix the bugs that have been in the series since SH3
3. The war goes from Dec 41 to Aug 45 (for the pac) make the game that way too.
4. Failing to do more than just the Gato/Balao/Tench class is unacceptable.
5. Ice cream instead of soup!

[robbo180265]

Originally Posted by ETR3(SS)

1. Go back to the Pacific.
2. Fix the bugs that have been in the series since SH3
3. The war goes from Dec 41 to Aug 45 (for the pac) make the game that way too.
4. Failing to do more than just the Gato/Balao/Tench class is unacceptable.
5. Ice cream instead of soup!

I vote for the ice cream

[kylania]

Originally Posted by ETR3(SS)

1. Go back to the Pacific.

Maybe it's since Silent Hunter III was the first SH game I played, but I just have no interest at all in the Pacific theater or Fleet Boats, those bloated prickly whales they are. heheh Really in every WWII game/book/movie/whatever just don't like the Pacific theater.

Give me the sleek and sexy VIIC any day! Though I do miss the adorable little IIA/D too.

[silversurfer]

Rather start development on a new version shouldn't ubisoft try and get the current one up to some operable standard.

[ETR3(SS)]

Nothing wrong with that. You can play SH5 with your U-Boat while the Fleet Boats get a turn. OR...they can put both of them in at the same time.

[The General]

How 'bout combining all the work done in the series and making Silent Hunter 6 a global naval simulator? Most of the models have already been built. A player could chose a German, American or maybe even Japanese or British Sub? Hell, why not throw in a playable surface vessel too, a sub-chaser or whatever?

[Nordmann]

They should fix up SH5 first, but I wouldn't mind seeing Fleet Boats as the next outing (fully modelled interiors anyone?), though I really think the British boats need some attention at some point.

[ERPP8]

If Ubisoft didn't completely ignore SHIV I think a lot more of us would be playing it.




This would be awesome:
1. Ubisoft releases a "Fleet Boats in the Atlantic" or something in a stroke of irony
2. Modders change it to be back in the pacific
3. It's like SHIV but a million times better

[TwistedFemur]

UBI will not be getting anymore of my money

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[capt-jones]

the general wrote

How 'bout combining all the work done in the series and making Silent Hunter 6 a global naval simulator? Most of the models have already been built. A player could chose a German, American or maybe even Japanese or British Sub? Hell, why not throw in a playable surface vessel too, a sub-chaser or whatever?

this seems the obvious choice the american market (paciffic war) would be the big money spinner for ubi,im no software developer, but im sure after all the hard work that went into SH3 SH4 it must be easy for ubisoft to throw all the codes into a box and sell it,this sounds familiarisnt that what they did with SH5, and we bought it,why they never capitalised on sh2 and destroyer command i will never know its no good buying the name of something if its no good anyway i agree with whats already been said

[GoldenRivet]

Silent Hunter Six?




Dont even start

To be entirely honest, I doubt there will be a Silent Hunter 6, at least not by UBI anyway.

I know someone who works in the games industry, who told me the other week that the SHV sales have been rather poor. I imagine they reserved the domain names years ago incase they needed them.

If, there ever is another SH game, I'd like to see it from a totally new perspective - Like playing as the Japanese, or the English!!

[Frumpkis]

Originally Posted by The General

How 'bout combining all the work done in the series and making Silent Hunter 6 a global naval simulator? Most of the models have already been built. A player could chose a German, American or maybe even Japanese or British Sub? Hell, why not throw in a playable surface vessel too, a sub-chaser or whatever?

Okay, I have feeling the franchise is over with this one, but just for grins...

At the time frame of SH4, that idea (above) would have been feasible. The next sim (SH5) could have been a very broad-based package covering everything from the USA Civil War, to WWI, to WWII in both theaters. You'd have a bunch of good exterior 3D models, and very minimal interiors... maybe no interiors at all, just a basic periscope/bridge command interface.

Now, however, Ubi has limited future options with a release that shows both a full 3D sub interior and interaction with the crew (sort of) inside that environment. That takes much more in art and programming resources to pull off, and it's probably the reason we only got the Type VII in this game, and the most we might ever get in an expansion is the Type IX. Game companies don't usually reduce the feature set from one version to another, so any hope of more sub models (not to mention surface ships) probably died with this release.

However, remember this is the #1 thing people asked for, back in the SH4 days when people were discussing what they wanted in SH5. Everyone wanted a full walk-through sub interior, and a crew that was more than just mannequins standing there without player interaction. Well, now we have it, but it closes out other options.

Personally, I don't mind that very much. I've always preferred "deep" sims that modeled one platform well, to do-everything sims that can't really do it except in a superficial way. For example, compare the B-17 bomber in something like IL-2, to a dedicated B-17 sim like the one Microprose made. That latter game wasn't perfect, but it was more immersive and detailed (IIRC) than what you get in IL_2, because IL-2 is trying to model so many other aircraft at the same time.

Anyway, to respond to the main topic... given a choice, I'd like to see an upgraded version of SH5 in the same Atlantic theater, building on the current game engine, and expanding into wolf pack tactics. Unfortunately I don't think that's very marketable for Ubi, and they're more likely to make SH6 (if there is one at all) a modern sub sim... something like a Virginia class attack sub, or going back a few years to a Cold War scenario. Whatever it is, it'll be a single boat... if they ever do another version at all. They can't go back to a sub without a full interior now.

[Trool323]

silent hunter 4 with all the latest mods is the epic of subsims. You can get whatever you want almost. You can start a career in the atlantic and then go to the pacific if you'd like without having to play a different game. If they made SH6 they would have to make it live up to the expansion capabilities of SH4. Currently sh5 is not doing this by any means.. As we speak they are making ww1, surface ship, and japan based campaigns for SH4 the expansion is endless....Alot of people R real upset about Sh5 and its DRM. Even me a die hard fan I refuse to buy it untill its fixed, or I can find a way around the DRM. So in closing if Sh6 has any crap like DRm sh4 will live forever with only the graphics becoming out dated i believe.

if people dont buy sh5 because of DRM UBI will and probably have allready lost money and wont make a sh6..

time will tell but as of today I dont see SH6..