SH4 on GIGA

[Boris]

For those in or near Germany that can pick up the GIGA channel, there is an SH4 preview in 30 mins at 2200.

[trenken]

Please record it and put it on youtube. And subtitles would be really nice considering many of us dont speak German. :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[geetrue]

It's about time things started to crackel ... I bet it's even going to go gold by March 1st or 2nd ... :up:

[Boris]

You can watch the live-stream here regardless of where you are if you have DSL:

http://www.giga.de/features/live/

another 15 mins before it starts. As for recording... anyone know how to record streaming video?

[trenken]

I think you can record streaming video with some screen capture software such as Camtasia.Don't know how good the quality would be using something like that though.

[trenken]

More info - http://www.giga.de/tv/gigagamespc/00136702_silent_hunter_4_firsttauch/

[Boris]

this is shaping up to be good. For anyone online now, click the live-stream link above if you want to see lots of ingame footage!!!

[hyperion2206]

Oh boy, the moderator is such landlubber! One would think that he would he would have informed himself of SH4. He doesn't know the difference between the "bridge" (although it should have been "conning tower") and the "control room".:nope:

[Ship Hunter]

I recording it, it will be available on YouTube and for download tomorrow.

[Boris]

They've gone onto other things while the guy gets it into a better shooting position for demo purposes.

Hasn't shown much yet. Just the menu and some open sea...

[hyperion2206]

I recording it, it will be available on YouTube and for download tomorrow.

Great news Ship Hunter:up::up::up: I had some internet problems and missed some parts of the show.:dead:

[Safe-Keeper]

Where on the site do I go if I want to view it now?

[hyperion2206]

Where on the site do I go if I want to view it now?

When you access the site you see a pic of a submerged sub, just click on that pic and you should see the live stream.

[Boris]

Go to this link, and click on 'Start Media player stream', top right corner of the dark grey field. WMplayer should open automatically.

http://www.giga.de/features/live/

They're reviewing some wii game right now, so you're not too late, they haven't continued with SH4 yet.

[Boris]

...or on the hompage here as hyperion said:

http://www.giga.de/

[trenken]

Wow that transparent water really is nice. Gives the surface a very glassy look.

[Safe-Keeper]

What the Heck is that orange balloon-stuff in front of him at about :45?

I've gotten to his ranting about how slowly the boat dives. "Verdamt! Verdamt!":rotfl:

Heh, heh, what a landlubber indeed. I'd like some subtitles, though, as I can only understand about 10% of what he says.

[trenken]

I dont understand German so I'm just watching it.

[Boris]

He was having trouble with the depth gauge... wasn't reacting at first... the dive sound appeared about 3 or 4 times. I kept thinking, let me do it goddammit! But he said it was a Beta bug.

Some decent footage though.

He'll come back in a minute to demonstrate a harbour raid against a BB.

[hyperion2206]

What the Heck is that orange balloon-stuff in front of him at about :45?

I've gotten to his ranting about how slowly the boat dives. "Verdamt! Verdamt!":rotfl:

Heh, heh, what a landlubber indeed. I'd like some subtitles, though, as I can only understand about 10% of what he says.


You don't miss that much, he babbles a lot.:p

[hyperion2206]

He was having trouble with the depth gauge... wasn't reacting at first... the dive sound appeared about 3 or 4 times. I kept thinking, let me do it goddammit! But he said it was a Beta bug.

Some decent footage though.

He'll come back in a minute to demonstrate a harbour raid against a BB.

Not just a simple BB, but the mighty Yamato.:D

[rodan54]

That was actually rather humorous watching those destroyers (damn, those were some fast sobs) bear down on him while his boat lazily sneaks below the water. :lol:

[hyperion2206]

That was actually rather humorous watching those destroyers (damn, those were some fast sobs) bear down on him while his boat lazily sneaks below the water. :lol:

Yes, but compared to the escorts in SH3 GWX the Japanese were complete noobs.:lol:

[Boris]

...how lame is German TV :oops::rotfl:

I'm embarrassed by it

[trenken]

I just watched that guy fire 5 torps and miss with all of them.

[Boris]

:rotfl:Well we don't know yet... he hit pause and he's coming back to it later.

But in his defence, with auto targetting, you expect to hit what you see.

[Barkhorn1x]

I just watched that guy fire 5 torps and miss with all of them.

Maybe he's playing full on real w/ a salvo of pre-1944 Mark XIVs??

;)

Barkhorn.

[hyperion2206]

I just watched that guy fire 5 torps and miss with all of them.
Maybe he's playing full on real w/ a salvo of pre-1944 Mark XIVs??

;)

Barkhorn.


I didn't see that the torpedoes hat wakes, so he probably uses electric eels which are really slow.:hmm:

[Safe-Keeper]

Training warheads:p.

By the way, why was that other guy wearing a penguin suit? And do they really not have German counterparts for "Tool", "of", "the", and "day":-?? Kinda goes against what I learned in about 5 years of German classes;).

[trenken]

Training warheads:p.

By the way, why was that other guy wearing a penguin suit? And do they really not have German counterparts for "Tool", "of", "the", and "day":-?? Kinda goes against what I learned in about 5 years of German classes;).

I was wondering the same thing about the penguin suit. And was the other guy supposed to be dressed up like a sea captain with that hat and jacket? Maybe he was doing it in honor of SH4.

[hyperion2206]

Training warheads:p.

By the way, why was that other guy wearing a penguin suit? And do they really not have German counterparts for "Tool", "of", "the", and "day":-?? Kinda goes against what I learned in about 5 years of German classes;).
LOL, their studio is in Cologne (my home city) and right now we celebrate carnival. Since last thursday everybody is wearing costumes and is getting drunk. Today was a big parade and on wednesday everything is over.

[Boris]

Sea captain? more like a mob boss.

Oh well, despite the lameness of the presenters, some nice footage.

@ Safe-keeper, yes, germans interchange a lot with english, especially when talking about things originally in english. But of, the, and day? Not that I noticed.

[Boris]

Training warheads:p.

By the way, why was that other guy wearing a penguin suit? And do they really not have German counterparts for "Tool", "of", "the", and "day":-?? Kinda goes against what I learned in about 5 years of German classes;).
LOL, their studio is in Cologne (my home city) and right now we celebrate carnival. Since last thursday everybody is wearing costumes and is getting drunk. Today was a big parade and on wednesday everything is over.

Ah, of course, that expalins the costumes

[flintlock]

Ack, missed all this. :-?

[hyperion2206]

Ack, missed all this. :-?

Ship Hunter records it and it will be available on youtube by tomorrow.:up:

[Seeadler]

And was the other guy supposed to be dressed up like a sea captain with that hat and jacket? Maybe he was doing it in honor of SH4. No, today and tomorrow we have here in Germany "Mardi Grass"

[Safe-Keeper]

Weird orange stuff floating in the air, strange hats and penguin suits... these people are weird.

[hyperion2206]

Weird orange stuff floating in the air, strange hats and penguin suits... these people are weird.
We're not weird!:nope: We're DRUNK:rotfl:


Did you see the teaser for a special comming in March? They were playing the Russian national anthem. Well it's ok because this guy was on the ex-Russan sub on display in Hamburg.

[Barkhorn1x]

Ack, missed all this. :-?

Ship Hunter records it and it will be available on youtube by tomorrow.:up:

I was just kidding abou the Mark XIV's as I clicked in late and did not see the show - saw four freaky guys in costumes tho' and am relieved to know it is carnival time and not just a "normal' representation of German television - like say, "SPROCKETS" ***.

;)


Can't wait for the YouTube vid.


****http://snltranscripts.jt.org/90/90asprockets.phtml

Barkhorn.

[Tigrone]

Even if they do babble on, a site with a show called Babes, Boobs, and Butts; and featuring games like, "Dreamstripper" and "All Star Strip Poker: Girl at Work," can't be all bad. The important stuff is always in English.

[Safe-Keeper]

Whatever, it doesn't beat the "Ich bin gern ein Millionaer (sp help on that last word:oops:?)" music video they showed us in German class in Houston. Most hilarious show I ever saw.

[Boris]

Whatever, it doesn't beat the "Ich bin gern ein Millionaer (sp help on that last word:oops:?)" music video they showed us in German class in Houston. Most hilarious show I ever saw.

You mean this :D?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6fYqQ36AL8

[CCIP]

Whatever, it doesn't beat the "Ich bin gern ein Millionaer (sp help on that last word:oops:?)" music video they showed us in German class in Houston. Most hilarious show I ever saw.
You mean this :D?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6fYqQ36AL8

:rotfl:

Germans have the greatest/weirdest music videos! Another example - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUcSTyD2T7M

[Safe-Keeper]

You mean this :D?Yesh:rotfl:.

[CaptainNemo]

Hi folks! We have recorded the clipping and will give you the download link soon. ;)

[Boris]

Danke Nemo! :up:

[Schultzy]

I freue mich drauf. Danke Nemo.

[trenken]

Hi folks! We have recorded the clipping and will give you the download link soon. ;)

Now if only I understood German... :cry:

[stabiz]

Where is the link?

[trenken]

He didn't post it yet.

[Boris]

Shiphunter has to cut it together, he said sometime today, or probably tomorrow.

[dean_acheson]

hooray!

I logged onto the link, but the show was already over.

Wow, my German is horrible.....

[robbierob2005]

Did you upload it to Youtube yet?

[Boris]

It aint up yet. Ship Hunter said maybe tomorrow... read it on a German forum somewhere.

[flintlock]

We're waiting until the middle of March for SH4. Tomorrow will be a piece of cake by comparison.

[The General]

Uhh, what happened? Nobody'd post the recording? I was looking forward to that. Damn!

[robbierob2005]

and? Ship Hunter? When is this on YouTube?

[CaptainNemo]

I will ask Ship Hunter when he will upload the video.

[Ship Hunter]

Hey Guys!

I just upgraded my PC and had to install a fresh windows.

Video will be online tomorrow!!!!

[flintlock]

Good news. Thanks in advance!

Oh, and grats on the upgrade. :up:

[Barkhorn1x]

Hey Guys!

I just upgraded my PC and had to install a fresh windows.

Video will be online tomorrow!!!!


Ohhh boy!

Thanks.

Barkhorn.

[Tranton]

Thanks Ship Hunter! I can't wait to see it. :up:

[Ship Hunter]

Okay, cutted the Clip and rendering it now...but myself is going to bed now because it's 2:37 AM here.

File Size will be about 170 MB for download Version as WMV. I think I will convert it to DivX with MP3 Audio to make it smaller...but I make a YouTube Version first and post it there...stay tuned!

[flyingdane]

Okay, cutted the Clip and rendering it now...but myself is going to bed now because it's 2:37 AM here.

File Size will be about 170 MB for download Version as WMV. I think I will convert it to DivX with MP3 Audio to make it smaller...but I make a YouTube Version first and post it there...stay tuned!

Yee Haa!!!:rock:

[Ship Hunter]

So now...I'm not in bed but i have uploaded the Video...It's processing now. It's 38 Minutes long but haven't the best cut.

I hope it will Work because normally Videos are limited to 10 Minutes but I have an director account so it has to work...normally ^^

Here is a Link to my Account, so if it works it should be available in the next one or maximum 2 hours. http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=ShipHunter

[marius]

watching it now. Thanks:up:

[flyingdane]

What the hell is that man saying. :hmm:

[flyingdane]

OMG!!!!... that sound when they are diving is from SH3-Gwx. :arrgh!:

[trenken]

Sweet thnx! Only wish I could understand what he was saying. :cry:

[flyingdane]

OMG..Are thy Cool or what..:88) :doh: :huh:

[flyingdane]

OH....NO..This game is going to suck..Its...Its..full.. of germans :o

[flyingdane]

:doh: Ain't gonna bye it, is all german.

[flyingdane]

Its...Its..Its..Full of stars :doh:

[CCIP]

Wow, impressed with what I'm finding here. Apparently he's not even playing it on full detail and it's looking awesome - bodes well for people with so-so video cards.

Some answers there already - I can see how the settings are gonna work; I can hear voices and sound effects now (which have largely migrated from SHIII, for better or worse - sound mods will do em good, hope someone finally dares to do a full voicepack for SHIV!). I see there's a nice gamma slider someone just asked about today :)

The new map tools are a real neat touch - all the functionality from SHIII is there, but now they're actually shown as tools lying on the side of your table. Otherwise both the map interface and the main interface are technically identical to SHIII (modded versions of it anyway). The slideout panels on the periscope screen are real nice! The torpedo screen seems to be a separate screen rather than an overlay now.

The damage control looks peculiar - couldn't make out much but I think we can lay to rest the concerns of it not being detailed enough - I saw lots of little items on that screen!

The new additional sprites (water coming out of holes) look much better in motion than they do on screenshots it seems - wahoo!

I needn't splurge about the transparency and other environment effects again. Best thing evar :smug:

Gun & Flak interface looks exactly the same (as SHIII) - different guns, same function.

The boat dives sloooooow. Practice on that IX while you can :p

Hard to say anything about gameplay or AI, largely given the very easy setting he plays at, but so far it doesn't look that distinct from SHIII. Still keeping my fingers crossed for a less predictable AI!

War patrol vs. Quick Mission - I take it there are two types of single missions now? :hmm:

Can anyone comment on the difficulty settings? Looking identical to SHIII so far...

Likewise - anyone ID any ships?

LOL, and I too was irritated by that dinghy popping up in the 'follow' cam - though nice to see they're in game :lol:

Good stuff. The most 'hands on' I've seen so far.

[flintlock]

Thanks a lot for the link, SH! :up:

[flyingdane]

This stuped movie is going to suck. What about sh4...:stare: :88)

[Captain Krunch]

Thanks for posting this; that was very gracious of you.

The damage control looks peculiar - couldn't make out much but I think we can lay to rest the concerns of it not being detailed enough - I saw lots of little items on that screen!
Is that what this screen was?

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/329/damagepy5.jpg

[CCIP]

I believe so. What else would it be?

[zombiewolf]

He got a wierd accent and his muttie dresses him .Nice preview though can't wait.Thanks

[Ship Hunter]

Here the direct link too...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKzayinQyq0

Have fun...btw. good morning...

[Fischii]

Hi Ship Hunter,

danke für dein Video! Das habe ich leider verpast gehabt, aber dank dir konnte ich es jetzt noch sehen. Aber der Moderator hat wohl keine Ahnung vom U-Boot Sims:lol:

[Ship Hunter]

Na gerne doch...die High-Quality Version rendert grad vor sich hin...denke mal heute Mittag wird sie zum download bereit stehen.

[robbierob2005]

Thanks for the link Mate! Looks very good. Only 4 weeks left waiting.:D

[Boris]

Jo, ich sag auch nochmal danke! :up:

[Seeadler]

What the hell is that man saying. :hmm: be gladly to not understand it, the moderator is in normal way a 1st person shooter player and had only few knowledge about the topic subsims and corresponding to this were also his comments about the gameplay :rotfl:

[Boris]

Hey, I'm an FPS player too... and a flightsimmer, and an RTS gamer, and RPG gamer, Adventure...

I'm a veritable gaming whore :D :rotfl:

I should go work for GIGA

[Schultzy]

Danke fürs Video Ship Hunter. i hobs genossen aber, ja der Moderator hot wirklich kane Ahnung... :rotfl: Egal. SH4 schaut super aus!

[Capt.LoneRanger]

Danke für den Link und den Upload!

The moderator is really a nOOb. I still wonder why people are named to test games, yet don't know anything about what they're doing. :p

He says a few things about the awesome graphics and that many annoying things from SH3 were fixed and improved in SH4, like the crew management, the interface and of course the graphics.

Besides that, he attacks a freighter, calling it a destroyer, a small tanker mistaking it for a flattop, he launches torpedoes over 4km and wonders why they didn't hit after 1 minute, says that it was difficult in WW2 to deal with rotten meal, as you couldn't throw it overboard - its a submarine, you know, and it is almost the complete mission under water. :huh: Submarines also have an altimeter, 30m is a common depth for periscope, explosions are the best part in SH.

Be glad you don't understand him.... :)

[Boris]

Wilkommen bei Subsim Capt. LoneRanger!

[Barkhorn1x]

Welcome Lone Ranger.

And yes, it is more than annoying when a "reviewer" knows little or nothing about the history/weapons/procedures of the sim they are reviewing.

But, still we get a LOOOONG video of a late build - we can at least be happy for that.

Barkhorn.

[Capt.LoneRanger]

Danke für das Willkommen - bin schon einige Zeit passiv dabei, aber die Vorfreude auf SH4 hat mich dann doch bewogen, mich mal zu registrieren. ;)

There are some quite nice details indeed. Most of them, while he accidentially, helpless and clueless clicks through the new icons and works with the new map tools. They really look like the best map-tool-mods made by the community. :up:

[badhat17]

I hope they don't forget to add a periscope feather and wake to the final release.

[AJ!]

I gota say the graphics are looking great..... only problem i have is the sound of the incoming gun fire.. It still sounds kinda strange. There should be a thunderous roar as heavy battleship shells head towards you. Those shots may have been light machine gun fire though...

also the voices and closing the hatch sounds are almost identical to SH3

[Mikkow]

I gota say the graphics are looking great..... only problem i have is the sound of the incoming gun fire.. It still sounds kinda strange. There should be a thunderous roar as heavy battleship shells head towards you. Those shots may have been light machine gun fire though...

Aren't BS shells supersonic? If so, they'd make no sound at all while heading for you (they outrun the sound they are making)

[hyperion2206]

I gota say the graphics are looking great..... only problem i have is the sound of the incoming gun fire.. It still sounds kinda strange. There should be a thunderous roar as heavy battleship shells head towards you. Those shots may have been light machine gun fire though...
Aren't BS shells supersonic? If so, they'd make no sound at all while heading for you (they outrun the sound they are making)


I think you can actually hear shells coming your direction. The noice is often descriped as if linen was riped.

[Boris]

I gota say the graphics are looking great..... only problem i have is the sound of the incoming gun fire.. It still sounds kinda strange. There should be a thunderous roar as heavy battleship shells head towards you. Those shots may have been light machine gun fire though...
Aren't BS shells supersonic? If so, they'd make no sound at all while heading for you (they outrun the sound they are making)

I don't think they should make a sound when they're coming in at all, but make a cracking sound when they pass.

The whizzing of shells and bullets is pure hollywood stuff, but I guess the devs were going for that. We can mod the sounds ourselves, it's no problem. I hope they have the "click, click" before the depth charges explode.

[hyperion2206]

I gota say the graphics are looking great..... only problem i have is the sound of the incoming gun fire.. It still sounds kinda strange. There should be a thunderous roar as heavy battleship shells head towards you. Those shots may have been light machine gun fire though...
Aren't BS shells supersonic? If so, they'd make no sound at all while heading for you (they outrun the sound they are making)
I don't think they should make a sound when they're coming in at all, but make a cracking sound when they pass.

The whizzing of shells and bullets is pure hollywood stuff, but I guess the devs were going for that. We can mod the sounds ourselves, it's no problem. I hope they have the "click, click" before the depth charges explode.

I'm pretty sure that you can hear artillery rounds howl over your head. Anybody surving in the military confirm that?

[Boris]

Heres some artillery sounds which appear to be real. They fit the ripping linen description.

http://www.audiolicense.net/sfx/sfx_list.asp?subcat_id=9783

Real sounds always lose their real-life effect somehow when they're recorded though.

[Boris]

This page is pretty good too.

http://www.audiolicense.net/sfx/sfx_list.asp?subcat_id=6681

love the explosion at the end of the first one, now thats a real impact sound. That's what I want my shells to sound like when they hit!


EDIT: the far away bassy impact in the third one is awesome too. It always pisses me off that they never use these real sounds in movies and games, and with speed of sound delay. It's just so much cooler.

[AJ!]

Heres some artillery sounds which appear to be real. They fit the ripping linen description.

http://www.audiolicense.net/sfx/sfx_list.asp?subcat_id=9783

Real sounds always lose their real-life effect somehow when they're recorded though.

Thanks Boris, those are some great sound effects. Thats exactly how it should sound in SH4 :up:

[Mylander]

Nice sounds Boris, I was a fire direction officer of a 155mm platoon in XVIII ABN Corps in 1st Gulf War. These naval 'rifles' are a different animal than artillery - direct fire vs indirect fire, but the sounds are pretty much the same. The Iraqis actually had better 155s than we did (G5 vs our M198s) They had longer range and smaller CEp (circular error) = more accurate guns, but their fire direction sucked - i.e. even with better guns, they couldn't bring accurate fire on us. They generally missed by a couple hundred meters (short) while exciting for us, that doesn't generate any effects on target. If our rounds were more than 50m off target, that was basically a "miss" unless you're talking ICM with many submunitions scattered over a couple of hundred meters.

What would add a lot to believability is seeing a distant explosion, with a second or two delay before hearing it. I know this has been mentioned previously. Also, the sounds should have that bass, man. It ratttles your guts from the ranges these deck guns would have fired from. Truth is, a good explosion or firing sound at any high volume level, and all of our speakers would themselves explode! :rotfl: :rotfl:

Is it march yet?

Best regards,
Mylander

[Boris]

Cool story Mylander.

I was in the Army for a bit, and even smaller munitions such as the 66mm rocketlaunchers I fired had quite a bang to them. And the claymores really rattle your guts too.
I think I'll be modding some sounds when this thing comes out... I'll be modding alot of things :D

[Mylander]

I am very much looking forward to it!

Mylander