Screenshots from Preview Version (German Magazine 1/25/10)

[JackAubrey]

Hi,

i don't know if these already have been posted here, but a german Gaming Mag (Gamestar) has released some Screenshots of their Preview Version of Silent Hunter.

The Link is:

http://www.gamestar.de/news/pc/action/2312127/silent_hunter_5.html
Just click on the Screenshot at the bottom of the Article to go to the Gallery

Edit: I just saw the link was already posted in the Screenshots from 1/21/2010 Thread. Sorry for the double posting. :(

[oscar19681]

I think these are new to subsim. Thanks for sharing! And give this man a beer!
I,m guessing they wont have the crew topside option since i dont see any crew topside when they leave port in the screenshots.

[TDK1044]

I hadn't seen them. Thanks for posting. And this screenshot is the spitting image of Mihai. I wonder if we'll find Dan as a crew member too! :)

http://www.gamestar.de/index.cfm?pk=81228&fk=2094977&pid=6

[Arrakis]

Thanks for sharing indeed, they are new!!

For the sake of playability, I hope we can lower the periscope while on surface....it's up on each screenshot!!

Let us see a conning tower and watch-outs without the scope up!

[HMS Astute]

Some promising shots, some not so promising :shifty:

Thanks for sharing :salute:

[IanC]

I know they're only pics, but hot damn I can't wait to get my hands on this baby!

[oscar19681]

I noticed the crew member in his bunk dont have a blanket. He might be just relaxing but i dont hope to see crewmembers sleeping without blankets or without the curtain closed at leasts partially

[Brag]

GRRR, Subsim keeps asking me to log in.

Thanks! Lots of new pix

[AVGWarhawk]

These are new. Very nice! I like what I see! :yeah:

[Fire]

In the next days they will post infos from the preview version they have got.

[TDK1044]

So how come Neal doesn't get a preview version of the game? :hmmm:

[mookiemookie]

http://imgur.com/eQoAP.png

Aaaand, it looks like I'll be eagerly awaiting the "real dials and gauges" mod.

[danlisa]

Screenshots 1 & 2 seem to have a laser sighted deck gun.

I knew Gerry was innovative but damn..........

[AVGWarhawk]

Screenshots 1 & 2 seem to have a laser sighted deck gun.

I knew Gerry was innovative but damn..........

:har: That damn deck gun is still under scrutiny!

[AVGWarhawk]

http://imgur.com/eQoAP.png

Aaaand, it looks like I'll be eagerly awaiting the "real dials and gauges" mod.


The German Philadelphia Experiment. :D

[Seeadler]

http://imgur.com/eQoAP.png

Aaaand, it looks like I'll be eagerly awaiting the "real dials and gauges" mod.

water droplets, from the outside camera still appear inside,
unless the lieutenant commander is wearing glasses and comes down from the conning tower because it's raining :D

[Sgtmonkeynads]

I spy with my little eye...a green laser sight on the first two pics of the deck gun in action.

Cool of them to have a crew member with an "eye-patch" also. That has to be throw back to the SH4 glitch and eye-patch mod..

[mookiemookie]

water droplets, from the outside camera still appear inside,
unless the lieutenant commander is wearing glasses and comes down from the conning tower because it's raining :D

Ah, that makes sense. I was wondering what those spots were. And I figured the finger was just clipping through the table. Good eye!

[Seeadler]

Gamestar has now removed this article ... reason unknown!:hmmm:

[capthelm]

http://imgur.com/eQoAP.png

Aaaand, it looks like I'll be eagerly awaiting the "real dials and gauges" mod.

that is wow water droplets inside the sub dampness moisture :rock:

[JackAubrey]

Gamestar has now removed this article ... reason unknown!:hmmm:
Maybe too many hits in a too short time from non-german IPs? Maybe they think it's a Hacking attack. :haha:

[capthelm]

this screen shot is beautiful

:cool:
http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/5990/800x600prop.jpg (http://img519.imageshack.us/i/800x600prop.jpg/)

[Gotmilk]

pictures has been also removed. I can click on one picture but it always shows that guy on the bed picture.

EDIT: yeah most of the new pictures are now removed.

http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/5773/sh5.jpg

[JackAubrey]

this screen shot is beautiful

:cool:

And i strongly feel that it was a bit "enhanced", so to say.

[capthelm]

hope that is a raw ingame image :salute:

[IanC]

Removed because there was something we weren't suppose to see...? :hmmm:

And i strongly feel that it was a bit "enhanced", so to say.

Why? God knows they're asking for high enough system requirements, plus this is probably played on 'high', so it most likely does look like that.

[Méo]

Removed because there was something we weren't suppose to see...? :hmmm:

Yeah, it's a bit weird, I've seen a screenshot with the deck gun then it seems that it has been removed? :hmmm:

[capthelm]

system spec?

[JackAubrey]

Why? God knows they're asking for high enough system requirements, plus this is probably played on 'high', so it most likely does look like that.
That screenshot is, regarding to the Gamestar Gallery, from 4th of December 2009. So it's probably not coming from the preview version.
I don't know. It just looks like one of those "touched up" Screenshots one would find in Ads, at least to me.

Please don't get me wrong. I surely hope, just like everybody else, that this is the Quality we will see in the Game. :)

[piri_reis]

Beautiful stuff..

Had anybody saved the removed pictures?? :D

[Sulikate]

Had anybody saved the removed pictures?? :D
I second that request.

[piri_reis]

Here's the only one I could get. I think even this is offline now:

http://i46.tinypic.com/24grbs8.jpg

[Brag]

Pix are back up. You need to scroll down a bit.


http://www.gamestar.de/news/pc/actio..._hunter_5.html (http://www.gamestar.de/news/pc/action/2312127/silent_hunter_5.html)

[JackAubrey]

Pix are back up. You need to scroll down a bit.

http://www.gamestar.de/news/pc/actio..._hunter_5.html (http://www.gamestar.de/news/pc/action/2312127/silent_hunter_5.html)
This page was removed by Gamestar.

If i look in the Magazines Gallery, the Silent Hunter 5 preview Pics are removed.
http://www.gamestar.de/screenshots/action/81228/silent_hunter_5.html

[IanC]

Looks like they removed about 20 of them.

[Brag]

Now they show only 16 pix instead of the original 40.

They have removed those od dubious quality.

http://www.gamestar.de/news/pc/actio..._hunter_5.html (http://www.gamestar.de/news/pc/action/2312127/silent_hunter_5.html)

[IanC]

Now they show only 16 pix instead of the original 40.

They have removed those od dubious quality.

http://www.gamestar.de/news/pc/actio..._hunter_5.html (http://www.gamestar.de/news/pc/action/2312127/silent_hunter_5.html)

Brag that link doesn't work. And from what I remember seeing, they removed some very interesting shots, stuff we've never seen before. I wonder why.

[Lanzfeld]

Brag that link doesn't work. And from what I remember seeing, they removed some very interesting shots, stuff we've never seen before. I wonder why.

Maybe because they dont want us to know what a fail they have there....maybe....:06:

...and where is Neals copy???:stare::stare:

[Sulikate]

Ok, we are now sure that the new pics have been removed: did anyone save them before that?

[Lanzfeld]

I saw them all.

Also, there is a small copy and paste of them on page 1 of this thread. Post #23.

[Snestorm]

It's interesting that I had stopped in at the Ubisoft site, to see what was being said, following Neal's interview. There is almost no comments there, at all! I have to wonder whether Ubisoft stopped allowing new posts, or have been busy removing negative posts.

It's either one of the afformentioned, or people have totaly lost interest in SH5.

[urfisch]

nice!!! but...did any one saved the pics???

to bad...

[Brag]

Brag that link doesn't work. And from what I remember seeing, they removed some very interesting shots, stuff we've never seen before. I wonder why.


The link does work
First, you get a screen saying Sehr gherte besucher . . . .
The you get the page. Scroll down and there are three galleries, one of the is SH5

Easy to miss. :D

http://www.gamestar.de/news/pc/actio..._hunter_5.html (http://www.gamestar.de/news/pc/action/2312127/silent_hunter_5.html)

[urfisch]

The link does work
First, you get a screen saying Sehr gherte besucher . . . .
The you get the page. Scroll down and there are three galleries, one of the is SH5

Easy to miss. :D

http://www.gamestar.de/news/pc/actio..._hunter_5.html (http://www.gamestar.de/news/pc/action/2312127/silent_hunter_5.html)

nope, screens have been removed. there are just 16 left...from the 40.

:stare:

[JackAubrey]

The link does work
First, you get a screen saying Sehr gherte besucher . . . .
The you get the page. Scroll down and there are three galleries, one of the is SH5

Easy to miss. :D

http://www.gamestar.de/news/pc/actio..._hunter_5.html (http://www.gamestar.de/news/pc/action/2312127/silent_hunter_5.html)

Yeah, but unfortunately it leads to the same gallery with the newest Pics from December 4th. :(

[Dowly]

Why? God knows they're asking for high enough system requirements, plus this is probably played on 'high', so it most likely does look like that.

I'd say 90% of the screenshots we've been shown have been doctored somehow. Contrast, colors etc. changed. You can just watch the campaign video thing and you'll notice that the game looks much more "bland" than pretty much all the screenshots we've seen. It's called marketing. :03:

[urfisch]

I'd say 90% of the screenshots we've been shown have been doctored somehow. Contrast, colors etc. changed. You can just watch the campaign video thing and you'll notice that the game looks much more "bland" than pretty much all the screenshots we've seen. It's called marketing. :03:

others would call it "deception"...anyway. i do not understand, why they removed the screens. maybe they have not been allowed to show them?

;)

[HanSolo78]

I managed to save them with the help of some guys of the marinesims forum.
Here the pics again...

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/413/800x600prop1.th.jpg (http://img14.imageshack.us/i/800x600prop1.jpg/) http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/2610/800x600prop2.th.jpg (http://img715.imageshack.us/i/800x600prop2.jpg/) http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/6130/800x600prop3.th.jpg (http://img21.imageshack.us/i/800x600prop3.jpg/) http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/7150/800x600prop4.th.jpg (http://img715.imageshack.us/i/800x600prop4.jpg/)

http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/9715/800x600prop5.th.jpg (http://img694.imageshack.us/i/800x600prop5.jpg/) http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/9739/800x600prop6.th.jpg (http://img251.imageshack.us/i/800x600prop6.jpg/) http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/9739/800x600prop6.th.jpg (http://img251.imageshack.us/i/800x600prop6.jpg/) http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/6541/800x600prop7.th.jpg (http://img715.imageshack.us/i/800x600prop7.jpg/)

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/5976/800x600prop8.th.jpg (http://img14.imageshack.us/i/800x600prop8.jpg/) http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/3866/800x600prop9.th.jpg (http://img21.imageshack.us/i/800x600prop9.jpg/) http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/6561/800x600prop10.th.jpg (http://img21.imageshack.us/i/800x600prop10.jpg/) http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/1372/800x600prop11.th.jpg (http://img3.imageshack.us/i/800x600prop11.jpg/)

[urfisch]

great han!!! thanks a lot...

[IanC]

I'd say 90% of the screenshots we've been shown have been doctored somehow. Contrast, colors etc. changed. You can just watch the campaign video thing and you'll notice that the game looks much more "bland" than pretty much all the screenshots we've seen. It's called marketing. :03:

Well I've noticed that videos are almost always more bland than pictures anyways. But it's very possible that they made the pics look more colorful or brighter. I was saying more along the lines of modifying waves, bubbles or fire. What we're seeing is probably what we're going to get.

[Snestorm]

I think they are beginning to realize that they blew it.
The more they show, the greater the negativity.

[HanSolo78]

and the rest...

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/9354/800x600prop12.th.jpg (http://img59.imageshack.us/i/800x600prop12.jpg/) http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/8940/800x600prop13.th.jpg (http://img694.imageshack.us/i/800x600prop13.jpg/) http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/1766/800x600prop14.th.jpg (http://img3.imageshack.us/i/800x600prop14.jpg/) http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/229/800x600prop15.th.jpg (http://img189.imageshack.us/i/800x600prop15.jpg/)

http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/1613/800x600prop16.th.jpg (http://img251.imageshack.us/i/800x600prop16.jpg/) http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/1102/800x600prop17.th.jpg (http://img59.imageshack.us/i/800x600prop17.jpg/) http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/2204/800x600prop18.th.jpg (http://img638.imageshack.us/i/800x600prop18.jpg/) http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/5854/800x600prop19.th.jpg (http://img3.imageshack.us/i/800x600prop19.jpg/)

http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/1192/800x600prop20.th.jpg (http://img715.imageshack.us/i/800x600prop20.jpg/) http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/7641/800x600prop21.th.jpg (http://img251.imageshack.us/i/800x600prop21.jpg/) http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/7453/800x600prop22.th.jpg (http://img638.imageshack.us/i/800x600prop22.jpg/) http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/3865/800x600prop23.th.jpg (http://img21.imageshack.us/i/800x600prop23.jpg/)

http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/5357/800x600prop24.th.jpg (http://img251.imageshack.us/i/800x600prop24.jpg/)

so.. hope I got all...and now...

lets discuss the shots :D ;)

[Mikhayl]

The periscope view isn't so bad on a screen with a ~4:3 ratio. The sea colors don't look as good on the screens as it does in the videos, but overall the game looks cool. I just the devs didn't spend too much dev-time coding all the fancy healthbar and lazers, time that could have been put to better use :)

edit: good job Han and Marinesims

[Snestorm]

Why is the periscope up, while the boat is on the surface?

[IanC]

I managed to save them with the help of some guays of the marinesims forum.
Here the pics again...


Three cheers for the guays at marinesims!

[Sulikate]

The more I look, the more I think SHV looks graphically a lot like SHIV. Aliasing, lack of precise refraction, blurry textures, lack of dynamic shadows in some screens, misplaced crewmember limbs... I do notice improvements though, like the sea foam, deck textures and sky... Wait and see, I guess.

[urfisch]

TOPS:

- water looks really nice!
- water effects on the boat look nice
- clouds look realistic
- lighting is nice
- fire effects look good
- smoke looks good
- crew models are very nice
- ship models are nicely detailed
- uboat model is nicely detailed
- overall atmosphere seems to be good


FLOPS:

- no dynamic shadows
- AA seems not to work good
- textures are too "clean"
- interior is less detailed
- trees looking odd (still 2d bitmaps)
- interface looks horrible
- no rough seas (?)
- harbours look still "unorganic", angled piers/docks

just my 2cents

[HanSolo78]

I do see some good stuff... like the good textures from the sub interior or the improved sub 3d model... but also some bad stuff like the landcape (and trees) not really looking much improved... the special FX effects... almost no improvement to SH4. Also the water could take some tweaks... hopefully there will be some tweak utilities! And that only of the graphics... the laser guided gun is most likely (hopefully) from the beginner settings.

[Méo]

@HanSolo78

I missed some of them...

THANKS! :salute:

[Lanzfeld]

LOL!! Did you notice on the inside shot with the scope and spraying water: The rudder has two dials while the RPM's have only one dial for one engine.

FAIL.:down::down::down:

[urfisch]

LOL!! Did you notice on the inside shot with the scope and spraying water: The rudder has two dials while the RPM's have only one dial for one engine.

FAIL.:down::down::down:

just a wrong texture...the indicators needle is the same, as on the left dial.

:03:

but fail is, that the boat has full flank speed and the engine dials show no rpm...lol

[Lanzfeld]

just a wrong texture...the indicators needle is the same, as on the left dial.

:03:

but fail is, that the boat has full flank speed and the engine dials show no rpm...lol

Still a fail with the RPM's. How do people make these mistakes....really?

Just a sign of sloppy work, no attention to detail, rush job, use stuff from older games (didnt SH-3 have the same dial mistake???)

[piri_reis]

Thanks Han :salute:
I like what I see, surely there are some quirks but all the stock versions did. With mods it will look a lot better.
Comments:

1.The Crew screen, there sure is more people on board then are represented there, I wonder if we can manage them and the icon on the right of the current crew names brings a pulldown menu?

2.Radio Msg Received screen, forget the very accurate info, on the bottom, there are checkboxes for captain, exec-nav,..., Consy.Off.(?).. That means they can receive messages?.. Anyway, I think this BDU comms and dynamic campaign will allow the modders to code a very interesting and perhaps more complete campaign from scratch.

3.Clouds look nice. They could be volumetric.

4.In the shot that he is looking down from the conning tower hatch, I think it has been flooding there! :arrgh!:

5.There's clearly dynamic shadows in most shots. Inside and outside the sub.

6.In one of the shots boat is making 30knots!

7.The UI is normal, the laser thing is all beginners I think. None of us play stock UI so this will be completely revamped by the community hopefully.


Overall, it's exciting stuff :up:

[Nickolas]

...
2.Radio Msg Received screen, forget the very accurate info, on the bottom, there are checkboxes for captain, exec-nav,..., Consy.Off.(?).. That means they can receive messages?.. ...

no, it means they used the same texture from SHIV :shifty:

[Fire]

Well that interface is just horrible.

I can hear the captain not shouting "Ahead Flank", but "Give me Warplevel 5 XO" :down:

[Sulikate]

Well that interface is just horrible.

I can hear the captain not shouting "Ahead Flank", but "Give me Warplevel 5 XO" :down:
Good one :rotfl2:

[conus00]

Damn. Missed this thread.Now they are all gone... :wah:

Anybody saved them?

EDIT: Nevermind. Just woke up. :D

[capthelm]

awesome see flooding sea water inside the sub

http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/2750/waterdamagesh5.jpg (http://img36.imageshack.us/i/waterdamagesh5.jpg/) :rock:

[Safe-Keeper]

I'm loving the minimap in the corner, too.

[piri_reis]

But look at the floor here:
Looks like knee deep flooding?, almost up to the bottom of the hatch to the next compartment? That could explain the drops on the camera.
Or is that the floor?, next compartment is clean? :doh::yawn:

http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/7453/800x600prop22.th.jpg (http://img638.imageshack.us/i/800x600prop22.jpg/)

[Boris]

But look at the floor here:
Looks like knee deep flooding?, almost up to the bottom of the hatch to the next compartment? That could explain the drops on the camera.
Or is that the floor?, next compartment is clean? :doh::yawn:

http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/7453/800x600prop22.th.jpg (http://img638.imageshack.us/i/800x600prop22.jpg/)

Yeah, you're right, that explains the water blotches on the screen. Looks like the water hasn't spilled over into the other compartment...

[Dowly]

You can see one of the pipes leaking in that pic. Just a tad up from the navigation officers head.

[capthelm]

But look at the floor here:
Looks like knee deep flooding?, almost up to the bottom of the hatch to the next compartment? That could explain the drops on the camera.
Or is that the floor?, next compartment is clean? :doh::yawn:

http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/7453/800x600prop22.th.jpg (http://img638.imageshack.us/i/800x600prop22.jpg/)


wow never noticed that looks awesome

yea its not spilled over the hatch opening. wonder if you can close the hatch to stop flooding into other compartments?

that explains the water droplets in the pic. i think behind these 2 crew members they will be bulge pump duties to some of the crew to pump out that sea water.

[kapitan_zur_see]

Interesting stuff those screenshots shows.
The flooding is pretty cool and I like the idea very much, after all, I did raise that idea somewhere at subsim during the Q&A and Dan replyed that it was basically too complicated and that it probably wasn't going to be there but... it is eventually! suprising... they do really takes idea from us from time to time after all...:up:

Looks like we're going to get independant control over board and starboard engines if i'm judging by this dials screenshot, nice.

I'm a bit puzzled as to why UBI didn't want us to see those screenshots though... there has to be something with it... Maybe it's all for the better, as it might show some things that has been or are planned to be corrected or done better before release and they don't want us to become upset.
Now maybe it's because some things are going to miss in the final release, i don't know, we'll see I guess.

I kinda like the torpedo closeup picture, although it could have been heavily photoshoped with the light rays, depth of field and etc. Still, the mouse cursor tend to suggest it has not. At last! it makes underwater scenes to be more atmospehric and less "flat" and boring. More dramatic

Now i don't know WHEN and at WHICH state of completion of the game it was played, but some screenshots shows a "pretty poor" level of details/light behavior/texturing for a 2010 game, some almost looks like SH3 screenshots on the deck, "flat" and all, looks like some old shading technique (those who are into 3d modelling and 3dsmax for ex. should know what i mean)! Dunno, might depends on the wheather state they were taken at... some wheathers are more dramatic looking than others. If you want to have a good look at what sim games should looks like nowadays, take a look at Wings of prey. I've tested the demo and it's one marvell to look at! Not entirely photorealistic looking, at least not so realisticly depicting wheater and all, but rather very atmospheric in an artistic way, with great use of shaders that are cleverly and artistically thought. Gorgeous and to top it off, the most optimised rendering engine I've seen for years, giving steady high FPS with every maxed out AND 4x AA (I'm using a HD3870X2, a pretty big card with dual GPU which... already "have" its limits, and not to a small extent! well supposedly at least, if I'm judging by most of nowadays games which apparently are not that close to run well with everything maxed out...!)

Uboat interior looks a bit, well... it doesn't show this much details for a game that is "advertised" as having a very strong focus on the type VII :-? I fear optimization has not been the only reason... Still, we and guys like Tomi are going to have lots of works if we want to have a good looking detailed interior. Ready to go to work! :salute: lol

The more I look, the more I think SHV looks graphically a lot like SHIV. Aliasing, lack of precise refraction, blurry textures, lack of dynamic shadows in some screens, misplaced crewmember limbs... I do notice improvements though, like the sea foam, deck textures and sky... Wait and see, I guess.

Sort of basically share my point... A mixed bag of outdated looking graphics with good things. It seems most of the rendering engine improvments are limited to more shaders/post process things and raising a bit the polycount (not this much on ennemy ships though and in sub interior and some aprts of it like the AA guns for ex.)
All and all, it seems to have a "we're in a rush" finishing. Then again, maybe it was sort of "beta" in some key areas

[JackAubrey]

I'm a bit puzzled as to why UBI didn't want us to see those screenshots though... there has to be something with it... Maybe it's all for the better, as it might show some things that has been or are planned to be corrected or done better before release and they don't want us to become upset.
Now maybe it's because some things are going to miss in the final release, i don't know, we'll see I guess.

They're probably going to ship SH5 without a 3D Crew which will be available a bit later as Downloadable Content. :DL

[kapitan_zur_see]

They're probably going to ship SH5 without a 3D Crew which will be available a bit later as Downloadable Content. :DL

Yeah and the wheater effects also :know:
you get calm sea state at the release, first DLC will have mid-calm seas and second one rough seas :arrgh!:
Oh, and thunder lightnings for the third one, of course :88)
lol, now i don't worry this much about that "DLC" fear though... Maybe just for an additionnal uboat and campaign 43-45. But well, remember even SH1 had DLC (and it's been years ago! and of course it wasn't "downloadable" for the time i guess)

[capthelm]

They're probably going to ship SH5 without a 3D Crew which will be available a bit later as Downloadable Content. :DL


these posts are getting anoying and not funny anymore, becomes boring dude.

[Galanti]

Gawd, that interface.....it still floors me, that this a niche product catering to a loyal community that thrives, above all else, on historical authenticity, and they give us interface that looks like something you'd see on an Apple or Win 7.

[V.C. Sniper]

still the same crappy looking torpedo wake, but they got a bout a month to replace this simple effect

[Adriatico]

Why is format 1280x1024 ?
Don't they have a normal wide screen ?

[capthelm]

Why is format 1280x1024 ?
Don't they have a normal wide screen ?

i for one will be running across x2 monitors. :cool:

[urfisch]

anyone seen the german "gamestar tv" episode? they are testing the sh5 preview version...

i didnt saw it. but one guy in the german forum mentioned, the testers said, the crew is mute. they are just staring at you, when you pass them. but saying nothing...not even to taste the soup? but maybe its just the preview version bug...

?

lol?

[IanC]

anyone seen the german "gamestar tv" episode? they are testing the sh5 preview version...

i didnt saw it. but one guy in the german forum mentioned, the testers said, the crew is mute. they are just staring at you, when you pass them. but saying nothing...not even to taste the soup? but maybe its just the preview version bug...

?

lol?

Good, I want them to be quiet when I walk by, also more realistic. Can you imagine having every crew member say something to you.

[piri_reis]

Good, I want them to be quiet when I walk by, also more realistic. Can you imagine having every crew member say something to you.

Agreed. They better shut up then annoy me..
Though I hope there are some hooks in the code to mod these :D

[Gotmilk]

any chance to see this gamestar tv online somewhere?

i found this but i cant watch
http://www.gamestar.de/index.cfm?pid=1589&pk=13333

sucks that ubi giver pre version to money grabbing w*ore who wont let you show their video unless you pay them.

[ReFaN]

No detonation, verdammt!

love it.

[Apos]

Its only me or there is laser sight?

http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/3865/800x600prop23.jpg

Anyones else see that green laser line?

Huh, SHV officialy become a 100% console arcade game not PC game sim.

The good thing is this

http://images.idgentertainment.de/images/idgwpgsgp/bdb/2095077/800x600_prop.jpg

"7 unique submarines and enemy ship skins"

So there will be more subs then VIII type or just 7 diffrent VIIIs skins? :|

[Gilbou]

They don't want the game to be judged on a preview version, where some graphic stuff is turned off because they want to test things first before adding the candy graphic layer above.

That's the problem with unfinished previews. You don't want the game to be judged upon screenshots or what can be seen. Because they did build a preview and they've got a better one they're working on but it takes too much time to build daily previews for the press. So the press gets a several weeks old preview of the game. Some graphic options are turned off until all works so the game won't look the same in the finished version too.

We have to wait for the final version to really know. And what matters to me is more if the game will be crippled with online authentication (so what happens the day they pull the plug ? I play Wow so it's not the online requirement that is a problem, it's Ubisoft turning off the authentication servers someday if I prefer to play a specific version for years to come of Silent Hunter because either they will stop producing new ones or I won't find interesting to play console-like Silent Hunter compared to previous versions).

The second other point for me is will the game be as nice to play as SH3 + some mods when it comes to Uboat combat and atmosphere ?

I went from SH3 to SH4 without a problem. I had SH3 for Uboats and SH4 for the US side (what a stupid mistake I did selling SH3...). But I am going to be much more cautious about SH5. I won't buy it until a patch is out, and I have read all I can from the fine people here :ping:

[JScones]

"7 unique submarines and enemy ship skins"

So there will be more subs then VIII type or just 7 diffrent VIIIs skins? :|
The latter - see, the emphasis (bold) is on the "ship skins" text.

[floundericiousWA]

wow never noticed that looks awesome

yea its not spilled over the hatch opening. wonder if you can close the hatch to stop flooding into other compartments?

that explains the water droplets in the pic. i think behind these 2 crew members they will be bulge pump duties to some of the crew to pump out that sea water.

You know what doesn't look awesome? His finger being clipped by the map he's studying (left hand, pinky finger)

[urfisch]

oh yes. i wished to have my freakin lasers in the game!!!

[Lanzfeld]

You know what doesn't look awesome? His finger being clipped by the map he's studying (left hand, pinky finger)

That is a water drop on lens from flooding. If you look close you can see several of them.

[JScones]

And who jokingly asked for lasers? Well, you got them!:rotfl2:

[TarJak]

That is a water drop on lens from flooding. If you look close you can see several of them.
Correct and none of them look awesome!:doh: