New Pics from german Gamemag 02/10/2010

[JackAubrey]

Just to let you know:

http://www.gamestar.de/news/pc/action/simulation/2312560/silent_hunter_5.html

[mookiemookie]

Wow...some of those look gorgeous!

[Chad]

http://images.idgentertainment.de/images/idgwpgsgp/bdb/2096972/800x600_prop.jpg

Definitely one of my favorites. Look, even crew on deck :arrgh!:

[SteamWake]

Hey... did you notice something in the second picture?? :up:

[onelifecrisis]

Wow :o

They are easily the best shots I've seen yet.
*drool*

With those graphics, **** realism! :rotfl2: Hand me those dice, Ubisoft.

[Iron Budokan]

Why are there only three guys on watch? :cry:

[AVGWarhawk]

All very nice. Looks great looking forward to playing !

[Webster]

looks great :up:

[PL_Andrev]

http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/490/52543186.jpg

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http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/657/88776804.jpg

http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/1189/20003169.jpg

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/6317/57045812.jpg

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/7424/50761615.jpg

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/880/38619730.jpg

http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/4614/22728290.jpg

[mookiemookie]

Definately one of my favorites. Look, even crew on deck :arrgh!:

Absolutely my favorite as well. Too bad it has that stupid watermark, or that'd be my new desktop. Ah well. I'm sure I'll have plenty of new desktop material once the game is released. :yeah:

[ReFaN]

Down with the periscope, it may catch a stray bullet :P

[Sledgehammer427]

*looks down*
excuse me, I need a new pair of pants.
:O::D

[Sanuck]

Just looked at pics from thread There is also a game review from a preview game they had Translate and make of it what you will

http://www.gamestar.de/preview/action/simulation/2312262/silent_hunter_5.html

Two pages

[SteamWake]

Wait a minute... 'preview game' ?

Its still in german for me.

[frenema]

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http://www.gamestar.de/preview/action/simulation/2312262/silent_hunter_5.html&sl=de&tl=en

Edit: really, there's no new information whatsoever...

[Brag]

In the comments, there is bitching already. Gues about what :D

I did like some of the pix

[karamazovnew]

YEEEY, we have storms!!!! With all that nice weather I almost began fearing there would be no nights or rain in SH5.

BTW, "If guaranteed submarine simulations are not famous for anything, it's probably tough for action or a fast-paced game." Google Translate SUCKS :down:

[SteamWake]

Cmon shot number two there is something there that should have alot of pepole buzzing ! :03:

[Chad]

Cmon shot number two there is something there that should have alot of pepole buzzing ! :03:

Um, periscope is up? Volumetric clouds? Real time shadows on deck? The RADAR thingies on front of tower? (sorry in school, all books back in dorm)

[urfisch]

thanks a lot! the graphics have been improved, compared to sh4. this seems for sure.

[makman94]

and where is the 'rendering' of waves to further distances ? i still see a 'peacefull' sea 200-300m furhter from u-boat ! can you imagine (yes...imagine-all you can do- becuase ubi still hasn't show the stormy weather ) how this will 'look' at heavy seas ? .....let me guess.... a 'hell' storm around my sub....but a 'peacefull' (imagine now...birds singing) situation to whole left envinronment ....
(do you really liked the storms at sh4 ?)

[GREY WOLF 3]

[
QUOTE=mookiemookie;1263796]Wow...some of those look gorgeous![/QUOTE]

gorgeous! referring to a gorgeous female yes :D not a picture:nope::nope::nope:

What ever takes your fancy:o

[Chad]

Hehe, the differences between English and American.

Though I can't say much, can I Sailor Steve :O:

[PhantomLord]

The tester sounds like a newbie to sub-sims.

The look and feel in SH4 was so realistic that your forget that you´re in front of a screen?
Oh and all is so well arranged and easy accessible. And don´t forget the fancy graphics! Clickclick BOOM and two cruisers are history... :nope:

rough summary:
Very light and simple interface, outstanding graphics and hey... hardcore simmers have the chance to set the torpedos depth and such things!
The atmosphere in the boat is very good according to the tester. Walk around, see the crew, hear the bulkheads creaking...
Most of the switches are not functional... :damn: Move around as you want but don´t touch anything???

[urfisch]

YEEEY, we have storms!!!! With all that nice weather I almost began fearing there would be no nights or rain in SH5.

BTW, "If guaranteed submarine simulations are not famous for anything, it's probably tough for action or a fast-paced game." Google Translate SUCKS :down:

yeah, there is bad weather. but there are no real rough seas so far. in the german forum one fellow mentioned, the calculation of rough seas was to be so hard, they cancelled it. therefore there are now the sternwakes calculated in real time...this also was the reason for not adding really rough seas...

this is only, what i heard. but maybe it is this way...

[SteamWake]

Even Ubisoft's donut for more comfortable there

Hah got to love the google translator... wait till Donut hears about this one !

[onelifecrisis]

Cmon shot number two there is something there that should have alot of pepole buzzing ! :03:

Umm... I don't see it...

[SteamWake]

Um, periscope is up? Volumetric clouds? Real time shadows on deck? The RADAR thingies on front of tower? (sorry in school, all books back in dorm)

Again the second shot.. its something you have NEVER seen in a previous SH title.

Cmon its something folks have been calling for for a long time !

[razark]

Again the second shot.. its something you have NEVER seen in a previous SH title.

Cmon its something folks have been calling for for a long time !

Are you referring to the other boat?

[Rip]

Are you referring to the other boat?

DING< DING< DING. Two u-boats in the same picture.

[HundertzehnGustav]

Stellen Sie sich folgendes Szenario vor: Von Links und Rechts nehmen Sie zwei feindliche Kreuzer in die Mangel. Kugeln prasseln auf Ihr U-Boot ein.So the scenario is we are being attacked by Cruisers. we are in fact between cruisers. "Bullets" are hitting us.:D

Flaggeschütz Yea im shootn the sh!t out of the PBYs with my Flaggun.:yeah:

Über uns kreist ein weiteres Schlachtschiff. Wir wissen: Ihr Sonar ist hinter der Schiffsschraube praktisch taub.ah. BBs are circling above our heads and their sonar is deaf behind their Screw.:D

Interesting. so we go to the screwing area of a circling BB to avoid being detected.:06::06:
By the cruisers or by whom?

Review: worthless.

http://imgdump.info/data/media/44/Fail.jpg


We shoot at cruisers, dive below circling BBs and then the DD is hit. :o

I am pissed Neal didnt get a copy instead.:damn::damn::damn:

Uboats were hunting down CARGO SHIPS GODDAMMIT!!!!!!

FUNK that!

[karamazovnew]

Thank god my Yoda translator cleared it up:

If guaranteed submarine simulations are famous for anything not, probably tough for action or a fast-paced game, is it. Editor fabian siegismund to the following conclusion, already in the previous test for silent hunter 4-star game was: "The simulation feels so real that we may forget flat, their home pc sitting on." Similarly, us with the preview version of silent hunter 5, it is. Among other things, now run freely through the u-boat, we can. Unlike the predecessor, where we showed up by pressing a button on the bridge, now take the legs in his hand and hurried walk out, we must.

From left and right, take two enemy cruisers in the deficiency. Your submarine bullets raining down some amount on. No choice, you have, of scarce air from dive in spite. Deep. Very deep. Rising, the pressure is. Of water the exterior walls creak on the floor forms a carpet.

That last part was almost poetic :har:

[ichso]

Review: worthless.


You can safely extend that over the whole gamestar magazine, at least from what I remember from it. And this text sounds like nothing has changed :dead:

[SteamWake]

~ THOMPSON !!!! its Thompsons boat !!! ~ :DL

Took you guys long enough.

[razark]

DING< DING< DING. Two u-boats in the same picture.

I've seen other boats in SH3. Granted it was with mods. This is the first time the game out of the box has had other boats. That is a plus.

I'll be more impressed once we see what these other boats actually do, how they act. We've been told they'll be there, and we've been told they'll attack. It's kind of hard to tell what the in-game implementation of them is really like, though. I think the disappointment people have felt at what has been revealed so far probably keeps a lot of people from getting too hopeful.

For example, I can't tell if they have a crew on watch.

[Jimbuna]

Never noticed anything new or earth shattering....in fact I've never rated the site that much :nope:

[HundertzehnGustav]

should be taken down - that piece of dung is bad publicity for the game.

OMFG...

[conus00]

Absolutely my favorite as well. Too bad it has that stupid watermark, or that'd be my new desktop. Ah well. I'm sure I'll have plenty of new desktop material once the game is released. :yeah:

There you go, your new desktop:
http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk234/conus00/SH5-053.jpg
:salute:

[FIREWALL]

And SubSim didn't get this first. :hmmm:

[Kefru]

Very Impressive graphics

[SteamWake]

And SubSim didn't get this first. :hmmm:

My thoughts exactly. Never heard of the website before but it seems to have a bad rap.

Wonder why they gave some dodgey website a review copy and not the number one source for all things subsim?

If I was Neal I would be a bit miffed.

[PL_Andrev]

Unfortunatelly the resolution is too small to find bugs on these graphics, and looks very good. Maybe no bugs...
But I'm tried fo find them, sorry if I'm mistake:

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/7485/bugsiq.jpg

[oscar19681]

Unknown features of SH5:


snow
very rough sea
classical view of TDC
manual targeting procedure
interface on high level of difficulty
damage control panel
crew topside (not on conning tower) when entering and leaving port
the rest of the crew in crew management
yes or no office in sh-5
Seriously . I,m starting to get irritated by the fact the the observation scope is ALLWAYS up no matter what in allmost every freakin screenshot!

[oscar19681]

http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/490/52543186.jpg


In the first picture you see water flowing on the deck. I would love to see what that looks like in some video footage.

[Webster]

Unknown features of SH5:


Seriously . I,m starting to get irritated by the fact the the observation scope is ALLWAYS up no matter what in allmost every freakin screenshot!


didnt you hear?

thats the DRM/OSP satelite link :O:

[kptn_kaiserhof]

on oscar19681 post the u-boat is in a good position for that cruiser im guessing to point his turret at the u-boat and hand his ass to him

[FIREWALL]

Sorry. Good pics don't make the game. :nope:

[MercurySeven]

My thoughts exactly. Never heard of the website before but it seems to have a bad rap.

Wonder why they gave some dodgey website a review copy and not the number one source for all things subsim?

If I was Neal I would be a bit miffed.

Its a ( / the? Dont know the market shares ...) major German PC games magazine and I assume they refer to the old review version that had only some single missions in it. Not giving it to them would kind of leave a big dent in advertizing SH5 in Germany. Especially among the new, young target group! :-?

But I agree, the stuff they wrote is crap. Last time I checked they simply had noone left that was responsible for simulations so I assume they put someone on it that simply has no idea what the difference between a battleship and a destroyer is.

[mookiemookie]

thats the DRM/OSP satelite link :O:

Stow that talk in this thread, sailor! :arrgh!:

[Ishigami]

Another one: http://www.4players.de/4players.php/dispbericht/PC-CDROM/Preview/18518/67278/0/Silent_Hunter_5.html

4Players is the largest online only gamer magazine in Germany.

[Lanzfeld]

Why are there only three guys on watch? :cry:

Because it is a fail. How are we to respect this work if they get even the most simple facts wrong?:06:

If I presented work like this I would be fired.:down:....and very ashamed.

[oscar19681]

didnt you hear?

thats the DRM/OSP satelite link :O:

Oh offcourse, my bad.

[MercurySeven]

Another one: http://www.4players.de/4players.php/dispbericht/PC-CDROM/Preview/18518/67278/0/Silent_Hunter_5.html

4Players is the largest online only gamer magazine in Germany.

Uh, there are actually news in there (if they are reliable)!

Unterdessen stimmen die Alliierten ihre Reaktionen auf den Spieler ab, entsenden Verstärkungen oder ziehen Verbände ab. Man kann zwar nicht den Krieg gewinnen, aber einen gewissen Einfluss auf das Geschehen nehmen. Beispielsweise hat euer Geschick in der Seeschlacht um Malta maßgeblichen Einfluss auf den Nordafrika-Feldzug.Rough translation:

Meanwhile, the allies adjust their reactions to the player, send support or withdraw task forces. You can not win the war, but you influence the events to a certain degree. Your performance in the battle of Malta has a major influence on the war in africa, for example.I assume they actually asked and got an answer and are not just guessing.

Oh, and one other thing:

Im fünften Teil dreht sich alles um den am häufigsten zum Einsatz gekommenen und versenkten Typ VII der deutschen Reichsmarine. Andere Modelle finden nicht statt, da sie im Zeitfenster des Spiels (1939-43) keine tragende Rolle spielten.In the fifth part they concentrate on the most frequently used and sunk submarine, the Type VII of the German Reichmarine. Other modells are not included, as they played no major role between '39 and 43'Yeah, right. Operation drumbeat and the closing of the Saint Lawrence River for international shipping? Nah, no biggies. But I assume they were not allowed to write "other types are not included because UBI ran out of time and would rather ship the game that way". :shifty:

Thanks for the link Ishigami! :yeah:

[Fire_Spy]

Thank god my Yoda translator cleared it up:

If guaranteed submarine simulations are famous for anything not, probably tough for action or a fast-paced game, is it. Editor fabian siegismund to the following conclusion, already in the previous test for silent hunter 4-star game was: "The simulation feels so real that we may forget flat, their home pc sitting on." Similarly, us with the preview version of silent hunter 5, it is. Among other things, now run freely through the u-boat, we can. Unlike the predecessor, where we showed up by pressing a button on the bridge, now take the legs in his hand and hurried walk out, we must.

From left and right, take two enemy cruisers in the deficiency. Your submarine bullets raining down some amount on. No choice, you have, of scarce air from dive in spite. Deep. Very deep. Rising, the pressure is. Of water the exterior walls creak on the floor forms a carpet.

That last part was almost poetic :har:

:rotfl2:

That's priceless.. I am using Opera and I had it speak that to me.. nearly fell of my chair.. Gotta love bad translations..

Games very pretty to look at, that's for sure. But as someone else has said.. "pretty graphics don't make a good game"

[Onkel Neal]

Because it is a fail. How are we to respect this work if they get even the most simple facts wrong?:06:

If I presented work like this I would be fired.:down:....and very ashamed.


You gotta be kidding me :shifty:

[audessy]

SH5 is like that girl in high school.

She's hot but she's dumber than a bag of broken tools.

[Falkirion]

Those screens are beautiful. I'd love to have my hands on a full version right now. Because if we only get the med theatre I'm out. I prefer hunting the high seas of the central Atlantic.

[CaptainHaplo]

On the observation scope - its always up because on the surface because on the surface it can see farther than your watch crew. Ok ... .not really - its up because they have Bernard spinning it in circles in the control room while everyone else is trying to live thru the war.

No?

Ok fine - then chalk it up to the reviewer/tester having little knowledge of how submarines actually work, so he/she forgot to lower the thing.

[V.C. Sniper]

holy crap the water is so clear you can see the empire state building while submerged on the western approach

[JScones]

Thank god my Yoda translator cleared it up:

If guaranteed submarine simulations are famous for anything not, probably tough for action or a fast-paced game, is it. Editor fabian siegismund to the following conclusion, already in the previous test for silent hunter 4-star game was: "The simulation feels so real that we may forget flat, their home pc sitting on." Similarly, us with the preview version of silent hunter 5, it is. Among other things, now run freely through the u-boat, we can. Unlike the predecessor, where we showed up by pressing a button on the bridge, now take the legs in his hand and hurried walk out, we must.

From left and right, take two enemy cruisers in the deficiency. Your submarine bullets raining down some amount on. No choice, you have, of scarce air from dive in spite. Deep. Very deep. Rising, the pressure is. Of water the exterior walls creak on the floor forms a carpet.

That last part was almost poetic :har:
SH5 Haiku...

Of water the walls
exterior creak on the
floor forms a carpet.

[Kaleun_Endrass]

Those screens are beautiful. I'd love to have my hands on a full version right now. Because if we only get the med theatre I'm out. I prefer hunting the high seas of the central Atlantic.
The game wouldn't have the name "Silent Hunter 5 - Batte of the Atlantic" if it's a Mediterranean theatre only...:03:

[martes86]

Anyone saw this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo26Q4FwTEY

Can you tell me if it's fake, already seen, or whatever? It won't load for me, so I can't check. :wah:

[piri_reis]

Can you tell me if it's fake, already seen, or whatever? It won't load for me, so I can't check. :wah:

Don't worry its nothing. Pretty lame video using SH4.

[Seeadler]

Screenshot from todays adds
http://images.idgentertainment.de/images/idgwpgsgp/bdb/2097207/800x600_prop.jpg

[martes86]

Don't worry its nothing. Pretty lame video using SH4.

Now people upload fake videos? Arg. :nope:

[martes86]

Screenshot from todays adds

[Type II Pic]

Huh? That's SH5? Now I'm confused... :06:

[Seeadler]

Huh? That's SH5? Now I'm confused... :06:
Gamestar said so, screenshot from the museum.
Perhaps an AI controlled boat, not playable.

[piri_reis]

Screenshot from todays adds

Hell yeah, TypeII !
So there are other types of subs roaming and doing their thing in the campaign. It's just that we can't select them for our career.
Not for long though, wait till all this is modded. Hopefully the programming language will open the whole game up. (It was Python I think?)

There is a chance to import interiors from older SH games and get into other Uboat types, then use the new mod tools to put in interactive crew.. Hmm..

[Spiksy_st3]

Guys did you noticed that the conning towers on every screenshoot is not correct



the real conning tower on type VIIC, VIIC/41 has the edge of tower finish twisted on outside.......these uboats on SH5 gave the tower edge sharp & straight finished


look at the real finish on u995
http://www.submerged.co.uk/u995%20three%20big.jpg

[martes86]

Gamestar said so, screenshot from the museum.
Perhaps an AI controlled boat, not playable.

So there are other types of subs roaming and doing their thing in the campaign. It's just that we can't select them for our career.
Not for long though, wait till all this is modded. Hopefully the programming language will open the whole game up. (It was Python I think?)

Now that makes sense, and I like it. :DL


the real conning tower on type VIIC, VIIC/41 has the edge of tower finish twisted on outside.......these uboats on SH5 gave the tower edge sharp & straight finished

Well, the VIIC is not the only boat in SH5. Probably the tower in that pic is from a VIIA. Now, I'm not 100% sure, but there were lots of differences between tower versions, maybe that detail is one of those differences.

Cheers :rock:

[Navarre]

Now, I'm not 100% sure, but there were lots of differences between tower versions, maybe that detail is one of those differences.
Germany had about 20 Uboot shipyards and almost every one of them has built Type VII boats in all variants. There was this indeed a basic construction design for a particular variant but almost all of these shipyards built the towers with different designs and details for experimental purposes.

[oscar19681]

Gamestar said so, screenshot from the museum.
Perhaps an AI controlled boat, not playable.

NO NO NO! this is not from sh-5 and what game magazine claims to be so is a lyer! You can see the upper right exit icon. Thats from sh-4 . And the reason its a Type II is its because it is probably taken from Operation monson mod.

[Heretic]

The exit icon and other UI elements in the Type II shot is the same as all the other screenhots.

[razark]

NO NO NO! this is not from sh-5 and what game magazine claims to be so is a lyer! You can see the upper right exit icon. Thats from sh-4 . And the reason its a Type II is its because it is probably taken from Operation monson mod.

See here: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=161672

And here: http://www.gamestar.de/news/pc/action/simulation/2312583/silent_hunter_5.html

[oscar19681]

Allright. My bad.

[elanaiba]

Please keep in mind that at this point only PREVIEW versions are out.

[Gotmilk]

Please keep in mind that at this point only PREVIEW versions are out.


now you just started the whole new rumour rampage :)

[Apos]

Sorry. Good pics don't make the game. :nope:


I just wanted to write this. SHV has good graphic layer only. Where is that 'deep' feeling?

Lvl2 soup can't help it :down:

[elanaiba]

now you just started the whole new rumour rampage :)

Thats not my intention but for example there's one ship that I'm sure its not there, and bugs like the type II's periscopes being overextended, shouldn't be there either.

[PL_Andrev]

Please keep in mind that at this point only PREVIEW versions are out.

And not finished / completed?

Somebody from UBI took in the topic of dynamic campaign about sinking allied submarines... there are not in library now.

But looks very good!
But why these screens are available only at german magazine and not on SH5/UBI main site?

[oscar19681]

And not finished / completed?

Somebody from UBI took in the topic of dynamic campaign about sinking allied submarines... there are not in library now.

But looks very good!
But why these screens are available only at german magazine and not on SH5/UBI main site?

Uhm allied submarines are in he library.

http://www.gamestar.de/_misc/galleries/detail.cfm?pk=91510&fk=2097177&pid=6

[PL_Andrev]

The best 48 famous pictures ready to view available at this topic:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=161672

[conus00]

http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/669/screenhunter16.jpg

Just a minor detail: every AI controlled sub has an "(AI)" attached to the name. How come that IIA does not? Does it mean that there might be IIA actually playable in the game?

[FIREWALL]

This and the other thread is just nitpicking.

If you want a movie buy, Das Boot.

If you want a Game buy, SH5.

[Hartmann]

Well, long periscopes could be more a bad design than a bug. the 3d modeller perhaps think that it was the real size of the scopes in a II type.

Another own theory is that it was an engineer feature...but they remove it at the end.

[Jimbuna]

Uhm allied submarines are in he library.

http://www.gamestar.de/_misc/galleries/detail.cfm?pk=91510&fk=2097177&pid=6

That looks like a British U Class.

[Chef]

holy crap the water is so clear you can see the empire state building while submerged on the western approach

:D

I noticed the water as well. Makes for a lovely screen shot but not very realistic for the North Atlantic.

[bigboywooly]

That looks like a British U Class.

The U-boot der U-Klasse gives it away a lil James

[Jimbuna]

The U-boot der U-Klasse gives it away a lil James

I'm afraid I flunked at detective school.


http://funnies.mgsrvr.com/detective_magnifying_glass_lg_nwm.gif

[urfisch]

hmmmm...

now we all know, only preview version are out. but better to know was, WHICH versions are out! when do they have been released???...4 weeks ago...4 month ago...

this would kill some rumors here...

[Elder-Pirate]

Seriously . I,m starting to get irritated by the fact the the observation scope is ALLWAYS up no matter what in allmost every freakin screenshot!


You ought to know things like that happen when Bernard gets hold of a welding torch. :haha:

[bigboywooly]

I'm afraid I flunked at detective school.


http://funnies.mgsrvr.com/detective_magnifying_glass_lg_nwm.gif

:rotfl2: and you a copper too

[applesthecat]

The thing that caught my eye in picture number 2 is that the horseshoe is hung upside down.

While the graphics are better, I find that almost all the shots have that oil painting look. Maybe that is the evolution of graphics. Before we get photo realistic, we first have to go through the the final stage, which is oil on canvas.

[Kaleun_Endrass]

The thing that caught my eye in picture number 2 is that the horseshoe is hung upside down.
I didn't found a photo of a real boat in the hurry, but this model has it to and that's the way the life buoy was mounted to the tower.
http://www.steelnavy.com/images/scans/Type%20VIIC%20diorama.jpg

[asanovic7]

this is going to be hard to transfer to sh3.. :rotfl2:

[java`s revenge]

And make a crashdive.....:har: