L.T
06-10-10, 07:20 AM
Well i used the better part of yestoday to play SH 5 and se where it had its short commings.
I enjoy this series and realy wantet to se past the game bugs and simply look at what it lack of emersion..
I uninstalled all mods and just fooled around with .1.2.0
The game is awsome for the GFX and the 3d boat interior is just what i have wantet since SH II. What i realy mis is neutral shipping, mines and subnets....somehow the game feels abit to much "point and shoot"
I miss my office, yes we have a nice subpen, but the office where my place to kinda take a break, get updatet and a nice place to start from.
Somethings are just to easy, scapaflow is a joyride, and if you sink a bb there is a chanse that 5 mins later another one spawns right where you just sank the first one, werry easy to bump the tonnage. I have sunk ark royal 3 times all ready, the brit ship yards are doing one hell of a job :)
well back to the game....
stock the game feels like something that just need some spice. It is cool walking around the sub, but even with damedge depth charges going on i can always find a crew member relaxing in a bunk. The halos are just plain stupid, the pirate officer should be "terminatet" and the crew interaction just feels shalow and it can be hard to figure out why you should do it.
I like my crew, but without my office and some "shore" crew manegement it just again feels like...well just unfinished..
at 100% the game is fun, but the AI lets the game down. The AI dont even try, they just sail around and if you hit a ship in a convoy, well they just sail around..
The sounds inside the sub is wierd and dont work good. The crew chatter is either not there or its werry low, the diesel engine sounds like a scooter with no muffler.......
In all i realy dislike SH 5 stock. I cant se anyone bying it and have more than 10 hours of fun with it...GFX is not a agme, and the way the game is setup out of the box it just feels, well empty. Its like they wantet to make a game for the "new kids on the block", but not even that do they do ok...
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This is where i will talk abit about the modded version. I cant mention all the mods im filling the poor game up with, but lets say around 12-15 mods in total.
New sounds, removing the halos, better textures in the sub and some AI beefing lifts the game 40%. Now im afraid of escorts, and any error on my side can be fatal. I can act abit more with the crew, but its the entire structure of crew interaction that is wrong so mods helps, but dont fix.
I still mis my office, and that one i cant let go. I want to "buy" new crew members, even rename them like with SH3 commander, my ship, my crew, my rules.
Using virtual sourround sound, new sounds in the game and the other mods makes the game awsome, but it wount get me to uninstall SH3 and SH4.
SH 5 will need time, but the qustion is if modders will give it that time. They have now fixed 2 times, and its a hard burden to fix number 3 to. Each game with new code, new files and a new structure takes time, and with the "great" information comming from ubisoft its hard for them to do something big out of the game, why use time on fixing when you dont know if there comes a pach that kill all the hard work you just threw in.
Great respect to the modders for keeping fighting the "ubisoft" game monster..
I will enjoy SH 5, and hope it one day can evolve to a SHIII GWX 3d GFX heavy super sim....
One thing is for sure, i keep my mods stock game is just soooooo XXXXXXXXXXXXX and abit more XXXXXXXXXX with a XXXXX on top
L.T
I enjoy this series and realy wantet to se past the game bugs and simply look at what it lack of emersion..
I uninstalled all mods and just fooled around with .1.2.0
The game is awsome for the GFX and the 3d boat interior is just what i have wantet since SH II. What i realy mis is neutral shipping, mines and subnets....somehow the game feels abit to much "point and shoot"
I miss my office, yes we have a nice subpen, but the office where my place to kinda take a break, get updatet and a nice place to start from.
Somethings are just to easy, scapaflow is a joyride, and if you sink a bb there is a chanse that 5 mins later another one spawns right where you just sank the first one, werry easy to bump the tonnage. I have sunk ark royal 3 times all ready, the brit ship yards are doing one hell of a job :)
well back to the game....
stock the game feels like something that just need some spice. It is cool walking around the sub, but even with damedge depth charges going on i can always find a crew member relaxing in a bunk. The halos are just plain stupid, the pirate officer should be "terminatet" and the crew interaction just feels shalow and it can be hard to figure out why you should do it.
I like my crew, but without my office and some "shore" crew manegement it just again feels like...well just unfinished..
at 100% the game is fun, but the AI lets the game down. The AI dont even try, they just sail around and if you hit a ship in a convoy, well they just sail around..
The sounds inside the sub is wierd and dont work good. The crew chatter is either not there or its werry low, the diesel engine sounds like a scooter with no muffler.......
In all i realy dislike SH 5 stock. I cant se anyone bying it and have more than 10 hours of fun with it...GFX is not a agme, and the way the game is setup out of the box it just feels, well empty. Its like they wantet to make a game for the "new kids on the block", but not even that do they do ok...
***********************************************
This is where i will talk abit about the modded version. I cant mention all the mods im filling the poor game up with, but lets say around 12-15 mods in total.
New sounds, removing the halos, better textures in the sub and some AI beefing lifts the game 40%. Now im afraid of escorts, and any error on my side can be fatal. I can act abit more with the crew, but its the entire structure of crew interaction that is wrong so mods helps, but dont fix.
I still mis my office, and that one i cant let go. I want to "buy" new crew members, even rename them like with SH3 commander, my ship, my crew, my rules.
Using virtual sourround sound, new sounds in the game and the other mods makes the game awsome, but it wount get me to uninstall SH3 and SH4.
SH 5 will need time, but the qustion is if modders will give it that time. They have now fixed 2 times, and its a hard burden to fix number 3 to. Each game with new code, new files and a new structure takes time, and with the "great" information comming from ubisoft its hard for them to do something big out of the game, why use time on fixing when you dont know if there comes a pach that kill all the hard work you just threw in.
Great respect to the modders for keeping fighting the "ubisoft" game monster..
I will enjoy SH 5, and hope it one day can evolve to a SHIII GWX 3d GFX heavy super sim....
One thing is for sure, i keep my mods stock game is just soooooo XXXXXXXXXXXXX and abit more XXXXXXXXXX with a XXXXX on top
L.T