joea
10-16-10, 07:06 PM
Hello everyone, It has been a long while since I have posted and even longer since I participated regularly at the forum. I joined in 2002 when I was playing DC and SHII...stayed on through SHIII had the honour of being a brief part of the GWX beta team in 2007. Stayed for the debut of SHIV-while inauspicious it turned out to become a fine sim with the patches and mods just like SHIII did. One which though I bought soon after it came out I could not play as my computer was not up to snuff. I really could not play SHIII with all the mods and all the graphic options turned up either.
At the time I was still a student, a Canuck ex-pat originally from Vancouver who came to study international relations in Geneva - did an equivalent of a masters as a prerequisite into a PhD programme. got it, my second MA (had one from Canada before) and then got stuck in grad student mode for too long bored with the subject, the institute etc. and after spinning my wheels got a full-time job at a research foundation working on the web and publications department at the end of 2008. Interesting job and people, started a web relaunch project which should be completed by the end of the year . In between my job, busting my ankle and spending the first 4 months of 2009 in a cast (not skiing!) all sorts of personal developments-new hobbies (tango and boxing among other things) a social life and most recently moving apartments I have not thought about games and upgrading so much.
Recently now settled in my new place I manged to find the time and the right system to upgrade and re-installed some of my games like Il-2 46 and for the first time since I bought it in 2007 SHIV (patched to 1.4). Woow. Blown away, by stock, can't wait to reload SHIII with GWX. :yeah:
Soooo now I am back, been lurking a bit, not much has changed here in the general forums I see. Can't promise I will spend as much time as before, got a full time job and a busy real life and participate in far too many forums. Still would like to dip back into the salty blue again so I have a few questions.
Silent hunter III- Still alive, any movement in the mods or is it past its prime? Have all Atlantic u-boat fans moved on to SHIV uboats addon and SHV? :D
Silent Hunter IV- The two main mods I remember are Trigger Maru and Real Fleet Boat? As I never tried them what are the main differences between the two? Is the uboat addon worth it even if uboats in the Indian Ocean are not appealing to me? What does 1.5 add otherwise and where can I get it and the mods? :arrgh!:
Silent hunter V - Gulp. Read some of the stuff here and at UBI. Ouch. :dead: So what is the situation now, always complaints at first, what have the devs and modders done to fix things? Is it worth moving on from SHIII??
At the time I was still a student, a Canuck ex-pat originally from Vancouver who came to study international relations in Geneva - did an equivalent of a masters as a prerequisite into a PhD programme. got it, my second MA (had one from Canada before) and then got stuck in grad student mode for too long bored with the subject, the institute etc. and after spinning my wheels got a full-time job at a research foundation working on the web and publications department at the end of 2008. Interesting job and people, started a web relaunch project which should be completed by the end of the year . In between my job, busting my ankle and spending the first 4 months of 2009 in a cast (not skiing!) all sorts of personal developments-new hobbies (tango and boxing among other things) a social life and most recently moving apartments I have not thought about games and upgrading so much.
Recently now settled in my new place I manged to find the time and the right system to upgrade and re-installed some of my games like Il-2 46 and for the first time since I bought it in 2007 SHIV (patched to 1.4). Woow. Blown away, by stock, can't wait to reload SHIII with GWX. :yeah:
Soooo now I am back, been lurking a bit, not much has changed here in the general forums I see. Can't promise I will spend as much time as before, got a full time job and a busy real life and participate in far too many forums. Still would like to dip back into the salty blue again so I have a few questions.
Silent hunter III- Still alive, any movement in the mods or is it past its prime? Have all Atlantic u-boat fans moved on to SHIV uboats addon and SHV? :D
Silent Hunter IV- The two main mods I remember are Trigger Maru and Real Fleet Boat? As I never tried them what are the main differences between the two? Is the uboat addon worth it even if uboats in the Indian Ocean are not appealing to me? What does 1.5 add otherwise and where can I get it and the mods? :arrgh!:
Silent hunter V - Gulp. Read some of the stuff here and at UBI. Ouch. :dead: So what is the situation now, always complaints at first, what have the devs and modders done to fix things? Is it worth moving on from SHIII??