Should i bother?

[Melonfish]

Hello Kaluens!
long time no see, with black may upon us naturally i've dug out SHIII and IV but with my pc now able to run it i think i can swing V.
the question is, should i?
is there anything like grey wolves to improve the gameplay or is vanilla ok to play?
let me know chaps i fancy giving it a go.
thanks
Pete

[Trevally.]

Should i bother?

no:salute:

[raymond6751]

Trevally must have been in a mood.

I'd say "Yes", go for it. There are some excellent mods available, as usual. Nothing like Grey Wolves, but still well done. Some excellent work by Trevally as well.

At the low price you can now get the game, why not?

Don't get the Steam version if you can find a boxed CD version.

[Melonfish]

any reason why not to get the steam version? i'm impatient when it comes to getting games, not so much playing em tho heh.

[volodya61]

any reason why not to get the steam version? i'm impatient when it comes to getting games, not so much playing em tho heh.

Yes, there is reason.. you can't use awesome TDW's Generic Patcher (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=181433) with the steam version.. any other downloadable version is OK.. boxed version is not required..

[Sailor Steve]

Vanilla is unplayable, period. On the other hand there are mods that make SH5 truly outstanding. Despite my minor criticizms I fully support SH5 and everything that's been done for it so far. Considering the price you can easily afford to find out for yourself whether it's what you want. :rock:

[Melonfish]

Ordered from amazonia, for £3.85 i can't complain can i? :D
i'll test vanilla then if needs be mod it to the back teeth and see how she plays.
i've been watching a few lets plays and the interface doesn't look too bad. similar to shIII in some ways.

[Sailor Steve]

TheDarkWraith's New UIs mod lets you choose between a variety of interfaces, including one that replicates SH3. :sunny:

[TheDarkWraith]

i'll test vanilla then if needs be mod it to the back teeth and see how she plays.

Get a stopwatch out and start it as soon as you start playing the vanilla version of SH5. Post your stop time when you finally had enough of it and decided to mod it :cool:

[kraszus]

Lol

[V13dweller]

I played through the entire stock SH5 story and I encountered no problems at all.

I even enjoyed the stock version.

(Don't kill me)

[flag4]

Hello Kaluens!
long time no see, with black may upon us naturally i've dug out SHIII and IV but with my pc now able to run it i think i can swing V.
the question is, should i?
is there anything like grey wolves to improve the gameplay or is vanilla ok to play?
let me know chaps i fancy giving it a go.
thanks
Pete

...give it a go, ive tried several times and I love the graphics - its the way forward. but it requires a lot of patience. its not SH3+GWX.
But I will not be getting rid of my SH5 disc. I want it to work, so maybe again in another twelve months or so...
...go ahead fire it up - leave your experiences here - it all adds to it in the end. the modders are doing great work and I hope they continue.
they are saving the game from the bin. KUDOS to them for that:yep::up:

[zoegas]

I was hoping Sobers mega mod would make it better, but no. My current patrol I got hit by a taskforce, I could not see it. Not on the horizon and not with the hydrophone. But they saw me and shelled me down to 27 metres. There I am stuck. Repair team does nothing. If I order them to repair something, they ignore my order and "repair" something else instead. But that is an overstatement. Subsystem screen only shows that they are repairing, but they are not. The boat is listing so I cannot walk to other compartments. CO2 levels and air levels stay the same. And I keep getting radiomessages even tho im submerged. And sometimes i get possitions on land. It also says that I have completed my objectives, but i have not. Nice graphics tho. All in all, this game is so broken, that it is not worth a cent. A toy in the bathtub is more fun than this.

[Trevally.]

I was hoping Sobers mega mod would make it better, but no. My current patrol I got hit by a taskforce, I could not see it. Not on the horizon and not with the hydrophone. But they saw me and shelled me down to 27 metres. There I am stuck. Repair team does nothing. If I order them to repair something, they ignore my order and "repair" something else instead. But that is an overstatement. Subsystem screen only shows that they are repairing, but they are not. The boat is listing so I cannot walk to other compartments. CO2 levels and air levels stay the same. And I keep getting radiomessages even tho im submerged. And sometimes i get possitions on land. It also says that I have completed my objectives, but i have not. Nice graphics tho. All in all, this game is so broken, that it is not worth a cent. A toy in the bathtub is more fun than this.

This is because you are not doing it right:know:

[zoegas]

This is because you are not doing it right:know:

Yea right. Thats why Ubisoft goes to web based games and not a sixth installment. Cause im doing it wrong.

[Trevally.]

Yea right. Thats why Ubisoft goes to web based games and not a sixth installment. Cause im doing it wrong.

you have not correctly set the CO2 to be used in the options
you are getting radio messages through your radio wire
you can select one item to be fixed at a time
possitions on land in an option that you can change the error factor
it will only mark obective as done if they are - perhaps you are getting objectives and missions mixed up


look here http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=2062835&postcount=2

enjoy your bathtub:salute:

[flag4]

enjoy your bathtub:salute:


:D:har:


you gotta admit though, its annoying when you want sooo much for it to work and it don't!

its why I cant go near it yet. it truly is a labour of love. I just want to be able to load up and sail out. I just cant have it crashing on me. SH3 is old, but its smooth and I rarely if EVER have problems with it.

PS. love the helpful link by the way :haha:

[robert4260]

Good Morning or Afternoon All,
I only got SH 5 a couple of days ago and am already trying to mod it. I am currently downloading Sober's mod and will install. I have a gamer's gate version. That is downloaded from them. Anyone know of any problems with that version? Have not been doing the SH series for quite awhile, but came back when offered SH 5 for $3.00. Hopefully the mods will make it better. Want to install the SH3 gages but for some reason it didn't work. Anyone know how to make them appear. Have started a new campaign but to no avail so far.
Thanks for any help.

Bob R.

[flag4]

Good Morning or Afternoon All,
I only got SH 5 a couple of days ago and am already trying to mod it. I am currently downloading Sober's mod and will install. I have a gamer's gate version. That is downloaded from them. Anyone know of any problems with that version? Have not been doing the SH series for quite awhile, but came back when offered SH 5 for $3.00. Hopefully the mods will make it better. Want to install the SH3 gages but for some reason it didn't work. Anyone know how to make them appear. Have started a new campaign but to no avail so far.
Thanks for any help.

Bob R.

you may have issues with mods and the 'Generic Patcher' which seems to be an absolute necessity, if you use downloaded version. may be best to use the disk version.
others will clarify....

[volodya61]

you may have issues with mods and the 'Generic Patcher' which seems to be an absolute necessity, if you use downloaded version. may be best to use the disk version.
others will clarify....

regular downloadable version is OK..
all issues due only with the steam version..

[zoegas]

you have not correctly set the CO2 to be used in the options
you are getting radio messages through your radio wire
you can select one item to be fixed at a time
possitions on land in an option that you can change the error factor
it will only mark obective as done if they are - perhaps you are getting objectives and missions mixed up


look here http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=2062835&postcount=2

enjoy your bathtub:salute:

I play 100% realism and CO2 option marked. Possition on land when you are next to a light house? No. And the mission objectives was reported complete and I wasn´t even near the objective. And the repair is automatic, one thing per sector and N% was just frozen. And the only thing I got mixed up is your pride for vanity. SH5 is a broken piece of ****.

[volodya61]

I play 100% realism and CO2 option marked. Possition on land when you are next to a light house? No. And the mission objectives was reported complete and I wasn´t even near the objective. And the repair is automatic, one thing per sector and N% was just frozen. And the only thing I got mixed up is your pride for vanity. SH5 is a broken piece of ****.

If you don't even want to find out how it works.. and you can only complain about how everything is broken and ***.. then yes, sim games are not for you..

enjoy your bathtub, as Trevally mentioned.. :down:

[Sailor Steve]

It looks like it's time to remind everyone once more about Subsim's rules on decorum and language.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/faq.php?faq=vb_faq#faq_new_faq_item_language

[flag4]

SH5 is a broken piece of ****.

I think this amplifies how frustrating SH5 can be. it seems to work well for some and yet for others like zoegas and myself it can be intensely frustrating.
I don't condone the implied bad language - but I can empathise with the sentiment!:yep:

its heart breaking to spend hours and hours setting it all up 'correctly' according to the readme's and all other instructions only to have it crash - freeze - whatever. its not the fault of the modders however that remains with you-know-who-be-soft!

its for this reason that I will not experiment again for a long time - I just don't have the time.
though im sure one day all will be well with SH5:sunny:

don't give up zoegas, just quietly put it down for a while and try something else that works...a little more simply.

[Melonfish]

oh gods... its horrible...

[V13dweller]

It does frustrate me when I see people posting about wanting an "all in one" mod that works with any problems at all, but that's just what I see when I spot "Should I bother"

I get a strange, unpleasant feeling when people demand everything to be perfect, but we are all like that at times.

It also annoys me when people with more than twice the amount of downloads than the amount of posts they have demanding something to be perfect, but perfect comes at price, if it's even possible.

But this is all my opinion.

[Melonfish]

stock shIII i played an awful lot, same with shIV i've modded them to improve and i really enjoy both games.
5 i'm just trying to get to grips with but its bloody clunky. the controls seem counter intuitive.
also, how the hell do you control torpedo spread and open the damn tubes?

[TheDarkWraith]

stock shIII i played an awful lot, same with shIV i've modded them to improve and i really enjoy both games.
5 i'm just trying to get to grips with but its bloody clunky. the controls seem counter intuitive.
also, how the hell do you control torpedo spread and open the damn tubes?

see here: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=2063069&postcount=9

What was your time?

Time to hit up the SH5 Mods forum :yep:

[Melonfish]

i tried the tutorial then a single mission.
that was my time lol not sure on a stopwatch but i'll give it a go hah.
tbf visually it looks very nice inside the sub, albeit a bit empty and outside looks wonderful. the hits on ships look really great, but its like trying to wrestle a bear rather than captain a boat.