PRE RELEASE SHIV Screenshot thread

[Ark]

This is in response to the Operation Petticoat post:
I think the US did paint their scopes pink, I remember reading that in one of Richard O'Kanes books. Pink is the hardest color to spot for the scopes.

During my Survival at Sea training I was told that Pink would be the best colour for life boats, I assume because that is the best colour to spot. But for unknown reasons ;) they are never painted that colour.:lol:

They probably didn't want to attract Marines.

ZING!

:lol: :D

[Prientje]

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/8892/67885yc4.jpg

huh...

15 FPS ???

was that a dia show on your comp ?

i see very often only a few FPS on the pictures

your comp specs ?

game and graphic settings ?

im afraid....

[Flanker15]

Hey Drebble have you got your graphics settings turned way down or something because your shots look more like SHIII than the pretty effects and such seen on page 1 (bubbles, underwater darkness, fire, smoke and various other prettieness)?

[Drebbel]

Errrr. If you guys really had taken a good look at those screenshots you would not ask me for my stsem specs or graphics settings :-)

Drebbel

PS: I heard the lookout course still has a few openings this week :p

[Flanker15]

Errrr. If you guys really had taken a good look at those screenshots you would not ask me for my stsem specs or graphics settings :-)

Drebbel

PS: I heard the lookout course still has a few openings this week :p

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
I was like: "huh? what's he talking about" scrolls up to the picture looks at it........ notices the horizontal scroll, scrolls across, looks at lower right corner.....ahhhhhhhhhh.

[Drebbel]

Yes, they are from a French website. We should check and see if they mention the system specs they are using.

[Ark]

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/8892/67885yc4.jpg

huh...

15 FPS ???

was that a dia show on your comp ?

i see very often only a few FPS on the pictures

your comp specs ?

game and graphic settings ?

im afraid....

Wow, that sub looks huge.

I didn't know they were that big. :arrgh!:

I've been on the Pampanito before, but you never really realize how big some of those subs were/are.

[Drebbel]

http://www.ubisoft.de/marc/silenthunter4/makingof/sshot5.jpg
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[URL="http://www.ubisoft.de/marc/silenthunter4/makingof/sshot5.jpg"] (http://www.ubisoft.de/marc/silenthunter4/makingof/sshot4.jpg)

[Drebbel]

http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/4116/6859565st1.jpg

[Drebbel]

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/9681/6895885ma9.jpg

[Drebbel]

http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/9749/87478587wl0.jpg

[Drebbel]

http://www.ubisoft.de/marc/silenthunter4/makingof/sshot4.jpg

[Drebbel]

http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/7674/568964588fw3.jpg

[Drebbel]

http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/3557/w467574go4.jpg

[Drebbel]

http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/5105/3474577ak4.jpg

[Drebbel]

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/4048/6896e785lp9.jpg

[Drebbel]

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/8175/5784788no3.jpg

[Drebbel]

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/4704/5869634765gsk3.jpg

[Drebbel]

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/4452/67908597896hi5.jpg

[hyperion2206]

Nice pics, but they've been posted several times now. You should have mercy with dial-up users!:p

[Drebbel]

Nice pics, but they've been posted several times now. You should have mercy with dial-up users!:p

I checked before I posted and I thought they where not posted in this thread yet. Guess I was wrong. Can't believe I did not spot all these images while browsing this thread. I must be getting old :-)

[hyperion2206]

Nice pics, but they've been posted several times now. You should have mercy with dial-up users!:p
I checked before I posted and I thought they where not posted in this thread yet. Guess I was wrong. Can't believe I did not spot all these images while browsing this thread. I must be getting old :-)

To be honest I'm not quite sure if the pics were posted in this thread but I'm 100% sure that they've been posted in this forum!:lol:

[Tigrone]

I am afraid this thread may have gotten too cluttered to find images. I searched for some previously posted images, but simply could not find them, so I backtracked to their original posting site. The number of quote reposts of the same image several times increases the clutter too. Maybe the thread could be edited to single views or thumbnails of each image made in the waiting time? I know, on arrival, there will be a whole new round of exicting postings of actual, and probably remarkable, game screens. Maybe on the 21st, this thread could be replaced with a live in-game screen thread?

[Drebbel]

Editing this thread would include deleting a zillion post from many skippers. And I sure do not have the guts to do that :D

[hmatthias]

Somebody should set up a web broadcast of them playing the game. Then all of us who don't have it yet can get mad as they do things we wouldn't...

[Jimbuna]

Somebody should set up a web broadcast of them playing the game. Then all of us who don't have it yet can get mad as they do things we wouldn't...

It should be well worth the wait :yep:

[Tigrone]

Editing this thread would include deleting a zillion post from many skippers. And I sure do not have the guts to do that :D

I would'nt have the guts to it either. It might violate our pirate articles or something. Wouldn't want to have to walk the plank. :arrgh!:

[The General]

Editing this thread would include deleting a zillion post from many skippers. And I sure do not have the guts to do that :DHi Drebbel, thanks for the P/M and for posting these fantastic screenshots. Cheers :up:

[Aimbot]

We have confirmation that the interiors have been seperately modeled:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v54/Atlarge/phew.png
I know it's kind of obvious but some people were worried.

[flyingdane]

Yes but the top pic is a control room and the bottom is a conning tower. :smug:

[hyperion2206]

Are you sure that the pic above is the control room of an old S-class, it looks so huge.:o When I first saw it I thought it was the control room of a fleet sub.

[Razman23]

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/5346/54854587jz9.jpg


Good god!!!! How large are those undersea plants?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!

Those things must be at least thirty feet high! :o :lol:

[flyingdane]

I read somewhere on this forum that some seaweed can grow way taller than that, Can't remember where though.

[Razman23]

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/2074/5474577xu2.jpg

Well, it looks like those of you who want to do manual navigation has gotten your way. I see everything on the lower left hand side to lay a course onto a map as if in real life.

For those of you who dont what those things are, I will explain them to you. Lets start with the pencil since everyone know what that is and what it looks like. Now if we go clockwise, we see the 'compass'. You probably used one of these in school to draw arcs or circles. But this one doesnt have a lead on one end (usually). It is used to measure distance. Going left, we have the 'magnifying glass'. This is for you poor sods who cant see very well anymore. LOL Just underneath it, the wooden box looking thing is the compass for defining course in a north, east, west, south direction. Some of you have used the digital compass overlay in SHIII. Same principle. Now going clockwise, we have what is called a 'parrellel rule'. It is used to lay out a course. After determing which direction you want to go, you can use this to 'walk' across the map. In RL, you would have a compass rose somewhere printed on the map. This is how it would be used if the rose was on the map. Say you see a ship heading south east but you dont really know what is the actual course. You would place the parellel rule over the ships course and then walk it over to the rose. When the edge of the rule hits the center mark of the rose, you could then read the actual course of the ship. On top of the parallel rule, is of course an 'eraser'. Its used to remove any mistakes. DUH! Now the little green thing with the slot in it is just a 'magnet compass'. It kind of looks like one that a boy scout would use.

So anyway, I hope this helps any of you. :rock: :up:

[flyingdane]

Wow! you know your stuff. :up:

[Jimbuna]

I'll stick with my 'Tom Tom' navigator thanks :D

[Arrowhead2k1]

Well, it looks like those of you who want to do manual navigation has gotten your way. I see everything on the lower left hand side to lay a course onto a map as if in real life.

For those of you who dont what those things are, I will explain them to you. Lets start with the pencil since everyone know what that is and what it looks like. Now if we go clockwise, we see the 'compass'. You probably used one of these in school to draw arcs or circles. But this one doesnt have a lead on one end (usually). It is used to measure distance. Going left, we have the 'magnifying glass'. This is for you poor sods who cant see very well anymore. LOL Just underneath it, the wooden box looking thing is the compass for defining course in a north, east, west, south direction. Some of you have used the digital compass overlay in SHIII. Same principle. Now going clockwise, we have what is called a 'parrellel rule'. It is used to lay out a course. After determing which direction you want to go, you can use this to 'walk' across the map. In RL, you would have a compass rose somewhere printed on the map. This is how it would be used if the rose was on the map. Say you see a ship heading south east but you dont really know what is the actual course. You would place the parellel rule over the ships course and then walk it over to the rose. When the edge of the rule hits the center mark of the rose, you could then read the actual course of the ship. On top of the parallel rule, is of course an 'eraser'. Its used to remove any mistakes. DUH! Now the little green thing with the slot in it is just a 'magnet compass'. It kind of looks like one that a boy scout would use.

So anyway, I hope this helps any of you. :rock: :up:

I'm not entirely sure, but I think those graphics in the bottom left that you are talking about are purely aesthetic. I doubt that the pencil, protractor, or the parallel rule will be clickable/usable. I'm betting that navigation will be basically the same as SHIII.

So how exactly did the subs navigate out at sea without GPS and/or loran systems, etc? Was there ever a chance of being lost without reference to land due to drift and what not?

[flyingdane]

I'll stick with my 'Tom Tom' navigator thanks :D

You sure its not scott-scott.:smug:

[Safe-Keeper]

So how exactly did the subs navigate out at sea without GPS and/or loran systems, etc? With AWACS cover, of course.

"Viper 1, Cowboy 3, enemy Destroyer launch activity detected, bullseye 290, 30 miles, 15 000".

[mopedmoppel]

http://www.marinesims.de/phpkit/inhalt/sh4/40.jpg

http://www.marinesims.de/phpkit/inhalt/sh4/41.jpg

http://www.marinesims.de/phpkit/inhalt/sh4/42.jpg

http://www.marinesims.de/phpkit/inhalt/sh4/43.jpg

Screens by http://www.marinesims.de/site/silent-hunter-4/silent-hunter-4-preview-anfang-nachster-woche.html

[Razman23]

Wow! you know your stuff. :up:

I sail in real life. ;)

[Razman23]

I'm not entirely sure, but I think those graphics in the bottom left that you are talking about are purely aesthetic. I doubt that the pencil, protractor, or the parallel rule will be clickable/usable. I'm betting that navigation will be basically the same as SHIII.

Really? well that would suck then.

So how exactly did the subs navigate out at sea without GPS and/or loran systems, etc? Was there ever a chance of being lost without reference to land due to drift and what not?

You would have bouys laying out in the bay showing you wear the channel is. One side of the channel the bouys would be green in color while the bouys on the other side would be red. Green is on your starboard side and red is on your port side IF youre leaving port. If you are returning, its 'Red Right Returning'.

As far as finding themselves out in the ocean, they use the old tried and true method of Sextant and charts. You can see the navigator using a sextant when he is on the conning tower in 'Das Boot'. The method is hundreds of years old and still works to near perfection. Its hard to learn though.

[Sulikate]

Nice new screenies:arrgh!:

[Onkel Neal]

Some shots from a patrol
http://www.subsim.com/sh4/sh4_5.2.jpg






External view as my sub dives; very nice water transparency effects.
http://www.subsim.com/sh4/sh4_5.8.jpg



Contacts
http://www.subsim.com/sh4/sh4_5.10.jpg


Hold on there, Tojo
http://www.subsim.com/sh4/sh4_5.14.jpg





Manual TDC - better than ever
http://www.subsim.com/sh4/sh4_5.13.jpg



Man the lifeboats! (Think the explosion effects look good here? Wait till you them ingame, about 100 times better!)
http://www.subsim.com/sh4/sh4_5.15.jpg





So long fellows, you're ship outta luck!
http://www.subsim.com/sh4/sh4_5.12.jpg

[AirborneTD]

Thanks, Neal. Those are awesome shots.

[Morts]

wonder what happends when you shoot the lifeboats:hmm:

[Onkel Neal]

:owonder what happends when you shoot the lifeboats:hmm:


:o I guess we'll never know. No one us here would break the Geneva convention just to see what would happen :arrgh!:

[Morts]

No one us here would break the Geneva convention just to see what would happen :arrgh!:

wrong:arrgh!:
i would shoot a lifeboat just to see what happends

btw can the ships sink from flodding:hmm:

[Jimbuna]

Nice shots Neal :up:

[The General]

Look, fellas, don't shoot the life-boats ok? That's just bad Karma.

[malkuth74]

Neal are you going to release an early review like you did with SHIII? That kept our mouths watering until relase.

If its 10 15 pages long that will be ok. Lots of pictures etc. :rock:

[Tigrone]

It's clear from the screens of the sea floor that the risk of going aground or striking something is very real. We're going to have to really pay attention, as I think we are going to be wading in shallow waters a lot.

[ReallyDedPoet]

Neal are you going to release an early review like you did with SHIII? That kept our mouths watering until relase.

If its 10 15 pages long that will be ok. Lots of pictures etc. :rock:

Apparently the games been released in Sweden:o

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=107763

[Subnuts]

Hey! Watch where you bottom that thing! :dead:
http://i17.tinypic.com/4cu7m0w.jpg

[leeclose]

Here's a quick question ive seen oen or 2 shots of the sea floor which looks pretty good but will there be any wrecks/shoals etc oh and any biologics?:hmm:

[Captain_Jack]

Nice shots Neal!

So do you have a choice between Imperial or Metric Measurements? One of those Periscope shots looked a bit too shallow for feet.

And the ID Book data was in meters.

[Safe-Keeper]

You just have to love those anchor icons:up:. I notice they're in addition to the small dots scattered about, so I assume they denote friendly harbours?

[UglyMowgli]

Another batch of screens from Check-six.fr

http://www.checksix-forums.com/showthread.php?t=128340&page=5

http://tireurdelite.free.fr/SH4/SH4_008.JPG

[Jimbuna]

Must have had too much grog last night :yep: At first glance I thought this was a midget sub on the deck of a ship :lol: :damn:
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/9730/sh4009bb7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Captain_Jack]

What I am perplexed about is that in the control room shot (Check Six Site) the Depth Gauge shows 60 FEET, while the small interface gauge shows 18 METERS!

Feet, Meters,...a choice????

I'm soooo confused!!! :damn: :damn:

[leeclose]

I hope its feet cause metres is gobbly-de-gook to me i was tought in feet in inches many moons ago:up:

[E.Hartmann]

General,
Sound heads could be retracted and extended.