i think everyone has made valid points to ponder

i think so too,Webster

kinda liked it but still have big reservations, looks very arcadish.Lifebars, to the target lock/unlock appearing in scope when cursor is on a ship.Prob doesnt matter for me anyway bc of the DRM.The torpedo impact was nice.I am tired of the devs recycling same old sounds.They should take a q from modders and use different sounds for the scopes moving up and down and torpedos leaving the tubes etc ah well:down::06:

i wished they had made the geyser from the torpedo detonation and torpedo bubble trail a bit more like the ones in pt boats knights of the sea, but its the same old effects since silent hunter 3 (i think the bubble trail from silent hunter 3 is more authentic lookking than the one in silent hunter 4).

Yes the FX are better than in previous Silent Hunters, still IMO they are not as good as what should be done.

Watch the explosion effects in Lost Planet 2 (same in Lost Planet 1, already a few yesrs old) :
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/captivate-09-lost-planet/48627

What is interresting is that the explosions are more realistic in that game because :

You feel the heat and intensity.
The explosion blinds the screen (with blur and color tone).

the guy who calls out contacts sound so much like otto kretschmer too me :X

That and the manual mast height input, and it would be manual targeting heaven as you say. :)

I very much like how this updated AOB with the scope works. If I am not mistaking, a step towards realism here.

Fair point, however...

It may be a language or cultural thing but saying someone is "lazy" is an insult. It's not the way we talk here, even amongst 'ourselves'.

JCC

And concidering a few of us have met the devs in person, saying the devs are lazy is like saying a friends of ours is lazy.
They have worked hard to make the best with what they had. I dont doubt that!

Lifebars are optional and can be turned off.

Will I be able to use the "fast 90" method (or derivative thereof) of attack? One of the things I liked about the uboat's TDC is if I have target speed and heading I can point and shoot at any ship in a convoy using one of these methods.

Given what appears to be a relatively short development time, I remain concerned about bugs. Both SH3 and 4 (along with uboat missions) had way too many; and some real immersion killers too.

Gonna wait.....

I dont think I am going out on a limb if I say that yes there will be bugs and yes some of them will be immersion killers.:know::know::know:

I've already replied your PM, but I want things to be clear, that I've never made any insults or threats, however agitated I might have looked. The posts below show quite clearly my concerns:


On this last one, for me, a "lazy" person is someone who doesn't want to do something, that prefers to sleep or lay down on a confy couch and watch TV all day. That is both a flaw of character and an insult, when such is not true. And in someone who works on this field, it'd be a rather unprofessional behaviour. And since I am a developer myself, I took offense to that.
Anyways, I'll quote myself on this one:

I think that says about everything. And I hope it clears this up. :DL

1) How come he still hit with such a messed up AoB?

2) Will the crew speak German in the game?

Thanx

1). the AOB is not messed up. AOB's are symmetrical to the torpedo track. In other words, if the torpedo track angle is 90 degrees, the gyro will be the same if a ship is closing at 60 degrees port AOB OR moving away at 120 degrees port AOB. You can test this in SH3 and SH4 too.

Plus, as you can see, the range is very small, 600m. He could've put any AOB between 30 and 150, it wouldn't have made much of a difference.

2) yes, you can choose either english or german voices