That's exactly why I used that one this month, and why I won't buy it as long as they won't let me play it.

But this thread is for people who are playing it, and overall I'm excited by what I'm hearing. It sounds like there isn't anything so far that can't be overcome, and I'm looking forward to the day I can play it, if that day ever comes.

But what really ticks me off is that UBI put out a pretty good $15.00 game and ran off with the $35.00 that was left because they knew SH fans would mod it free of charge. Now that's being pretty slick and no-one seems to care, just hand out the $50.00 bucks, let the modders fix it, who cares.

Well they didn't get my $50.00 but I did put that $50.00 to a much better use and gave it to someone we know.
Really I do feel much better. Back now to the warm waters of the Pacific.

i have had sh5 for 6 days. i have been able to keep the game going without crashing for about fifteen minutes. i find the game a challenge....to keep running.
i have not yet launched a fish.
i piad 49.95 from amizon.com.
i feel i need to update my video card.
i think its the 3d clouds that are causing my issues.
i like the game.
question-
is there a command that would remove the characters from the first person display?
any help would be greatly appreciated.
regards.
cheers.
ian.

I must say I'm quite disappointed. No doubt the game looks superb, the there are elements of it that are great additions, but as someone who never went for SH4, there's just been too much stripped away from the SH3 experience, and it's going to take a hell of a lot of work from some very dedicated and skilled people to right the wrongs in this one.

I'll be hoping one day I can return to this, but for now it's back to SH3 and GWX.

Hello Guys (and Gals). In general, I like it. Yes the clocks do not work, the Gauges are just for "show," but hopefully patches and not mods, can fix this, so the DRM thing is not all that bad, if they do that. After playing for several hours, I have found ways to do things that I would like to share. In the Sonar room, if you look up a bit you will see a compass. If you use arrow right key you get 1 degree of turn, and if you use SHIFT Right (or Left) you get 35 degree of turn. You will see the compass turn, and the wheel closer to center shows 0-9 (degree increments). If you put the litte plus sign on the black lubber line and hit the decimal key (number pad), you will steer to the relative position of the front of the boat 0, but the Cheif Engineer will report your actual compass azimuth. Neat trick I think. For you guys looking for intresting topics / facts, check out this link: http://www.uboat.net/gallery/ Love this game, and IV, and III. Have a good day.

I don't know if this will work for you, but I too had problems with the game working, and I am not smart with computers. This worked for me. Disconnect your internet connection, reset your modem, and restart your computer, and try to connect to UBI soft server, or log out of the UBI soft server and then reconnect. A lot of things did not work at all, and now seems to be working fine, good luck, I hope that helps.

Thats how I came to own this one to, After getting it on my PC I was a little disappointed....then came here and as always the modders were hard at work fixing what I thought was a wrong with it......So no complaints now :up:

Only thing SH5 has got going for it is the graphics SH5 graphics+SH3 gameplay=:yeah:

Hi Anybody else having trouble starting up the sim just now? I'm getting all manner of CTD's and excuses such as " you need an internet connection to play " and " wrong password " all of which is BULL! It is 1630 hrs ( 4:30pm ) Eastern Standard Time at the moment..... ( rebooted a couple, no mods in place, no problems with internet connection or computer ) or is it just me????:damn:



EDIT: Can't get on the Ubi SH5 site either, Explorer reports link broken! Looks like the kind of thing we all expected and I suspect maybe someone hacked their servers, oh joy!

Great Simulation, however...
 

WIthout doubt, to me, this is the best stock SH yet when it comes to graphics and the action of objects:DL. However, the learning curve is extremely steep and the instrucions leave a lot of information and capabilities to be discovered by the player as he/she goes along. Luckily, there is SubSim or I would be totally lost.:damn:

Had the game since last Thursday and I have to say that since installing a few mods I really love the game. Sure there are a few bugs (a few that in my opinion they should have caught long before the game was released) but nothing yet that has really broken the game. I would imagine that in a year or so this will be a benchmark game in subsims.

The DRM is pants and needs to go. This is a gamebreaker, not being able to play at weekends sucks big time. Hopefully Boobysoft will realise the damage they are doing to their reputation and remove it.

My advice is - if you can buy the game at a reduced price (in the UK its selling at £22 on Amazon at the moment) then get it. If not then wait a while.

OK I've taken my pants off but I still need to connect to UBISOFT what gives:D

Apart from common issues i'm really disapointed with some oddities, like liberty ships on 1939 and my last experience....
Just west of Scapa i managed to get a tail of 2 brit subs, wich follow me all my mission to western aproachs and back to Bremen where the german scorts sank the 2 stupid subs.
BTW they never attack me only make a shadow.

sid silent hunter
 

i found that using deck gun manually I increased power of shells , when you see a ship hold cursor over ship bottum r\h cnr shows speed & distamce & when you are manning deck gun top L\h click on the small icon give optical zoom on deck gun , now the numbers 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 ect are kilometers distance example match ship 4km with 4 on zoom then you can watch the splash close to the ship or hit on the mini map -good luck it wrks well

I'm frackin' miserable!
 

I just installed yesterday (of course! When Ubi's servers were down!) Despite reviewing the manual and printing off the keyboard layout, I'm unable to do much of anything other than plot a course and accelerate/decelerate.
There are several references to a, "Tutorial" mission of some sort. I don't see ANYTHING along the lines of a tutorial! Could someone fill me in? I'd appreciate it!