agreed, they put a lot of detail into the game, alot of bugs/fixes were corrected with the 1.1 patch, hopefully 2nd will finish it off. And lets not forget the modding protential. Something i wish they would let the modders do in IL2 (cant mod jack in that game except add skins)

I received SH4 on Friday, Patched it on Saturday, became aware, sadly, that SH4 does not live up to the expectations I had for it.

I have been playing Sub Sims since Red Storm Rising on my Commodore 64 even though this is only my third post on the Radio Room.

I have had a lifelong interest in submarines and submarine warfare stemming from the WW2 movies my brothers and I watched back in the 50's and the sea stories my Uncle Fred would tell about his experiences in the South Pacific.

SH4 has been released as a beta product and is closer to an Arcade Game in immersion factor than a Submarine Sim.

I realize that the Dev team is working on making the product better, but shouldn't that have been done before release?

The fact that SH4 has beaten the Sims in sales this week shows that there are a lot of gamers out there who are interested in the American Submarine's role in WW2 in the Pacific Theater. I am confident that these buyers of the game, many of whom have probably not discovered Sub Sim yet, will be dissapointed overall with this release.

I hope that Ubisoft will realize that there is a great interest in this genre of gaming software and continue to develop the product after it's release to at least the point it should have been at for release..

Please see my thread "Dissapointed !" for further discussion.

There's so many new issues, some technical and some gameplay, popping up daily that I expect we'll see a good 4 patches.

I'm a long time naval warfare game player and I got to say SH4 is a GREAT game. Yes it has bug's but at least not for me on my machine it's very playable and enjoyable at least for me. I loved SH3 I was blown away by it infact. This game is very respectable in the tradition of SH3 and yes I wish there were no bugs but hell I think they will fix all these bug's in time. If you really don't like this game I guess you should look forward to Sea Knights that PT game coming out soon.

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Dont forget Bohemia! Operation Flashpoint and the recent Armed Assault are titans.

...the game have light and the game have shadows....

The detail of the ships is amazing.... but I really not get into crew-managment and repairs.... actually I only have 2 conditions:

Condition 1: Nothing to repair...

Condition 2: Dead...

..anyway, I enjoy to play it and when they fix some things I love it...

By the way: The sims 2 I enjoy also :oops:

Andreas

w00t! Go SH4! :rock:

The delivered quality is according to the forums really sub-par. I also do not think that this is the "yelling" crowd. Bugs with the crew management and the CTD's that several people experiencing are show stoppers for me.

I am sure that a lot of people will bring the game back or throw it in the corner.

Unh huh... consider the source.

And IGN 8.8!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Folks Folks only Folks

:rock:

That is good news!

It certanly is a great result for such 'niche' game. Probably helped by the lack of competition in the genre. Congratulations to the Dev team for a number 1 hit. (wish my band could score one)

As much as I'm loving SH4 right now, it really does have some ridiculous bugs/unfinished features... For a subsim to have very unfinished sonar/radar/hydrophone stations, a nonexistent chronometer, and for some people, a CTDing range finder.... how exactly are we supposed to sink ships when our subs have no teeth for it.

I really can't believe that the game is getting such good reviews with it being in such a state. I know that I'm supposed to be the cheerleader and hope that it does really well, but I always thought that official reviewers were supposed to destroy an unfinished/severely buggy game no matter how good it was on the inside...

Oh well, I guess I can't complain since I do in fact want SH4 to do really well. :D

Great news. I hope this means that Ubi will give this game the post-release support it deserves and polish this thing up into something great.

Good new indeed! :)

I agree!