I played it quite a bit the week after release, but I don't play at all now.

The lack of merchant variety absolutely killed the game for me. I was tired of sinking the same four ships over and over.

The AI was too dumb as well. I never once felt in danger. I hear some of the mods have addressed this but it's a moot point until the above is fixed.

I am eagerly awaiting the next patch. It seems to be the only hope for getting new ships in the game.

I only try SH5 for testing mods.

Like with the Hearts of Iron games, I play a Silent Hunter sub game as a coherent adventure.

HOI3 was recently patched to 1.4 iirc, and I will probably continue playing it again soon. Have not played it since the release, because the game is for me no fun when not being totally into the complicated micromanagement. With each game session, I get burned out.

And similar with Silent Hunter 5, my interest is only with playing it in some coherent manner. Tonnage count doesn't matter, sunk tonnage is not what make the game fun for me. So I await some patching, and hope they will fix the overlapping audio for when walking inside the uboat.

Played a lot at first, but am now waiting for the patch. Then I pick it up again

I find the drama associated with the game far more interesting. :)

I love the game. Of course I have about 20 Mods that make it that way. Unfortunately, there are certain things that cannot yet be fixed, like the problem mentioned above by JCC :cry: Like everybody else, I'm hoping infamous Patch 1.2 tackles some of these problems, but from what I've heard I shouldn't expect too much from Patch 1.2 :shifty:. The list of fixes is pretty short for something that's taken two months to be released. If some of the talented guys in this Community had access to the code and resources that the Devs have, they coulda produced the same number of fixes in one afternoon :O:

In my not-so-humble opinion, the most important question right now is: Will there be a Patch 1.3? There's a VERY good reason why I ask this.

Yes, still play it regularly. It has actually managed to hold my interest better than SH3 and 4, probably because its qualities outweigh its faults.

Good question - Originally I wasnt going to buy it - you know the DRM, the dumbing down - you know the routine - But well I've been playing the series from the very begining so in the end curiosity got the better of me.

So I installed and was a little surprised, sure all my worst fears were confirmed - but there were other elements thet kept me going - not least of these is that for at least for a while there were a number of new mods published nearly every day and these really did tackle some of the issues and improved others

In my opinion the game has the basics to be made good over time - I feel the vanilla game is in a far worse state than SH3 was when it was first released- but if the modders and the assurances of the devs that the game is more mod friendly - well I recon this game is worth hanging in there, at least for a while.

The worst of it is that now with this waiting for the patch and the relative silence re the delay, or a reliable ETA - for me the game is in limbo - I dont want to start a new career with the patch on the way - and having played with a number of the mods installed before uninstalling for a clean install - I really cant face the vanilla again. I sure hope the patch is worth the wait -

One thing worries me is that there seems to be little interest from the publisher in adding on the latter part of the war - so while the modders can attend to bits and pieces I dont think they can alter the career structure which, besides all the waffle abot being dynamic - which it kind of is, it is also linear - which does not bode well re-playability once youve done one camp[aigne

Well my two cents worth - Any way Mr Scones I know your from Canberra so for us antipodeans there's another incentive to hang in there with this game - if we didnt we'd have to watch Austrlaian TV wich is like having a broom inserted in your right eye and extracted through your arse -

God invented computers so decent folks wouldnt have to watch Australian TV

Best Regards to all

Rascal

Wasnt going to buy it due to the DRM but had it bought for me so gave it a go
Ran it for a few weeks but so much bugged me stopped actually playing and started putting a few things right
Slippery slope as the more I fixed the more I noticed broke

Lack of land units,mines and subnets are a real let down
And coming from a target varied background with GWX the total lack of units is an immersion killer
Plus the AI sucks

Still start the game but only to add ports now

The lack of targets was the killer for me.

I got so bored killing the same 3 or 4 ships over and over - I'm sure vanilla SH3 had more targets.

So, with the patch on the way I thought it best to stop playing for a while, seemed silly to carry on when I'd probably have to start again , especially as I could feel the boredom creeping up on me.

I'm back to playing SH3 GWX again and really enjoying it , so my plan is to not play SH5 for quite a while and then see what mods it has when I'm ready to return to it.

Shelved after two weeks for the same reasons stated in many posts above.

JD

Haven't played in at least two weeks - either online or Campaign. I'm not big on adding hundreds of mods, having finally giving up on the previous SH4 due to finding out one-by-one how many items conflict and enhance/encourage the CTD factor impressively. ANYHOW, I'm bored with the Campaigns nonsense and the attendant unrealistic completion requirements, the incredibly retarded AI that hadn't improved by mid-'42, "Morale" and consequences, etc. I'm not even sure I'm going to bother trying to get interested again after - or WHEN! - the Patch finally makes an appearance!

Just in case, the, "necessary disclaimer": I visit Subsim now to see if the above-referenced Patch is available in the US yet. It's easier, faster, and more interesting than watching the Autoloader churn away while loading SH5...

:salute: just about ,
i only play it now to check out new mods ,to me it is a crock of s**t with out the mods,its like takeing one small step forward (graphics)and one giant leap backwards (red triangle and all the other crap they left in SH2 SH3 AND SH4)you can tell they just piled all their rubbish onto a disc and told ubisoft" there you go this will sell " THE WAY THEY ARE GOING, SH6 will look something like this, you will be snorkeling in a paddling pool :()1:with a speargun and a pair of flippers and a periscope stuck up your a**e stalking a convoy of yellow ducks
:hmmm:full imersion if nothing else
BTW dont take me too serious im like them drunk smileys at the minute

Love the game. Haven't played since April 11th. Just want to wait for the patch and get rid of unneeded mods...if possible. :ping:

I haven't played in a few weeks now. Like Mookie, I got bored of running into the exact same composition of convoy over and over.
Plus, I don't know...SH3 and 4 always felt like a struggle, as it should.
SH5, with its insane mission requirements and pacifist AI (I mean, the planes? Come on! Just once I'd like to be bombed into an artificial reef) just feels to easy.
I know I'm not a genius sub commander, so why am I racking up tonnage the way I am? I'd like to struggle a lot more to make it more entertaining and to make it feel like I'm really just one sub commander with a war raging on the surface.
If they wanted to make a "Das Boot" simulator, which everyone can agree was a significant influence for the devs, why on earth would they make it so easy? Das Boot was all about getting pulverized over and over with little to show for it... that's what I need to keep playing.
That's why I'm playing Arma 2 at the moment... I like getting my arse kicked.

Absolutely it has kept my interest. More to the fact the modmen have kept my interest. Some really great work coming out on a regular basis now. Making the game better everyday.

I feel bad for all the campaigners out there. In MP we have new maps everyday, different time, all kinds of units. I look forward to my bottle of Jagermiester and some wolfpacking every weekend I can ;] The whole reason I mod is because I am probably even more picky than 90% of the people here. I like my game the best it can be so I work on modding during the week and play with the latest work and mods on the weekends. Awesome stuff... ;]

@Ddrgn
Thanks to folks like you ddrgn.
Just saw your mod for elite AI and am going to download that stat. It looks like I might finally get my wish and have a chance to become that artificial reef I was talking about. :)

No problems, I do a lot of the work to better my own game. Glad others like the tweaks too. I kept a lot of SH4 tweaks to myself, but couldn't sit back when I saw the potential. I was worried for the most part there would be no SH5 MP, seriously worried me. Without MP I can honestly tell you I wouldnt be posting. I was also worried the game was going to be completely different from SH3/4. In reality its very much similar. Off the shelf its really a 5 but now after modding its a 9 easy ;]

Pre-ordered the limited edition version.
Played it all the time for the first couple of weeks.
But running into the same small collection of merchants over and over again, and the totally broken enemy AI Killed the immersion and drove me nuts.
Now im just waiting to see what the patch brings. I only start it up now to test a few things out.

No :yawn:

Has SH5 kept your interest?

Answer is in my sig :D

Although I stopped playing the campaign because of the reload issues.
I keep playing with hystorical missions testing all the impressives mods around here and experimenting stuff with the mission editor.

Doing all this helps while waiting for this damn 1.2.5 patch ...
:damn: