Well, I'm now a reluctant owner of SH5. Unintentionally, I've gone against my stance of holding out until the DRM was removed. How you ask? Well my wife was away on a mini vacation with a couple of her girl friends and she wanted to buy me a little gift. She knows a little about the games I play and usually stays away from buying anything like that for me due to my finickiness.

Well, she just happened to see me playing SH4 before she left and showed an unusual amount of interest in it and what it was called, etc.... Guess what I got for a present? Needless to say she was a bit surprised by my lack of enthusiasm when I opened that bag she handed to me... I had to quickly explain why and then jokingly/sheepishly asked if she could return it. No, she was not going to drive 8 hours to return something! At least she got it for under $20US. :D

So now I'm sitting here with this copy trying to figure out what to do. I've already played it a few times on my brother-in-law's account when I got him set up with it so I have a basic feel of the game and I've started to download mods for it. I just haven't decided if I'm going to install it yet or wait until/if the DRM is removed... I'll probably cave but am currently too busy with the few games I do have time to play to do it now.

So I thought I'd jump in here to say that I am now an owner of SH5! My name is Doug, mid 50s, main gaming passion is for flight sims- WW2, Modern, WW1 in that order of preference. I've owned all SH games and usually right after release, except this one. I also bought Silent Service and AOD. Love the looks, the mods are great for it that I've seen, I just don't agree with the principle of the chosen DRM but at least I now have a complete collection. :)

(sorry for going on so much again about the DRM stuff, just felt a need to explain based on previous posted stance on it from me and now owning the game)

Back when it came out and a bunch of us were refusing to buy it, one player posted that he had bought it, but was refusing to play it. I asked him why; the point was to vote with our wallets and if they already had his money they didn't care if he played it or not.

So, while a sympathy refusal to play is nice for my ego, and anybody else who still hasn't bought it, if you have it in your hands it would be silly not to play it. Either that, or figure out a way to return it yourself; but that would probably be equally silly.

You have it, so play it. :sunny:

You're completely right SS, and that's why I said I'll probably cave as I was thinking the same general thing, kind of silly not to under these circumstances. So I'm sure once real life calms down a bit I'll install it and check it out more in-depth than I did before. Thanks for the validation! ;)

Hey everyone, thought I'd pop into this thread and introduce myself.

My names Andy Mackay, I'm 27 years old and live in Fife, Scotland (would name the town but it's embarrassing lol). The first game I remember playing was the Battleships for the ZX Spectrum and also battle chess on an old DOS system. Just finished a computing course at college no less than two months ago and due to start the next level course in September, no idea what area on computing I would like to enter into though :hmmm: ....anyway, been playing the SH series since SH/2 and have 3, 4 + 5 also. Currently enjoying SH3 again (after dual booting my win7 pc with XP so I could play it without hassle :up: ) with the GWX3.0 and various other mods....loving it btw (praise to the modders :yeah: )

I do have SH5 installed and playable, waiting to see if other fixes come out for it though...very tempted to install that SH3 UI mod for it though since I find the SH5 UI hard to get used to... :doh:

http://i34.tinypic.com/2uhy545.jpg <--- mugshot

On a side note I'd like to say that this is one of the best communities I've been part of in a number of years :DL

Welcome aboard, Herr Kaleun!

I hope you enjoy SH5 as much I do.

Hey, Nate here, been playing subsims since AOTD, unfortunately I don't own it anymore. Although I still have Grey Wolves, SH2, 3, 4, & 5.

24, Live in Nebraska, currently a Staff Sergeant in the Air Force. By the AF's definition I'm a Aerospace Maintenance Engineer, but I prefer the term crew chief which mean I fix & break jets for a living. :D

I finally bought SH5 after I found it 50% off on amazon, so I couldn't resist. Honestly, I never played the vanilla SH5, as soon as it was installed and the patch was installed I started downloading mods, and I must say looking at the progression on the mods already and what great mods are already out there, SH5 has the potential to be an amazing game.

-Wolf- :salute:

Hello all!

Excited to be in this forum and post my greetings to everyone.
I am Hiroshi from Tokyo, Japan, 45 years young, addicted sim games:DL

Used to play in flight sim world but shot down to the bottom of the ocean recently. Subsim is my new place.

Now I am trying to settle myself under water so this forum and your posting will be great help for me.

Happy hunting! :yeah:

Nice to have you aboard, mate! :salute:

New to the forum; from the Jensen Beach, FL. area. Have been CO of the 10th with ubootwaffe@googlegroups.com since forever (1990's) and probably the most interesting thing is that I am an honorary crewmember of U-664, with a certificate signed by Oblt. Graef. Got that a few years back with 3 others (including my, then, 7 year old son) for doing online history on that particular boat. Kommandant was still alive in Germany and in communication with one of the crewmwmbers who coordinated this for us. When someone mentions the 9th or the Laughing Sawfish, I feel that I have a special connection to it all.

Commercial pilot for 30+ years, lived aboard my boat with family for several years, newly re-married (hey, eat, drink and remarry!), sims began with C-AOD...remember that? I can still hear the synthesized music of the Emperor Waltz as I dived for battle on my windows 98-SE computer. Somehow, I feel like I am reliving a past life with these games.

Anyway, glad to meet you all. Sharkhunter for over 10 years, Life member.

well then, nice to know theres no teens who enjoy Subsims. all they care about is call of duty and Halo. and porn. LOTS of porn. (excuse the reference to it). honestly, there are VERY VERY few people under 18 who like subsims or most any kind of sim, especially one so complex and tactical (for the most part).

Welcome aboard Kaleuns http://www.psionguild.org/forums/ima...es/welcome.gif

:DL Welcome aboard wa2ddl :salute:

:DL I Agree :yeah:

Now there's a suprise :DL


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