It's interesting that I had stopped in at the Ubisoft site, to see what was being said, following Neal's interview. There is almost no comments there, at all! I have to wonder whether Ubisoft stopped allowing new posts, or have been busy removing negative posts.

It's either one of the afformentioned, or people have totaly lost interest in SH5.

nice!!! but...did any one saved the pics???

to bad...

The link does work
First, you get a screen saying Sehr gherte besucher . . . .
The you get the page. Scroll down and there are three galleries, one of the is SH5

Easy to miss. :D

http://www.gamestar.de/news/pc/actio..._hunter_5.html

nope, screens have been removed. there are just 16 left...from the 40.

:stare:

Yeah, but unfortunately it leads to the same gallery with the newest Pics from December 4th. :(

I'd say 90% of the screenshots we've been shown have been doctored somehow. Contrast, colors etc. changed. You can just watch the campaign video thing and you'll notice that the game looks much more "bland" than pretty much all the screenshots we've seen. It's called marketing. :03:

others would call it "deception"...anyway. i do not understand, why they removed the screens. maybe they have not been allowed to show them?

;)

I managed to save them with the help of some guys of the marinesims forum.
Here the pics again...

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/413...00prop1.th.jpg http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/2...00prop2.th.jpg http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/613...00prop3.th.jpg http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/7...00prop4.th.jpg

http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/9...00prop5.th.jpg http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/9...00prop6.th.jpg http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/9...00prop6.th.jpg http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/6...00prop7.th.jpg

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/597...00prop8.th.jpg http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/386...00prop9.th.jpg http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/656...0prop10.th.jpg http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/1372/...0prop11.th.jpg

great han!!! thanks a lot...

Well I've noticed that videos are almost always more bland than pictures anyways. But it's very possible that they made the pics look more colorful or brighter. I was saying more along the lines of modifying waves, bubbles or fire. What we're seeing is probably what we're going to get.

I think they are beginning to realize that they blew it.
The more they show, the greater the negativity.

and the rest...

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/935...0prop12.th.jpg http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/8...0prop13.th.jpg http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/1766/...0prop14.th.jpg http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/2...0prop15.th.jpg

http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/1...0prop16.th.jpg http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/110...0prop17.th.jpg http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/2...0prop18.th.jpg http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/5854/...0prop19.th.jpg

http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/1...0prop20.th.jpg http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/7...0prop21.th.jpg http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/7...0prop22.th.jpg http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/386...0prop23.th.jpg

http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/5...0prop24.th.jpg

so.. hope I got all...and now...

lets discuss the shots :D ;)

The periscope view isn't so bad on a screen with a ~4:3 ratio. The sea colors don't look as good on the screens as it does in the videos, but overall the game looks cool. I just the devs didn't spend too much dev-time coding all the fancy healthbar and lazers, time that could have been put to better use :)

edit: good job Han and Marinesims

Why is the periscope up, while the boat is on the surface?

Three cheers for the guays at marinesims!

The more I look, the more I think SHV looks graphically a lot like SHIV. Aliasing, lack of precise refraction, blurry textures, lack of dynamic shadows in some screens, misplaced crewmember limbs... I do notice improvements though, like the sea foam, deck textures and sky... Wait and see, I guess.

TOPS:

- water looks really nice!
- water effects on the boat look nice
- clouds look realistic
- lighting is nice
- fire effects look good
- smoke looks good
- crew models are very nice
- ship models are nicely detailed
- uboat model is nicely detailed
- overall atmosphere seems to be good


FLOPS:

- no dynamic shadows
- AA seems not to work good
- textures are too "clean"
- interior is less detailed
- trees looking odd (still 2d bitmaps)
- interface looks horrible
- no rough seas (?)
- harbours look still "unorganic", angled piers/docks

just my 2cents

I do see some good stuff... like the good textures from the sub interior or the improved sub 3d model... but also some bad stuff like the landcape (and trees) not really looking much improved... the special FX effects... almost no improvement to SH4. Also the water could take some tweaks... hopefully there will be some tweak utilities! And that only of the graphics... the laser guided gun is most likely (hopefully) from the beginner settings.

@HanSolo78

I missed some of them...

THANKS! :salute:

LOL!! Did you notice on the inside shot with the scope and spraying water: The rudder has two dials while the RPM's have only one dial for one engine.

FAIL.:down::down::down: