SUBSIM Radio Room Forums - Very, very disappointed

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Originally Posted by Nick Holden (Post 1291481)

Yikes. One of the nice things of Silent Hunter 3 & 4 is that the key maps (sans the function keys) are pretty much the same. You'd think that they'd want to stick with that with 5.

It seems that Ubi randomly pulled some stoned druggy off the streets to design the new interface in SH5. Hence, the 'psychedelic' layout. :doh:

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Originally Posted by Agustus (Post 1291253)

Going to have to toss my hat in the "disappointed" ring. The interface is maddeningly clunky. And walking around the sub is a novelty for about 30 minutes, then it becomes a nuisance not to mention how bad the collision detection is.

Even something as small as switching languages. In SH3 it was a simple Esc key, go to audio options and change to what you wanted. I was assuming it would be the same with SH5. Only to discover that you had to install the entire game with one language or the other using custom install - which I never do when it comes to games. Guess it would have been too much trouble for Ubisoft to include that in a "read me first" note? Had to uninstall and do a complete reinstall to get the German voices. Seriously annoying.

I'm like everyone else - want this game to be all that SH3 was. I don't know how many hundreds of hours I played that game it was so good. But looks like we're all going to have to wait until some patching gets done and the modders really take over.

Think I'm going to park this game for now and come back in six months. Damn shame - was really looking forward to it.

My sentiments exactly.....

Maybe I think a little too simple to be logical, but... if the devs have been watching what is being modded, game after SH game, they could easily see the direction that the games core buyers are steering the game toward. Yet instaed of saying to themselves "hey... they've created a mod for that and this and this too for every release, maybe we should put that in from the start?!?!" But alas... they scrapped the entire GUI, scrapped the TDC, and replaced them with junk IMO.

Now don't get me wrong. I've always wished you could wander through the sub as if you were playing a FPS game, but even that isn't smooth. It's a good thing a bad guy with a gun isn't chasing me while I attempt to negotiate the ladders to the deck... that isn't even smooth!

With any luck, the game will improve by the unselfish, hard work of the mods. Until then, I'll just keep reminding myself not to try and cram a quarter into my PC everytime I load it up. :haha: