I will reserve my agreement with the OP until AFTER UBI fixes the show stoppers :hmmm: with a patch or two (and they had better be FREE).

Until then GWX 3.0 still has SH5 beat by a wide margin.

Hey McBeck! Nice to see some old salts still around :salute: I haven't gotten SH5 and stopped playing SH3 a couple years ago, really just haven't had the time. I will wait to see what SH5 brings and in the meantime I may fire up SH3 again. Funny to think of how far we have come since the SH2 days. I still have that loaded and heavily modded on an old PC and keep it around just for that reason. Talk about a game with bugs :damn: I don't believe 90% of the poeple posting here now ever played that one or have any idea how much time and effort the community put into making that a decent sub sim. If that mess of a game could be improved then SH5 will certainly make giant leaps, although only by the efforts of modders. All in good time....

Yes, me too.
I love SH-V, at least I am trying hard.
It's the first client-based MMORPG which works in single user mode;
I hope the above makes sense.
In the meantime, fortunately/unfortunately SH-III+GWXv3.0 will be with us for a long time.
How strange, a 2005 game to be better than a 2010 game !