sombody, put the models in sh3...NOW!! imigine modeled vent holes instead of drawn ones!!!

Imagine all the other graphics put into SH3 as well, it would be like playing SH4!!!

:yep:

"Japanese Navy and Air Force will provide assistance on call"? :rotfl:

It's funny how people complained about a lack of wolfpacks before and complain about the presence of a device that could potentially lead to VERY functional AI wolfpacks now :hmm:

Personally I've already decided from when it was first announced that I'll get this one! SHIV has been quite good to me so far and I will support this addon provided it works as advertised.

Seriously, this "I already paid 50 bucks and blahblahblah" thing has gotta stop! While I respect Ducimius doing that (he put in more than 50 bucks into this baby, if you know what I mean), for others - oh for shame, you certainly got more out of this game if you're still playing it months after release than the value of $50! If this add-on is add-on priced, it'd be more than worth the value.

Anyway, customer choice there though...

If i hadn't have already purchsed SH4 twice, (not to mention alot of midnight oil) . I would probably consider buying this add on- if only to dismantel it and find useful things in it to put into the pacific game. But as i am now, all im concerned with is finishing up TMaru.

LukeFF and Torplexed are right on those two...
like whos designing the maps 3rd grade ... sorry to all the 3rd grade gamers.

After looking at it again I'm kinda wondering at this point if that map isn't just a temporary stand-in for a more contemporary map later. After all how many maps from the 1940s showed the topography of the sea bed with mid-oceanic ridges and trenches and such? ;)

By expansion, I take it to mean we will need the original SH4?

Not a stand alone expansion like COH OF or Dark Crusade?

I really hope it's not a stand-alone! I would have serious reservations buying that, unless it happened to come with a fully-updated Atlantic campaign as well :hmm:

But it does say "Expansion" so far...


As for the map - eh, errors happen! Mind you, I'm sure Ubi licenses some kind of earth-mapping software for its games and it's probably based on current-day satellite imagery. I've previously noticed some features on the coastlines which coincide with various artificial development that didn't exist in the 1940s (there's a bunch that could be easily seen in Tokyo Bay for example).

And eh, typos and other small snafus in development are always possible. The same team brought us "Torpedo Momber" as a (unused) plane class in SHIII, and an unavoidable crash on pressing the "A" key in SHIV v1.1. All were fixed :)

You know, on that note, I'm looking at the screenshots and I keep thinking, "what exactly is the market for this thing?" Not the 'hardcore simmers' obviously. But everything nowadays has a target market - danged if I can figure out what the target for this is. Looks like an idea hatched by corporate HQ and sent down to programmers for "packaging."

I still think that a release like this is good, in the long run, for encouraging mods and continued interest, but out of the box it's looking like.... I dunno, Beyond Wolfenstein. It's certainly about as historical.

A dev has already said it is basically patch 1.5

Would "deathmatches" be feasible between the American and German subs? The XXI had active sonar and acoustic homing torpedoes, right? Did any US subs have comparable capabilities?

I know it's silly and ahistorical, but still.

Correct me if I'm wrong. The U-Boat Add On is the 1.4 Patch?

Sorry if it has been stated otherwise somewhere, but I'd think there will be the expansion and a patch separately for those who dont buy the expansion. Then again, it's Ubisoft, anything can happen. :p J/k! Dont shoot me! :up:

No the 1.4 patch is a seperate download. The U-boat add on, as stated earlier in this thread, will upgrade your install to version 1.5