The engine seems to prefer ATI. I, being an Nvidia user, actually had to disable SLI to get smooth performance; with SLI it was more like smoothness interrupted by a great many stutters. I'm guessing the review was done on a machine equipped with Nvidia card(s).
On that note, has anyone had positive results from using SLI vs. not using it in SH5?

Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. Thank gawd for sane people who tell it like it is. None of that "oh dear, we better be nice or we'll lose the only subsim maker in existence..." for that reviewer. Just the bottom line, plane and simple. :rock:

Repeat after me people: "SH5 is a load of bolox."

Now, doesn't that feel better ? Good to get it out of yer system huh ?
:arrgh!:

This review was as full of FAIL as Ubisoft and this release of SH5.

The Seamen part just demonstrates unprofessionalism.

The pointing out of "too many ladders" "problems going up and down them" "Type VII only doing 7 kts" and several other errors show the reviewer really didnt spend time with the sim.

If he has trouble going up and down the ladders....then he should stick with Mario Kart or some other side-scrolling console game.

His comments on how slow the sim is "no matter what hardware you throw at it" is bollocks. You can see my rig specs below...its no screamer anymore and runs the sim just fine (I cant have everything turned up to max...but its still better looking than SH4 at max). And this is at 1920X1080.

The CURRENT state of SH5 has me ticked as much as the next HONEST guy. Its unexcusable to release something in such a horrid state...and the DRM alone would make me give this sim a 4/10 (the first two weekends I owned it I couldnt play it!).

I also agree with you that Im SICK of game publishers releasing half finished products.... and I find it insulting that UBI is relying on MODS to FREELY fix thier broken garbage.

At the same time inaccurate comments and immaturity makes people question this reviews credibility. And if I paid him to do this review....I would want my money back.

That review was pathetic, it's not even journalism. This hack focused on his gay sense of humor too much, and on the sub sim too little. Wtf can this be called a "REVIEW".? Did he discuss the campaign? How about the TDC? He mentioned getting his crew to select parts of the ship to attack, that's all. Two many ladders?? What all 2 of them? And he cannot get over that he has to move from place to place him his uboat :o:o:o

The whole thing is a joke.:down:

I'm no native English speaker so puns about seamen are totally lost on me, and I'm willing to concede that the "7 knots" reference could have been a typo.

With those two things out of the way, I find I have to agree with most of the review :shifty: It does a good job at pointing out that the whole "making it accessible for the casual player" business is complete nonsense when basic game functions are unexplained or unintuitive. And yes, I too find myself stuck at a ladder more than once (I get the trick for going up, eventually, but going down always takes several tries). Really, if I had to write a review the score I gave wouldn't be much higher.

And still I find myself playing SH5 :hmmm:

I wonder how much game experience this guy can have by writing "Ubisoft also seems to have forgotten one of the ten commandments of FPS game design; don't put too many ladders in your levels..." :doh:

If he can't climb 2 short ladders in SH5, he is dead meat in any serious rush style FPS where u have to climb up/down very fast many ladders on buildings and so. And this guy gets paid to make reviews... doh :dead:

I'd say the review doesn't stand up to the standards that subsim members as insiders and well-versed players of such simulations would hope for. And it doesn't come anywhere near a review like Neals, but he of course exactly knows what to look for.

But I think the message of both reviews are pretty much the same. If something, then this review shows a bit what a casual gamer with no subsim experience and just a game in mind would think.

Which is exactly why sims should never be made with the casual gamer in mind; they cannot grasp even the simplest of tasks, such as climbing a couple of ladders. Silly Ubi, thinking they could find a middle ground, when there isn't one!

Amen!

I agree with that, SH should not exist for casual players and it should be a very hardcore game. Actually, beside the bugs, this bothers me most.. this game is so simple and easy.

Just looking to the players logs on ubi anybody can see how casual this game is now. Over 3 million tonnage sunk in just few weeks is ridiculous for a serious sim. Sinking one ship should be a serious business, not to mention escaping from Scapa alive. Even with 100% realism SH5 is very easy and to get killed you actually need to commit suicide or to ram a heavy escorted battleship on full speed :(

I read only the first part of this review and realized that the reviewer is a know nothing, dumb a**

"why would any one want to have a first person perspective of a submarine" or other such drivel met my eyes, along with many references to seamen (homo erotic fascination or something?)

I usually give reviews a fair chance, and full read, but this one, may take a while for me to get the will to plow my way through it.

I am sorry, beginning a review on a sim by complaining about aspects that bring it closer to reality is no way to make me think you know Sh*t about sh&t when it comes to reviewing sims.

Almost like the whiny ba*&ards going on about how the virtual cockpits of flight simulator and combat flight sim Obstructed your view. Geeze.

Seconded. SHV does not deserve anything more than a 6 / 10 at the very highest. I am one of those who has never had a problem with the DRM in the least, but the fact that it is there is still reason enough to lower their score a few points

But this review is ridiculous and full of inaccuracies. It's one thing to dislike a game, but this review seemed like he played for 10 to 15 minutes and then wrote down his already preconceived notions on how "bad" the game was.