I've played the game a just three or four times in single player (campaign) and one time in multiplayer, shortly after the game was released and (sadly) it was just enough for me to realize that the the game is unplayabe (at least in its current state). I am sticking to SH3 + GWX 3.0, this is for me somehow closer to what a submarine simulator should feel like than to SH5. I am not even waiting patches eagerly and have not even try a single mod (because I would only play a megamod, that in the best case scenario, not small mods that are maybe incompatible between them). The game is "closed" for me in my self and out of my hard-drive, at least until the moment it will become playable (if hopefully that will ever happen ...).

also waiting on patch, played for 3 weeks after release. Even used mods but they couldn't fix the major problems.

Right now with the stuff modders are coming up with I couldn't care less if they release the patch or not.

My sentiments exactly...

played the game since day of release. But the campaign is broken and cannot complete mare nostrum because of this. Therefor i will wait for the patch and give it another shot since i might need to restart the campaign any way.

I'm still waiting for the arrival of the IXA,IXB,IXC,IXC/40 and IXD2 and the missing years of 1944-1945 to arrive on SH5

You can make your own campaign to last the entire war, there are even units in SH5 you can't use until 44. When the new patch comes out it will include away to import boats from SH4, that will include all the submarines from U-boat missions. I doubt they will do the work of extending the campaign, that they will leave to us.

Played SH5 for about 1 week and got sick of the bugs and server saved games. Went back to SH3+GWX3 and haven't looked back. I'll see what the upcoming patch improves but many of the above posts list what put me off SH5 and it will take a lot to get me to play it properly again. :down:

Can you not copy your saved games and make your own backups just in case? Im not sure if that has been discussed....

Haven't played for a week and then fired it up last night. Sailing out of port and enjoyed the view. Then two ships ran aground to starboard and blew up. Just turned it off and went to do something else.

Pretty much the way I feel about the game too. I've been in port since the first supposed release date for patch 2 and haven't played since.

I guess I'll give it another go once patch 2 is out ....perhaps, depending whether or not some of the major bugs get fixed.. :zzz:

Stopped playing it the day the patch got postponed for the second time.

Im playing Bad Company 2 multiplayer right now, and I doubt i'll even be back after the patch finally comes out. Having too much fun atm to really care. WIll likely be some months from now before i give the game another shot.

Still playing and still enjoying it.

Though mainly to practice manual torp shooting before I start to really get into the campaigns after next patch.

Sure lots of problems but there are also lots of changes and improvements I enjoy. Plus I have a rig that can run graphics maxed out which are stunning, while still smooth as silk.

Won't be long couple patches and continued support by the great mod community and I can see this taking up a lot of spare time in the near future.

In the meantime, I'm happy to get in more practice and read "Iron Coffins" again.

Played for a week or so and have placed the disk in my box of "pick em up again in a year or so pile".

Will not buy UBI products again and have currently moved over to paradox games, EU3, HOI2's Arsenal of Democracy.

To be honest, over the last 12-18 months, I have actually gone from someone whom would spend at least £80-£100 a month on games, to someone whom now ignores getting excited about new game releases and no longer buy anything on release dates unless its a expansion to a well established game e.g. AOD for HOI2. I am afraid SH5 has caused me to make this move as TBH I feel totally insulted about the current state of the game.

I dont think it is me getting older and wiser with my money as I am in a my mid 30's anyway and have plenty of money. I just think the PC gaming industry has gone very tacky and sloppy over recent years "Almost feels like a social experiment to see how stupid us consumers can be".

Now I am known at home as quite a bad handler of my money and used to be a impulse buyer so my fear is that if I have now got wise to this sloppyness, then others would have already done so and will be doing so even more thus eventually the PC gaming market will die a massive death.

The knock on effect = I no longer bang money into hardware as I don't need it anymore = dropped sales in graphic cards, PC upgrades etc.

IMO the PC gaming industry itself (including hardware developers) really need to put pressure on its own sloppy game makers to protect their own futures as us customers are quite frankly at a tipping point before we decide to abondon our PC's and get our buzz elsewhere.

I already love the simplicity and mobility of the Ipod / Ipad and forsee myself binning the desktop PC's soon.

After buying, I played it a few times and did a few missions in the campaign.
Then I ran in to the well known bugs. I went back to SH3 GWX and I'll give SH5 a try after the coming major bug fix. :hmmm:

BTW, a Dutch/Flemish games magazine was absolutely delighted with SH5, giving it a 88/100 rating. Clearly reviewed by someone who never played SH3 or 4 in-depth, and was grabbed by the, I must admit, very pretty presentation of the game.