Read this...

and thought of this...

Ubisoft didn't even try. They released a fundamentally broken game missing many features, then took two months to fix a few keybindings and UI features that should have been in from the beginning.

They haven't supported it at all, not even a little. The failure isn't on casual gamers for not buying the game it's on Ubisoft for utterly failing to market, support, promote or even finish the game.

:sign_yeah:

I said nothing about bugs. Don't put words in my mouth. I said all along that gameplay features would (and did) suffer because of the cries of "I wanna see the torpedo room!" Buy it or not. It's true.

Damn right. It shows you exactly how much Ubi thought of the Silent Hunter series. They had a halfa**ed commitment to this title, and it shows. That's no one's fault but Ubi's.

This is maybe the best news around!!
You sad? Well, I'm happy. Ubi is the most fail company in the video game history. And if they feel bad.. go take a look over the fence, at Blizzard. Learn and die Ubi, learn and just die!!!

At least we have SH5 to tide us over for the next 10 years. It will probably be the last subsim we ever see.

At least the flight and land combat sim market is still alive.

Well that settles it for me. Unless some other company comes out with a decent sub sim it looks like I'll have to content myself with SH3 and SH4 since SH5 is nowhere close to what I want from a sub sim. I know the eye candy is wonderful but that's just on the surface...literally. I have no interest in the new features (and departures) introduced in SH5. I don't need to even start on the DRM aspect as that is moot unless I buy it.

I guess Ubisoft is leaving the SH franchise in a fizzled state of affairs. How fitting. Too bad too since they made one heck of a splash with SH3. I thought they were on to something there for a while. Oh well.

What's the point in learning then dying? How very Orwellian of you.

I'd buy it


Seriously I probably would

Long term SH5 is a better bet. SH3 is a nice game, but modders have taken it as far as it will go. SH5 has all the code of SH3, SH4 as well as many improvements and new features. It is also more moddable. Its a no-brainer really that it is the best platform to go forward.

Actually you are right:
"Orwellian": describes the situation, idea, or societal condition that George Orwell identified as being destructive to the welfare of a free society.

:yep: I completely agree. I've often lamented that SH4 got short shrift from modders because so many are still working on SH3, and 4 is by far the better platform. If SH5 lives up to its potential there may not be a need for any more in the series, because it's so open to modding that anything is possible.

I hope.:sunny:

The real SH6

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SHV will be a better bet, with the added caveat that it is properly patched before Ubisoft abandons it.

I'm wondering if 1.2, will not be the last patch. Barring a Type II, IV, and XXI add-on for purchase.

As for no SH6, no big loss. SHV killed my enthusiasm for the series anyway. I think Ubi has milked the SHIII engine for all it was worth.

Normally, the bugs and the horrifying AI should be fixed (I have some reserves that this would happen completely, like it didn't happened in SH3 & 4, so why it should happen now?, but I sincerely hope I will be wrong in this area), and only then a playable and enjoyable finished game should be taken into consideration for modding. Fixing bugs is one thing, modding is a totally different one, due to hardcoding restrictions, so the modders cannot do miracles, they can only tune some aspects from the game.
I already feel tempted to open a thread called "Silent Hunter 7" with all this frenzy about a potential Silent Hunter 6. Or even Silent Hunter 7 or 8, which obviously have the "ludicrous" potential to be something like playing Call Of Duty and Postal combined in a WWII unfinished submarine environment. I anticipate that by looking at the scale of "evolution" and direction the series has already taken. But it would be interesting. That way we would have different maps to choose for multiplayer, something like: "Conning Tower claustrophobia bloodshed" or "Slaughter in the Engine Room" ... And maybe almighty god UBI will finally implement a long waiting and of a deadly importance feature from the immersion point of view: using and flushing the submarine toilet. I only hope that particular feature should not be buggy, otherwise it will not smell like springtime in the area.

For those about to play SH5: I salute you!
Fortunately, I will not join you this time in your immersion happiness state. I will wait to do so in SH12, I promise that with my hand on my boyscout necktie.