Warmest welcome, Andy !!:woot:

Hey there :salute:

Welcome to you both :salute:

Just got SH5!
 

Long time reader, first time poster.

I refused to buy SH5 when it came out because of the always-on DRM. Now that it's gone I bought the game and just started playing it.

At first I wasn't too sure about the interface. Not being able to jump between stations via hotkey seemed inefficient. Now I really like it. Having to move around within the u-boat adds a level of realism and claustrophobia to the game. You really get a sense of just how small your ship is and how vulnerable you really are.

The graphics are impressive despite some glitches. I had some trouble at first with mouse lag but found that a few tweaks solved that problem. My graphics card allows for specific settings per game so I set prerendered frames to zero and the mouse lag stopped. I would love to claim that my brilliant technical abilities saved the day but it was the SubSim forums. Others have had the same problem and posted their solution. Thanks!

WELCOME ABOARD! :sunny:

Sounds like you're well on your way.

Welcome BiffWheezy :sunny:

Hi. Ray from Chicago. I've been waiting since SH5 appeared nearly two years ago for UBI to drop its online-only play feature. I just found out that they did this, so I've purchased the game and am looking forward to modding it. The list does look daunting.

:woot: Warmest welcome, Fregattenkapitän, BiffWheezy and Ray !! :woot:

Welcome to SubSim Ray :salute:

Happy Hunting 2012
 

Here's to another year of good times :Kaleun_Party:

<sniff> <sniff>

Something smells funny.

Hi at all
 

My name is Normando Dario Ortega, nick: ECV56_FOXONE, I´m an Argentinian simmer co-founder of ECV56 CONDOR, first virtual squad from Argentina, living in Spain, and sailing SH series since SH3, now enjoying SH5 with community MODS and I like to receive a roll for download files without restrictions.

Thanks in advance and GOOD WINDS.

:sunny:Warmest welcome, Normando !! :sunny:

Welcome to SubSim Normando :salute:

Check out this link:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=185237

Don't know if anybody even reads this thread anymore, but I just thought I'd throw in my two cents, mainly because I want to praise this forum that Uncle Neal made and to tell y'all how it changed me.

As you can tell from the box on the left, I joined in 2004, but what I really remember is what I found. It was back when SH3 was shoved out the door, unfinished and with the PC-killing StarForce "piracy protection" program on it.

It may sound familiar to those of you who joined when SH5 came out :)

The server database seems to have eaten all of my posts from back then and that might be a blessing, because I was not a nice guy. OK, let's cut the bull and admit it: I was a real pain in the you-know-what.

Venting, raging and raving, cursing Ubi and the dev team, yelling my head off. All of which I had a perfectly good reason for, we'd all been bent over the barrel on that release, but the problem was that that was all I seemed to be capable of: Ranting and raving against the dying of the light.

Now, a lot of forums would have finally either had enough of me and either banned me for not contributing anything or just ignored me, and they would have been perfectly justified in doing so. Who wants 200 threads about the same topic? But not this place. Yes, I got a rebuke, well-deserved, from time to time, but what really stood out for me was the determination with which the modders went to work to turn that shipwreck into what it ought to have been. With generous help from the dev team, by the way.

So it dawned on me: You're just whining your head off, justified though it may be, but those people are actually trying to do something about it. It took a while, but I finally got it and I joined the team. Only in minor ways, I'm not the best modder in the world, far from it, but I finally switched from being a screamer to being a contributor in whatever way I could.

And, in the end, SH3 became, no thanks to me but before my very eyes, not only what it should have been but so much better and it showed me what a strong community committed to fixing problems rather than just crying about them can do. And it gave me the best damn sub sim that I've ever played.

And NONE of this would have happened if it hadn't been for Uncle Neal and the outrageously talented modding community we have here.

And that is why I, when SH5, which I had been awaiting eagerly, turned out to be a disaster upon release, I didn't despair, because I knew that it would be fixed. And I also knew exactly where to go to find the fix.

My fellow sub simmers: I cannot emphasize enough how much the Subsim community has done for our favorite genre. None of this would have happened without the efforts of Uncle Neal and our modding community, not to mention the never-failing commitment to helping that every single member here shows every day.

Without Subsim.com, I am convinced that the Silent Hunter franchise would have died with SH3.

I love this place. It has done more than anybody to promote my favorite sim niche and it has made me a better person too.