Im only begging UBI for one thing:

Please, and even hell freeze.... do NOT buy Boeing or Airbus.......:damn:

(I fly every year 30.000 miles and only be 38 years old....)

Andreas

"There's a sucker born every minute." --P.T. Barnum, showman extraordinaire.

Why thank you. The personal pains you carry around are just what the rest of us needs. In fact, I think my day is improved 85% by you having to just get this off your chest. Don't hesitate to let it out another time, please.

People are naive, they have expectations, which they assume will be accurate. When those expectations are not met, rather than admit disappointment, they try to kid themselves into believing that there is nothing wrong with the game, and that this is in fact exactly what they wanted in the first place.

There's no point trying to convince them otherwise, they'll just make snappy, sarcastic posts about negativity and lack of constructive critism, and go right on trying to convince themselves that it was the best 50 bucks they've ever spent.

Lol:

"Here are your new A380 aircraft Air France.
Whats that? Where is the navigation system? Oh, we'll add that later. And the air filtration? That wasn't a priority at this time.
Yeah, I should take this time to mention that engines sometime cut out, but don't worry, we're working on it. Have fun!
Also, be aware that we'll be releasing an expansion kit in the near future that adds seat-belts and oxygen masks!"

BUT IT WAS THE BEST $60 I EVER SPENT!!!one!1

Just to clarify your position here, are you saying that all people are naive and are kidding themselves, or are you saying that only the people who say they are enjoying the game are naive and are kidding themselves? Because... there's a whole world of difference there. One point of view is baseless and the other point of view is equally as baseless. Oh, not so much of a difference after all! :DL. If only I were naive, I'd believe everything you said. Oh my God! I must not be a person! OH NO! But I guess this must be what I wanted in the first place... so I should be happy?

There should be a disclaimer here.. perhaps:

“The users of these forums do not necessarily reflect the opinions or views of the users of these forums!”

There is so much bickering going on! Quite astonishing. Anyway..

Having finally got my hands on SH5 I am really surprised that it ran at all given the huge amount of negativity it has received here. Quite honestly I wouldn’t have bought it had I have checked these forums before today.

SH-IV was one of the buggiest games I’ve ever laid my hands on. Out of the box it ran in low resolution, it had crash bugs and around 100+ other major issues.

SH -V. Well, I should point out that all I’ve done is set off and sunk one British ship after the somewhat poor training “mission” and therefore accept that it would be unfair for me to give a reasonable opinion on the game as a whole. However based on my, so far, rather brief encounter with the game I have yet to see it crash, the graphics are excellent, considerably better than SH-IV, the game IS playable. The UI is actually quite good in places but seems unfinished on the main view screen it also feels, as others have said, a bit unauthentic but then I don’t think they had UIs in WW2 J The one enemy ship, a freighter, I came across (whilst I was running at full on the surface) behaved as you would expect, jinking and running away as fast as possible. I wasn’t plagued by constant air patrols as I was in SH-IV.. The only “bug” I saw was when I requested the deck gun to be manned. The order was accepted but no-one manned the gun. However the issue was that the order should have been refused since the sea was too rough. The game overall has many issues but I only know this because I’ve read these forums, not because I’ve “bugged out of the game” as a programmer friend of mine tends to put it. (Well not bugged out yet anyway!)

In essence. Anyone who thinks SH-V is more buggy than SH-IV is wearing the wrong coloured spectacles. The game has many flaws, hopefully with a couple of patches from the devs and modding from the community they will be fixed.

I think it cannot be overstated that the Silent Hunter is pitched at a niche market. The budget UBI allow is obviously too tight but I suppose it is based on expected sales. Whilst boycotting this product might achieve a bug free SH-VI I think it far more likely it will end the series altogether. Decent PC games are hard to come by these days nearly everything is a “dumbed down” console conversion, don’t even get me started on Supreme Commander 2! SH-V, imo, is better than SH-IV in its initial release and has the potential to be far greater.

Oh, the DRM situation is absolutely fing ridiculous, I’ve never seen copy protection this intrusive and designed, it would seem, to only infuriate paying customers! FIX IT UBI!

Dont know if that has been posted before, but saw this post at the Ubi forum from the Dev team which seems to directly address some of the points above:


http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/t...8591082387/p/1

On par or maybe worse than four; that is Ubi for you. :nope:
Always a money grab and always at the expense of the customers - not consumers. If you had any doubt about this concept the new DRM should be proof positive that you are not a consumer. :know:

I hope, really, really hope the new DRM scheme make Ubi tank as a company or at the very least cause a lot of executives lose their jobs. :yep:

I so wish the venerable and classic SH franchise was given to a far better company that respects PC gamers and puts out fairly well polished titles.

Hm....

So Kaleun cannot tell teh folks at the deck gun to leave it? he has to go and find the watch officer?

it is nuts.

Hi, new here and have to say that SH5 will be the last of these sims published and made by one of the big publishers. Ubisoft was always my favourite among the big ones because only they had persevered to publish and sometimes develop simulators when everyone else had abandoned them.

With Silent Hunter of course it was always on that borderline between staying alive and being cancelled. Let's face it, if Ubisoft didn't have a cheap resource to make it in Romania and instead had to rely on a western studio they would have given up after SH3. The continual decrepit state of the SH series when released also points to Ubisoft being loathe to get a new more costly developer to make the series, as they figure, rightly, that we (sub) simmers will be grateful with any half finished bug riddled product, that the talented among us will then use their time and energy into turning it into the game it should be. Ubisoft figured that since they have a virtual monopoly on sub sims these days, then they have no reason to increase the quality of its games.

Now with the DRM debacle, it seems to be doing what a stream of half finished games didn't: angering the sub sim community. This will probably end up killing off Silent Hunter, as from a small base, a few percentage points less sales will be enough for Ubisoft to pull the plug on this.

Maybe it will live on as some kind of action-sub game such as the H.A.W.X. thing, incidentally also from Romania.

Maybe they can call it S.U.B.Z.?

I wonder why they'd hard-code time intervals like this? Why not have the reporting guy announce negatives every minute (or four) but report positives immediately...

It doesn't make sense to surface next to a destroyer 2 seconds after the last report and have to wait 58 more seconds for the next report to roll around. :hmmm:

I just dive with them out there... thatll teach them !

This would be funnier if it didn't have such a ring of truth to it...

Thats Funny, my first puter was a VIC 20 too, then a TRS80 from radio shack (guess our age is showing a bit eh, mate?).
Being an avid gamer myself I have to say that I was disappointed to the point of shelving my copy of SH4 when I purchased it. If these companies cannot produce a quality product that is able to be played without "fixing" or "further development by people who are not going to get paid" they should turn over the keys to the engine so the hard core modders could at the very least create something that might make some of the time invested give them a bit of a return. Myself, Im just sick of playing broken half finished games (not just UBI although they are now one of the major offenders).
No, I wont be buying this anytime soon... and unless they get around the DRM, I probably wont ever have this on my hard drive.

On another note, I found out that many of the people who were involved with Mercincos Rouge Warrior game were promptly sacked after its release. I wonder if UBI is holding its DEV team likewise accountable?