I've not yet played this game, but I am a huge fan of SHIII. My friends ordered SHIV for my birthday and it is enroute as we speak...having read bits of this thread, I am beginning to wonder if I'm going to regret asking this game as a present.

I was also a tad disappointed in the corner-cutting antics I noticed in Il-2: 1946...is this something plaging all Ubisoft games or what?:damn:

I hope for the best and for as many patches as SHIV requires to get my (or in this case my friends') money's worth.:yep:

Kind regards,

Eichenlaub

I totally agree. :yep:

One more customer that is in total agreement here. This game needs another patch. I would very much like to dust off my copy and actually start enjoying what I’ve already paid for.

patch V 1.3 for SH IV is required
 

I hate to see a game go unfinished so I will gladly support a patch.

Add my name to the list. Please Ubisoft, don't let your fans down. Please continue to quash the bugs!

Signed!



Now get to work, Ubi.

;)

Last night I fought a running-gun surface battle with a Mogami class cruiser (in the submarine school tutorial) at 100% realism. She hit me only once, a glancing ding off the forward torpedo room. I poured shell after shell into her from 400 yards, for over 15 minutes, until I finally plugged her with three fish. I was rolling with laughter, but it never was the result I expected when I decided to surface in front of a Japanese cruiser. It wasn't a submarine simulator, it was a first-person shooter.

Ubisoft devs, please take the time to finish SH4 with the features it needs to make it historically (and sensibly) accurate... Sure, to surface in front of a heavy cruiser is not a bright thing to do, but I am not getting what I expect.

Nothing new - to be sure...
 

I am so glad I have waited and purchase this game. Yet again a developer shafts its consumer base. And yet some lame people wonder why sharing of cracked software is so popular in the world amongst gamers. :arrgh!:

Well here is another prime example of the "give us your money and we might give you what you thought you have purchased. If enough of you buy it to exceed our projected profits we may toss you a bone and fix something that should have been workign all along" mentality.

UBI has screwed over its consumers on several titles and I learnt my lesson on my last purcahse. So this time I was not bitten. :|\\ But I digress...

If I had the programming skill I would fix the damn thing and distribute it to all of you and I woudl to see them try to sue me. Sadly enough I dont have the skill.

My heart bleeds for you guys. hang in there brothers I'm sure someone out there can do whats needs done - to hell with IPR and DRM - power to the people that pay!!! :sunny:

BTW: This situation has made ARS a very popular IT news site. Someone should write something up for Evil Avatar as well as Toms Hardware and Cnet to really shine the light on UBI and its BS practices.

Get it done Ubi, and release the game you told u you were makin, :damn:

I doubt they will listen but here goes:

Signed!

Patch
 

I`ve learned my lesson long ago, thats why i am very patient with new releases now :know: and it seems that this strategy has been proven right (agin!).

Or in more persuasive words:

Dear UBI, i will not buy SH4 until subsim community consideres this game worthwhile!

Greetings

Mthtras

Well, here are my two cents...adjusted for inflation.

I bought the game the day it came out. Never having a CTD, which I hear is quite common, I was nevertheless forced to download P 1.1. I waited for P 1.2, and after listening to further complaints, I have not installed it. I will wait for P 1.3 and listen to you all before and if I install it. I have played the game twice, once for each day since I bought it. That means for 1 1/2 months my game has been sitting on the shelf.

Thoughts:
While I appreciate Mods and all they can do, I should not be required to install mod-fixes to play this game. After all, I DID purchase the game. It should work out of the box. I simply refuse to install mod-fixes. I'm one of those that don't know a frakkin thing when it comes to installing enhancements and stuff like that.

UBIsoft should make a general recall of all games and either re-imburse the consumer, or replace the game with one that works.

If P 1.3 does not work, I'm going to send the game to UBIsoft and ask for a refund.

It's really that simple. If I don't get some sort of satisfaction soon, I'll never by a Ubi built game again. The entire fiasco is presposterous.

SH4 Reflexion
 

Since the SH4 was announced by Ubisoft, the expectation increased at subsim community.
Everybody in the community thought that this new sub simulator will be, at least, the continuity of SH3, (without mod’s), in terms of quality and accuracy or even better.
Once the SH4 reach the stores we discover, after buying it, that the sim was unfinished and to play it was almost impossible due to the bugs.
This term was confirmed by the developers when they release the 1.1 and 1.2 patch, but these releases, fix only some of bugs, let say the more relevant, but still there are many areas with troubles, the AI, the radar’s, the campaigns, the patrols, etc. Anybody can read about that in the forums.
My questions are…
How is possible at this time, that this new SH 4 simulator is worst compared with the SH3 in terms of accuracy, fidelity, playability?..It should be the opposite.
Why this SH4 is a back step compared with the SH3?
My conclusion is, that the SH4 Sim has been developed for a DIFFERENT COMMUNITY OF SUBSIMMERS, NOT FOR THE THOUSAND OF SH3 PLAYERS.
The SH3 community is a mature one with this kind of simulators (see the forums). Since years, many people play through all the SH’s saga, and always discover something new and revolutionary in each new release...with the SH4 the situation is different, it is totally unlucky.
We recognize that the graphic area is super in SH 4, which is true, but also is true, that today the new graphic and processor technologies help to that, but I repeat, in many areas the accuracy, fidelity and playability of the SH4 is far away from its predecessors.
THE SUBSIM COMMUNITY LIKES TO KNOW THE UBISOFT POSITION REGARDING TO THE RELEASE OF NEW PATCH/PATCHES WHICH SOLVES THE REMAINING BUGS.
The Ubisoft position will help us to decide, either to keep the SH4 into the drawer without install for ever or install it and wait until the new patch 1.3 releases.
By the moment the SH4 is at darkest and deeper water, it will emerge?
UBISOFT, IS YOUR TURN...YOU MOVE

Ubisoft please patch this game
 

This sim could be very good indeed," BUT " it needs to have the worst of the still outstanding bugs fixed!!
I have been a very loyal customer to UBISOFT and most of the games I own are published by you, as you are one of the few publishers to release the type of games simulations that a man of my age still bothers to play. I'm 57years old and an ex soldier 18 years service, so i only play simulation type games IE: subsims,flight sims and millitary type sims.
So please give the game the patch's it deserves and i for one will continue to buy
your software.