BETA...
 

and we are the Testers!

Like many ive bought all previous SH series and expected so much, but in all honesty this is so bad its hard to believe. Graphics are wonderful if youve got a powerful computer to run it that is, gameplay is terrible, its got more bugs than the average jungle. Dont upset yourself stay away from this one. Until its sorted, if it can be. Whats so obvious is that ubi could not of possibly pre tested this. Ive always been a Silent Hunter fan and like many have bought this regardless, but it is so bad i can hardly believe it. Seems like the movies, ubi spend on advertisement and hype and unfortunately we all pay the price. Still i live in hope, well you got to havent you, thanks to all the modders we still have a chance to enjoy this.

PS: if anyone wants to buy it from Amazon UK they have dropped their price again, yeh already now only 22 quid, get it while its low. says it all doesnt it.

I love this game
 

Well since I'm a noob and can't even finish the first campaign with success, I still love the game. There's a lot to explore, a lot to learn, the graphics are nice. Only dissapointed about the key mapping that's absent since I'm using a different keyboard layout. Gonna break a finger one day by pressing "go forward" in such unnatural way...

I have no issues with the online protection thingy, only once I got disconnected and that was because of an attack on the ubi-servers or something like that.

ive been hearing so much bad press about sh5..but i will still buy it and its guna cost me $100 here in australia its just hit the shelfs here im sure with mods it will all work out..stop winging pomes..:ping: your lucky it only cost you guys 20 quid..

Typical Ubisoft! :x Highest price fathomable, all about the graphics with serious shortcomings in gameplay. They have swindled me one time too often and each time i said never again but this time I will put my foot down. I am waiting a few months till the price drops. Wont be paying my hard earned money for their usual unfinished products so ill definitely be waiting till its price is at least 50%, as its pretty evident that that is all it is worth. My thoughts are with the modders..

Review of Silent Hunter 5 in the hungarian media.

Well, actually I wrote it.

Good point
 

good point

I'ver played all 4 SH games and would probably say this is my least favourite.

The Pro's

Graphically it's beautiful. I love it!!
Being able to walk around and through your boat and interact with the crew.
Small neat nice touches like the Kiel canal.

The Con's (If i am wrong in any of these things then please correct me)

Escorts that are useless. They seem uber slow and i think they have dropped depth charges (Approx 2) near me. I've been rammed a few times with minimal damage as i tend to ignore escorts as they are so weak.
Salvo is 4 torpedoes or nothing. No twin or triple shots.
No Salvo spread angle.
Just straight running torps. I haven't seen a ladder pattern or an acoustic torp.
No escorts with hedgehogs((But perhaps like the torps i haven't got to the point they appear.)

It's back to SH3 for me.

Wouldn't trade Silent Service for SH5
 

Although new to the forum, I have been playing sub sims since Silent Service for the Commodore 64. I was very excited about the release of SH5. That is, til I learned of the new DRM. I absolutely will not buy any game that has such a ridiculous DRM. That being said, from everything I have read on multiple forums, I can say that Ubisoft did me a favor, because it appears that the game itself is a complete disaster. I sympathize with those who purchased the game.

"Complete disaster" is a massive overstatement, and frankly I think much of the naysaying of the game comes from people who predisposed to hate it because of the DRM. We had a poll recently where people who had bought the game were asked to rank it, and the only four people who gave it the lowest score possible were those who said they'd never, ever buy it, and also failed to give any kind of details as to what they disliked:shifty:.

Sure, it's got its faults. I'll post both pros and cons when I've played a week. But "total disaster"? That's something I'd reserve for a game that's actually broken. SH5 is far from broken, it's just still very obviously in beta. Looking away from all the bugs and imbalances, it has the potential to be a really, really fun game. The dynamic campaign structure and modifiability alone makes it worthy of the attention of players and modders.

My Big Damn Review
 

Some have complained about the the stubby torpedo graphics in the load out screens but for me they take me back to the good 'ol days of Aces of the Deep. Also the ping kinda sounds like the one it used as well.

Also, I might as well give a review. I think she's a diamond in the rough. The only real worm in the apple is the drm. Everything else seems moddable. Will it make it a pioneering sub game? Maybe not but with a little work she can be a worthy upgrade.

I owe an apology to the devs. I really didn't like the interiors when I saw the first few screens but now I love em. I love ducking my head through the hatch when I request contact reports and seeing the soundman peer around the corner at me. In fact the forward bulkhead hatch is my favorite place to rest my fat captain's ass while overseeing the lads. With the 3 gauge and shortcut keys mods I can still have a bit of the functinality of the old games. The graphics of course are very nice and run surprisingly well on my 8800gt with 2gigs of ram. The water looks fantastic. Underwater it's a bit like the U.S. Gulf Coast but that can be fixed... or not, there are other more pressing issues.

Things I hate:

-I don't know if this is chronic or just my own isolated issue but if you get flooding and the ship leans heavily to port or starboard then you better make damn sure you are in the command room or it's all over, reload. You will find it impossible to enter through the command hatches forward or aft. I think it has to do with the extreme angle of the 1st person camera.

-Dumb crew. This has already been talked to death

-Morale. I don't use it so I don't know exactly how it works but I modded it out from the get go. It'd be nice for the option to be in the settings.

-The pop ups, tool tips, "helpful" info icons and messages are annoying. I feel like I'm playing the game as broadcasted on MSNBC. I can't believe a NASDAQ report hasn't scrolled along the bottom of the screen yet. Yes I know what a merchant and a warship is. Tell me once and then only show me their ranges andspeeds from then on.

-Scope Views: I don't hate the scope UI nearly as much as I did before I actually bought and played the game. The simplicity is nice, actually,although a more authentic looking torpedo button interface would look good in the upperleft corner instead of the default. The tube selection buttons look like keys ripped off of the Enigma machine. Wait a minute, now I know why our messages are unreadable! Bernard! That said, if any modders wanna put some TDC dials in here I won't kick them out of bed. :03:

-Some of the outlandish explosions are nice and have their place. Others feel like I'm in a Jerry Bruckheimer movie. Also the sinking mechanics and... aahhh you know. As to the Street Fighter health bars? I just deleted then from the config. I hope that didn't screw anything up. It seemed to do the trick. Oh well I'll blame any mistakes I made on Ubi and the DRM. Just kidding.

-Oh, the DRM. Utter crap. This game requires more from me than AC2 in terms of shepherding my game along. Progress in this game is pretty slow so when you get to a spot and save and backup save you want to be damn confident that those saves will be there when you log back on to youbeflacid's server. In any other game it may be annoying to have to start from an earlier save. In SH5 it can make you want to walk away from the game for a few days or forever. Even saving every five minutes won't guaratee you will have all those saves. I'm not sure about everybody else but this has happened quite a few times already for me. In short, DRM's more trouble than it's worth.

-No option to just right click the frig down the hatch. I still like running up and down the ladder at this point but sometimes you just wanna get on with it, especially when your replaying your mission for the third time due to Ubifart's server losing your current saves. I just want options is all ahm sayin' aight?

-Wish the boys had more to say. I realize it's a new gameplay thing for SH but it'd be cool to have more to talk about. I kinda like it though.

-One place that could definitely have used those damn "helpful" hints would have been the crew management screen. It wasn't until the second mission of the campaign that I realized I had to distribute skill candy to the lads.

Anyway, I think she has potential. Keep in mind that I have played it with pretty much every new mod installed that didn't conflict, which is to say nearly all the mods, and (by the way, thank you to the modders for such a quick bud nipping to some of the immediate issues) so maybe I would've had a less enjoyable experience had I played vanilla, but the game is not a failure out of the gate so much as an underdog in the making. Of course time will tell. BTW I ain't getting rid of SH3 just yet. I just got a VIIC and still have work to do in that game.

likes and dislikes
 

I have only seen and read about this game. Right now I will stick to SH3.
It was surprising in one sense that UBI puts out a game for Vista and here we have Win7 coming.
And what is with the lack of different types of player subs?
Grant

:woot: I LOVE the :yeah: Silent Hunter 5 :rock: , I already deleted removed the SH3 and the very very buggy SH4



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Got the game today. So far its seems relatively decent. Sure there's a lot of talk what it's lacking and all but in all seriousness, how is this surprising? My experiences with ubi's games are that they are prematurely released, buggy as hell and in the end, badly supported

But at this point I am wondering things like "All new code" and the talk about accessibility for new players. What was the point in lying that it was going to be all new code? Or maybe it really is all new code but they've gone to extreme lenghts to bring back all the same bugs we had in SH3 and SH4

And accessibility. The manual is useless and like it wasnt enough when they removed certain commands in SH4 compared to SH3, this time they did go even further. How do I tell my watch officer to stop firing the deck gun? How do I tell my sonar man to follow the nearest target? etc. The way all this was done in SH3 was IMO perfect. I dont understand why they dropped that

The UI all in all is bad and im not talking about the "modern" look. Actually, I like it. Its just that its lacking compass, rudder control and those officer icons from SH3 would be more than useful. This new approach of being a captain and going to a person to give a command is a nice try but its impractical. When I'm on the bridge and I want to order battle stations, I have to go down the ladders to give that order and then go back to the bridge? No, just no. And sure, there's hotkeys but doesnt it defeat the purpose of UI?

This thread is worth it just for the one-liners. :rotfl2: