Silent Hunter 5 Announced for Q1/09 says Subsim news?
 

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Just noticed that the subsim news page has an update listed for SH5, is this correct...(I'd like to think so!)

"Silent Hunter 5, Ubisoft, All new code, Q1 09 Underway"

Silent Hunter 5 Announced, it's official. Details here.

New update added, cuz Google returns this page for SH5 searches. --Neal

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Too soon. Big mistake. If it's a quantum leap ahead nobody's equipment will run it. If it is not, it will fail to be a compelling purchase. If the first case I will begin scanning eBay for a poor victim who can't run it. If the second, I'm afraid the thing will die on the vine. I just can't imagine anything good coming out of a 1st quarter 2009 release of a new submarine simulation.

That being said, I am ALWAYS prepared to be pleasantly surprised.

Cant wait for screen shots of SH5, appears they were given over a year to do this one.:D

Maby it will include the atlanic and picific.:D (not good for GWX team.) I hope they can do this for SH5.

"All new code" and a tentative Q1 09 release date, doesn't exactly sound like a good combination if you ask me. :hmm:

All we cand do is wait and see.;) :yep:

Very true.

Wonder what it is gonna be about, wele find out by December/ begining of next year.;)

Well first off there's the FPS cash cow of the subsim world, U-boats, but that has already been done.

The red-headed subsim stepchild (pacific theater) was just done.
And as much as I'd like to command an I-Boat or serve in the queens navy pre 1945, these would likely attract an even smaller audience than the US fleet boats.

So my moneys on either some cold war nuke boat sim, or preferably a post WWII, pre nuke boat sim, perhaps something centering around the Korea war.

Either that or some WWI U-Boat sim.


Or the devs could have really gone out on a limb and went for..........

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Sounds plausible to me. I'm sure we all know how release dates tend to be very optimistic.

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I would love WW2 game for the Picific and atlanic, and who knows they might even include British/Japanease subs.;) I think they also could put a WW1 campagine is. ( to make every pre 1945 Sub simmer happy.):D I dont think it will be a Cold war/ Nuke boat game there is realy not enough info to make one that is realistic cause the governments want to keep that stuff secret.;) But as I said we will see.;)

Has anyone asked Neal about this? I'm sure this was a joke.

I dont think so, its been alittle over a year since SH4 was released.;)

Hey neal, where did you hear about this?:hmm:

If Silent Hunter V was Silent Hunter III with Silent Hunter IV's graphics and UI and I'd be very happy. :)

Not sure I'd be happy with a 'modern' sub sim though. I really enjoy the raw and personal feeling of the WWII boats. Where the people were the important part of the sub. Modern stuff would be.. well, too much like playing a computer game.

WWI is just too ugly for my tastes. :)

If SH5 becomes a modern subsimmer it will be on the top of my list to get. Im tired of the ww2 subs whether its Uboats or Gatos still the same for me. But i keep playing these games cause theirs nothing else to try out, other than dangerous waters but thats to mind boggling for my brain where i end up playing with all realism turned off. Sh5 with modern subs will be a good change for me providing they don't go all out with the realism. :roll:

Well we do need a modern subsim. I'd like it if they did a fictional what if scenario, kind of like Tom Clancy's End War. Fictional WW3 or Cold War setting will be fun

I see it as something to look forward to.

But .... I learned my lesson on doing a Preorder. :yep:

I wouldn't mind seeing a game set in WW1 with the early U boats. Seeing the convoys with their coal smoke would be cool I think. The Germans had several missions to the eastern seaboard of America as they did in the following war, some of those could be included. Technology wasn't as advanced then, no radar or such, one generation from the days of sail.

Modern, I don't know. An all-out 30 minute war with nukes exchanged or a prolonged war with hits on convoys with sub-launched missiles. Fun in games but something would be missing to me.

Let's just hope it SH5 won't be about the Hundley in America's civil war! That would be a short one.