Life after SHIV?
 

A couple of years ago, some game reviewer predicted that SHIII would be the end of the subsims. Obviously he missed the mark.
With SHIV looming ahead, where do you think subsims are heading? :ahoy:

Will there be life after SHIV? :hmm:

I hope so:D
My dream would be a Silent hunter game where you have a choice over what side you want to fight for. So you have the whole submarine war of WWII in on game.

I would like to see silent hunter evolve to modern submarines:up: .

We have to cover the "Cold War" era! Mission one, sneek over to Russian waters and cut into the underwater communication cable, set up wiretap:up:. Get out undetected.

Yeah, Silent Hunter series needs a nuclear sub sim badly. I want a Typhoon or a Los Angeles! Stay submerged for months! And have not to worry about the batteries go out!

Where's the fun in that though? The problem with modern day sub sims for me is that it's mostly a technological war where missiles are fired from hundreds of miles away. What I love about the Silent Hunter series is the fact that it really was a game of cat and mouse in WWII.

I'd like to see the SH3/4 engine reengineered from scratch. Build it with proper multithreading, DX10 and other enhancements--then take us back to the Atlantic during WWII.

Oh, and most importantly; all this development would take place during a reasonable development schedule and not some restricting accelerated development cycle as with SH4 (give the devs the room they need to breath and be creative).

In reality, if the game engine kept being reengineered to exploit technological advancements, you could keep the sub sim in the WWII theatre indefinitely.

That would be great indeed:arrgh!: I hope it comes to live some day... anyway, I'm eagerly waiting for SHIV.

I like where flintlock is going with this but, let's think out of the envelope and combine SH-3 ,SH-4 and Destroyer Command so you can play surface or sub anywhere in the world and any country. Oleg Maddox did it with
IL2 series and Pacific Fighters. We all keep asking. The squeaky wheel
gets the most oil .:yep:

You know, I think these "every campaign in one game" notions are unlikely to come true. I think the opposite may happen - because of the enormous complexity of coding the ultra-high levels of realism and detail that simulation games now have, I think that in future they may actually get more narrow in scope rather than broader.

Otherwise the development lead times would be huge and probably the costs would be too high for a genre that is still a niche market at best...

I'm hoping: SHV = Japanese subs or Germany revisited. Hopefully all sides. How about more interaction between your sub and the outside forces? Call in a Type 34 or an Admiral Hipper for help? I don’t know if this is realistic or not, but it sounds like fun.

Or a official patch for SH4 that gives you a 688i sub as a unlockable bonus :D:D

Wouldnt that be fun :hmm:

Single surface to ship tomahawk would sure make short work of yamato

Very doubtful SHV will be an "all in one" type game covering the Pacific, Atlantic, et al. Nor do I see an modern subsim coming on line in the Silent Hunter series. We have a modern subsim, already, don't we? It's called Dangerous Waters. What can SHV add to that...? Yet another drug cartel to take out? Another fictional war between nation-states? Well, okay, if we must.

As for the future I'm willing to bet if there's another Silent Hunter it will be a brand new engine and the game play will cover the Atlantic Battle once more. The sales on that were great if SH3 is any indication (and they were) and with a new engine a company can tap into that market once again.

I've often wondered why a company, after producing a quality sub sim, doesn't apply part of their software code to a totally different naval sim. For example, it appears that in SH4 Ubi has designed a great engine for depicting the oceans and coastlines of the world. Why waste this effort? Why not create another sim, but in a totally different era, such as the age of sail? You have the "world" already created; build on it by creating man of wars, 74-guns ships of the line, sloops, etc. Sure, the gameplay, AI, models, etc, would be very different between these two eras, but they both operate in the same medium, so why not try to recoup your investment by creating and selling another game? I know many people loved playing Man of War II, which came out in 1999, and would love to see such a game updated with SH3/4 graphics.

I would hate to see it go out of WW2. There is still so much that could be done and built\expanded upon. After WW2, only if settings ( realism ) were set similar to the Silent Hunter series, with a dynamic campaign.