What is your expectations on SH4 ? #1 SH4 player
 

Hello all you subsimers out there.

So its time to get your hands on a new subsim, SH4; that, hopefully, will get you many sleepless nights trying to for filling yore missions. A good fought thou, but how is it working when installed on your hi tech spec PC? Well i got my SH4 Collectors Edition yesterday and was off course stund by the graphics, the eye candy. And thinking back to the first time i sat in front off a subsim back in 1984 playing GATO on a IBM XT with CGA graphics its a giant leap to start SH4. but bear in mind that this is a product that is developed by UBISOFT. Go back in time and re alive the time when SH2 and SH3 was released. SH2 got an obsolete graphic interface limited to 768*1024 and did not work properly until it was patch to 1.1 and then patch by enthusiasts several times. The same boring and teadius thing with SH3 that have version 1.4b to work properly. Well all you that bought a UBISOFT product know that there will be patches etc and that what you get out of the box wont work properly, which is the brutal trough about SH4. After more than 15 hours of just doing the basic missions i can find a number of bugs that indicates that you just might stick to the SH3 until SH4 is patch to a more proper functionality. For example:

• Sound bugs exploding that continuous after the ship is gone done under the surface.
• Pounding a merchant vessel by the deck gun with over 50 shells in very close proximity without the ship is blown to smiter ins.
• Or putting five (5) torpedos in a tanker that is semi submersibeld and it stills a float!!.
• Or just like that your diesel fuel is running out like if there is a gigantic hole in your ship, without any enemy ship in any range.
• Check out the “Default key command” leflet, they have forgot Heading to view and view to heading on the keyboard layout, a mishaps probably.
• The mission editor have, as usual no manual.

I will not complain any more about the bugs in SH4 but just start a debate about why we, the paying customers, time after time should get a nonfunctional product from UBISOFT. I´m sure that when SH4 is patched to version 1.4 or ma by 1.5 it will be a god simulator. As of to day it probably will result in frustration and flashbacks from the last time you bought a subsim branded by UBISOFT. And of course some of you under if I have the hardware and latest drivers and experience, yes I've been a PC user and subsimmer since 1986.

Best regards to you all out there.

Shipshape

What? Are you complaining about a Game that is not even out yet? Or are you just Predicting the future? That is one strange post, and i'm not even drinking yet.

Alright, come again.

You got SHIV? :huh:

And by the way, if you really do...

None of those sound like bugs except MAYBE the diesel fuel one (I can't quite understand what you mean). For the rest - I think torpedo failures are finally implemented (phew!) and the deck gun is no longer 'uber' (phew again!). If you don't like it, I believe there's a realistic damage checkbox in the options...

The keys and manual sound like ommissions.

The game was releasd friday 070316 here in Sweden. And, yes, there is more bugs, no predictions.

screen shots then please .

:o

Well I'll be damned.

So far sounds like minor things though, but I'll qualify that, well, I've not yet seen it!

Maybe someday he'll realize that PC games always have issues when released, no matter what the venue. It's just the nature of the beast, unfortunately.

And I find it hard to believe that a Subsim Newb would be the first to tell us about it, as well.

This would be nice:up:

:yep:

Likewise, I don't mean to start an attack on the original poster - but when's the last time you bought a subsim NOT branded by Ubisoft? :hmm:

Please, do show some screenshots. Tell us about more bugs, we can discuss them (the ones you listed so far sound... far from game-killing, shall we say - if they're the worst of it, I think we're looking good!).

You may just be the first person on the biggest Subsim community to have the retail version, and we're dying to know more about it. But do prove it :hmm:

Maybe a sticky thread needs to be started for listing of hardcoded bugs for Sh4 so that they might get fixed in a patch . No i dont have the game but some organisation would be nice instead of rambling on all over the forum , which is what will happen .

Does SH4 support AA on your system ?

It would also serve as proof. ;) Right now, Shipshape, I find it hard to believe you'd take the time to write all that verging-on-codswallop you just did when you could be playing and grabbing screens from SH4...

Go on, prove me wrong.

...and please don't use a black font next time. I know, I can just highlight it, but it's an unnecessary pest.

Ya post some screens. Someone always likes to come to forums to say they have something (and have made very clever forgeries). But really don't.

And if you do have in, think the store in sweeden jumped the gun.

I think i have been caught hook line and sinker so to speak !!!!!!!!!!!!