Sound
 

I'm happy to report that the sound in SH5 is really great - best sound design in a submarine sim yet!

While many of the baseline sounds are the same as they were in SHIII/IV, the way they're implemented is much better. For example you can really hear the difference in ambience between different compartments. When you walk into the diesel room, you can really FEEL it. Ballast sounds are now actively used. There are a few cool new sounds around the submarine as well. Overall the sound engine definitely got better.
The best news here though is that as the baseline sounds are mostly the same, it will be very easy to adapt some of your favourite sounds from SHIII/IV sound mods and make them even better here.

The real standout so far for me though is the voice acting. Nothing remains of SHIII's robotic voices and even ignoring the RPG stuff, the routine crew responses sound a lot more natural. Lots of useful sounds added "e.g. 'switching to electric motors'".

So again, for some of the shortcomings of the game coming to light, let's not forget the bright spots (or in this case, moody ambient spots) of this one :yeah:

they need to implement a little more crew ambient speech though. walk through the boat here the crew talk among themselves, only during silent running, boat should turn silent.

also add coughing sneeze yawn sounds of the crew, rustling of map papers in command room.

That's something that was part of the "submarine ambience" in GWX. Plugging in a similar file for that would probably work just as well. But you're right, a few extra sounds wouldn't hurt.

i have still to buy the sim. so when i get a copy will be working on a few audio mods.

yes i do agree from what i have seen in videos so far, audio is a lot better.

Actually, i find the crew voices to be anoying as hell in alot of instances.

Well, that could be a matter of preference. But I won't believe it if anyone says they prefer German SHIII voices to German SHV. There's no way :doh:

Im using the english voices.. so maybe thats why.

always turn audio voices off. i think in options if they anoy you

And read subtitles???

No way!! :D