[coasterdigi]

After playing SH5 for a few hours now, I have to say that I'm impressed overall with the game engine and some of the mechanics, although the new hud is a bit simplistic for my taste.

I realize that the point of not having many hud options is that the player is expected to actually go to each individual officer to issue commands, which is fine...

...except for the fact that you can't actually issue commands to your officers! Sure, there are abilities, and the token "how are the kids" questions, but from what I can tell, there is no way to do things like get depth under keel, specify where the deck gun crew should be aiming, order a cease fire for your gun crew, have the sonar operator follow a sound contact, or any of those more 'technical' commands without playing around in the cfg files.

What the hell, Ubi?

The functionality is in the game...I mean, it's ALL there, along with accompanying voice tracks and animations, so why the hell can't I ask my navigator what my depth under keel is, or order the watch officer to aim for the waterline?!?

Maybe I'm just missing something, but I think it's absolutely ridiculous to expect a user to spend time tweaking the game's cfg files just to be able to access a few of the commands that are absolutely NECESSARY if playing on a high realism level. Again, the functionality is in the game...why are you making us rely on modders to make it available to us?

I guess I appreciate that you have a lot of faith in the Subsim community's talents, but COME ON.

That is all.