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Originally Posted by 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.

Originally Posted by tonyj

coasterdigi is right.

i've just installed it, played for about 2 hours and i'm wondering where half of the funtionality has gone, its really disappointing. its like with each version since sh3, we're losing more and more of it.

sure you can now walk around the sub, which gets boring after a few times, but the controls are really clunky and its not really enjoyable at all. trying to go up the ladders is a mission in itself.

i'm running it on xp, E8400, 4GB ram, nvidia 285 GTX, SSD. its very smooth but the gui is really unintuitive and bloody annoying.

I really wanted to love this game too but its all looks and not much content at the moment.

I couldn't have said it better.

Ubisoft left us Subsimmers at the Dock.