[jwilliams]

I get the feeling the game was released before the devs had finished it.

I can't listen for ships for myself

You can, by clicking on the hydrophone and using [Home] & [End] to turn the direction (mouse wheel also works).

I can't ask what the depth is or order a specific depth to dive to

Just to the left of the standard depths (surface/periscope/dive/crash dive) options is the depth guage (in digital format). holding [Ctrl] expands it to greater depths.

There's no compass

The lack of the ability to ping for depth under keel, and a compass is unforgivable. These should be in the game!!! Luckly there are a few mods that add these back in.

And what happens when you find a target - is that 'point and click' IT?

There are a few way to target ships now (3 way i think, although i've only used 1 of them).
I like the new system for aiming torpedoes, Not the numbers thing or the point and click. but the true manual targeting. where you use the stadimeter, AOB, Speed etc. It's like using voice commands.

I hate the ladder thing

The ladder... Yes takes some getting used too. im now on my second patrol and i no longer have any problems getting up and down the ladder. (well sometime i have to step away and retry but it not too bad now).

I am not interested in small-talk with the crew... Argh

Nor me.... I can see this becoming annoying after a few restarts as you'll just be going through the same story over and over again. Even while on the same patrol they have nothing new to say. my second patrol the had 1 extra line to say....


I have to agree that SH5 is not as good as SH3, but i can see that SH5 if patched and modded can be SH3 GWX with really nice graphics. Thats what im hopping for anyhow.