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Originally Posted by Myxale
Wow, Duci, I wasn't even aware!
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After all the past drama between mod groups and fan groups, it's not surprising and understandable.
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I got SH4 way back out of solidarity to Ubi, and the Genre, but I never really got into it, since I'm not much of a Fleet-Boater.
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I did too. Infact, i bought the game twice (D2D first go around). As for being a "fleet boater", think of fleet boats as being a Type 9 on steroids. If your a type 9 fan, it's an easy transition. In fact, it will spoil you. If your a type 7 fan, it wouldn't hold much interest.
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And combing the cluttered SH4 Forums was kinda a pain. And I didn't have the time to Start following yet another Modding endeavor to the point of understanding it like i do SH3.
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A few details like Damage control is different, as is the UI. But the overall concepts and details of the simulation remain unchanged. Much of what you know and understand in SH3, is applicable to SH4.
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But you're right of course; It really seems that we can easier put SH3 into SH4 that in SH5.
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SH4 is however, not without its own set of issues. I just want to make sure that is understood. SH5 is worse in the "issues" department because it takes some of the unresolved issues in SH4, and add's its own on top of that. So in SH5, you have double the bugginess, double the "fun". What's worse is some of the fixes developed in SH4, no longer work in SH5. On top of that i've read that the statemachineCtr no longer works in SH5. That's a big kick in the nuts if you ask me.
At any rate, its my personal opinion that technology has moved away from SH3 as a game engine. There won't be any new submarine sim's for a very long time. Maybe never. So your left with SH4 or SH5 as a platform. (unless you don't mind "compatiblity modes" ) The former of which uses good ole, workable dat files, (as opposed to granny), has DDS texture compression, is a campaign writers wet dream ( I suppose SH5 is too, but its much harder to understand), and doesn't include a DRM.