I'd like to see (to have seen) in SHIV/SH3 more protracted damage-control problems to cope with, such as losing main lighting, internal flooding - ie water sloshing around in compartments, closeable watertight doors, and of course representation of all compartments in 3d. I was very disappointed with the sudden-onset death screen 1st time my boat got sunk in SH3 - very poor.
By way of fixes, I think they really should have paid more attention to the way the 3d model showed pitch changes, so that the bow pitching up appears the same when viewed from either port of starboard!
Sadly I won't be buying SHIV (or any other Ubisoft product) until I'm damn sure we don't have a repitition of the starforce debacle - which destroyed 2 DVD drives of mine before I twigged what was causing it. Whilst I greatly enjoyed SH3, and support their subsims, no game is worth that grief, and the primary thing Ubisoft are going to have to do for me - is ensure that whatever copy protection they use is rock-solid.
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