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Originally Posted by s0cks
My opinion is that it's not as good as Silent Hunter if you're looking for something to simulate the hunt.
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It's tremendously unfair to compare release Uboat with the very few release-compatible mods available right now, with a game series which best version of (SH3) dates back to 20 years and has a tremendous assortment of excellent mods that bring it's quality up to an amazing level during the whole time it's been out.
You can't expect a dev team of a handful of guys to compete with a game developed by a gaming studio backed by one of the publishing giants of the game industry (scumbags as they are, Ubisoft is a powerhouse), and then upkept by a legion of excellent passionate modders during the course of two decades.
Just compare the base versions. Which of both, is, in your opinion, the much better u-boat subsim?. Uboat, or SH3, or SH5?... With no mods, just the base product.
For me the answer is clear. Wait some time for modders to do their thing. Just to put an instance: Give a team like the one that developed GWX for Silent Hunter the same time they took to develop their megamod, to work in an Uboat Megamod. What do you think that would look like?. The result would make Uboat laugh (loudly) about any Silent Hunter iteration. Because the base game modders have to work with is so much better to begin with. As simple as that.
So I would plead everyone to stop comparing any of the ultra-modded SH games with a just-released Uboat because that's just not fair. Compare their base versions, or just give time for the modders to do what they did with Silent Hunter. The base to work with in Uboat is so much better than it ever was with SH that it ain't even funny.
look long-term, chaps. And again remember, this wasn't developed with Ubisoft backing as a publisher (THANK GOD!, but also means a lot less resources available), but by a tiny indie developer. The fact we have something this good from a team that small should be enough to be jumping in happiness. Of course the game isn't perfect, of course there are a lot of things to improve. Of course the UI can feel better or worse, but the OVERALL product, come on, guys, is really really good as a starting point, and coming from the limited resources the developers had to work with.