This is one of my favorite parts of the proeview:
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The catalogue of ships and vessels has grown considerably since SH3. "We took a look at the ships we put into this game," Dan said. "I was just reading on the Subsim forums, they said, 'You know, for Silent Hunter III they only had the official commissioned type of ships.' So we took a very good look at Japanese ship designs and we wanted to provide a broad range of designs. Different company types, rakes, bows, superstructures, all vary according to time of the period. It's a broader range than Silent Hunter III." And the marus don't look all shiny and clean, rather like vessels in rough commerce duty.
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:hmm:
Finally, generic merchants!
No more C2s and C3s - not that the Japanese would have used those anyway. The only mass produced Japanese merchant that I can think of right now is the ugly "Standard Merchant" with the aft deckhouse, I wouldn't even mind if those were included (it is just one class out of an apparently large number of merchant classes). And the ones in those pictures =
. Especially the two-funnelled transport.
And the S-Class Sub will be included after all - good to see that not only did the Dev Team include a historically important sub, but they took note of community opinions as well.
Definitely looking forward to the release of this game.