[Shipshape]

Hello all you subsimers out there.

So its time to get your hands on a new subsim, SH4; that, hopefully, will get you many sleepless nights trying to for filling yore missions. A good fought thou, but how is it working when installed on your hi tech spec PC? Well i got my SH4 Collectors Edition yesterday and was off course stund by the graphics, the eye candy. And thinking back to the first time i sat in front off a subsim back in 1984 playing GATO on a IBM XT with CGA graphics its a giant leap to start SH4. but bear in mind that this is a product that is developed by UBISOFT. Go back in time and re alive the time when SH2 and SH3 was released. SH2 got an obsolete graphic interface limited to 768*1024 and did not work properly until it was patch to 1.1 and then patch by enthusiasts several times. The same boring and teadius thing with SH3 that have version 1.4b to work properly. Well all you that bought a UBISOFT product know that there will be patches etc and that what you get out of the box wont work properly, which is the brutal trough about SH4. After more than 15 hours of just doing the basic missions i can find a number of bugs that indicates that you just might stick to the SH3 until SH4 is patch to a more proper functionality. For example:

• Sound bugs exploding that continuous after the ship is gone done under the surface.
• Pounding a merchant vessel by the deck gun with over 50 shells in very close proximity without the ship is blown to smiter ins.
• Or putting five (5) torpedos in a tanker that is semi submersibeld and it stills a float!!.
• Or just like that your diesel fuel is running out like if there is a gigantic hole in your ship, without any enemy ship in any range.
• Check out the “Default key command” leflet, they have forgot Heading to view and view to heading on the keyboard layout, a mishaps probably.
• The mission editor have, as usual no manual.

I will not complain any more about the bugs in SH4 but just start a debate about why we, the paying customers, time after time should get a nonfunctional product from UBISOFT. I´m sure that when SH4 is patched to version 1.4 or ma by 1.5 it will be a god simulator. As of to day it probably will result in frustration and flashbacks from the last time you bought a subsim branded by UBISOFT. And of course some of you under if I have the hardware and latest drivers and experience, yes I've been a PC user and subsimmer since 1986.

Best regards to you all out there.

Shipshape