Hehe
My bodgy sea repairs made it to port!
Yes mate Ive got 1.3.
I dont mean to be a downer cos I like the gun alot but frankly I find that the game didnt really meet my expectations. My reasons:
1. The game engine core is crappy. The graphics engine has problems with basic line of sight stuff. Meanwhile the rest of the industry has moved well and truly on.
2. The damage modelling and physics simulation is really bad. I was messing around and launched my spy on his rubber dinghy while I was still moving and it tore the top deck and parts of my side from the sub! Yeah right good one Ubisoft!
3. The shaders for the water is wrong. Cudos to the mod that fixes up the shader for the water. And the living breathing ocean mod. Great stuff guys. Just a shame that volunteers had to fix what Ubi failed to deliver.
4. Generally the quality isnt great. Like I ran into a sub in the Tokyo harbour and I get an error that the .TGA file isnt found for the sub. Also in my vista app event log I get an error:
Fault bucket 55823204, type 5
Event Name: RADAR_PRE_LEAK_32
Response: None
Cab Id: 0
Problem signature:
P1: sh4.exe
In general terms what I think the devs did on this project was take an out of date game engine from SHIII, give it bit of a tweak and wring some more dollars out of this brand.
I buy it like many of you I suspect cos we like subs. But frankly, theres far better games around these days and if there was better choice for subsims SHIV wouldnt survive.
Its my hope for SH5 or the next competitor will truly deliver with modern techniques and standards in a new landmark sub title.