[kholdstayr]

I've been thinking about getting SH IV and I am wondering how the game plays now that there are some patches released for it? I was going to buy it when it first came out but I decided not to when I read how buggy it was.

Another question I have is about the convoy density. In SH III I was kind of disappointed because finding convoys was very difficult and there were tons of single merchant ships to hunt but a convoy was difficult to meet up with. Does SH IV still have the single merchant ship problem? I know that there are mods and stuff for SH III, several of which greatly improved the convoy situation and reduced the single merchant ships but it would be nice if I didn't have to mod SH IV just to be able to get something to hunt.

One more question. I remember that I used to play SH III with a mod (can't remember the name now) that would use the game's ship compartment feature to fill the ship with water and allow it to sink somewhat realistically. The original SH III unmodded had the ship compartment setup but the developers never used it to its full potential. I remember that in original SH III usually you would kill a ship by causing more damage than it had damage points, but with this mod the ships were quite tough and you couldn't usually do enough damage to take the ship out that way. Instead you had to fill it with water and make it sink by using the compartment feature. Did the SH IV developers finally use this feature or are ships still killed by doing damage points on them?

Thanks.