The U-Boat Missions Expansion

[The Renegade]

I just have a quick question about the Uboat expansion that was released a while back. I kinda just started playing SHIV again, and also just found out that this add-on was released like back in the spring/summer of '08 and kinda missed it.

So, from what I've read here, I can either buy the Gold edition and get it, or download it from D2D or something and get it that way. I'm just wondering though, because I've never bought something with D2D and basically have always bought my games in their physical form....can you burn the data onto a disc? So that if you need to, you can install it again or on a different computer than the one you dl'ed it on? Or is it like Steam, where you can download it again if you need to? (I would just get it on Steam, but you need the STEAM version of SH4 to play I guess.....

I'm finding that I really want to get this add-on, probably because I finally got TMO 1.4 to work yesterday, and wow.....just after I had gotten my mind blown from seeing SHIV at playable framerates and with all the improvements with patch 1.4, now Trigger Maru comes along and proceeds to blow my mind yet again, and with a greater explosive force this time.....wow. I've read that Ducimus doesn't come here much anymore, but I wanted to just shout out to him or just acknowledge that his mod is truly fantastic, and he and all those that contributed to the mod should be hired as devs. You guys really put the heart and soul into this game! (I also have RFB, waiting to give that a try as well....gosh you leave for a few months, and a game has evolved into something far greater than it ever was..... mad props and many thanks to everyone here, modders and supporters and fans and everyone!)

Sorry for such a long-winded post, but I guess I'm finding myself aching for this add-on, so I can patch to 1.5 and use the latest mods out there, and just continue to follow the work of and support these awesome modders. Plus, I'd like to see what the Germans have been up to since SH3..... (installing SH3 with Vista is a headache ....havent been able to do that yet.....)

So I guess I'm really just asking if you can use the D2D downloaded game on a different computer, if you can download it multiple times(if it gets erased, etc), or if you can make your own physical CD of the expansion with the data you get. I could also just buy the gold edition, but I do have SH4 already, and I'm kinda cheap, so paying another $30 is a little much.

Thank you!

*EDIT* Ok.....well I'm silly, I coulda just tried to buy the expansion from D2D, and there it is! It says it DOES let you re-download your games if you need to....good to know! So with that out of the way, how have your experiences been with D2D? Do you recommend it?

[FIREWALL]

I prefer haveing the cd's. That's just me.

I spent some time during the holidays building a nice oak shelf to hold my games and software.

[Orion2012]

I agree with Firewall. I avoid D2D like the plague. It may say it will let you re-download, and I'm sure it will. It's the activation of it for a second time that is a pain. If you really want to do it, and I dont know if you can even get the U-boat Expansion, don't use steam. Occasionally, steam's protection will hamper mod ability.

[A Very Super Market]

With Steam, I have modded Silent Hunter 3 to the ends of the world several times, unless the protection has inexplicably changed for SH4, there shouldn't be any problems.

[FIREWALL]

From day one there has been alot of complaints about the d\l's

[The Renegade]

Lovely, so it looks like all this downloading and D2D crap really is crap.....I was really unsure about it, and the only thing that appealed to me was the price, so that's why I asked here....looks like I'll be looking for the standalone expansion or just suck it up and buy the gold edition!

Thanks everyone for the replies. And yeah, I know about Steam, and while it is a cool program/platform for some things, it definitely is a pain in the ass in other areas. I just found it nice though, how you could download games over again and how it does a really good job of keeping track of your purchases, while with iTunes I had to jump through a WHOLE lotta hoops to be able to re-download a TV episode.

So would you all recommend the Gold edition? I'm guessing that the original Uboat Missions by itself is pretty hard to find it nowadays, but has anyone seen the expansion for sale still in a store? Or online anywhere?

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by FIREWALL

From day one there has been alot of complaints about the d\l's

I guess Im the excpetion. I got the expansion from D2D, burned it to a disk, and had no problems with it.