My problems

[Paukenschlag]

There has been much written that is negative about SH5. I have to say that I am really enjoying it and the graphics, particularly that of the sea, are great.

I have a few problems that surely they can sort out.

The first is the irritation of the loading icon of a radar screen in the bottom right hand corner. Ubisoft's logo used to jerk like that with some of their previous games so I am sure they can solve that one.

Heaven knows why saved games have to be kept on the server. There is a little star on the launching screen which on pressing asks if you want to save your games on the server (yes/no) and no matter how many times I press no, I still have to wait while the games on the server are synchronised. Surely once they have checked the integrity of the copy of the game the internet can be left out of this.

My final gripe occurs usually at the most exciting part of the game, when the whole game crashes to the desktop. On reloading I see that a save took place when the internet cut out. Meanwhile I have not been playing on line or wanting to.

Is there a way that these problems can be resolved. It takes such a long time to load the game that it is almost enough to make me join the gripers.

[kylania]

You can mod the loading screen to something different. As far as it being "jerky", well, in light of other real problems with the game I personally wouldn't even request that it be fixed it's so minor. I'd say working minefields is a far more important fix than a jumpy loading indicator.

The rest of your problems are DRM related, and will remain problems till that system is removed. There's no fix or answer to them at this time.

Meanwhile I have not been playing on line or wanting to.

Of course you have been, you saw the "Permanent Internet Connection Required" warning label.

[Paukenschlag]

Originally Posted by kylania

You can mod the loading screen to something different. As far as it being "jerky", well, in light of other real problems with the game I personally wouldn't even request that it be fixed it's so minor. I'd say working minefields is a far more important fix than a jumpy loading indicator.

I understand. It's just so irritating in the light of everything else.

But as I said, I am really enjoying the game.

[kylania]

The fact that I have to wait through 3-10 seconds of "synchronizing games" after I turned off synchronizing games is totally annoying, but I use it as a chance to get another drink heh

[jwilliams]

Originally Posted by Paukenschlag

Heaven knows why saved games have to be kept on the server. There is a little star on the launching screen which on pressing asks if you want to save your games on the server (yes/no) and no matter how many times I press no, I still have to wait while the games on the server are synchronised. Surely once they have checked the integrity of the copy of the game the internet can be left out of this.

If you disabled the online save sync, the saves are not saved on their server.

What is happening is the game is sync'n your saves with the saves located in the launcher folder on your hard drive. NOT THEIR SERVER!!!

C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\My Documents\SH5\data\cfg\SaveGames

is being sync'd with

C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\storage\anVzdGluMTUwMjc3\3

Originally Posted by Paukenschlag

My final gripe occurs usually at the most exciting part of the game, when the whole game crashes to the desktop. On reloading I see that a save took place when the internet cut out. Meanwhile I have not been playing on line or wanting to.

You have been playing online.... Thats how their DRM works. And you will be online as long as SH5 has this DRM.