Att. Emil Gheorge

tonibamestre · 12-26-06, 10:06 AM

Hi Emil,
First,wishing you a great Christmas. Ive seen your interview about SH4,we all naval simmers are expecting excited its release next summer.
Do you think the SH sequel is going to keep going forward in a medium future? Would be really nice if is this way,a further SHV recreating for example the first stages of the cold war,with campaigns like the Cuba crissis with the nuclear torpedoes armed Foxtrot soviet class,some same age soviet and USN submarines.
I think its time for thinking in a SH modernization,the SH future evolution into the 60s era and beyond.
I agree aswell that first now we have to wait and see the upcoming SHIV,but I think would be positive to start thinking on a modern sequel.

What you dear producer think about that stuff??

Best regards.

Schatten · 12-27-06, 11:35 AM

I'm not a developer, and I don't even play one on TV but for what it's worth I don't think taking Silent Hunter past World War II would be a very good idea. While both the US and Soviet attack boats were very active during the Cold War there wasn't (thank God) any outright combat between subs so to have a viable campaign going you'd have to do hypotheticals. There are plenty of ways that a shooting war between NATO and the USSR could have happened during the Cold War but no matter which one you'd pick someone would claim that it wouldn't have worked out that way, or the war would have started over here not over there, etc.

So while it could be fun, there are problems with doing any hypothetical WWIII scenario. If you stuck to straight history then you'd spend your entire career shadowing Soviet warships, running ASW excercises, the occasional Tomahawk launch here and there, doing covert signals intercept missions and once in a while dropping off a SEAL team. Now while all that could be fun, it doesn't exactly scream Silent Hunter to me you know?

So if I had my druthers SH would stay in WWII. Now if you'd said something about WWI I could get behind that too because there was a lot of submarine warfare going on, not just U-boats, and it could be interesting. But the Silent Hunter name has always been associated with WWII and that's probably where it should stay.

Again, all of that is in my opinion, off the top of my head, gut reaction, etc.

Zinmar · 12-27-06, 02:59 PM

If a WW1 sim came out I would really like the big gunned boats. Sure virtually sunk by mis-haps, but it would be great cruising around with that turet dtick off the nose of the tower

12-26-06, 10:06 AM	#1
tonibamestre 中国水兵 Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 271 Downloads: 82 Uploads: 0	Att. Emil Gheorge Hi Emil, First,wishing you a great Christmas. Ive seen your interview about SH4,we all naval simmers are expecting excited its release next summer. Do you think the SH sequel is going to keep going forward in a medium future? Would be really nice if is this way,a further SHV recreating for example the first stages of the cold war,with campaigns like the Cuba crissis with the nuclear torpedoes armed Foxtrot soviet class,some same age soviet and USN submarines. I think its time for thinking in a SH modernization,the SH future evolution into the 60s era and beyond. I agree aswell that first now we have to wait and see the upcoming SHIV,but I think would be positive to start thinking on a modern sequel. What you dear producer think about that stuff?? Best regards.

12-27-06, 11:35 AM	#2
Schatten Engineer Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 212 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I'm not a developer, and I don't even play one on TV but for what it's worth I don't think taking Silent Hunter past World War II would be a very good idea. While both the US and Soviet attack boats were very active during the Cold War there wasn't (thank God) any outright combat between subs so to have a viable campaign going you'd have to do hypotheticals. There are plenty of ways that a shooting war between NATO and the USSR could have happened during the Cold War but no matter which one you'd pick someone would claim that it wouldn't have worked out that way, or the war would have started over here not over there, etc. So while it could be fun, there are problems with doing any hypothetical WWIII scenario. If you stuck to straight history then you'd spend your entire career shadowing Soviet warships, running ASW excercises, the occasional Tomahawk launch here and there, doing covert signals intercept missions and once in a while dropping off a SEAL team. Now while all that could be fun, it doesn't exactly scream Silent Hunter to me you know? So if I had my druthers SH would stay in WWII. Now if you'd said something about WWI I could get behind that too because there was a lot of submarine warfare going on, not just U-boats, and it could be interesting. But the Silent Hunter name has always been associated with WWII and that's probably where it should stay. Again, all of that is in my opinion, off the top of my head, gut reaction, etc. __________________

12-27-06, 02:59 PM	#3
Zinmar Commander Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Harrisburg, PA Posts: 304 Downloads: 276 Uploads: 0	If a WW1 sim came out I would really like the big gunned boats. Sure virtually sunk by mis-haps, but it would be great cruising around with that turet dtick off the nose of the tower