Have you actually bought SH5

[Yak]

Just a simple question, have you currently got Sh5 or do you anticipate owning it within the next week or as soon as it becomes available?

Just curious...

Anyone who mentions anything else (Dee-Are-Emm or Oh-Ess-Pee) will be sodomised with a chain smoking monkey with his fur spiked with hair gel...

If you're 'just curious' about that, PM me.

[Alienfresser]

(Dee-Are-Emm or Oh-Ess-Pee)
Now gimme back my monkey.

[sharkbit]

Voted no.
At least in the near future. I'm sure eventually I will get it within a year or two.
Right now, besides all the pretty graphics, I haven't seen or heard anything that makes me want to run out and buy it.
Of course, once some real reviews roll in on gameplay, I may have a change of heart.

The Thing That Shall Not Be Named is not really an issue for me right now. I'm pretty much on the fence on that. I haven't heard of any magnets falling off the fridge because of it.

[The General]

Wow, what a great Poll

[Yak]

I'm warning you AF, I have a sexually deviant macaque and I'm not afraid to use it!

[Ziggy]

Installing now! Hooray.. oh wait I have to go to class and study for two exams today...

[oscar19681]

I get it tomorrow! Anyway now that the community is spitting out screenshots and youtube clips a lot of the naysayers are buying it anyway.

[Portman]

I had it pre-ordered the minute I was able to and even though the DRM sounded bad I stuck with it. It's installed at ready to go when I get out of class tonight. If I tolerated Starforce, (and I blame it for killing one of my drives) then I won't let this stop me from enjoying a Silent Hunter game.

[derblaueClaus]

Originally Posted by oscar19681

I get it tomorrow! Anyway now that the community is spitting out screenshots and youtube clips a lot of the naysayers are buying it anyway.

Correct. I was one of them but now my shipment from amazon is underway. Hope I won't regret it but most of the statements here give me a very positive feeling about it. Game looks good and the bugs wich are describd by now are not as bad as they were in SH4/SH3. Expected a lot more of them an a lot worse. Just remember the "A"-Bug for example.
To bad I have to write an exam before I can start to play. Well, Ziggy you're not alone.

[Jeevz]

Originally Posted by Yak

I'm warning you AF, I have a sexually deviant macaque and I'm not afraid to use it!

Are you allowed to say macaque on subsim?

[GREY WOLF 3]

There seems to many bugs and things missing,it was rushed out
Ill wait at least 6 mths till thinking of a purchase.

I will stay with SH3+GWX

[MaciejK]

Originally Posted by GREY WOLF 3

There seems to many bugs and things missing,it was rushed out
Ill wait at least 6 mths till thinking of a purchase.

I will stay with SH3+GWX

Exactly my thoughts.

[Egan]

Although I was almost swayed by the graphics I've decided to wait a while but that could change. Bugs aren't really the issue for me; I've bought plenty of games that have been bug ridden to the point of absurdity and still enjoyed them. My issue is more to with the fact I haven't read a review by someone whose view I respect that has been anything more than lukewarm at best, and that unfortunately chimes with a gut feeling about the game that I've had for a while. There are several design decisions that I disagree with quite strongly and I'm just not willing to pony up the cash for something I don't really fancy.

Secondly, and this one just dawned on me a few days ago, I would much rather a return to the Pacific than another title about U-boats. Nothing wrong with the Atlantic. it's just that my simming heart is in the PTO just now and U-boats don't grab me the way they used to. It'll be back to Imperial waters to continue the adventures of Commander J. Erasmus Troy and the crew of the USS Greenling. They've had a few tricky situations in the past and it just wouldn't be right to abandon them just now.

[141st_Alper]

Originally Posted by GREY WOLF 3

There seems to many bugs and things missing,it was rushed out
Ill wait at least 6 mths till thinking of a purchase.

I will stay with SH3+GWX

If you gonna buy it, then doesnt matter when you buy it. Dont waste your time i think so. Multiplayer can be fun anyway. I think im gonna buy it tomorrow if it arrives there(Turkey).

[nervouspete]

Hey you lot.

I'm going to get it, if only because I feel the immersion is there. I'll be happier once TDC's and rudder controls are modded in, and a more historical interface, but then I think I realise why the developers have gone for a basic look for the existing UI. They wanted to remove the impression of you pressing things and make it seem more like you were giving orders to your crew to carry out. It's a sub-capt. sim, not a 'be all the crew' sim.

Am I happy with this decision? Can't say I am, but then I'm not cross either when a fine array of modders waits in the wings to work on this baby. I'm very pleased that they've left it so open for modification and tinkering. Eventually we'll get something very beautiful out of this, I'm sure.

Up until then I don't mind so much what icons I'm clicking or keys I'm pressing, so long as I feel like I'm there. Consensus of those who own it seems to be - on average:

Utterly ravishing to look at.
Interface a little baffling but workable.
Doesn't let you take full control of some aspects as SH3 did.
AI good to great.
Bugs are there but not game crippling and fixable.
Certain specifics are a little sloppy - no oilskins for crew (grrr!) recon planes at night...
Intentionally different from SH3/4
Manual is a load of balls, as are the instructions.

I find the last negative particularly ironic as this is supposed to be a 'break-out' game to hook the non-sim player. Way to reel them in with a completely inadequate manual and downright wrong key listings. Heigh-ho.

Overall though this looks a very promising title and I'm itching to buy it. I only want to know four things:

1: Is there a gramophone/radio and can I drop in those old war radio files? That was half the immersion for me with GWX, listening to authentic war broadcasts. It'll be doubly excellent when a new SH5Commander comes out.

2: Does your sub have the full crew of 40-odd, or just the 27 or so I see in the videos? Does the game make you think that the others are just rotated off shift but still on boat, or is history revised for a smaller crew? I don't mind if for performance reasons they had to scale it back, but I would like a feeling of people in bunks to make up numbers and stuff.

3: Do crew get injured or die and are replaced by suspiciously similarly voiced fresh faced types, like that bit where Homer leaves the bar and reappears as Guy Incognito?

4: Do crew still get thrown about and stuff?

It'd be great if anyone could answer me those. Ta.

So... do I think that this title needed more development time? Yeah, sure. But it's always been the case with pretty much everyone except games by Valve and the Holy Civilization series. (Except Colonization 2, that was guff.) I can't get mad at Ubi for their copy protection decision either, though I think it's a bad call. I'm just happy that some big publisher is supporting the sim genre, which is facing hard times.

I aim on boycotting all Ubisoft products, except simulations. Maybe one day they will wake up and realise that we PC gamers are tired of draconian measures, excepting with regards to sims, in which case they are Stringer Bell and we are their Bubbles.

I like to sink into a game like I do a book - and SH5 looks to be one that'll immerse me deeply. Can't wait frankly for Friday, even though it means beans on toast until mid-month payday.