I'm not playing this game.

[Gabucino]

I know how to recognize a great and immersive game at first sight. Examples: Thief, Fallout 3, Mass Effect.

Silent Hunter 5 is not a great game. It's a very bad one. I've just finished the training mission, and I'm not continuing.

Speed: I can play Crysis and Fallout 3 on maximum detail with a very decent framerate. These games operate with a very large world. You'd think I would cope with a barren submarine interior. NO. Silent Hunter 5 stutters inexplicably.

Movement: Jerky beyond all expectations. Actual movement is delayed to the mouse movement by a significant amount.

GUI: OH MY GOD. What the fsck is this?!

Hotkeys: there are none that I'd need, but there are keys for "1 degree left/right". What the hell?! Some function keys call men to their stations: they just teleport there! This is 2010, how about modeling some ladder climbing movement?!

Patch 1.1: it doesn't find the installed SH5, probably because I've installed into my user directory (where it actually has to be, not in the root directory...).

Despite seeing the possibilities of the game, I'm totally unimmersed.

Until there is an SH3 GUI+hotkey mod, I can't play with this... whatever this is.

UPDATE: now that there's a 3 dials mod and adding SH3 hotkeys turned out to be relatively easy, SH5 becomes almost playable. AI and damage models are still nasty.