My Verdict

[STEED]

Well My PC died so it went in for repair and upgrades for SH4 I picked up a second hand copy from a friend who said "Good luck and within a week you will sell it or bin it." So as you can see he was not happy, I patched it will 1.2 only anyway my verdict on Sh4 and lets puts the eye candy to one side and get to the point. Some of the interface I did not like and when I get minor damage which would not technically sink me but my boat goes into a death dive and good night.

Crew management sucks what the heck dose those (I,II,III) positions means and I have to save the campaign myself or I will loose it, this looks like a rush job to me. This game should never had come out for a minimum of another six months.

PS: Please ubi fix it. This game has potential to be a good game.

[MaxT.dk]

Another one... You forgot to ask for 1.3 patch as the other dozens of threads already did

[TheBrauerHour]

Honestly I don't think people give the new crew management system a chance. I, II & III are your 1st, 2nd and 3rd watchs or shifts. See, it is broken by watch cycles so you don't have to waste your time manually rotating people in your sub due to fatigue. This also lets you put a good balance of people on each watch. If you see trouble, then call battlestations, and the entire boat shows dark grey. That means the whole crew is up out of their bunks and at stations.

The system is really a good system. I am not going to get into a comparison with SHIII because SHIII manages in a different way. Both are good as I play both.

Hope that is helpful!

[STEED]

Originally Posted by TheBrauerHour

Honestly I don't think people give the new crew management system a chance. I, II & III are your 1st, 2nd and 3rd watchs or shifts. See, it is broken by watch cycles so you don't have to waste your time manually rotating people in your sub due to fatigue.

Thanks for that bit of info, why the heck the guide book could not me that and about 20 other things I don't know.

But I am still getting sick of my boat going into a death dive to the bottom of the sea which is starting to put me off playing this game, another thing what about this patrol area business? I stopped and sat on the marker for a few days I also sailed around the marker and through it for a few days and still the patrol is incomplete. I had no trouble dropping the spy off to his location as that came up complete.

[Major Johnson]

[Quote]why the heck the guide book could not me that and about 20 other things I don't know.[Quote]

It's the majority opinion that the manual is much to be desired. Thank God for everyone in this forum sharing all their tidbits.

what about this patrol area business? I stopped and sat on the marker for a few days I also sailed around the marker and through it for a few days and still the patrol is incomplete.

I have a working theory about this too. I'm wondering if it's tied in with sending a status report?? How can the home base know where you are if you don't tell them?? In my current mission I was assigned to one patrol area, while cruising out there, I got into the habit of sending a daily status message. When I got the patrol area it immediately grayed out, then I got sent to another patrol area and it didn't go grey. But I realized that I hadn't been sending any reports like I was. Somewhere between here and there, I hit the escape key to save/end the game and it said that patrol area was complete! I'm thinking I must have sent off a message, which does report your position. A possibility??

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Major Johnson

I have a working theory about this too. I'm wondering if it's tied in with sending a status report??

In the case of dropping the spy off I came close to the marker near shore and I was asked to launched the boat for the spy which I said yes and indeed the marker turned gray. In the case of patrols I have sent status reports but what I will try out is to send more of them and see how this works out.