Q&A about the new Ubisoft online platform

[elanaiba]

Actually in Company of Heroes its either log online (Relic Online, which is the base for their great multiplayer system) or put a disc in the drive.

Its true though that the COH protection has long ago been broken.

[Danji]

Originally Posted by elanaiba

Actually in Company of Heroes its either log online (Relic Online, which is the base for their great multiplayer system) or put a disc in the drive.

Its true though that the COH protection has long ago been broken.

omg, you have aquired a cloak of invisibility. i cannot see you, yet you're posting... ( or you're at home )

[The General]

Originally Posted by JScones

Thus JSGME may be useless?

Originally Posted by elanaiba

Actually in Company of Heroes its either log online (Relic Online, which is the base for their great multiplayer system) or put a disc in the drive.

Its true though that the COH protection has long ago been broken.

Is Modding SH5 still gonna be possible elanaiba or JScones (you guys should know ?

[bigboywooly]

Originally Posted by The General

Is Modding still gonna be possible?

Million dollar question

I should imagine will be tho if ubi use auto updates - as you have to be online and saves stored their end - then updating will negate all mods and maybe mess with file structures
Another wait and see I guess

[kapitan_zur_see]

Although I'm strongly against those intrusive ways of anti-piracy stuff which tries to fight illegality with ways that are virtually on the constant boundaries of illegality themselves, I can, in my personnal case (internet coonection 24/24 etc.), live with it.
However, if it makes SH5 too much of a hassle to mod, then SH5 loses 80% of interest to me, as i'm being an avid modder and usually start to try to mod the game not even after only a month of playing it ...

At what stage will these 'multitude' of legitimate questions be answered...probably only after the release and when we have, if we decide to buy it, have tried it.

I have 3 installs of SH3, SH3 stock, SH3 GWX and SH3 WAC

I have 2 Installs of SH4, SH4 stock ver 1.5 and SH4 Ver 1.5 with TMO 1.9.

Would be interesting to know if this will be possible with SH5.....can see their servers going into melt down!!!!!!

Maverick

[Brag]

So, after selling their game, UBI will continue spending money to support the game on a daily basis forever. It sure doesn't sound like a good business plan.

"Herr Kaleun, subscriptions spotted on the horizon."

[GoldenRivet]

Originally Posted by bigboywooly

Million dollar question

I should imagine will be tho if ubi use auto updates - as you have to be online and saves stored their end - then updating will negate all mods and maybe mess with file structures
Another wait and see I guess

However, Dan himself has said on many many many many occasions...

SHV will be more modder friendly than any previous version of the silent hunter series.

[bigboywooly]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

However, Dan himself has said on many many many many occasions...

SHV will be more modder friendly than any previous version of the silent hunter series.

He did and lets hope its so
Mind you they said the same for Sh4 which IMHO was harder than SH3

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by Spiksy_st3

if this DRM will afect or make the modding or mod install too compliated, then i wont buy the game because the modding is the key of making the Silent hunter a "real u boat war simulator" without mods and proper patches the game is piece of crap

Aren't you in the brig?

[longam]

Originally Posted by Brag

So, after selling their game, UBI will continue spending money to support the game on a daily basis forever. It sure doesn't sound like a good business plan.

"Herr Kaleun, subscriptions spotted on the horizon."

I bet they will remove it in the last patch like they did with the other protection. It seems they just want to keep it from the crackers for at least the fist 6 months or so.

[Iron Budokan]

"Ubisoft is committed to being a forerunner in providing new exciting online service."

Um, yeah. Right. I think Blizzard has already beaten you to that. But thanks for trying. Come again.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by JScones

Thus JSGME may be useless?

Not at all. In fact you'll use it even more. Every time you load the game UBI will overwrite all your mods, and you'll have to reload them all with JSGME, making it very useful.

Except of course for the part where you don't know they've overwritten anything until you're already playing and notice the changes.

Oh, and the part where you can't add mods while in mid-patrol. Except they may have to make a special fix for that or the stuff they add might kill your career when you load a saved game...

Don't you feel so much better now?

[Brag]

This DRM should be renamed:
MMMM
That stands for Multi Mods Murdering Machine

[Yosarian]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

However, Dan himself has said on many many many many occasions...

He also said once in an interview that we mainly use the Type II, VII and IX boats.

No matter how nice these guys are, I no longer trust these devs from Bucharest. If the Ubisoft headquarter in Paris say go and make a headstand while smiling, they will make it no matter how foolish it looks.