SH5 is still collecting dust, questions...

[Kelly621]

GoldenRivet makes some good points. I had the same feelings he did about the interface and crew interaction etc. The mods fixed most of my complaints, it was a matter of getting use to the new interfaces and other mods. I do find that I still find something lacking just as GoldenRivet does. For me it is the campaign. As GoldenRivet points out:

actually, it is a game like that. Ubi said so... There is a specific progress that you have to take through the game, specific ships that the game wants you to encounter and sink, specific conditions that must be met that do affect the next battery of missions.

Ubisoft made the campaign this way... it is semi-dynamic... meaing you can go out and explore the seven seas as you wish, however, the game wants you to encounter and sink a carrier, or encounter and sink specific troop ships - otherwise there will be a specific set of consequences later in the campaign.

prior versions of silent hunter were fully dynamic - go anywhere, sink anything, do as you wish and it is non scripted. comparatively SH5 is considerably more heavily scripted than SH 3 and 4

Trevally and company did a great job improving the scripted campaign considering what Ubisoft handed us. Even with the improvements I personally just can't warm up to a scripted campaign....guess I am a die hard dynamic campaign lover. Will I continue to play SH5...sure, will I enjoy it?.....most of the time ....yes. I know Trevally is not finished with improving Open Horizons.....He may change my mind down the road

RustySubnarine made the following comment:

I have all versions of Silent Hunter and play SH3 more than SH5, because of the brilliant super mod GWX Gold, which really makes it as good as it can get. I would like to see one big supermod for SH5 come to fruition because although there are now lots of mods for SH5, some of them are difficult to get to work for people who are not so computer literate, because a lot of the mods need certain files altered to get them to work...

One complete GWX sort of mod that can be installed as an exe would be much better for everyone. Whether this will eventually happen, I don't know, but it would make things more straight forward to install and would probably make SH5 as enjoyable as SH3, maybe that much better because of the improved graphics of SH5.

I think you read my mind I was just talking to GT 182 a week or so ago about how great it would be to see a team of mod builders get together and produce a GWX style mod for SH5 for some of the same reason you mentioned above.....I hope it will happen.

Kelly621