Positive preview at SIMHQ

[SimHq Tom Cofield]

Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat

Tom, welcome. Since you have seen the game, are you free to comment on certain aspects:

1. what "realism" aspects can you turn on. You mentioned some of them in your preview. Is it the same as in SH4?

2. what about the campaign? does it work as in sh4? i.e., you are assigned to a patrol zone and the engine generates random ships/convoys along certain tracks.

3. what about Uplay?.....how intrusive is it?

Pretty much the same as far as realism settings. It allows you to select quick reloading, fuel, batteries, targeting exterior views and event camera views, among other things. It is somewhat similar to SHIV.

As I said before, I had limited exposure to the campaign. Part of it was simply the game dumping me twice to desktop, another issue was me 'falling' off the conning tower and getting caught between the side of the ship and the conning tower (couldn't climb the ladder to get back up). After 20 minutes of that I gave up. These are well known beta bugs and shouldn't be in the final release but when you are trying to get somewhere to torpedo something and your wife is yelling for you to come to bed, then that happens.

I gave up on the campaign at that point and dedicated myself to as many single missions as I could in one evening.

The interface is almost completely different. Throw away the SHIV keycard. Some keys are the same but some really aren't . The W, S, D and A keys are movement keys in the ship now. F1 is still help but all the rest are different. It is much more mouse driven and much less key driven. That is good and bad but that is for the review, not the preview.


UPlay? Well, if you have a constant internet conncection it is a minor irritant. If you are out of town and not connected, or if you Comcast provider decides to screw you over then it is the spawn of Satan. Personally I don't like it. I was familiar with it with Wings of Prey and I tolerate it but don't care for it. I still don't and probably will less because SHV is a game I would love to have on my laptop. I won't get it though because about 1/3 of the time I am traveling or someplace where I don't always have an internet connection. That is impossible.