Please tell me it gets harder...

Decoman · 03-25-10, 08:31 AM

Could it be that different game distributions (dvd vs digital) has anything to do with the comments on escorts ignoring the uboat?

captainprid · 03-25-10, 08:34 AM

This is a serious problem with the game. The AI is truly terrible.
Attack in fog and they won't fire back, you can attack with the deck gun!!!! I sunk 3 Dido light cruisers this way

Subwolf · 03-25-10, 09:43 AM

Strange, I'm in January 40, found a convoy and only managed to sink a ship and damage another before I was driven off by the escorts. 3 of 4 headed my way full speed. It was a night attack and they even fired star shells, it was like daylight and I had to crash dive. Then 2 of them dropped DCs around me for four hours before they finally gave up. I can't believe they were that good in Jan-40.

But, someting I noticed, if SH5 acts strange in one way or another, save and reload...and everything is just fine

Fattysbox · 03-25-10, 09:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by captainprid

This is a serious problem with the game. The AI is truly terrible.
Attack in fog and they won't fire back, you can attack with the deck gun!!!! I sunk 3 Dido light cruisers this way

HA! I shelled the Queen Elizabeth...

Ran out of ammo since she wouldn't sink. I guess it takes a while to sink those with an 88...

But still... AT LEAST lob a shell in my direction.

Zedi · 03-25-10, 10:22 AM

Scapa is the best port to hold a loud &wild midnight party. Last time I raided the place, was on surface with chicks and bbq on con tower and the radio at max. At 1.2 km from QE I launched a salvo then continued the loud party for another hour. No brit was interested in us or at least to join our party. Not even the drunk crew firing the cannon randomly did not get their attention

I'm really sad about SH5. I can live with the bugs, I can live with the unfinished content, but not with how casual this game is now. SH should be a very hardcore game, sinking a ship should be a great achievement so you can feel that u play a real sim, not pacman.

This trend to make the games more and more casual pisses me off. Blizzard did the same with WoW, but at least the hardcore raiders had an option for hard modes. Even so, many hardcore players left the game, including me. But sadly,there is no more hard games on market. Everything is casual now, just to get all nabs playing ur game and make more money. I was in big hope that I will find again in SH5 the hardcore gaming I love, but this version is just an epic fail. Match the dots and fire away, then post ur log on ubi... what a great game

Fattysbox · 03-25-10, 10:48 AM

Quote:

I'm really sad about SH5. I can live with the bugs, I can live with the unfinished content, but not with how casual this game is now. SH should be a very hardcore game, sinking a ship should be a great achievement so you can feel that u play a real sim, not pacman.

+1 to this...

This is kinda how I feel.

Oh man this thread is making me sad - anyone else out there getting a plastering by the escorts?

Fattysbox · 03-25-10, 10:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Magnum

Scapa is the best port to hold a loud &wild midnight party. Last time I raided the place, was on surface with chicks and bbq on con tower and the radio at max. At 1.2 km from QE I launched a salvo then continued the loud party for another hour. No brit was interested in us or at least to join our party. Not even the drunk crew firing the cannon randomly did not get their attention

Must of been one hell of a party. The cook must have been going crazy making his "special meal"...

iron heart · 03-25-10, 01:50 PM

I have been attacked by escorts nearly every time i have attacked a convoy they have been most of the time verry good i even have been shot at from long range at night and on my first patrol i was hunted by 7 destroyers for 8 hours with some of them working in pairs to cut off my ascape rout to the open sea

so i am thinking to that it may be a problem with the digital download game as apposed to the DVD version of the game which mine is, i offten read of problems with the destroyer A.I and think to my self are they playing a diffrent game to me as i have no such problems ?

KiwiVenge · 03-25-10, 02:02 PM

So far I have found DDs that want to sink me, but the planes tend to just keep buzzing me but never take a shot

Fattysbox · 03-26-10, 11:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by iron heart

so i am thinking to that it may be a problem with the digital download game as apposed to the DVD version of the game which mine is, i offten read of problems with the destroyer A.I and think to my self are they playing a diffrent game to me as i have no such problems ?

We'll I also have the DVD versions and I have yet to be molested by a DD...

Strange how some people see completely different stories - uber hard DDs and escorts that will completely ignore you if you are submerged.

JU_88 · 03-30-10, 01:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Magnum

Scapa is the best port to hold a loud &wild midnight party. Last time I raided the place, was on surface with chicks and bbq on con tower and the radio at max. At 1.2 km from QE I launched a salvo then continued the loud party for another hour. No brit was interested in us or at least to join our party. Not even the drunk crew firing the cannon randomly did not get their attention

I'm really sad about SH5. I can live with the bugs, I can live with the unfinished content, but not with how casual this game is now. SH should be a very hardcore game, sinking a ship should be a great achievement so you can feel that u play a real sim, not pacman.

This trend to make the games more and more casual pisses me off. Blizzard did the same with WoW, but at least the hardcore raiders had an option for hard modes. Even so, many hardcore players left the game, including me. But sadly,there is no more hard games on market. Everything is casual now, just to get all nabs playing ur game and make more money. I was in big hope that I will find again in SH5 the hardcore gaming I love, but this version is just an epic fail. Match the dots and fire away, then post ur log on ubi... what a great game

Yeah I went to scapa and it was a Turkey shoot.... sunk two moored capital ships, I could have done in a the Bismark and gotten away with it without detection.
Ive seen Punks on Ketamine in a higher state of alertness than those Royal navy Destroyer crews.

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03-25-10, 08:31 AM	#1
Decoman Frogman Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Oslo, Norway Posts: 306 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	Could it be that different game distributions (dvd vs digital) has anything to do with the comments on escorts ignoring the uboat?

03-25-10, 08:34 AM	#2
captainprid Watch Officer Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Blackpool, England Posts: 347 Downloads: 23 Uploads: 0	This is a serious problem with the game. The AI is truly terrible. Attack in fog and they won't fire back, you can attack with the deck gun!!!! I sunk 3 Dido light cruisers this way

03-25-10, 09:43 AM	#3
Subwolf Sonar Guy Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: USA/Norway Posts: 394 Downloads: 30 Uploads: 0	Strange, I'm in January 40, found a convoy and only managed to sink a ship and damage another before I was driven off by the escorts. 3 of 4 headed my way full speed. It was a night attack and they even fired star shells, it was like daylight and I had to crash dive. Then 2 of them dropped DCs around me for four hours before they finally gave up. I can't believe they were that good in Jan-40. But, someting I noticed, if SH5 acts strange in one way or another, save and reload...and everything is just fine

03-25-10, 10:22 AM	#5
Zedi Sea Lord Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 1,845 Downloads: 184 Uploads: 2	Scapa is the best port to hold a loud &wild midnight party. Last time I raided the place, was on surface with chicks and bbq on con tower and the radio at max. At 1.2 km from QE I launched a salvo then continued the loud party for another hour. No brit was interested in us or at least to join our party. Not even the drunk crew firing the cannon randomly did not get their attention I'm really sad about SH5. I can live with the bugs, I can live with the unfinished content, but not with how casual this game is now. SH should be a very hardcore game, sinking a ship should be a great achievement so you can feel that u play a real sim, not pacman. This trend to make the games more and more casual pisses me off. Blizzard did the same with WoW, but at least the hardcore raiders had an option for hard modes. Even so, many hardcore players left the game, including me. But sadly,there is no more hard games on market. Everything is casual now, just to get all nabs playing ur game and make more money. I was in big hope that I will find again in SH5 the hardcore gaming I love, but this version is just an epic fail. Match the dots and fire away, then post ur log on ubi... what a great game

03-25-10, 01:50 PM	#8
iron heart Watch Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: uk Posts: 29 Downloads: 164 Uploads: 0	I have been attacked by escorts nearly every time i have attacked a convoy they have been most of the time verry good i even have been shot at from long range at night and on my first patrol i was hunted by 7 destroyers for 8 hours with some of them working in pairs to cut off my ascape rout to the open sea so i am thinking to that it may be a problem with the digital download game as apposed to the DVD version of the game which mine is, i offten read of problems with the destroyer A.I and think to my self are they playing a diffrent game to me as i have no such problems ?