IGN's Silent Hunter 5 Review

[elanaiba]

Yeah, and the same is true for SH5.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by elanaiba

Yeah, and the same is true for SH5.

While you're here, may I hijack the thread for a question I didn't get a real answer to on it's own thread; Do you have to do the missions to progress to new ports, for example, the Mediterranean port? How about the french ports? Am I automatically moved to one when France falls or do I have to achieve a certain objective first?

[elanaiba]

You don't HAVE to do anything and history will progress.

Of course if you do something worse than your historical counterparts (Artic convoys comes to mind) then you may see some developments not taking place.

[Dowly]

You'd be a great politician.

[elanaiba]

Why?

Are you implying that I'm dodging answers?

You don't have to do almost anything to be moved around. We may have a bug related to changing homeport locations and I don't have my finger on it, but other than that, you should be moved when appropriate, regardless of what objectives you achieved.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by elanaiba

Why?

Are you implying that I'm dodging answers?

Nooo, you just gave pretty all-around answer the first time.

You don't have to do almost anything to be moved around. We may have a bug related to changing homeport locations and I don't have my finger on it, but other than that, you should be moved when appropriate, regardless of what objectives you achieved.

Right, crystal clear now. Thanks!

[drtechno]

"But no one who buys a submarine game wants to chat with dull crewmembers about their family back in Germany"


THANK YOU ! What was Ubi thinking..

[AS]

Hi all,

In my opinion the review is way too negative. Some aspects I cannot even confirm,

-e.g. frame dropping (turn off Vertical Sync in the option menue and SH5 will run smoothly on a modern PC)

- deck gun (it works fine for me. Only bug I discovered is that the man and unman deckgun commands are sometimes confused. Once my men refused to unman the deckgun, well just ordering "dive" does the trick)

- map and rudder: haven´t got any problems here. The rudder keys work fine as do the map tools. Using the old SH interface mod helps a lot

- running through your men: well, I´m glad this is so, otherwise you would always get stuck or forced to walk around those guys, which would be annoying as hell considering the cramped size of the U-Boat

RGP elements: yes, they feel unfinished, but I´m thankful for the approach. I like the idea and I use it just for the fun of it

The AI seems ok most of the time. Strangely, planes do not take any notice of me, even when they are exactly above me.

Don´t get me wrong, SH5 has problems and glitches. But compared to the older versions it´s pretty good. PLUS: I´ve been playing for at least 60 hours now, sometimes I keep SH5 running "in the background" the whole day, and I haven´t encountered a single crash. To be fair I have to add that I´m running SH5 on a new computer with a clean Win7 install.

Just my two cents,

Cheers, AS

[Faamecanic]

Originally Posted by elanaiba

Why?

Are you implying that I'm dodging answers?

You don't have to do almost anything to be moved around. We may have a bug related to changing homeport locations and I don't have my finger on it, but other than that, you should be moved when appropriate, regardless of what objectives you achieved.

Thaks for the answer there......

The fact that you stick around these forums and still interact with the players is why I still blame UBI for rushing you guys and not allowing you to implement your vision

With that I will say I must be a strange duck. I see where the Devs were headed with the new morale system and RPG elements...AND I LIKE IT!! Just a shame that it wasnt fleshed out more (more dialog with the crewmen) and the morale system is vauge and broke ATM.