Release date Q3 2007, what does that imply ?

[DeepSix]

Originally Posted by sober

IT means i will be exhausted of all anticipation and adreneline .

Meeeeee toooooo.....

[Boris]

Originally Posted by Drebbel

Release date Q3 2007, what does that mean ?

A looooong wait...

Originally Posted by Immacolata

IT depends how they have made SH3 engine. If they made it so awfully stupid that they had to limit it to 8 km in SH3, then theres no telling how theyll go beyond 25km. It could be trivial, it could be a real -spank me!- to fix. We don't know, but relaxed Im not!

They didn't have to limit it to 8 km because it was stupid, they did it on purpose so lower level computers wouldn't have problems running it. It was 16 km possible from the beginning. That's why the modders could change it.

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Boris

A looooong wait...

Well at lease I got SH3 to get on with until the great day when SH4 goes on sale.

[SciFi25]

Gamespy has the release date as Q4 2006!!! Anyone hoping for a christmas release?

[DeepSix]

I think it's probably a typo (hope so anyway). Be surprising if it's ready that soon. I mean, if they pushed something out the door by Christmas of this year, I'd be worried. Better to wait a few more months if it means "getting it right."

[Charlie901]

I bet UBI goes for a Xbox360/PC hybred engine with awesome graphics and special effects with canned/ scriped missions and "Quake" style multiplay.

That way they get an "Action" game that looks great is extremely "Shallow" (no pun intended) and will sell tons of copies due to it being a PC to console port.

If you all think I"m that far off, just look what happened with the "Call of Duty" series.....

THe original COD was PC only then went to both platforms and now COD 3 is only going to be console.

These current game companies see more $$$ in action console ports than in PC only study sims these days.


I really hope I"m wrong though.

[DeepSix]

Originally Posted by Charlie901

These current game companies see more $$$ in action console ports than in PC only study sims these days.


I really hope I"m wrong though.

Agree that the console market eats up a lot of good titles, but I think that, because sims in general are a niche market and are considerably more involved than your typical run 'n' gun shooter, it's unlikely this will happen to SH4. Not impossible, but unlikely. I can only imagine what the input commands would be like for a console SH4. Nightmarish.

[Abraham]

SHIII had so many delays, partly caused by wishes and desires from the community, that the game was hussled into production without proper testing. There were some terrific features but a lot of loose ends as well.

In my opinion 3 Q 2007 means that the game will be ready as a beta at the end of the second quarter, beta testing will be done in the summer, correcting and gold in September/October so the game should be introduced long before the Christman season.

If the game is sceduled for 1 Q. 2007 it will probably mean that betatesting will start at the end of this year and the game will be in the shops around Eastern.

I think UBI thanks to SHIII realises that submarine games have commercial potential and that it is worthwhile to produce them the right way from day one. Also a pacific game may appeal to a wider US public than SHIII. And be sure UBI has seen how the Subsim community has grown since the introduction of SHIII.

[DeepSix]

Man, I'm soooo ready for this. Rarely do I wait for a release with such anticipation!

[Safe-Keeper]

One word: Patches. With patching, the game may be a wreck come day one, and it won't matter as things will be fixed.

Without patches, it doesn't matter if the game's a jewel or a hulk.

So Ubisoft "Patch People", please dare to be different by caring about games post-release, not just pre-release. It sounds great on paper to "delay games to put in feature x", but if you don't follow up games afterwards, as the trend is right now for most games, it doesn't matter how finished or unfinished the title is when it's released.[/b]

[rls669]

Originally Posted by Safe-Keeper

One word: Patches. With patching, the game may be a wreck come day one, and it won't matter as things will be fixed.

What did the SH3 patches fix? They added ships in ports and gave me the ability to change storm conditions for the deck gun, but didn't seem to fix any bugs that I'm aware of. Crew management crash, sleeping flak gunners, torpedo tube stuck open, electric torpedo speed set wrong unless you click the speed setting switch (which should have no function for electrics), flickering torpedo loading screen in IXD2 with disappearing torpedoes (and 2 slots not even visible in base) and of course the wonderful random unrecoverable career corruption, all still there after what, 4 patches?

So I have absolutely no faith in Ubi fixing any bugs the game ships with, patches or no patches.

[TangoShadow]

Hi,

If the game engine works, why replace it?? There is plenty to be going at now in terms of game-play, immersion and realism. I wouldn't mind seeing a SH3 Version 2.00. Game devs are chasing technology all the time instead of producing something of quality.

SH3 is a great starting platform. Now IMPROVE it.

I'm not judging anything from the date given. It's out when it is out. I just hope it isn't rushed.

--TangoShadow