The best flightsimulation on public market

[CCIP]

Originally Posted by BilboSmeggins

I'm going to give the GWX mod a whirl asap. Quick question - is it worth buying SH4, or is it as bug-ridden and system-hungry as some suggest? Just curious...

All the best, Andy

I'm pretty sure Skybird has more or less abandoned the SH franchise for higher places by now, so let me answer it for you: SHIV was a bit of a buggy mess when it came out, but that was a year ago. Right now it's worth playing no less than SHIII (and if you like American subs better, worth even more). It's a bit steeper on the requirements than SHIII, but it's no hog. A reasonably modern system will run it reasonably well. Don't avoid it, it's been greatly improved since original release and with a few mods lives up to its potential.

I'm still hoping to get into Condor one day. Maybe not too soon yet though - I hardly have time to play anything these days.

[Skybird]

Since you can't play two sims simultaneously and have already bought SH3 and will get a top sim with GWX, I would risk CCIP's wrath when recommendign to wait before you buy SH4 for another year, you can then get it for smile price, probably. Some people say SH3 is better in atmosphere, others point at improved graphics of SH4. I do not know if there already is a pendant to GWX avaulable for SH4, for me that would also be a criterion.

I have a periscope raised in the cpondor forum, but do not post. I have not so much single special questions, but want to build some general, basic knowledge. any questions remaining after that are the ones worth to be posted in a forum.

----

I am not posting in the SH forums anymore, CCIP, but I am still playing SH3 occasionally, but with the older GWX version, not the latest one! Too lazy to download and reinstall, and not interested to start another new career. I also use plenty of music replacements.

But obviously my main focus these days is Steel Beasts.

[CCIP]

That's a good suggestion actually. SHIV won't be any worse in a year, and by that point you'll have a gold edition with the add-on included and comprehensive mods available with it. You sure have plenty of gameplay left in SHIII, so unless you like to jump between games, I guarantee you can get months out of SHIII without needing any other WWII subsim diversion

I'm coming to the defense of SHIV here more than anything. I don't think it deserves any bad rap anymore. In fact it hasn't deserved it since July when the latest patch surfaced and mods like RFB and Trigger Maru worked out some of the wrinkles on it. And now it has Reflections on Water which makes an already good-looking game absolutely beautiful, and Run Silent, Run Deep which is a superb campaign mod - which by the way takes full advantage of one of SHIV's big pluses over SHIII, a superior campaign system that is both more efficient on processing power and more varied and sophisticated and diverse in terms of mission tasks.

But if all you want is go to area X, look for ships and sink them - SHIII does no worse! And I don't mean that in a bad way. When it comes down to it, neither game is better or worse at letting you go out and hunt ships as you like.

Anyway, way off topic here

[BilboSmeggins]

[/quote]I'm still hoping to get into Condor one day. Maybe not too soon yet though - I hardly have time to play anything these days. [/quote]

You gotta go for it. It truly is sublime, and anyway - It feels like flying not playing .

Well thank you both for the input. I shall heed your collective advice and hold fire a while on SH4. After all, I've barely scratched the surface of SH3!! Will definitely install GWX though. Only thing stopping me at the moment is the fact that I've just downloaded the Alpi3 scenery for Condor, and I'm having some amazing flights again. .

All the best, Andy