SH5 Updates from the SUBSIM meeting next week

[DarkFish]

Originally Posted by FIREWALL

But I get tired of hearig... " Make it run to my SH3 specs" [...] There's more than a few that post they have to play SH4 at low settings and don't want to upgrade.

Well, you've got some point there. I know I've got a rig that can possibly not run SH5 but I don't go complaining about it. IMO the devs should make the game as good as possible and if that means I can't run it - so be it. It's my problem and I don't go bother other people with it.
still, I think you could've put this statement a little bit more politely.

Originally Posted by martes86

[...] but I knew there was no way I'd ever be able to play without the upgrade, so I accepted the fact that devs were never going to make the effort (useless effort anyways) so that I could play with my elder PC configuration while everyone else had already surpassed the standard, and I became patient about it.[...]

I absolutely agree with you here. The video card memory poll shows 80% of all people have 512mb or more so it'd be a valid and wise decision for the devs to go with that as a minimum requirement

Originally Posted by martes86

I dare tell you to skip gaming time and work harder. I worked hard for 2 years, I didn't even got out much (if ever) during those years. The result, some useful money, and good marks. Gaming is a bad distraction, I tell you from experience.

Well, that's you. But me, I like to go out and have fun too instead of studying/working 24/7. I wouldn't survive if I had a life like yours.

My machine, as is, can't handle SH5.
The poll, however, does show that 512 is a number already achieved by a large majority.
Therefor, 512 is a good target, and my getting a new grafik card is pretty much required.
That's life. No complaints here. Bring on that soup.

[martes86]

Originally Posted by DarkFish

Well, that's you. But me, I like to go out and have fun too instead of studying/working 24/7. I wouldn't survive if I had a life like yours.

Oh, believe me, the effort pays. Now I go to work in the morning, I do my 10 hours out, get back home, and do whatever I want. A little sacrifice has given me a whole world of unlimited fun, and a good payment (fair enough for a relatively unexperienced guy like me) every month. Now I work, and when I get home, I can have as much fun as I want, or buy tons of stuff. I went to the SubSim Meet this year in Copenhaguen precisely because of this (and it was no cheap travel). Because you're not gonna be your whole life studying. Sure, I might after some time need some upgrades, and so I'll have to study again some stuff, to still be in the market, but for now, I'm done.

[rosentorf]

No worries, captains with small PCnises... By the time the game runs smoothly you'll be able to grow a bigger one!

Pimp the sh*t out of SH5!!!

P.S.: When SH4 came out my system couldn't deal with it either. But I did not mind playing it on low settings...most of the time I am looking at the 2D-map anyway. I doubt it will be different in SH5! And since it is not a FPS I didn't mind the low frame rate too when I was peeking through the periscope.
If it will be the same with SH5 so be it! It'll be just the sweeter when I finally get a faster PC to enjoy a great game (as I am sure it will be) with top notch graphics!!!

[Sonarman]

Originally Posted by DarkFish

The video card memory poll shows 80% of all people have 512mb or more so it'd be a valid and wise decision for the devs to go with that as a minimum requirement

I'm not so sure, 20% of your customers is a lot to throw away in a niche product like SH, the last thing we want to do is decrease the audience as that would undoubtably mean no SH6 and beyond. Scalability as always is the key.

[martes86]

Originally Posted by Sonarman

I'm not so sure, 20% of your customers is a lot to throw away in a niche product like SH, the last thing we want to do is decrease the audience as that would undoubtably mean no SH6 and beyond. Scalability as always is the key.

Yeah but that's here. Remember that the devs want to appeal not only to us subsimmers, but to the general public as well. Doing a sim that's stuck in the older technologies because 20% of the subsimmers can't handle new stuff is a big error, in order to appeal to that public, you have to improve what you're doing, or risk being seen as an old product unable to go forward and have some decent today's standard level of graphics, which is usually a big reason for the so called "casual players" to get into the SH saga, while anything else comes after getting hooked by the cool graphics. We can request for as many weird simulation features that "casual players" won't even notice, but you can't skip the graphics.

And still... there's plenty of hardware with power nowadays, why mismanage that power and let other games have it? Can't the Silent Hunters look like Crysys for example? We're not even close to that yet, but with time, we probably will be, as it is inevitable with every new iteration within the SH saga for the graphics engine to grow beyond its previous scope.

Originally Posted by USS Sea Tiger

Did they happen to say what U-boat types would be available, I.E> Type I Type IIA Type XXIII??

also, Did they mention inwhat format the modeling would be so that we can prepare for our updates?

We'll get the basics: II, VII, IX. Anything else, is still undecided, but if a poll was held, I'd say that the XXI has the most points (I wouldn't mind that part to be occupied by a human playable DD though ).

The internal modelling format will be the widespread 3DS. The external stuff we'll see is in the GR2 format, newly made, I guess to appoint for the new changes in the graphics engine.

Cheers