Silent Hunter V Dev Team Interview: Deeper, Kapitän, deeper. (1/19/10)

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Philipp_Thomsen

Like Dan said, this game is far more open to modders then the previous versions, so you can bet to see all campaign til 1945 and all subs in a few months, on the modding forum.

Also, about the hardware. The new Asus laptop with i7, 5800hd, 1tb hd and 8gb ram ddr3 is avaliable for 1500 dollars, with is cheap in my opinion. And its a LAPTOP! Desktop should be much cheaper then that.

Also dont worry about being connected to play: Give it a few weeks, so you can play without connect. Just make sure you buy the game, we dont want to tell ubi "dont make SH6 cos ur wasting money".

You gotta remember: For the arcade player, this game is awesome as it is. For the simulation suckers like us, there is the modding fantasy to make it look exactly like it should be. Honestly, I wouldnt like the game to be sold perfectly as it should be. Modding is the reason why pc games are at least twice as fun as console games.

Yes, that is a good way to look at it. If we were Consumer Guide, we would not care about potential, only the existing product. As we are subsim guys, and we know the dev team want a great U-boat sim with realism as much as we do, then it means we can be a little more understanding than the general gamer who wants every penny's worth of game product.

[Philipp_Thomsen]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Yes, that is a good way to look at it. If we were Consumer Guide, we would not care about potential, only the existing product. As we are subsim guys, and we know the dev team want a great U-boat sim with realism as much as we do, then it means we can be a little more understanding than the general gamer who wants every penny's worth of game product.

As much as Dan and crew wants to build up the perfect sim, they can't.

Firstly cos there's not enough time. Ubisoft is interested in making money, as any other company. They gotta make a good GAME in a short period of time, and they gotta use this time the best way they can to deliver a partially finished product, that can be enjoyed as stock by non-hardcore players.

BUT... We are hardcore players!

We modded sh3 to the limits and beyond, we did stuff not even those guys thought it would be possible. We have all the time in the world to invest in turning this GAME into a SIMULATOR. That's all what matters.

When they said "this game is more open to modding then any of the previous versions", I thought with myself: "nothing else bothers me". Cos, doesnt matter what is right or wrong with the finished product, its totally open for us to change and make it the way we want it to be.

And this is not a one-man-army. We have KAZILLIONS of modders around, each and every one with their own special abilities, and together we are a force to be reckon with.

Im not worry at all, cos I know for sure that about 12 months from now, SH5 will be absolutely the best thing that I ever played, and its gonna make me addicted to the bone, both playing and modding.

It blows my mind just to think about what we did to SH3, and what we will be able to do with SH5, keeping in mind its way more open to modding then SH3 was. Just... mind boggling!

Can't wait!

Edit: Neal, I just saw the second video "farewell my friend", and those english voices inside a german submarine are torturing me. Makes me remember U-571. PLEASE, tell me there is an option to switch to german voices... I will bite my head off if they didnt put german voices in SH5.

[Arclight]

Voices might be place holders, as far as I know German voices were already confirmed.

Good post, couldn't agree more.