Love the game

[Bilge_Rat]

sdflyer, fully agree. I am having a lot of fun with the game and it can only get better. Don't worry about the forum, in a couple of weeks most of the negative critics will have moved on and we can get to work fixing this puppy...

[sdflyer]

Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat

will have moved on and we can get to work fixing this puppy...

That is precisely what I'm interested in at the moment

[Decoman]

People who would argue that 'it is just a game' probably fall short of giving an adequate response to critisism and complains to todays games.

Because one can easily argue that a game should be recognized as a game per se, where the content or service as such is of little importance, when one ought to realize that a game is to be something enjoyable as in acturally 'playing the game'. Consider the notion of 'utilizing the game' to immediately sense the pointlessness of trivializing the game experience.

The playability part is important and unfortunately, even the developers of popular Eve online obviously couldn't be bothered to relate to their 'service' as a game anymore. For Eve-Online this lack in playability part is especially revealing (about certain aspects) to those to (probably thousands of people) who have played this game for a very very very long time. Which ended up me leaving it all behind. And remember, the point of Eve-Online is to stick with it, surely even the game developers are already taking this for granted (Eve-O is a special case, being a MMO with slow/complex skill development).

[Iron Budokan]

Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat

Don't worry about the forum, in a couple of weeks most of the negative critics will have moved on and we can get to work fixing this puppy...

Um. So you're looking forward to fixing a broken game full of bugs that you bought from Ubi with your hard-earnred money.

Well, okay. Enjoy, sir. I bid you safe voyage.

[Bilge_Rat]

Originally Posted by Iron Budokan

Well, okay. Enjoy, sir. I bid you safe voyage.

Danke

[sdflyer]

Originally Posted by Iron Budokan

Um. So you're looking forward to fixing a broken game full of bugs that you bought from Ubi with your hard-earnred money.

What can I say life is a full of bugs . Look at Toyota Prius with its gas pedal bugs, or at Cessna Caravan with its de-cicing boots bugs.

[Iron Budokan]

Ah, the old (and intellectually dishonest) Toyota analogy is brought out of mothballs once again in dialectic support of another bug-laden game from Ubi.

Here's the difference. For the Nth time, and for those who didn't get the initial memo. The sticky gas pedals on the Toyota, which people want to label as "bugs" in an effort to draw some similarity between the car and a computer game, actually killed people. Real human beings died.

This game hasn't killed anyone. Leastways, not yet.

Although, I suppose to be fair, and given the horrific state (already well-documented, I may add) of its current release, it's early days even for that....

[sdflyer]

Originally Posted by Iron Budokan

This game hasn't killed anyone. Leastways, not yet.

Which makes Ubi's bugs relatively harmless..Oh know wait! The game did kill indeed something...4 hours of my well deserved sleep while trying to figure manual TDC

[Schunken]

not enough sleep is in psychatry a well known instrument for fight against depressions!

So you be tired but without a depression from SH5....

Andreas

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Iron Budokan

hard-earnred money.

[ichso]

Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat

sdflyer, fully agree. I am having a lot of fun with the game and it can only get better. Don't worry about the forum, in a couple of weeks most of the negative critics will have moved on and we can get to work fixing this puppy...

Actually, its the critics that will be working hard on the game because they see the biggest need for improvements.

[Bilge_Rat]

Originally Posted by ichso

Actually, its the critics that will be working hard on the game because they see the biggest need for improvements.

Just because I like and enjoy the game does not mean I do not see its faults. They are the same faults which were inherent in SH3 and SH4. However if you give it a fair trial, you have to be blind not to see that it has the potential to be a much better simulation than SH3 or SH4.

No one who has been following the discussions here or who owns SH3 and or SH4 can say they were surprised by SH5. It is what we expected, SH3 with better graphics, a bit more depth to the underlying engine and perhaps better moddability.

yes, we can all sit around, mope that Ubi should have done it differently this time and decry this game as a hopeless mess, but this is the exact same discussion we had when SH2 came out in 2001, when SH3 came out in 2005 and when SH4 came out in 2007 and with the same result, namely that if the real subsimmers want a real U-boat simulation, they have to roll up their sleeves and get to work on SH5 to build one.

So you have two choices, sit on the sidelines, act like mr. cool subsimmer, pronouncing yourself as an expert on realistic subsims, because you once spent 6 hours straight playing SH3 on Auto TDC and sank 100,000 tons.., excoriate this game as "arcady" because the monitor on your desk shows bars instead of dials .. or we can get to work modifying this game into what we want, which is the same thing we did with SH3 and SH4 and the same thing we knew we would have to do with SH5.

[JScones]

FWIW I hope some of the negative critics stay around and don't leave like Bilge_Rat hopes. Some good modders amongst them...ironically modders that could indeed go a long way to "fixing this puppy".

[java`s revenge]

Yesterday i couldn`t use the periscope and uzo, found out that
i had to install the first patch manually.

In the evening i begun my first patrol after the tutorial. (had sunk
the ships because i only could use the gun)

The last moment i was in the kiel chanal and saved.

I must say, graphically sh5 is a big wow. If people are negative
about this then i would say buy a better graphics card. I have much
enjoyed the enviroment. The sun could be made better but we
have modders

I do miss the keymapping of sh3. That must i say.

I see much potential for this version. More than sh3 and surely sh4.
Why? Because this version is open coded.

And i also see the negative things in shv. But i have in mind we
have a great modteam

[Nordmann]

Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat

Don't worry about the forum, in a couple of weeks most of the negative critics will have moved on and we can get to work fixing this puppy...

Actually, in a couple of weeks, the defenders will be the new critics, when they finally stop kidding themselves. Don't worry, we won't laugh at you too much....well....okay we will.