which u-boats can you play

[Letum]

Originally Posted by russ555

Seriously?

Yes, but most people can see through being limited to VII boats and half the war.

It's the need to be online when playing single player, not being able to
play when the Ubi servers go down (This has happened often), the
dysfunctional user interface, the many bugs and the utterly incompetent AI
that pisses most people off most. Not to mention all the nice features of
SH3 that have gone missing in SH5.

That said, I imagine not having half the war is still quite annoying as well.

Originally Posted by Letum

when the Ubi servers go down (This has happened often)

There is some disagreement about this. Some are having issues, for others it works fine. Just wanted to give my .02c

The subs are VIIA, VIIB, VIIC and VIIC/40

[Letum]

Originally Posted by MattDizzle

There is some disagreement about this. Some are having issues, for others it works fine. Just wanted to give my .02c

Chances are Ubi uses several servers in different locations.
That will be why some are having problems and some are not.

Of course, others may just happen not to be playing when the problems occur. That is more than likely.

[RSColonel_131st]

As far as I'm aware the UBI Service uses Amazon Cloud Computing. That would mean a rather international distribution of servers.

[Piggy]

The lack of any other types then the VII's and the war "ending" in 43, IMHO, points directly to an expansion.

This is further backed up by this statement. ( from the press release posted here: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=165247 )

"Ubisoft continues to refocus its high-end games strategy by concentrating on more regular releases for its major franchises"

Now you can argue that this does not apply to SH5 but Im not sure, the key part to this sentence is "more regular releases".

That means expansions/DLC to me.

By the way Im not a huge fan of DLC... I see it as a cash grab for things that should have, and used to be, included in the original release.

Of course there will be an expansion, thats the only reason they released it this way.