Silent Hunter 5 - Honest Opinions?

[Jimbuna]

Hey Jaesen....who is this Jasun fellow people often refer to, any ideas?

[JScones]

No idea. I was hoping you knew?

[Herr-Berbunch]

Sorry

I knew it was phonetically the same as Jason, and somebody the other day put Jasun so I just assumed that they new best.

Never assume!

I'm going to dig that post out now and find the culprit...

Edit: You can blame Tessa! On more than one occasion, too.

[JScones]

On every occasion, IIRC. However, if I got sensitive every time someone spelt my name wrong, geez...

[FIREWALL]

I think to keep everything in perspective. We have alot of members here we perceive by the way they post, as adults.

Unfortunatly they play and post here, on their parents or their own computer in their bedroom bought, by their parents for, school work.

Not built for gameing.

So as far as upgradeing goes, if they have one in their bedroom their, juiceing it up on the sly to play the latest SH Version.

What seems easy ($1000.00 or less) to an adult with a job to upgrade can be daunting for one with only an allowance and small jobs.

I can understand the Gameing and Hardware co's pushing for you to continually buying the Latest and Greatest but, NOT a Website.

Buy what you can afford is my Motto.

I could go on and on about this but, I think all here are smart enough to get my drift.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by JScones

On every occasion, IIRC. However, if I got sensitive every time someone spelt my name wrong, geez...

Too bloody right.....Jenson

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Hey Jaesen....who is this Jasun fellow people often refer to, any ideas?

We should ask Neil, I bet he knows.

[Tessa]

Putting the whole buying a new machine to play the game aside, all the answers so far have really been clever dodges to the question at hand (and from the SH5 forum getting any honest feedback on the game from our perspective/expectation of play) is almost nil.

First time I watched the trailer was very impressed by two aspects, the complete freedom to move about your boat; and the biggest (at least imo) the ability to change the course of the war based on how your game is progressing. Irl had the Kriegsmarine succeeded at Narvik, and if the Hood, Nelson, Rodney, Illsutrious and or King George among other capital ships been sunk early in the war there's little room for debate that things would have played out differently. The final result may still have been an allied victory, though by attacking capital ships at wars start; thus allowing the Bismark and all the other pocket battleships and heavy cruisers to safely make it out to the Atlantic imo you would have been doing a lot more convoy hunting with little or no escorts for much longer into the war.

The whole ability to change the chain of events is very appealing. Even if they unfold the same, just at a much slower rate its still cool that you can see that your actions are making a difference.

[Hinrich Schwab]

I looked into SH5 and read several reviews and I could find little positive response for the game. While this normally does not bother me, the fact that the DRM requires the game to always have access to the internet and the game will pause when it loses connection is a deal breaker for me. If Ubisoft's servers go down, you cannot play the game. I will not purchase a game with DRM software that anal retentive.

Originally Posted by JScones

I agree. I certainly wouldn't buy a new computer based solely on the weight of peoples' recommendation's here for one game. Might be a very expensive $1050 or whatever if the OP follows the "I agree "s but ends up not liking it himself. Much better to have a personal reason for upgrading (I upgraded my computer in Feb because I was sick of my daughter nagging me for one...), and then determining whether or not to stick with SH3 or go to SH5. At least then if SH5 "sux", you feel like you've only wasted $50, not $1050 (...so I have no regrets not installing SH5).

Having said that, I think a few people upgraded their computers just for SH5 and are happy, so to each their own.

To be fair, if it can run SH5 smoothly, its probably going to run almost anything with no hiccups.

EDIT: And on a side note, how much would it cost to build a gaming rig for SH5 to run smoothly with mods?? Im looking into the possibility of doing such since I have a new job. I saw $1000 thrown around in the thread. Im just curious to wether thats accurate?

[Brag]

I've had a rig built in Chile that meets the SH5 specs, it cost me slightly under a thousand USD. I think in Europe and US it would cost about the same.

It runs SH3 with GWX just fine

$1000.00 U.S. would build a better then good enuff system to run SH5,
if you do it yourself.
I figured $500.00 U.S. would allow me to build a system.
It would take some tradeing and spare parts robbing.
But it could be done.

[Hitman]

1.000.000 $ or € rig can fly you to the moon, but still isn't enough for SH5 if you don't have the proper internet connection ...

Long ago I discovered that past the novelty of the first months I had actually not much interest in SH5, and I'm more than happy to live with Sh3/Sh4 for my submarine needs. Well modded they still rock, and are flexible enough to allow me to tinker and make a GUI to my liking without learning Python

Sh5 is OK for anyone who really wants it. Me ... I'm too old and used to SH3/4 to move on.

Originally Posted by Hitman

1.000.000 $ or € rig can fly you to the moon, but still isn't enough for SH5 if you don't have the proper internet connection ...

And there is the biggest problem with SH5.


And We thought we had it hard with StarForce.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by Brag

I've had a rig built in Chile that meets the SH5 specs, it cost me slightly under a thousand USD. I think in Europe and US it would cost about the same.

It runs SH3 with GWX just fine

And it cost you a trip back to the shop for a new hard drive IIRC