Silent Hunter 3 vs. Silent Hunter 5 ... who's the best?

[Halface]

best would be to take the best from SH# and SH 5 and make a SH6

[GT182]

Originally Posted by Halface

best would be to take the best from SH# and SH 5 and make a SH6

Seeing the game engines are different that would be one tough undertaking. The modder are working on it thru mods. A lot of progress has been made but more needs to be done. One big step would be an actual Type IX. And I understand that is being worked on too. Tho the Sort of IX Boat mod takes up some of the slack for now.

[Fish In The Water]

Originally Posted by GT182

One big step would be an actual Type IX. And I understand that is being worked on too. Tho the Sort of IX Boat mod takes up some of the slack for now.

Personally, I prefer the VII, but that being said, I still shake my head at the thought of Ubi releasing SH5 with a single type. Still stunning after all this time.

[GT182]

Fish, I have to agree with you on UBI having only the Type VII in SH5. That was El Cheapo UBI all the way.

[Sailor Steve]

And I have to disagree that it was el cheapo. One of the demands players made was to be able to walk through the entire sub. That required full interior layouts and full crew animations. To do that for the Type IX would have taken another year. That would have strained the budget and the expectations of both the shareholders and the fans. The players had a choice: The same thing as earlier games or being able to walk through the entire boat, but only one type. You said you wanted to walk through the whole boat. You got what you asked for.

I disagreed with that, and I disagreed with the campaign system. There are plenty of things to complaign about in SH5. Only one type of u-boat isn't one of them.

[Fish In The Water]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

One of the demands players made was to be able to walk through the entire sub. That required full interior layouts and full crew animations. To do that for the Type IX would have taken another year.

Pardon me, but I think you're exaggerating. IIRC, SH5 was announced in mid August of 09 and released in very early March 2010. The point being, it took far less than a year to complete the type VII layouts, so there's no reason to assume the type IX would have taken considerably longer.

You said you wanted to walk through the whole boat. You got what you asked for.

Well, truth is , I didn't ask for it.

But point taken that the collective entity known as the 'community' called for it. Funny thing though, consensus doesn't always produce the best results. Case in point, democracy.

Sometimes it's best to have actual experts lead the way rather than be guided by the howl of the mob.

Now that I've got my tongue out-of-my-cheek, I will say the lack of full interiors was a major shortcoming/issue with SH3, so to see it addressed (at long last) was more than a welcome relief.

There are plenty of things to complaign about in SH5. Only one type of u-boat isn't one of them.

I still think it's a valid complaint. Valid largely on the basis that SH5 purports to be a historical sim, (a.k.a. The Battle of the Atlantic). Last time I checked, the Germans deployed more than a single type of boat in the campaign. This being the case, I would no more expect SH5 to contain a single unit than I would IL-2 (Cliffs of Dover) to have only Ju-87 Stukas.

If IL-2 had released in such a state, even the most casual observer would have considered it a joke. So whilst thou art a nice guy , I think you're being far too kind to Ubi in this instance.

[Sonarman]

Originally Posted by Fish In The Water

Pardon me, but I think you're exaggerating. IIRC, SH5 was announced in mid August of 09 and released in very early March 2010. The point being, it took far less than a year to complete the type VII layouts, so there's no reason to assume the type IX would have taken considerably longer.

There is a big difference in when a game is announced and when a project is started. Look at SH Online it may have been announced in April this year but judging by the screenshots it was already substantially complete and has still not been released. Dan Dimitrescu lead developer of SHV indicated that planning for SHO was in fact started just after the SH5 release date way back in spring 2010.