Should I buy it guys?

[Mowgli]

Originally Posted by Kal_Maximus_U669

Personally I look forward to hearing your feedback .. since you seem familiar with the genre and said to play sh5.
Besides, the game is on sale .. take advantage of it!

Well my first impressions were not over the moon as I still have my SH5 WOS loaded but I stuck with it and started to enjoy it more.

I really like the fact that you can really manage your crews and so spend some time creating my own sea watches and shifts etc and prioritising the work of the officers and assigning specific sailors to specific tasks.

Once I got familiar with the UI it became more fun with being able to wander around my boat and just enjoy the graphics - which are superb but I still kind of prefer the internal sub graphics of SH5 but each to his own.

I have not completed a mission as I had to restart a new campaign in order to get my extra radio music working and now have one for Germany and one for England and that makes the game great for me as I love to cruise real time and just chill.

I cannot really speak about combat other than using the automatic targetting which works fine but eventually I will download a TDC mod to make it more realistic.

Modding from the workshop is very straight forward and there appears to be something there for everyone.

I like the look of the tech tree and the way it is implemented.

For more realism - at this moment in time - I would say that both SH3 GWX and SH5 WOS are superior but UB makes a nice change and is till under development.

In short, I am enjoying playing it and would recommend it as a buy.

[Kal_Maximus_U669]

Originally Posted by Mowgli

Well my first impressions were not over the moon as I still have my SH5 WOS loaded but I stuck with it and started to enjoy it more.

I really like the fact that you can really manage your crews and so spend some time creating my own sea watches and shifts etc and prioritising the work of the officers and assigning specific sailors to specific tasks.

Once I got familiar with the UI it became more fun with being able to wander around my boat and just enjoy the graphics - which are superb but I still kind of prefer the internal sub graphics of SH5 but each to his own.

I have not completed a mission as I had to restart a new campaign in order to get my extra radio music working and now have one for Germany and one for England and that makes the game great for me as I love to cruise real time and just chill.

I cannot really speak about combat other than using the automatic targetting which works fine but eventually I will download a TDC mod to make it more realistic.

Modding from the workshop is very straight forward and there appears to be something there for everyone.

I like the look of the tech tree and the way it is implemented.

For more realism - at this moment in time - I would say that both SH3 GWX and SH5 WOS are superior but UB makes a nice change and is till under development.

In short, I am enjoying playing it and would recommend it as a buy.

Thank you for your appreciation .. I agree on the management of the crew which is more successful than the Sh series .. on the other hand the crew in the submarine .. they are still too stupid .. besides I would have liked to be able to give direct orders with a realistic chain of command with each NPC playing ... regarding the TDC you have a mod that is very well explained on steam who should be part of the game! but even with the TDC I find that the immersion is not at the rendezvous during the attack phases .. approach or other .. as I said the sound is really bad here .. it totally weighs down the immersion especially the dialogues. .not talking about the atmosphere in the Uboat I just installed update 11 the navigation is too rigid !!! no feeling !! during the phases of diving .. or well surface .. no inerçie .. in the building it is worse ... all the gauges just still do not work .. a shame anyway for a game of Uboat .. it is arcade bar point .. moreover the Uboat has a funny way of navigating .. because even at the quay .. it is fixed and does not move .. a bit !! at sea one has the impression that he has an axis is eye forward and backward very bad I think .. for a game which is supposedly not arcade .. no?
Okay now let's wait for the updates Wait..Wait..Wait ..
oh yes the KriegsMarine will see the uzo it would be ashamed .. a sophisticated device developed by Zeiss..d elsewhere I like all the German technology which is all point superior to everyone here at the time ... moreover if you go in the space today ei eh ... !!! and even today they are still very good ...https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/sho...ostcount=15896
good take pleasure with this one .. once again thank you for your comments but would like you to talk more about navigation .. best regards KM_U669

[Mowgli]

I must confess I am not a fan of Navigation currently in Uboat compared to the SH series.
I miss the plotting of courses, relative bearings to targets, the tools, calculating targets speeds and courses.
Despite the graphics and the crew management I am starting to wonder about whether I should just go back to SH5 WOS or maybe invest some time in SH4 Uboat missions.
I will give it a go for a bit longer as I am still enjoying it.
I also miss not being able to use Voice Attack to command my boat and the better radio stations and gramophone of the SH series.

[GoldenRivet]

Originally Posted by Mowgli

I must confess I am not a fan of Navigation currently in Uboat compared to the SH series.
I miss the plotting of courses, relative bearings to targets, the tools, calculating targets speeds and courses.
Despite the graphics and the crew management I am starting to wonder about whether I should just go back to SH5 WOS or maybe invest some time in SH4 Uboat missions.
I will give it a go for a bit longer as I am still enjoying it.
I also miss not being able to use Voice Attack to command my boat and the better radio stations and gramophone of the SH series.

In time.

I am able to calculate courses, relative bearings to target et using the map tools and calculate speeds etc manually justs as i was always able to in SHIII so im not sure if you are playing with the latest version or have the right settings etc.

try to remember, many of the features you find in SH3 and SH5 were not available in the full release version and were not added to the game until years later with mods.

perhaps you could tell me how you are doing it?

for me, i spot the target in the periscope, ID it, verify range with stadimeter, plot the course of the ship in the map screen using the ruler tool, then find AOB using the compass tool, the speed can be determined by the 3:15 method, or by passage of one ship length through the scope. once these are input into the TDC (spectacularly modeled by the way) its time to send them to the bottom.

[Kal_Maximus_U669]

Good evening .. update number 12 ..
I must admit that a little effort has been made at the level of the uzo ... but the kioque is sorely lacking in reality ... Sasha's boats are terribly better ... plus he built them a while ago .. inspire you ... because your games are far from being at this level in all areas ...
please the player ... Kind regards KM_U669
Sasha's boats 'Напоминаю, что это ш4'
Мы работаем с увлеченными людьми, здесь явно лучше

Uboat

Sasha's boats

Uboat

Sasha's boats


the work is much higher here
Uboat

[CheckSix]

Looks amazing, i'm on the maiden voyage learning as I go, I left in a hurry and am not sure if everyone is on board. How cool that it fills up in heavy seas if you leave the hatch open, so i'm familiarised with the pump at least .
edit: as an ex SH3 fanatic i've had my eye on this a while, and at £10.77 in the Steam sale I couldn't resist it, so far i'm delighted. The release 129 extras sound fantastic.

[Torpex77]

Its very solid and deep, and once a version is "Stable" the modders go at it with some excellent "issue resolving" mods! I have my historical realism issue list, but this can wait as they dont inflict much damage to the sims enjoyment.
With over 500 hrs I encourage everyone to add this to their inventory.