Silent Hunter 4 Patch 1.1 - Page 2

Barkhorn1x · 03-21-07, 12:35 PM

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I wonder what that means. Looking at that list it becomes quite obvious SH4 hit the market a wee bit earlier than it should have. But all is well and good. A patch is on the way.

My thoughts exactly.

Ostfriese · 03-21-07, 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Henric Edwards

I wonder what that means. Looking at that list it becomes quite obvious SH4 hit the market a wee bit earlier than it should have.

Well, look at the date. This procedure ensured that SH IV hit the shelves before the end of the first quarter. This way UBI can polish up the quarterly balance. ******* the customers, you can feed them an early patch, and they'll even thank you on their knees for being ripped off. It's all about money

Ark · 03-21-07, 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Ostfriese

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Originally Posted by Henric Edwards

I wonder what that means. Looking at that list it becomes quite obvious SH4 hit the market a wee bit earlier than it should have.

Well, look at the date. This procedure ensured that SH IV hit the shelves before the end of the first quarter. This way UBI can polish up the quarterly balance. ******* the customers, you can feed them an early patch, and they'll even thank you on their knees for being ripped off. It's all about money

Sad but true.

It always amazes me how a company can release a blatantly unfinished product, and then release a patch right afterwards and have all the fans attribute this patch release to "the development teams dedication to the fans".

I'm not trying to be cynical here, but lets be serious. The game in it's present state is borderline garbage. The dev team MUST do something fast or all of the reviews will see this game for exactly what it currently is; A buggy game the sounds bad and looks worse.

gnirtS · 03-21-07, 01:49 PM

Given there hasn't been any time to collate bugs yet alone fix, alpha test, beta test and so on i think its safe to assume this patch has been weeks in the making already.

In otherwords an imposed deadline forced the release of a game they knew was broken and unfinished and they started playing catchup as soon as it went gold, if not before.

Unless the readme has bits missing quite a lot of the bugs dont appear to be mentioned in it which is a little worrying.

NightCrawler-SimHQ · 03-21-07, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Ark

Sad but true.

It always amazes me how a company can release a blatantly unfinished product, and then release a patch right afterwards and have all the fans attribute this patch release to "the development teams dedication to the fans".

I know what you mean by that remark. Many, many players have either already purchased the game or is awaiting its arrival on their doorstep. What I feel sorry for is actually the players that purchased the "Collector's Edition" which cost around $80 USD, and feel what they are feeling right now. As many has already stated this patch was in the works probably even before the game was announced as "Gold Master". Any devote "followers" of Ubisoft WILL support them by calling us "whinners" and/or "complainers" , but I personally refuse to pay for a game that is totally buggy from the start.

I am truly awaiting what the magazine reviewers, like PC Gamer, are going to say concerning this game, because they review the game as it "came out of the box", NOT after it has been "patched". I can see them really dishing this game, like at probably 2/10 or 20%. This will be horrible for Ubisoft, but they did it to themselves!

FIREWALL · 03-21-07, 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by hyperion2206

I just went to the UK Sh4 site and found out that a patch is on it's way. Here's the detail:

Changes in Patch 1.1

HARD DRIVE SPACE

Windows will require additional free hard drive space for its operating system
(virtual memory). If you encounter the following message in an error dialog:
"Ran out of virtual memory", free up some more hard drive space.

To install Silent Hunter 4 - Wolves of the Pacific - Patch V 1.1 you will need approximately 200 MB free hard disk space for the full patch.

NEW FEATURES

New in game voices.
New stern and bow wave effects.
Added End Game movies - available only for campaign end of war.
Option to change the interface using Miles instead of KM.
Night filters for interface.
Added torpedo planes in the game.
Added, medals, calendar, New papers, Hall Of fame and End campaign screens in Career Mode.
Added a "death camera"
Added the S-42 class to the game,

GAMEPLAY CHANGES
Patrol date is adapted to flotilla transfer date.
Tuning in efficicency mechanics.
Sensors tuning.
Tuning in submarine structure.
Added new orders in HUD.
Improvements to subsystem, crew and torpedo management screens.
Improved interface for rescue survivors interface.
Added tooltips on interface.
Added new Historical battles during campaign.
Added more Harbor traffic.
Added more "life" in frendly harbors.
Added more special units to enemy harbors and locations.
Added more abjectives in campaign.
Improved AI for merchant.
Corrected plane rosters for Japanese airbases and aircraft carriers.
Made the Radar Station inaccessible when the Surface Search Radar is not present onboard.

BUG FIXES
Menus tuning
Removed the AI bugs from the game.
End of War bug fixed.
Removed bugs regarding save/load/replay.
Removed Multiplayer connections bugs.
Fixed randomly crashes during the game play, save and load.

to you. While alot were whineing you were out looking. Btw whats the deal about this concern abuot HD space? I have two 300 gig hds. I don't use 25% of it.

Spaxspore · 03-21-07, 12:47 PM

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Originally Posted by FIREWALL

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Originally Posted by hyperion2206

BUG FIXES
Menus tuning
Removed the AI bugs from the game.
End of War bug fixed.
Removed bugs regarding save/load/replay.
Removed Multiplayer connections bugs.
Fixed randomly crashes during the game play, save and load.

to you. While alot were whineing you were out looking. Btw whats the deal about this concern abuot HD space? I have two 300 gig hds. I don't use 25% of it.

I got 3 TBS, ill be fine... righ??

Barabus · 03-21-07, 12:52 PM

I am guessing by exclusion in the update list and silence from Ubisoft in general on the topic that the fixed resolution isn't going to be address anytime soon if at all?

Mr.Elendig · 03-21-07, 01:36 PM

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Originally Posted by FIREWALL

to you. While alot were whineing you were out looking. Btw whats the deal about this concern abuot HD space? I have two 300 gig hds. I don't use 25% of it.

Heh, I got about 1TB in total and atm i got less than 1GB free. Good thing discspace is cheap these days.

Anyway, with the patch out, all that's left to wait for, is the modding community to fix the rest

Avatar · 03-21-07, 12:47 PM

I love it. Rock and roll!

Already the patch is coming out and I haven't even picked up my copy from EB games!
Keep up the good work and good hunting to all!!!!

Spike · 03-21-07, 01:32 PM

You're right and it doesn't surprise me that they're that fast. SH devs always seemed very dedicated and caring about their product.

I wish some of the 'fans' would give the game a chance before thy start slamming it.

You must not have played SH2.

Barkhorn1x · 03-21-07, 02:18 PM

The post is still there - I am looking at it right now.

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Windows will require additional free hard drive space for its operating system
(virtual memory). If you encounter the following message in an error dialog:
"Ran out of virtual memory", free up some more hard drive space.

To install Silent Hunter 4 - Wolves of the Pacific - Patch V 1.1 you will need approximately 200 MB free hard disk space for the full patch.

BTW, I am guessing that all of that junk is just alerting you to the fact that the patch will expand to eat up VIRTUAL MEMORY - not HD space.

It is odd that it would be mentioned as you need at least a Gig to run this thing in the first place and I'm pretty sure that no one is dumb enough to have a dozen programs running when the upload the patch.

Spaxspore · 03-21-07, 02:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Barkhorn1x

The post is still there - I am looking at it right now.

Quote:

Windows will require additional free hard drive space for its operating system
(virtual memory). If you encounter the following message in an error dialog:
"Ran out of virtual memory", free up some more hard drive space.

To install Silent Hunter 4 - Wolves of the Pacific - Patch V 1.1 you will need approximately 200 MB free hard disk space for the full patch.

BTW, I am guessing that all of that junk is just alerting you to the fact that the patch will expand to eat up VIRTUAL MEMORY - not HD space.

It is odd that it would be mentioned as you need at least a Gig to run this thing in the first place and I'm pretty sure that no one is dumb enough to have a dozen programs running when the upload the patch.

HD space IS virtual memory

"In NT-based versions of Windows (such as Windows 2000 and Windows XP), the swap file is named pagefile.sys. The default location of the page file is in the root directory of the partition where Windows is installed. Windows can be configured to use free space on any available drives for page files IE Virtual Memory."

tedhealy · 03-21-07, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Spaxspore

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Originally Posted by Barkhorn1x

The post is still there - I am looking at it right now.

Quote:

Windows will require additional free hard drive space for its operating system
(virtual memory). If you encounter the following message in an error dialog:
"Ran out of virtual memory", free up some more hard drive space.

To install Silent Hunter 4 - Wolves of the Pacific - Patch V 1.1 you will need approximately 200 MB free hard disk space for the full patch.

BTW, I am guessing that all of that junk is just alerting you to the fact that the patch will expand to eat up VIRTUAL MEMORY - not HD space.

It is odd that it would be mentioned as you need at least a Gig to run this thing in the first place and I'm pretty sure that no one is dumb enough to have a dozen programs running when the upload the patch.

HD space IS virtual memory

"In NT-based versions of Windows (such as Windows 2000 and Windows XP), the swap file is named pagefile.sys. The default location of the page file is in the root directory of the partition where Windows is installed. Windows can be configured to use free space on any available drives for page files IE Virtual Memory."

Not exactly. Hd space can be used as virtual memory, but it is not virtual memory.

I'm guessing the 200 MB is needed because it mentions sound files and end game movies and other such things that will be large.

Platapus · 03-22-07, 07:02 AM

Originally Posted by patch quote
Added more Harbor traffic.
Added more "life" in frendly harbors.
Added more special units to enemy harbors and locations.

I just hope that it won't make leaving the harbour a pain like it was in SH3.

Every five seconds the look out yelling "ship spotted" (and the dropping down to 1:1 time compression)

DUH, we are in a frickin harbour! Of course there are ships spotted!!! We are surrounded by ships!!! Thats why it is called a harbour!! <reaching for the decaf> :p

In SH3 I really wanted a way to "jump" to open water instead of creeping through the harbour. Sure it was fun the first 10 times but not the 100th.

03-21-07, 01:49 PM	#4
gnirtS Officer Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: South Wales, UK Posts: 237 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	Given there hasn't been any time to collate bugs yet alone fix, alpha test, beta test and so on i think its safe to assume this patch has been weeks in the making already. In otherwords an imposed deadline forced the release of a game they knew was broken and unfinished and they started playing catchup as soon as it went gold, if not before. Unless the readme has bits missing quite a lot of the bugs dont appear to be mentioned in it which is a little worrying.

03-21-07, 12:52 PM	#8
Barabus Swabbie Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 11 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	I am guessing by exclusion in the update list and silence from Ubisoft in general on the topic that the fixed resolution isn't going to be address anytime soon if at all?

03-21-07, 12:47 PM	#10
Avatar Commodore Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Way out there Posts: 603 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	I love it. Rock and roll! Already the patch is coming out and I haven't even picked up my copy from EB games! Keep up the good work and good hunting to all!!!!

03-21-07, 01:32 PM	#11
Spike Electrician's Mate Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: North Atlantic Posts: 134 Downloads: 7 Uploads: 0	You're right and it doesn't surprise me that they're that fast. SH devs always seemed very dedicated and caring about their product. I wish some of the 'fans' would give the game a chance before thy start slamming it. You must not have played SH2.

03-22-07, 07:02 AM	#15
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,439 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	Originally Posted by patch quote Added more Harbor traffic. Added more "life" in frendly harbors. Added more special units to enemy harbors and locations. I just hope that it won't make leaving the harbour a pain like it was in SH3. Every five seconds the look out yelling "ship spotted" (and the dropping down to 1:1 time compression) DUH, we are in a frickin harbour! Of course there are ships spotted!!! We are surrounded by ships!!! Thats why it is called a harbour!! <reaching for the decaf> :p In SH3 I really wanted a way to "jump" to open water instead of creeping through the harbour. Sure it was fun the first 10 times but not the 100th.