Point of new Silent Hunter

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Originally Posted by CCIP

Define "better" in this case.

I fail to see the point, especially since SHIV's engine is the same engine, only with improvements. SHIV, in my view, is a much better game and a much better engine out of the box than SHIII, and fixed many things that were amiss in SHIII.

There are only two reasons to prefer SHIII over SHIV: 1) the fact that SHIV's mod development cycle is still in an early stage while SHIII is close to peak; 2) it is not an Atlantic sim, and some just like the Atlantic.

Elsewhere, while SHIV may have produced a few new pet peeves for experienced SHIII players (like the crew not being as responsive when clicked on for example), objectively speaking it IS the development that was needed for the SHIII engine. Its only real fault is that it was released a few months early.

As for "upgrading SHIII" - two words - "dream on". We're lucky SHIV is getting treated with that U-boat expansion, even. Otehrwise you're more likely to see Ubi make a new Atlantic sim at this point than patch SHIII - if you want the money side of this, they'd much rather spend money on development of a new $60 game than on upgrading an old (from their point of view - long-obsolete) game that costs no more than $10 a pop now.

I think there will come a SH-V version but it is not the right moment to start planning it. Ubi first will launch the add-on and after that it will be a logical step to start planning SH-V which should be in the Atlantic. The Atlantic theatre is much popular than the Pacific and offers the potential for Ubi moreover as within a few years the community will start complianing about the outdated graphics.