Ubisoft & SHV

[Brag]

Don't you think that if someone was developing a new subsim or a next generation SHIII /SH4 we would have heard something?

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by Brag

Don't you think that if someone was developing a new subsim or a next generation SHIII /SH4 we would have heard something?

This is just a question that regularly keeps popping up on this forum. I'm guessing people are hankering always for the 'next gen' version. Human nature. Two months after a SHV release, they'll be needling about SHVI.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Brag

Don't you think that if someone was developing a new subsim or a next generation SHIII /SH4 we would have heard something?

You mean you haven't heard the rumours

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Don't get me wrong; I'd like to have it both ways.

TMI Steve TMI

<covering eyes>
:rotfl:

[jpm1]

Originally Posted by Torplexed

Possibly. I hope they widen the field in terms of subs. Maybe include Germany's Italian allies. My biggest fear is that they'll see some hot FPS geared to kids selling ten times as many copies as SHIII world wide and concentrate on those instead.

I don't think so , Silent hunter is a game which has a soul and which has a community they canno't play with that Personnally i'm interested by U-boats only (i'm waiting the UB missions to purchase SHIV ..) . two things that i'd really like to see in SHV it's an enhanced seafloor (algae , corals .. and why not fishes) and AI subs i think the only reason why they didn't put it in SH3 it was because of the limitations due to the CPUS which shouldn't be a problem now and also milkcows which doesn't end the mission don't know if it has already be done in SHIV ..?

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Platapus

TMI Steve TMI

<covering eyes>
:rotfl:

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by jpm1

I don't think so , Silent hunter is a game which has a soul and which has a community they canno't play with that.

I hope you're right. Corporations like UbiSoft have a lot of things. Soul usually isn't one of them.

[Avatar]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

You mean you haven't heard the rumours

what rumors? Ive heard everything from a cold war scenario to uboat action. Matter of fact those are the only rumors Ive heard.
I personally would like to go back to the uboat war, using the members of GWX to play a key role in its development. I wouldnt even care about improved graphics, as I find sh3 to be just fine. Eye candy is nice, but having a true uboat simulator would be tops. Including everything from AI uboats that are smart enough to dive and fire torpedoes, to large wolfpack tactics... needless to say it should be very immersive, and having sh3 graphics would free space for that immersitivity. Also have a better weather pattern generator.
Ive seen the cold war add-on and the uboat add-on, but it seems to be coming from an incomplete sh4, which has me hesitant on the purchase of said games.

[Hitman]

Rumours?

First thing we knew about SH3 was when it had already reached alpha stage. And nobody believed at first that it was being developed by a romanian team (In fact, many people admitted they couldn't even place Romania in the map )

IMHO UBi has now a Dev Team with huge knowledge about naval simulations that have produced some beautiful sims. They would be mad if they didn't put that knowledge to a good use :hmm:

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Hitman

Rumours?

First thing we knew about SH3 was when it had already reached alpha stage. And nobody believed at first that it was being developed by a romanian team (In fact, many people admitted they couldn't even place Romania in the map )

IMHO UBi has now a Dev Team with huge knowledge about naval simulations that have produced some beautiful sims. They would be mad if they didn't put that knowledge to a good use :hmm:

I think they'll wait and see how much money SHIV brings in first

[jpm1]

by the way there's a new site for the U-boat missions addon , don't know if you've seen it yet .. Down below

[panzer 49th]

I would be nice to have a modern warfare scenario maybe then i could fire cruise missles:hmm: . which would actually be quite fun, destroying merchants fom miles away seems like a good idea.

[Freiwillige]

silent hunter series seems to have a specific era in mind, that being ww2. Anything past that would be great but it wouldnt fit the SH franchise profile. Also given that at least in my oppinion that ww2 sub technology is far more interesting tacticaly speaking I would think that the next SH would again be an upgrade to the ww2 theme. Granted a cold war scenario would be cool in its own right but to me it just wouldnt be SH.

Honestly If I were Ubi I would throw III and IV together in an all inclusive package
Fix alot of AI problems (wolfpacks and Destroyer tactics) and add Italians or British or Japanese. Update the graphics engine used in III and IV to the max. Hire the GWX team to due their magic and "Viola" You now have SHV!

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

I think my meaning was perfectly clear. If that's the way your minds work...well, more power to you.

<walks away with nose in air, hiding red face and hoping this tactic works>

[AkbarGulag]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

I think they'll wait and see how much money SHIV brings in first

If all the SH3 fans had bought SH4 as soon as it was released, I bet there would have been a much larger 'add-on' than just the u-boat IO missions. People buying SH4 now (at half or less of the price) will have a devalued input into the total revenue of the product. The publishers only care about that figure.