Who has cancelled their order!

[TDK1044]

Originally Posted by LIGHTNING

I just got my copy this morning and I admit I have only played it for about an hour or so but so far I`m impressed. I`m running it at 1440x960 and It looks stunning, I think some people need to take some pills regarding this AA issue! The rocks and the algae give the ocean a more organic feel and the sailors onboard the ships again help with the immersion. As for the bugs pretty much every game that is released these days has bugs at launch time. If I returned every game I bought a launch time that had bugs all I would have to play is Freecell and minesweeper.

Excellent post. How do you find the difference between running the game with the Hollywood filter on and off?

[RDDR]

I was going to offer my two cents on some of the comments on this thread this early AM, but as I'm just a newbie on this forum...... who has pre ordered, and who has seen this kind of behavior more than once with the release of a new Sim,So....I'm just going to pour another cup of this fine grind ,paste a , clean up , throw my guitars in the back of my Wrangler and head up the coast to the studio.. (MY JOB) ,and put all this right out of my head until my copy shows up on my desk in a few days.

All this negativity almost tripped me up a few minutes ago when I started to read these threads, but I'm OK now and fully awake and choosing a much better reality for "Myself" today
Some of you guys just have to lighten up on yourselves.Dont forget we only get to do all this once. .

[ACSoft]

Originally Posted by TDK1044

I will continue to support the Silent Hunter series by purchasing each new addition to the series. Do I think these games should be in a healthier state at the time of release...absolutely, but Silent Hunter 3 patched to 1.4 and moderately modded was quite superb in my view.

The only person you're punishing by not buying the game is yourself. Ubisoft are not going to worry at all if a handfull of people in the subsim forums (and that's all it would be) choose not to purchase the game on a point of principle. That's your choice and I respect it, but it's also your loss. You don't improve a game by not buying it, nor does a handful of people not buying Silent Hunter 4 in any way influence Ubisoft's decision regarding Silent Hunter 5. The game either meets its projected sales target or it doesn't.

Oh boy, I cannot believe a subsim moderator can write this

ACS

[Reyern]

All the whining about the game made me go to the store and buy the game straight away and not wait for a patch as I intended.

[TDK1044]

Originally Posted by ACSoft

Oh boy, I cannot believe a subsim moderator can write this

ACS

Being a Moderator here has nothing to do with expressing a pesonal opinion. If you disagree, I respect that.

I understand the argument regarding FSAA, and I undertsand that people are not impressed with the upscaling resolution issue and feel that there are too many bugs in the release version of the game. I'd rather keep supporting the franchise and try and improve things that way rather than simply not buying the game.

[Hitman]

Oh boy, I cannot believe a subsim moderator can write this

No? Well, then here goes another (me): I will support and buy any future submarine simulations, no matter if they come from UBI or from another company .

Why? Because submarine simulations are rare, and companies venturing into them even more rarer. And if they do not get some sells and support, they will never think of doing further -hopefully better- titles. Think of it like this: To get a good soccer game from EA Sports you just need one release. To get a good submarine simulation, you need sometimes many releases. That reflects the extra cost of developing products with lower sales figures. But still better than anything.

And let me end by saying something else: If you want the perfect, bugfree submarine simulation of the Pacific War, you are a lucky man. You can get for 10$ SH1 on e-bay right now. Want the fancy SH4 graphics also? Then bit the bullet and support SH4 making constructive critizism and buying a copy. In the end of the day, SH4 will be fixed and we all will be having tons of fun, that's for sure.

And anyway, all you guys who want to cancel the order are in fact experimenting the hardcore realism of the Pacific Campaign in the early years: Frustration. So it seems that in the end SH4 is for you all in fact a good and true-to-life simulation, isn't it?

[Iron Budokan]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

As I get more familair with SH4, I'm liking it more and more. We should here about a patch soon that will fix the major issues.

Well, I trust Neal. If he says he's liking it then there must be elements to the game that overshadow the list of bugs so far.

I'm willing to wait for the patches....

I have to agree with Ducimus and Hitman on this one. I've not ordered the game as i'm happy enough to pop down to the local shop and buy it when it appears on the shelf, but I have been following these SHIV early reactions closely.

I've a very fast PC that I built myself - with excellent graphic capabilities so i'm disapointed with UBI, or rather their marketing smucks (why are marketing people so un-evolved, just look at the ads on TV and its pretty obvious a bull frog could do a better job). But I'm confident this will be fixed/patched/modded at some stage soon - by developers.

I'm not that interested in the Pacific War, much prefering the Atlantic War, but i've played SH3 to death and just can't bear the thought of loading it up anymore. Its the game i've played the longest in my 25 years of gaming but now the thought of it breaks me out into a sweat - I need something new and SH4 will be it.

So i'll pick it up, put it through its paces, hone my manual targeting skills and then wait for the patches and mods to make the game enjoyable.

As Hitman said, we should support Sub Sim game developments if only to maintain the market. And who knows, perhapps someone oneday will pick up SHI and add a graphic engine to it.

Cheers.....

[Spaxspore]

Originally Posted by Hitman

No? Well, then here goes another (me): I will support and buy any future submarine simulations, no matter if they come from UBI or from another company .

Why? Because submarine simulations are rare, and companies venturing into them even more rarer. And if they do not get some sells and support, they will never think of doing further -hopefully better- titles.

that was what i was trying to convay earlier in this thread, guess no one read it

[Kumando]

I think the main point here is if they didint finished SH3 till date(wolpacks etc), why do you guys think they will bother to finish Sh4?

[OneTinSoldier]

Well sorry guys(Uber Gruber, Hitman and TDK1044), but I disagree. Not that I want to see Sub Simulations come to end, but I think a fellow should support quality products with his hard earned money, not just any old poop that's put into a box.

Worrying about Silent Hunter series coming to an end eh? Well, it's realy a shame it doesn't have any competition. That allows Ubi to dish out whatever they want, even an unfinished game, not just some as usual expected bugs... but an unfinished game/sim, knowing some(possibly even many thousands of) people will buy it NO MATTER WHAT.

Or am I missing something here? Is there, at some point, you would consider it to be so bad that you would not consider it to be worthy of purchasing?

[DaMaGe007]

Im returning mine, due to reasons stated in another thread (waiting on a new machine to run it acceptably), I will pick it up again later if the patch it properly this time.
If they walk away like they did with sh3 I may pass altogether.

[cappy70]

I say again,,I cancelled my order due to Amazon "forever" delivery,,pushed back to mid-April (7-14th)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in my case (several others got the same effect from Amazon).

As I wrote in in another post I'm picking up my game tomorrow,,22nd,,little bit of difference between that and Amazon est. delivery.

BTW,,I'm going to "slam" all settings to high in my rig and see what happens

[Sturat]

I received a delivery confirmation at 10:12 this AM. I can't wait to get home and start playing. I bought SH3 when it first came out and loved it; even better after the patch. To all the complainers I say its your loss. From the ingame vids posted earlier and the screenshots that I've seen, I looks perfectly playable to me.

[kiwi_2005]

There is no way i am going to cancel my order. I dont care if its got bugs i dont care if it CTD. Im going to get SHIV!

On another note i rang up the local PC store where i pre-ordered the game, i ask him has he heard anything about SHIV yet. He tells me his distributor has 3 games on hold, sorry mate but im a bit in debt and can't send the money till a few days once i send the money the games will be sent to the store.

What does he mean once he sends the money, he should already have the blardy money i paid for the blardy pre-order weeks ago!!!

Im telling ya he better not stuff it up or hes gonna wish he wasn't born! I'll give him 3 days, if no ph call about whats happening im heading down to pay him a visit. Mafia style...

so far i still have faith in my pc store but its running on low.