Silent Hunter V Dev Team Interview: Deeper, Kapitän, deeper. (1/19/10)

[Philipp_Thomsen]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Yes, that is a good way to look at it. If we were Consumer Guide, we would not care about potential, only the existing product. As we are subsim guys, and we know the dev team want a great U-boat sim with realism as much as we do, then it means we can be a little more understanding than the general gamer who wants every penny's worth of game product.

As much as Dan and crew wants to build up the perfect sim, they can't.

Firstly cos there's not enough time. Ubisoft is interested in making money, as any other company. They gotta make a good GAME in a short period of time, and they gotta use this time the best way they can to deliver a partially finished product, that can be enjoyed as stock by non-hardcore players.

BUT... We are hardcore players!

We modded sh3 to the limits and beyond, we did stuff not even those guys thought it would be possible. We have all the time in the world to invest in turning this GAME into a SIMULATOR. That's all what matters.

When they said "this game is more open to modding then any of the previous versions", I thought with myself: "nothing else bothers me". Cos, doesnt matter what is right or wrong with the finished product, its totally open for us to change and make it the way we want it to be.

And this is not a one-man-army. We have KAZILLIONS of modders around, each and every one with their own special abilities, and together we are a force to be reckon with.

Im not worry at all, cos I know for sure that about 12 months from now, SH5 will be absolutely the best thing that I ever played, and its gonna make me addicted to the bone, both playing and modding.

It blows my mind just to think about what we did to SH3, and what we will be able to do with SH5, keeping in mind its way more open to modding then SH3 was. Just... mind boggling!

Can't wait!

Edit: Neal, I just saw the second video "farewell my friend", and those english voices inside a german submarine are torturing me. Makes me remember U-571. PLEASE, tell me there is an option to switch to german voices... I will bite my head off if they didnt put german voices in SH5.

[Arclight]

Voices might be place holders, as far as I know German voices were already confirmed.

Good post, couldn't agree more.

[Florent]

Consulting the keyboard map posted in the other thread, and consulting an English to French dictionary, I'd say the CTRL key turns on expert mode.

Now what does expert mode look like....
Actually there is possibly different meaning for Avance or Avancé. Avancé can be used for advanced OK but Avance used as such is advance thus i think it's time compression X2 and so on.

[Heretic]

@Philipp_Thomsen - Well said, sir!