SH4 User Manual

TDK1044 · 03-28-07, 11:29 AM

I have no worries at all that Silent Hunter 4 will go from being a good game to a great game within a few months (after additional patching and modding) but the SH4 user manual leaves much to be desired in my view.

As I think we all realize, the continuation of the Silent Hunter series is dependant to a large degree on SH4 attracting the 'casual gamer' and therefore increasing sales over Silent Hunter 3.

The problem that I see is that the SH4 user manual pre supposes to some degree that you have come to this game from Silent Hunter 3, and the manual therefore doesn't bother to explain a lot of functionality and game play issues in any great detail at all.

Because I purchased a new computer system about 6 months ago, and because I didn't want to load the SH3 copy protection drivers onto my new system, I hadn't played SH3 for quite a while when SH4 arrived at my house. A lot of things are obviously similar in the two games and I was able to remember a lot from SH3, but there were a few things I couldn't remember, and the answers certainly weren't to be found in the SH4 user manual.

If I had been totally new to Silent Hunter 4, I would have fumbled around trying to find solutions to my problems myself and hopefully would have found my way to this excellent Forum, but I can't help feeling that the bug issues we're finding are to a large degree fixable, but the quality of the user manual is not.

I hope the casual gamers enjoy the game enough not to worry about it.

03-28-07, 11:29 AM	#1
TDK1044 Ocean Warrior Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Georgia, USA Posts: 2,674 Downloads: 25 Uploads: 0	SH4 User Manual I have no worries at all that Silent Hunter 4 will go from being a good game to a great game within a few months (after additional patching and modding) but the SH4 user manual leaves much to be desired in my view. As I think we all realize, the continuation of the Silent Hunter series is dependant to a large degree on SH4 attracting the 'casual gamer' and therefore increasing sales over Silent Hunter 3. The problem that I see is that the SH4 user manual pre supposes to some degree that you have come to this game from Silent Hunter 3, and the manual therefore doesn't bother to explain a lot of functionality and game play issues in any great detail at all. Because I purchased a new computer system about 6 months ago, and because I didn't want to load the SH3 copy protection drivers onto my new system, I hadn't played SH3 for quite a while when SH4 arrived at my house. A lot of things are obviously similar in the two games and I was able to remember a lot from SH3, but there were a few things I couldn't remember, and the answers certainly weren't to be found in the SH4 user manual. If I had been totally new to Silent Hunter 4, I would have fumbled around trying to find solutions to my problems myself and hopefully would have found my way to this excellent Forum, but I can't help feeling that the bug issues we're finding are to a large degree fixable, but the quality of the user manual is not. I hope the casual gamers enjoy the game enough not to worry about it.