I am torn: Silent Hunter 5 should be awesome, but I am very much in FPS mood and I played a LOT with the BF series.
BTW I read on wargamer (someone tried) that you do not need to be continously online for SH5, just for launch, and if you have no internet connection, your saved games go to your hard drive, and get uploaded when you launch the game the next time.
Hm that doesnt sound good about SH5:
QuoteIt is, by default, extremely arcadey. Which I guess is a good thing to get new players.
A lot of crew abilities are things like improving your torpedo's speed and damage (really?) and other things people expect as "skill upgrades" in a game.
Some of the arcade things I really like though, is being able to see where your free camera is in the world. No more flying off into nowhere! The "plotting contact movement" thing is a little weird. Like, if you have a radio contact and start to plot a course it'll move a little ghost icon of the contact so you can see it's estimated course. I still like to use the old Intercept Plot though.
At first glance it seems a fun, but it's frustratingly different than SH3/4 so forget all you know or mod your keys
:bleeding:
Quote from: Tamas on March 03, 2010, 04:48:02 AM
Hm that doesnt sound good about SH5:
QuoteIt is, by default, extremely arcadey. Which I guess is a good thing to get new players.
A lot of crew abilities are things like improving your torpedo's speed and damage (really?) and other things people expect as "skill upgrades" in a game.
Some of the arcade things I really like though, is being able to see where your free camera is in the world. No more flying off into nowhere! The "plotting contact movement" thing is a little weird. Like, if you have a radio contact and start to plot a course it'll move a little ghost icon of the contact so you can see it's estimated course. I still like to use the old Intercept Plot though.
At first glance it seems a fun, but it's frustratingly different than SH3/4 so forget all you know or mod your keys
Well that sucks.
Yeah, made the thread quite pointless.
So, when you do get BC2. Tell us how it is?
Quote from: Tamas on March 03, 2010, 04:48:02 AM
Hm that doesnt sound good about SH5:
Well then, that most likely solves that.
Looks like more TKing is in my future.
Quote from: Tamas on March 03, 2010, 04:40:10 AM
BTW I read on wargamer (someone tried) that you do not need to be continously online for SH5, just for launch, and if you have no internet connection, your saved games go to your hard drive, and get uploaded when you launch the game the next time.
Storing saved games on the internet? Fuck that.
Quote from: Grey Fox on March 03, 2010, 06:51:01 AM
So, when you do get BC2. Tell us how it is?
If you give me a good free US proxy IP, I will buy it in a few hours :P Otherwise, Thursday or Friday night.
BFBC2 is made right here in Stockholm. Make of this what you will.
Quote from: Tamas on March 03, 2010, 04:40:10 AM
I am torn: Silent Hunter 5 should be awesome, but I am very much in FPS mood and I played a LOT with the BF series.
BTW I read on wargamer (someone tried) that you do not need to be continously online for SH5, just for launch, and if you have no internet connection, your saved games go to your hard drive, and get uploaded when you launch the game the next time.
Have you answered Eric's Slium Infernum invite yet? :rolleyes:
Quote from: Syt on March 04, 2010, 12:18:00 AM
Quote from: Tamas on March 03, 2010, 04:40:10 AM
I am torn: Silent Hunter 5 should be awesome, but I am very much in FPS mood and I played a LOT with the BF series.
BTW I read on wargamer (someone tried) that you do not need to be continously online for SH5, just for launch, and if you have no internet connection, your saved games go to your hard drive, and get uploaded when you launch the game the next time.
Have you answered Eric's Slium Infernum invite yet? :rolleyes:
Will do tonight :P
Aaaand the übersophisticated DRM of SH5 has been broken, there is a pirated version out :lol:
In other corporate idiocy news, I have bought BFBC2 off Steam, preloaded it, and now sitting on my comp unplayable until Friday.
All the while not only EA has turned on European servers around the launchtime of the American version, but at least in Hungary, everyone who ordered a physical regular edition was playing it already on said servers yesterday. The Limited Edition guys were not playing only because EA made a delay in getting it to the Hungarian distributor.
Fucking retards.
Quote from: Tamas on March 04, 2010, 02:54:02 AM
Aaaand the übersophisticated DRM of SH5 has been broken, there is a pirated version out :lol:
:lol:
Obviously the version to get, even if you buy it, since the real one is hopelessly crippled
Ok someone please tell me that I can set heading like in the previous Silent Hunters (directly on the heading indicator thingie) and not only by deploying a waypoint on the minimap.
In general, its funky that I have to run from like the bridge to the periscope to aim, but why the hell must the interface be removed from everything submarinish?
And yellow exclamation marks to tell me about my mission? SERIOUSLY?!
Quote from: Tamas on March 07, 2010, 03:14:35 AM
And yellow exclamation marks to tell me about my mission? SERIOUSLY?!
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg31.imageshack.us%2Fimg31%2F5120%2Fadmiralhipper73.jpg&hash=32029c0c63ff39bac564404bacf32c3e889d0da9)
:unsure:
:lol:
No it's like a tooltip. In the campaign you go out patrolling by selecting a mission, which is a single one after the tutorial mission (brit coastal waters). The selection itself is pain in the ass by the way because the map you choose it on is very buggy.
Then once you have it chosen you have this WoW-ish yellow mark on the top of the screen explaining to you that you must go to the designated area and sink ships.
It's official: SH5 sucks manass.
Quote from: Syt on March 07, 2010, 03:26:27 AM
Quote from: Tamas on March 07, 2010, 03:14:35 AM
And yellow exclamation marks to tell me about my mission? SERIOUSLY?!
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg31.imageshack.us%2Fimg31%2F5120%2Fadmiralhipper73.jpg&hash=32029c0c63ff39bac564404bacf32c3e889d0da9)
:unsure:
That should appear above any ship that spots you, Metal Gear Solid-style.
You know since the BFBC2 servers are bugged like one fuck, inlcuding the master server(s) (IIRC devs said they have got 4 times s much users so far as anticipated, so their hardware is severly overloaded), I did fool around with SH5.
The graphics are awesome, weather and sea effects in particular.
But:
-havent figured out how to get on the deck gun. Luckily, the AI aims much better than in 4.
-the mission choosing map is bugged, it is a moment of celebration when I finally manage to select the mission
-there is only one mission in the opening campaign, yet, see above
-the mission is to sink 50k tons until June 1940 but on each patrol the first ship I sink in the area makes the mission complete, yet it is available the next time, and I have sunk around 60k there since game start. Maybe the DRM?
-yellow exclamation marks
-stupid RPGifying. I start the game. It loads for quite a while. I load the campaign. It loads quite a while. I get the docks loaded, but only to have my sub set up and mission to be chosen. I do that. I embark. It loads qutie a while. Then I am finally at sea. Where I can inquiry about the families of my officers.
None of this sounds promising at all. :face:
Quote from: Tamas on March 08, 2010, 02:44:18 AM
Then I am finally at sea. Where I can inquiry about the families of my officers.
What's your opinion, how many are Nazis on a regular German sub circa 1940? Can you romance them?
:lol: Are there: personal missions you can do to increase their loyalty and unlock new powers?
"As a child, I was beaten repeatedly by my mean old uncle. He happens to live in a cottage along the coast of the Heligoland island."
"Well, that's 2,500 nm away from our patrol zone... but sure, let me help you out with that!"
*blasts cottage to smithereens with deck gun*
"Mein Kapitan, I can.... load torpedoes three times as fast now!"
wannabe Mass Effect in subsim :P
Quote from: Caliga on March 08, 2010, 03:42:42 PM
"Mein Kapitan, I can.... load torpedoes three times as fast now!"[/i]
It's Kapitänleutnant or "KaLeu(n)". :rolleyes:
WHATEVAH. :mad:
Quote from: Syt on March 13, 2010, 03:31:49 PM
Quote from: Caliga on March 08, 2010, 03:42:42 PM
"Mein Kapitan, I can.... load torpedoes three times as fast now!"[/i]
It's Kapitänleutnant or "KaLeu(n)". :rolleyes:
Unless he happens to have been promoted to Kapitän zur See...