Silent Hunter 5 $1 today only!

[Loki_]

Fyi ubisoft has for the first time put a fair price on SH5! This deal is for today (aug 18 2012) only. Tomorrow its Driver:SFO..

 

Link:

http://shop.ubi.com/

 

As normal, ubisoft includes unnecessary BS with all products; in this case a 30 day limit on downloads. At $1 this is a fair deal, a rarity for any ubi product imo.

[cichlidfan]

Unfortunately, I already have it for more than a dollar, not full price mind you but still... :(

[Loki_]

Yea and i would hate to see anyone pay more than that for something that is still in alpha testing in comparison to a dcs release.

[WildBillKelsoe]

Well, I remember buying SH5 DVD, remember annoying DRM, remember bugs allover the place. I have SH4 + UBM and it's the best sub sim out there to date. God I remember the days of subsim.com... If only I can go back in time and kick ubi's CEO/BOD's for dissing such loyal fan franchise into oblivion..

[Phantom88]

I wouldn't buy that with a dollar soaked in cat piss.

:megalol: Oh Come On!!! Don't be Shy,Tell us how you really Feel???:megalol:

[aaron886]

I looked up some reviews and I'm glad I saved that 1 dollar to buy a pack of bubble gum... apparently it's a pretty crappy piece of software.

[Rusty_M]

Well I bought it. Twice due to their crappy software.

 

Hopefully it'll be decent with mods. I have 3 and 4 anyway and it was only one pound.

 

I have no clue with this series, but I want to get into it and love it, but whenever I'm in the right frame of mind, I fly in DCS instead.

[andysim]

not worth the bandwidth to even download it,, and thats with unlimited bandwidth!!!

[cichlidfan]

I stuck with SH4, with TMO 2.0 mods, and it was entertaining. I found the pace to be a bit slow if you wanted to play with any sort of realism which is what finally led me to put it away.

[tank000]

Bought it, thanks for the heads up, supporting sims no matter where they come from since 1996

 

:D

[asparagin]

Well I bought it. Twice due to their crappy software.

 

Hopefully it'll be decent with mods. I have 3 and 4 anyway and it was only one pound.

 

I have no clue with this series, but I want to get into it and love it, but whenever I'm in the right frame of mind, I fly in DCS instead.

 

Just go at subsim and get the right mods. Last time I installed it with mods it was nice to play.

Especially TheDarkWraith's mod is helpful; you can even get the SH4 interface with it.

[pepe]

Bought it too...not sure why...:-)

[MadMonkey]

nope still not worth it.. they need to pay me a dollar to play that.

 

they should have stuck with adding expansions or fixing issues in previous versions

rather then half ass rushing yet another one just in time for Christmas Sales.

 

sh3&4 is good beyond that they fail.

 

@loki loved your lost key scripts ..you rock dude.

Edited August 19, 2012 by =MadMonkey=
give props to loki

[badger66]

I bought it 3 weeks ago , cost me 10 euro ..... have they stopped debugging it or is this as good as it gets ?

 

When it works , its pretty good ..... sadly Im getting too many CTD's .

[cichlidfan]

..... have they stopped debugging it or is this as good as it gets ?

 

 

Ubi stops debugging a week before they release! :D

 

EDIT: I don't recall CTDs, though perhaps I decided it was crap before one could occur.

[joey45]

Oh maaaaaaaaan! I missed Hawx 2... But driver San Fran is on offer though.

[EtherealN]

I bought it 3 weeks ago , cost me 10 euro ..... have they stopped debugging it or is this as good as it gets ?

 

When it works , its pretty good ..... sadly Im getting too many CTD's .

 

There is a wealth of mods out there that inlcude both bugfixes (such as the depth-control bug), changes to the interface and targeting system, as well as some pretty major graphics boosts. Unfortunately I don't recall where I found them (was at least a year since I played SH5), but the game is actually pretty good once a proper selection of mods have been installed.

[PoleCat]

Price is actually $16.24. I see no dollar deal beyond the photo on the main page......I will pay a buck but not 16 of em. Epic fail!

 

Out

[cichlidfan]

I see no dollar deal beyond the photo on the main page......

 

That was yesterday.

[PoleCat]

Crap! Why still listed on the front page as a dollar? Too bad I missed it. :cry:

 

Pity

Edited August 19, 2012 by PoleCat

[MTFDarkEagle]

Bad luck mate ;) It's got the date on there though.. Driver SF is on 1 buck today.

[PoleCat]

Bad luck mate ;) It's got the date on there though.. Driver SF is on 1 buck today.

 

Yes I guess I missed the date,. Wishful thinking. I am sure it won't be too long before it is back around on the cheap again. I can wait. :)

[Speed]

Ubi stops debugging a year before they release.

 

Fixed.

 

Yea, based off of what I've heard, you couldn't PAY me to buy SH5.

 

However, I still play SH3 with GWX- that is a great game. I got turned off of SH4 though. After the 3rd battleship I sunk IN THE SAME PATROL (including two Yamato class battleships), the game just got a little old and pointless. No point to playing.

 

By contrast, in SH3, I've only sunk like a single battleship ever. A scarcity of targets makes each kill satisfying. An overabundance of targets, like in SH4, and it just ruins the whole game :no_sad:

Edited August 19, 2012 by Speed

[cichlidfan]

Fixed.

 

:lol:

[EtherealN]

Well Speed, after mods both 4 and 5 do get pretty good. Though 4 is probably still the better one for realism. I'd personally say 4+mods is the overall best one.

 

(Don't compare 3+mods with vanilla 4, that's just unfair. :P )

 

I do agree though. But some of my best gaming ever was in one of those small early-war american subs in SH4. Got cornered by a jap destroyer around singapore and spent 2 hours straight at the hydrophone and with various emergency maneuvers trying to get rid of it. Succeeded, but only with such damage that I was caused to halt my patrol.