Silent Hunter 5: Battle of the Atlantic previews

I think it is worth a mention that you will be required to have and be logged onto a high speed net connection at all times to play the game.

Tons of bad press on this game so far. For those familiar with the SH series it is no surprise the game at release is full of bugs and in vanilla form pretty much unplayable. However, UBI have patched it a bit and likely to do some more.

The real saviours of Silent Hunter in all forms are the modders, and everyone is waiting and praying the Modders will work their magic on SH5 and improve on it as much as they did SH3 and SH4. However, this whole DRM (anti piracy measures) UBI has implemented seems to be not worth the trouble it is causing. It requires you to be online and logged into a UBI server to be able to play even the single player mode. And since most of the world was able to buy this game a week ago the UBI servers have been exhibiting problems in that they do not allow some people (sometime) to log on and play. They have admitted it has been the servers themselves preventing people from playing at times. They even cite it is hackers that are attacking their servers. By doing so they have admitted their log in servers are vulnerable. At the very least, check out the official UBI SH5 forums and have a bit of a read before investing your money.

Personally I am holding off buying the game for now, waiting to get an idea on the stability of these UBI servers over time. And at the same time hopefully the developers will release some patches and the modders will improve on the game in that time as well.

Can't wait for this Game, Silent Hunter 3 has given me heaps of fun but the Graphics are starting to show their age now for a 5 year old game.

Interactivity in the U-boat was one thing I always wanted and 5 will have that, pity you can only Captain the VII in Campaign but maybe Ubisoft will bring out downloadable content so you can have more U-boats one can only hope.

5 is looking a pretty big improvement on 4 so far which was a pretty big let down. can't wait until March.