Silent Hunter 4-funny twist on the whiners

[Forward Observer]

The 4th installment in the Silent Hunter submarine sim franchise was released on Tuesday or Wednesday this past week,

This version moves the action back to the WW II US submarine fleet in the Pacific like the first game in the series. The middle two games were both about the German UBoat war--mostly in the North Atlantic.

Of course like any new game, the various fan forums are filled to no end with the usual mix of fanboys, whiners, and trolls.

A patch was issued within two days of release, and looking at the huge number of fixes and additions it contains, it is pretty obvious that tons of intended content were simply left out, or not made functional, to meet the release date.

Unfortunately, this seems to be the norm now, especially for game sequels. I have no doubt that the game will become very playable once they are through patching and the mod community has a chance to fix the rest just as they did for the previous SH games. (sounds kind of like a franchise we all know and love--doesn't it?)

Anyway, what my post is about is an absolutely hysterical and ironic fact that has also just been revealed by the developers in the last two days.

One of the complaints that many of the whiners have been posting about is that while in game some of the crew members turn to 2D figures, or their eyes pop out of their heads. They also start shouting strings of meaningless numbers.

It turns that this is part of the copy protection system and is actually intended. In other words these weird anomalies only happen if one is running a pirated copy of the game.

I find this to be hilarious, and a fitting comeuppance for those miscreants who have the nerve to complain when their stolen property doesn't work.

Cheers