UBOAT

The game worked great maybe a year ago when i purchased it. However i am currently in college and i could not sink a lot of time into learning the game due to school. I decided to come back and try again... The game is unplayable. The stuttering and lag when switching from map view to sub view just freezes everything. When leaving port and on a set course my sub will just smash into everything and get stuck vertically. The biggest issue is the stuttering. Even when you switch to low graphics settings the game just does not want to work. Really liked this game, but i can't recommend in its current state.

I REALLY wanted to like this game, it brings fond memories of the hours I spent playing Silent Service as a kid, and the emotions of some great movies like Das Boot. But, it just doesn't feel like it's a finished product. The controls are not intuitive, nor are they always functional. When I hit "pause", some part of me expects the game to... well, pause. And it USUALLY does, just not every time. The time lapse/compression feature is nice, but when trying to collect crates of tires from the wreckage of one of the early missions, it would take 4 in-game days, and absolutely nothing I did could speed that up. Most menu/dialogue navigation during the tutorial took several more steps to complete than should be necessary - and while that's a small thing, it was actually a warning sign of the lack of polish I'd be experiencing throughout my game play. Volume, especially the voice acting, is very low. And using British accented English speakers to portray German sailors was an odd decision. Character creation would not allow me to change the voice type on my captain. I've had multiple freezes, with the latest one locking up my entire system. There are typos/grammar issues in the subtitles. The developer constantly fiddles with the price (generally around $30 USD), so it would appear to be on sale in spite of still being about $30 USD, so take a moment to check that carefully before blindly hitting Buy. Taking the time to line up a 3 torpedo salvo on a broadside destroyer, watching them close on the clueless enemy, and then seeing *HIT!* *HIT!* *MISS!* followed by their ship sinking into the deep blue sea is SO INCREDIBLY rewarding! But then nothing would allow me to target the trawler it was escorting! I had to surface and manually sink it with my deck gun (and taking some damage from their own deck gun). I've got 10 hours in, and bought this on sale, so it's going to stay in my library. I'm hoping that they spend some time, money, and effort fixing it instead of releasing DLC boats in the future, because I REALLY want to like this game, and it makes me really sad that I don't. :(