Dear all,
After several weeks of debate, we have decided to put more efforts into the development of dynamic campaigns. The feedback received from the community played an important role in this decision. Of course, this will affect the development planning and we are now expecting to release the game in Q1 2005.

For the SH3 dev team it's a great opportunity to improve the game and even add some new features that were not considered mainly because of time constraints.

We never answered until now your main question: "Will SH3 have a Dynamic Campaign?" The main reason was that it is very hard to define in our opinion what this means. Certainly, everybody (in the submarine simulation community ;) has a list of "must-haves" that can define a dynamic campaign. It would have been possible to match some definitions by September but certainly not the large majority.

To be more explicit, some of you consider that SH1 has a Dynamic Campaign. Others that CAOD has THE ONLY Dynamic Campaign. From this point of view we can tell you now that SH3 campaign will contain all the features included in those reference titles and many others inspired by your suggestions.

And yes, next time someone develops a naval simulation title we hope they will be asked to have a Dynamic Campaign like in SH3.

Thank you,

The Silent Hunter III Dev Team