http://store.steampowered.com/app/48800/

OK, now where the hell is the key... Usually a pop up says "here is your key", but not for this game, and right clicking and selecting, "get keys" ain't there... any idea?

Nice to buy a freakin game, download it and not be able to play because of key issues... I swear some of these companies need to be #%&*$# slapped, lol.

Tell me about it I bought the boxed paradox edition and I've been waiting since midnight GMT last night for the game to accept it's code. Steam really needs to get it's act together.

I just installed the boxed Paradox version without a problem (apart from AVG telling me the game had a virus).
The game will run,but after entering my profile all I get is music and a view of the sea.No menu,nothing.
I am not alone.Apparently this will be fixed when Steam release an update
Not too impressed so far....

Stupid question maybe, but why buy this one via Steam? Direct download via Shipsim.com also is available; the key is then simply in your account settings.

Price mainly, I bought a boxed product for £17.99 to buy the VStep download would have cost around £38 the steam version is about £25.

Monopolistic Steam really are a disgrace when it comes to customer service taking literally 3-4 days to answer support questions I bought a boxed product also to avoid the hell that is digital distribution only to find it too is now tied to Steam. Who even now 36+ hours on from the supposed release date have not activated my game! It's about time they used some of their huge profits to employ more support staff and have 24/7 customer service.

Has anyone got this running yet?
The official forum is crammed with complaints.

ya the key was released/sent today when i started it... running fine, thou the no instruction profile box was kinda weird... 2 empty boxes, i guessed that the first was the profile name and second is country.

Getting it to run was very simpel (but I got it directly from VStep - price for me is the same as Steam usually converts Dollars directly to Euros). Now learning it is a different story.

You can imagine my frustration at this.
I bought the boxed version but it has to install via Steam.
But as I understand it I have to update to V 1.1 manually (not via Steam) however the patch says I don't have the game installed.
I have been going round in circles for nearly 2 days over this like a ship with a busted rudder.....

@ Chucky you can download the complete Steam 1.1 version of the game if you have the installation code from the back of your printed user manual.

If you downloaded via Steam, an update is now available that addresses the initial issues.

See http://80.95.161.114/shipsim/forum/index.php/topic,20458.0.html

Thanks guys,I am already there.
I didn't want to have to download it fully via Steam as I have a 1 meg line at the moment
However,it seemed I had little choice.
Anyway it works at last!

I too sufered from the botched release. I bought the DVD as I would rather have something physical to (re)install from. But to no avail - I just got sea and sky and no in-game menu until STEAM released the patch.

Jury is still out on the game. I have only played it for a very short time ( due to installation problems hogging all my time ! ) At this point I am really not sure it is much of an improvement on ShipSim 2008. I don't like the fact the single missions menu is empty.

Eonel,if you go to the DLC menu you can download a couple of single missions.

So is there an Antarctica mission in the sim? I'm thinking something along the lines of... you have to navigate a submarine for some miles under winter pack ice, eventually arriving at region where one has to navigate an underwater tunnel hewn into a rock-face to your final destination (a secret base).

Not that I'm saying I know anything like that exists. A fantasy "what if" mission of course

If not that, well how is the sea bed modeled in general? Any good deep abyssal caverns we can explore?

I dont belive the sea-bed or anything below the sea-surface is modelled at all. - to be fair, it is a ship simulator, not Silent Hunter VI

When I put a small boat in huge swell, it will often dip under water and I see nothing but white.

Ah I see, thank you. Actually, my mistake old chap! I had initially confused this title with 'Virtual Sailor' and thought it was an updated version. I tried some missions a couple of years ago with that sim diving bathyspheres deep sea and sailing a Los Angeles and Akula class in and out of ports and around shallow coastlines. A pity this one doesn't model subsurface then, thanks anyway!

Hang on... how does Ship Simulator model rocks and shallow waters/sandbanks? What about navigating rivers and ports in surface craft (like a supertanker) where one's cargo is relative to the Plimsoll Line and one's depth under keel is essential to know?

P.S. Silent Hunter VI?! Oh dear, well if SHV was anything to go by, I expect the next version (if any) will be a dumbed-down console version only! I thought IV was good (III was better), but c'mon man! SHV wasn't anything close to a "simulator"... so disappointing, what a let down that was.

Maybe I was too harsh. Depth under keel is modeled as a concept, but not graphically.

There are maps showing the depth of the water and your relative position.

You can ground a tanker in shallow water. The throttle will no longer be effective and the boat will appear as if it is grounded.

But if your viewpoint goes below the water surface, you will see nothing but a white void and the underside of the sea-surface

For its flaws as a simulator, Silent Hunter V does graphically present underwater & the sea-bottom beautifully.

Well I uninstalled SHV quite soon after I bought it so I'm not too up-to-date on the patches and fixes but you say the sea-bottom is beautiful? So Ubisoft finally patched the 'sea-bottom bug'? When I bought SHV the graphical representation of the sea-bed was wrong - a few meters below the correct depth - so sunken ships (and probably more importantly, one's own U-Boat) appeared to "hover" above the sea-floor, while silt and debris was kicked-up without anything apparently touching it. The sea-bottom didn't have that bug in Silent Hunter IV and III, it was one of the things that put me off it. Looks like I need to start checking the Subsim forum again for any news, thanks.