Cpt.Hissy

It is implementation issue, formations and formation control currently are busted beyond salvageable.

Gamey Gunbarge returns.

Or it's random frenchman. Was their flag white?

^^^ Umm no. These 900 meters were actual maximum range for self propelled mines of the period, after that they ran out of whatever "fuel" and sank. Any torpedo can potentially be aimed at it's maximum range, even if it makes almost no sense for latest ones. More so, more advanced torpedoes have a safety mechanism, that scuttles them soon after in case of miss, specifically to avoid above mentioned scenarios. Miss a close target and hit whatever behind is one thing. Defy the laws of physics and engineering just because is another.

Hmm except current system literally uses these exact models, with all their drawbacks, and only combines them automatically in dev's pre-configured order instead of allowing you to do it, diminishing already barely existing customisation? Have you even played the game?

Umm... well. Am looking at it optimistically, and what i see is the team works at it in the order they've chosen, slowly but steadily. While completely ignoring any important feedback. They don't care what we players want this game to be. They decided at what it will be and only want us to bug test the concrete implementations. And this "patch" is desperate attempt to apply duck tape to a ship that's burning and sinking after being nuked. aka shut those toxic idiots up. Some more superbattleships and modern hulls, that clearly were part of already planned batch. Piece of the campaign mechanics that happens to be ready by this moment. Some traditional number shuffling. Some improvements here and there. Nothing on making ship designer worth having. Nothing about just outright broken formationkeeping logic. Still supporting the arcadey mechanic of all-knowing strategic AI. Nothing even to address that stupid issue with floating UI elements going offscreen in all places. I perfectly understand that most of these things are not easy to do, but the moment you sell something, you take responsibility of delivering it regardless of how hard it is. At least supposed to in normal world. Optimistic part in this, they are working and we will get a completed game eventually, and it perhaps will be decent one. Won't be what we paid for though. What we have done in game currently, is what will stay, it may only be tweaked but not rebuilt. Sad. And there still will be zero communication going forward. Let's wait and see where it goes. They can do good games it seems (haven't played them though) Thanks for ping Barney.

most appropriate fish at this point

Total mess is the current ingame state of everything visibility related, and that should be reworked first. Isn't it obvious? Remember, it is alpha still, even core elements still can and must be changed as much as needed to work properly.

well it is clear that mr. Skeksis either is being paid by devs to try and agitate in their favour, or is actual skeksis. Just leave it there, people. On topic. Funny to say, but the Bathtub of Toyboats (aka WoWS) actually does the visibility thing better than here. For those unfamiliar: every boat does have it's own visibility range. And while you can see all enemies spotted by your team on the map, in actual gameworld you only can see the ones within your visual range. You can blindshoot at the map markers if your guns range allows, and can even hit sometimes, but eyeballing the target on the small minimap + added artificial inaccurasy of shooting without locked target, makes it unlikely. That's how this could easily be done here. Same with torpedo evasion etc, of course. Every ship should control itself individually, not being driven by all-seeing AI from heavens. And no, player being in the heavens is not a valid argument. also sneak peek from steam: people are loosing hope, this project is already being called abandonware. We can go home?

Here's a suggestion: implement "targeting accuracy" range-curve based solely on spotting and tracking stats on a given ship. It replicates current targeting accuracy up to some effective targeting range, then goes completely wild. This is supplemented by a new "Blind fire" option in-battle, that goes after "Aggressive". Now, on Aggressive ships will fire at distances up to their effective targeting range. On Blind fire, they try to fire at anything within gunnery range, if they can recieve that information from whoever is actually spotting it. (aka have radios and radios aren't disabled, or within visual range for signal flags or signal lights) As technology progresses, in the endgame effective range may become higher that gunnery range, making this irrelevant. *** of course all of this makes sense if we ever going to get the game.. heh heh.

Try turning all graphics settings to full max, then to full minimum, and see if there's any difference. Probably will not be.

"academy" is clearly an attempt at tutorial, that was repurposed to be a filler for backers after maybe 4 to 5 first missions.

o Barão Good job on this! I have a question: For me everything appears weirdly pixelated and blurry, is it some known problem with reshade? Cptbarney There is in-game interface with all the settings in nice GUI form, and i think you instantly see the effect

this is Reshade, universal library that works with every unity game in existence, and some config; it is not actual mod of a level that could change the game itself. Don't get too dreamy, people.

simple one, if you're going for graphically intensive games, don't buy anything under current **70 model of nVidia or equivalent. **60 will get old next year for this application, and anything under (like your 750) is old before it's sold.

yep that GPU didn't age well. Try lowering everything as much as possible, maybe helps.

13 was in combat system section alone. Most of us bought essentially that text. Maybe our mistake, but not us to be blamed for selling that text. Anyway, not implemented individual target tracking is not "great and genius game mechanic that's here to stay", it is nothing more than lazy placeholder for hopefully WIP content. Same goes for most of the currently existing questionable mechanics. In my opinion (that barely matters but still), only acceptably implemented parts of this game as it currently stands are: visuals, basic game logic (UI handling etc), whole system that handles representing various effects as percentage multipliers, ship generation algorithm (perhaps, editor still doesn't allow it to shine), gunnery target prioritisation logic, mostly sailing logic (ship helmsman simulation, not the physics of moving ships), some certain parts of ship controlling AI. Everything else is split between placeholder, shit and non existent.

From their fake ad page, that also contains the word "realistic" 13 times.

This one's funny, perfectly adequate armament. But once again, this is not AI problem, this is stupidly limited editor problem. No matter how good is AI, if this crap is the only thing possible to assemble due to all the limitations, this will be the one AI builds. And the one player builds under the same limits, likely.

@SodaBit But why you are within secondary range?

A reminder, Nick clearly stated that any kind of map mode is not intended. Unless they change their mind... which would be for better honestly.

" older ships being far slower to train on" - why exactly? that was common practice in history, and it worked. also, from gamey perspective (and a little bit of realism) - how about the "school ship" refit for old boats? Somewhat decreasing their actual combat worthiness, but seriously increasing training speed. please refrain from interacting with that account, it's poisonous.

Oof, people, please. T'is but a fat troll. How you fight a fat troll? Not feed a fat troll. Ignore this account. That's one and only way.

He's just being paid for praising this mess of a project, probably to convince the honest backers to forget their expectations. No other explanation.

So, hm, turns out it is a good move to take long breaks from this thing. Tried it again after several months of not touching, and now i do feel improvements compared to the last time, heh