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#4492263 - 10/10/19 08:11 AM Re: WW2 Carrier game - would anyone play that today? [Re: The_Admiral]  
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Thank you Coot!

Well, #%&*$# my previous answer disappeared in the ether, let me write another one.
Yes, allowing for more flexibility in future expansions is one of the reasons why we're going for a strong full-fledged simulation of the whole environment instead of doing it the easy, simpler way. We want to make sure that, in the future, we might develop the gameplay horizontally (to new navies, new theaters, new eras) as well as vertically - upwards, to the operational or the strategic scale, but also downwards, to the platform level (that is the single-ship, single-plane scale). In that regard, an air combat module is high on the priority list, not the least because of 1942:the Pacific Air War's legacy (and the obvious and sweet history we claim to have with the MPS PTO naval series).

Still, as you might know already, Dash has clearly stated a few times in the past that he might take his neighbor's kitten hostage until we eventually achieve an acceptable level of realism and simulation of surface combat. So, unless you find a way to send in a SWAT team through his kitchen's window or free them cute kitties yourself, we might have to give in to his cruel demands and make sure that our ships shoot straight and swing swell first. Then we'll worry about the air war further wink

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#4492265 - 10/10/19 09:28 AM Re: WW2 Carrier game - would anyone play that today? [Re: The_Admiral]  
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Looks like it's all coming together nicely!

#4492267 - 10/10/19 10:25 AM Re: WW2 Carrier game - would anyone play that today? [Re: The_Admiral]  
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Originally Posted by The_Admiral

Still, as you might know already, Dash has clearly stated a few times in the past that he might take his neighbor's kitten hostage until we eventually achieve an acceptable level of realism and simulation of surface combat. So, unless you find a way to send in a SWAT team through his kitchen's window or free them cute kitties yourself, we might have to give in to his cruel demands and make sure that our ships shoot straight and swing swell first. Then we'll worry about the air war further wink



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But seriously, the need for another WWII flight simulator is not as great as the need for a WWII surface ship simulator. IMO


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#4492660 - 10/12/19 08:07 PM Re: WW2 Carrier game - would anyone play that today? [Re: The_Admiral]  
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It all sounds great and its looking pretty darn amazing. Thanks for the info. I could barely keep from going cross eyed trying to write this post with Dash's animated Gif cycling itself just above lol.


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#4492831 - 10/14/19 10:35 AM Re: WW2 Carrier game - would anyone play that today? [Re: The_Admiral]  
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edit - and android on a samsung s8 and tablet.

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#4492906 - 10/14/19 07:57 PM Re: WW2 Carrier game - would anyone play that today? [Re: The_Admiral]  
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#4492963 - 10/15/19 05:40 AM Re: WW2 Carrier game - would anyone play that today? [Re: The_Admiral]  
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Wow just wow. You have a sure sale here.


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#4493407 - 10/18/19 05:58 AM Re: WW2 Carrier game - would anyone play that today? [Re: The_Admiral]  
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iOS has Carrier Air Battles. I found it to be good.


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#4493431 - 10/18/19 10:00 AM Re: WW2 Carrier game - would anyone play that today? [Re: The_Admiral]  
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Thanks guys!

Currently writing a blog post about our... "launch". Things have been wild! Thousands of views, hundreds of comments, etc...
Only problem: operating from China right now, there was a strengthening of access restrictions and although I can see all this activity pile up from my mailbox, I have no way of replying these fellows...

Ah, good old SimHQ is still accessible - but the rest, not so much!

@Timothy
Maybe you mean Carrier Battles for Guadalcanal (which is a very fine game by another Frenchman partly based on CARRIER)? Or do you mean the 3D action thing?

#4494326 - 10/24/19 01:58 AM Re: WW2 Carrier game - would anyone play that today? [Re: The_Admiral]  
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Nice to see The History Guy doing that quick blurb on YT as well! Full steam ahead smile


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#4494468 - 10/25/19 07:48 AM Re: WW2 Carrier game - would anyone play that today? [Re: F4UDash4]  
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This is looking great. Superb ship models. Looking forward to seeing this progress. Be interesting to see how ship AI developes. I am thinking of things like ships moving in fleet formation. Carriers turning upwind to launch/receive aircraft. Ships taking avoiding action, to avoid collision, torpedoes etc. Weaving and turning to make for a more difficult target for dive bombers. All these little tactical details will make this really great.

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#4494487 - 10/25/19 10:35 AM Re: WW2 Carrier game - would anyone play that today? [Re: The_Admiral]  
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This sim is most definitely looking very good and you can count me in for a pre-order when the time comes!


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#4494832 - 10/27/19 02:06 PM Re: WW2 Carrier game - would anyone play that today? [Re: The_Admiral]  
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Hello everybody!
A small update to say that we made a small devblog update. You gents will probably not find anything really new in there, as most of it is about a few important facts regarding what the game is, and what it isn't. But fear not, we inserted a few screens so that people wouldn't fall asleep to easily once they get hit by my wall of text ^^

This way --> https://drydockdreams.games/2019/10/26/making-waves/

Hope you like them clouds smile

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#4494845 - 10/27/19 03:47 PM Re: WW2 Carrier game - would anyone play that today? [Re: The_Admiral]  
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Very interested in the game. Hope it gets some form of coop but it will be what it is I guess. One of the few games Im looking forward to.

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#4494916 - 10/28/19 03:20 AM Re: WW2 Carrier game - would anyone play that today? [Re: The_Admiral]  
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Originally Posted by The_Admiral


@Timothy
Maybe you mean Carrier Battles for Guadalcanal (which is a very fine game by another Frenchman partly based on CARRIER)? Or do you mean the 3D action thing?


https://apps.apple.com/us/app/carrier-battles-4-guadalcanal/id961994680


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#4494930 - 10/28/19 07:18 AM Re: WW2 Carrier game - would anyone play that today? [Re: The_Admiral]  
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Aye, yes that one.
PC version is on the way (with newer, 3D graphics)
http://www.carrier-battles.com

Go have a look. I am a proud kickstarter backer myself wink

#4495807 - 11/03/19 04:57 AM Re: WW2 Carrier game - would anyone play that today? [Re: The_Admiral]  
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It's been a while - and although we've been updating on social platforms, I could understand well enough that somebody would be keen on getting a twitter or a facebook account just for us. So here's a sneak peek at what we've been doing these last few days wink
I guess I don't really need to narrate the action - technically, it shows our on-going work on ship evasion tactics, dive-bombing doctrine and AI, shipborne AA, ship physics (you can see the flight deck roll in a big turn) and new FX. Some new video footage will be available in a few weeks from now. Unfortunately the SimHQ website isn't too fond of linking directly to images on twitter, so I invite you to head over to our Grogheads thread just this time, if you want to know what follows next wink

http://grogheads.com/forums/index.php?topic=23950.30

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#4495822 - 11/03/19 11:52 AM Re: WW2 Carrier game - would anyone play that today? [Re: The_Admiral]  
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What a cracking picture!

#4495858 - 11/03/19 05:46 PM Re: WW2 Carrier game - would anyone play that today? [Re: The_Admiral]  
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Latest developments look very good indeed. Got this on my Wish List already.

#4495860 - 11/03/19 06:08 PM Re: WW2 Carrier game - would anyone play that today? [Re: The_Admiral]  
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Have you guys run into any issues licensing the grumman pacific theater planes? Several of the flight simulation companies refused to do pacific theater stuff because of the issues with the planes being litigation magnets. As for the pics. Just make a discord channel for your game, upload them to discord and hotlink straight from discord.

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