Put your earphones on or deal with your neighbor : Task Force Admiral Dev Feature (Work in Progress)
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2024
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Just a small video of on-going feature integration made over the last week in Task Force Admiral - in this case voice messages and the corresponding entries in the game logs. Hope we're getting the mood right, at least somewhat!
Still much work to do, and it ain't no Greyhound sequence just yet, but I hope some of you will find the effort commendable. Most of the audio stuff is here more for a matter of flavor than actual info, as important events will still be properly logged in the relevant journal (the upper right corner main comms window currently playing that role for all PoVs). Eventually you will be able to filter what you want to read, and what you want to hear.
"Public announcement" message types are PoV-based (as you can see at the beginning) while your usual MC comms can be made available in flagplot & external view both. Music & SFX are all in-game, what you see is currently what you get. Voices, messages, callsigns etc... are obviously not final. it's still a bit buggy but we're getting close to what we're aiming for. It can only get better from there!
Thanks in advance for your understanding - and for sharing to those who you think will enjoy! Cheers :)
The Team 
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Hum, the Algo ain't being too much help today, shouldn't be posting on Tuesdays it seems... Anyway, let me reiterate that your help is very much needed to get these take off - if you feel like sharing this video with your own community of like-minded people on other platforms (social media message boards, etc...), , please do, it will do wonders for it to find a second wind!
Cheers & thank you all for following us 😘
The Team
Guys, this looks fantastic. After War on the Sea let us all down, we're super stoked to see Task Force Admiral
How has WotS let you down?
Very much looking forward to TFA, but WotS has not let me down
Yeah, WotS *could* have been fantastic, but the lack of AI was a killer. Great game, I've sunk way more hours into it than I probably should have lol And it has its fun moments, the game really shines in surface engagements. But WotS desperately needs functional AI to help manage battles, and it just doesn't have it. TF:A looks much smarter and fluid in terms of AI and gameplay, so if the game delivers, it will easily become the new industry standard.
Bad /lack of AI, clunky UI, game only bringing a couple of units into a battle when it should include many multitudes more, having to micro manage every rudder turn.@@peterhowe547
@@bimmerbomber2002for me it was the carriers plus ai, definitely lackluster but a decent game all around may have prospered more if based on ww1 engagements in Europe and maybe some event in the pacific
Unbelievably amazing stuff. My jaw is on the floor.
I gotta read all my Hornfischer books (RIP) all over again now.
Aye, may he rest in peace. Neptune's inferno right by my bedside, always re-reading a few lines every time I go to bed.
@@DrydockDreamsGames I wholly recommend Kaigun by David Evans and Mark Peattie, incredible insight into the IJN. Both great authors also sadly not with us anymore.
Although knowing you guys, you are lightyears ahead of me, sorry to presume you haven't read it yet.
I still remember being amazed in Battlestations: Pacific when the Destroyers would sound Air Raid Sirens when engaging enemy aircraft.
With this amount of detail, I'm gonna be on the floor when it releases.
Have you played any of the mods for the game?
@@peterhowe547 Oh yeah, definitely dude.
I played the sh*t out the game and still stop by it yearly.
Only matter of time I modded it.
@ThatChargerPursuitGuy it was the first game by dad showed me on his new 360. Loved it ever since
Holy, the audio is one of the things i aways get mad at games for not putting importance on it boost the immersion at such high levels.Nice to see it is not overlooked here.
I hope the pilots have the same treatment with radio comms about the combat.
That was so intense. The call outs, the sound, the alarm.... I LOVE IT!
After the 3:00 min mark, I legit got chills with all the sound. The sound design is incredible.
I wanted to see the damage so bad! That was intense!!
Wow. You guys are bringing history to life.
Fantastic!
It's absolutely great, good Job👍
One of the immersive and best Sounddesigns i've ever Heard in a Videogame
Oh my, that Val (?) crash at 2:36 is fantastic. Great work guys.
Wow! Really immersive detail and representation. And the water/ocean visuals and dynamics are just first-rate and as good, if not better, than anything else I've seen out there. Great job Drydock Dreams!
Posted on Subsim, good work!
Immersion to the max. You guys are incredibly talented.
This looks amazing.
I think the distinguishing feature between TF:A and every other naval warfare sim to date is the apparent ability of friendly AI to take care of themselves to some degree. Moving to AA action stations, holding formation until practicable, and then breaking formation to evade, all on its own cognizance, is a quantum leap in AI compared to other naval warfare titles.
In War on the Sea, you feel like God trying to herd lobotomized cats. The AI can't do anything to save their lives, and you end up becoming one man trying to play 10 different ships at once. And lets not get started on aircraft and their accompanying task load.
In TF:A, the player vibe appears to be much more in the vein of "Admiral overseeing a fleet of competent, organic, functioning subordinates", where the AI actually takes reasonable steps to preserve itself, and provide a measure of resistance to the enemy.
Considering that what has killed previous naval warfare titles is task-saturation due to incompetent AI needing constant babysitting, TF:A looks set to become the new, definitive high water mark for the genre.
My body is ready.
Love the crew audio and the sirens! guns could use some umph though ;)
wow looks incredible! really captures the chaos of battle
This looks absolutely stunning! Seeing one of my dream games coming true is awesome!
It's always a good day when you upload.
Im exited more and more with every new video.
This game is becoming amazing!
Wonderful work
Sounds are incredible!!! Headphones in was a great tip!
holy fucking shit, this looks and sounds amazing!
you guys came a long way, still cant wait.
The sound in this game is amazing! You guys seriously went above and beyond with this!
Can't come fast enough. So looking forward to playing this!
This is looking and sounding great. The water is awesome, I am getting navy day flash backs. I have played allot of War in the Pacific Admirals Edition, as this is the kind of detail I am looking forward too play, you simulation here is really following the right stuff, cant wait to buy it and play.
I can't wait to experience this!
so hyped for this game
A bit late, but i’ve got my earphones ready!
Excellent.
Just take my money now!!!!
Thats so cool! Very imersive!
Very nice! A small suggestion though: I'm not sure if the alarms and announcement of a torpedo hit would occur within 0.5 second of it happening? Perhaps there should be a bit of lag time between the hit and the alarms/announcement?
That's exactly what I was going to post.
Can’t wait for this game 😮
man, i was on the edge of my seat, hoping the Cruiser missed the torps. Love it so far, can not wait for it
Looking forward to this game.
Que buen juego no puedo esperar para probarlo!
Amazing
Wow, this is legitimately impressive!
BZ team!
This game is going to be a dream to play. All the historical details from the plane schemes to the stripes from which carrier they come from is insane. Would love to see the smaller Japanese carriers like Junyo, Ryujo, and Zuiho in this!
Played war on the sea a while ago and found the idea very good, but i was somewhat dissatisfied with the product. This however looks very good. Beaitful graphics and a very passionate dev team as it seems. Will go on my wishlist
OK LETS GO!!
That did not feel like 4 minutes wow. TFA is going to be the dream game
So, I just unironically had a dream where I was playing this game (Guess you could call it a drydock dream? ...I'll see myself out). As far as I'm concerned, it can't come soon enough. :)
Though, why one of my dream TGs was led by HMS Hood, I'll never know. Guess this was an alternate dreamiverse where Hood and PoW sank Bismarck at the Denmark Strait and were sent to the Pacific?
New video game genre discovered haha
Good stuff. I like that the AI aircraft coordinated their torpedo runs to box you in
Credit where credit is due, but I'd wager that each sauadron's flight path and attack run were manually assigned by the player and not by the AI. I hope I'm mistaken though, bc it would be incredible if the AI could perform that well
ratatatatatatatata * WOOOOOO . . . . WOOOOOO *
Yes
Nawlins was a tough old girl.
Man I’m excited for this, I’ll be honest though I’m mostly supporting this so I can get the sequel with japan
As a massive WW2 pacific fan myself im looking forward to this game... you guys shod focuse on 2 key elements.. DONT repate the mistakes war on sea did. First make the game simple to control... to much confusing will lose alot of potential buyers/players... and 2 the damage animation or models... when the ships are hit with a thorpedo or bomb if youy can add some animation or model change to the ships when they are damaged that can be a massive game changer! Keap up the good work.
This feels like a movie. What are all the different alarms for? They are at 0:11, 0:16, 2:29, and 3:17. I also hear the boatswain whistle and I think it sounds the general quarters twice in total.
Out of curiosity, do you plan to have tiny people running across the decks manning the gun? Or would that be too much?
Too much right now. Kickstarter goal (to show them, then to have them running around, that's two goals already ^^)
@@DrydockDreamsGames just keep doing what you’re doing!
This was going to be my question!! That is where so many games of this genre fall short but it would not only give such a connected sense of realism but also a sense of scale!! This game right now is looking GREAT💥 keep up the amazing work!👍🏼
I wounder what pain you get during the part when you had to man the AA guns on any sort of ship small or big, something like this would be scary!
Curious if sailor models will be added in eventually
Amaizing job guys, love what you are doong with the game. A question if i may, will we be able to see crew on the ships?
I wish this game would be released in early access
Question, since a lot of historical videos of air attacks are silent....would the trumpet music be played, or just klaxons and general quarters when the air attack was called out?
can there be support for over 400 planes fighting eachother in sky? or just few to represnt
did torpedo sections really pull out wide like that after dropping their fish? I was always under the assumption that they flew full speed across the ship
Will you add crew on the ships ? Or will they be manned by ghosts ? Just joking , looks amazing , but please add some crew even if is not animated.
Cheers !
Low priority - but you're welcome to add up to the corresponding kickstarter goal when it comes up :)
@@DrydockDreamsGames its understandable ! Its been a long way , i remember when you first posted your first or second featurette. Keep the amazing work.
This reminds me of that footage of USS Enterprise's helmsman doing the Tokyo drift, evading air attack, during the Battle of Santa Cruz (as Drach showcased in Drydock ep. 137, @~23m10s).
Anyway, I'm lovin' the absolutely chaotic soundscape (as it should be) and the extremely immersive visuals!
*Well done, guys!*
Though, if I may, I wouldn't mind seeing a more pronounced wake and heavier listing when turning--if such is according to history, that is.
(CV-6 Tokyo drifting may have ruined my sense of reality/history)
That's because she's caught at cruise speed :) the speed indicator is still in km/h for testing reasons. that would be way more chaotic at higher speed, but for that she needs advance warning that she did not have here. Steam takes its sweet time to build up.
Is this game released on steam
Will the IJN have their own voices too?
IJN isn't for now unfortunately, sorry...! At some point, hopefully!
@@DrydockDreamsGames ah that's such a sad news.
Sounds were cool. View from the deck was great and seeing the planes and smoke puffs at range were quite realistic. However, I saw no ship make any evasive maneuvers which would be standard to avoid the attack runs by planes, bombers and torpedoes. Typically they will turn in circles or long zig zags, depending on their formation. It didn't even look like they sped up.
Hopefully, those aspects are in the works. Keep it real!
Don't sink the ship!
The video is literally about an evasive maneuver 😅
USN ships don't go in circles for these. This is as you say a matter of a series of turns - which is done first after the relevant announcement (which you can see in the radio log too) once the attack axis have been identified.
Without proper air cover these Kates were able to do a pincer, so evading them before they drop is meaningless considering that showing the stern to one group automatically means showing the side to the other.
For more elaborate evasive maneuvers, the video from August or those made by contents creators about the same scenario should put your worries to rest :)
Cheers
The game looks GREAT- but I added this to my Steam page almost four years ago. Does anyone have any idea when this game will be released? Because at this rate, purchasers won't be able to play as the Japanese until- what? 2035?
Game looks utterly stunning, just like being there. But the music kind of takes me out of it... A little bit retro Hollywood. I'd prefer something a little more modern or minimalist.