Silent Hunter games were the most immersive and atmospheric sims I ever played. I never felt U-boat was able to re-create that and managing the tunes on the ship is a chore. I hope MicroProse nails this one.
I like UBOAT, I feel like the game manages quite a lot of the things itself (maybe im playing medium-low managing difficulty?) but I definitely feel UBOAT beats the hell out of whatever the crap we call Silent Hunter 5 (or even Silent Hunter Online) - Ubi ruined those games.. SH3-4 are ofc AMAZING
@@theShermanator Well, maybe Silent Hunter 5 but other than that, every time they update Uboat I try it and then uninstall it. To each their own, it just doesn't feel as real to me. Cheers!
The mention of ground targets could actually be in reference to the USS Barb, a gato class that conducted several attacks on ground targets, including a raid that blew up a japanese train
Microprose isn't really "back" -- it was 'revived' by a dude who used to work for Bohemia (ArmA series) and only really has, unofficially, one of the previous founders from old... So far what I've seen is they're just churning out mostly "meh" stuff...
@@Marauder1981 Don't get me wrong, its cool, but its just another indie game... Its one of those games you play for a handful of hours, go "oh cool, neat" then forget its even in your steam library for years until you revisit it...
I think I still have Silent Service 2, I do in fact still have my Amiga. Always looking for a modern ship combat game, but there aren't a lot out there.
@@slandshark It was such an awesome game for its time. My dad would only play war simulators and it was a bit advanced for me at that age so we would play together for hours. I'd be identifying all of the ships with the game manual and helping him hit certain hotkeys during combat, we had a blast with it. Once I was old enough to play on my own we then got competitive with it, seeing who could get the best tonnage each night. Would absolutely love to find another game like it that isn't super overly complicated or reliant on multiplayer.
@@theShermanator no they sent an few people ashore with one of the subs scuttling charges and rigged the track to detonate when the train went over it.
@@theShermanator they put their scuttling charge on the tracks and rigged it to blow. that train got to see what it was like to fly before slamming back into the Earth, and rolling down into the ocean.
The world has enough lite subsims. I need something to fill the void SH3 left in my heart because I still play it all these years later. The pacific submarine war is criminally underrepresented in the genre too
I would love more pacific submarine combat. I feel like there is definitely a lot less pacific theaters in games because most of them focus on the western front and eastern. Hopefully this turns out to be a pretty good game and gets continued development because a modern pacific sub game would be awesome, no downloading old mods and such. I always enjoyed the Silent Hunter series but being so old, downloading the mods and having it work with a more modern computer is very annoying.
Loved the Silent Hunter series. SH4 had a nice tin presentation with sewn badges photos etc. graphic were very much of the time. It was the atmosphere though, hearing the deep rhythmic pounding of a destroyers’ engines as it passed over you, you waited for the splash of a depth charge. Really got the blood pumping
Many PC sim games were so much more demanding of the player than modern versions of the same. I can't say if that's because PC users in the past were generally OLDER or modern audiences lack patience for the same experience. With Souls-like games making noise I thought perhaps the youth wanted to return to real challenge but that's the exception - not the rule.
Silent Hunter 2 is one of my favorite games. I hope Silent Depth follows that path. And the same UI. In SH2 you could run everything from the keyboard!
What really excites me is seeing views from the Japanese subs. I don't know any sub sims that give a Japanese perspective. I mean, there's War on the Sea, but that's painfully slow paced for one, and for another it's not a pure sub sim. I want something like UBOAT where I can walk around the inside!
I agree about the droplets on the screen. Would be a little annoying. And I'm afraid that not seeing a crew would be a deal breaker for me. I don't want to be operating a ghost ship. I'll be watching it.
I started playing U-Boat games with Silent Service on a C64 in the late 80's. nice to see that MicroProse came full circle some 40 years later 😁I still play almost every U-Boat game there is. U-Boat ist my current go to title. So greatly looking forward to this one.
I just would love to see a submarine sim game that has a “DCS-like” style of details and immersion. It should be as much close to real life as possible. It should have dynamic cross section and real sonar simulation with sound waves being actually calculated (similar to ray tracing).
@@theShermanator for now I can say for sure that cold waters have a kind of dynamic sound cross section. Don’t how how is calculated (probably hard coded values based on aspect+distance) but is still better than nothing. Staying head on an active pinging sonar will drop the enemy detection on cold waters compared to getting pinged from the side. Anyway if we can do ray tracing we should be able to do “sound tracing” applying the exact same technology and adjusting some values for the sound (like speed ecc)
It looks good, it has been on my wishlist for a while, but i have burned my hands with early access games more then a few times so i will wait a bit more. I hope it turns into great successor of SH series.
Love WWI sub games since SH2 and also a HLL FPS player as well as Squad. UBoat started off a little too crew management sim for my liking but it has come along way and is now great. So looking forward to a new Allies forces sub entrant.
Lo voy a tener en cuenta. Tengo Silent Hunter 3, 4 y 5 y U-boat, mi favorito sigue siendo el Silent Hunter 3 Ojalá este no se desencamine en el callejón de la microgestión, pero tampoco se quede en la superficie.
Loved the early Silent Hunters and would spend hours sitting on the sea of Japan waiting for a passing convoy! but when the sims started demanding me to manage the crews, I just hated that.
U boat actually messed up the darkness and spotting range it's all over the place It shouldn't be pitch black at night as it's not so dark in real life unless it's a heavy storm. Will be interesting to see how they do this. Also it should be easier than the German Uboat games as the Americans were fighting a far easier navy than the germans vs the Royal Navy who were the peak of navy tech and most powerful in ww2.
I loved the Silvent Hunter games up until IV. I tried V but I didnt like it as much. I will definitely be looking forward to this early access game to check it out!
I loved silent hunter! If this feels similar then it will be fantastic! I was very dissapointed with Uboat, it just doesn't feel right and I couldn't get into it. I liked the complexity of silent hunter and how immersive the sub was
I have a feeling its going to be pretty arcade. Nothing can really compete with the Silent Hunter series at this point. UBOAT wishes it could, but they never envisioned it like that from the start, they relied on mods and the community at first, and now they're finally jumping into it, but its too little, too late IMO.
I really liked the original Silent Depth on mobile, it was one of the few games that gave me Silent Hunter vibes. One thing I hope 2 brings to the table is a working TDC
@@theShermanator Yep, that’s what the first Silent Depth game was. There are also the two Crash Dive games which are decent but a little more arcade like
Interesting. It seems like Microprose is making a bit of a comeback lately. Between this and the various B17 games they are working on, for example. It'll be interesting to follow this one. I do wonder if it will meet or exceed the benchmark set by the likes of 'UBoat' though.
Regiments is also great; they are publisher a lot though, and not so much developer, tho they are listed as both on this one - I hope its gonna be comparable to UBOAT or SH4, its got a lot of hype to live up to!
i played "Silent Service 2" way back then on the Amiga, loved it, been looking for something like that ever since, i just do not like all the Micro Management you have to do on the "new" Sub sims
Man I would do shameful things for a sim like this where I could use the Surcouf. I know she wasn’t a very sound concept, but big guns on a sub gets my caveman brain excited.
I don't feel that reinventing the wheel was necessarry. I played Silent Hunter 4 to death. It was terrific. I would have been thrilled if they had simply reissued Wolves of the Pacific with updated graphics and not changed another thing.
@@theShermanator Oh yeah, I'm aware that these guys aren't Ubisoft. I'm just saying, wouldn't that be great if it could have been done? Imagine SH4, and state of the art graphics.
I've been considering picking up Silent Hunter 4, but have been a bit hesitant cause I am not sure how easy it is to learn to play. This might be a good entry point into subsims, but to be honest, Silent Hunter 4 still looks pretty good despite its age, and its current (sale) price of $2.49 on Steam is really tempting.
It is not as hard as you think, it's like swimming for the first time. You think of the worst. Once you line up and get your first hits on, you'll realise "damn, this is more straightforward than I realised." Like all things you won't know and learn til you take the plunge, for that price you have pretty much a coffee to lose.
RTS sweat here, it's in my wishlist. It's refreshing to not be a German U-Boat. I'd also like to see the British show up. I just like to remind everyone 1945, February 6 - Royal Navy submarine Venturer becomes the only submarine to sink another submarine while they were both submerged when she sinks U-864 off Norway. Just saying. ;)
Meanwhile I would like to see the Dutch, if I recall correctly they where the first to sink a Japanese ship with a submarine after Japan attacked USA in Pearl Harbor.
@@cal7154 lmao, man I forgot about MYST. My mom owned a copy when I was like 8, I once played it for way too long and had dreams about MYST that night, felt like I was on a different plane of existence and got very scared, never played again after that😅😂
The entire Pacific Ocean? I wonder if that means you can sail out of San Diego Harbor, 1942, under escort of an old WWI destroyer about 15-20 miles and then on your own, treating every air/surface/sonar contact as potentially hostile…goal: never be detected!? Navigate by dead reckoning and celestial navigation all the way to Pearl Harbor, radio homing on a simulation of a vintage radio station the last 100 miles or so. That could take 10 days, running at 10 knots on the surface 24hours/day, with lookouts watching the skies all the time…hopefully it has radar modeled…realistically! …not just “canned” dots with a “pre-drawn” sweep. …actual radar beam propagation simulation. And high-resolution, real-life-like binocular views (VR would be cool). But I doubt it. And then deploy on a 30-day patrol out of Pearl. Obviously, no one is going to sit at their computer, day and night for 30 days, so hopefully you can set course and speed and then time compress to the edge of an event area. Something like, “Skipper! Radar contact!” But have that continuity of the entire patrol. Not just random events and not entirely scripted. So, you could navigate wrong and miss the action. If you’ve watched the 1957 movie, “Enemy Below”, you know it can be hours and hours, even days, of intermittently tracking a radar contact at the edge of detection range, always being mindful of position, submarine, systems, crew and supplies and fuel. Very boring to 99% of players. But maybe not if the simulation of the submarine (or destroyer) is realistic and immersive enough…sights and sounds (rumble and roar of the FM diesels, sounds of air blowers and fans, etc)…even recipes of what the cook is preparing in the mess. Maybe event some card game simulation to fill the boredom and give more immersion. Then one could add a kerosene-dampened cloth to (subtlety) add the smell! 😄
Well, I played a lot of Silent Hunter, and it worked like this, partially - you kind of can make that game as hard or as easy as you want, but yeah, that game has a 1x timer all the way to a like x8194 timer, meaning that, realistically you could sail across from LA to Tokyo in either real time or at up to ~8000x the time it would take :) - hopefully this is similar
Looks good, but will be waiting to see if they have an IJN side first as i have no interest in playing american. Till then I'll stick with SH and U-Boat....Axis over Allied anyday
Imagine a submarine game where youre commander or a low level officer and you learn everything about commanding a submarine... and you can ask any question and all of it is driven by actual AI you can talk to and they respond... all in VR. And then at some point you become commander of the submarine and you can give orders with your voice and the crew does it... things like that. Thatd be the most amazing experience ever... you would truly be in a ww2 or modern submarine and actual learn stuff... AI would be useful...
@@theShermanator hi. Beer🍺🍺🍺 consumption in large countites was introduced during ww1 by the germans and still practiced even today by some old fashioned submariners all over the world serving on diesel boats as an ad-hoc home medicine ...supposedly to combat the side effects of inhaling the air staunched by the smells and the fumes coming from the diesel engines...and chlorine gas emanations resulted from the mixing of the bilge water with the sulphuric acid from the submarine batterie banks...😁😁😁🍺🍺🍺👍...
@@theShermanator I think it’s weird I don’t like it. I think it’s the crew management that bugs me even though you can automate it I feel like the game disapproves. Also I feel like the views and controls are fiddly. I keep accidentally zooming in to first person or end up sitting at the wrong station.
Not interested, I can‘t see the WW2 setting anymore. Why can‘t we get a new sub sim in the early to late Cold War scenario ? That would be far more interesting, especially the leap of technology in that era.
A no ser que se mejore con parches posteriores, es un juego con muchas deficiencias. Decepcionante.. Bien entrado ya el siglo ,no se puede hacer algo incluso peor en algunos aspectos que los últimos SH
So effing tired with WWII sub and tank sims already. Has the Cold War never happened or something? Should we still be left to beat the dead horse (DW, even with mods)?
@@theShermanator Well, apart from Dangerous Waters with mods, what else can you (still) play this moment if you want a more or less realistic Cold War experience? Cold Waters is a bit... hard to call a sim. And when we are talking WWII sub sims, the amount is almost as large as the amount of first person shooters set in the same period.
Great to see something new but I'm afraid this is going to be another "light Sim"... The trailed doesn't show any actual workings, no map, no calculations (I'd love a destroyer-style DRT), 'no TDC, and the periscope view is completely off with a German style reticle...
Silent depth 2 is already sinking. It’s absolutely 100% arcade. Microprose will go back into bankruptcy they keep releasing games like this. The mighty 8th redux is just as ass.
Sea foam and waves - as the main visual feature: leaves a lot to be improved. Visually... it looks like some 2008/2012 release, rather than 2024 visual ocean surface. Just hope it will not end up - as SH5: moders community should "save the project"... ( In the presentation... stormy weather and clear sunny reflections - are avoided... it looks like some lake in Scotland... rather than tropical ocean... )
Fuckin Steam, I got so many naval and sub games, yet they only promote Manga and Fortnite shit to me. Wish I could list for developers/ publishers like Hooded Horse, Mircoprose or Slitherine and totally block Ubisoft (thx for SH5) and EA and the likes.. Thanks for bringing this up.
Unfortunately this game is complete trash... very disappointing. I understand it's still in Early Access but Microsoft completely bombed with this and don't think they will recover from this atrocity. Please read Steam reviews
its trash (for me) its basicly a mobile thats badly ported onto pc. controls suck, realism suck and graphics, well it is prettier then SH2,3,4 but the gamepplay is pretty damn shallow. was really looking for it but refunded it.
Silent Hunter games were the most immersive and atmospheric sims I ever played. I never felt U-boat was able to re-create that and managing the tunes on the ship is a chore. I hope MicroProse nails this one.
I like UBOAT, I feel like the game manages quite a lot of the things itself (maybe im playing medium-low managing difficulty?) but I definitely feel UBOAT beats the hell out of whatever the crap we call Silent Hunter 5 (or even Silent Hunter Online) - Ubi ruined those games.. SH3-4 are ofc AMAZING
@@theShermanator Well, maybe Silent Hunter 5 but other than that, every time they update Uboat I try it and then uninstall it. To each their own, it just doesn't feel as real to me. Cheers!
@@johnwicks4936 Same here dude. I really wanted to love Uboat but I think it is a little too arcade for us SH veterans
I'd absolutely love a Silent Hunter 3/4 remaster but I dread what Ubisoft would do to it nowadays
nothing beats the twos mod with full realism for SH5 imo
The mention of ground targets could actually be in reference to the USS Barb, a gato class that conducted several attacks on ground targets, including a raid that blew up a japanese train
Ha yeah I looked into that later, interesting story!
It would be interesting if they had a sort of first person thing where you can lead raids ashore.
Gotta love that MicroProse is back and is publishing these small team made simulators again!
Microprose isn't really "back" -- it was 'revived' by a dude who used to work for Bohemia (ArmA series) and only really has, unofficially, one of the previous founders from old... So far what I've seen is they're just churning out mostly "meh" stuff...
Yeah huge name in gaming history one the originals, first game I ever played was Microprose soccer back in the 1980s on a Commadore64
Check out Highfleet. Such a good game.
@@Munky332 So, Highfleet is "meh". Well that´s just your opinion, man.
@@Marauder1981 Don't get me wrong, its cool, but its just another indie game... Its one of those games you play for a handful of hours, go "oh cool, neat" then forget its even in your steam library for years until you revisit it...
Kudos to you for actually typing game names on clips I appreciate it
Cheers!
I played so many Microprose games in the 80's and 90's it was a lot of fun. They were the King of Simulations. Glad they came back.
This game is sadly not a sim at all
This takes me back to the 90's playing Silent Service 2 with my dad on the Amiga, will check this one out when it drops.
I think I still have Silent Service 2, I do in fact still have my Amiga. Always looking for a modern ship combat game, but there aren't a lot out there.
@@slandshark It was such an awesome game for its time. My dad would only play war simulators and it was a bit advanced for me at that age so we would play together for hours. I'd be identifying all of the ships with the game manual and helping him hit certain hotkeys during combat, we had a blast with it. Once I was old enough to play on my own we then got competitive with it, seeing who could get the best tonnage each night. Would absolutely love to find another game like it that isn't super overly complicated or reliant on multiplayer.
@@TrippzUK That's a pretty awesome memory with your dad!
Gato-class USS Barb (SS-220) sank a train so that could be a mission in game.
lmao did it torpedo a bridge the train was on? thats interesting!
@@theShermanator no they sent an few people ashore with one of the subs scuttling charges and rigged the track to detonate when the train went over it.
@@theShermanator they put their scuttling charge on the tracks and rigged it to blow. that train got to see what it was like to fly before slamming back into the Earth, and rolling down into the ocean.
Real people died no need to be excessively glib "they got to see what it was like to fly" come on speak like an adult with some respect
@@spyczech Welcome to the internet, must be your first time?
Glad to see MicroProse still kicking.
MicroProse has been dead since the 90's. This is a "re-animation" of it's 30 year dead corpse.
@@blacbraun Re-animation that delivered a few superb quality products already!
The world has enough lite subsims. I need something to fill the void SH3 left in my heart because I still play it all these years later. The pacific submarine war is criminally underrepresented in the genre too
GWX with SH3 is amazing tho
@@grapeape7284 u-boat no good?
@@theShermanator Any new vids about this game????
Got it setting on my wish list now.. Been playing a lot of U-Boat, Cold Waters and War on the sea for the moment
been on my wishlist for a little while, am excited to see what it looks like, I will definitely report back if its worth!
I would love more pacific submarine combat. I feel like there is definitely a lot less pacific theaters in games because most of them focus on the western front and eastern. Hopefully this turns out to be a pretty good game and gets continued development because a modern pacific sub game would be awesome, no downloading old mods and such. I always enjoyed the Silent Hunter series but being so old, downloading the mods and having it work with a more modern computer is very annoying.
Loved the Silent Hunter series. SH4 had a nice tin presentation with sewn badges photos etc. graphic were very much of the time. It was the atmosphere though, hearing the deep rhythmic pounding of a destroyers’ engines as it passed over you, you waited for the splash of a depth charge. Really got the blood pumping
Many PC sim games were so much more demanding of the player than modern versions of the same. I can't say if that's because PC users in the past were generally OLDER or modern audiences lack patience for the same experience. With Souls-like games making noise I thought perhaps the youth wanted to return to real challenge but that's the exception - not the rule.
Silent Hunter 2 is one of my favorite games. I hope Silent Depth follows that path. And the same UI. In SH2 you could run everything from the keyboard!
Wow I never got into SH2, I only did SH3 and beyond
@@marks7502 also in SH3 and SH4 if not wrong
What really excites me is seeing views from the Japanese subs. I don't know any sub sims that give a Japanese perspective. I mean, there's War on the Sea, but that's painfully slow paced for one, and for another it's not a pure sub sim. I want something like UBOAT where I can walk around the inside!
Id love a Japanese sub game like this/Uboat for sure
I agree about the droplets on the screen. Would be a little annoying. And I'm afraid that not seeing a crew would be a deal breaker for me. I don't want to be operating a ghost ship. I'll be watching it.
The crew thing is kinda a big thing for me too
UUUUUH thank you so much for bringing my attention to this game!
Any time! - However thank me when it turns out good :D
I started playing U-Boat games with Silent Service on a C64 in the late 80's. nice to see that MicroProse came full circle some 40 years later 😁I still play almost every U-Boat game there is. U-Boat ist my current go to title. So greatly looking forward to this one.
I love playing Uboat, I've been playing the beta for the full release and the progression from the Type-II to the Type-Vii-C-41 is so fun
I just would love to see a submarine sim game that has a “DCS-like” style of details and immersion. It should be as much close to real life as possible. It should have dynamic cross section and real sonar simulation with sound waves being actually calculated (similar to ray tracing).
Oh that sounds kinda insane, maybe there are some mods out there
@@theShermanator for now I can say for sure that cold waters have a kind of dynamic sound cross section. Don’t how how is calculated (probably hard coded values based on aspect+distance) but is still better than nothing.
Staying head on an active pinging sonar will drop the enemy detection on cold waters compared to getting pinged from the side.
Anyway if we can do ray tracing we should be able to do “sound tracing” applying the exact same technology and adjusting some values for the sound (like speed ecc)
I think a lot of that may be classified
@@Little1-1 no one ever quotes wolfpack, yet it is recent and the game you are looking for. None of that arcady stuff
@@XxFallenFlagxX I was thinking you cannot play solo, you need people to crew the sub
NICE THAT ALLOT OF NAVAL MICROPROSE GAMES 90sssss
It looks good, it has been on my wishlist for a while, but i have burned my hands with early access games more then a few times so i will wait a bit more. I hope it turns into great successor of SH series.
Love WWI sub games since SH2 and also a HLL FPS player as well as Squad. UBoat started off a little too crew management sim for my liking but it has come along way and is now great. So looking forward to a new Allies forces sub entrant.
I like the look of this. I play RTS games. I played Silent Service 2 in the 90’s on the Amiga
I feel like RTS players would kinda like games like this ya know
It's by Microprose. That's good enough for me.
well we'll have to see how good it is
Lo voy a tener en cuenta.
Tengo Silent Hunter 3, 4 y 5 y U-boat, mi favorito sigue siendo el Silent Hunter 3
Ojalá este no se desencamine en el callejón de la microgestión, pero tampoco se quede en la superficie.
I want to visit the titanic, but I want to use a game controller to navigate it.
Are there any ACES OF THE DEEP OGs in here?
Jawohl Herr Kaleun!
Jawohl Herr Kaleun! Wasserbomben abgeworfen
(OMG I was so young in these days lol)
@@wishmaster2107 Me too. I was 10 trying to figure out how to operate a u boat lol while blasting the record player in the game lolol
Aces Of The Deep Commander edition, used to have an old 486 laptop just to play it again!
@@retrobox4747 what was the commander edition?
water model looks awesome..
I played SIlent hunter as teenager as much as i could on my weekends and i loved it and yes im a german x)
I sure wish someone would put out a new World War One U-boat sim!
Loved the early Silent Hunters and would spend hours sitting on the sea of Japan waiting for a passing convoy! but when the sims started demanding me to manage the crews, I just hated that.
U boat actually messed up the darkness and spotting range it's all over the place
It shouldn't be pitch black at night as it's not so dark in real life unless it's a heavy storm. Will be interesting to see how they do this.
Also it should be easier than the German Uboat games as the Americans were fighting a far easier navy than the germans vs the Royal Navy who were the peak of navy tech and most powerful in ww2.
I'd be very interested to be able to play as the Japanese as well.
a Japanese sub campaign would be cool; dont think we've seen that outside of mods for Silent Hunter for example
I loved the Silvent Hunter games up until IV. I tried V but I didnt like it as much. I will definitely be looking forward to this early access game to check it out!
Gateaux class! Only Americans would name a sub after a French cake 😂😂😂
Love it 🎂
Microprose.....famous for Falcon 4.0 and Falcon, Lead Pursuit
F1 racing games need to have this level is simulation conpaired to a easier arcade mode for casual players.
ha agreed
I loved silent hunter! If this feels similar then it will be fantastic! I was very dissapointed with Uboat, it just doesn't feel right and I couldn't get into it. I liked the complexity of silent hunter and how immersive the sub was
I have a feeling its going to be pretty arcade. Nothing can really compete with the Silent Hunter series at this point. UBOAT wishes it could, but they never envisioned it like that from the start, they relied on mods and the community at first, and now they're finally jumping into it, but its too little, too late IMO.
I really liked the original Silent Depth on mobile, it was one of the few games that gave me Silent Hunter vibes. One thing I hope 2 brings to the table is a working TDC
mobile had a subsim game? damn
@@theShermanator Yep, that’s what the first Silent Depth game was. There are also the two Crash Dive games which are decent but a little more arcade like
Great! Let us know when it's finished.
@@X4Adventures yeah im kinda hoping its not really rough on release..
ooh this looks good, "no external view" here i come
Interesting. It seems like Microprose is making a bit of a comeback lately. Between this and the various B17 games they are working on, for example. It'll be interesting to follow this one. I do wonder if it will meet or exceed the benchmark set by the likes of 'UBoat' though.
Regiments is also great; they are publisher a lot though, and not so much developer, tho they are listed as both on this one - I hope its gonna be comparable to UBOAT or SH4, its got a lot of hype to live up to!
Oo-bot! Looks funny but I'm waiting for B-17 Flying Fortress The Bloody 100th :C
I would kill for a pacific theater game on the lines with Wolfpack or u boat.
Man, UBOAT but in Pacific, US/British/Japanese subs, and im down 100%
Thunder Below!
check out crash dive 2 it is also a submarine game in pacific although the maps are selected like phillipines japan, solomon inlands etc
i played "Silent Service 2" way back then on the Amiga, loved it, been looking for something like that ever since, i just do not like all the Micro Management you have to do on the "new" Sub sims
OH wow, I definitely didnt play that haha
Here is to hoping i meet all system requirements 🙏
its been kinda disappointing for me..
Man I would do shameful things for a sim like this where I could use the Surcouf. I know she wasn’t a very sound concept, but big guns on a sub gets my caveman brain excited.
Ha Surcouf would be hilarious
Myself I enjoyed Wolpack VIIC submarine simulator
@@gigachad293 i do love that one too!!
I played a lot of Silent Depth 1. I dont think this will be too hardcore. Mostly casual I believe, just point and shoot really.
Oh really? I know it said lite sim but hopefully there is some possibility to change it a bit like in UBOAT/Silent Hunter
I really hope we'll be able to disable the "Water on the glass" effect, because it seems (based on the footage) to be very repetitive; noticeably so.
Yeah I noticed that
@@KevinStoffel yeah like it’s ok on the periscope if very close to the water level but on the free camera just big no no.
That looks really interesting. I really hope Microprose hammers it out of the park with this one.
Me too.. kinda need a good US submarine game after Sh4 is like old af now lol
I LOVE TO SEE MICROPROSE COMEBACK AFTER ALL THESE YEARS. They were making gold gems. Only gold gems.
Its kinda neat huh
One thing I've learned from SH and Uboat, is that people will want to mod for realism, in every way they possibly can.
agreed!
When I play RTS my mind just says “send in your most elite troops then onward to the enemy HQ” PANZERS WILL ADVANCE
@@ryleeculla5570 first troops=dead troops
Elite go in the back
I don't feel that reinventing the wheel was necessarry. I played Silent Hunter 4 to death. It was terrific. I would have been thrilled if they had simply reissued Wolves of the Pacific with updated graphics and not changed another thing.
This is not by the same devs of SH4, different devs, different publishers, I was just using it as an example, but id kill for SH4 remastered yeah
@@theShermanator Oh yeah, I'm aware that these guys aren't Ubisoft. I'm just saying, wouldn't that be great if it could have been done? Imagine SH4, and state of the art graphics.
I've been considering picking up Silent Hunter 4, but have been a bit hesitant cause I am not sure how easy it is to learn to play. This might be a good entry point into subsims, but to be honest, Silent Hunter 4 still looks pretty good despite its age, and its current (sale) price of $2.49 on Steam is really tempting.
@@duglife2230 you can learn IT easily if you understand TDC And have good approach you should be ok
If you're interested in the Pacific theater, yes. I still really like Silent Hunter 5 with "The Wolves of Steel" mod. It vastly improves the game.
Silent Hunter 3 master race
It is not as hard as you think, it's like swimming for the first time. You think of the worst.
Once you line up and get your first hits on, you'll realise "damn, this is more straightforward than I realised."
Like all things you won't know and learn til you take the plunge, for that price you have pretty much a coffee to lose.
Tons of videos to learn from. NOTHING beats the atmosphere an immersion of the Silent Hunter series.
RTS sweat here, it's in my wishlist.
It's refreshing to not be a German U-Boat.
I'd also like to see the British show up. I just like to remind everyone 1945, February 6 - Royal Navy submarine Venturer becomes the only submarine to sink another submarine while they were both submerged when she sinks U-864 off Norway.
Just saying. ;)
Meanwhile I would like to see the Dutch, if I recall correctly they where the first to sink a Japanese ship with a submarine after Japan attacked USA in Pearl Harbor.
If there is a Japanese campaign I would consider a purchase 👍
Man Id love that
Do they have any plans for a Japanese campaign?
If they made it VR compatible...
very interesting, however I would rather see a sub sim with japanese subs.
Man Id love that too!
I love MicroProse. I do Not love the extremely annoying water drips. Pleeezze remove the water drips!
Looks like MYST but on a submarine
@@cal7154 lmao, man I forgot about MYST. My mom owned a copy when I was like 8, I once played it for way too long and had dreams about MYST that night, felt like I was on a different plane of existence and got very scared, never played again after that😅😂
@@theShermanator they remade RIVEN the sequel recently too lol. Man I miss those days sometimes.
Mircoprose, nuff said!
MP from now is different MP from back in the day iirc tho
The entire Pacific Ocean? I wonder if that means you can sail out of San Diego Harbor, 1942, under escort of an old WWI destroyer about 15-20 miles and then on your own, treating every air/surface/sonar contact as potentially hostile…goal: never be detected!? Navigate by dead reckoning and celestial navigation all the way to Pearl Harbor, radio homing on a simulation of a vintage radio station the last 100 miles or so. That could take 10 days, running at 10 knots on the surface 24hours/day, with lookouts watching the skies all the time…hopefully it has radar modeled…realistically! …not just “canned” dots with a “pre-drawn” sweep. …actual radar beam propagation simulation. And high-resolution, real-life-like binocular views (VR would be cool). But I doubt it.
And then deploy on a 30-day patrol out of Pearl.
Obviously, no one is going to sit at their computer, day and night for 30 days, so hopefully you can set course and speed and then time compress to the edge of an event area. Something like, “Skipper! Radar contact!” But have that continuity of the entire patrol. Not just random events and not entirely scripted. So, you could navigate wrong and miss the action. If you’ve watched the 1957 movie, “Enemy Below”, you know it can be hours and hours, even days, of intermittently tracking a radar contact at the edge of detection range, always being mindful of position, submarine, systems, crew and supplies and fuel. Very boring to 99% of players. But maybe not if the simulation of the submarine (or destroyer) is realistic and immersive enough…sights and sounds (rumble and roar of the FM diesels, sounds of air blowers and fans, etc)…even recipes of what the cook is preparing in the mess. Maybe event some card game simulation to fill the boredom and give more immersion. Then one could add a kerosene-dampened cloth to (subtlety) add the smell! 😄
Well, I played a lot of Silent Hunter, and it worked like this, partially - you kind of can make that game as hard or as easy as you want, but yeah, that game has a 1x timer all the way to a like x8194 timer, meaning that, realistically you could sail across from LA to Tokyo in either real time or at up to ~8000x the time it would take :) - hopefully this is similar
I dream that One day we Will have a SIM with Italian subs...
Italian and British subs are really interesting to me, would love that!
the silent hunter is a good sim. but if I add something crew management is an issue like barutrauma should be like
Looks good, but will be waiting to see if they have an IJN side first as i have no interest in playing american. Till then I'll stick with SH and U-Boat....Axis over Allied anyday
Man Id love a Japanese campaign for this alongside a US/British one, maybe a DLC one day
Imagine a submarine game where youre commander or a low level officer and you learn everything about commanding a submarine... and you can ask any question and all of it is driven by actual AI you can talk to and they respond... all in VR. And then at some point you become commander of the submarine and you can give orders with your voice and the crew does it... things like that. Thatd be the most amazing experience ever... you would truly be in a ww2 or modern submarine and actual learn stuff... AI would be useful...
Can we play as Japanese submarine? I'm a huge fan of large submarine.
I sadly dont think so
whole game raindrops? even when i sleep?
haha maybe
Hi is the game in vr?
dont think so
Graphics are kind of simplistic compared to Uboat
Unfortunately thers is only 1 sub sim: SH 3 GWX
Microprose the studio that has about a million games in production, none that will ever come out of early acccess.
I think they are just the publisher, not always the devs, however this is somewhat true? I havent kept track, Regiments seems to be doing great tho
A US sub did take out a train
ha yeah
I thought silent depths was discontinued wow
and there are no japanese submarine sim was ever made only fanmade
Totally agree, Japanese, British, Italian.. even Dutch.. would love those
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@@theShermanator hi. Beer🍺🍺🍺 consumption in large countites was introduced during ww1 by the germans and still practiced even today by some old fashioned submariners all over the world serving on diesel boats as an ad-hoc home medicine ...supposedly to combat the side effects of inhaling the air staunched by the smells and the fumes coming from the diesel engines...and chlorine gas emanations resulted from the mixing of the bilge water with the sulphuric acid from the submarine batterie banks...😁😁😁🍺🍺🍺👍...
No visibly crew?
I am not sure, I kinda hope there is, there are some pics they are in but then in the trailer they arent
This game is the first ever port from a phone to a PC. A complete misunderstanding in every way.
Yeah this was not it huh
It would be better if you could machinegun the survivors in the water.😆
😅
Love silent hunter. Not thrilled with uboat. Hopeful for this one.
I like UBOAT, but I can see how its a bit different from SH
@@theShermanator I think it’s weird I don’t like it. I think it’s the crew management that bugs me even though you can automate it I feel like the game disapproves. Also I feel like the views and controls are fiddly. I keep accidentally zooming in to first person or end up sitting at the wrong station.
Huge letdown, thanks God we have UBoat
@@Tom-je4iq love UBOAT
Not interested, I can‘t see the WW2 setting anymore. Why can‘t we get a new sub sim in the early to late Cold War scenario ? That would be far more interesting, especially the leap of technology in that era.
Tons of new/upcoming cold war stuff is in the works last I checked tbh
A no ser que se mejore con parches posteriores, es un juego con muchas deficiencias. Decepcionante.. Bien entrado ya el siglo ,no se puede hacer algo incluso peor en algunos aspectos que los últimos SH
So effing tired with WWII sub and tank sims already. Has the Cold War never happened or something? Should we still be left to beat the dead horse (DW, even with mods)?
@@getsideways7257 there are a few existing and a few upcoming cold war ones mate
@@theShermanator Well, apart from Dangerous Waters with mods, what else can you (still) play this moment if you want a more or less realistic Cold War experience? Cold Waters is a bit... hard to call a sim.
And when we are talking WWII sub sims, the amount is almost as large as the amount of first person shooters set in the same period.
Great to see something new but I'm afraid this is going to be another "light Sim"... The trailed doesn't show any actual workings, no map, no calculations (I'd love a destroyer-style DRT), 'no TDC, and the periscope view is completely off with a German style reticle...
Yeah, we will have to see, hoping its going to be OK, but thats why I was carefully excited
Come on lmao I just bought Uboat
UBOAT is AMAZING!
why does it have graphics stolen from 2005?
I feel like some are 2008ish but then some look really good its a bit weird haha
Silent depth 2 is already sinking. It’s absolutely 100% arcade. Microprose will go back into bankruptcy they keep releasing games like this. The mighty 8th redux is just as ass.
I noticed that too..
Sea foam and waves - as the main visual feature: leaves a lot to be improved.
Visually... it looks like some 2008/2012 release, rather than 2024 visual ocean surface.
Just hope it will not end up - as SH5: moders community should "save the project"...
( In the presentation... stormy weather and clear sunny reflections - are avoided... it looks like some lake in Scotland... rather than tropical ocean... )
@@Gledamsve100 idk what you are talking about sir, the graphic looks quite updated to 2024
Talking about foam and rough ocean at sunny day!
Fuckin Steam, I got so many naval and sub games, yet they only promote Manga and Fortnite shit to me. Wish I could list for developers/ publishers like Hooded Horse, Mircoprose or Slitherine and totally block Ubisoft (thx for SH5) and EA and the likes.. Thanks for bringing this up.
Well, thank me when it turns out good! I just hope its gonna be good
According to game play tests it's too arcadish. So they did not nailed it. A bummer
Unfortunately this game is complete trash... very disappointing. I understand it's still in Early Access but Microsoft completely bombed with this and don't think they will recover from this atrocity. Please read Steam reviews
I am disappointed too :/
its trash (for me) its basicly a mobile thats badly ported onto pc. controls suck, realism suck and graphics, well it is prettier then SH2,3,4 but the gamepplay is pretty damn shallow. was really looking for it but refunded it.
Yeah im quite disappointed tbh