Cold Waters

Its a very fun enjoyable game that will 100% make you ♥♥♥♥ your pants repeatidly Get when on sale because no updates =

What I expected: a newer Jane's 688(I) Hunter/Killer. What I got: a not very interesting version that is worse in terms of handling and mechanical depth. What's good about it: -It looks a lot better, but not to the point that it's mind blowing. By modern standards, I'd call it passable to good at best. -torpedos have interesting behaviours when either detecting a decoy or losing track of target, leading to tense situations What's bad about it: -The way ships are detected is frustratingingly simplistic. If a contact is close enough/loud enough, it will be marked on the map in an approximate position. A meter fills slowly, and depending on sensor conditions, sub speed and proximity to the target, it fills more quickly or more slowly. Aditionally, the player can use a spectrogram to determine the ship type and gain data more quickly. As the meter fills, the information on the contact becomes more certain. This system is very simplistic and barely requires player input besides the strategic choice of which direction to turn, and which target to focus on for now. From a submarine simulator, I would have expected more, or at least more systems where the player receives a bonus on detection when actively doing something. -The towed array is entirely passive in the sense that the player has absolutely no control over it. It's just always on. -Some important controls (such as time control) can only be used with hotkeys. Time control is also limited to normal speed and accelerated speed (which is still too slow for many situations). -The map view, which is where most of the game takes place, is an expanded form of the minimap. The 3D view of the game remains open in the background, meaning that ingame sounds can be heard from the 3D view. When clicking on a contact on the map, the 3d view switches to that contact, leading to a complete change in ambient sound. This feels more like someone didn't expect the map view to be the most important part of the game they were developing. -Campaign modes have a larger map, where the player drags around their ship on a map. This may be intuitive, but there isn't any depth to this part either. Ship speed doesn't matter. Detecting very faint distant contacts doesn't mattter. Listening around doesn't matter. Traveling depth doesn't matter. It's a matter of point and click.