Yeah, the ship is way too fast when it comes to rising and submerging. It also sits way too high in the water and has no rocking effects. The surface water is way too blue and pixelated/lacking any IRL feel to it. The underwater view looks nice though.
I mean, it looks like it’s from the same developers of the mobile games Pacific Fleet/Atlantic Fleet. That font and menu design give it away massively lol
"The water looks very good..." Interesting reaction because my first thought was that it looked terrible. Was wondering whether there is a lighting bug happening because it looks pretty normal while you were in dock. No accounting for taste regardless.
@@radumateas It could have been either since the Musashi is always shown in the original configuration, like in this video. Thing is that Yamato actually looked like Musashi when she was first constructed, but she was refitted to help with the low amount of AA she had. Kinda like how USS Texas was retrofitted. Kinda just depends on what timeframe of the Yamato they were trying to show. The pre or post 1944 version. Either way, they definitely gotta work on their timelines a bit since Yamato was still in testing and sea trials until May of 1942 and Musashi was commissioned in August of 1942.
@@radumateas Yamato and Musashi both had four triple 155m secondary turrets back in 1942. Also Musashi was not commissoned until August 1942. So it should be Yamato. Then again, looking how casual this game still seems to be, it could be just one of "infinite" Yeamato-class BB's the game spawns for you to sink..
@@MidnightRoselle222 - Except Wolf said back in the beginning, that the patrol starting date was Jan 1st 1942. So it shouldn't have been possible to encounter *either* of them!
Sub sims typically appeal to historical geeks / grognards, who want the n'th degree of realism, detail and immersion. This thing looks like a mobile device game. That said, GHPC looked pretty weak at first, and is improving gradually but steadily. Perhaps this will become something I could play - in three years or so.
They definitely could appeal to a less geeky (and therefore wider) audience but they'd need to improve standards in some other areas to do so (graphics, UI and bugs are areas the gamyer gamer is more likely to be fussy about where a grognard might just shrug).
@@pnzrldr Well the predecessor to this was actually a mobile game. And honestly for mobile gamers who want a Silent Hunter-ish fix on the go or couldn't get a PC. It was decent enough at what it did which was porting a very complex sub sim to a very handicapped platform like mobile phones. Pretty rare for a genre on a platform where simulator games that rely on the player learning the mechanics themselves are few and far between. I feel like all the harsh comments are due to people expecting this to be PC quality in mechanics,graphics and detail which is fair to some point seeing as this was played on a PC after all. Plus if I'm not wrong this is a side project of one of the Sea Power devs that he works on,on the side during whatever downtime he has not working on SP
Compared to Silent Hunter or U-Boat it's like "Baby's First Submarine Game". Quick arcadey fun, but I very much prefer the former. Also, Wolfpack just shines at those more realistic submarine games!
FYI, USS Bluefin is more historically correct. USS Cuttlefish was a Cachalot-class boat (also known as the V-boats) while Bluefin was a Gato-class boat.
USS Bluefin (SS-850, Gato-class) apparentl fictitious. Last know boat of her class was USS Hammerhead (SS-364). Indeed, there were two USS Cuttlefish boats. A pre WWI SS-11(B-2, B-class, commissioned: 18 October, 1907) and SC-5/SS-171 (commissioned: 7 October, 1931), Cachalot-class boat. Anyway, the game is clearly a arcade style, rather than simulation. By the looks of it, there's still a long way to go with the development.
I'll tell you right now that the rain drop streaks are gonna have to GO. If I'm looking through something, fine even though it wouldn't look like that. But if I'm standing on the bridge using my EYES that streaking makes ZERO sense. Developers get their little pets going and won't let them go. Ability to turn that off needs to be the first fix if it doesn't already exist.
And remove crew management shit. Im the dam skipper. I shouldnt have to worry about fritz not setting his alarm clock in time or my men complaining about fafigue while being depth charged. Suck it it up buttercup lol
I think the best way to describe Silent Depth 2 is a Light Sub Sim. With emphasis on 'Light.' The game is missing a lot of things and has a general lack of polish for sure, and that is most definitely a demerit to it. But I'll give credit to the game for its ease of accessibility at the least. With so few features to manage and learn it makes picking it up easy for people totally new to Sub Sims for sure. With consistent work from the developers to fix problems present at launch and addition of options for more experienced submariners I think this game could be pretty good.
Hi Wolfpack. I looked at Steam which described the game (only £9) as a "simulation lite" . That suits me fine. I was a great Silent Service 2 fan. Now, I'm a bit older and very accurate subsims are a bit much for me now. This game looks great for me. Many thanks. 🤗
That really is Silent Service. I played the frak out of it on the Amiga. It was pretty sophisticated for its time. I think the only other somewhat realistic naval sim back in the day was Harpoon.
I played Silent Service 2 when it came out, and built a pc for my dad to play it. He served in the Kriegsmarine as a U-boat officer. He and a buddy played that game endlessly until a U-boat based game came out (Aces of the deep). Played that for a bunch more years. He commented that it was pretty accurate, but there were some things that needed changing. I told him to write to the devs, as I was sure they'd love feed back from a former U-boat officer. Not sure if he ever did though.
A reviewer on Steam, said their first contact was just OUTSIDE THE PORT you start at. Almost could have docked in the port. And barely aimed and got kills.
Yes I really Loved Red Storm Rising. Played for so many years and hours each day. Being a submariner and battle station tracker, I enjoyed tactics. It was closer to my actual warefare I dealt with then. Mostly passive sonar but there were times dealing with Diesel boats that we had to use active sonar. Many fond memories with RSR.
You know what we need? A submarine game like uboat or silent hunter and bring it into the modern age. I wanna see U-boats on the unreal engine or a hyper realistic engine.
@@Davidiscrazy yes indie devs are probably the way to go these days but it should be remembered Ubi delayed and reworked SH 3 for months prior to release to add a dynamic campaign based upon pre-release user feedback.
@@Davidiscrazy true but in some ways user input shapes a game much more than it did then maybe not from the likes of Ubi but with Deepwater studios who made UBoat etc. Ubi is blighted in that they are too focussed on making money rather than making great games, through demographics etc, if the focus is was more on making great games at all levels and with better QA, they would actually make more money and be better respected.
Yeah, they are also working on a bomber game, if it's not already released. I was pleasantly surprised, too to see one of the old quality companies still around.
It's still around, was literally restarted by a 'naire who missed all his childhood games. Doubtful if many of the original devs are still involved, but they re-released and/or re-made multiple titles so far, and there's more in the pipelines, incl 3 (yes three) B17 bomber games (not just 1)
I think they ported to a new engine and enhanced the graphics check out the EA roadmap to see how it will, progress beyond the original’s gameplay/features.
"Visibility is horrible!" Try to hunt a boat, at night, with the search light, in hardcore mode in U-Boat (game). You'll know what "horrible visibility" means. :D
@@dragonator64 if they're at like absolute minimum distance and you rely on lighting flashes to track them, yes. even then it's mostly bullshitting and prayers. If it's really bad, I'll actually just surface, use the searchlight and deck gun, and light em up before the escorts can figure out what's going on, and slip away in the darkness.
One thing i will say is the kinda "orb" effect caused by the exploding depth charges was kinda cool. The rest..... A little under done. Needs more time in the smoker
Given what I'm seeing, I'll stick with SH4 for now. Its such a shame that there aren't many realistic American subsims considering the impact it had on the war.
I got kind of excited seeing this video in my recommended feed. I watched the first several minutes and couldn't take it anymore. Wolfpack, you're better than this. This does not look like a good game. It looks like the Wish version of SH4, and event that is giving it too much credit.
Doesnt appear all that much different than Silent Service games I played four decades ago with Commodore 64 and Amiga 500. Graphics seem better though. A shame Silent Hunter series apparently has not had another game out for fourteen years.
I would love to see a realistic version of this for the first two years of the Pacific War. No matter what you’d do you couldn’t win The Mark 14 torpedo would, porpoise, run too deep, run in a circle (maybe hit your sub), go in a weird direction, hit your target and just bounce off with a thunk and no explosion. It would be kinda hilarious
There must have been a jump cut between leaving the port and finding those two tankers that I just didn't notice. I thought for sure that being so close to the US sub port that they must be allied shipping, as well as the port having incredibly deep water. Either that or the Japanese captains must absolutely have death wishes. Clearly, some time had passed, and the sub was now well out to sea.
Captures the 'Spirit' of the Original game exactly. The original was a very Sim-lite as they are known now, something anyone can pick up, play for however long, have some fun imagining they are a Heroic Captain, without having to Patrol for an age to seek targets, plot an intercept then work out solutions. Or to get younger players interested in the genre. So, maybe it will attract then, those who play the game to seek out something more in the vein of a simulation in the future or just be happy with this level of gameplay, without worrying that Torpedo reloading times are off and there's not enough rivets running down the side of the Conning Tower. More Submarine games and sims the better, everyone doesn't need to be a study sim, and maybe more of those will come as a result. For the asking price, it looks great fun with decent graphics for a revamp of the original, old title. For anyone interested - Crash Dive 2 set in the same theatre is also an excellent game all round with a similar style, crew management lite and Patrol Log. The Dev on Crash Dive 2 has constantly updated and tuned the game along with releasing a couple map maps of areas of operation as DLC's.
Not really sold on the game right now, HOWEVER, this has some potential. I feel like they need to update it a lot before i will pay for it. It doesnt really buy me on gameplay tho. Very arcade like and i prefer more realistic approach. dont even care about sinking Yamato in 1942 but how torpedoes or gun firing looked. But as i said lets see how it will go on. ANyway great vid as always
The game is supposed to be on the more arcade side of things. It’s meant for the people that want to play a submarine game that makes you think but don’t want something as realistic as Silent Hunter
The depth-charge explosions were very good. The sea needs some work, and I would've gone through the target identification manual to see what all ships are in the game. I was considering buying it because of the price, but I think I'll wait on this one for a bit.
Those are sharp Mk14s! Yamato on the first hunt!? IJN 's morale definitely sunk with her. Captain surely got a visit from someone high up after that patrol.
Tactics my boy, tactics. If youre gonna attack with torpedoes, plot your preys course and steam well ahead of her, then lie in wait at periscope depth until she comes in range. Charging right at your objective invites evasive maneuvers and fire from enemy deck guns if so equipped.
Since the Captain can determine the settings and give the order to fire torpedoes from the periscope, this arcade style is actually more realistic than having to mess with all those settings. The graphics look pretty good apart from the drips on the lens, and aiming the deck gun would be better with some cross-hairs.
I have missed Silent Service. Sometimes I feel like digging my old C64 out of the garage just to play it, but I would be surprised if the disk, disk drive, or C64 worked after 40 years.
The depth charges in this game looks superb! also their damage looks more realistic (you get damaged from further than SH or at least this is the feeling)
This looks like a public alpha of a remake of the original Silent Service. They have a lot of work to do to being this up to snuff. Even the original had a TDC.
UBOAT just set a VERY high bar for future sub sims in general so this will need a lot of work to catch up, especially since that dev is still pumping out great updates directly after launch. Best of luck to it though, the pacific theatre is always nice to see in a game.
It looks like its way easier then uboat for example and way faster what maybe makes it interesting for more people but the grafics really need some work. Even war on the sea have more water physics
Always great to see literally anyone building sims of any kind these days, and especially sub sims. And I don't want to be an ungrateful a-hole here, (and thanks to Wolf for showing it) but holy cow, this thing looks worse than unmodded SH3. Water looks absolutely terrible, ship models, flame and particle effects look 20 years old, etc. We can only get a tiny sense of the gameplay, but it looks pretty rudimentary, doesn't it? Was this thing made to be played on a cell phone??? What's it going to take for the sub sim world to get our version of DCS?
I feel like this game has already brought out the worst in the submarine game community. To make this clear to certain people; not all submarine games have to be simulators. This game is not meant for the Silent Hunter crowd, it is meant for the more casual gamers that still want something more advanced than that Seawolf game you see in arcades. It’s also, for the most part, a port of a mobile game. This game currently has legit issues to complain about, but make sure you aren’t just misunderstanding what this game is supposed to be.
this is not that far away from the original Silent Service which brought most of us into the genre in the first place, with a few tweaks and sonme additional features it could be good.
If you watch the series "the silent service" episode one, you'll notice that many phrases were cut out from that exact episode. Also, it is copied from silent hunter 1, not silent service 2; that's why most of the controls are similar to silent hunter series games.
i never liked naval games,i tried to skip ships in games whenever i could, but your channel especially made me fall in love with that "genre", i am now somewhat of a kaleun of our own little crew in wolfpack myself and i thank you so much for it, i am now a u-boat enthusiastic and i think i must buy this game aswell haha. Der BdU is ne einzige Sauzucht.
not complaining, a new sub sim game is always welcome and for sure this gives me SH4 vibes, but I have seen far better water. I hope they improve on that, other than that seems a pretty cool game all around
The fuel tankers were very eco-friendly. Whilst burning brightly, they thoughtfully did not send large, dense clouds of black carbon into the atmosphere. Very green, indeed!
Looks like a really promising and user friendly game, looking forward to in the future taking the museum I work at out for a war patrol or two: USS Pampanito SS-383
this thing looks like it needs to cook in the oven for a little bit
Considering it entered early access a few hours ago, that’s to be expected.
Yeah, the ship is way too fast when it comes to rising and submerging. It also sits way too high in the water and has no rocking effects. The surface water is way too blue and pixelated/lacking any IRL feel to it. The underwater view looks nice though.
No targeting sucks.
@@sirboomsalot4902Yeah but the lacking of basic features like a reload timer makes the game look like it shouldnt have gone into early access yet
really reminds me of battlestations midway graphics
The most unrealistic thing is the mk14 torpedoes working.
Ha😅😂
I was about to ask about that...😂
Maybe there is an option "Dud torpedoes" as in Silent Service from the 80s.
"Failure is like onions"
3:40 Enlisted: 4, Officers: 54? "Never in the field of human conflict, have so few been commanded by so many"
- Stonwinst Hillchurch 1845
sounds like the German Reichswehr between the world wars
If a sub had a structure like modern corporation
it's like a star trek ship
Good eyes my man
This honestly feels like a mobile version of SH4.
I mean, it looks like it’s from the same developers of the mobile games Pacific Fleet/Atlantic Fleet. That font and menu design give it away massively lol
That's what people on Steam are saying.
The original game was a mobile game
I played a mobile game that is exactly lookd like this one.
Yep...
The water’s transparent. Looks pretty nice
*laughs in U-Boat (game)*
my thoughts exactly holy shit this game looks like garbage bro
@@cheeki3998 It's not anything like it was advertised!
Japanese oil tankers off the coast of Hawaii, seems normal.
Thought the same thing
why not, there was a battleship just down the road apparently... Obviously felt safe... Think I'll give this game a miss.
Well. it is at Midway in 1942, and at that time the japanese advance was not that far from Midway. (Midway is roughly 2/3 from Hawaii)
@@Nukedk started at Pearl Harbor no? Ran into the tankers way before midway if I remember correctly..
Started at midway
"The water looks very good..."
Interesting reaction because my first thought was that it looked terrible. Was wondering whether there is a lighting bug happening because it looks pretty normal while you were in dock.
No accounting for taste regardless.
I thought the same.
Yeah I thought it looked horrible.. looks like something you play you a phone…. I quit watching
He said the water looked good - when the sub was underwater. Which it did. On the surface however, the water looked terrible.
@@timonsolus 5:49
It definitely doesn't look 2024 AAA game standard but by standards of Sub games it's not bad. It does the job and doesn't have bad clipping.
Video synopsis: let's show some sample submarine gameplay
Actual video: knife fight with Yanato
I think that one was Musashi actually
I got jumped by a battleship hanging out a few miles from Midway 🙂
@@radumateas It could have been either since the Musashi is always shown in the original configuration, like in this video. Thing is that Yamato actually looked like Musashi when she was first constructed, but she was refitted to help with the low amount of AA she had. Kinda like how USS Texas was retrofitted. Kinda just depends on what timeframe of the Yamato they were trying to show. The pre or post 1944 version. Either way, they definitely gotta work on their timelines a bit since Yamato was still in testing and sea trials until May of 1942 and Musashi was commissioned in August of 1942.
@@radumateas Yamato and Musashi both had four triple 155m secondary turrets back in 1942. Also Musashi was not commissoned until August 1942. So it should be Yamato.
Then again, looking how casual this game still seems to be, it could be just one of "infinite" Yeamato-class BB's the game spawns for you to sink..
@@MidnightRoselle222 - Except Wolf said back in the beginning, that the patrol starting date was Jan 1st 1942. So it shouldn't have been possible to encounter *either* of them!
Sub sims typically appeal to historical geeks / grognards, who want the n'th degree of realism, detail and immersion. This thing looks like a mobile device game. That said, GHPC looked pretty weak at first, and is improving gradually but steadily. Perhaps this will become something I could play - in three years or so.
Yeah, the interior honestly looks terrible too, so basic
They definitely could appeal to a less geeky (and therefore wider) audience but they'd need to improve standards in some other areas to do so (graphics, UI and bugs are areas the gamyer gamer is more likely to be fussy about where a grognard might just shrug).
If they really wanted realism, they should join the Navy, lol.
@@pnzrldr Well the predecessor to this was actually a mobile game. And honestly for mobile gamers who want a Silent Hunter-ish fix on the go or couldn't get a PC. It was decent enough at what it did which was porting a very complex sub sim to a very handicapped platform like mobile phones. Pretty rare for a genre on a platform where simulator games that rely on the player learning the mechanics themselves are few and far between. I feel like all the harsh comments are due to people expecting this to be PC quality in mechanics,graphics and detail which is fair to some point seeing as this was played on a PC after all. Plus if I'm not wrong this is a side project of one of the Sea Power devs that he works on,on the side during whatever downtime he has not working on SP
Compared to Silent Hunter or U-Boat it's like "Baby's First Submarine Game". Quick arcadey fun, but I very much prefer the former. Also, Wolfpack just shines at those more realistic submarine games!
Agreed
there is room for both, dont always have 3 hors for a UBoat /SH sesson. plus there are more features to be added as its early EA.
FYI, USS Bluefin is more historically correct. USS Cuttlefish was a Cachalot-class boat (also known as the V-boats) while Bluefin was a Gato-class boat.
USS Bluefin (SS-850, Gato-class) apparentl fictitious. Last know boat of her class was USS Hammerhead (SS-364). Indeed, there were two USS Cuttlefish boats. A pre WWI SS-11(B-2, B-class, commissioned: 18 October, 1907) and SC-5/SS-171 (commissioned: 7 October, 1931), Cachalot-class boat.
Anyway, the game is clearly a arcade style, rather than simulation. By the looks of it, there's still a long way to go with the development.
"Can We Get Silent Hunter 4?"
"We have SH4 at home,"
Great video as always
LOL, so true!
It hasn't even been in early access 24 hours.
Give it time.
It's not ready for early access
@@Qwerty2_6649 This comment is criminally underrated
someone should remake silent hunter with modern graphics....
silent hunter with modern graphics:
I'll tell you right now that the rain drop streaks are gonna have to GO. If I'm looking through something, fine even though it wouldn't look like that. But if I'm standing on the bridge using my EYES that streaking makes ZERO sense. Developers get their little pets going and won't let them go. Ability to turn that off needs to be the first fix if it doesn't already exist.
My same thought about the drops, I was confused at first thinking he was looking through something, very strange visual effect.
@@keimahane Wait, you mean to tell us you don't hold your eyes open and let drops of water slide down them when it's raining outside?
@@slandshark I do but only because I'm a C3PO droid, not a human
All submarine commanders wear spectacles, don't you know? 🙂
Edit: Found out you can turn them off under Options->Visuals->Rain Effect Intensity.
@@gavinjenkins899 You are?! Do you understand the binary language of moisture vaporators?
I just wish for a game with sh3 GWX mechanics and depth with graphics from UBOAT
To be honest, I don’t think we can expect to see that just because SH3 GWX is still so good
honestly modding Uboat can make it waaaaaayyyyyyyy better than vanilla
And remove crew management shit. Im the dam skipper. I shouldnt have to worry about fritz not setting his alarm clock in time or my men complaining about fafigue while being depth charged. Suck it it up buttercup lol
Same 👍🏻
Which mods you recommend?@@yeetmaster3360
this looks like an early 2000s game
Maybe late 90s! :D
Reminds me of that gta trilogy remaster
NGL, it kinda just looks like a low effort knockoff of Silent Hunter 4
Yes, because you aren’t allowed to make two games based on the same subject matter but with two different design philosophies behind them
@@sirboomsalot4902I think he means by how clunky and poor it looks compared to sh
compare it to the other games the devs have made and it looks amazing.
I wouldnt say low effort, theres effort there clearly bur its very rough
@@owenwilliams3477 the original SD was made by 2 guys vs the huge team at Ubisoft Romania they did pretty well considering.
I think the best way to describe Silent Depth 2 is a Light Sub Sim. With emphasis on 'Light.' The game is missing a lot of things and has a general lack of polish for sure, and that is most definitely a demerit to it. But I'll give credit to the game for its ease of accessibility at the least. With so few features to manage and learn it makes picking it up easy for people totally new to Sub Sims for sure. With consistent work from the developers to fix problems present at launch and addition of options for more experienced submariners I think this game could be pretty good.
Water is SO "good" that you can clearly see sub that is 350 feet (106 meters) underwater... what a mess.
This looks like a game from early 2000s
Second time wolf pack has had to deal with Yamato almost immediately
and Gunship
I love your U-boat series videos Wolfpack
After playing Uboat, i couldn't find joy in this game.
Hi Wolfpack. I looked at Steam which described the game (only £9) as a "simulation lite" . That suits me fine. I was a great Silent Service 2 fan. Now, I'm a bit older and very accurate subsims are a bit much for me now. This game looks great for me. Many thanks. 🤗
Nice. My grandfather served 5 war patrols in the Pacific. He was on the USS Cero Submarine. It was a Gato class, as well.
That really is Silent Service. I played the frak out of it on the Amiga. It was pretty sophisticated for its time. I think the only other somewhat realistic naval sim back in the day was Harpoon.
I wish there was a modern Harpoon. The problems it had with computing power would be gone now.
@@rcrawford42Take a look at CMO: Command Modern Operations
The Hunt for Red October was pretty tight for a 1980s/90s game. And the AI was notoriously sneaky.
@@rcrawford42 Command Modern Operations is the current equivalent to Harpoon, look also for Microprose's forthcoming Sea Power
im kinda dissapointed in the graphics lol
I dont judge new games by the graphics, they could get better over the next few years
the shadows are all wrong, and the water textures could be nicer
It's early release stop.crying....
Not all about the graphics
Gameplay over graphics
New sub game on my birthday. AND Wolfpack uploads a release day video? Awesome
happy birthday man
I played Silent Service 2 when it came out, and built a pc for my dad to play it. He served in the Kriegsmarine as a U-boat officer. He and a buddy played that game endlessly until a U-boat based game came out (Aces of the deep). Played that for a bunch more years. He commented that it was pretty accurate, but there were some things that needed changing. I told him to write to the devs, as I was sure they'd love feed back from a former U-boat officer. Not sure if he ever did though.
I love that Microprose is back, more or less. Great memories!
Silent Hunter was the best simulation of all time maybe one day someone will manage to make something better which I doubt
All they have to do is take the SH3 game and give it todays graphics.
A reviewer on Steam, said their first contact was just OUTSIDE THE PORT you start at. Almost could have docked in the port. And barely aimed and got kills.
That was great! I wish you'd carried on and done it for an hour at least!
It really warms my heart to see the MicroProse logo on things again. They were awesome in the late '80s.
yes makes me feel 14 again :) (i'm 57)
Yes I really Loved Red Storm Rising. Played for so many years and hours each day. Being a submariner and battle station tracker, I enjoyed tactics. It was closer to my actual warefare I dealt with then. Mostly passive sonar but there were times dealing with Diesel boats that we had to use active sonar. Many fond memories with RSR.
Wildcats buzzing around, in slow motion.😂
Also those are hellcats
im so hyped to get this game myself, its extremely rare to see a submarine game set in the pacific
Seems pretty arcade-y, not a fan of this one
its early day s the EA roadmap has quite a few feature to be added
You know what we need? A submarine game like uboat or silent hunter and bring it into the modern age. I wanna see U-boats on the unreal engine or a hyper realistic engine.
we ALL need to tell Ubisoft that.
@@stephenwilson5043 oh god… not Ubisoft. 🤣
@@Davidiscrazy yes indie devs are probably the way to go these days but it should be remembered Ubi delayed and reworked SH 3 for months prior to release to add a dynamic campaign based upon pre-release user feedback.
@@stephenwilson5043 SH 3 was made in 05. Very different time for games and developers
@@Davidiscrazy true but in some ways user input shapes a game much more than it did then maybe not from the likes of Ubi but with Deepwater studios who made UBoat etc. Ubi is blighted in that they are too focussed on making money rather than making great games, through demographics etc, if the focus is was more on making great games at all levels and with better QA, they would actually make more money and be better respected.
Silent Service is my all time favorite SNES game.
Wow. Throwback to 1985. I didn't even know Microprose was still around.
Yeah, they are also working on a bomber game, if it's not already released. I was pleasantly surprised, too to see one of the old quality companies still around.
It's still around, was literally restarted by a 'naire who missed all his childhood games.
Doubtful if many of the original devs are still involved, but they re-released and/or re-made multiple titles so far, and there's more in the pipelines, incl 3 (yes three) B17 bomber games (not just 1)
@@joeking9760 many bomber games & lots more :)
I played Silent Depth 1 on my phone phone for years. doesn’t look like they changed much at all beyond the graphics. Even the sounds are the same
I think they ported to a new engine and enhanced the graphics check out the EA roadmap to see how it will, progress beyond the original’s gameplay/features.
Wow that Gato surfaced like it was made of cork 🙂
After years of watching your plays, I bought Uboat. Oh man. I was not prepared for the grinding terror of being deep underwater.
"Visibility is horrible!"
Try to hunt a boat, at night, with the search light, in hardcore mode in U-Boat (game). You'll know what "horrible visibility" means. :D
He has...
In UBOAT with darker nights at midnight in a storm is pitch blackness, still possible to hit ships tho
@@dragonator64 if they're at like absolute minimum distance and you rely on lighting flashes to track them, yes. even then it's mostly bullshitting and prayers. If it's really bad, I'll actually just surface, use the searchlight and deck gun, and light em up before the escorts can figure out what's going on, and slip away in the darkness.
@@naverilllang I sunk a ship in absolute darkness, out of "max sight" range and 100 realism
Close but ... needs a proper TDC and manual plotting for added realism.
It’s not supposed to be realistic
I said that on the steam forum for this game long before it was ever released.
Devs didn't reply.
I remember playing Silent Service on the original Nintendo. Love that game.
One thing i will say is the kinda "orb" effect caused by the exploding depth charges was kinda cool. The rest..... A little under done. Needs more time in the smoker
Given what I'm seeing, I'll stick with SH4 for now. Its such a shame that there aren't many realistic American subsims considering the impact it had on the war.
I got kind of excited seeing this video in my recommended feed. I watched the first several minutes and couldn't take it anymore. Wolfpack, you're better than this. This does not look like a good game. It looks like the Wish version of SH4, and event that is giving it too much credit.
Doesnt appear all that much different than Silent Service games I played four decades ago with Commodore 64 and Amiga 500. Graphics seem better though. A shame Silent Hunter series apparently has not had another game out for fourteen years.
Game shows promise, reminds me of Silent Service on the classic NES.
I would love to see a new Cold Waters dot mod campaign. 🙂
Me too since MagzTV fell silent.
played Silent Service 1 on the C-64 for I couldn't count how many hours :D
I would love to see a realistic version of this for the first two years of the Pacific War. No matter what you’d do you couldn’t win The Mark 14 torpedo would, porpoise, run too deep, run in a circle (maybe hit your sub), go in a weird direction, hit your target and just bounce off with a thunk and no explosion. It would be kinda hilarious
i love how you make 20 miles out of Midway and cross path with 2 japanese tankers, very realistic convoy route for the Japanese merchant fleet
Those weren't Japanese tankers... 😎
There must have been a jump cut between leaving the port and finding those two tankers that I just didn't notice.
I thought for sure that being so close to the US sub port that they must be allied shipping, as well as the port having incredibly deep water.
Either that or the Japanese captains must absolutely have death wishes.
Clearly, some time had passed, and the sub was now well out to sea.
Not bad for a 10 dollar game. I hope they keep updating it and don't throw it to the back. It has some potential to be a great game.
Captures the 'Spirit' of the Original game exactly. The original was a very Sim-lite as they are known now, something anyone can pick up, play for however long, have some fun imagining they are a Heroic Captain, without having to Patrol for an age to seek targets, plot an intercept then work out solutions. Or to get younger players interested in the genre. So, maybe it will attract then, those who play the game to seek out something more in the vein of a simulation in the future or just be happy with this level of gameplay, without worrying that Torpedo reloading times are off and there's not enough rivets running down the side of the Conning Tower. More Submarine games and sims the better, everyone doesn't need to be a study sim, and maybe more of those will come as a result.
For the asking price, it looks great fun with decent graphics for a revamp of the original, old title. For anyone interested - Crash Dive 2 set in the same theatre is also an excellent game all round with a similar style, crew management lite and Patrol Log. The Dev on Crash Dive 2 has constantly updated and tuned the game along with releasing a couple map maps of areas of operation as DLC's.
In the early 80s I used to play silent service on a floppy disk. It was my favorite game. I'll have to give this one a try.
Not really sold on the game right now, HOWEVER, this has some potential. I feel like they need to update it a lot before i will pay for it. It doesnt really buy me on gameplay tho. Very arcade like and i prefer more realistic approach. dont even care about sinking Yamato in 1942 but how torpedoes or gun firing looked. But as i said lets see how it will go on. ANyway great vid as always
The game is supposed to be on the more arcade side of things. It’s meant for the people that want to play a submarine game that makes you think but don’t want something as realistic as Silent Hunter
And it costs less than a snack and soda!
Yeah that make sense now. Well, lets see how it goes from now. Still gonna watch all vids from Wolfpack from this game anyway
At this point I want to see an O-19 game, our favorite little buddy
The depth-charge explosions were very good. The sea needs some work, and I would've gone through the target identification manual to see what all ships are in the game. I was considering buying it because of the price, but I think I'll wait on this one for a bit.
Silent Service 2 was one of my favorite games. I played it constantly.
7:10 watch out for them circular runs! 😬
Those are sharp Mk14s! Yamato on the first hunt!? IJN 's morale definitely sunk with her. Captain surely got a visit from someone high up after that patrol.
Id love to see a Japanese sub campaign!
So far nothing beats GWX oneAlex edition of SH3 for me.
I spent countless hours playing Silent Service 1 and 2 on my pc back in the day.Loved it!!!!
torpedo hits look like napalm
Tactics my boy, tactics. If youre gonna attack with torpedoes, plot your preys course and steam well ahead of her, then lie in wait at periscope depth until she comes in range. Charging right at your objective invites evasive maneuvers and fire from enemy deck guns if so equipped.
back in the 80's I played anything Microprose. I hope they put out games equally fantastic now as they did then.
Since the Captain can determine the settings and give the order to fire torpedoes from the periscope, this arcade style is actually more realistic than having to mess with all those settings. The graphics look pretty good apart from the drips on the lens, and aiming the deck gun would be better with some cross-hairs.
I have missed Silent Service. Sometimes I feel like digging my old C64 out of the garage just to play it, but I would be surprised if the disk, disk drive, or C64 worked after 40 years.
The submerged depth charge effect was very good. I had to rewatch it few times
The depth charges in this game looks superb! also their damage looks more realistic (you get damaged from further than SH or at least this is the feeling)
Honestly that was a great video my friend and the engagement with the warships was great thank you
The depth charge graphics are the best I've ever seen. The rest of the game is a good foundation. Lets hope it keeps getting better from here.
0:16 "Silent Service II"
Me: _Now that's a name I've not heard in a long, time... a long time._
This looks like a public alpha of a remake of the original Silent Service. They have a lot of work to do to being this up to snuff. Even the original had a TDC.
And the choice between flawless and historical torpedos. And different sub classes.
Reminds me of Silent Service on the C64 (that was designed by Sid Meier and published by MicroProse...amazing what they achieved with 64k of memory)
A 5 inch gun? In '41? To the history books!
UBOAT just set a VERY high bar for future sub sims in general so this will need a lot of work to catch up, especially since that dev is still pumping out great updates directly after launch. Best of luck to it though, the pacific theatre is always nice to see in a game.
It looks like its way easier then uboat for example and way faster what maybe makes it interesting for more people but the grafics really need some work. Even war on the sea have more water physics
Looks a hell of a lot better than the initial version I have from many years ago.
Always great to see literally anyone building sims of any kind these days, and especially sub sims. And I don't want to be an ungrateful a-hole here, (and thanks to Wolf for showing it) but holy cow, this thing looks worse than unmodded SH3. Water looks absolutely terrible, ship models, flame and particle effects look 20 years old, etc. We can only get a tiny sense of the gameplay, but it looks pretty rudimentary, doesn't it? Was this thing made to be played on a cell phone??? What's it going to take for the sub sim world to get our version of DCS?
I feel like this game has already brought out the worst in the submarine game community. To make this clear to certain people; not all submarine games have to be simulators. This game is not meant for the Silent Hunter crowd, it is meant for the more casual gamers that still want something more advanced than that Seawolf game you see in arcades. It’s also, for the most part, a port of a mobile game. This game currently has legit issues to complain about, but make sure you aren’t just misunderstanding what this game is supposed to be.
Seems to me that we've got all the point and shoot that we need. Why make another one?
@@dinkmartini3236 Because this is still more than point and shoot. It’s a middle ground that really doesn’t exist
The gateway drug for young people before they switch over to the hard stuff.
this is not that far away from the original Silent Service which brought most of us into the genre in the first place, with a few tweaks and sonme additional features it could be good.
It's a far cry from SH4 though...
How Can this game just have launched?
Danm it’s sad!
The map looks very strange. Iwo Jima and Tarawa looks misplaced, Saipan and Guam too far away to each other.
If you watch the series "the silent service" episode one, you'll notice that many phrases were cut out from that exact episode.
Also, it is copied from silent hunter 1, not silent service 2; that's why most of the controls are similar to silent hunter series games.
arcade (not a sim)
Naval warfare game devs try not to use the word "silent" in their title challenge (impossible)
Ooh, I love Silent Service 2!! Can't wait to check this out.
Uboat 2: Pacific war is what I want to see after the Type IX and Type XXI DLCs for Uboat
Awesome first look Wolf! Looks pretty good, hopefully they add a few features. For only $15 CAD tho I might pick it up
i never liked naval games,i tried to skip ships in games whenever i could, but your channel especially made me fall in love with that "genre", i am now somewhat of a kaleun of our own little crew in wolfpack myself and i thank you so much for it, i am now a u-boat enthusiastic and i think i must buy this game aswell haha. Der BdU is ne einzige Sauzucht.
not complaining, a new sub sim game is always welcome and for sure this gives me SH4 vibes, but I have seen far better water. I hope they improve on that, other than that seems a pretty cool game all around
The fuel tankers were very eco-friendly. Whilst burning brightly, they thoughtfully did not send large, dense clouds of black carbon into the atmosphere. Very green, indeed!
Depth charge explosions look cool
Im away from my pc for a few weeks so im excited to watch you play. I planned on buying but its good to see gameplay first.
Looks like a really promising and user friendly game, looking forward to in the future taking the museum I work at out for a war patrol or two: USS Pampanito SS-383
Bring back silent hunter 4 🙏