It’s like my favorite Pacific strategy game ever, PTO 2, has grown up, moved out, bought its own place, got married, had kids, and is about to get that one last sweet job promotion to be the boss. Very much looking forward to it!
I still can’t believe this is actually happening :)
Oh god so pretty.
Is that an F4F-4?
Ain’t you happy you didn’t throw in the towel eh? Fucking microprose coming back, and not as a sham either.
Shit looks to be real!
Thank you kind Sir!
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Is that a F4F-4?
It seems to me that it is a F4F-3 (4 * .50 cals instead of the 6 guns battery of the F4F-4) - and it has pre-May 1942 markings too (F4F-4 didn’t see air action in this scheme, although they took part to the Doolittle raid)
At any rate it’s just for the show, we’re experimenting the air combat first & foremost here. The Japanese markings don’t make sense either (it’s Zero from the Akagi air group)
Hello there everyone!
We’re still making some progress - here’s the offering of the day, if there’s any taker out there, that is :slight_smile:
In the meantime, please enjoy the ride - and your weekend too :)
Cheers everyone ! and stay safe
Thanks for the post; love the video on the Thatch Weave maneuver.
I have a few questions if you don’t mind, as these are some of the things that are most important to me. So I hope you don’t mind be being slightly selfish in hoping the level of detail of the following will be there:
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Will you have damage modeled to the extent hitting magazines will cause concussive blows, differing torpedo hits will cause the ship to list to various sides sometimes sinking faster than others?
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Will you also have damage modeled so you’ll see surface damage unique to major parts like turrets and the deck?
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Will each set of guns on a ship actually fire visually? Instead of just “simming” the bullets or projectiles coming from them? If so, will they be able to independently target? AA guns on the front attacking one fighter, while AA guns on the back target another, while the main large guns engage a ship?
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Will certain realistic catastrophic hits obliterate a ship?
Hello there!
To answer quickly to the point:
Will you have damage modeled to the extent hitting magazines will cause concussive blows, differing torpedo hits will cause the ship to list to various sides sometimes sinking faster than others?
Not sure about hitting magazines causing concussive blows - if something blows up in a magazine, concussive blows will really be the lesser evil. But concussive blows are planned, for instance for bombs & torpedoes alike - we need them at least for boiler interaction, as these shocks would often extinguish the boilers in the vicinity.
Regarding flooding, yes of course. We had some demonstrations there already:
Will you also have damage modeled so you’ll see surface damage unique to major parts like turrets and the deck?
We might go for a damaged skin layer at some point yes. When that happens, the location where the impact happened is not really the main concern, as the whole ship will be eligible for these decals.
Will each set of guns on a ship actually fire visually? Instead of just “simming” the bullets or projectiles coming from them? If so, will they be able to independently target? AA guns on the front attacking one fighter, while AA guns on the back target another, while the main large guns engage a ship?
I don’t quite understand what you mean. If you mean “does the shell’s representation starts at the breech lock”, hell no! Each gun fires of course, the shell starts its trajectory at the muzzle as it is mostly the standard in the industry. And each weapon is linked to its director (whether it’s a centralized director or just the guy manning the gun mount) so it will fire as independently as needed.
Will certain realistic catastrophic hits obliterate a ship?
Ammo detonation is possible and will happen, causing a catastrophic loss. Won’t have an effect on the 3D model though, at least not at this stage.
Cheers!
Hello there, ladies & gentlemen!
We had a new update covering the stuff we did during the Summer months. Hopefully, anyone interested in further PTO sweets might find something to his/her liking : this time we have ships, planes, tactics, artwork… The whole deal :P
Don’t hesitate to say hi and follow us on our platform, any sort of encouragement is always much appreciated :)
Cheers, and everybody please have a nice weekend!
Wow, that is impressive!
Does the campaign follow the path of the Pacific theater, or is it more sandboxy/alternate history?
I think it starts when the Germans bomb Pearl Harbor.
Thanks, appreciated ^^
Unfortunately vol.1 is only about the USN & the battles US carriers have been involved in for the duration of 1942. We needed to keep our expectations at a realistic level, there’s only so much a small team can achieve. This also means historical single scenarios, very much like a classic wargame, for now.
On the other hand, we plan on providing the player with a random battle generator (that you will be able to customize of course, when it comes to friendly forces, enemy forces, etc…) and with a full editor, the same one we will use ourselves when making the vanilla scenarios - so in theory, if you’re about alternate history, you’re free to throw in 4 yamatos if you like, we won’t stop you ;)
A few more dev features from the past week, that might be of interest to some :)
Cheers!
Looks amazing!
The stuff with the air doctrine is great, too. I love it when designers do stuff like that.
Holy crap! I can’t believe you actually did real life elevator works in a carrier. I never thought I’d see a developer try to tackle that in a game.
Can’t wait to drop some bombs on a carrier and see it fracture.
Are you modelling different Japanese doctrines about carrier loading and preference for multi-carrier strikes too?