Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts work in progress.

[Toonces]

What's up with the 'internet connection required at start?'

[MengJiao]

What's up with the 'internet connection required at start?'

I think they have some kind of quasi-sophisticated validation thing.  It hated me for a while, but now it knows who I am, I think.  Or it thinks that I think that, probably.  Anyway, now I feel validated.

[Gusington]

I never had an issue with the client...smooth like buttah.

[MengJiao]

I never had an issue with the client...smooth like buttah.

  It seems okay now and it does download patches and such pretty often so that's another reason for the internet connection.

[ArizonaTank]

News that a basic campaign is now included got me off my duff on this one. 

Fired it up for the first time today.

Overall, like what I see...  Love the detailed shot by shot info and detailed damage reports... something I felt was missing from the Totem Ironclad series.

But still early days in my experience with it. 

[solops]

How do you get it?

[steve58]

The campaign?  If you already own the game, just fire it up and click on Update.

[CaptainKoloth]

I never had an issue with the client...smooth like buttah.

I too have only had good experience with this client. Which is pretty unusual for me among all the various non-Steam or GOG clients I've used. It always works and updates quick. Never gives me trouble about launching offline either.

[solops]

How do you get the game?

[Old TImer]

How do you get the game?

https://www.dreadnoughts.ultimateadmiral.com/

[Toonces]

I reckon, given all I've now read, that I'll await the Steam release.  No real incentive here; I can wait.

It does look like it's going to be a must buy when it releases.

[DetCord]

I reckon, given all I've now read, that I'll await the Steam release.  No real incentive here; I can wait.

It does look like it's going to be a must buy when it releases.

This is excellent advice.

I've been with it since launch and the progress has been abysmally slow over the past several years. The dynamic campaign, the one singular thing everyone has been waiting for, has a long, long, long way to go before it is even remotely enjoyable and properly fleshed out.

[Gusington]

All true but to be fair the team is tiny.

[ArizonaTank]

....

...  The dynamic campaign, the one singular thing everyone has been waiting for, has a long, long, long way to go before it is even remotely enjoyable and properly fleshed out.

I am a newcomer to the game, but I think that is a rather harsh view of the current campaign. Clearly it has far to go...but I am still enjoying the campaign as a battle generator. I think even in its current state the campaign does add something valuable to the package.

Overall, there are plenty of things in the game that still need polishing, but I still think it is fun to play.

[Gusington]

^I agree - there are 50+ pre-fabricated missions available now to play now and a skirmish mode that covers Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, British, French, Russian, Italian, Austro-Hungarian and American navies from 1890-1940.

The campaign is what we have been waiting on for literally years, but GameLabs is not a big operation. I am willing to be patient, mostly because what I have played so far has been high-quality and lovingly assembled.