Introducing TASK FORCE ADMIRAL Vol.1: American Carrier Battles

[The_Admiral]

Hello guys!

As always, the latest dope for the month is online! This way please 
Enjoy the ride  O0

[Gusington]

I knew today would be a better day.

[Sir Slash]

Looking great Admiral.  :bd:

[Destraex]

I am excited to have a look at this. Thanks Admiral. 

[MengJiao]

Hello guys!

  Those dive-bombing attacks look like the ideal dive-bombing attacks: very steep and releasing very low.  Are you going to simulate other factors with the dive-bombing?  Such as wind direction,
less-than-perfect pilots?

[The_Admiral]

Thanks guys, kind words are always appreciated 

As for the question above:
Randomizing pilot performance is not a technical issue, it will be in there - what I'd like to have though is to make sure this randomization can, to a certain extent, reflect an absence thereof. Unrandomized & pre-defined experience that is, when certain squadrons - or, if we can manage to get more granular, certain pilots - are known to be especially good at what they do, or quite the opposite. To summarize, WitP AE in 3D, pretty much.

That's on one hand, what I'd like us to have down the line. On the other hand, in the immediate future, the complete absence of anything like that out there in 3D (the direct comparison being WotS' handling of pilot skill) means that it is not super high on the priority list. We'll first focus on trying to make attacks convincing before we start to add new parameters to them. Fortunately, when covering 1942, knowing each side pretty much had their A-team in the air kinda helps streamlining all that and give us a good jumping point for further refining.

[MengJiao]

Thanks guys, kind words are always appreciated 

As for the question above:
Randomizing pilot performance is not a technical issue, it will be in there - what I'd like to have though is to make sure this randomization can, to a certain extent, reflect an absence thereof. Unrandomized & pre-defined experience that is, when certain squadrons - or, if we can manage to get more granular, certain pilots - are known to be especially good at what they do, or quite the opposite. To summarize, WitP AE in 3D, pretty much.

That's on one hand, what I'd like us to have down the line. On the other hand, in the immediate future, the complete absence of anything like that out there in 3D (the direct comparison being WotS' handling of pilot skill) means that it is not super high on the priority list. We'll first focus on trying to make attacks convincing before we start to add new parameters to them. Fortunately, when covering 1942, knowing each side pretty much had their A-team in the air kinda helps streamlining all that and give us a good jumping point for further refining.

  Yes.  I'd say those dive-bombing attacks were pretty A-team and in the first half of 1942 that is probably what people saw.

[bobarossa]

I'm impressed by the carrier tilting during the turn!  Smoke and flames already look good to me.

[Con]

Really impressive
Brings home how important station keeping skills are on a fleet to prevent ships colliding during an engagement. You can see that this is critical required experience for successful fleet engagements and the US built this capability through continuous deployments while Japans eroded.

[The_Admiral]

Hi there Gentlemen!

Hope you had a hell of an evening 
Allow me to introduce you to our latest update, along with a few snippets, available now on Steam  O0



And before anything else, allow me to wish you all along with all your loved ones a fantastic, healthy & happy 2023. Cheers all 

[Sir Slash]

Looking good Admiral, you won't catch any flak from me about this latest sneak-peak.  :bd:

[CJReich46]

Well done! Can't wait to see more.

[The_Admiral]

Thank you guys, your kind support is always appreciated 

[ArizonaTank]

+1 on the Kudos Admiral. I really appreciate the small details you are putting in. These always help with immersion and keep me playing.

[JasonPratt]

I realize it may not be possible, and that's okay, but those snapshots make me want to walk all over those ships....