Introducing TASK FORCE ADMIRAL Vol.1: American Carrier Battles

[Toonces]

I'm liking everything I'm seeing and hearing so far.  Looking forward to this experience; could be one of my "exit games."

[JasonPratt]

Wolfpack345 demos the game! Just dropped an hour ago!

Actual commentary starts at 2:00; not sure if the first bit is his own gameplay or a formal demo film. Is that the music in the game? Very punchy! Reminds me somewhat of Michael Giaccamo's score from the first Medal of Honor shooters (where he's channeling John Williams.)

[Pete Dero]

It looks like these are real gameplay videos by DiplexHeated !

[The_Admiral]

Wolfpack345 demos the game! Just dropped an hour ago!

Actual commentary starts at 2:00; not sure if the first bit is his own gameplay or a formal demo film. Is that the music in the game? Very punchy! Reminds me somewhat of Michael Giaccamo's score from the first Medal of Honor shooters (where he's channeling John Williams.)

It is gameplay - as in, the AI playing against each other using tools that will be available to the human player, but still need to be designed properly in the way they will be turned into a proper General User Interface.

Music is made of the prototypes for the in-game tunes, yes indeed :)
By Aleksi & Jonathan. Aleksi Aubry Carlson was the composer on Atlantic Fleet, Cold Waters & War on the Sea. He'll return along with Jonathan Figoli in Sea Power (and obviously TFA).

Cheers :)

[Thomm]

The_Admiral,

I enjoy watching your videos, because everything is looking so damn good, especially the explosion and impact effects in water.

But that makes me wonder: Are the explosion effects for bomb hits on ships final? These look a little bit cheap and out of place. They do not look like actual explosions in the sense of rapid events to me.

Also the fire effects. It does not look good that the fire sprites just 'pop up' to full size out of nowhere. They should somehow grow in size.

If these are work in progress, just ignore my comments. It is just that you set the bar so high with the water hit effects that I find it remarkable that the other hit effects do not reach the same standard, especially since hits on ships should be the highlights of the gameplay.

[JasonPratt]

I'm fine with the explosions and fire effects. A balance has to be struck between how they'd look close-up, and how much invisible 'work' is being done on them from far away.

[CJReich46]

Impressive video by Wolfpack, and I liked the footage. Impressive detail on the ships, aircraft.

[em2nought]

I think maybe Garyowen instead of Wagner. 

Aye, but finding a royalty free Garry Owen is harder than it looks ;)
This Wagner one was part of the Youtube free asset library, so it did not get us in trouble - but even over there at Facebook I had to answer to a copyright claim just for that.

Besides, not sure who will hate me the most between our Navy or our Army followers if I was to dare to try to edit a Cavalry tune together with a USN dogfight. It's like good recipes & food, even with the best ingredients you cannot mix certain things together, y'know ^^

I was kind of thinking "Butch O'hare", I forget about all those pesky laws we have sometimes.

I'll probably just load my "Tora! Tora! Tora!" soundtrack into my CD player like I do for any Pacific Theatre game. 

Task Force Admiral is looking swell!

[Tripoli]

Wolfpack345 demos the game! Just dropped an hour ago!

Actual commentary starts at 2:00; not sure if the first bit is his own gameplay or a formal demo film. Is that the music in the game? Very punchy! Reminds me somewhat of Michael Giaccamo's score from the first Medal of Honor shooters (where he's channeling John Williams.)

The music reminded me a bit of the combat sequences in the movie "The Battle of Britain"