Cold Waters

[Barthheart]

Only 913MB in size.  :)

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[Jarhead0331]

Now where have I seen this video before?

...oh yeah. On page 10 of this thread. 

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There's only four pages in this thread :P

[Capn Darwin]

Grab it and tell us what you think! I'm stuck at work for 4 more hours!

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$40 is above my "instabuy before reviews" threshold, looking fwd to hearing some impressions from you guys and whether it's good/worth it.

[Sir Slash]

I hear the sound of loins moistening in cold water everywhere.

[Yskonyn]

I am on stby during the night, so its early bedtime for me. I look forward to seeing some first impressions here tomorrow when I wake up!
And if the verdict is bad... well than you guys saved me from spending 40 credits.  :-"

Have fun! I really hope its a good game!

[Nefaro]

DevilDogGamer is streaming it right now.

https://www.twitch.tv/thedevildoggamer

[Toonces]

Installing!   

[Toonces]

Man it pains me to say this, but this might be an official Grogheads "hold off a bit" purchase.

I only spent about 20 minutes with it so far, but I'm already annoyed.

First, there is no way that I can see to order a particular course, speed or depth.  You have to manually "drive" the sub there by moving the planes and rudder in 5 degree increments, and speed is set 1/3, 2/3, full, flank, etc.  No ability to dial in a specific speed setting.  There is no way to order "periscope depth" which means you need to micromanage the sub as it has momentum so just hitting the level key doesn't automatically stop your sub's movement. 

The other thing that I think is really going to bum you guys out is the inability to save in a mission.  Unless I missed it, once you start a tactical mission you can't save mid-mission.  There is an "abandon ship" button, which I hit because I had to go pick up my daughter from school, and that button aborts the campaign completely. 

I can live with the mission thing; that's no different than Total War, but the manually driving the sub is the suck. 

Finally, I was expecting simple like RSR, but man, after playing Dangerous Waters and CMANO, this is hard to adjust to already.  It might be too simple.  I found myself looking for data that I've become accustomed to, and it's just not there.

I dunno...this feels kind of shallow, almost more like a tablet game than a $40 PC game. 

Might be worth holding out for a review.  I'll try to get some more impressions up later after I get my swoll on.

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^ugh. not good. not good at all.

[Jarhead0331]

I knew it. I just flippin' knew it.

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Mirth sad.

[SirAndrewD]

Yeah, from what I've seen I'm not getting this at a $40 price point.   Even 688 Attack Sub had a periscope depth order and course plotting.