As destroyers are tooling around the map, large circles will appear on the water’s surface, denoting that there is a sub somewhere in that volume the destroyer player will have a short amount of time to enter the circle, after which a second circle will appear not too far away, which the player must then get to again.

This is modeled in the game by what Artur calls a new ‘mini-game’. Historically, destroyers were often tasked as sub-hunters, armed with groundbreaking sonar technologies and a brutal array of depth charge ordnance. The deeper a submarine is, the harder it is to spot, and at depth only destroyers have a chance of even coming close to finding them - which is another whole new system being added to the game. (Image credit: ) You have sunk my battleship While fully submerged, your surroundings are only revealed with each ping of your sonar, making travelling at depth more than a little bit tense. How ships feel in fiction is an important part of the game’s development, especially when that is what most people know of these vessels. “Accuracy is important, but so is the ‘fantasy’ of what people expect,” Artur says.

As always, getting the feel of the submarines right is a balancing act between accuracy, balance, and player expectation. Submarines operate at three preset depths - on the surface, at periscope depth, and fully submerged - and must balance an ever-dwindling oxygen resource that depletes ever faster the deeper they get. Petersburg last year, when I got to go hands on with both the Halloween event and an early iteration of the carrier update. The broad nuts and bolts of how they work have not changed greatly from what I saw in St. No matter what nation you hail from, though, submarines are going to be a whole new threat. The Italians are getting a nasty branch of heavy cruisers with impressive burst-damage capabilities, and a new European line of ships will bring together a lot of smaller navies under one banner. “But who knows? If the PvP event works well, it might keep going right up to the 2020 launch.”Īll this is against the background of other ongoing tweaks and additions carriers are still being balanced in terms of how anti-aircraft attacks work with the new system, and both new ships and entire new lines of ships are planned for before year’s end.

“This process is good for the product, and good for the players,” Artur says, “especially as it is very transparent.” To keep the game balanced, submarines will only be available as Tier VI vessels and beyond.

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