Pacific Morning Routine - Starting the Day in Task Force Admiral 

Thank you very much for your kind words. I sure hope Ian Trout would like what he sees from wherever he's looking at us right now. Not sure that game wouldn't exist without his deeds, but it sure would not look and play the way it does. ❤️

Ian Trout knew his stuff.

​@@ItsPaaat Yeah, he absolutely did. The passion he had for all the games he made, not just CaW, was phenomenal. I live in Sydney but unfortunately was too young to know who he was and where he lived until he passed away. I absolutely would've loved to have done an amateur interview with him and asked questions from youtube or just shaken his hand and said thanks for everything depending on his mood. RIP to a great guy, he really enriched our lives so much.

@@TheDidgerideuces some guys just understood it. He did, in spades.

The calm is what is missing in games. Six weeks of sailing on bright blue seas and ten minutes of terror is what makes PacWar games special. Same as the war. Cant wait.

Thank you. They are lovely indeed - gotta thanks internet for making research so much easier ^^

I know! This carrier gameplay looks so much better than War on the Sea

I wish the CAP patterns you make in War on the Sea dont just disappear the next day, if they did not the game would be 2 times better.

@@wahtx7717 They don’t, you just have to hit the “recycle” button on the screen where you set their course

@@wahtx7717 They do loop now if you press the button that looks like a recycling icon! Applies for CV planes and airbase planes, a welcome addition from some updates ago now. There's also simple circle patterns that you just set the distance for and they loop around the TF, don't remember if that was always in the game though. Setting up search patterns on the fly is still the same mousebusting exercise though and they clutter up the map like crazy, not to mention setting up CAP/looping close range scout patterns and trying to figure out who's going where and which one of those flights just got shot down. The clutter, tediousness and unwieldyness of managing the air part of the game is unfortunately still holding the game back quite a lot, it's not the good kind of chaotic that you'd imagine managing carriers to be. I've still put in nearly 200 hours into the game and I'd still recommend it to any carrier enjoyers but a large part of that has been spent thinking about how much better it could be if more effort was put into the user experience.

@@seppomatikanope6454 No, what I meant was the repeating patterns dissappear the next day.

Thanks. We're taking our sweet time but I can assure you it's well spent indeed ^^ Cheers

Agreed. But I've had my WotS appetizers, time for the main dish. Or more wine! Wine is always good.

Thank you! Aye, we tried to keep it as skeuomorphic as possible. Can't promise Highfleet-level of skeuomorphism of course, where everything seems analog & true to life (or how it's imagined in the case of that specific world building), but at least we're doing our best to learn from the good practices born from Silent Hunter 3, which certainly did set the original inspiration for all the games that came after in regard of how that stuff should be done as far as WW2 aesthetics go. Cheers!

You'll appreciate how Sea Power does it too then, I am sure :)

Thank you, appreciated ^^

It would be cool if the tutorial was based on one of the fleet problems the US Navy ran in the 1930s

Aye, a tutorial sure will help. A manual and localized tooltips will come in first though :)

Aye don't worry, you'll have your drawing box ready to doodle your way around :) Might have to be done outside of the mission management mode though. You can already measure distance between two points, the rest is incoming (including pre-set doodles during mission buiding, using the same set of tools)

Thank you for the appreciation ^^ I would not say that all gaming experience makes for good UI design, but it cannot hurt to have been there and done that, I guess.

Sure hope we will, fingers crossed

Thank you very much Tim! As for CMO, they do have to cover a vastly superior number of years and cases, if not dimensions - their Harpoon-based UI was certainly the most logical pick and is most understandable in my humble opinion. You'll get the new stuff soon, as soon as playable nuggets are concerned, by the way!

Thank you! Always means a lot to be assessed by somebody who knows what he's talking about ^^ Cheers There should be fog yes but it's still a bit work in progress. Will be something we'll work on along with night battles.

@DrydockDreamsGames Cheers , best of luck to your game , everyone can see the love and care you put into. Eagerly awaiting release 🎉

Aye I came across that issue too. Thinking about a way to do it from the interface directly though, I'd rather avoid keyboard shortcuts whenever it's possible :)

Indeed it is!

Hello there! Not sure about that unfortunately, the Harpoon-Windows-like interface of CMO makes it very flexible when it comes to displaying over other stuff in all situations. Its GUI has taken some fire due to its bare, simple, functional appearance, but this is how you can manage it best, obviously. You basically never leave the main map, which is also the main interface, and all windows might kinda look similar - but that's also why you can play around with all of them, all the time, which is - as you say - a very welcome feature in a missile-age interconnected environment IMHO. In our case, even though the world in the background is the very same one as far as tech is concerned, the main canvas can have a lot of different uses (flagplot, 2D strat map, 3D tactical map and the full 3D external view, to name the main ones). The pace of the game is fortunately much slower than that of the missile age - based on my hands-on experience, not being able to play around windows with the same amount of freedom as in CMO shouldn't be too much of a hamper due to our genre & era, fortunately.

​@@DrydockDreamsGames thank you for the amazing response. The interface youve built looks amazing and from what youve said is very ideal and practical for this game style. Looking forward to this

Iirc the big thing they are working on now is the AI

We are!

Aye, carriers do turn automatically in the wind (this is what you see there). What you do though is telling them in which direction they should be heading when they're not conducting air operations. But you'll have to account for that when you launch birds (that is, you might very well have to travel in a different direction as long as you're conducting air ops, and impact gradually your original plan for the recovery plan of previous missions. I am afraid that's on you...! ^^)

Yes! Switchable in the settings, between WW2 Navy imperial & Metric

@@DrydockDreamsGames fantastic, keep up the great work!

Bruh turn on HD options on youtube you trippin 😂