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Title: Cold Waters - new cold war ers sub sim/game
Post by: Nefarious on June 18, 2017, 09:11:29 AM
http://killerfishgames.com/games/cold-waters

Looks like an interesting title. Calling itself the spiritual successor of Microproses Red Storm Rising.

Anyone playing?
Title: Re: Cold Waters - new cold war ers sub sim/game
Post by: Volron on June 18, 2017, 01:12:54 PM
I've seen some video's on it, and it looks interesting.  They didn't go very graphics heavy in terms of how ships show damage and what-not.  I've yet to see a ship get split in half and sink due to torpedo in a video either.

Either way, it looks nice and for me, reminds me a little of Aces of the Deep. :D
Title: Re: Cold Waters - new cold war ers sub sim/game
Post by: Bodhi on June 19, 2017, 06:19:02 PM
After seeing this thread, I decided to pick it up.  I am enjoying it, but it is not a serious sub sim.  It's very similar to Red Storm Rising with modern graphics and such and earns the title of successor.  Good find, thanks!
Title: Re: Cold Waters - new cold war ers sub sim/game
Post by: Nefarious on June 19, 2017, 07:25:19 PM
After seeing this thread, I decided to pick it up.  I am enjoying it, but it is not a serious sub sim.  It's very similar to Red Storm Rising with modern graphics and such and earns the title of successor.  Good find, thanks!

Cool, the gameplay videos kind of remind me of Janes Fleet Command. I would download but I recently (finally) upgraded SH4 with the Trigger Maru Overhaul Mod. Just waiting now for the right time to start a campaign.
Title: Re: Cold Waters - new cold war ers sub sim/game
Post by: cav58d on June 19, 2017, 11:05:44 PM
Red Storm Rising was a great book 😀
Title: Re: Cold Waters - new cold war ers sub sim/game
Post by: Bodhi on June 24, 2017, 10:48:15 AM
There are quite a few good mods already out for the game.  One is a campaign extender which adds a significant amount of missions to the vanilla campaign.  I also play around with the Los Angeles Flight II/III mod, which introduces the VLS and MADCAP Torpedo to the game.  That makes it a lot of fun, and not so much of a pita to go get TLAM's when a mission arises.

One tip, don't take too many Harpoons.  They are just a guarantee that at least one helo is going to come and drop a bunch of torpedoes on you.  They also have naval bombers in the game and they love to drop torpedoes too.  Playing the game on the high difficulty levels requires a lot of patience and thought.
Title: Re: Cold Waters - new cold war ers sub sim/game
Post by: Ack-Ack on June 24, 2017, 04:30:19 PM
There are quite a few good mods already out for the game.  One is a campaign extender which adds a significant amount of missions to the vanilla campaign.  I also play around with the Los Angeles Flight II/III mod, which introduces the VLS and MADCAP Torpedo to the game.  That makes it a lot of fun, and not so much of a pita to go get TLAM's when a mission arises.

One tip, don't take too many Harpoons.  They are just a guarantee that at least one helo is going to come and drop a bunch of torpedoes on you.  They also have naval bombers in the game and they love to drop torpedoes too.  Playing the game on the high difficulty levels requires a lot of patience and thought.

Unfortunately the latest 1.04 patch broke mod support.