PT Boats New website launched

[Onkel Neal]

Nice looking and full of info, a great sign of things to come with this title :yep:

News Item: PT Boats website launched (http://www.subsim.com/nucleus/index.php?blogid=4#ptboats2)


http://www.subsim.com/nucleus/media/1/20070726-4.jpg

[LukeFF]

Nothing loading but a big blank page here.

[Safe-Keeper]

This might actually be interesting. Thanks, Neal!

The PT boat page won't load for me, though, even after I whitelisted it. And the only object there is apparently a single SWF item. We'll see what they make of it, though. Let's give 'em time.

[Weigh-Man]

As this game beat the record for development time yet:roll:

What is it 3 or 4 years now?

[Chock]

At last, it's looking like this is finally close to release.

I think the entire history of the development of the real PT boats took less time than this game has to come to completion. But that said, I am looking forward to it, especially if there is some way to have an E-Boat or an MTB, which would be very cool indeed. Water still looks very good in the screenshots too.

One other great thing about this game/sim is that it has the potential to attract less casual gamers into the genre, as the fact that you can bomb it about very fast in a boat will prove more of an initial draw than the slowly does it approach of submarines would seem to. With a wider audience interested in the genre, a new sub sim would seem to have more chance of getting up and running. :up:

:D Chock

[GT182]

The new site looks nice. :up:

And the forums are still up and running.

One bit of news tho from the forums:

"Russian developer and publisher, Akella, has announced that their upcoming naval simulator, PT Boats: Knights of the Sea, will take advantage of DirectX 10:"

for more info .... http://www.pt-boats.net/enforum/viewtopic.php?t=487

[GT182]

Found this link at their forums for a movie showing the difference from DX9 to DX10:
http://us.download.nvidia.com/downloads/nZone/videos/nzm_PT_Boats_dx9_vs_dx10.wmv

[HunterICX]

:o Am I dreaming!

can you direct control ships in the same fleet like the Hipper class!
thats what I,m reading thought

[Sonarman]

As far as I remember from discussions on the PT boats forum that may indeed be a possiblity but only in third person view.

[HunterICX]

As far as I remember from discussions on the PT boats forum that may indeed be a possiblity but only in third person view.

:hmm: yeah, me thinks only in the Strategic mode.
darn, I wish I could be on the bridge on that baby:rock:

[Onkel Neal]

This one will be one to keep an eye on. Akella impressed me with their Sea Dogs (http://www.subsim.com/ssr/seadogs/seadogs.html)and POTC (Sea Dogs 2) (http://www.subsim.com/ssr/seadogs2/review_potc.htm) games, it will be very interesting to see how they approach a WWII sim. They're pretty serious about it. :yep:

[Paajtor]

Release date is still Q4 '07....:o

Last time I checked the (old) site, the most recent update was from Nov. '06.
Now this new website really comes as a shocker to me, lol.
I lost hope for this title...but regained it! :D

[nikimcbee]

As this game beat the record for development time yet:roll:

What is it 3 or 4 years now?

No, there is another...:nope:

[horsa]

Battlestations Midway had a similar dev time. :D