Rufus Shinra
02-11-20, 07:02 PM
From The Depths is a really nifty voxel game (think Minecraft for design and construction) focused on building ships, submarines, aircrafts and spacecrafts with a high degree of functionality from sensors to weapons and propulsion, allowing them to fight in campaign, free roam and (for whoever manages to make it work) multiplayer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhTNESwAzs4
In short? You build this:
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/780726118956856247/445C2AD942C1BDB2A890BB273B1C3B7EBD6B8850/?imw=637&imh=358&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=truehttps://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/tr0p12OuzbqWj62mPC73MmGAF1XBJ7HBgT6OBf7hfFh0AZznN6 x_XGw5jrUEWJ9K27O-X5In_N-JmWXj4fsWRms4OcAaj-dfxE-XPIcxT0CNsW8PkpKvakgWKmWaAfwNWUfy0967PpQRg5HrN-iYaqGYqU5OM7wESRSt_o_eHIn7tQ
With the internals looking like this if you wanna spend the time:
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/780726118956874023/F80E343833469F6B7E8DF8A101556C200EDF1D0A/?imw=637&imh=358&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=truehttps://s1.qwant.com/thumbr/0x380/3/1/6d498956414184c54ef54cbe9bb678eee38c4079ab19df4fa5 15f9b58f8cf6/maxresdefault.jpg?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi %2FQPecQaraLpk%2Fmaxresdefault.jpg&q=0&b=1&p=0&a=1
So, yes, it's pretty cool, considering you can make anything from sail ships of the line to Ace Combat worthy airships or Halo space warships:
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/784123231907122198/5BC34D8F8D8200B64E9836825627702A78F2AFD5/?imw=637&imh=358&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=true
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/784123231907124642/AD8764B626BA6A83B39199E82236E1DFBC850693/
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/785249131809013469/D8025A04711CD0219A44EE8AC7385D5D1FB8E9BE/https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/785249131809452270/94409DFDE548F23FB0D6F89657B5FE3D716973EB/
From age of sail cannons to mortars, lasers, plasma weaponry or fully customizable modern guns and missiles/torpedoes, it pretty much allows for a lot of design and battle time. But here's why I'm posting about it here: it also comes with the possibility to write Lua scripts and to configure AI to make some very interesting elements, and in the case of SubSim... a boomer with a fully functional command room. You can walk around the submarine, and control its movement through various computers programmed by yours truly as well as getting data feeds from periscope-mounted sensors, towed arrays and hull-mounted sonars, to control missile and torpedo weaponry in combat:
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/780741878657453533/AC2EA4E351C9A3EC5124E6FE6D7A552249FC5F1E/?imw=637&imh=358&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=true
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/776243636749929991/808D11B5B43E6F659FB3F5DF74D08B2123C491B1/?imw=637&imh=358&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=true
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1923712392
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/783000082411686773/BFFAC6B059DE5A17E3AC409DF987BEA81C9A5E64/https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/783000304186977210/B940F1845D82D675972D2D8ABCA2313B1F884AA8/
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/778493000476439624/F7CFE750C0C4C464E0191C5A19B4A23DB02B1147/
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/793127255663087365/D0D2E994014B0C24432D41A3144A93BE3BA85922/
So, in a way, it's an arcadey but very, very fun naval and aerial combat game in which you get to build and test your own ships, with the Workshop hosting a huge number of full-sized historical replicas for the History buffs out there. The Graf Zeppelin, for example:
https://s1.qwant.com/thumbr/0x380/2/d/09c3b052ba50b769f9bf34f2b5c6020d1fcb517ebd97c2d2f7 22198b3eb230/2WBHlBC.jpg?u=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F2WBHlBC.j pg%3F1&q=0&b=1&p=0&a=1
And with a bit of work to properly automate ballast, dive bars and their likes, it also becomes a fun submarine game in which you can surface to duel a second rate ship of the line in your Balao or nod grimly inside your Ohio and start flushing your Trident missiles at an orbital battlestation. Or attack a NATO battlegroup with VLS armament, CIWS and networked sensors trying to deal with the missile spam from your Oscar II replica.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/268650/From_the_Depths/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhTNESwAzs4
In short? You build this:
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/780726118956856247/445C2AD942C1BDB2A890BB273B1C3B7EBD6B8850/?imw=637&imh=358&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=truehttps://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/tr0p12OuzbqWj62mPC73MmGAF1XBJ7HBgT6OBf7hfFh0AZznN6 x_XGw5jrUEWJ9K27O-X5In_N-JmWXj4fsWRms4OcAaj-dfxE-XPIcxT0CNsW8PkpKvakgWKmWaAfwNWUfy0967PpQRg5HrN-iYaqGYqU5OM7wESRSt_o_eHIn7tQ
With the internals looking like this if you wanna spend the time:
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/780726118956874023/F80E343833469F6B7E8DF8A101556C200EDF1D0A/?imw=637&imh=358&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=truehttps://s1.qwant.com/thumbr/0x380/3/1/6d498956414184c54ef54cbe9bb678eee38c4079ab19df4fa5 15f9b58f8cf6/maxresdefault.jpg?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi %2FQPecQaraLpk%2Fmaxresdefault.jpg&q=0&b=1&p=0&a=1
So, yes, it's pretty cool, considering you can make anything from sail ships of the line to Ace Combat worthy airships or Halo space warships:
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/784123231907122198/5BC34D8F8D8200B64E9836825627702A78F2AFD5/?imw=637&imh=358&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=true
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/784123231907124642/AD8764B626BA6A83B39199E82236E1DFBC850693/
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/785249131809013469/D8025A04711CD0219A44EE8AC7385D5D1FB8E9BE/https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/785249131809452270/94409DFDE548F23FB0D6F89657B5FE3D716973EB/
From age of sail cannons to mortars, lasers, plasma weaponry or fully customizable modern guns and missiles/torpedoes, it pretty much allows for a lot of design and battle time. But here's why I'm posting about it here: it also comes with the possibility to write Lua scripts and to configure AI to make some very interesting elements, and in the case of SubSim... a boomer with a fully functional command room. You can walk around the submarine, and control its movement through various computers programmed by yours truly as well as getting data feeds from periscope-mounted sensors, towed arrays and hull-mounted sonars, to control missile and torpedo weaponry in combat:
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/780741878657453533/AC2EA4E351C9A3EC5124E6FE6D7A552249FC5F1E/?imw=637&imh=358&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=true
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/776243636749929991/808D11B5B43E6F659FB3F5DF74D08B2123C491B1/?imw=637&imh=358&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=true
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1923712392
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/783000082411686773/BFFAC6B059DE5A17E3AC409DF987BEA81C9A5E64/https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/783000304186977210/B940F1845D82D675972D2D8ABCA2313B1F884AA8/
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/778493000476439624/F7CFE750C0C4C464E0191C5A19B4A23DB02B1147/
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/793127255663087365/D0D2E994014B0C24432D41A3144A93BE3BA85922/
So, in a way, it's an arcadey but very, very fun naval and aerial combat game in which you get to build and test your own ships, with the Workshop hosting a huge number of full-sized historical replicas for the History buffs out there. The Graf Zeppelin, for example:
https://s1.qwant.com/thumbr/0x380/2/d/09c3b052ba50b769f9bf34f2b5c6020d1fcb517ebd97c2d2f7 22198b3eb230/2WBHlBC.jpg?u=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F2WBHlBC.j pg%3F1&q=0&b=1&p=0&a=1
And with a bit of work to properly automate ballast, dive bars and their likes, it also becomes a fun submarine game in which you can surface to duel a second rate ship of the line in your Balao or nod grimly inside your Ohio and start flushing your Trident missiles at an orbital battlestation. Or attack a NATO battlegroup with VLS armament, CIWS and networked sensors trying to deal with the missile spam from your Oscar II replica.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/268650/From_the_Depths/