European version of DW : Portsmouth meeting wtih Blackbean

[UglyMowgli]

The march 31th at Portsmouth (UK) Blackbean and SCS invite the european media to the Royal Navy submarine museum for a presentation of the European verison of DW.
Oneshot and a MS members were also present, waiting for SimHQ report, here the french version of the event:
(Photo is courtesy of Oneshot, MS camera was out for the event :cry:
http://www.mille-sabords.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=11135 (in french)

Here the interresting points of the presentation and interview with Jamie Carlson and BB representant:
The european verison will be the last verison of DW 1.03, it come with a movie about the first nuclear submarine the Nautilus and a goodies trailer staring Jeff Tall a submarine commander (director of the RN Submarine Museum) . The campaign Red storm Rising is in the bundle and there will be some new MP scenrarii not found in the US version.
The french version will come with complete translation of the in game text and manual but not the voices, so other countries can expect the same.
At this time the OPFOR addon is still a project (the developpement is always linked to the sales of DW) so we have to buy at least 10 copy of DW each !
In the european list of paltform the german's are at the top of the list so no french minehunting or Agosta :nope:

[Bill Nichols]

...it come (with) a movie about the first nuclear submarine the Nautilus.

:up:

[GunnersMate]

Hmmm .... Captain Nemo's Nautilus? :lol:

[LuftWolf]

No, Bill Nichols' Nautilus. :yep: :up:

http://www.subguru.com/nautilus571.htm

Bill served on the SSN 571, which I think, all things considered, is one of the coolest things one could have done, and one of the brassiest, especially if you were on the first crew. :rock:

"Ok guys, we are going to build this nuclear reactor, and then take this submarine..." :doh:

[Nova5lag]

This is so cool. :D I hope everyone in the UK buys it so there will be loads of new players... cos I'm a little worried about being outta my depth! *pun intended* sorry! :-j

[Molon Labe]

No, Bill Nichols' Nautilus. :yep: :up:

http://www.subguru.com/nautilus571.htm

Bill served on the SSN 571, which I think, all things considered, is one of the coolest things one could have done, and one of the brassiest, especially if you were on the first crew. :rock:

"Ok guys, we are going to build this nuclear reactor, and then take this submarine..." :doh:

...with cracked ballast tanks. :huh:

[Ramius]

Interesting news :)


Wish i'd been able to get out of work now to goto the press release :damn: :damn:

[Jakobs]

(Photo is courtesy of Oneshot, MS camera was out for the event :cry:
http://www.mille-sabords.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=11135 (in french)

http://www.mille-sabords.com/forum/uploads/post-229-1144011918_thumb.jpg
Jamie Carlson interviewé par la télévision espagnole - photo par OneShot du site SimHQ


What was the Spanish TV? :huh: Digital +? TVE? Tele5? Antena3? etc.? :hmm:


The french version will come with complete translation of the in game text and manual but not the voices, so other countries can expect the same.


Do you know if it will be translated in Spanish? :88) (I hope so) :yep:

[OneShot]

The Interview (at least the Cameraman) was for/from TVE. Additionally some people from spanish Game mags were attending as well. As for translation, it will be the same as with german and french :

- Translated Game
- 100 odd pages localized and abbreviated manual
- Box localized.

The full blown 500+ pages manual (PDF or split up and printed) will continue to be in english.

[UglyMowgli]

Nobilis the french distributor of DW said that the whole 500p documentation has been translated in French.

[Jakobs]

Thank you very much!!! :P

As for translation, it will be the same as with german and french :

- Translated Game
- 100 odd pages localized and abbreviated manual
- Box localized.

The full blown 500+ pages manual (PDF or split up and printed) will continue to be in english.

Sounds good to me. :up: I will prefer the full manual (500+ pages), nevertheless 100 pages are a lot of them.

Nobilis the french distributor of DW said that the whole 500p documentation has been translated in French.
:huh: :huh: Amazing!!

[LuftWolf]

Why does Jamie look exactly the way I thought he would... in fact, when I saw the picture, I tried my damnest to figure out where I had seen him before, and decided I hadn't, just my image of him was spot on... ok then.

[OneShot]

@Olivier : That statement about the manual (i.e. language) came directly from Livio or Davide (can't remember which one right now).

[Linton]

I wish i had known this was taking place as I was off that day!

[Kapitan]

Glad to see he demo'd a decent platform wooweee the akula :rock: :rock:

[Axlwolf]

I hope they have translated only the in-game text....
I would REALLY hate to hear a screwed speech translation :x

[Linton]

What did Jeff Tall (director of the RNSM) make of DW?I have often thought about asking him to come up with a few mission scenarios!

[OneShot]

CDR Tall was pretty enthusiastic about the game.
… this is the exact same stuff we did during the Cold war

[Linton]

One shot where did you get the post for Cmdr Tall from as I couldn't see it above?Were any regular european subsim posters invited?I would like to have gone and seen the launch.I already have DW but my old laptop struggles with it so I still play SC a lot.Plus you cannot drive a t-boat in DW!

[OneShot]

Thats not a post from him, thats an actual quote ... As for attending the event, I think Black Bean only invited representatives of the press (or parts of it) and some selected websites, Mille-Sabord and SimHQ being one of them. I was attending for SimHQ.

[Bellman]

:lol: Global warming is apparently proceeding at an exceptionaly fast pace as MSgalileo claims:
....la petite ile de Hampshire
The latter is a mainland county - but then our Portsmouth beers can catch-out the unwary. ;)

''I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humour.'' Lord Nelson.

[UglyMowgli]

You know for me all land West of the Chanel are Terra Incognita :D
(for your information I just translated the article from LeReodutable because he hadn't time to do it himself, I didn't go to the meeting)

[Bill Nichols]

Thats not a post from him, thats an actual quote ... As for attending the event, I think Black Bean only invited representatives of the press (or parts of it) and some selected websites, Mille-Sabord and SimHQ being one of them. I was attending for SimHQ.

Roger, that. I was asked to attend by my real-life schedule prevented me from going :damn:

[Jamie]

Why does Jamie look exactly the way I thought he would... in fact, when I saw the picture, I tried my damnest to figure out where I had seen him before, and decided I hadn't, just my image of him was spot on... ok then.

Oneshot was generous, because he took a bunch of pics with my eyes closed, mouth open, etc - he had to search pretty hard to find one that was servicable... (the 6-hour time difference really knocked me on my arse, I was exhausted).

Here is a picture of me (http://www.wpi.edu/News/Transformations/2004Summer/gameplan.html) from a few years ago when I'm not TOTALLY exhausted (the only other pic on the 'net as far as I know... and we should all be thankful for THAT!) ;)

[Jamie]

One shot where did you get the post for Cmdr Tall from as I couldn't see it above?Were any regular european subsim posters invited?I would like to have gone and seen the launch.I already have DW but my old laptop struggles with it so I still play SC a lot.Plus you cannot drive a t-boat in DW!

Cmdr. Tall was quite impressed with the scope of the game and actually got me in contact with some of the folks at the RN NWC, so that could bode well.

Neal has a link to Cmdr. Tall's promo video (http://www.subsim.com/ssr/dangerous_waters/promo_dw4_low.wmv) in the article/inteview that LeReodutable posted. (http://www.subsim.com/ssr/dangerous_waters/dangwater_blackbean.htm)

[Bill Nichols]

One shot where did you get the post for Cmdr Tall from as I couldn't see it above?Were any regular european subsim posters invited?I would like to have gone and seen the launch.I already have DW but my old laptop struggles with it so I still play SC a lot.Plus you cannot drive a t-boat in DW!

Cmdr. Tall was quite impressed with the scope of the game and actually got me in contact with some of the folks at the RN NWC, so that could bode well.

Neal has a link to Cmdr. Tall's promo video (http://www.subsim.com/ssr/dangerous_waters/promo_dw4_low.wmv) in the article/inteview that LeReodutable posted. (http://www.subsim.com/ssr/dangerous_waters/dangwater_blackbean.htm)

The video can also be downloaded at my site :cool:

[Linton]

Thank you Bill for the info.Cmdr Tall was known as thumper in the navy because he tapped his toes when the boat was at action station torpedo

[LuftWolf]

Jamie, I didn't know you were hired at SCS as a game developer specificially... I figured that Sonalysts pulled people from its other departments to form the SCS (and the earlier incarnations) staff.

That's cool that Sonalysts brought people into the company specifically to make games... you guys must have some forward thinking executive staff members. :rock:

[Nova5lag]

Just saw this up on the Dangerous Waters forum... pics and vids... cool... oooh and subsim gets a mention too! :up: :rock:


Hi!

We are proud to announce that the official presentation of Dangerous Waters to European journalist’s that took place at Gosport has been a big success!

First of all I would like to thank Jamie (from Sonalyst) and Commander Tall (curator of the Royal Navy Submarine Museum): thank for all your efforts!

Here are some articles from about the event:

From subsim.com:
http://www.subsim.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=50696

From mille-sabords:
http://www.mille-sabords.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=11135 (in French)

Following some pics of the event…
http://www.dw.blackbeangames.com/images/foto/1.jpg
http://www.dw.blackbeangames.com/images/foto/2.jpg
http://www.dw.blackbeangames.com/images/foto/3.jpg
http://www.dw.blackbeangames.com/images/foto/4.jpg
http://www.dw.blackbeangames.com/images/foto/5.jpg
http://www.dw.blackbeangames.com/images/foto/6.jpg
http://www.dw.blackbeangames.com/images/foto/7.jpg
http://www.dw.blackbeangames.com/images/foto/2.jpg

and for everyone mad about submarine and navy life…

life on a submarine: UNDER ATTACK – DEEP CHARGE!!!
ftp://ftp3.videogame.it/dw/100_0274.mov

[Phullbrick]

Thats not a post from him, thats an actual quote ... As for attending the event, I think Black Bean only invited representatives of the press (or parts of it) and some selected websites, Mille-Sabord and SimHQ being one of them. I was attending for SimHQ.

Roger, that. I was asked to attend by my real-life schedule prevented me from going :damn:

same for me and I'm still eating my fingers with mayonnaise because I couldn't find enough time to take TGV from Paris to Big Island ;) ! :damn: :damn:

[Ramius]

Roger, that. I was asked to attend by my real-life schedule prevented me from going

Same here Bill :nope: :nope: