Gamezine interview PT-Boats developers

[Sonarman]

Gamezine.co.uk has an interview with the Akella team

[nikimcbee]

Interesting interview. So if you want all the eye candy, you need a $5000 computer.

[Sonarman]

Hmm, its min specs are not really much different from SH4...

PT-Boats min spec
Microsoft Windows XP SP2, Microsoft Windows 2000 SP2
1GB RAM System RAM
2.5 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
8x DVD-ROM Drive
1,5 GB free hard disk space
DirectX 9.0c (included in installer package)
64MB Direct3D Compatible Video card and DirectX 9.0 compatible driver
DirectX 8.1 Compatible Sound Card

SH4 min spec
Windows 2000 / XP / Vista
2.0 GHz Processor or better
512 MB RAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible Graphics Card with 128 MB RAM (Requires Vertex Shader 2.0 and Pixel Shader 2.0 support)
DirectX 9.0c compatible Sound Card

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by Sonarman

Hmm, its min specs are not really much different from SH4...

PT-Boats min spec
Microsoft Windows XP SP2, Microsoft Windows 2000 SP2
1GB RAM System RAM
2.5 Ghz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
8x DVD-ROM Drive
1,5 GB free hard disk space
DirectX 9.0c (included in installer package)
64MB Direct3D Compatible Video card and DirectX 9.0 compatible driver
DirectX 8.1 Compatible Sound Card

SH4 min spec
Windows 2000 / XP / Vista
2.0 GHz Processor or better
512 MB RAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible Graphics Card with 128 MB RAM (Requires Vertex Shader 2.0 and Pixel Shader 2.0 support)
DirectX 9.0c compatible Sound Card

They recommended (vista) quad core 3.0 GHz. Recommended sys rec from the interview.

[Sonarman]

Yes, good idea let's stop the wheels of progress because NikiMcbee can't keep up. I actually think it's a good thing, with few DX10 games out there those that have capable computers will be hungry for new titles and may try a PT boats, a naval sim a genre that they may not have tried otherwise thus expanding the market and the potential of new games for us. Some, I suspect most, of us have never been able to afford the reccommended spec machine at the time of release but we buy and play anyway and in a year or two we have that machine and all is well and good, things must evolve and grow. But judging by your 5 negative posts in one day on an as yet unreleased naval sim I guess you are just a "glass half full kind of guy".

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by Sonarman

Yes, good idea let's stop the wheels of progress because NikiMcbee can't keep up. I actually think it's a good thing, with few DX10 games out there those that have capable computers will be hungry for new titles and may try a PT boats, a naval sim a genre that they may not have tried otherwise thus expanding the market and the potential of new games for us. Some, I suspect most, of us have never been able to afford the reccommended spec machine at the time of release but we buy and play anyway and in a year or two we have that machine and all is well and good, things must evolve and grow. But judging by your 5 negative posts in one day on an as yet unreleased naval sim I guess you are just a "glass half full kind of guy".

:rotfl:
Thanks for keeping track for me.

[nikimcbee]

I checked out their website, some of this would be cool.
http://www.pt-boats.net/enforum/viewtopic.php?t=505


It'd be fun to play as the Finns.

[Sonarman]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

It'd be fun to play as the Finns.

LOL, Yes they have made some strange choices in the sim's units & locations, the number 1 being no Pacific Theatre but apparently the game is being designed primarily for the Russian market, apparently there is a much larger market for sims in Russia than anywhere else!

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by Sonarman

LOL, Yes they have made some strange choices in the sim's units & locations, the number 1 being no Pacific Theatre but apparently the game is being designed primarily for the Russian market, apparently there is a much larger market for sims in Russia than anywhere else!

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[CCIP]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

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Almost probably true actually. Sims do remarkably well on the Russian market. When I was there a couple of years ago, I saw SHIII in numerous stores with a "Best Seller" label stuck on the case.

[Sonarman]

It would be interesting to see a modern day/cold war subsim from Russia perhaps Akella, Lesta or 1C will get around to that someday.

[CCIP]

Originally Posted by Sonarman

It would be interesting to see a modern day/cold war subsim from Russia perhaps Akella, Lesta or 1C will get around to that someday.

Yea, true.

Although one needs to keep in mind the different development model and even somewhat different sim genres that Russians follow. For the most part the really popular sims on the market in Russia are not hardcore study sims but more semi-accessible sims - sort of like IL-2 or SHIII where there isn't a massive amount of technical info to memorize. I'd expect a modern subsim project from them to be a lot "lighter" than the Sonalysts games with their technical detail.

[Sonarman]

In someways that might actually be a good thing, I think enjoyment wise many preferred "Red Storm Rising" to "Dangerous waters" although it is nowhere as realistic and is much more "gamey" in terms of simulation.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

Interesting interview. So if you want all the eye candy, you need a $5000 computer.

Yeah, I'm going to run down to Walmart and pick up my quad core. Good Lord, I have yet to get a dual core. The games and systems sure do keep ahead of everyones wallets. I do not think this one will be hitting my hard drive. By the time I can afford a quad core there will be gazillion core computers. It is just a bad cycle.

[goldorak]

I'll pass on this one, it just seems much more a benchmark than a game, like Crysis I might add.