Screenshot Thread...

[iambecomelife]

Anyone care to take snapshots of the game's merchant shipping? (Yes, I know - I have a weird interest in cargo ships...)

[Gammel]

Hello, im about to purchase - had a good time with the demo scenario.
I´d love to see some more screenshots and have some questions:

1. Is rain modeled visually in the game? Screenshots available??

2. could someone please post screenshots with landmass / coastal line in sight?

3. is shore target bombardment possible - screenshots very welcome here too.

4. is it possible to expand the visible game log during battles to a more verbose version like smaller caliber hits, crew casualties, detailed system damage...

5. a screenshot with the worst seastate possible in game would be great too.

thanks in advance!

[Bullethead]

Originally Posted by Gammel

Hello, im about to purchase - had a good time with the demo scenario.

Howdy Gammel, glad you like it.

I´d love to see some more screenshots...

Here's the screenshot thread in our other forum: http://forums.gamesquad.com/showthread.php?t=81030

1. Is rain modeled visually in the game? Screenshots available??

Yup, lotsa little dots coming down. You can see that in some of the screenshots. The rain is also localized, in that sometimes it's not everywhere on the 200km x 200km battlespace at the same time. The LOS system takes all that into account.

[/quote]2. could someone please post screenshots with landmass / coastal line in sight?[/quote]

There are some in that thread. However, be advised that our land graphics aren't spectacular. No Cliffs of Dover--everthing is rather low and rounded, with very little detail. There are clusters of buildings for the towns, though, and all 400-odd lighthouses in the campaign area are faithfully represented in their correct positions.

3. is shore target bombardment possible - screenshots very welcome here too

In the campaign, you can do bombardments of enemy ports, but that doesn't create a battle unless the enemy has some ships there, too. There, however, about 1000 shore guns in the game, all historically researched. This appear on the land during battles in their areas, and you can shoot at them if you want to, instead of enemy ships. It's not likely to do much good, however, because they're very small targets.

4. is it possible to expand the visible game log during battles to a more verbose version like smaller caliber hits, crew casualties, detailed system damage...

Not at present, I'm afraid. In campaign battles, a separate report is created showing which ships were involved and what happened to them, but no detailed info.

5. a screenshot with the worst seastate possible in game would be great too.

I don't think anybody's taken a pic with a 200-knot wind blowing, because I don't think such storms happen in the North Sea

[Gammel]

thanks for your long and kindful reply, Bullethead.
I´ll buy the game this evening.
Maybe it will be even possible for you to add some of the features i've asked about later...



Beautiful pictures from the game other forum you mentioned! The one above is from the user @Kotori87 from the gamesquad forum, hope it's not a problem posting it here.
The games log output on the picture here above seems more than i get from the game - strange, i'll have a look again.
And hey - the shoreline looks not that bad. At least it's there

[Bullethead]

Originally Posted by Gammel

I´ll buy the game this evening.

Thank you for that .

Beautiful pictures from the game other forum you mentioned! The one above is from the user @Kotori87 from the gamesquad forum, hope it's not a problem posting it here.

Not a problem at all. I'm sure he'd be thrilled to know you did it. The AAR topic also usually has some good screenshots in it, too, that folks use to illustrate their battles.

BTW, you can see a light, local rain squall in this pic. That's what's making all the little white dots. You sometimes get little brief showers like this even with the sky fairly clear.

The games log output on the picture here above seems more than i get from the game - strange, i'll have a look again.

All that text in the upper left is controlled with the N hotkey, which cycles between 3 settings. The text always occupies the same amount of screen area, but 1 setting uses small fonts so you can see more lines at once. Kotori here is using the large font size, so you don't see as many lines at once. The 3rd setting turns it off completely. But everybody sees the same stuff there if they've got it turned on either way.

[Raptor1]

Here is the most horrible seastate you are going to see in the game as it currently is (At least, I'm pretty sure)

Excuse my shameless cropping of the bottom of the picture, my friend decided to send me a message on Xfire at that exact moment and I'm too inherently lazy to go and take it again

[Bullethead]

Originally Posted by Raptor1

Here is the most horrible seastate you are going to see in the game as it currently is (At least, I'm pretty sure)

That's a rough night there, Raptor. Was that scenario you made?

In the scenario editor, you can set the wind speed up to at least 150 knots, maybe 200, I forget which. And you can even do that during a regular battle, via CTRL-F9, if you're bored with the current conditions .

BTW, you can play with the settings for wave size and shape. The wave shapes tend to look best for a some subset of the full range of wind speeds, though. IOW, wave settings that look good at normally encountered sea states often look too choppy under extreme conditions, and if you set the waves for the extreme, normal weather tends to be a bit flat.