So we had a Submarine Event not too long ago. What is everyone’s thoughts on if we would ever get Submarine-Battles in the near future?
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We got two Submarine events actually, It’s a good addition for some kind of improvement with naval mines, but same as Gaijin doesn’t decompress Ground, they don’t add good* shit to naval.
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Its entirely possible, could make an appearance this year, but I think far more likely sometime next year. Naval needs some pretty major overhauls before subs would even be remotely possible though. Even relatively basic things like underwater textures/terrain woud need to be added first.
I also suspect another test event, but this time in “normal” NRB maps/matches instead of in the special event map/match is going to be needed as well.
Subs would change a lot and are going to be very difficult to tune right and could easily be DOA or OP .
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Hopefully not
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Based on the events the maps would be fine. The balance would be fine too, sorta like the aa, plane, and tank balance, submarines would be super week to planes, planes are week to battleships, battleships are week to subs.
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I doubt we’ll actually get it in the base game like an actual mode, as im sure we all know the event for the subs is still in the files somewhere. But it would make naval even harder than it all ready is. with stuff you can’t even see underwater, as none of the ships have sonar.
Did they ever have submarine battles in real life? I think not or very rarely.
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Well that’s not really relevant, what fought what has never mattered in this game.
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The 2 Submarines were very Janky. While it would be an interesting idea. Naval as it right now is, would make these vessels dominate as people would just be fighting on their own rather than working together in convoy’s.
We do have an ongoing subs thread in this same forum section.
Hopefully subs will be here soon. The event was really solid in terms of the core mechanics it showcased (virtually all issues were due to the event mode itself) and they could basically be dropped into Naval as it is now and be fine. Obviously stuff like sonar would come along as well, but that was in the event too of course.
I know the WT devs like to plan things very long-term, but it does feel like they’re dragging their feel on this a bit at this point.
agreed with the balancing part
the map of the event was pure ocean though, which is not the case for most naval maps currently in rotation. And fo basically every “coastal” map, underwater terrain would indeed need a rework.
It could be done map by map though, so that only a few maps are accessible to subs earlier on while the whole set of maps can be played by submarines later. This could avoid the post-poning of submarine addition
They don’t have to be particularly detailed, at least on release. I have to imagine that there is some sort of bottom to the maps currently.
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Come on ,how are you going to have two submarines fighting each other ?
nah, at least for the WW2 era
can only think of a british submarine kill on a german u-boat not far from norway
lots more on battleships, cruisers or aircraft carriers though, so submarines would have to stay in a game mode with other classes of ships, subs only won’t work
I hope they add subs cause I want the Gato class submarines for the US
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they already textured the sea bed for most maps
there’s without a doubt been at least one sub v sub battle, that’s a given but any more that one would be a lot less likely
I hope so. Submarines are cool and criminally underrated.
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depends what you call textured
the depths look like this currently :