Ladies & Gentlemen, hello there!
Nothing too fancy today, we just wanted to give you a sneak peek at what's brewing right now. Things are going well enough, and new content is so numerous and diversed that it's hard to keep track. Still, here are a few highlights.
Shooting stars
Our dev has been busy with AI over the last few weeks - more specifically air to air behavior. It delivered pretty cool results that those who've been following us on Twitter and Discord have probably seen by now. Here's a little bit of a tease for you - but it gotta stay in the shape of a link, because otherwise Steam will tear us a new one (watch out if you're using a phone, it's GIF time!):
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2144353172
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2144370355
We will also let you have a look at our prototype AI for the Thach Weave - another affair that isn't exactly easy to orchestrate. We sincerely hope you will appreciate the work that is being done to make it happen!
The girls are alright
Kate & Val (and their friends) are making themselves pretty in the meantime. We're trying to get our plane roster up to speed so that we can cowardly make the most of our 2D artist free time these days. Here are a few screens showing the magic happening:
When it comes to gentle Kate's dive-bombing sister, we actually have a video that we released just today for Screenshot Saturday. If you're into plane art, hopefully this one will talk to you!
The Aichi D3A Navy Type 99 Carrier Bomber, otherwise known as "Val" by the Allies from 1942 onward was the standard carrier-based and shore-based dive bomber of the Imperial Japanese Navy from 1941 to 1943. It will naturally feature as the player's counterpart to the SBD Dauntless for the duration of 1942, having served in every single carrier battle of the era. Hits were achieved on USS Lexington, on USS Yorktown at Coral Sea and Midway, on USS Enterprise at Eastern Solomons and Santa Cruz, and finally on USS Hornet at Santa Cruz, which included two suicide runs by damaged planes.
This D3A wears the colors of the Zuikaku air wing at the time of the battle of the Coral Sea (early May 1942).
Here! That will be all for today - come back in a few days from now for the update proper, hopefully we'll have a couple other gems to show you (spoiler: we will). In the meantime if your weekend is boring (I sure hope not), don't forget to have a look at our past updates. The April-May one can be checked in this previous post.
https://steamcommunity.com/games/1281220/announcements/detail/2229791404494717955
And here's a direct link to the content itself:
April/May 2020 update - dev website
Please enjoy whatever is left of your weekend, and see you soon for some additional stuff!
Cheers and take care,
The DDG Team