Dear all,
We haven't been posting much as of late because we have been very, very busy working on the game proper and a new collab with our good pal Military Aviation History.
Big thanks to him for his kind proposal for yet another great collab, recounting the valor & the woes of Hornet's air group on the first day of the Battle of Midway. A lot of effort went into this video - please enjoy!
In that regard, before we get crucified by rivet counters, allow me to add a few things :
- First of all, sorry ofc for all the work in progress stuff that shows left & right. Naturally, final game will have an animated landing gear, and sound effects are also far from final. There's a lot of placeholder stuff, but we need to focus on the core functions these days. We'll make sure to come back to these later ;
- We didn't have the TBD model with twin defensive 30s available, so they are pictured here with a single gun. John Waldron was known to have used all the extras he could find from the SBD squadrons, hopefully we will be able to allow for this "custom type" to show up in the final game ;
- Mea Culpa in terms of research - we had all numbers on the Hornet planes painted black. A very obvious photograph you can check later in the video reminds us that, actually, although TBDs as showed on the John Ford reels had their numbers painted in black, SBDs had their numbers painted in white. It's all my fault, don't blame Chris for that, don't hate us too much for that either! Will totally be corrected in-game though ;
- In regard of numbers proper, we all did our best considering that a lot of sources remain rather cryptic about them - a rather logical situation considering we hardly even know what happened during the flight at all when reading from the report. If you happened to have a better source regarding one plane or the other, again, apologies in advance!
- Yes, Soryu was probably attacked by Ens Gay from the other side, but considering it was very cinematic, we just left it like that. Blame our artistic licence...
There, I don't doubt that some of you will find other bothering discrepancies, but these were the ones bothering me most. Thank you all again for your kind understanding, and hopefully we'll get it a little better every time!
So, yeah.
We have not been idle, and those among you who have been following us on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram certainly have seen a lot of good dope being posted over the last few weeks.
Still, we do understand that not everyone is willing to sell one's soul to the big GAFA tribe, and we certainly respect that - myself (Amiral) for one, I came to them only when forced by the terrible laws implied by marketing a game. Thing is, we'd post much more on Steam if it wasn't for the extra effort every single post requires in here (truly it is harrowing, believe me...) and the comparatively limited reach to the community - aka, most of the time, relatively few people even get to see the posts. At all. We'll work harder on that in the upcoming weeks, I promise. The least we can do is to make sure that as many people as possible will get some idea of what we're working on.
All the while, we did have a big wave of newcomers last week following kind coverage from them gentlemen at gamestar.de. Some new footage was posted then, and if you're a German speaker, you should definitely give that video a shot too!
Hope these little nuggets of contents will keep you busy for now. Until the next update, just make sure to keep taking care, and to follow us on any of our social account if you want to have that fresh dope before the others do!
Cheers & see you all around soon
The Team
