Dear Skippers,
We wanted to share with you the progress that we made for update 2022.1. We plan this update as a major milestone towards the full release later this year, therefore it's growing to be one of the largest updates to UBOAT that we made thus far.
Seasons
2022.1 will bring realistic seasons to the game, along with related effects like a dynamic snow cover and a vegetation changing colour.
Climate zones
Another addition are going to be climate zones. That means that you will no longer find potato fields on Sahara. This feature will hopefully make your assignments more memorable and immersive.
New ports
Work on the new ports is progressing very well, but please keep in mind that most ports will be shipped in update 2022.2. Our goal for 2022.1 was to create a few very good ports to prepare a technical groundwork and figure out optimal workflows in the process.
These new ports will be nothing like the old ones, bringing in some flashy features as well as historic layouts. The port on the screenshot below is Helgoland early in the war, before building a Nordsee III submarine pen in it.
Greater challenge
We noticed that some veteran subsim players voiced that they need more challenge from the game. For this reason, we put work into ensuring just that, by improving combat AI as well as improving various simulation aspects.
We compensated many of these changes on the easier difficulty settings, so that mostly experienced players will be exposed to them.
Release
It's still too early to give you an estimate when this update is going to land, but we are getting there. While it's mostly feature complete now, the exact time it will take depends on how well the further testing will go.
Please note, that the features mentioned in this dev log are not a complete list. Actually, it's just a tip of the iceberg, so please stay tuned for more news!
Aircraft Carrier Survival
We would also like to use this opportunity to notify you about a release of Aircraft Carrier Survival. It's a game from another studio belonging just like us to PlayWay group.
The game has many parallels to UBOAT and you may potentially find it interesting. Please have a look.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1021100/Aircraft_Carrier_Survival/
Yours,
DWS