Destraex

from what I have been told Battlefront are not doing anything other than localisation and maybe a few bug fixes?

A rumour going around that their is already an expansion in the works... any news?

excellent. so it really does have heavy swells to ride, instead of the glass ripples in most sims

Any ETA (means estimated) for this title. Any chance of before chrissy?

By the sound of it the Russian version does not have very historical campaigns. Can you advise is their anything other than localisation and a few bug fixes the battlefront version will have? Also I think it has been asked but will their be a mission editor? Is this game using the il2 engine? What is the worst sea conditions you have seen- rolling waves that boats cannot see over? This is something I have not seen in a game yet - but with rescues etc that these boats carried out sometimes it would be normal.

http://www.ebgames.com.au/search?title=PT+Boats%3a+Knights+of+the+Sea your right.... whats going on battlefront? I will wait for your version if its gonna be better?

There is an aussie version? Won't it be different to the battlefront version?

? the game is out?

I'm pretty confused about the realism really, some things seem ultra realistic while others are dumbed down for gameplays sake.... and due to the devs language it seems a straight answer is hard to get.

maybe we should consider changing gaming culture first, so we can dedicate entire towns just to playing on mission in one game professionally The real casualties will come when people do not eat or poop for days on end.

well even the americans just have that old TV series and the movie for kennedy. PT boats.

I am greatly enjoying mucking around with the old Russian demo which is a pleasure to play. Three missions in total including a tutorial. The graphics are glorious as is the smoothness of play. Damn the torpedoes here I come! Thanks to Some-guy. This demo is really really nice. "There is an older playable demo. It is Russian. Here is a link: http://ru.akella.com/Game.aspx?id=121&mode=demos Click on this for the file: Морской охотник Демо (1,2 Гб) To get the program to install you will need to rename the file after you save it as most US systems do not support cyrillic characters. I renamed mine to demo.exe and then executed it to install the software. To make the in-game options in the GUI display in English to know what graphic and realism options settings are you must change a file. Find Start.ini in your X:\Program Files\Akella Games\Ìîðñêîé Îõîòíèê folder. Erase what is in there and replace it with the following: <root> <locale>EN</locale> <menu_mission_holder>menu</menu_mission_holder> <play_intro val="1"/> </root> The game will still be in Russain but at least you can see what the settings are. Also, your crew will not fire their guns in the first (tutorial) mission on their own but they do in all other missions. Please remember this is an older demo released a number of months before Battlefront got involved. I hope that helps." make sure after you have noted the settings that u change back to Russian or you will see no missions and pressing start will crash the game! Key map for those interested; Key commands for anyone interested in playing the demo. Common Controls ` - Camera Next Actor F1 - Help Numpad Minus - 1x Time Numpad Plus - 2x Time K - Toggle Message Panel Tactical Mode Controls J - Switch Auto AI mode K - Switch tactical mode UP - Camera Forward DOWN - Camera Back LEFT - Camera Left RIGHT - Camera Right SHIFT - Camera Fast Move CTRL - Camera Slow Move Button 2 - Add waypoint BACKSPACE - Remove Last Waypoint DELETE - Delete All Waypoints A - Select All Units 1 - "User" Formation 2 - Line Formation 3 - V Line Formation 4 - Quad Formation Simulator Mode Controls SPACE - Launch Toprpedo B - Drop Charge O - Objectives M - Toggle Maximize Map T - Lay Smoke N - Signal Flare W - Up Engine Power S - Down Engine Power A/D - Turn Port/Starboard Button 1 - Fire Weapon Button 2 - Toggle Binoculars Button 3 - Select Primary Target Scroll Wheel - Scroll Primary Target R - Reload L - Searchlight NEXT - 1x Radar Zoom PREV - 4x Radar Zoom 1 - Next Light Gun 2 - Next Flak Gun 3 - Camera Current Actor 4 - Camera Cabin 5 - Camera Next Torpedo 0 - Free Look DELETE - Net Suicide C - Toggle Crew Z - Zig Zag Y - Retreat G - Engine Repair F - Put Out Fire H - Hull repair TAB - Net Stat TAB - Commands V - Catapult Plane Misc F11 - Run Debugger Submarine Controls (Disabled) P - Dive [ - Depth Control Down ] - Depth Control Up

I remember some holiday special comic book with a story about an english pt boat flying a dragon penant because it came from policing chinese waters smugglers. Then it entered a port in the invasion of dutch by germans in ww2 at the risk of the neutral country finding them out. They were looking for a german merchant in diguise or something Anyone remember it? I cannot remember the name?

ok my bad..... it was just the settings you gave also dictate an invalid path to the mission files. I used those settings to get used to the menu interface and then ditched them for the russian ones so the demo would start.

hmmm demo does not want to run under my win7 64 ultimate install. Get to the start campaign button and to the start button there, but seems no mission is chosen and the start button just crashes things. May have to try virtual XP mode in win 7.... but that will still be virtual 64 XP iirc...... this is the first game not to work, but i understand its an old demo

ahhh so no really famous torpedoe boat films.. shame. I guess it would not be very politically correct for the italians to make one about the sheffield

nice one some guy.... grabbing the demo

http://forum.i3d.net/full-games-demos/16629-demo-pt-boats-knights-sea.html u mean the graphics demonstration right?

there is a demo!!!! is it Russian?

Actually thier uniforms don't look like they have changed since 1944...... dotted smocks and kneck guard helmets. We will be getting these guys in the addon right?

So the ground crew were playing CMSF and uploaded the wrong firmware to this aircraft. I wonder what it does when you make tight turns.

actually I have not had time to read any of it yet sorry. I did read a comic called PTboat or some such when i was a kid. Prolly have it somewhere still. The captain in that went everywhere. From chinese waters to europe in flames. And an australian tv series called patrol boat..

question is: What the point of paying top dollar for a mac? then paying again for windows to turn mac into PC? BTW win7 virtual mode runs mac OS in it iirc

I disagree.... swarms of torpedo boats with 2-4 torps each.... it only takes 3-4 torps to kill a capital warship. How about - how many battleships were taken out by carrier aircraft alone.... same weaponry different playform... smaller size. In the med especially I think the manchester is a good example of potential for the torpedo boat to pull one out of the bag. Submarines/torpedoe bombers etc do have a distinct advantage as a strike platform. The PT boat is just as exciting for me though. Its like a race car with torpedos strapped to it. And the best part about it is that its often sent off on its own with the small crew... its a great platform for individualist tight knit crews.

so in ww2 they sank nothing major - no warships ??