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  • Naval War: Arctic Circle
We showed off NWAC to all the press that we had isolated in the Swedish wilderness at Paradox Interactive Convention, and hopefully a bit of coverage will start to come in as soon as the games journos have recovered and returned home.

Gamers Daily News have already posted a nice article about what we were showing and telling. It's a good site to check out!

If you see anything more, feel free to post it in this thread.
 
it’s more about stealth and strategy than all out, head on warfare
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That sells the game nicely for most of us Silent Hunter kids. :)
 
The gameplay is fascinatingly detailed in that you have multiple types of sensors; infrared, sonar, radar, visual which all come with their unique pros and cons. The active sensors of course emit energy which can then be detected by the enemy meaning they would know your location and be able to open fire.
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I wonder if there's different "filters" for the campaign map, so when you switch to a particular sensor, the whole interface, and especially the map/water iself goes "sonar green" or "infra red"?
 
delra said:
I wonder if there's different "filters" for the campaign map, so when you switch to a particular sensor, the whole interface, and especially the map/water iself goes "sonar green" or "infra red"?
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No, because it doesn't work like that. A sensor doesn't "see" a certain distance really. It can only detect signals coming to it above a specific strength threshold. A radar may detect a large target hundreds of km away, but miss a stealth plane that is very close.

Visually, what you describe would be very cool. But there really is no indication on the map of what sensors cover which area, since that varies so much with the target.
 
It's a good review and it tells more about the actual gameplay than we've been told before... But the author is weird, he says we can play either NATO or Russia, and then he writes twice player can select one of four factions. Who's actually playable? Are there factions which don't have have a campaign? :)
 
Wait a minute, are nukes in the game now?
 
Maybe he wrote "nuke" but meant just bombing a harbor...
 
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