Sea Power : Naval Combat in the Missile Age
From the lead designer of Cold Waters, Sea Power lets you control NATO and Warsaw Pact forces in modern naval conflict campaigns. Use your advanced naval weaponry and sensors to respect rules of engagement and defeat the enemy forces in a tense fight for initiative and air/naval supremacy.
Sea Power : Naval Combat in the Missile Age is a naval combat, strategy and simulation game
developed by Triassic Games AB
and published by MicroProse Software.
Released on November 12th 2024 is available only on Windows
in 4 languages: English, German, Russian and Simplified Chinese.
It has received 3,065 reviews of which 2,744 were positive and 321 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 44.09€ on Steam and has a 10% discount.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 64-bit
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X / Intel Core i5-8600K
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: 4 GB VRAM, AMD Radeon RX 480 / Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 20 GB available space
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I gave it a "recommended" but wouldn't advise you buy it until at least the end of next year, depending on how much progress is made. It feels like it will be a very good game, the bones are there. It just needs another year of development and polishing before it is prime-time ready. It is a bit rough as things stand. Especially in terms of performance. Quick summary of general issues which will hopefully and eventually be solved: - Controls aren't intuitive and they are buggy; giving a fire order can cause ships to leave formation or change course to "unmask" their weapons when you just want them to continue following the course you set. Giving a fire order overrides all other orders and locks you out of control until you cancel it. Giving a different order does not cancel the previous order, selecting "weapons free" for air targets only still makes the ship engage everything on the surface and locks you out of control (that last one is supposedly fixed in the latest patch, but it still behaves how I described it). Sometimes ships forget to return back to formation after giving them a few manual orders. They just sit there or start sailing in an irrelevant direction. You have to give them a manual course, then tell them to return to formation, but the ship still goes to the first manual point first. You set weapons free and sensors on at one point only to realize after some time that everyone went back to weapons tight and EMCON etc. etc. It's all very frustrating. - Nothing to do except play scenarios , of which there aren't that many. Even in the Workshop (still). - Having never played Cold Waters before, I sort of expected this game to be somewhat akin to Silent Hunter series , in that you could select how granular you wanted your simulation to be, from the largely automated "click-to-win" level to "roleplay as a sonar specialist". It seems this is the first kind and first kind only. There are practically no difficulty/realism settings to adjust your experience. As such, I found that the game started to become repetitive after about 10-12 hours, once the novelty wore off and with no other modes than simple scenarios to play. Now, simulating anything more complex than "click and win" might be beyond the scope of this game and it may never happen. I don't know what the devs are planning. So I suggest you temper your expectations in regards to what the game actually is. - Some bugs and visual glitches remain. Though nothing I've encountered was game breaking. - Not a lot of country options other than the usual suspects; would have at least expected that they simply put a country's flag to be flown on the mast of any ship, because they gave you that option. For example, Syria, who barely had a navy to speak of in its entire history is in there but Turkey, which has historically been one of the main actors in NATO with a sizeable navy is not? There's Cuba and Algeria, but no Japan or France? - Similarly, list of ships they chose to feature is also weird to me; they have the German Type 205 and 206, but not Type 209, of which Germany built more than twice as many as both the 205 and 206 combined! Similarly no MEKO. Which remains one of the most (at least commercially) successful and numerous frigates out there, used by many nations. And no French or Japanese ships either, which I assume will come "soon". - Now this is a big one for me and it's the performance. The sea looks fine, but low-poly models, blurry textures, low quality clouds and landscape makes it look like the game was made in 2005. With the exception of the sea, everything else looks like IL-2 with some extra tree coverage, which came out in 2001. So you can understand my surprise when my system, which runs games like MSFS 2020, DCS and Red Dead Redemption 2 smoothly at up to 60fps on high to ultra settings at 1440p with two monitors, struggles to hit 40-50fps with this game even on a scene with just a couple of clouds, calm seas and 2 ships leisurely cruising. I tried one of the Norwegian scenarios in the Fjord (where Russians are coming with a landing force) with rain, thunder and overcast weather, choppy seas, many more ships and saw the thing dive down to ~15fps area more than a few times. The game also seems crawl to a slide-show (I'm talking sub 15fps) after some time. The longer the game takes, the worse the performance. I'm currently in a scenario that's been running for more than 2 hours and the performance just kept getting worse and worse to what is now 10fps. Game clearly does not use multithreading, there may or may not be a memory leak somewhere based on the progressively worse perfomance. My overclocked 4.2Ghz Ryzen 5 3600 can't seem to keep up. Even limiting FPS to 30fps doesn't help, because for some reason, the game doesn't actually lock FPS set in the settings. They need to do some serious performance optimisation and do it soon. This is becoming insufferable. Edit: I realized I may have sounded a bit too harsh on the graphics. Please don't misunderstand me, the game looks fine. I am absolutely not saying "the game looks bad, it looks like it was made in 2005" or anything like that. I used the "it looks like it was made in the early 2000s" as a not-so-hyperbole hyperbole to make the point that the game does not justify the cost in computing power compared to how it looks or operates. The point here is the unreasonable performance, not that the game looks ugly (it doesn't... although they could absolutely improve things with higher resolution textures). Edit #2: Don't pay too much mind to the play time you see next to my name. Actual gameplay is about 10 maybe 15 hours. The rest is letting the game run on pause menu while I went to take a poop or cooked (because no save) and time spent in the mission editor, since there's scant else to do gameplay-wise. The only problem with that is that the mission editor itself is even more bare bones than the actual gameplay. Extremely limited functionality, unreliable behaviour, bugs and other frustrations make anything but relatively straightforward scenarios where two sides meet and shoot at each other an impossibility and an exercise in frustration. The more I spend time in this game the more I come to believe the devs simply ran out of money and chose to release the project in its alpha state (can't even call it a minimum viable product) rather than find funding elsewhere. As a sidenote, this is why I stopped supporting early release titles. I can't keep paying for a concept of a plan of a game and wait 5 years before I can enjoy a couple of hours of frustration-free gameplay. But anyway. I sort of knew what I was getting into with this one. Going to keep the recommended rating until the end of the year because I want the devs to succeed. If no meaningful progress by then, will revise to "Not Recommended". I reiterate my initial judgement that you should not be paying for this game at its current state.
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As an Navy history enthusiast, this game is a day 1 purchase. The scenario editor is worth the price of admission, even if it and the game as are of yet incomplete. Really been waiting for a game like this for 25 years, since Jane's Fleet Command. Some have come close, but nothing on the scale of this. The level of strategy this game has is above and beyond the arcade experience of World of Warships or Warthunder. Played both those games and loved them, but this has always been the type of game I've been looking for. The development team is dedicated and thorough, and the sky really is the limit for this group and this game. If you've been looking for the true successor to Harpoon and Fleet Command, this is it.
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You will find nothing else like this game. It is beautiful, realistic and great. This will not be a game for everyone, nor should it be for everyone. Sit and wait if you want a more polished product, or get it now if you want another autism simulator. (Updates) Fixes - Tac Map open close w/Tab Fixes - Formations feel much better. (Still need improvement) Fixes - Have not witnessed bugged missiles not showing up on tac map
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YES - but I must warn you. The game in its current state is extremely frustrating to play due to bugs with formations, weapons, and aircraft. There are rewarding moments, but this game will need several weeks or months worth of patches before it's ready. I would not pay the current asking price, and would instead wait at least until Christmas time.
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This is truly a dream come true... only 51 minutes in, however I've been able to visit my 2 at-sea commands whilst in the US Navy in the early to mid 90s.... The USS Harry E. Yarnell (CG-17} and the USS Yorktown (CG-48). Both ships are lovingly modeled and a joy to watch. Thank you Triassic and Microprose. You've made an old salt's day :)
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Online players
816
Developer
Triassic Games AB
Publisher
MicroProse Software
Release
12 Nov 2024
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