COMBATSIM.COM: Enigma: Sink The Hood is Officially in Pre-production

Enigma: Sink The Hood is Officially in Pre-production

Posted by Donster on: 2007-10-26 16:23:10 2029

Thanks Neal @ Subsim.com

From Tesseraction Games:

Tesseraction Games has a new owner. Enigma: Sink The Hood is officially in pre-production.

This time out we are working to increase the playability of Enigma as a command simulation and a ship simulation; with a new host of ship simulation features. Imagine a difficulty slider with Enigma 1 on one end and Aces of the Deep on the other: that's the goal.

We will be using a state of the art rendering engine, a well known 3rd party physics engine, and support for joysticks and proprietary controllers.

What's going to be different about E2 vs E1?

No hardware copy protection
Multiplayer
TAG will host servers
Players can host servers (current plan is for 16 players)
Terrain with Harbors, Ports, Facilities, and emplacements.
Crew and Officer representation
massive upgrade to graphics; particularly the ocean and ocean effects
There will be no difficulty setting this time round, only realism settings: this will include items like reload times, required equipment operations (like hydrophones...), contact plotting, and radio useage.
Ability to run silent
no Time Compression and no "edge of battle" placement. Distance traversal will be handled like SWOTL and other games (warping available while out of range of any contacts).
Drills and training will make a difference to performance of officers and crew
Improved (and historically accurate) fire control systems (ships)
Extended voice recognition systems (E1 was cited as having best voice recognition in any game by multiple reviewers) and voice response.
comprehensive support for the modding community; everything from ships, instruments, controls, sky, clouds, terrain, fauna, structures, audio, all the way to particle effects.