From the Depths

Brilliant Skies Ltd. Developer

Brilliant Skies Ltd. Publisher

2020-11-06 Release

Action Indie Strategy RPG Adventure Simulation SingleplayerTags

Game News Posts: 204

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse

Very Positive (10118 reviews)

http://www.fromthedepthsgame.com

Steam Store

The Game includes VR Support

Public Linux Depots:

From The Depths Linux 64 [973.8 M]

Available DLCs:

From the Depths - Steel Striders Anime Girls character pack
From the Depths - Gone to Sea DLC

Stable 3.2.5 bug fixes

Changelog

Additions

AI

Airplane manoeuvre routine now explains it's usage of the 6 control modules in the UI
Airplane manoeuvre routine now writes explanatory messages to the text shown in 'path view' so you can see what it is doing

CJE

Pressing Q on any CJE part (except the generator) will now open the controller interface

Missiles

Missile damage is now shown by the addition of black smoke and a black trail to the missile.

Changes

AI

[BUGS-3079] Airplane manoeuvre when doing a banking turn will now use yaw to get the vehicle to pitch at a specific angle rather than simply commanding the yaw axis to activate. This should increase pitch/altitude control during banking turns.

CJE

Hull blocks are now only 50 mats more expensive than their non-standard counterpart. They have a weight increase of 0.50.

Missiles

Missile damage, thrust and manoeuvrability are now proportional to the missile's health. This has been changed to make non-lethal missile defences still useful. It's also seen as a realistic and interesting change.

Fixes

AI

[BUGS-2290] Naval AI behaviour no longer tries to maintain the mean broadside distance if the specified angle is more than 30 from the -90 or 90 broadside angles. Simple broadside behaviour now has a maximum range of 5km.
[BUGS-2404] hover and airplane manoeuvre routines now have a toggle to ignore the pitch demand sent from the behaviour. Useful if you have a helicopter that needs to pitch forward to move forward.

APS

[BUGS-3085] transparent shell clip 2m armour class was 7, should have been 8

APS and Missile

The meshes for APS shells and missiles are no longer wiped when the projectiles are still in flight. The deletion of the mesh happens when it's certain the mesh is no longer needed (visible).

Autosave

[BUGS-3071] Issue with autosave and player triggered save of the same vehicle messing each other up. Fixed now.

Blocks

[BUGS_2671] Balloons no longer die when god mode is active for a vehicle
[BUGS-3072] Helium pump UI says 'Air pump' all over the place. Fixed now.
The video screen will now display the camera using the correct LOD [BUGS-3047]
Tracks freezed the game in some rare situations when despawning [BUGS-2965]

Building

[BUGS-2793] it is no longer possible to get a free block via mirrored placement of a block you can afford (when you don't have the money for the mirrored copy)

CJE

[BUGS-3077] Fixed incorrect stats on connectors.
Flooding calculation inverted between small and large CJE [BUGS-2940]

Control

[BUGS-1413] Misc control axis A-E now have the non-reversable toggle

CRAM

[BUGS-2662] CRAM explosions can now damage missiles

Custom Battle

Fixed custom battle health fraction ignoring sub-constructs

Fleets

[BUGS-1290] Fleets will now return to the final waypoint they were given if they wander off station whilst in some other mode (when they are returned to fleet move or put out of play).

Game

[BUGS-2785] Fixed an issue where spawning a dead blueprint that had an 'illegal block' that could not be placed messed up the assignment of data packets to all subsequent blocks
[BUGS-2923] out of play stats now include the use of Crank Motors
[BUGS-3049] the construct water level calculation type can now adjust for a growing vehicle even if the vehicle is out of the water. This issue led to large structrures becoming laggy whilst building them (fixed by pulling and playing or saving and loading).

Lasers

[BUGS-3065] made it clear that trying to synch laser combiners that are attached to the same multi-purpose laser is not recommended

Lua

[BUGS-1041] Added some code to avoid errors being thrown by GetNumberOfWarnings() calls by Lua (looking for munition warning count)
[BUGS-2750] I.BlueprintSpawners property exception fix for Lua
[BUGS-2846] GetLuaControlledMissileInfo no longer throws an exception if there is no Lua receiver on the missile being returned

Missiles

[BUGS-3064] Fixed a missile UI issue where if you only had a few components on the missiles then only the first few parameters of a missile module would be editable
[BUGS-3078] H missiles work with failsafes (bug fix)
Fixed some issues with custom smoke colours. Setting R,G,B to 0,0,0 now disables smoke (as was originally intended) and dark smoke can now be displayed.
Staggered salvo firing of missiles managed to bypass the hull aiming constraints and fire off one missile in a salvo

Multiplayer

[BUGS-2674] missile hatches now work correctly on clients in multiplayer

PAC

[BUGS-2845] PAC lenses now take into account the orientation of the PAC firing piece when considering the horizontal and vertical drift of the PAC pulse

Pathfinding

[BUGS-3070] Pathfinding 'on sea' now checks for land within 60m instead of 30m. Pathfinding 'on land' now checks for land sea within 60m (it was previously using the 'on sea' check)
[BUGS-3070] Tanks will now respect their 'max altitude' variable when pathfinding on land (they will use this variable to determine what hills they can climb and what hills they should avoid

Sounds

[BUGS-3055] Audio popping of CRAM and dediblade fixed (mostly affects Linux I believe)

Turrets

Some tweaks to the code to try and catch the bug where turret rotation speeds are calculated to be 0/s

UI

[BUGS-2748] Tweak to the inventory to fix issues when pressing R to select a mirrored block that is not displayed on the inventory
[BUGS-2895] 1m piston now has a quick access icon for the middle mouse click HUD extensions in build mode

Weather

[BUGS-2655] It no longer rains/snows on the map

Winches

Fixed an issue with sail winches (and perhaps other things) where they could be driven negative by using the a -1 power scale

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Summary

In From the Depths you can build and take first-person command of battleships, planes, submarines, space ships, hot air balloons and more! The game is currently in alpha and contains a wide range of single player content including:

A creative mode allowing you to push your designs to the limit and ensure the total annihilation of your opponents.
A campaign waged over hundreds of islands against eight unique factions.
A Story Mode where you can (eventually!) play 15 missions as each of the eight factions - a fantastic mixture of strategy, design and wild battles! Defend your fleet against waves of enemy forces in a series of extremely tough challenges that unlock new components.

An expansive multiplayer and co-op element is planned for the coming months!

Key Features

Design and build your fleet, fortresses and structures however you want. The alpha currently has over 400 unique components blocks, not including 29 different components for making missiles, torpedoes, depth charges and bombs.
The sky's the limit, you can equip your vehicle with - cannons, lasers, mines, bombs, missiles, torpedoes, propellers, rudders, jet engines, wings, hydrofoils, hot air balloons, anchors, fire control computers, blueprint spawners, repair bots, air pumps, automated control blocks and many, many more!
Realistic physics - every block destroyed or added affects the vehicle's functionality, physics and control. Drag, inertia tensors, buoyancy and sealed compartments are all updated based on the design of your vehicle and the damage sustained.
Be part of a fantastic community (http://www.fromthedepthsgame.com/forum), with new releases made on average once a week. Community organised challenges and blueprint sharing make it an extremely friendly place to hang out!

Customisable Components

The customisable components in From the Depths allow a unique level of engineering customisation:

Design custom missiles, bombs, depth charges and torpedoes by combining various warheads types, fuse types, IR seekers, laser beam riders, laser designators, thrusters, navigation algorithms, fuel pods, sonar seekers, buoyancy compartments and propellers, to deliver a truly bespoke weapon.
Design custom cannons by combining four different barrel types and lengths with autoloaders, warhead types, ammo boxes and auxiliary components to create everything from AA cannons to howitzers.
Design custom AI by combing an AI mainframe with 'AI cards' slotted into motherboard blocks. Add radar detection, laser detection and tracking and local weapon controllers to give partial or full control to AI. Create anything from a fully AI controlled aircraft carrier to a battery powered drone.
Design custom engines using crank shafts, cylinders, carburetors, super chargers, exhausts and fuel injectors. Electric engines, generators and chargers are also available for backup power supplies and drones.
Similar systems exist for the creation of anti-vehicle and anti-missile lasers, as well as drills that can cut even the largest of battleships in half.

Workshop

MINIMAL SETUPMemory: 4 GB RAMStorage: 3 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: Steam connection required to play the game
Storage: 3 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: Steam connection required to play the game
RECOMMENDED SETUPMemory: 8 GB RAMStorage: 3 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: Steam connection required to play the game
Storage: 3 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: Steam connection required to play the game

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