Sea Power : Naval Combat in the Missile Age news & patch notes

Hello from the Triassic Games team!

Today we are releasing a small patch for v0.8 containing hotfixes for various bugs reported after release.

Importantly, this update includes:

• Fix for mid-mission saves from the Pacific Strike campaign not working properly

• New Sensor Tool accessible from the EMCON menu, providing various details/characteristics on each sensor for the unit

• A variety of small fixes for Task Force Mode and Pacific Strike campaign

Thanks to the community for your patience as we work to get bugs resolved as quickly as possible!

- The Triassic Games team

Full changelist:

Newly added features in this release:

• Added Sensor Tool accessible from the EMCON menu on bottom bar, with detailed sensor characteristics

• Units: Added Strike Cruiser (CSGN) as Alaska class CGN with 4 variants (added in 0.8.0)

• Units: Added V-19 V/STOL "Hoot Owl" (Grumman 698 concept) for Strike Cruiser (added in 0.8.0)

• Units: Added F/A-18A Hornet with USN, USMC, RAAF squadrons (added in 0.8.0)

• Units: Added BRU-55 bomb rack and new Hornet loadouts

• Units: Added laser guided rounds to Alaska class CGN

• Some new loading screens from v0.8.0 courtesy SqnLdrMartin and ryu1940!

Updates from previous release:

• TMA: Improve velocity & acceleration characteristics based on contact kind & after contact loss. Added optional (default off) velocity display from sampling distribution.

• Task Force Mode: Added text below Task Force Manager (top bar) noting that right click is used for management options

• Task Force Mode: killing civilians now results in negative penalty and costs points

• Task Force Mode: Added ability to refund aircraft one at a time or as a group

• Campaign: Pacific Strike: added hint/clarifying message to mission 05 Strike on the Monster on best strategy to use

• Campaign: Pacific Strike: reduced Silkworm battery count and Strela MANPADs on mission 03 Running the Palawan Passage

• Campaign: Pacific Strike: added unit picker to mission 05 allowing the player to select the ships to deploy

• Campaign: Pacific Strike: added all helicopters to purchase list for all missions

• Campaign: Pacific Strike: updated campaign rules to clarify that right click is used for management options

• Scenario: Campaign Missions/01A Senkaku Run: changed S-3A loadout to ASW and pre-deployed towed array and towed decoy on USS Hawaii

• Units: Updated model, serials, and liveries for F-111C and F/A-18A

• Units: Added air-to-ground loadouts and chaff to Mirage III

• Units: Fixed torpedo loadout types for RAN Oberon and Israel Gal class submarines

• Units: Added new profile images for several new units

• Sensors: buff active performance of HF/MF sonars, nerf active performance of LF sonars

• Sensors: standardize SignalProcessing and allow narrowband analysis from certain hull arrays

• Translations

Fixes from previous release:

• Spy ships are properly ID'd again

• Wire guided torpedoes no longer attempt a top attack

• Fixed long range shots for Vodopod system

• Towed arrays no longer fly into the stratosphere searching for Santa's reindeer

• Fixed an issue where Walleyes would not properly hold targets

• Killed submarines will now sink immediately vs floating to surface

• Aircraft: More fixes for unwanted aircraft oscillation

• Task Force Mode: Saving mid-mission now properly generates a companion campaign save - this should no longer prevent reloading of campaign from outside campaign menu, if temp campaign save is cleaned up

• Task Force Mode: Repairing units could sometimes only apply to a previous mission and not to the live Task Force

• Task Force Mode: CSAR points were sometimes not applied correctly

• Task Force Mode: Replaying missions and failing them could flip the mission to incomplete in campaign map view in certain cases

• Task Force Mode: Units in hangars will no longer join the Task Force incorrectly

• Task Force Mode: Destroyed aircraft lost inside ship hangars are now correctly removed from player Task Force

• Task Force Mode: Missions with restricted ship counts (03B, 05, 08) would not respect airgroups assigned to each ship in the campaign map UI

• Task Force Mode: Adding new ships occasionally was not properly reflected in launched mission until reloading a save due to stale data

• Task Force Mode: Air Tasking no longer clears Ready Up tasks for aircraft of the same squadron

• Task Force Mode: Restored points cost directly to campaign roster to avoid conflict with modded base game files producing 0 pt cost units

• Task Force Mode: Commander discount will now always drop at least 1 pt from unit cost regardless of unit base cost

• Campaign: Pacific Strike: RNZAF aircraft will no longer incorrectly check out on 04 if lost

• Campaign: Pacific Strike: restored proper airstrike counts to 08

• Campaign: Pacific Strike: altered positioning of S-300 site in 08A for easier VID task

• Campaign: Pacific Strike: relocated player CAP flight in 05

• Campaign: Pacific Strike: typo in mission 08 description

• Campaign: Pacific Strike: 03B and 04 now have the same ship allowlist reflecting their connected nature in timeline

• Campaign: Pacific Strike: fixed rearm variable set by rescuing cargo ship in mission 08

• Units: fixed torpedo tube arrangement on Alaska class CGN

• Units: Alaska CGN flight deck ammo erroneously having unusable weapons

• Units: fixed missing colliders for PLA AAA guns

• Units: F-15C Sparrow positioning updated to F-15A standard

• Units: Stenka is now "Patrol Boat" rather than "Torpedo Boat" to reflect its actual role

• Units: added slight reduction in narrowband screw tonals for single shaft SSKs (Agosta, Uzushio, Yushio, Kilo)

• Units: Los Angeles SSN max speed 33kt -> 35kt

• Weapons: corrected flight profile of Styx and Silkworm series of missiles

• Weapons: corrected range of TLAM series to block II standard, 675nmi ship launch, 450nmi sub launch

• Weapons: disallow TLAM firing on mobile units again

• Weapons: corrected hit probabilities of gun projectiles, reduced fuze radius

• Nullrefs

Hello from the Triassic Games team!

Sea Power Update v0.8.0 is now live, bringing Pacific Strike '85, Task Force Mode, and a variety of updates and improvements to all players.

Sea Power is also currently 20% off during the Steam Summer Sale, so this is a good time to jump in or recommend the game to a friend.

Pacific Strike '85 is a new NATO campaign set in the Western Pacific in 1985 and built around Task Force Mode. Instead of taking a fixed force into each mission, you build and customize your own task force, deploy it across linked operations, and manage the consequences over time. Ship and aircraft losses, weapon expenditure, damage, repairs, resupply, commander progression, and awards all carry forward through the campaign.

The update also includes:

• New units, including Australian ships, aircraft, and submarines.

• Updated Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates.

• New submarines, weapons, sensors, and loadout updates.

• Several additions we have not previewed ahead of release, which players can discover by playing through Pacific Strike '85, or trying a new standalone scenario included in the NATO folder. ;)

Note: as Task Force Mode introduces many new mechanics which mod makers have not had a chance to update against, please disable unit-related mods when playing!

Shadows off Palawan - October, 1985...

Task Force Mode: Getting Started

To begin, open Campaigns and select Pacific Strike '85 (NATO - Task Force Mode).

From there:

• Choose your difficulty and launch the campaign.

• Review the first few introductory slides, and then create your commander.

• Use Task Force Builder to spend your starting points on ships and aircraft by outfitting your Task Force.

• Play missions from the campaign map as they unlock.

• After each mission, review the After Action Report, check Task Force Manager, and handle repairs, rearming, replacement aircraft, and new purchases when available.

• Track your commander and awards through the Service Record.

Your task force state carries forward between missions, so losses and weapon expenditure matter. A ship that survives damaged may need repair later. A missile fired in one mission may not be available in the next until the campaign gives you a chance to rearm.

For mission makers and modders, we have also prepared a full Steam guide covering how to create your own Task Force Mode campaigns:

From The Test Fleet

During final testing, our beta testers captured some excellent moments from Pacific Strike '85 and the Update 0.8 release. Here are a few highlights from testing:

A huge thanks to everyone on the beta team who helped test this update, send reports, share saves and mission files, and capture screenshots along the way. Your feedback helped us get Pacific Strike '85, Task Force Mode, and the rest of Update 0.8 ready for release!

Across The Rest Of Update 0.8

Update 0.8.0 is also a major update across Sea Power. Alongside the new campaign and game mode, this release includes new units, new scenario content, simulation improvements, Mission Editor tools, campaign UI updates, and a large number of fixes and quality-of-life improvements.

Highlights include:

• A new Linear Campaign map view, now used by updated campaigns.

• Major sonar, acoustic, cavitation, submarine, and torpedo behavior improvements.

  • For a full deep dive on the sonar changes, please see our Reddit post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SeaPower_NCMA/comments/1ubs31j/sonar_changes_deep_dive/

• Missile guidance, missile evasion, datalink, SARH/ARH terminal guidance, and air-launched missile updates.

• Improved aircraft handling, formation behavior, date-based loadouts, and helicopter sea-state launch restrictions.

• Expanded AI behavior, including submarine improvements, jammer use, and early airstrike missile-attack capability.

• Mission Editor additions including new popup message types, repair/rearm trigger actions, unit-system enable/disable actions, Stores Editor container overrides, and greater control over loaded weapons on units.

• New optical view modes for binoculars and periscopes.

• Survivor rescue information in debriefs and SAR beacon distance reporting from vessels.

• New and updated units, weapons, and content, including civilian fishing vessels, long-hull Perry frigates, DDG-42 Mahan (NTU test ship), early Permit/Sturgeon/Los Angeles submarines, French Agosta-class submarines, new radars, bridge effects, new torpedoes, SM39 Exocet, Mk 48 Mod 4 ADCAP, RIM-66D, GBU-24, and more.

• Fixes across save/load, weapons, sensors, campaign persistence, UI scaling, localization, missions, and unit loadouts.

Thank you to everyone for continued support of Sea Power! We hope you enjoy the new content in Update 0.8.0, and we are looking forward to seeing the best campaign playthroughs shared via Discord, Steam, Reddit, and our other channels.

- The Triassic Games team

Full changelist

Newly added features in this release:

• Campaign: Pacific Strike '85 (NATO) campaign

• Campaign: Task Force Mode campaign mechanics for linear campaigns

• Campaign: Linear Campaign map view replacing legacy list view

• Scenario: Added Campaign Missions scenario folder for single missions in campaign backstories; added Pacific Strike Extended Scenarios folder

• Scenario: "NATO/01A Senkaku Run" in Pacific Strike campaign missions folder

• Added new Japanese and Australian voiceovers

• Bound many of the most commonly used commands to new hotkeys (sensors, ROE, flight deck, event log, etc)

• Added hotkey definitions to tooltips on UI buttons where applicable

• Moved camera controls to new Camera Controls UI window accessible via icon at bottom right

• Added fine-tuning for depth and altitude controls via slider

• Options menu: reorganized Options menu with category tabs

• Options menu: Split out keybinds by control type and added each to a tab category (General, Gameplay, Camera)

• AI will now use jammers against the player (godspeed!) - weapons tight will use jamming defensively, weapons free will use it offensively

• Binocular and periscope optical view modes (Z toggles; LShift+Z for mode changes for applicable optics)

• Add better AI sub torpedo handling, improve vessel noise and cavitation

• Lights flickering on vessel rendered immobile or when power is restored (propulsion systems and engine)

• Add survivors rescued to debrief panel

• Enabled ClipOn arrays on subs

• Bridges: Enabled kill/collapse dust + debris effects, changed icons to new NTDS bridge type on those that were lacking it.

• Added voiceover callouts for "taking enemy fire", "enemy jamming detected", and "emergency racket" (enemy fire-control radar locked on unit)

• Add better support for containers to have split ammo types

• Vessels now report SAR beacon distances (not just helicopters)

• Mission Editor: added national flag into Unit fields for easier viewing/searching among variants/squadrons

• Mission Editor: Added new message formatting options; added Intro/Outro message types that show Objective status

• Mission Editor: Added Intro/Outro message types that show Objective status

• Mission Editor: Added Naval Message types with doc templates for 10 preset formats (more to come)

• Mission Editor: Added Mission Notification message type that appears at bottom right of screen

• Mission Editor: New "Identify Self" rule - Random/Yes/No can be set for units and determine if they respond to "identify yourself!" radio commands. Old values use the existing random behavior.

• Mission Editor: Support for rearm and repair trigger actions

• Mission Editor: Additional actions to Airstrike trigger

• Mission Editor: Stores Editor can now override weapons for each container type; now possible to load "all Harpoons" in Perry magazines, if you choose

• Mission Editor: Enable/Disable unit systems added as trigger action for specified units

• Mission Editor: Stores Editor takes currently selected Loadout into an account

• Units: Mirage III for Australia, Argentina, France

• Units: Australian F-111C (RAAF)

• Units: Australian A-4G for Australia (RAN); New Zealand A-4K (RNZAF)

• Units: Philippines Bonifacio (Barnegat) class frigate with wartime modifications (Harpoon + hangar capacity)

• Units: Australian Adelaide class FFG and Perth class DDG

• Units: Australian Oberon class submarine

• Units: AS-350 helicopter

• Units: New US fighter aircraft

• Units: New US large surface combatant

• Units: Unique new what-if aircraft for large USN surface combatant

• Units: "Late" loadout for Okean AGI with SA-N-5 MANPADS

• Units: Skyguard/Sparrow SAM system

• Units: "Late" loadout for Virginia CGN, Coontz DDG, reflecting CG/SM-2 loadouts in 1984-1987

• Units: AN/FPS-108 COBRA DANE phased array BMD radar site (standalone site)

• Units: Early Warning Radar site

• Units: entirely new set of civilian fishing vessels (trawlers, seiners, tuna boats, crab boats, etc)

• Units: Allowed damage model and kill effects on land units. Added new bridge NTDS icon. Random fire positions for Land Unit systems.

• Units: DDG-42 Mahan (New Threat Upgrade test ship with RIM-67C and RGM-84D)

• Units: Osa-2 for Vietnam

• Units: Early versions of Permit, Sturgeon, and Los Angeles-class SSNs with Mk37 and Mk16

• Units: MG-339T dipping sonar to Grisha III

• Units: Profile images for various squadrons and lots of other profile pictures

• Units: NATO AN/FPS-6 heightfinder and AN/FPS-20 air search radar

• Units: Added NSVT machinegun to T-72

• Units: French Agosta-class SSK

• Units: Long-hull Perry FFG

• Units: Several new American units added; please play Pacific Strike campaign to see them

• Scenery objects: NATO EWR site, NATO large EWR site (based on RAF Fylingdales "golfballs" layout)

• Scenery objects: several bridges types as land targets, to be expanded on down the road to 1.0

• Sensors: Add an option to display jammed unit radar ranges, and an option for associated search sensors

• Sensors: Add bottom penalty for active sonar

• Sensors: Dipping sonar waypoints

• Sensors: Sensor visualization tool

• Weapons: GWS.40 Ikara ASW missile

• Weapons: Mark 20S "Bidder" ASW torpedo

• Weapons: Mark VIII Mod 4 straight-running torpedo

• Weapons: R-530EM radar-guided AAM

• Weapons: new tracer effects for cannon fire, different colors for different kinds of guns

• Weapons: Add torpedo self-noise info into Encyclopedia

• Weapons: French F17 torpedo

• Weapons: SM39 Sub-launched Exocet

• Weapons: BGM-71C I-TOW, BGM-71D TOW-2 ATGMs

• Weapons: Mk-48 Mod 4 ADCAP (FY85 modification)

• Weapons: RIM-66D (for Virginia CGN/SM-2 loadout)

• Weapons: GBU-24 Paveway III

• Weapons: Mark 46 Mod 5 NEARTIP

• Weapons: MG-74 MOSS decoy (replacing MG-44 on soviet subs with 533mm tubes only)

• Weapons: L5 Mod 3 ASW torpedo

• Weapons: Aspide Mk.1 SAM/AAM

• Weapons: revamped Mk37 torpedo series, added Mod 2 and Mod 3, NT-37C, NT-37E

• Weapons: AWW-9 Walleye datalink pod

Changes from previous release:

• Added more details to the weapon employment hover menu to explain blocked firing states

• Revised Crew Skill level names and added colors as preparation for campaign mechanics

• Broke out Shadow Quality from overall video quality in Options

• Added precaution for sub to not get stuck in default state after checking baffles

• QOL: Moved radius value text away from the circle in circle drawing tool

• QOL: resizeable list field in signatures window

• Life rafts no longer all spawn instantly

• Torpedo and sonar improvements

• Noesis UI to 3.2.13

• Sentry crash reporting package to 4.6.0

• Smarter sub logic, and dynamic speed/altitude settings

• Building out more Airstrike capability for AI

• - Basic missile attack

• - Calculation of "overwater route" for sea-skimmer missile strike

• Aircraft: Make missile shot range calculations more pessimistic and reduce aircraft turn rates

• Aircraft: Improve formation aircraft handling and missile evasion

• Aircraft: Missile evasion updates

• Aircraft: Helicopters can no longer be launched in higher sea states; added as Gameplay option Restrict air ops by sea state

• Aircraft: Aircraft secondary shootdown effects: reduced min size on sparks elements so those don't appear to be over scaled with distance

• Units: added additional FCR channel via GFCS to: Brooke, Adams 'Late' (late loadout only), Belknap 'Early', Coontz (late and early)

• Units: Baleares FFG now has Mk37 mod 3 rather than prior Mk46 torpedo

• Units: first batch of updated maneuverability values for aircraft: F-14, F-15, F-5, AV-8A, A-7E, MiG-17, MiG-21, MiG-23, MiG-25, Su-15, Yak-38

• Units: Heavy bomber min alt is updated to equalized data for Tu-16

• Units: all submarines now have revised noise values, narrowband noise values, screw setups, and cavitation parameters

• Units: Gal SSC, Hangor SSK, added "Late" loadout with UGM-84 Harpoon

• Units: Charlie II, Victor II, added SS-N-16

• Units: P-3C, S-3A, SH-2F, SH-3H - added DateBased torpedo & sonobuoy loadouts

• Units: SH-2F - added 2 crew to ASW loadouts, added SSQ-77 VLAD to ASW Hunter loadout

• Units: Skipjack, Permit, Sturgeon, Los Angeles SSNs now have revised ammo loads

• Units: Perry FFG, Adelaide FFG - revised stern model/flightdeck and added Nixie fairleads

• Units: Los Angeles SSN, Sturgeon SSN, Permit SSN - added DateBased torpedo loadouts

• Units: Los Angeles now has "Late" loadout, replaces "LandAttack" loadout

• Units: Unified language file labels for MPAs, ASW aircraft, and EW aircraft

• Units: changed F-15 description to reflect new countermeasure state of the aircraft

• Units: Added aircraft localizations written by community member n0jge, thank you!

• Units: added "ClipOn=True" entry to early versions of Los Angeles, Sturgeon, Permit SSNs

• Units: all submarines and surface ships now have revised acoustic models with new values, and reworked cavitation performance

• Units: A-6E no longer has AGM-12B as it could not use it

• Units: Echo 2 "Sandbox" loadout is deprecated, replaced with "Late" loadout for standardization

• Units: Short-hull Perry FFG now no longer has SQR-18 TACTAS towed array

• Units: Short-hull Perry FFG has corrected variants - IMPORTANT: this changes the ship variant of any mission with OHP in it! Review your missions!

• Units: AH-1T, HMMWV TOW, Bradley IFV - updated with BGM-71C ITOW (TOW-2 for AH-1T depending on year)

• Units: pass on Soviet ship acoustic parameters

• Units: Yak-38 now has gunpods and AAMs in its "AirToAir" loadout, 4x R-60 is now "AirToAirIntercept"

• Units: adjusted noise parameters of Soviet ASW ships

• Units: OHP longhull now has RGM-84D for "Late" loadout

• Units: split french Agosta SSK into spanish and pakistani classes with unique loadouts

• Units: added bulwark to Late Knox FF (usn_ff_knox_84)

• Units: added "Late" loadout to Knox FF (usn_ff_knox) with SLQ-32(V)2 and SQR-18A(V)1 towed array

• Sensors: adjusted total fire control channel amounts for SPY-1 and SYR-1 sensors

• Sensors: Added ELINT and DECM systems to MiG-25BM SEAD aircraft

• Sensors: SPY-1A Weapon/Target channel count +4 (12 -> 16)

• Sensors: Adjusted the performance of many airborne surface search radars

• Sensors: Adjusted the performance of some fighter radars, especially APG-63 (gain 53 -> 57.5)

• Weapons: added Max Turn G, adjusted turn rates for all SAM and AAM missiles

• Weapons: Land Attack capability added to all aerial depth bombs

• Weapons: reduced integrity value of crew-served weapons like MG mounts, making them easier to destroy

• Weapons: Walleye 2 now has datalink functionality via a pod, can be fired at targets the seeker cannot immediately see at launch

• Weapons: corrections to AAM/SAM maneuverability, now often G limited rather than turn-rate limited

• Weapons: AIM-54A, SM-2, SA-N-6 now use new datalink + SARH/ARH terminal guidance mode

• Weapons: GBU-15 texture and model

• Weapons: slightly increase AIM-54 impulse (acceleration 3.7G -> 3.94G)

• Weapons: revised stats for all torpedoes

• Weapons: added dual-speed and range options for the following torpedoes: DM1, DM2, SST-4, Type 80, Tp613, Yu-1, Yu-1G, Mk-37, Mk-46 Mod 5, Mk-48, Mk-70 MOSS, 65-76, TEST-71M, USET-80

• Weapons: SS-N-2, SY series, HY series - all now have "terrain following" to not crash into land when fired from coastal launchers

• Weapons: tune RBU-1000,1200,2500,6000 kill probability against torpedoes

• Weapons: MOSS type decoys (Mk57, MG-44, MG-74) now have a higher base noise to simulate spot (noise) sonar jamming. can conceal launching platform from sonar

• Weapons: fifth pass on Soviet AAM characteristics

• Weapons: corrected minimum ranges of RBU launchers

• Weapons: RGM-109C TLAM - can attack all land target types, can no longer free fired and now requires a target to be fired

• Weapons: SS-N-3 TerminalAlt specified as 164ft (50m)

• Weapons: increase Mk54 depth charge blast radius

• Weapons: Lead missile shots and intercepts, properly handle vertical alignment leading as well

• Weapons: Updated wire guidance for aircraft based wires (helo ATGM)

• Weapons: Improve missile lead guidance

• Weapons: Make missile shots less optimistic for turn rate at short distances

• Weapons: Make air launched missiles turn immediately

• Campaign: Strike Group Molniya and Calculus of Conflict: updated to work with new Linear Campaign map view format

• Scenario: "Prime Chance": revised unit composition (period appropriate for 1987)

• Scenario: "Gauntlet": now has "Knox 84" to restore TACTAS capability in that scenario

• Missions/Campaigns: all missions, campaigns, briefings updated to reflect new split Perry class

• Translations

Fixes from previous release:

• Allowing submarine to attack not processed contacts

• Multiple DECM were used to jam missile if unit had several of them

• Added missing cursor on map nobody noticed

• Flightdeck could prepare to launch aircraft that is not present on board

• ReadyUpTasks were not loaded if persistent data overrided flight deck

• Unnecessary conditions to get waypoint altitude value from UnitAltitude change

• Damaged meshes of parts parented to other meshes were always visible

• Mobile land units stopped instantly on death

• Subs surfacing because of layer logic

• Shift inverts map zoom. Added: Shift speeds up map zoom x3

• Fix encyclopedia sometimes listing wrong weapon counts for magazine weapons

• Course commands for submarine getting stuck after initiating terrain avoidance

• Possible mount rotation problems on high Time Compression

• Sub-logic player gating, and depth bomb accuracy

• Save/Load: Fixed saves from adding 100% integrity rows for all damaged units

• Save/Load: Fix initial objects height calculation when loading a saved game

• Aircraft: improved aircraft turn rates and turn rate limits

• Aircraft: Fixed oscillating aircraft during long range engagements

• Aircraft: fixed instant aircraft acceleration from formations

• Aircraft: Fixed aircraft overshooting when ordered to return to formation

• Aircraft: improved formation holding mechanics

• Aircraft: Alignment points (for target alignment) being too far ahead

• Aircraft: Aircraft turn limiter not limiting enough

• Aircraft: Aircraft turns getting stuck near desired angle

• Aircraft: Fix aircraft twitching

• Aircraft: Aircraft being stopped on leader death

• Mission Editor: Attack waypoints vs neutral units were not loaded properly when reloading a saved mission file

• Mission Editor: Magazine weapons got weapon system reference for the last weapon in the magazine only and weren't displayed on the Stores Editor at all

• Units: corrected A-7E ServiceDates

• Units: fixed incorrect ECM type for many Soviet ships

• Units: P-3C prep/cooldown time with Ferry loadout

• Units: Tu-16P prep/cooldown time

• Units: Sovremenny EM duplicate sensor

• Units: Duplicate submodel entry for Virginia CGN

• Units: Moskva PKR ESM fit (Start -> Zaliv)

• Units: Tango SSK sensor setup issue

• Units: Aggressive and Adjutant minesweeper crew replaced with cowards (no longer present on destroyed model)

• Units: S-3A VS-28 livery was VS-21

• Units: Squadron name position on F-4J

• Units: Submarines sitting too high in the water

• Units: AGI Okean MANPADS count 48 -> 12

• Units: Garcia and Brooke 5" gun director properly mapped

• Units: Ka-29 2A42 30mm firing arc

• Units: PGM-39 Bofors firing arc

• Units: LSM-1 Bofors firing arc

• Units: Garcia FF magazine setup

• Units: Su-24M fixed StrikeDemolition loadout

• Units: Echo 2 cavitation parameters

• Units: Perry FFG - fixed Nixie position

• Units: Gal SSK - fixed loadouts

• Units: Agosta SSK - corrected loadouts and animations

• Units: Daphne SS - corrected loadout

• Units: Hangor, Daphne, Agosta - improved loadouts

• Units: MiG-23MS ini error

• Units: Daphne class fixes: pennant number mapping fix, proper mesh name for chin sonar dome

• Units: Perry FFG (Short) NumberOfDecoySystems 2 -> 1

• Units: Knox FF crew bravery mitigated (they now disappear when the ship is destroyed)

• Units: F-15A, F-15C, rotated inner sidewinder missiles 180 degrees, corrected AIM-7 fuselage gaps

• Units: KA-3B radar is now ASB-1B rather than APS-116

• Units: Soviet airliner name entry issue

• Units: FQF-1200 setup on Jianghu 2 and Jianghu 3

• Units: ships cavitating at a telegraph lower than expected

• Units: Okean and Baleares fixes

• Units: Agosta/Daphne class textures tweaks, no more white markings

• Units: Fixed tiling settings on some hullnumbers

• Sensors: Increased Top Steer instrumented range 150km -> 300km

• Sensors: SQR-18A(V)1 type corrected

• Sensors: Polinom VDS is now VDS

• Sensors: Sonar getting layers backwards in boundries between deep and shallow water

• Sensors: Fix classification of subs running on auxiliary propulsion

• Sensors: Submarines stopped cavitating

• Sensors: Fix cavitation, and add minimum flow noise speed

• Sensors: Sonobuoy timers were incrementing during paused games

• Sensors: Submarines no longer attempt to classify air units detected via sonar (low hovering helos, etc)

• Sensors: RWR no longer creates contacts for jammers

• Weapons: Fixed swerving group missiles

• Weapons: Issues shooting at high velocity missiles, and accuracy issues with extremely high minimum altitude missiles

• Weapons: Weapon seeker range being overwritten by weapon range

• Weapons: RGM-109C TLAM, AGM-86C CALCM - terminal dive distance reduced (0.5nmi -> 0.1nmi) to mitigate terrain collisions

• Weapons: FAB-1500, FAB-3000 blast effect

• Weapons: ASROC launcher now has realistic rate of fire of 3 rounds per minute

• Weapons: Walleye 2 seeker stats corrected to prevent excessive retargeting

• Weapons: SA-3, SA-N-1, SA-N-1C - kinematic profile now more sensible

• Weapons: Otomat Mk1 now has jet sustainer effect

• Weapons: Mk-37E temp guidance fix

• Weapons: RIM-2 Terrier, RIM-24 Tartar, RIM-8 Talos, RIM-66 and RIM-67 Standard - increased minimum range

• Weapons: F17 torpedo issues

• Weapons: GBU-2 corrected impact blast type

• Weapons: RBU launchers having excessively high (90%) kill probabilities, now is more reasonable at 20-30% per salvo

• Weapons: SA-5 guidance and maneuverability issues

• Weapons: Missile sustainer effect no longer has duplicated audio

• Weapons: Unreliable check of weapon mount rotation

• Weapons: SA-7 launch angle

• Weapons: Narrowband and datalink missile range limits

• Weapons: corrected language entries for IRIAF drop tanks

• Weapons: Mk-46 NEARTIP - fixed description

• Weapons: duplication of name in BGM-71 TOW name

• Weapons: error with F17 torpedo description

• Campaign: Molniya: updated mission 4 and WP/Hunters or Hunted scenario to work properly with new submarine mechanics

• Scenario: "Action in the Gulf of Sidra 1986": moved Nanuchka starting position to account for increased range of SS-N-9 missile

• Various null refs

Hello from the Triassic Games team!

The next major Sea Power update (v0.8.0) is currently planned for release on July 4th, 2026, bringing the new Pacific Strike ’85 campaign, Task Force Mode, and new units to the game.

Sea Power is also 20% off during the Steam sale, so now is a good time to jump in or recommend it to friends before the update arrives.

Pacific Strike ’85 and Task Force Mode

Pacific Strike ’85 is a new NATO campaign set in the Western Pacific in 1985, built around Task Force Mode, a new layer of persistence for campaign play. Players will build and customize a task force, deploy it across linked missions, and manage the consequences of combat over time, including ship and aircraft losses, weapon expenditure, damage, repairs, and resupply. Originally a Workshop campaign, Pacific Strike has been completely rebuilt from the ground up with the new game mode in mind. Command your own task force through a 1985 war in the Western Pacific, taking on a series of connected missions and optional side missions that offer additional risks and major rewards.

Task Force Mode introduces a new management layer for campaigns and supports full persistence across scenarios. This is a critical step in building towards the future Dynamic Campaign.

New Units

The update will also include new units for Sea Power, expanding the forces available in scenarios and campaign missions.

Confirmed units coming in the 0.8.0 release on July 4th:

• Australia

  • F-111C

  • Mirage IIIO (including Mirage III for other operators)

  • Adelaide class frigates

  • Perth class destroyers

  • Oberon class submarines

• United States

  • Updated Oliver Hazard Perry class frigates (short hull vs long hull)

• ... and quite a few others :)

Australian Perth class destroyers join the unit roster with the coming update!

Wrap Up

Thank you for your continued support and feedback throughout Early Access. We are excited to get Pacific Strike ’85 and Task Force Mode into your hands on July 4th!

- The Triassic Games team

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Source: Reconnaissance Ship ALIDADA, 22 June 1985 - East China Sea

Hello from the Triassic Games team!

Today we are sharing our mid 2026 development report for Sea Power, including our updated Early Access roadmap, information on what is coming in the next few months, and more detail on several major systems currently in development.

• Royal Navy release is moving to September 2026, so it can launch as part of a broader faction release which will include Argentine units and a 1982 Falklands linear/persistent campaign.

• Dynamic Campaign Phase 1 is now planned for the end of 2026, as several of the foundational systems it depends on are still in active development.

• Our next major campaign Pacific Strike '85 is approaching as the first campaign built on the new Task Force Mode campaign framework.

We know players are watching the roadmap closely, especially Royal Navy and Dynamic Campaign. This update is intended to be direct about what is moving, why it is moving, and what is being delivered along the way.

Updated Roadmap - June 2026

Royal Navy, Argentina, and 1982 Falklands Campaign

The Royal Navy faction is now planned for release in September 2026. The main reason is that we are now working to deliver the UK faction alongside a 1982 Falklands War linear/persistent campaign, with two versions of the campaign to allow play as either side. As a result, this campaign requires additional Argentine ships, submarines, and aircraft to provide a proper force set.

We will share more details on the Royal Navy, Argentina content, and the Falklands campaign as those pieces move further through development and testing.

Confirmed units to be included in the UK/Argentina factions supporting the Falklands campaign:

Great Britain (confirmed)

• Invincible class aircraft carrier

• Type 42 (Batch 1) class destroyers

• County (Batch 1) class destroyers

• County (Batch 2) class destroyers (1975 and 1985 variants)

• Type 21 class frigate

• Broadsword class frigate

• Leander class frigates (gun, Ikara, and Exocet variants)

• Rothesay class frigate

• Oberon class submarine

• Porpoise class submarine

• Churchill class submarine (as built and late variants)

• Swiftsure class submarine

• Trafalgar class submarine

• Valiant class submarine

• Sea Harrier FRS.1

• Lynx HAS.2

• Sea King HAS.5

• Wasp HAS.1

• Wessex HAS.1, HAS.3, and HU.5

• Harrier GR.1 and GR.3

• Nimrod MR.1 and MR.2

• Scout AH.1

Argentina (confirmed)

• A69/Drummond class corvette

• A-4 Skyhawk

• Mirage III

• Super Etendard

• ... other units are in progress under wraps and will be announced soon.

In the meantime, here are some views of the RN units in testing:

HMS Broadsword (F88, Type 22) burning after being struck with a missile, with HMS Invincible maneuvering in the background.

HMS Tireless (S88, Trafalgar-class) firing Tigerfish from its chin-mounted torpedo tubes.

FRS.1 Sea Harriers diving from high altitude.

HMS Ambuscade (F172, Type 21) defending itself from an incoming missile.

Wessex HAS.3 tracking a submarine using its Type 195M dipping sonar.

HMS Antrim (D18, County-class) firing an Exocet missile.

Task Force Mode and Pacific Strike '85 Campaign

We are happy to announce that our next major campaign release will be Pacific Strike '85 (NATO), built around the new Task Force Mode framework. Originally a Workshop campaign, Pacific Strike has been completely rebuilt from the ground up with the new game mode in mind. Command your own task force through a 1985 war in the Western Pacific, taking on a series of connected missions and optional side missions that offer additional risks and major rewards.

Task Force Mode expands on the persistence introduced in Strike Group Molniya. Instead of commanding a fixed force, players will build and manage their own task force across a connected campaign. Ships, aircraft, and helicopters can be selected, damaged, lost, repaired, rearmed, and improved over time.

We are aiming to release Task Force Mode and the Pacific Strike '85 campaign on or around June 30th.

Task Force Mode introduces a new campaign UI for managing your force, reviewing mission status, and tracking campaign progress.

The Task Force Builder lets players assemble their own force before deployment, balancing available points, unit roles, aircraft capacity, and campaign requirements.

Modding of Task Force Mode

We developed Task Force Mode with community modding in mind. This new campaign mode includes full documentation for community mission makers, and is easily configured and adapted to your own linear campaigns using nothing but a text editor. We are excited to see what the community creates with this new tool!

Dynamic Campaign Update

Dynamic Campaign Phase 1 is now planned for the end of 2026.

We know this is one of the most anticipated parts of the roadmap. However, AI behavior, force persistence, logistics, campaign state, map support, and generated mission quality all need to work together.

Rather than treat Dynamic Campaign as a single giant feature that appears all at once, we have been building and shipping the foundations in stages:

• Calculus of Conflict introduced connected missions with backstory events.

• Strike Group Molniya introduced true persistent linear campaign mechanics.

• Task Force Mode expands persistence into player force construction, damage, repairs, rearming, rewards, and campaign force management.

• Pacific Strike '85 then uses those systems in a larger playable campaign structure.

• Map reprojection work supports the high-latitude theaters needed for Dynamic Campaign.

• AI commander improvements support challenging, replayable Dynamic Campaign encounters.

Dynamic Campaign will then take all of those systems and bring them together. Our goal is to get the core campaign loop working in a way that is playable, testable, and expandable, then continue building on it. As always more information will be shared via these dev blogs, our dev streams, and on the MicroProse Discord as we make progress.

Map and World Projection Work

One of the larger technical projects currently underway is our map reprojection work. Sea Power has historically used an Equirectangular projection, which works acceptably nearer the equator, but creates distortion at high latitudes. This creates difficulty when creating missions or campaigns in those areas as distances are so distorted.

The player-facing result is that the strategic map is moving to a 3D globe view. Instead of presenting the world as a flat equirectangular map, the map can now be viewed and navigated as a globe, making large mission areas and high-latitude theaters feel much more natural. This was hinted at in our last Steam update, and it is a required foundation for the future campaign theaters we wish to support.

This work brings several additional benefits:

• Better terrain visual quality in high northern and southern latitudes

• More accurate local distances and geometry across large mission areas

• Proper distances for mission design in the high north and south

• Support for crossing the International Date Line (!)

The Norwegian Sea viewed with new projection work.

Strawberries Can Kill scenario in the North Pacific, viewed with new projection work.

Aircraft Updates

Aircraft behavior remains one of our highest priorities. Earlier this year we released missile kinematics and a large number of related air combat improvements. In addition to totally reworking "how" aircraft behave and perform in-game, we are also working to implement new tools to assist with control and micromanagement of aircraft.

Doctrine Panel

The next step is giving players and mission makers better tools to control aircraft and unit behavior without requiring excessive micromanagement. The upcoming doctrine panel is now entering testing. This will make it easier to define how aircraft should behave in common tactical situations and should help reduce the need for repeated manual intervention.

• Doctrine can be set at the Global, Formation, and Unit level

• Doctrine will be set per-mission in phase 1, with later support for saved doctrine settings to the player profile

• Doctrine will be supported as a Mission Editor UI element for player and enemy sides

AI Airstrikes and Player Attack Planner

Recent work has concentrated on improving AI airstrikes and carrier operations. This work builds on existing behavior, but has greatly expanded AI capability to provide a more dangerous opponent in missions and campaigns.

The AI commander will now properly coordinate package selection, timing, standoff missile behavior, SEAD/jammer support, and multi-axis time on target attacks.

The coordinated AI airstrike work has also resulted in a basic Attack Planner for players. This will allow assignment of all types of units for proper time on target attacks, a greatly requested feature. Attack Planner will be exposed in the Mission Editor for both player and AI units as well.

An AI-generated airstrike in action, utilizing several flights of aircraft to attack an identified player formation. This test airstrike uses a variety of units: Q-5 Fantans loaded with bombs, H-6D heavy bombers with YJ-6 anti-ship missiles, Mirage IIIO strike CAP, and A-7E SEAD flights. Not pictured is a Tu-16P jammer providing standoff jamming support. AI airbases will use whatever assets are at their disposal to attack the player. This attack formed into a multi-axis time on target raid with SEAD and jamming going in first, followed by anti-ship missiles, then low-level dumb bomb attacks to mop up the remaining damaged player units.

Aircraft Patrol Zones and Task System

The first draft of aircraft tasks and patrol zones is entering testing in July, with full release planned for later this year. Patrol Zones will allow players to assign aircraft to specific areas of the map to conduct tasks, such as CAP, ASW patrol, or search and rescue.

Aerial Refueling

Aerial refueling already exists in Sea Power in a very early, unsupported test form. Our goal is to turn it into a fully supported feature by the end of 2026, with the following characteristics included:

• Proper refueling station keeping, animations, and voiceovers

• Basic AI logic to use and maintain tanker stations

• Separation of refueler types (boom, probe & drogue, wingtip)

• UI updates for easier tanker management

AI Updates

Improved AI remains central to the roadmap because generated missions need units that can search, react, preserve valuable assets, launch aircraft, prosecute contacts, and make believable tactical choices without every action being scripted by a mission designer.

This work has had to take a back seat at times while the map reprojection project moves forward, but it remains one of the main requirements for Dynamic Campaign and for better generated mission behavior in general. Our current direction is twofold:

• Improve baseline AI behavior in the game

• Release a scriptable AI framework that the community can use and extend

The baseline AI improvements are focused on making units and task forces behave more believably in normal gameplay. The scriptable framework is intended to give mission makers and modders more control over AI behavior, allowing specialized scenarios and campaign situations to be created by the community. We will share more detail on this system as it becomes ready for broader testing, with anticipated release later in the year.

Performance and Core Improvements

Performance and stability work has continued throughout 2026. The February update included major terrain and vegetation changes that moved more workload to the GPU and improved FPS, especially in larger and longer scenarios.

Since then, we have continued work on the following areas:

• Save/load reliability

• Radar and range calculations and their impact on performance

• UI stability

• Scenario loading times

• Long-session reliability

We will continue to make performance, save/load, and stability improvements in future updates.

New and Updated Content

The unit, weapon, aircraft, and scenario roster has continued to grow this year. Recent updates have added or improved a wide range of content, including new aircraft loadouts, updated missile and torpedo behavior, additional air-to-air missiles, new land units, revised sensors, updated ship configurations, new aircraft liveries, and more historically accurate weapon and loadouts.

We have also continued reworking older scenarios so they better match current mechanics and are more enjoyable with the latest systems. Updating the original scenario set remains a priority alongside new content creation.

Mission Editor support has also continued to expand. More fields and behaviors are becoming available to mission makers, and we are continuing to improve the workflow for building more complex scenarios.

New British weapons: Mark VIII, Mark 20S "Bidder", Mark 23 "Grog", Mark 24 "Tigerfish", Skyflash AAM

USN A-6E dropping GBU-24 Paveway III. Note: USN A-6Es received their TRAM turret during recent unit updates.

New periscope, binocular, and optronic views recently added, with individual units set up with realistic optics for their time period, nation, and role. Civilian ships are usually limited to a pair of handheld 7x50 binoculars, while warships and combat aircraft may have detailed thermal imaging systems and TV cameras.

How long until one of these ends up on Business Insider?

Community Workshop Showcase: EuroMod

One of the best examples of Sea Power modding in action is the community-created EuroMod on the Steam Workshop:EuroMod shows how far the community can expand the game through custom art, models, scenarios, weapons, sensors, and faction-focused content. It is also a strong example of why modding support remains a cornerstone of Sea Power's development.

Late last year, we delivered native support for third-party model loading, greatly expanding what modders can create. Thank you to the EuroMod team and all Sea Power Workshop creators for the research, testing, art, and experimentation they continue to put into the game!

Wrap Up

Thanks to everyone in the community for your continued support of Sea Power!

Let us know which upcoming unit you are most looking forward to, and please leave any questions for us in the comments.

- The Triassic Games team

Hello from the Triassic Games team!

We are pleased to release a new Sea Power update to the community today.

This incremental update includes a broad range of fixes and refinements across the game, with particular attention given to save/load stability. Following a recent development push in this area, 0.7.10 delivers a substantial round of improvements aimed at making the feature more reliable.

In addition, 0.7.10 includes a range of updates to units and weapons, and new functionality continues to be added to the Mission Editor and Encyclopedia. Several legacy scenarios have been reworked as well.

Please see below for details on some of these features and the full change list for this release. Thank you for your continued support of Sea Power!

Miscellaneous Improvements

This release includes a number of much requested quality of life improvements. Not all are listed, so please check the full change list at the end of the post:

• Added ability to Loop waypoints, along with support for loops in the Mission Editor.

  • After placing your loop, right click on the final waypoint and click Loop. The unit will now loop between the waypoints until given a new waypoint.

• Fixed the UI issue where long lists of items would scroll back to the top when an item was clicked (!)

• Added number of Weapon Channels and Targets for each missile launcher when hovering over the weapon, clarifying why weapons sometimes will not fire (e.g., out of channels).

• Updated the Linear Campaign UI slightly to make it more intuitive and easier to use

• Added new mouse hover option on targets to show kinematic/sensor range, probability of kill, and other info (with level of detail configurable in Options)

• Added missile range and flight profile charts to Encyclopedia

• Moved more functionality into the Mission Editor: Allowed Targets For Missiles, among others.

Updated Scenarios

Two legacy missions have been completely reworked to fit new game mechanics and to improve playability. Included in this latest round of reworks is the community's absolute favorite mission, "Mind the Gap" from the Calculus of Conflict linear campaign, which has been completely rebuilt. The original has been moved into the NATO missions folder for those who enjoyed the challenge!

• NATO/Dangerous Straits (1985): With hostilities underway in Europe, the Soviet Black Sea Fleet has taken heavy losses to NATO in the eastern Med. Their final surviving heavy unit is the carrier Kiev, which is attempting to retire north to the Black Sea via the Bosporus. Take charge of the NATO units in the area to sink her before she escapes.

• Calculus of Conflict Campaign - Mission 03 Mind the Gap - NATO (1988): After the events of 09-10MAY, both NATO and the Warsaw Pact are rapidly mobilizing their forces into a wartime posture. The USSR is deploying its submarine fleet and is attempting to break out its submarines into the North Atlantic. Task Group Greyhound, from U.S. 2nd Fleet, has been directed to cover the approaches of the GIUK Gap and to stop all USSR submarines from entering the Atlantic.

• NATO/Mind the Gap - Original (1988): From the "Calculus of Conflict" campaign, this is the original version of mission 3 "Mind the Gap". This ASW focused mission requires the player to find and sink four USSR submarines in the GIUK Gap. Loved by some and hated by many, this mission is not for the faint of heart!

Preview

Finally, we wanted to leave you with a small preview of something currently under development by our Skunk Works program. Suffice it to say that some contemporary misconceptions about the nature of the world of Sea Power will be things of the past:

We will have more info to share on this topic in the coming weeks. Thanks to the community for your continued support!

– The Triassic Games team

Full change list

Newly added features in this release:

• EXPERIMENTAL: Units: implemented DateBased loadouts for many aircraft, changing their weapon loadout depending on scenario date, with an asterisk in the Unit Reference listing every possible weapon type

• Ability to loop waypoints by right clicking on the final waypoint and hitting "Loop"; also added support for Looping waypoints in the Mission Editor

• Added Weapon Channels and Targets info on weapon hover, to better indicate why certain systems may not fire and help salvo planning

• Shift+RMB now detaches unit from formation

• Added unique event ID for user feedback for easier bug tracking

• Added new mouse hover option on contacts to show kinematic/sensor range, probability of kill, etc (with configurable option for level of detail provided)

• Encyclopedia: Added Missile range and flight profile charts

• Encyclopedia: Added aircraft dates, and mod sources to the encyclopedia

• Mission Editor: Added "Pre-mission" aircraft launch preparation; requires Action_PrepareFlightDeck=True to be set manually in mission INI file

• Mission Editor: Support of PrepareFlightDeckAction on mission load

• Mission Editor: Support of Action_PrepareFlightDeck on mission file save

• Mission Editor: "ReturnToFormation" order now possible for waypoints in mission INI files

• Mission Editor: Support of CampaignVariables in Mission Editor file save/load

• Mission Editor: Added new dropdown in Groups tab for Allowed Targets For Missiles. Mission makers can now setup allowed lists of targets for anti-ship missiles from each unit (intended for use with SSGNs, works with all units)

• Mission Editor: Campaign variable values can be displayed in trigger messages

• Units: 1984 refit of Knox class (based on FF-1077 Ouellet w/ CIWS and SQR-18)

• Units: "Late" loadout to Adams class DDG

• Units: coastal launchers for HY-1, HY-2, HY-4

• Units: SA.313b Alouette II light transport/attack helicopter

• Units: Indonesia mast flags

• Units: Jianghu II (053H1) now has 'Late' loadout with PL-5 SAM launchers

• Units: New civilian/generic T2 tanker vessel

• Units: New Iranian Delvar class cargo ship

• Units: New Sampan spy ship

• Weapons: Add time limited option for missiles

• Weapons: AA-11 Archer (Vympel R-73A)

• Weapons: FAB-1500, FAB-3000, FAB-9000

• Weapons: Gabriel III and IIIA/S missiles (for Sa'ar 4.5 and Kurnass)

• Weapons: RGM-8H Antiradiation Talos missile

• Weapons: Yu-1G (passive homing model of Yu-1 straight running torpedo)

• Weapons: SY-1, HY-2, HY-4

• Weapons: Add range and size gating, as well as optional INS drift

• Weapons: R.530 air-to-air missile

Changes from previous release:

• Updated rules for displaying ranges and accuracy on map

• Increased size of Linear Campaign timeline control buttons for ease of use

• Removed unused Formation Editor button from Mission Briefing

• Enabled Back button in linear campaign on first step to show the Pause menu when pressed for more natural campaign exit

• Improvements to the on-hover weapon display

• Next waypoint altitude is taken from previous waypoint, not from current aircraft position

• Improve missile tracking

• Removed default horizon ranges for aircraft and helicopters weapons

• Improved handling of bomb drops

• Removed unnecessary "track" callout from "Greyhound away" US VO

• Add lift factor option for missiles

• Missile size penalty ignores helicopters, can be modified by InterceptSizePenaltyMultiplier

• Missile guidance for improve side-aspect shots

• Improve climb performance of high cruise speed aircraft

• Encyclopedia now has its default date set to 1985 to better reflect DateBased loadouts

• Steamworks SDK

• Stores Editor: Duplicate ammunition entries removed for torpedo tubes on submarines

• Simplified definition of if waypoint is reachable

• ARM firing on a target requires emissions even with fire on bearing

• Bomb deviation changes

• Missile loft improvements and improved guidance

• Improve logic when firing at incoming missiles

• Bump missile min speed

• Small tweaks to Torpedo depth keeping when entering water

• Units: Oliver Hazard Perry FFG now has a 'Late' loadout with RIM-66E and RGM-84C

• Units: OHP FFG now has Mk92 search radar alongside the Mk92 fire control radar in the 'Egg'

• Units: Added AA-11 to MiG-23MLD, MiG-23A

• Units: Ka-27PL now has Splash Drop (Osminog) radar

• Units: added AGM-86C CALCM to B-52G in 'LandAttack' loadout

• Units: added 'Early' loadouts for USN SSBNs without towed arrays and with Mk37

• Units: added 'Late' loadout for Yushio class SSK with a towed array

• Units: USN SSBNs now have MOSS decoys

• Units: Soviet ships with helicopters now can carry Ka-29

• Units: MiG-17, Lim-6, revised loadouts

• Units: MiG-23A, MIG-23MLD, revised A/A loadouts

• Units: Ka-25 only ships are no longer allowed to use Ka-29

• Units: EA-6B now no longer has 'SEAD' loadout as AGM-45 was never carried, AGM-88A HARM loadout is in 'SEADAdvanced' loadout

• Units: BB Iowa, CGN Long Beach, CGN Virginia, DD Spruance (ABL): all received 'AntiShip' and 'LandAttack' loadouts with majority TASM/TLAM missiles respectively

• Units: E-2C Hawkeye radar changed from APS-125 (1974) to APS-138 (1983)

• Units: allow SH-3H to operate from spruance DDs

• Units: Ticonderoga CG now includes CG-51 Thomas S Gates

• Units: F-15A now no longer has chaff/flare countermeasures (ALE-45 was not equipped until after 1985)

• Units: F-4E Kurnass loadouts reworked, now includes AIM-7 sparrow and DateBased functionality

• Units: E-2C, S-3A - removed chaff/flare countermeasures

• Units: renamed "MiG-23" to "MiG-23MLD"

• Units: E-3A callsigns

• Units: Osa 1, Osa 2, updated CIWS turret model and tweaked Styx missile positions

• Units: all ships now have corrected (increased) drag values, now will slow down quicker than before

• Sensors: SQS-35 IVDS added passive mode

• Sensors: various corrections to soviet airborne radars

• Sensors: all laser designators can now only designate against 1 target

• Sensors: added unique ESM/ELINT sensors to all US/USSR submarines, replacing the generic submarine ESM sensor they all shared

• Sensors: added Active Intercept sensor to nearly every submarine, allows for detection of active sonar emissions from all angles

• Sensors: Reverted offensive jamming characteristics to 0.6.8 values

• Sensors: updated range and minimum altitude performance of many radars, especially Soviet air search radars

• Sensors: Head Lights FCR now has 2 target channels instead of the previous 1, due to the dual antenna arrangement

• Sensors: revised Cyrano family performance

• Weapons: corrected damage, blast radius, and armor penetration of all bombs and depth charges

• Weapons: increased MaxLoftAlt of all lofting AAM/SAMs to reflect their highest flight altitudes (all over 100kft)

• Weapons: AIM-9L/M max launch altitude increased to 65,000ft

• Weapons: second pass on soviet medium range AAM thrust, burn time, range, and typical firing parameters

• Weapons: additional tweaks to all AAM typical firing parameters

• Weapons: tweak TypicalTargetSpeed values for short-range AAMs (improvement in range against cold targets)

• Weapons: tweaks to SM-1MR and AA-7/8 drag and range performance

• Weapons: flight profiles for SA-N-6, SA-N-7, SA-11, AS-4, AS-4B

• Weapons: AIM-9L/M, RIM/AIM-7M, AIM-54A, all received a less severe speed penalty (more effective against fast targets)

• Weapons: SA-11, SA-N-7, increased MaxAttackVelocity (1550kn -> 2200kn)

• Weapons: reduced minimium altitude of most IR AAMs

• Weapons: Harpoon block IB (xGM-84B/C, and RGM-109B TASM) terminal altitude: 20ft -> 15ft

• Weapons: Harpoon block IC (xGM-84D) terminal altitude: 20ft -> 7ft

• Weapons: tweaked high-altitude performance of some missiles, notably SM-2 and AIM-54 should lose less speed at altitude

• Weapons: corrected flight profiles of ASM-1, Sea Killer Mk.II, Otomat Mk.I, Gabriel II

• Weapons: tweaked the behavior of SS-N-12, SS-N-19, SS-N-22 slightly (fixed LO-LO to SS-N-12)

• Weapons: drag and flight profiles of most AGMs corrected

• Weapons: Mk112 (ASROC) and Mk29 (Sea Sparrow) reload time changed 300s -> 600s and 1800s -> 900s respectively

• Weapons: corrected textures for Yu-3, Yu-4A

• Weapons: SS-N-2 Styx, SY-1/HY-1

• Weapons: Slightly reduce time of flight for SM-1MR

• Weapons: added RangeGate and SizeGate to appropriate radar-guided anti-ship missiles

• Campaign: Calculus of Conflict: reworked "03 Mind the Gap" entirely

• Campaign: updated Calculus of Conflict events to match new Mind the Gap mission

• Campaign: Strike Group Molniya: Added capability to pre-plan all flight decks to each mission; aircraft ready groups can now be changed by the player at mission start without incurring delay penalty

• Campaign: Strike Group Molniya: added commander name input into initial events; reflected commander name setting in briefings and events

• Scenario: Changed Silkworm site locations in "Red Sea Breakout 1988" to slow down scenario a bit for new players

• Scenario: totally reworked "NATO/Dangerous Straits 1985" scenario

• Scenario: added original version of "Mind the Gap" to NATO scenarios folder

• Scenario: changed "Volga Exercise 1985" unit locations to fit new Kirov SS-N-19 range; updated briefings to match

• Translations

Fixes from previous release:

• Fixed issue where lists would jump back to top when items were selected

• Patch for Noesis UI to fix a crash

• Fix disposal issues in the new terrain loading (null ref)

• Fixed loft pathing vs low fast targets

• Fix weapon aiming not working at high time compression

• Fixed visual inconsistency of object in overcast due to AmplifyColor depth mask compatibility

• Mission Editor: Fixed inconsistent state of Weapon Status for Red groups

• Missiles ignore timeout for max range calcs and drag calcs

• Fix NAN waypoint distance calculation

• Localization for abstract options menu items

• Fixed the missile waypoints drifting too far ahead of their path, causing iffy guidance in some situations, like Tomahawks

• Aircraft climb rate, and remove loft terminal fixed point logic, aircraft climb/descent rates in general

• Aircraft not climbing when in lower throttle settings

• Aircraft not pulling out of a dive in time

• LoftToSkim false missiles going to skim state

• Empty hover ranges for missiles with non zero typical target velocities

• Factor in missile lifetime for auto range checks

• Warning message in mission editor if campaign variables are not present in the file

• Fixed terminal loft missiles attempting to do a terminal dive into the water

• Sunburn freezing the game

• CALCMs attempting to fly free

• Failsafe: Recreate waypoint if unit has no waypoints

• Missiles ignoring chaff

• Some AAR data not saved/loaded

• Clarified ambiguous language entries for "Multiple" contacts

• Failsafe for nullref when unit returns to formation and other null refs

• IR missiles accounted for FCR when selected for auto attack target

• Missile effect durations

• Unit waypoint behaviour

• Fix loft issue from guidance update

• Fix missile guidance when in stationary vs stationary situations

• Search sensors are auto enabled when firing weapon that dont need them

• Fixed AI CAP Behaviour when there are no suitable units to place a threat bearing

• Fixed bomber formations causing leader to accelerate alone out of a loiter when attacking

• Fixed sensor source rendering

• Fixed issue with relative waypoints not regenerating properly

• Fix excessive checks on target/weapon channels

• Jianghu II hullnumber fix

• Kurnass usn_aim-9p -> usaf_aim-9p

• Added workaround to stop disabled weapon systems from firing

• Language fallbacks not fully working

• Fix bug with high altitude lofts intercepting fast targets

• P-3C short names

• Mission Editor: Attack waypoints lacks entries for ASROCs

• Mission Editor: Potentional null ref aftar duplicating a group

• Save/Load: Aircraft bingo fuel state reset to max fuel after reload

• Save/Load: fire effect not found error during load.

• Save/Load: Unit kill score now properly saved/loaded

• Save/Load: Aircraft RTB state can be reset on loading save

• Save/Load: Units changing altitude incorrectly on loading save

• Save/Load: Formation control mode will now properly save/load

• Save/Load: Flight deck launch time multiplies after save/load

• Save/Load: Helicopter fuel consumption was reset on loading save

• Save/Load: Unit engage task position was not saved properly, resulting in units attacking wrong area when loaded

• Save/Load: Formation string parsing, random spawn for formations etc.

• Save/Load: Fixes for airstrike loading

• Units: PACAF F-4E 3rd TFS roundel location fixed

• Units: Osa 2 PTG 'Late' loadout now has SS-N-2C as intended

• Units: Kidd DDG now has SPQ-9 as an AssociatedSearchSensor

• Units: Spruance ABL deck material

• Units: Snorkel wave position on Yushio SSK

• Units: Type 63 MLRS technical: extended the tubes to fit the projectiles correctly

• Units: Kresta II SAM count 40 -> 48

• Units: Q-5 right aileron movement direction

• Units: jmsdf_ps-1 score value

• Units: Added missing AS-11/12 for Alouette

• Units: corrected Q-5, Q-5A aileron roll angle

• Units: Cross Slot surface search radar now has unique radar system

• Units: Ka-25Ts now has ready times (NOTE: mission makers should probably change the loadout for ready/airborne units to 'AEW' to prevent issues)

• Units: Z-8 squadrons nation references

• Units: Yuniy Partizan variants file typo

• Units: typo in SS-N-3/3B/12/19

• Units: corrected typo in tarantul RE dimensions

• Units: Alouette II AS-12 loadout positions and offsets fix

• Units: Jianghu II gun fire control radar rotation

• Units: Spruance, Kidd, Ticonderoga - propeller blade count 6 -> 5

• Units: Daphne SS (and delfin/albacora) torpedo tube 8 firing position fixed

• Units: J-7III now has properly functioning DateBased loadouts for its AAMs

• Units: LevelAttack profile enforced for Mk82 Snakeye loadouts

• Units: MissilesToSaturate values corrected for most surface combatants

• Units: excessive missile load on Sturgeon class SSN

• Units: removed chaff from Tachikaze that it never had

• Units: Knox FF reload time for ASROC launcher

• Units: Luda class DD fixed HY-1 positioning

• Units: Kaivan PTG (missile refit) now able to fire its missiles

• Units: corrected ServiceDate entry for F-4D (1961 -> 1966)

• Units: IRIAF F-4D now uses the IRIAF livery for its default variant

• Units: IRIAF F-4D now is "F-4D IRIAF" instead of just "F-4D"

• Units: AV-8C now has corrected loadouts, drop tank fuel amount, and gun ammunition loads, thanks to community modder L963 for researching this!

• Units: AI roles for helicopters

• Units: Knox class off-by-one hullnumber error

• Units: skipjack 1968 profile image

• Units: Jianghu II and III fixed GFCS rotation

• Units: FCR rotation on Luda, Jiangdong classes

• Sensors: Top Dome band is now X-band (meaning it can now be jammed by ALQ-99)

• Sensors: MG-200 added passive gain

• Weapons: flight times of RIM-7, SM-1, SM-2, SA-N-6, SA-N-7

• Weapons: MIM-14 profile image

• Weapons: many SARH missiles now have corrected seeker ranges

• Weapons: ARMs can no longer be point fired arbitrarily and now require targets to emit again

• Weapons: AGM-45 and AGM-65 flight profiles

• Weapons: Rapier SAM flight profile

• Weapons: AS-14 motor effect

• Weapons: SS-N-2, HY-1J, YJ-6 fixed CIWS intercept chances

• Weapons: FAB-1500, FAB-3000, corrected mass and AmmoPoints entries

• Weapons: UB-16-57 corrected positions thanks to community modder Fifi!

• Weapons: 57mm (nv_cal_57mm) typo in localization files

• Weapons: corrected drag and flight profiles for RIM-2, RIM-24, RIM-66, RIM-67, SA-N-6, SA-N-7, SA-N-9, AIM-7, AIM-54, AA-7

• Weapons: AGM-122 now has identical drag to AIM-9C

• Weapons: SS-N-22 FinalFlightPhaseAlt 23 -> 32ft (same as TerminalAlt)

• Campaign: Calculus of Conflict campaign mission 4A/4B, updated EA-6B loadout and airbase magazine for AdvancedARM

• Campaign: Molniya : restored proper image for mission 2 in linear campaign screen

• Campaign/Scenarios: fixed several typos/date mismatches in Dangerous Straits 1985 and Mind the Gap

• Campaign: fixed preloaded submarine torpedo issue in missions 4 and 5 which prevented submarines from reloading properly

• Scenario: Dangerous Straits 1985 fishing boat flag; shore gun heading

• Scenario: Added UnlimitedFuel=True to SH-2F in "Better Part of Valor 1988"

• Scenario: added torpedoes to airbase ammunition in "Showdown off Guam 1985"; corrected squadrons to PACAF squadrons for E-3A and F-4E

• Scenario: completion objectives for "Showdown off Guam 1985" adjusted

• Null refs

Hello from the Triassic Games team!

Sea Power will be 20% off during the Steam Spring Sale, from March 19 to March 26!

Also, we will also be hosting a Dev Stream on Thursday, March 26 at 11:00 AM Eastern on our Twitch channel, with a focus on recent performance improvements and other ongoing work.

Please see below for more details. Thank you for your continued support of Sea Power!

Dev Stream - Thursday, March 26th

We will be conducting a Dev Stream on our Twitch channel next Thursday, March 26th, at 11:00 AM US Eastern Time / 4:00 PM UTC. This dev stream will cover performance improvements to the game recently introduced in the latest updates.

The stream will be recorded and posted for those not able to tune in!

Subscribe to our Twitch channel here

New FAB-9000 (9 ton) bombs, coming soon for Tu-16 bombers.

Upcoming Units

The art team has been hard at work creating new units. Current pipeline includes:

• Aircraft: F-111 Aardvark, Mirage III, F-8 Crusader, A-4 Skyhawk, A-1 Skyraider, Il-28 Beagle, and more

• Helicopters: Bo 105, SA 313B, Wessex, Wasp, Scout, and more

• Weapons: GBU-15, AA-11 Archer (R-73A), FAB-9000, FAB-1500, FAB-3000, Sea Slug Mk.2

These are in addition to the Royal Navy units shown previously, which will be released as their own faction later this year.

Mirage III, with squadron options for the Royal Australian Air Force and others coming soon.

USAF F-111F Aardvark. Other variants are planned!

Scout helicopter firing the SS.11 anti-tank missile.

SA.313B with several loadout options, including AS.12 air to surface missiles.

New sustainer effects have been added to appropriate weapons, such as this Exocet missile.

Preliminary model for the F-8 Crusader.

Several "Iota Hallux" variants, providing scenario makers with optionality for "small wars".

USAF F-4E with new GBU-15 optically-guided bombs.

New series of heavy weight USSR bombs (FAB-9000, FAB-3000, FAB-1500, and FAB-500), compared to US Mark 84 2000 lb bomb (at left).

Finally, a hint at what is coming next...

Creator Showcase

Several content creators from the Sea Power community have been playing the new Strike Group Molniya persistent linear campaign over the past few weeks. If you’d like to see the campaign in action, check out a few of their recent playthroughs below:

Wolfpack345

Stealth17 Gaming

ryu1940

Quality of Life Improvements

The team has been at work recently adding various QoL enhancements to the game. Most of these are live in Public Beta branch if you'd like to take a look. These changes include:

• Adding a Restart Mission button to the pause menu and after action report, allowing much easier replay of missions.

• Added new configurable Map Label system to the Tactical Display, allowing creation of text labels and different formatting, very handy for taking notes on the map.

• Added controls to change the Map Scale from kilometers to nautical miles, a highly requested feature since Early Access release.

• Added new mouseover details when attacking a target, showing hit chance, ranges, and time of flight - allowing more information for coordination of Time on Target attacks.

More QoL enhancements are planned to be released with each new update!

Shown: map labeling controls, with colors, alignment, sizing, and fonts available, and the ability to attach labels to contacts.

Shown: new menu option to change the map Scale Units, allowing selection of metric vs nautical units.

Wrap Up

Thanks to everyone in the community for your continued support of Sea Power!

Let us know your most anticipated upcoming unit and any questions for the upcoming dev stream in the comments.

- The Triassic Games team

Hello from the Triassic Games team!

We are releasing another patch today which fixes a major issue with missile speeds not working as expected. This especially affected missiles with group guidance capability, like the Granit or Bazalt (SS-N-19 and SS-N-12). Several fixes for the Molniya campaign are also included along with more weapon tuning.

This release also adds a new folder into the Scenarios menu called "Intro Scenarios". These are basic beginner scenarios, ideal for new players, intended as a place to start after completing the tutorials:

• Red Sea Breakout - NATO (1988): USS Yorktown has been directed to force the Bab al-Mandab Strait. Soviet-backed Yemeni forces are attempting to deny the passage with fast attack craft, MiG-21 fighters, and coastal missile batteries. Fight through the defenses and enter the Gulf of Aden to assert the right of innocent passage.

• Narvik Counterattack - Soviet (1985): NATO forces are attempting to attack our beachhead at Narvik. Command two Northern Fleet destroyers to repulse their attack.

Thanks to the community for your continued support!

Fixes from previous release:

• Campaign: Molniya missions 3, 4, 5 fixed some AI units with incorrectly overridden ROE to Weapons Tight

• Fixed corrupted Mission Editor map centerpoint icon

• Fixed missiles not accelerating properly

• Fixed issues with group guidance for Granit and Bazalt missiles

• Fixed booster run times and ground unit targeting

• Null refs

Improvements and additions:

• Campaign: Molniya mission 4, removed S-3A that immediately spots the player

• Sensors: DECM/OECM behavior revised, most advanced ECM sets are somewhat more capable against missiles (slightly higher JamChance)

• Weapons: increased initial flight duration of UGM-109

• Weapons: AGM-84 acceleration increased to 0.5G

• Removed port side windows on E-2

• Translations

• Scenarios: adding new Intro scenarios folder; new intro/beginner scenarios "Red Sea Breakout 1988" and "Narvik Counterattack 1985"

• Fixed an issue where trigger Action_UnitWaypoints could not properly read waypoints with speed/EMCON/ROE/altitude changes
• Fixed issue with tutorial windows not enabling marked areas on the map
• Disabled white monolith which hid somewhere in the vastness of the ocean
• Incorrect arc size calculation for Kashin Mod SS-N-2C
• Edge case in land unit braking to fire

• Updated Noesis UI to 3.2.12
• Updated translations
• Weapons: USN SAMs (SM-1, SM-2, RIM-7M) - increased maximum target speed by roughly 10-25%
• Weapons: added improved sustainer rocket effects to all weapons that have sustainers
• Weapons: SA-5 updated with kinematics
• Weapons: Sea Cat Mk.1 and Mk.2 now have anti-surface capability
• Units: SA-N-3 and SA-N-7 amended AssociatedSearchSensors as these systems have optical FC backups
• Added Restart Mission button to pause and debrief window
• Weapons: Add the ability to have dynamic sustainer and trail durations based on missile flight time or missile burn times
• Units: Added South Yemen separatists as new nation, added flag, added South Yemen squadron to MiG-21, added new International Terrorists flag

• Some collider definitions to fix some invincible units
• Urals had ridiculously high normalmap values, toned that down
• Mobile land units with rear arc could not align to target
• Weapons: MM38 exocet material

• German translation
• Biologics now have randomized speed when telegraph above 1 is set, to make them less distinguishable
• Ability to retexture any material of an unit depending on variant

• Campaign: Molniya missions 4 and 5 fixed issue with persistence of logistics ships
• Units: fixed missing language entries for PACAF F-4Es
• Units: Skipjack SSN encyclopedia length 97m -> 76m
• Units: PACAF F-4E scheme low-viz USAF roundels corrected location
• Fix weapons being launched beyond max range
• Fix underwater missiles stalling
• Smokeless rocket motor FX accidentally infinitely looping
• Weapons: SS-N-19 flight profile bug
• Weapons: Mk-46 unable to hear quiet submarines at max seeker range
• Weapons: RIM-66 positioning on Mk26 rail
• Weapons: flight profile for Exocet missile is corrected, 32ft cruise, 23ft approach, 7ft terminal
• Some shadow quality not applied
• Return scenario folder descriptions to existence
• Scenario: Incorrect date in PLAN 03 briefing
• Restored loadout name to aircraft Ready groups in Flight Deck UI for German localization

• 114mm Coastal Artillery tweaks and LODs
• Weapons: standardized AShM radar cross-section - larger missiles will have slightly higher cross sections now
• Weapons: RGB-1 and RGB-3 lifetimes corrected (45 and 5 minutes respectively)
• Weapons: added Home On Jam (OECM tracking) for many weapons:
  • SM-2, RIM-8, AIM-54A, RIM/AIM-7M
  • SA-N-1C, 3, 6, 7, SA-4, 5, 6, 11
  • Harpoon, TASM, many soviet AShMs
• Weapons: slight tweak to some SAM MaxFlightTime values
• Weapons: adjust SS-N-12/SS-N-19 seekers for more reliable target distribution
• Weapons: flight profiles for AGM-84 harpoons, launch is now smoother and more dynamic
• Weapons: MM38 exocet remodeled and retextured
• Sensors: fighter radars with LookDownMultiplier=0 now changed to be able to detect aircraft at extremely short range
• Sensors: standardized MinAlt entries for fighter radars, mostly lower radar floors
• Changed formation "Air Defense Orders" to "Rules of Engagement" in context menus
• Units: MPAs now have corrected sonobuoy counts
  • P-3C: 84x sonobuoys (from 60x)
  • P-2H: 40x sonobuoys (from 60x)
  • Tu-142M: 140x sonobuoys (from 42x)
  • Il-38: 150x sonobuoys (from 32x)
• Units: Ka-27PL sonobuoy type changed to RGB-NM-1 exclusively
• Translations
• Weapons: AGM-84C
• Weapons: small sustainer rocket motor effects for non-jet powered antiship cruise missiles (like exocet or SS-N-2)
• Added following land units:
  • AAA truck with 57mm S-60
  • AAA truck with 37mm 61K
  • AAA truck with 23mm ZU-23

Hello from the Triassic Games team! We are releasing a small hotfix update for the v0.7.1 release. This update fixes some issues encountered with weapons and the campaign, and also adds Vietnamese as a fully supported language for Sea Power. Thanks everyone for your continued support! Newly added features in this release:

• Added Vietnamese as a fully supported language for all game menus (missions and campaigns WIP)

• Units: Blank liveries added for all non-Soviet aircraft (Soviet aircraft WIP)

Changes from previous release:

• Added ability to switch selected unit loadout in Encyclopedia via Unit Reference loadout dropdown

• Updated Noesis UI to 3.2.11

• Kinematics: missile drag factor capped at 10 for now

• Launched air units will now have the same crew skill as their carrier

• Weapons: Mk46 range 8nmi -> 4nmi, seeker FOV increased 60 -> 90, changed seeker type from active to active/passive

• Weapons: Mk48 now only uses passive guidance when attacking ships

• Weapons: small tweaks to AA-8 range and typical firing parameters

• Sensors: OECM (ALQ-99, Buket, Azaliya) increased gain

• Translations

Fixes from previous release:

• Fixed hypersonic Walleyes

• Fixed zero typical launch speed missiles under-performing

• Persistence data applied while loading a campaign mission save

• Mission Editor: Tooltip style did not support max width of text and text wrapping

• Weapons: Mk37 torpedo unable to attack surface targets

• Campaign: Molniya mission 2 civilian casualties objective was not completed properly

• Fixed an issue where some missiles/torpedoes could not be re-targeted properly
• Voiceovers: added missing UK VOs (still need radio effect and boost volume); fixed issue with CN VOs using incorrect We're Hit callout
• Units: early Belknap, Leahy, Long Beach with "Late" loadouts with RIM-67A SM-1ER
• Units: add new SPS-39 antenna to early Coontz and Leahy ships
• Campaign: Strike Group Molniya dispatches reformatted for better display on all resolutions; note about Kynda missile reloads added to mission 1 for clarity
• Translations

Hello from the Triassic Games team!

We are pleased to release a new Sea Power update to the community today. This version brings a broad set of new features, improvements, and fixes.

What's New

• New Strike Group Molniya persistent linear campaign!

• New terrain and vegetation shaders that greatly improve visual quality of landscapes

• Variety of performance optimizations which significantly improve load times and FPS, especially in larger scale or longer scenarios

• Missile kinematics system, allowing for more realistic air combat

• Updates to the Unit Reference/Encyclopedia, adding search, filtering, and service dates for all units

• Mission Editor enhancements, with tooltips for all fields and more functionality added for triggers

• Continued expansion of the Unit Roster with new ships, aircraft, and weapons

• A major pass on units, weapons, loadouts, and sensors, standardizing configs and correcting inaccuracies

• A variety of new or reworked scenarios

• Chinese language voiceovers, provided by SqnLdrMartin and the China player community!

• British-accented English language voiceovers, provided by BrotherMunro!

• Full Japanese language support for in-game menus and missions thanks to APSHELL1!

Please see below for details on some of the larger features and the full change list for this release. Thank you for your continued support of Sea Power!

Strike Group Molniya Campaign

Strike Group Molniya is Sea Power’s second linear campaign, placing the player in command of a Soviet surface action group operating deep in the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Across a series of connected scenarios, players must manage limited resources, evade increasingly aggressive NATO search efforts, and execute high-risk strikes against Allied naval logistics.

This campaign introduces new persistence mechanics that carry forward the weapon expenditure and damage of your force between missions, rewarding careful planning and tactical gameplay. This same restriction applies to enemy forces in the area as well, so destroying them in earlier missions will make later missions easier!

To play Strike Group Molniya, access it from the Campaigns tab of the main menu.

Strike Group Molniya campaign places you in charge of a small Soviet raider force with an unexpected capability at its disposal. See if you can win the campaign without taking any losses, as the new persistence mechanic means any lost ships will not be replaced in the next chapter!

Missile Kinematics

Missile Kinematics is part of the broader aircraft behavior and air combat rework, introducing a new physics-based flight model that more accurately simulates missile acceleration, energy loss, and maneuver performance. Missiles now behave more realistically over time and distance, making factors such as launch range, target aspect, and defensive maneuvering significantly more important. Together with the wider air combat updates, this results in more realistic engagements where real-world tactics and timing play a much larger role in outcomes.

KInematics makes air combat more realistic, but be aware that the max range stated in the Encyclopedia may not be possible given current conditions! Select a weapon and then hover over various enemy targets to see if they are truly in range. The game will calculate the real range dynamically.

New Terrain and Vegetation Updates

This release also includes phase 1 of the updated Terrain and Vegetation visuals project.

• Terrain visuals have been updated with a new data-driven model that improves definition of regions like forest, grass, cities, farmland, and snow.

• Improved blending and physically based lighting enhance clarity, color, and detail.

• Vegetation density and variety have been expanded with upgraded grass, flowers, forests, underwater foliage, tree lighting, rocks, and weather-driven animations.

Part of this initiative includes moving terrain/vegetation workload off the CPU and onto the GPU. Players should notice improvements in FPS due to this change, especially if you have a newer graphics card. All terrain settings are configurable from the game's Options menu.

New and Reworked Units and Scenarios

Modified Kashin class BPK, with 4 x SS-N-2C Styx launchers astern, in addition to CIWS and VDS.

Royal Norwegian Air Force P-3B with AGM-12 Bullpup missile

New Ka-29 helicopter is now available for the Ivan Rogov class, with various CAS and attack loadouts

New and Updated Scenarios

Updating the original scenario set and adding new base game scenarios is a high priority for our team. This release adds the following new or updated scenarios to the game:

NATO

• Sub Duel - Denmark Strait (1985): The Soviets are attempting to surge their submarine force into the Atlantic. With hostilities underway, command the USS Baltimore to locate and sink an Alfa class attack submarine off Iceland.

• Sub Duel - Pacific Shield (1971): USS Scamp has been ordered to neutralize a Soviet Yankee class SSBN operating in its patrol box off San Diego. Intel believes the Soviets may be preparing to strike the Western Seaboard. Locate and destroy the SSBN before it can launch!

• Action in the Gulf of Sidra (1986): As part of Operation ATTAIN DOCUMENT III, U.S. forces have crossed Moammar Gaddafi's "Line of Death", entering the Gulf of Sidra. Shortly thereafter, Libyan SAMs were fired at two American F-14 Tomcats. U.S. forces have been ordered to destroy the SAM site at Sirte in response, and guard against any Libyan counterattack at sea or in the air.

• Red Madagascar (1985): Warsaw Pact forces have thrown Madagascar into chaos and are attempting to seize the island to expand their reach in the Indian Ocean. Command the Peleliu Amphibious Ready Group to reinforce resistance forces at Antananarivo while South African air and naval units support the operation. Expect heavy opposition from Cuban aircraft and Warsaw Pact naval elements.

• Showdown Off Guam - Blue (1985): Shortly before hostilities broke out, the Soviets sortied a heavy surface force from Vladivostok into the Pacific. This force contains both the battlecruiser Kirov and the carrier Minsk, and is believed to be heading to strike the U.S. base on Guam. Command the U.S. forces in the area to locate and destroy the Soviet attack force.

Warsaw Pact

• Sub Duel - Running the Denmark Strait (1985): War has broken out and our Northern Fleet submarines are ordered to enter the Atlantic to begin convoy hunting operations. Command the Alfa class submarine K-316 to run the Denmark Strait and destroy any NATO submarines who get in your way.

Full change list

Newly added features in this release:

• Added search box and filtering to Unit Reference/Encyclopedia; minor Encyclopedia visual updates; Added Weapons and Sensors as new Encyclopedia categories

• Applied kinetic physics to missiles (kinematics)

• Enabled new Terrain/Vegetation shaders by default

• Added capability to make true persistent Linear Campaigns

• Added new Chinese voiceovers courtesy SqnLdrMartin and the China community

• Added new British accented English voiceovers courtesy BrotherMunro

• Added Japanese as a fully supported language thanks to APSHELL1

• Scenarios menu now shows preview of mission briefings

• Added Shadow Quality settings and Bright Night Mode to video Options

• Added WeaponStatus button to DM/Spawn

• Detection of previous crashes added for some proper log files for root cause investigation

• Added years, bombing accuracy, and weapon ranges to the Encyclopedia

• Map: First pass at polygon tool for later support for drawable patrol zones

• DM EventLog Filters improvement

• Added missile debug tool and used it to improve simulation

• Modding: Implement ability to load Effects from ini file in certain cases

• Mission Editor: Save/Load to/from mission files for the Stores Editor

• Mission Editor: AI Groups can use Weapon Status other than Weapons Free

• Mission Editor: SetSelected checkbox setting on the Unit properties panel

• Mission Editor: added tooltip texts for all tabs

• Mission Editor: Added VID order at waypoint (INI file editing only for now)

• Weapons: Air to Air Long Range loadouts for USN/USAF/IRIAF F-4D, F-4E, F-4J

• Weapons: new AAMs; AIM-9P, AIM-9G/H, AIM-9M, AIM-7E-2/4, AIM-7F, RIM-7

• Weapons: AGM-88A HARM (in new accountable ammo category AdvancedARM, to limit usage)

• Weapons: AGM-78 Advanced SEAD loadouts for IRIAF F-4E, IAF F-4E Kurnass

• Weapons: new AA-2 Atoll models and textures

• Weapons: AGM-122A Sidearm on AV-8A, AH-1T

• Weapons: AIM-9C Sidewinder

• Weapons: AA-6C unique model

• Weapons: Added LAU-33 and LAU-35 pods for Vietnam era, each holds 2 Zunis per pod

• Weapons: Mk-44 Torpedo

• Weapons: KAB-500L, FAB-500 M-54

• Weapons: AS-12 Kegler (Kh-25MP) and SEADLongRange loadouts for: MiG-27, Ko-45, MiG-28, Su-4M

• Weapons: Added AT-6 Spiral (9M114) to Ka-29

• Weapons: RIM-66G, RIM-67C, RGM-84D, UGM-109C, UGM-109B

• Weapons: Added "Late" ship loadouts added to: Ticonderoga CG, California CGN, Coontz DDG, Kidd DDG

• Weapons: Added "Early" ship loadouts added to: Kresta 1 CG, Kashin DDG

• Weapons: UGM-109 TLAM/TASM added to Los Angeles SSN, TASM added to Sturgeon SSN

• Sensors: Add BQQ-1, BQQ-2A, BQQ-2B sonar sensors

• Sensors: APG-53

• Units: Added Modified Kashin class BPK

• Units: Added Spruance class destroyers with armored box launcher for Tomahawk for specific units hat received it in 1980s, as separate unit class

• Units: Added modified Soviet RoRo with flight deck for Yak-38 and helicopters

• Units: Added Skipjack 1968 SSN

• Units: Added MiG-25BM; MiG-25PU trainer

• Units: Ka-29 helicopter

• Units: Australia/New Zealand P-3C and Norway P-3B squadrons/liveries/serials

• Units: SH-2F SAR loadout (Transport) with 8 passenger capacity, with blanking plate covering sonobuoy ports

• Units: 4K44 Redut shore-based anti-ship missile emplacement

• Units: SA-5 Launcher, SA-5 Square Pair radar as standalone land units

• Units: Douglas D-704 refueling pod

• Units: Added Tanker loadout to A-6E with D-704

• Units: New small airbase variants for China (PLAN and PLAAF) and Japan with custom airwings for ease of use in Mission Editor

• Units: Callsigns for Yak-38, Ka-25, Ka-27 (non-historical as Soviets did not use callsigns but cleans up Flight Deck menu)

• Units: all ships and submarines now include ServiceDate values, over 1000 added, including many for individual ship variants

• Units: Adams 1968 variant with no SLQ-32 or Harpoon

• Campaign: Added new "Strike Group Molniya" persistent Linear Campaign

• Scenario: Reworked "NATO/Sub Duel" into "Sub Duel - Denmark Strait 1985"

• Scenario: Reworked "NATO/Operation Prairie Fire" into "Action in the Gulf of Sidra 1986"

• Scenario: Reworked "NATO/Red Madagascar 1985" scenario

• Scenario: Reworked "NATO/All Your Guam Belong To Us" into "Showdown off Guam - Blue 1985"

• Scenario: Added new scenario "Warsaw Pact/Sub Duel Running the Denmark Strait 1985"

• Scenario: Added new scenario "NATO/Sub Duel Pacific Shield 1971"

• Added Loading screens thanks to community contributors!

Changes from previous release:

• Engine: Unity updated to 6000.0.67f1

• UI: Improvements to mission editor and encyclopedia information displays

• Improved guidance and range estimates for weapons

• Reworked TMA to add process noise - the range accuracy of passive sonar and ESM is now significantly reduced

• Launchers now return to their load position when empty

• Large SAM sites will now register as dead once all radars are destroyed

• Adjusted: INI ready up time to new launch time calculation

• RandomTurns now generates common waypoints instead of special waypoints

• Neutral aircraft do not crash when out of fuel

• Effects: LauncherSmoke: tweaked rotation of emitter, added faint secondary smoke, fiddled with opacity

• Altered TC waypoint tolerances to prevent aircraft from being stuck on waypoint due to high Time Compression

• Removed MOSS from autoattack

• Exempted parachutes and fuel tanks from bomb guidance logic

• Clarified Video Options text for Autogen - changed to "Autogen Cities Enabled"

• Updated save_profile command to accommodate weapons

• Updated game's credits

• Wakehoming torpedo aimpoint changed for better AI performance

• Wake homing torpedoes now travel under the layer

• Hard cut limits added for the wakehoming guidance FOV and distance to override ini values (handy for combined guidance torpedoes like USET-80)

• Wake mechanics for smaller ships changed to allow longer/more persistent wakes

• damage.ini tweaked to modify altitude and speed penalty modifiers

• Mission Editor: Stores Editor is not available for Aircrafts, Helicopters and Biologics

• Mission Editor: For AI units weapon state is always Free if there is no override value in the mission file; removed forced Weapons Free when a player changes unit group Side to Red

• Mission Editor: Weapon Status for waypoints will not change unless altered specifically in the Mission Editor

• Mission Editor: Action_UnitWaypoints is supported in the mission file save/load (will not be overwritten)

• Mission Editor: manually-added Positions List (random spawn positions) is supported in mission file save/load (will not be overwritten)

• Mission Editor: Switching a Group to Red side automatically sets ROE to Weapons Free

• Weapons: Add proper assets for Mk16 torpedo

• Weapons: AIM-7/RIM-7 makeover, new models and textures

• Weapons: AIM-9 makeover, new models and textures

• Weapons: AIM-9J, P, L, M, turn rate increased from 20/24 -> 25/30

• Weapons: USN naval SAMs updated with new kinematics, SM-2 and RIM-8 temporarily use RC guidance

• Weapons: RIM-66C loft height changed to 35,000ft, RIM-67B loft height changed to 55,000ft, loft climb angles changed to 25 and 35 degrees respectively

• Weapons: Mk 37 now has an ASuW firing mode and can engage surface targets (at a snail's pace)

• Weapons: AGM-78 STARM is in new accountable ammo category AdvancedARM

• Weapons: Mk48 range reduced from 20nmi -> 17.28nmi, transit speed 50kn -> 40kn in accordance to public data about early Mk48 models

• Weapons: All short-range IR AAMs have higher turn rate to hit maneuvering targets

• Weapons: J-7C Fishcan now has PL-5C instead of PL-2A

• Weapons: J-5 Fresco now has PL-2B instead of PL-2A

• Weapons: AGM-45 Shrike now has target memory again to make it usable

• Weapons: HQ-61 kinematics

• Weapons: all naval SAM launchers no longer have default rotation speed values, now tuned to their slower IRL rotation speeds

• Weapons: Mk7, Mk10, Mk11, Mk13, Mk22, Mk26, SA-N-1, SA-N-3, SA-N-7 - arm launchers with updated (slightly faster by 1-3s) reload values to reflect the slower traverse rates, now with slightly faster reaction times

• Weapons: slightly touched up textures on Harpoon series (A, B/C, D)

• Weapons: MiG-25P/PD now have missile positions swapped, SARH missiles outboard and IR missiles inboard

• Weapons: all NATO SAMs complete with new kinematics

• Weapons: Soviet naval SAMs now have proper kinematics

• Weapons: some missiles now have multipliers for out-of-altitude or speed penalties, making some missiles better against fast or sea-skimming threats proportional to others

• Weapons: some Soviet naval SAMs now have very slightly higher KillProbability values, to match estimated combat pKs

• Weapons: AGM-45 tweaked launch characteristics, removed loft, touched up texture

• Weapons: AGM-78 has new texture

• Weapons: all cluster bombs now have unique blast radius, most are now larger than before

• Weapons: AGM-122A is now accountable ammunition

• Weapons: AH-1T, AV-8A now have Advanced SEAD loadouts for AGM-122A

• Weapons: all SAM arm launchers now return to load positions after firing, improving firing efficiency

• Weapons: HY-3, YJ-1, YJ-8, AS-4, AS-4B, SS-N-3B - corrected speeds, altitudes, firing ranges, and flight profile distances

• Weapons: language_en, AIM-9 series updated to reflect current referencing standard for descriptions

• Weapons: language_en, rename standard missiles from "SM-1MR" scheme to "RIM-66B" scheme for greater clarity

• Weapons: added 2x Mk44 and 1x Mk46 loadouts to QH-50C and QH-50D

• Weapons: tweak RIM-2/24/66A minimum altitudes

• Weapons: replaced Mk-46 with Mk-44 on appropriate platforms

• Weapons: replaced SSQ-53/62 with SSQ-41/47 on appropriate platforms (export ASW aircraft, P-2H)

• Weapons: all SAM/AAMs now have MaxAttackVelocity values to dictate maximum valid engagement velocities

• Weapons: new textures for; RGM-109B TASM, Mk-46, Mk54 DC, HQ-61

• Weapons: Clarified min/max altitudes for Soviet AAMs

• Weapons: All ARMs now have WarheadType=6 to reduce hull damage on impact

• Weapons: SS-N-9 improved ECCM to account for secondary IR seeker

• Weapons: Weapons with resistances > 0.999 are unspoofable and unjammable

• Weapons: Increased max depth for 53-65K torpedo because wakehoming torpedoes cruise below the layer now and 53-65k exploded because exceeding max depth in this case

• Weapons: ammunition_names updated to add new descriptions for weapons without them

• Weapons: Improved bomb performance

• Weapons: pK, minimum altitude, penalty multipliers, and ECCM performance changed for most shipboard radar SAMs

• Weapons: low-caliber (37-125mm) guns (especially short range guns) have increased GravityFactor more in line with reality (flatter trajectories)

• Weapons: RIM-2, RIM-24, RIM-66, RIM-67: touched up models and textures

• Weapons: F-4E loadouts added "Low Altitude Strike" and "Strike Demolition" loadouts with Mk-82 Snakeye and M118 3000lb bombs respectively

• Weapons: SS-N-12, SS-N-19: modified flight profile, group size increased to 16/24 from 8/8 respectively

• Weapons: Virginia CGN (1985) updated to use RIM-66E (IOC 1983)

• Weapons: Iowa BB Harpoon model changed to RGM-84C

• Weapons: low-caliber guns (7.62mm to 76mm) all rebalanced in damage, blast radius, and aircraft kill chance

• Sensors: Added PLAN sensor and weapon corrections thanks to tireless community research!

• Sensors: rework existing air search radars (primarily USN and WP) to have up-to-date standards, expect lower minimum altitudes

• Sensors: USN fire control increased in gain to allow for firing at maximum range (SPG-49, SPG-51, SPG-55, SPG-62, SYS-1)

• Sensors: JamToSignalBurnThroughRatio 3 -> 10000

• Sensors: Added passive mode to AQS-13E, tweaked gain

• Sensors: reworked Offensive ECM jammers (ALQ-99, Buket, Azaliya) to have significantly greater Max Range, but become less effective as distance to target increases (ineffective at max range)

• Sensors: corrected the performance of all SurfaceSearchRadar type sensors, increase in range nearly across the board

• Units: EKA-3B reclassified as EW/Tanker, KA-3B as Tanker in Encyclopedia SeaPowerica

• Units: Separated SA-5 launcher and Square Pair radar integrity and damage points reduced 5 -> 1

• Units: Every ship with an arm launching SAM now has "FixVerticalLaunchAngle=False" meaning it will elevate at a target, with additional superelevation (usually 5-15 degrees, higher at 25-35 for LR SAMs)

• Units: Oslo-class has RIM-7H instead of RIM-7E

• Units: SPG-51, SPG-62 installations now have default rest elevations of 20 and 45 deg respectively

• Units: Ticonderoga can now elevate its FCRs

• Units: A-7E, A-6E have long-range ARMs moved to SEADAdvanced loadouts, default SEAD loadout is AGM-45 and Mk20 Rockeye

• Units: many western aircraft (F-4, F-5, F-14, F-15) received touched up historical AAM loadouts, and modified rotations to accomodate the new AAMs

• Units: Revised and corrected specular/gloss maps on existing MiG-25s, added Syrian and Indian liveries for MiG-25s

• Units: Speed settings for MiG-23MLD and A are equal now with Max value set to 1.2M

• Units: all surface ships now have corrected acceleration, decelration, and linear drag values (thanks gsmith!)

• Units: submarines now have corrected acceleration, deceleration, and linear drag values

• Units: ServiceDates for US Aircraft

• Units: added TRAM turret to A-6E

• Units: AV-8A is renamed to AV-8C to reflect its RWR and chaff equipment, internal name remains the same

• Units: corrected flight models on F-4 series, especially top speed at sea level

• Units: various tweaks to Soviet submarine (SSN, SSK, SSBN, SSGN) loadouts to be more consistent and accurate

• Units: Corrected P-3C anti-ship loadouts; AntiShipHeavy no longer mounts Harpoon on ferry points; cleaned up Recon loadout

• Units: Introduced better oilcanning effect for ships; to be extended to all ships

• Units: HMLA changed to HMA for USMC AH-1T squadrons

• Units: Coastal batteries (and high caliber AAA) now have standardized armor, VID range, and VID increase with firing values, making them all able to be spotted and killed reliably

• Units: US surface ships and carriers now have updated profile pictures to the latest standard

• Units: Added dipping sonar to Stenka

• Units: Virginia, 1983 Long Beach, now have a half/half mix of TASM and TLAM, versus their prior all-TLAM tomahawk loadouts

• Units: Adams 1980 (both early and late) have their Harpoon count reduced from 8 -> 4, increased SM-1MR count by 4

• Units: All ships with Mk13 launchers and Harpoon now have 6 Harpoons instead of the previous 8 (+2 SAMs)

• Translations

Fixes from previous release:

• Fixed a GPU memory leak which caused occasional small VRAM spikes during biome crossing

• Fix for Geforce Now issues

• Texture error when using Potato setting

• Fixed null ref errors on engaging decoys, and failed guidance of ARM/laser guided bombs

• MPA Helicopters could be launched over the limit, resulting in excessive helicopters being stuck in shifting states

• MPA/AEW/CAP aircraft could stuck circling around one waypoint if CAP range was recalculated

• Typo in Airstrike launch logic causing airbases without bombers to attempt airstrikes

• Exception on trying to load some meshes due to caching logic

• Fix when a single line comment appears at the end of a file without a newline

• Wrong state display for non-missile weapons for hardpoints

• Linear Campaign Loading should work properly. Cleans up loading from Main Menu, Campaign Menu, and Pause Menu. Also adds a failsafe to prevent loading Campaign Saves while in mission.

• Fix for Null Ref when saving a loaded save in Linear Campaign

• Crash in ListenerManager when scenes were reloaded

• Added scaling control in Linear Campaign UI to prevent issues with rendering events

• Updated Noesis UI components to fix a crash seen in some situations

• Fix visual sensors null referencing out at night

• Fixed Silex not dropping torpedo, missiles not being able to be targetted to empty space, and null ref error on saving a mission with triggers referring to hidden units

• Saving was not handling disabled units properly

• Mines now properly cause damage

• Radar range calculations updated for better performance

• Corrected unrealistic damage caused by machineguns to small vessels

• Hotfix for mission saving with liferafts

• Some info (being jammed, processing) was not displayed for non identified contacts

• Modding: Experimental fix for private mods locking up loading

• Mission Editor: Reveal Unit trigger now shows proper side of the revealed unit

• Mission Editor: fixed exception when formation size was 0 and the ncode attempted to get the formation name

• Mission Editor: Aircraft being set to Loiter unintentionally when reloading scenarios

• Weapons: BGM-71 TOW can now fire at max range, has kinematics

• Weapons: SM-1, SM-2, RIM-2F tweaked sustainer burn time to match documentation (20s -> 30/35s)

• Weapons: F-4s now have consistent AAM types throughout all loadouts

• Weapons: SA-N-3, SA-N-6 were unable to fire at maximum range

• Weapons: SPG-51, SPG-60 did not have enough gain to fire SM-1 at range

• Weapons: AGM-123 now has kinematics, functions properly

• Weapons: MM-38 and AM-39 now share identical flight profiles, corrected altitude and distance for each phase of flight

• Weapons: FRAM II Gearing now has Mk44 torpedo

• Weapons: corrected TypicalFiringAlt and TypicalLaunchVelocity values for AS-11 to allow it to achieve maximum range when fired from subsonic speeds

• Weapons: AS-7, AS-10, AS-14, corrected max speed, firing range, typical firing altitudes, and flight profiles

• Weapons: AIM-9J replaced with AIM-9P on JASDF T-2

• Weapons: corrected Phalanx ammo count (1550 ->989) and increased hit rate slightly

• Sensors: Snoop Plate no longer has infinite range

• Units: Corrected A-3 fuel values

• Units: Nanuchka's flag was not hidden when killed

• Units: La Combattante II now has vertical elevation and updated model for 40mm Fast Forty

• Units: Romeo SSK now has corrected crew positions when surfaced

• Units: F-5E having centerline MER not hidden on LongRange loadouts

• Units: F-5E centerline MER rack now visible for StrikeLongRange and invisible for Strike

• Units: M42 Duster South Vietnam nation entry

• Units: Incorrect flag reference for South African Daphne class SSK

• Units: corrected F-4 rear left sparrow rotations

• Units: some ships now have corrected shaft horsepower, displacement, and powerplant type values

• Units: P-2H bomb bay doors now open

• Units: SH-2F now has TransportCapacity for loadouts without any sonobuoys (Ferry, Empty)

• Units: all language files updated to reflect changed Victor III corrected class size and numbers

• Units: F-4 ALQ-119 rotations

• Units: USS Lapon brought back from the dark distant future of 19972 via time travel technology

• Units: unit ServiceDate values now reflect reasonable configuration years; for example Virginia with ABL will be "Virginia-class (1985) rather than for 1975, as Tomahawk and Harpoon did not exist at that point

• Units: Corrected 1980s Adams, added proper mesh configuration for 1968 Adams

• Units: various corrections to ServiceDate values and filling in a few missing ones

• Units: Corrected F-4J dry mass

• Units: Corrected Charlie I SSGN magazine ammo count

• Units: T-2 AIM-9 version clarified to AIM-9P

• Units: Lutjens ammo load incongruency (now has 6x RGM-84, 34x RIM-66B)

• Units: JMSDF P-3C 8th and 9th FAS were not available

• Units: JMSDF P-3C Recon loadouts updated to remove Sidewinder

• Units: AH-1T squadron name "Coyotes" typo

• Units: corrected service altitude of E-3A (to 35,000ft)

• Units: Tachikaze FCR Alignment

• Units: A-7E flyout range corrected 1070nmi -> 1987nmi

• Units: Iowa BB added SharedLaunchInterval to Mk141 launchers

• Campaign: Calculus of Conflict mission 05B added unlimited fuel for un-based aircraft

• Scenario: Removed aircraft from neutral airbase in "Caron at Grenada"

• Scenario: "Caron at Grenada" win conditions

• Null refs

January Dev Report - New Missile Kinematics, Community Spotlight, and Previews

Hello from the Triassic Games team!

One of our major initiatives is reworking air combat and aircraft behavior, as this is consistently one of the areas most requested for improvement.

All of these initiatives are still Work in Progress, but the team is making progress on each:

• Allowing drawable Patrol Zones to which aircraft can be assigned on the map,

• Overhauling the aircraft control UI,

• Updating the threat prioritization algorithm of AI aircraft,

• Implementing kinematics, allowing use of real tactics in air combat, especially during BVR combat.

Today we would like to share an update on Missile Kinematics, which is currently in the final round of testing in the Public Beta Branch.

We expect to update the main release branch with these new mechanics in the next few weeks!

Kinematics Overview

What is kinematics?

Kinematics is the study of objects in motion and how they move, accelerate, and decelerate. For us, this means a more accurate simulation of how missiles fly. Most missiles are rather simple - they are fired, they burn their motor for a short time, then they cruise towards the target, using the inertia built up from that motor burn to allow them to smash through the air that is between them and their target, as well as fight against gravity to get up to their target. Both of these things take energy, and so as the missile travels, it slows down. The faster it’s going, and the lower in the atmosphere it is, the more air it has to smash through to get where it wants to go, and the faster it slows down.

What this means for Sea Power

Currently, missiles all travel a flat distance before exploding, sometimes slowing down a bit along the path. But for the most part, missiles don’t actually act like that. They start off going extremely fast, then lose speed as they travel through the atmosphere. Atmospheric density, however, falls off quickly as you gain altitude, meaning missiles fired at high altitude, or at targets who are at higher altitude, have dramatically less air to go through, and as such, are slowed down much less, and can travel much further. 

So the range for missiles isn’t constant any more. Rather, the range starts depending on many factors, which you can try to influence in your favor to make your missiles fly further, and enemy missiles fail sooner.

• How fast are you going? The missile inherits the speed of the launch aircraft, and this can make a big difference in how fast it winds up going. A fast aircraft can fire a missile a lot further.

• How high up are you? The air is thinner up high, so firing from high altitude reduces the amount of drag the missile gets.

• How high up is your target? This is similar to the above point, a high altitude target has less air in the way to stop the missile.

• And how is the target traveling relative to you? If the target is flying away from you, by the time the missile gets there it will have had to travel a lot further, so it will lose a lot more speed. 

• Is the missile limited by its seeker performance? IR missiles may have drastically reduced range if they can’t see the hot parts of your aircraft and you aren’t having significant body-heating via high speeds and drag, and radar missiles may have issues with small targets low down.

This means that the range a missile can fly is now no longer a constant, but able to be influenced by many different factors which you can utilize. Wanting to fire a long range strike at some bombers using the AIM-54A Phoenix? Get your F-14s up high and going fast before they fire to extend the range of the missile. Need to dodge a SAM that was fired at you? Dive down and turn away to make it dive into thicker air where it can’t maintain speed. 

Technical Details

If you are interested in the technical implementation behind Kinematics, our developer Nick (Bluedot) will be putting together a detailed write up on this over on the MicroProse Discord. If you are not on our Discord, we highly recommend joining here: https://discord.gg/8YCeJekkNb

Community Spotlight - Battle of the Atlantic Workshop Campaign

One of the most common requests we see is for more scenario and campaign content within Sea Power. The Triassic Games team is actively working in this direction, and we plan to release two new Linear Campaigns over the coming months.

In the meantime, we’d like to spotlight an excellent community-created campaign, Battle of the Atlantic by IlDuce-17, available now on the Steam Workshop. The campaign currently features 25+ missions, and if you’re looking for a challenging, story-driven experience, we highly recommend subscribing and giving it a try.

Each mission in the campaign is a separate Workshop item. Here is a link to the first mission:

Overhaul of Weapon Assets

nuclearstonk from the Triassic team has been busy reworking many of the game's weapon assets. These are available in Public Beta now, coming to the main branch in the next few weeks!

Upcoming Content Previews

To wrap up this month’s update, here’s a quick look at a few things the team has been working on. These previews are shared in no particular order, and timelines vary, but we hope you enjoy this early glimpse at what’s coming.

Royal Navy Leander class frigate (Type 12I) Batch 1 with Ikara anti-submarine weapon

New Ikara launcher for Royal Navy units

Close up view of the Ikara anti-submarine weapon

USS Merrill DD-976 with Armored Box Launchers installed for Tomahawk missiles

Intro event for a new Linear Campaign being introduced

A-1 Skyraider early work in progress model

Thank you to everyone in the Sea Power community for your continued support and interest in the project. We appreciate your feedback, and we look forward to sharing more progress with you in the months ahead!

- The Triassic Games team

Sea Power Development Update - December 2025

Happy Holidays from the Triassic Games team!

As we approach the end of 2025, we wanted to take a moment to look back at what the team has delivered this year, introduce two new members of the development team, and provide a brief update on several major initiatives currently in progress. We are also using this opportunity to roll out a small update to Sea Power, which is described below.

This year has been a significant one for Sea Power, both in terms of feature depth and long-term foundations for the future of the game.

2025: Year in Review

Throughout 2025, development focused on building upon the core mechanics of Sea Power, as well as expanding the overall scope of the game with new factions, missions, and a campaign. Major updates this year included:

• New playable JMSDF and PLAN factions, each with brand new units and scenarios.

• Major rework of Flight Deck operations for enhanced realism and more interesting carrier and airbase gameplay.

• Introduction of save/load functionality, enabling longer and more complex scenarios to be enjoyed in more than one session.

• Tacview integration, allowing players to analyze engagements in detail outside the game.

• Release of the first Linear Campaign, providing a structured story-based experience with connected and branching scenarios.

• New missions, weapons, and units across all factions, expanding historical scope and providing for more variety.

• Ongoing AI improvements, providing for better replayability and more challenge for players.

Team Update

We are excited to welcome two new team members to Triassic!

Chris (skyblazer) has joined the art team as a 3D modeler, focusing on the creation of new units. He is a long time Sea Power mod maker known for his work on the Royal Australian Navy mod pack. Chris is based in Australia and brings a strong background in 3D design and asset creation to the team.

Nick (bluedot) has joined the team as a software developer and is currently focused on performance optimization and enhancing aircraft behavior and air-to-air combat fidelity. Like Chris, Nick is an experienced mod maker with a professional background in .NET web development.

Welcome Chris and Nick!

Current Development Initiatives

As we move toward 2026, several major initiatives are underway. Below is a brief status update on each:

AI Improvements

Throughout the second half of 2025, the team has introduced a variety of enhancements to the Sea Power AI. The latest on AI has been shared throughout the last few community updates, but here is a recap as we approach the end of the year:

• The AI commander can now classify player ship and aircraft formations based on shared characteristics such as heading, speed, and grouping.

• AI airbases and carriers automatically launch AEW&C, maintain CAP, and scramble interceptors in response to inbound strikes.

• AI aircraft will prioritize attacks on detected targets more appropriately, and defend themselves against CAP effectively.

• AI submarines employ wake-homing torpedoes more effectively by engaging at closer ranges.

AI capabilities under active development:

• Active AI reconnaissance using available assets.

• Expanding airstrike capabilities beyond bomb-only attacks.

• Enabling the AI to coordinate SEAD and jammers with airstrikes.

• Morale-based AI behavior and reactions.

• Improved ASW tactics against player submarines.

• Better AI weapon employment within appropriate engagement envelopes.

• Delivery of the AI Framework to the community, allowing scriptable AI for custom missions.

Pictured: experimental AI logic built inside the scriptable AI Framework for transiting Ship A (yellow) past Threats X, Y, and Z (red) to Destination B (green). Weighted threat values (black arrows) for each detected/classified red Threat influence the pathing decisions for Ship A (yellow). Ship A (yellow) is simulated Kidd class DDG, while Threat X (top) is simulated Oslo class FF, Threat Y (top right) is simulated Belknap class CG, and Threat Z (bottom) is simulated Sovremenny class DDG. The sharp turn to the south on classification of Threat Z (Sovremenny) is due to AI understanding of the greater anti-ship threat posed by Sovremenny with its highly capable SS-N-22 missiles.

Performance Optimizations

Performance of Sea Power, especially in larger scale or longer running missions, has been a consistent point of feedback from the community. The team is making a focused effort to identify performance bottlenecks and optimize where possible.

Recent improvements include:

• Significant performance gains in large-scale scenarios, with Public Beta participants (and dev team profiling) showing a 50% increase in FPS in missions. These improvements stem from optimization work led by Nick, our new programmer, who continues to identify areas for improvement.

• Engine- and system-level optimizations, including revised sensor line of sight checks, improved unit file referencing to reduce load times, and better handling of large unit formations.

• Progress on hunting down a long-standing memory leak that would result in longer missions slowing down or crashing, preventing the need to save and restart the game to avoid crashes.

The Triassic Team expects to continue to deliver further performance improvements with each major update. Please stay tuned!

Aircraft Behavior Rework

Improving the management of aircraft in Sea Power is a high priority for our team. Recently, the team conducted a special session to identify the main areas of aircraft behavior that will be addressed:

• Improving the aircraft control UI to make aircraft more intuitive to operate.

• Introducing more realistic missile kinematics to make real defensive/offensive air combat tactics viable.

• Adding capability to draw out specific patrol/free-engagement zones for aircraft (and extending this capability to ships and other units).

• Improving WTA (Weapon Target Assignment) algorithms of AI aircraft, so that fighters prioritize targets correctly.

• Adding more realistic fuel elements to the aircraft simulation, including aerial refueling.

• And of course, continuing to work out bugs in the flight model (especially the recalcitrant issue where aircraft will climb to 100,000' without explanation...)

Aspects of these priorities have already been delivered and are live in the latest release (please see release notes below). For the rest, please stay tuned for updates throughout the next few months.

Dynamic Campaign

With continued progress on Sea Power’s AI systems, the team has begun active development of the Dynamic Campaign.

As outlined in previous updates, the initial implementation will focus on a North Atlantic theater set during a Cold War–gone-hot conflict between NATO and the Warsaw Pact in Europe. Our current efforts focus on the strategic map view and the objectives and events shown there (for which the Linear Campaign system has provided a basic framework).

As development progresses, we will share additional details with the community.

Environment/Terrain Overhaul

Work is underway on a major overhaul of Sea Power's terrain and environment systems, led by Ian and Mek on the art team. This effort is focused on improving the visual fidelity of terrain, vegetation, coastlines, undersea environments, and cities within the game.

Here is a first look at some of the enhancements. We expect to release the environment overhaul sometime in Q1 of 2026:

Royal Navy Faction Update

As mentioned in our roadmap (and teased on the Microprose Discord), the next faction we are releasing will the Royal Navy. The following units have been revealed so far, with more to come:

• Type 21 (Amazon) class frigate

• Type 42 (Sheffield) class destroyer (Batch 1)

• Type 22 (Broadsword) class frigate

• Lynx HAS.1 helicopter

Royal Navy faction release is currently targeting Q2 2026, and like previous faction updates, will include a variety of new units and scenarios. Nils from the art team has been hard at work on these new ships:

Pictured: Type 21 (Amazon) class frigate

Pictured: Type 42 (Sheffield) class destroyer (Batch 1)

Pictured: Type 22 (Broadsword) class frigate

Miscellaneous Updates

Additional areas of development are outlined below. These efforts are largely focused on quality-of-life improvements and content updates, and will be delivered incrementally over the coming year.

• New native language voiceovers for Chinese and Japanese

• New accented English voiceovers for European powers and others

• Continuous improvement of the game's Mission Editor

• Continuing to update and improve the base game's original scenario set

• Adding new scenarios for all factions

• Adding two new Linear Campaigns, the details for which will be shared soon™️

• Adding new units for all factions outside the major faction releases, with a sneak peek below:

Pictured: one of the new units in progress by Chris on the art team.

Release Branch Update

\: please note, as of 26 Dec (Friday), we have ROLLED BACK this update as some users were reporting crashes and framerate issues. We are investigating these issues and will get a patch release out ASAP. Until then, please use the Public Beta if you would like to try the changes mentioned below!

Last but not least, we will be rolling out an update to Sea Power today that incorporates the same set of improvements recently tested on the Public Beta branch. These updates were mentioned in our last post, but here is a recap for those interested:

What's New

• Performance optimizations across core systems, delivering faster load times and improved FPS, especially in large-scale scenarios.

• Aircraft will no longer jettison external fuel tanks unless under attack.

• Fighters can now perform cranking maneuvers during BVR engagements while continuing to guide missiles.

• Aircraft that run out of fuel without a nearby recovery airfield will now ditch.

• Many new loadout options for US aircraft (P-3C, S-3A, SH-3H, SH-2F, A-6E, and A-7E)

• New Rubezh land-based Styx platform

Full change list

Newly added features in this release:

• Aircraft in BVR combat can now properly crank when launching long-range missiles

• Aircraft without an airfield nearby will now ditch when fuel tanks are empty

• Mission Editor: Heading now changes according to the first Waypoint position if present

• Added USN Mark 54 depth bomb (conventional)

• Added conventional depth bomb loadouts for SH-3H and S-3A

• Added new wing root pylons and Sidewinder rails for P-3C

• JMSDF P-3C now use ASM-1 instead of Harpoon for AntiShip loadouts

• Updated all P-3C and S-3A loadouts with new capabilities

• New Anti Ship Long Range loadout for A-6E based on historical Surface CAP loadouts

• New SEAD Long Range loadout for A-7E based on historical loadouts

• New ASW Long Range loadout for SH-2F

• New Grail mounts for Shershen-E and Mol classes, enabled SA-N-5 on Mol class

• South African Air Force Mirage F1 callsigns

• New 4K51 Rubezh shore-based Styx launcher

• Added DECM to Yak-38

Changes from previous release:

• Preferred arcs now will launch weapon even if it is not possible to fully align mount with target

• Performance: Drastically improved mission loading times (thanks Bluedot!)

• Performance: Re-enabled Burst compile in Synthesizers for speedup

• Performance: Reworked sensor and line of sight logic to improve performance

• Performance: Improved performance with large formations

• Mission Editor: changed waypoints so that first waypoint can properly change unit weapon status

• Campaign: updated all campaign missions to accommodate new limited fuel for unbased aircraft

• Scenario: updated all scenarios to accommodate new limited fuel for unbased aircraft

• Scenario: Removed "Crimson Tide" unfinished/broken scenarios from NATO and WP folders; will rework and add back later on

• Scenario: Updated "Dong Hoi" for new mechanics, fixed name conventions in Volga Exercise

• Scenario: Moving incomplete/broken "Head of the Snake" scenario to WIP folder

• Scenario: Pact/"Hunters or Hunted" - changed Il-38 to Ka-25 with buoys only for proper difficulty

• MiG-23 radar parameters according to data from nuclearstonk

• Updated translations

• New loadouts for P-3C, S-3A, SH-2F, SH-3H

• AntiShipLongRange loadout for A-6E based on historical Surface CAP example

• P-3C bank angle increased for better bombing/buoy deploy performance in line with actual capabilities

Fixes from previous release:

• Air units no longer drop their tanks unless trying to evade missiles

• Flight Deck button is now properly hidden for units without a Flight Deck

• Placing waypoints or hitting Ceasefire no longer cancels Weapons Free state

• Fixed issue where new asset loading would error out when mods had incorrect ammunition types in a magazine

• Fixed issue with line of sight checks clipping into ground, preventing VID

• Prevented ghost objects at world origin causing low FPS at certain low sun angle

• Towed arrays could sometimes exceed max allowed depth

• Submarine towed sonars floated over subs if it was close enough to the bottom

• Towed decoys no longer appear on the map

• Fixed issue with some aircraft unable to properly turn to waypoints on landing

• Aerial Depth Charges now properly collide with seabed

• Nano memory leak

• Ambiguous keys were used for Circle as a formation type and as a drawing tool

• Mission Editor: Random spawn works now for the whole formation if specified for a formation leader

• Mission Editor: Random spawn now works properly for units in a custom formation (Loose)

• Mission Editor: Tracked ammunition categories for Flight Decks with Custom Air Groups were not saved properly under some loading conditions

• Mission Editor: Corrected ETA time for waypoints beyond the first waypoint

• Mission Editor: Fixed issue with loading missions where all aircraft were launched from an airbase

• Scenario: Victory conditions for NATO/"Arctic Intercept" updated

• Tutorials: Clarified it is LEFT CTRL+Right Click to skip VID in tutorials

• Missing face (vertices) on Leahy model

• Submarine props now rotate backwards correctly at reverse telegraph settings

• Prop rotation directions for Delta III, Yankee, Victor II, Alvand, Petya II, Petya III, Virginia CGN, California CGN (thx to gmanwr from Steam!)

• Incorrect system-colliders linking in S-300 battery

• Su-24 aircraft kill effects fix (engines fire effect meshes were missing)

• Fixed superstructure on Ticonderoga now flush with hull

• Fixed new asset loading erroring out in situations where mods have incorrect ammunition types in a magazine

Hello from the Triassic Games team!

Today we are rolling out a new update to the Public Beta branch, with some meaningful improvements to overall performance. Recent work has focused on optimizing core systems, resulting in noticeably faster load times and improved FPS, especially in large-scale scenarios. We are excited to get these changes into your hands and encourage everyone on the Public Beta to put them through their paces and share feedback.

We have also begun addressing community feedback around aircraft behavior. Several improvements are now live in the Public Beta:

• Aircraft will no longer jettison external tanks unless they come under attack.

• Fighters can now perform cranking maneuvers during BVR engagements while continuing to guide missiles.

• Aircraft that run out of fuel without an airfield nearby will now ditch. An option for unlimited aircraft fuel will be added to the Mission Editor prior to final release. This change supports the upcoming Aerial Refueling feature.

Work on aircraft systems is continuing, with the following improvements currently in development:

• More realistic missile kinematics, enabling authentic defensive and offensive air combat tactics.

• Drawable map zones for assigning patrol or free engagement areas to aircraft formations.

• A review and refinement of the aircraft control UI to improve clarity and usability.

• Full aerial refueling support, including dedicated tankers such as the KC-135 and buddy-store tanker loadouts for compatible attack aircraft. 🤫

As always, thank you for testing the Public Beta and for the continued feedback. It plays a key role in shaping the future of Sea Power!

Full changelist:

Newly added features in this release:

• Aircraft in BVR combat can now properly crank when launching long-range missiles

• Aircraft without an airfield nearby will now ditch when fuel tanks are empty

• Mission Editor: Heading now changes according to the first Waypoint position if present

• USN Mark 54 depth bomb

• Added conventional depth bomb loadouts for SH-3H and S-3A

• Added new wing root pylons and Sidewinder rails for P-3C

• JMSDF P-3C now use ASM-1 instead of Harpoon for AntiShip loadouts

• Updated all P-3C and S-3A loadouts with new capabilities

• New Anti Ship Long Range loadout for A-6E based on historical Surface CAP loadouts

• New ASW Long Range loadout for SH-2F

• New Grail mounts for Shershen-E and Mol classes, enabled SA-N-5 on Mol class

• SAAF Mirage F1 callsigns

• New 4K51 Rubezh shore-based Styx launcher

Changes from previous release:

• Preferred arcs now will launch weapon even if it is not possible to fully align mount with target

• Performance: Drastically improved mission loading times (thanks Bluedot!)

• Performance: Re-enabled Burst compile in Synthesizers for speedup

• Performance: Reworked sensor and line of sight logic to improve performance

• Performance: Improved performance with large formations

• Scenario: Removed "Crimson Tide" unfinished/broken scenarios from NATO and WP folders; will rework and add back later on

• Scenario: Updated "Dong Hoi" for new mechanics, fixed name conventions in Volga Exercise

• Scenario: Moving incomplete/broken "Head of the Snake" scenario to WIP folder

• Scenario: Pact/"Hunters or Hunted" - changed Il-38 to Ka-25 with buoys only for proper difficulty

• MiG-23 radar parameters according to data from nuclearstonk

• Updated translations

• New loadouts for P-3C, S-3A, SH-2F, SH-3H

• AntiShipLongRange loadout for A-6E based on historical Surface CAP example

Fixes from previous release:

• Air units no longer drop their tanks unless trying to evade missiles

• Flight Deck button is now properly hidden for units without a Flight Deck

• Towed arrays could sometimes exceed max allowed depth

• Submarine towed sonars floated over subs if it was close enough to the bottom

• Towed decoys no longer appear on the map

• Fixed issue with some aircraft unable to properly turn to waypoints on landing

• Aerial Depth Charges now properly collide with seabed

• Nano memory leak

• Ambiguous keys were used for Circle as a formation type and as a drawing tool

• Mission Editor: Random spawn works now for the whole formation if specified for a formation leader

• Mission Editor: Random spawn now works properly for units in a custom formation (Loose)

• Mission Editor: Tracked ammunition categories for Flight Decks with Custom Air Groups were not saved properly under some loading conditions

• Mission Editor: Corrected ETA time for waypoints beyond the first waypoint

• Mission Editor: Fixed issue with loading missions where all aircraft were launched from an airbase

• Scenario: Victory conditions for NATO/"Arctic Intercept" updated

• Tutorials: Clarified it is LEFT CTRL+Right Click to skip VID in tutorials

• Missing face (vertices) on Leahy model

• Submarine props now rotate backwards correctly at reverse telegraph settings

• Prop rotation directions for Delta III, Yankee, Victor II, Alvand, Petya II, Petya III, Virginia CGN, California CGN (thx to gmanwr from Steam!)

• Incorrect system-colliders linking in S-300 battery

• Su-24 aircraft kill effects fix (engines fire effect meshes were missing)

• Fixed superstructure on Ticonderoga now flush with hull

• Fixed new asset loading erroring out in situations where mods have incorrect ammunition types in a magazine

• Fixed crash in Flight Deck and potentially other UI related areas
• Adjusted logic for aircraft launch of certain weapon types (AGM-62, AS-14B) to accommodate new aircraft re-attack update
• Speeded up loading times
• Updated HY-3 with more accurate specs, thanks to SqnLdrMartin
• Aircraft popup mechanics
• translations updated
• Chinese and Korean fonts were partially missing
• Mission editor: missing countries in the list of countries; plans for ships are displayed again
• Mission editor: Simplified workflow for countries
• Setting Autogen Off in options caused terrain to be black, and some other lighting issues

Black Friday Update

Hello from the Triassic Games team! Sea Power is now discounted as part of the Steam Black Friday Sale, running through Sunday, November 30th.

Alongside the sale, we are launching a major update with improvements and new content. This update continues our ongoing work to refine the game's core systems, expand the game's roster of units and scenarios, and support both the mission-making and modding communities with enhancements.

Major Overhaul of Flight Deck Mechanics

This update includes a major rework of how Flight Decks function. This change applies to aircraft carriers, airbases, and all ships with hangars.

• Aircraft Prep & Servicing: All aircraft now have individual prep times before launch and cooldown/servicing times after recovery.

• Ground Crews & Deck Park Limits:

  • Flight decks now use a limited number of Ground Crews for fueling and arming; once all crews are busy, additional prep orders must wait.

  • Deck Park space limits how many prepped aircraft can queue for launch; once full, aircraft must launch to free space.

  • Prep/cooldown timers appear in the Flight Deck UI; Ground Crew and Deck Park usage are shown via gauges that fill up as space is used.

• Rally Points: Players can now set rally points and altitudes for aircraft launched from an airbase or carrier.

  • Right-click the airbase/carrier → Flight Deck > Rally Points.

  • Rally points can be set separately for fixed-wing, VTOL aircraft, and helicopters.

  • Place a rally point by selecting the aircraft type and right-clicking on the map; rally points appear when the base/carrier is selected and can be dragged to reposition.

• Limited Ordnance Stores: Flight Decks now track limited ammunition, especially advanced weapons like Phoenix and Harpoon missiles.

• Mission Editor Updates: Mission creators can now configure prepped aircraft and assign airbase/carrier ammunition stores.

• New Timing Options: A Flight Deck Timings setting has been added to the Options menu, allowing players to adjust simulation depth. Realistic, Casual, and Arcade modify prep and cooldown durations, while Cheat mode disables the system entirely.

Native Support for Loading of 3rd Party Models

Loading of 3rd party models (OBJ format) is now supported natively in-game! This greatly simplifies use of mods with custom models, as chain loader tools are no longer required.

This change means that any Workshop mods that previously required Anchor Chain and Sea Lifter can be loaded without the manual install steps needed for these dependencies.

We greatly appreciate the work the modding community did to enable 3rd party model loading with these tools during Early Access, and we are excited to incorporate a change that removes a barrier for the average user who wants to play with mods.

New Units and Scenarios

This update includes a range of new units for various factions, including both brand new units and new liveries for existing units. Three new scenarios are also included.

• New units and liveries:

  • F-1 strike aircraft and T-2 trainer jet for Japan

  • SH-5 maritime patrol flying boat and HY-3 shore-based anti-ship missile for China

  • F-5A and F-5E Freedom Fighter (Norway, Netherlands, Greece, Philippines, South Vietnam, Turkey)

  • Delfin class submarines for Spain

  • Daphne class submarines for South Africa

  • Cuba liveries for MiG-17, MiG-21, MiG-23, MiG-27, MiG-28, and A-5

  • Pakistan livery for A-5 (fictional)

• New scenarios:

  • The Better Part of Valor (1988) - NATO

  • Arctic Intercept (1985) - NATO

  • Operation Polar Fury (1985) - Warsaw Pact

Mission Editor Improvements

Continuous improvement of the Mission Editor is a high priority for our team. With each update, we are bringing new refinements to it as we work through a backlog of requested features from the community. Most of the changes in this update are to support the Flight Deck overhaul, but several requested features have been added as well:

• Ability to define randomized spawn area for units

• Controls for all new Flight Deck mechanics from within the Mission Editor

• Ability to pre-plan aircraft preparation, making aircraft available immediately in the mission for player and/or AI

• Ability to customize Flight Deck ammunition stores

• New trigger actions for weather changes and reactivation of triggers

• New waypoints for sonobuoy deployment, including "drop in line" and buoy depth

• Checkboxes to disable airbase AI, and new trigger action to enable or disable it (allowing mission-makers to delay AI launching aircraft)

• Removed unused Stores and Damage dropdowns; these will be added back once functional in the future

Core AI Enhancements

This release brings together a set of AI changes that have been developed over the past few updates. Some of these improvements were introduced earlier, but all of the behaviors listed below are now included in the current build and serve as the baseline for AI performance going forward:

• The AI commander can now classify player ship and aircraft formations based on shared characteristics such as heading, speed, and grouping.

• AI airbases and carriers will automatically launch AEW&C aircraft.

• AI airbases will deploy and maintain CAP fighters.

• AI will launch interceptors when an inbound strike is detected.

• AI will dispatch attack aircraft with jammer support when appropriate to engage detected player land or sea units, and strike composition will vary based on the type of target identified.

• AI aircraft will prioritize attacks on detected targets more appropriately, and defend themselves against CAP effectively.

• AI submarines will make use of wake homing torpedoes more effectively by firing at closer range and targeting ship wakes.

Changes to the base game AI that are in currently in progress or planned include:

• AI reconnaissance using available assets to search for the player.

• Expanding AI airstrike capability beyond bomb attacks only.

• Implementing a Morale based system for AI behavior and reactions.

• Improved anti-submarine warfare tactics when hunting player submarines.

• Improving AI use of munitions with proper engagement envelopes for missiles.

• ... and much more!

Full Changelist

Aircraft Fixes

• Loadout availability was not updated if there were no planes of this type ready to fly on the FlightDeck

• Flight Deck: Fixed an issue where hitting Prioritise on Flight Deck would cause CTD in some cases

• Flight Deck: Add a timeout to awaiting full power on takeoff to avoid blocking runway with turboprop aircraft

• CAP planes attack own missiles

• Planes currently on RTB become uncontrollable after loading save

• Typo in EA-6B Prowler speeds in ini that made it instantly spend all fuel on Max speed setting

• No pilot spawn for F-15 and F-15C

• B-52 phases through ground and Turboprops accelerate wayyyyy too fast

• B-52 serial visible on a damage model without the tail

• Wingman could block formation RTB if sent to act independently

• Additional ready helicopter on loading game save

• Ka-25 had too high negative boyancy for its dipping sonar, changed to be in line with other helicopters

Additions/Improvements

• WIP on AI: Aircraft behaviour improvement. Aircraft will try to engage closest target by priority.

• Helicopter now automatically cancels unreachable waypoint if it has more waypoints

• Limit retarget ability for aircraft AI

• Tweak Flight Deck UI for new prep/cooldown, ground crews, and deck park mechanics

• IRIAF F-5E refactored to USAF F-5E

• Helicopters do dipping sonar instead of sonobuoys now

• Ability to add Supply System ammo to aircraft which will unload to Flight Deck ammunition stores once landed (experimental)

• P-3C squadron callsigns

• Added F-4EJ reference for AN/APQ-120 radar entry

• Add prep and cooldown time to Flight Deck, with options for Arcade, Casual and Realistic modes

• Prep and cooldown values to all aircraft and helicopters

• Added Loadout times to all aircraft and helicopters

• Ability to preset FlightDeck preparation task for aircraft

• Ability to set Rally Point for aircraft, VTOL, and helicopters with waypoint and altitude from FlightDecks

• WIP on airstrike: ability to have different plane types in one airstrike

• Ability to limit AI aircraft to certain usages only

• Implement Deck Park spots in Flight Deck

• Flight Deck magazines basic setup; aircraft now cannot be launched if there is not enough ammunition

• Added F-5A Freedom Fighter (Norway, Netherlands, Greece, Philippines, South Vietnam, Turkey)

• Added F-1 strike aircraft for JASDF

• Added T-2 trainer jet for JASDF

• Added SH-5 flying boat for PLAN

• Added AGM-65 capability to F-5E

• Flight Deck: "Cheat" mode added which now disables ALL new Flight Deck mechanics; Arcade mode retained at a 10x reduction in timings

• Flight Deck: Rally Points are now shown on the map; Rally Points can be moved using the map

• AI: WIP on AI ASW: Dipping sonar duration can be specified in waypoints

• Added ASW depth bomb capability - added depth charges for Il-38, Ka-25, Ka-27 - US depth bombs coming soon

• Updated aircraft flight model to allow easier sonobuoy and bomb drops by adjusting bank demand angles - new curve added to INI file for aircraft

• Fuerza Aérea Revolucionaria (Cuba) MiG liveries

• A-5 Fantan livery for Pakistan

Vessels Fixes

• Newport class LST Barnstable County flown flag of Netherlands by default

• Bayandor CIWS crew not disappearing when ship is sinking

• Typo in Kitty Hawk ini file

• Inconsistencies in FFG Baleares vessel file

Additions/Improvements

• Player ships will have 1 ASW helicopter ready to launch on mission start

Submarines Fixes

• Submarines went to surface on attack waypoint execute

• Submarine stuck in AI state after being transferred to player by trigger

• Wrong torpedo on Shershen class

• Wuhan tubes 5 and 6 animation

• Kilo had a 6-barrel boomstick

• Fixed clipping on Albacora SSK hull numbers

Additions/Improvements

• Submarine emergency surface rework

• Increased damage with depth

• Subs can deflood to MIN state

• Soviet subs crush depths

• Corrected size and shape of propellers on JMSDF subs

• WIP: Sinking improvements, Submarines no longer have huge velocity jump at the start of sinking

• Removed anachronistic names from Oscar class SSGNs

• Default status text for submarines

• South African Navy Daphne class submarines

• Pennant numbers for Hangor class submarines

• Spanish Delfin class submarines (variant of Daphne)

Weapons Fixes

• Mk25 default reload time

• SA-N-3 ghost AO imprint texture fix

• 050 BMG description

• At certain cases weapons could not lock at target

• Missile objects were not removed after dropping submunitions

• AGM-12b setup

• Allowed SARH missiles to track and hit bombs

Additions/Improvements

• E-15 torpedo sensor/noise tweaks

• Added LAU-117 Maverick rail

• Added AGM-12B Bullpup ASM

• PLA HY-3 missile and shore-based launcher

• Wakehoming torpedoes now aim to the 1/4th of the wake length behind the target vessel

• AI will fire wakehoming torpedoes to targets on 45% of max range, usual torpedoes on 80% of range (except air-dropped ones)

Sensors Fixes

• Nuclearstonk's fixes for Shanghai 2B and Type 010 sensors

• VID order breaks waypoint execution for units

• Fine tuning of towed systems, now they are able to keep the set depth reliably on any time compression setting

Additions/Improvements

• Increased AN/SQR-18A sink rate to get to correct depth faster

• Increased default wakebubble lifetime up to 1160 seconds (part of overall rework of wake homing torpedoes)

• UK sensors from nuclearstonk for future RN expansion

• Jammers are now detectable by ESM, identifying the jammer

Mission Editor Fixes

• Some cloud coverage states were not correctly loaded from mission file

• The FlightDeck_AutocalculateAmmo flag didn't load inside Mission Editor

• Typo in loading aircraft in ready state in Mission Editor

• Fixed an issue where squadrons were not properly readied in Flight Deck from Mission Editor

• Fixed an issue where inserting waypoints in middle of existing waypoint line caused errors with ETA time calculation

• Fixed improper reading of mission Objective status for end of mission state

• No ETA time/distance were displayed for waypoints when a mission was loaded from a file

• Disabled unit status was not applied to all aircraft units in a group except the group leader

• Incorrect Objectives completion/failed status in mission ini files

Additions/Improvements

• Removed "None" values from enums, replaced with local string arrays to display correct lists in the Change Weather trigger action

• Removed Stores and Damage dropdowns until these are implemented later on

• New trigger actions for weather changes

• Checkbox for Unit to disable Flight Deck AI in missions

• Trigger action to activate/deactivate Flight Deck AI

• Reactivate Trigger action; Proper disposal of deleted Triggers from lists

• Sonobuoy drop waypoints and drop in line capability

• Ammunition Stores on the Flight Deck window as new tab

• Random unit spawn UI

• New Condition type "NoIncomingWeapons" (experimental)

Missions Fixes

• Morvarid map labeling updated

• Other scenarios folder naming conventions fix

• Scenario: PLAN 03 Op Silent Spear enemy SAG waypoints

• Typos in Tutorial 05

Additions/Improvements

• Scenario: updated campaign missions 04A/04B, 05A/05B with new airbase ammunition and aircraft ready states to retain original balance

• Edited Tutorial missions to reflect new Carrier Ready Times; corrected stated carrier launch speed from 30 knots to 20 knots (including localizations)

• Scenario: PLAN 04 Escape from the Sulu Sea - Vietnamese MiG-27 replaced with proper Philippine F-5A

• The Better Part of Valor (1988) - NATO

• Arctic Intercept (1985) - NATO

• Operation Polar Fury (1985) - Warsaw Pact

Environment Fixes

• Faulty terrain at 18.1/118.3 lat/long

• Fixed black pixel under sun caused by overflow in the cloud shader

• Cirrus cloud fog was disabled

• Autogen objects missing and other terrain visual inconsistencies

• Land base culling for Autogen

• Wrong material in emergency blow effect, so it was invisible underwater

Additions/Improvements

• Terrain shaders

Misc Fixes

• Null refs

• Resolve potential for undefined Enums to be returned in IniHandler

• Civilian routes not functioning with new FlightDeck AI

• Save/Load: Towed system trail renderer segments positions were saved in Unity coordinates that caused incorrect cable positioning in the 3d world on load from a savegame; changed to Geopositions

• Different paths in file checker and actual ini

• RandomTurns provide one more waypoint

• Temp FIX that we will definitely not regret in about two years: Allow up to 4096 unit types

• Objectives in missions are now properly saved/loaded - Intel will be fixed next

• Weapons could not be loaded from save file

Additions/Improvements

• Updated translations

• New loading screens (thanks Cosmo!)

• Allow variant index to be saved in profile images

• UNITY_DOTS_DEBUG flag to project to enable safety checks for burst compiled code and allow for better tracability of potential crashes

• Model loading: Add ability to disable caching for object files, textures and material files. For debug purposes only for mod makers.

• Runtime OBJ Mesh Loading - native support for OBJ file loading for modders

• EXPERIMENTAL: AI decisionmaking delay based on crew proficiency level

• Added new wake bubble visualization to the map for debugging, available from F10 > Tools

• South African civilian and naval ensigns

As we mark the one year anniversary of Sea Power's release into Early Access, we are excited to share the updated Early Access Roadmap that reflects what we have been working on and what is coming next. Our thanks go out to the community for your continued support and feedback over the past year. Here is a look at what's ahead:

Sea Power soundtrack now on Spotify

Aleksi, the creator of the lovely soundtrack for Sea Power has finally released it to the wild! It's available now on Spotify, Apple Music and other streaming services: Get me to the soundtrack!

Beta Branch Hotfix and New Aircraft

We are also rolling out a quick hotfix onto the Beta branch today to fix some issues encountered during testing, especially related to low FPS reported in some situations. In addition, this Beta update includes four new aircraft and several new aircraft weapons:

• F-1 strike aircraft for JASDF

• T-2 trainer jet for JASDF

• SH-5 maritime patrol flying boat for PLAN

• F-5A Freedom Fighter (Norway, Netherlands, Greece, Philippines, South Vietnam, Turkey)

• New weapons and pylons: LAU-117 Maverick rail, AGM-12B Bullpup, YJ-1 anti-ship missile (for SH-5), and added AGM-65 capability to the F-5E

Full changelist:

• Fixed occasional FPS drop

• Corrected size and shape of propellers on JMSDF subs

• Korean translation

• Added F-5A Freedom Fighter (Norway, Netherlands, Greece, Philippines, South Vietnam, Turkey)

• Added F-1 strike aircraft for JASDF

• Added T-2 trainer jet for JASDF

• Added SH-5 flying boat for PLAN

• Added LAU-117 Maverick rail

• Added AGM-12B Bullpup ASM

• Added AGM-65 capability to F-5E

• Added YJ-1 anti-ship missile for SH-5

Today, we are updating the Beta branch with two major changes: (1) a complete overhaul of how air operations from airbases and carriers currently function, and (2) native support for loading of 3rd party models for modders! These changes are in addition to another round of bugfixes and other improvements described below.

Major Overhaul of Flight Deck Operations

This update of the Beta branch includes a major update for how Flight Decks work in-game. This comes after many community requests for more realistic air ops. Note: because this change is highly impacting to how carriers/airbases work in the game, we have included a difficulty setting in the game's Options to disable or tune it! All new behavior is described here:

• All aircraft (including helicopters) now have individual loadout preparation times, and cooldown/servicing times after recovery

• Flight Decks now have limited Ground Crews to prep aircraft, and limited Deck Park space for prepped aircraft to wait for launch

  • Ground Crews are crews available to fuel and arm aircraft - once all Ground Crews are assigned, further prep orders must wait until Ground Crews are available

  • Deck Park spaces limit the total amount of aircraft that can be waiting to launch at any given time - if Deck Park is full, you must launch off aircraft to free up Deck Park space

  • Note: prep/cooldown times are shown as timers on the Flight Deck UI. Ground Crews and Deck Park are shown by gauges that will fill up as space is used.

• Added a new Rally Point mechanic to allow players to define a rally point and altitude for aircraft launched from the airbase/carrier

  • To set Rally Point, right click on the airbase or carrier, then go to Flight Deck > Rally Points.

  • Rally Points can be set for aircraft, VTOL aircraft, and helicopters independently

  • To set the Rally Point location, click on the rally point unit type and then right click on the map to place it.

  • Note: rally point visibility is still WIP and will be added soon.

• Airbases/Carriers now have limited ordnance stores ("ammunition"), especially of advanced weaponry, such as Phoenix and Harpoon missiles

• The Mission Editor has been updated to allow mission-makers to configure prepped aircraft and allocate airbase/carrier ammunition stores

• Added a new Flight Deck Timings setting in Options with 3 modes: Realistic, Casual, Arcade. Arcade mode disables prep/cooldown times.

Native Support for Loading of 3rd Party Models

Loading of 3rd party models (OBJ format) is now supported natively in-game! This greatly simplifies use of mods with custom models, as chain loader tools are no longer required. Note: Workshop modders who have posted mods with 3rd party models included should test their mods against the Beta branch if possible to confirm their models will load properly.

Mission Editor Improvements

Continuous improvement of the Mission Editor is a high priority for our team. With each update, we are bringing new refinements to it as we work through a backlog of requested features from the community. Most of the changes in this update are to support the Flight Deck overhaul, but several requested features have been added as well:

• Controls for all new Flight Deck mechanics from within the Mission Editor

• Ability to pre-plan aircraft preparation, making aircraft available immediately in the mission for player and/or AI

• Ability to customize Flight Deck ammunition stores

• New trigger actions for weather changes and reactivation of triggers

• New waypoints for sonobuoy deployment, including "drop in line" and buoy depth

• Checkboxes to disable airbase AI, and new trigger action to enable or disable it (allowing mission-makers to delay AI launching aircraft)

• Removed unused Stores and Damage dropdowns; these will be added back once functional in the future

AI Enhancements

This update includes some smaller changes to AI logic. Please see the next section for a broader update on the status of Sea Power's AI.

• Refined AI aircraft engagement logic; AI aircraft will now try to engage targets based on priority vs. chasing off after the first identified target

• Crew proficiency will now impact speed of AI decision-making (experimental!)

Update on AI Progress

Improving Sea Power's AI has been a key focus for the team in the second half of this year. Work is proceeding along two main tracks:

1. AI Framework: a new moddable/scriptable AI framework is in development, allowing mission and campaign creators to script custom AI behavior. This system will let modders design and share their own AI logic for ships, aircraft, and task groups. 2. Core AI Enhancements: Parallel to the framework, the base game's AI continues to evolve. Recent improvements, all of which are now available in the latest Beta branch, include:

• The AI commander is now able to classify player ship and aircraft formations based on certain formation characteristics, such as a group of radar contacts on a similar heading and speed

• AI airbases (including aircraft carriers) will launch AEW&C for air surveillance

• AI airbases will send up CAP flights of fighters and maintain/refresh them

• AI airbases will launch interceptors if an inbound strike is detected

• AI airbases will launch attack aircraft with jammer support to attack any player sea or land units detected - airstrike composition will vary based on detected unit characteristics

Changes to the base game AI that are in currently in progress or planned include:

• AI reconnaissance using available assets to search for the player

• Expanding AI airstrike capability beyond bomb attacks only

• Implementing a Morale based system for AI behavior and reactions

• Improved anti-submarine warfare tactics when hunting player submarines

• Improving AI use of munitions with proper engagement envelopes for torpedoes and missiles

• ... and much more!

Full changelist:

Bug Fixes

• Mission Editor: Some cloud coverage states were not correctly loaded from mission file

• Mission Editor: The FlightDeck_AutocalculateAmmo flag didn't load inside Mission Editor

• Loadout availability was not updated if there were no planes of this type ready to fly on the FlightDeck

• Scenario: Operation Morvarid map labeling updated

• Chinese flag override

• Null refs

• Submarines went to surface on attack waypoint execute

• CAP planes attack own missiles

• Resolve potential for undefined Enums to be returned in IniHandler

• Newport class LST Barnstable County flown flag of Netherlands by default

• Planes currently on RTB become uncontrollable after loading save

• Submarine stuck in AI state after being transferred to player by trigger

• Wrong torpedo on Shershen class

• Civilian routes not functioning with new FlightDeck AI

• Wuhan tubes 5 and 6 animation

• Nuclearstonk's fixes for Shanghai 2B and Type 010 sensors

• Other scenarios folder naming conventions fix

• Save/Load: Towed system trail renderer segments positions were saved in Unity coordinates that caused incorrect cable positioning in the 3d world on load from a savegame; changed to Geopositions

• Faulty terrain at 18.1/118.3 lat/long

• Fixed black pixel under sun caused by overflow in the cloud shader

• Typo in EA-6B Prowler speeds in ini that made it instantly spend all fuel on Max speed setting

• Kilo had a 6-barrel boomstick

• Bayandor CIWS crew not disappearing when ship is sinking

• No pilot spawn for F-15 and F-15C

• Cirrus cloud fog was disabled

• Mk25 default reload time

• B-52 phases through ground and Turboprops accelerate wayyyyy too fast

• Wingman could block formation RTB if sent to act independently

• Different paths in file checker and actual ini

• Scenario: PLAN 03 Op Silent Spear enemy SAG waypoints

• 050 BMG description

• SA-N-3 ghost AO imprint texture fix

• Typos in Tutorial 05

• RandomTurns provide one more waypoint

• VID order breaks waypoint execution for units

• At certain cases weapons could not lock at target

• Missile objects were not removed after dropping submunitions

• Typo in loading aircraft in ready state in Mission Editor

• Temp FIX that we will definitely not regret in about two years: Allow up to 4096 unit types

Improvements/Additions

• Updated translations

• WIP on AI: Aircraft behaviour improvement. Aircraft will try to engage closest target by priority.

• E-15 torpedo sensor/noise tweaks

• Terrain shaders

• Helicopter now automatically cancels unreachable waypoint if it has more waypoints

• Submarine emergency surface rework

• Limit retarget ability for aircraft AI

• Tweak Flight Deck UI for new prep/cooldown, ground crews, and deck park mechanics

• Scenario: updated campaign missions 04A/04B, 05A/05B with new airbase ammunition and aircraft ready states to retain original balance

• Edited Tutorial missions to reflect new Carrier Ready Times; corrected stated carrier launch speed from 30 knots to 20 knots (including localizations)

• IRIAF F-5E refactored to USAF F-5E

• Increased damage with depth

• Subs can deflood to MIN state

• Soviet subs crush depths

• Mission Editor: Removed "None" values from enums, replaced with local string arrays to display correct lists in the Change Weather trigger action

• Mission Editor: Removed Stores and Damage dropdowns until these are implemented later on

• Mission Editor: new trigger actions for weather changes

• Mission Editor: Checkbox for Unit to disable Flight Deck AI in missions

• Mission Editor: Trigger action to activate/deactivate Flight Deck AI

• Mission Editor: Reactivate Trigger action; Proper disposal of deleted Triggers from lists

• Mission Editor: Sonobuoy drop waypoints and drop in line capability

• Mission Editor: Ammunition Stores on the Flight Deck window as new tab

• Mission Editor: Random unit spawn UI

• New Condition type "NoIncomingWeapons" (experimental)

• New loading screens (thanks Cosmo!)

• Ability to add Supply System ammo to aircraft which will unload to Flight Deck ammunition stores once landed (experimental)

• Allow variant index to be saved in profile images

• UNITY_DOTS_DEBUG flag to project to enable safety checks for burst compiled code and allow for better tracability of potential crashes

• P-3C squadron callsigns

• Runtime OBJ Mesh Loading - native support for OBJ file loading for modders

• Added JASDF pylons for F-1/T-2

• Added F-4EJ reference for AN/APQ-120 radar entry

• Add prep and cooldown time to Flight Deck, with options for Arcade, Casual and Realistic modes

• Prep and cooldown values to all aircraft and helicopters

• Added Loadout times to all aircraft and helicopters

• EXPERIMENTAL: AI decisionmaking delay based on crew proficiency level

• Ability to preset FlightDeck preparation task for aircraft

• Player ships will have 1 ASW helicopter ready to launch on mission start

• Default status text for submarines

• Ability to set Rally Point for aircraft, VTOL, and helicopters with waypoint and altitude from FlightDecks

• UK sensors from nuclearstonk for future RN expansion

• Jammers are now detectable by ESM, identifying the jammer

• WIP on airstrike: ability to have different plane types in one airstrike

• Ability to limit AI aircraft to certain usages only

• Mission: Arctic Intercept 1985 (NATO)

• Implement Deck Park spots in Flight Deck

• Flight Deck magazines basic setup; aircraft now cannot be launched if there is not enough ammunition

AMA answers! - 11/12/2025

What a response!

Over 200 submissions were made in just 3 days! Thank you all for the many questions, and while we can't answer all of them for various reasons, we happily took some time to answer some of the most pressing questions and some new ones! We wanted to roll out a new beta today, but we will delay it for 1 to 2 more days for public testing. A new Roadmap will also be released then with some big news!

AMA Answers

Frequently Asked Questions

Let's go over some of the most repeated questions that we noticed in our AMA form first and foremost!

• When will the Dynamic Campaign Release?

  A: We chose to delay it from a 2025 release to a 2026 release in favor of improving the base game systems and performance. It's still very much on our radar and we are looking to resuming work on it once the AI infrastructure is in place.

• AI improvements for carriers, submarines, and ships when?

  A: Very Soon! We have already made some smaller additions to the AI already, but are planning to roll out our AI infrastructure prototype very soon (roughly within this month to the next month). This system will allow for mod makers as well to make their own scripts, and will really open up the game to more engaging combat!

• Will there be multiplayer?

  A: It's not really planned at this time. It would require far to much work when we are still working on core systems. There is a tiny chance we explore it, but it won't likely be until far later into the future past full release at this rate.

• Will there be Multi Monitor support?

  A: Not planned at this time, and would be tricky for us to do. There is a possibility in the future, but it would require too much time we need to spend elsewhere right now. We want to see this feature ourselves!

• Air to Air Refueling when?

  A: We know the importance of this, and will be working on this in the near future!

• Royal Navy when?

  A: Already in the works to some degree!

• What are the next countries you are considering adding?

  A: European ones -France, Italy, more of Bundesmarine and of course Royal Navy down the road.

Answered Questions from AMA

• SpicyTaco asked - Will there be an Mission Editor similar to DCS or ArmA 3?

  A: Not at this time. We are constantly working on improving it's functionality at this time, and will have many more features and QOL updates for it in the future!

• Comrade Thomas - While the emphasis of Sea Power is obviously the missile age, is there a chance we could potentially see an expansion in early Cold War warships across various nations? For example, the SCB modifications of the Essex class carriers?

  A: The artist and devs have expressed interest in exploring the earlier period of units, so we will see! I can't promise any specifics at this time.

• Bobjr - The team behind the game very clearly stated early in development that they were not interested in modeling the use of nuclear weapons in the game. Given that the modding community has become so extensive already, is there any chance that you will change your mind and add nuclear weaponry in the game, so that it can be used for modded scenarios, for an example?

  A: We have done very limited testing with it, and the performance impact was too noticeable to ignore. We likely will not be looking to add these weapons as well since we see these weapons as a easy 'delete' key for scenarios. It's not impossible, but it's not likely at this moment in time.

• Gladio - can you share some samples in the gamefiles that people can learn from, to work on modding the game?

  A: The game files are almost entirely open to be explored and reverse engineered. Things like carrier air wings, weapon configs, and radar systems are handled in the respective folders. If you have more questions about modding, there are excellent community resources located in the BUORD naval modding community. If you want to join their discord here: https://discord.gg/6XrUn6AaDH

• ZeRichtofen - Hello dev team! I was wondering if there was any plans for improved fire and smoke from damaged ships? The fire and smoke are great as it is but i wish they had more volume and were darker and had shadows like real fires. They just feel lacking when I barrage a ship with ASMs it feels like the ships fire is not as extreme and lethal as it could be. Thank you for your time dev team! Stay awesome!

  A: We might update the VFX rendering system down the road but what we have now works good enough.

• dmdiman92 - Hello! Please make a telescope for submarines and binoculars for ships, as well as a convenient free-standing camera that could be installed on the captain's bridge with a normal all-round view.

  A: That's one of the little things we think would increase immersion so those are considered worthy additions, but lower on priorities ladder.

• Considering we have Virginias, Californias, and the "TheCube", would it be reasonable to assume we'll see the completion of the Nuclear Cruiser Force with the addition of Bainbridge and Truxtun at some point?

  A: That's highly probable.

• Killshot - Are there any plans to go backwards in time to say the Korean war era and also into the early 90s for some Desert Storm era fun?

  A: As much as Korean War sounds tempting to some of team members it's not very likely, as for 1990s we're considering post 1.0 releasing 1990s units DLC

• Necro Noctis - How in-depth will the game be in relation to Command Modern Operations on the technical side? Keep up the good work and thanks.

  A: Sea Power is it's own thing, hard to make comparisons with CMO, as we do not strive to make "CMO with 3D". We want to make Sea Power as good as it can be :)

• Kex Solar - Are there any plans to add a 'Game Master' or 'Spectator' mode? to be able to set up and watch AI vs. AI matches with full map visibility

  A: Interesting idea, worth discussing among the team.

• Connor M - While still in the future and not a critical priority, is the dynamic campaign planned to be a global style campaign where you build or order ships at a port on a map and assign them to a task force, and you have to find the enemy task forces through submarine patrols and/or other intelligence assets, or is it more of a interactive mission set where there is for example, 5-10 missions that will be played and if you loose a ship in the first mission you will not be able to use that ship for the rest of the campaign and weapon supplies are limited without resupply ships

  A: The Dynamic Campaign will not be a series of connected missions but rather a strategic campaign where the player moves/assigns units on a map "overworld" view and then zooms into tactical view (the existing SP mission mode) for individual encounters. Losses and ammunition expenditure will be logged and carried through encounters.

• The commando973 - Will we get a more detailed map maybe by selecting an area of operation and raising its resolution?

  A: We're limited by datasets we are using for terrain mesh creation and land types features. We have done some experiments with double the terrain resolution but for now we're more focused on improving the terrain look by improving the terrain shaders. Also we're mindful of game size, introducing larger resolution datasets would increase the game download size quite a bit.

• Burak - Can we have a dynamic campaign like UBOAT? That we are assigned to a ship and do missions as they are randomly generated or do patrols, etc..

  A: The single platform mode like this is not planned in the foreseeable future

• Endo - will we ever see Late Soviet planes in the game (not added through mods) like the Su-27 and MiG-29?

  A: MiG-29 is considered. Su-27 would be more of 1990s DLC content candidate.

• Stu - What is the timeline for a dynamic campaign?

  A: 80's in the North Atlantic

• Cpt. Third Leg - will there be some wave simulation in the future like nvidia waveworks 2.0 or is it too performance heavy?

  A: No, we stick with CETO ocean simulation system for foreseeable future.

• Currently, importing external 3D models into the game requires the use of third-party tools such as Anchor Chain or SeaLifter, which can sometimes cause compatibility or stability issues after updates.

  With that in mind, are there any plans or considerations to support importing 3D models, without relying on external tools, in future updates?

  Since many MOD creators rely heavily on custom models, it would be great to know if official support for such functionality is being discussed or considered.

  A: Yes, it is coming soon.

• Liam - Will there be different dynamic campaigns, like the 1968 and 1984 campaigns from cold waters?

  A: That's technically possible but we will concentrate on the 80's North Atlantic campaign first

• Could you set a 500 nautical mile x 500 nautical mile rectangle as the boundary for each game scenario? This would avoid loading the entire world and allow for the creation of richer details.

  A: The scenery is loaded as and when needed in the background. Changing the map scale would not affect this.

• Yamato43 - Will there be an overall plot like with Warno for the Dynamic/map based/more Cold Waters like campaigns?

  A: The dynamic campaign will include some backstory that progresses through the campaign

• Micah Nakonechnyi - Currently, the aircraft AI is, for the lack of a better word, a bit dumb. For example, I have had the enemy ai send waves of tomcats toward my task force to intercept an air target behind the task force, and no matter how many I shoot down, it keeps sending them until it runs out of tomcats. At the current moment is there any plans to address the aircraft AI in the near future.

  A: Yes, the aircraft AI and aircraft carrier/airbase AI will be significantly improved soon

• PlasticBlue - Will we see more experimental/prototype units in the game? Also where's my beloved Aardvark, I can't live without my aardvark.

  A: Aaedvark and Raven are planned :) As for prototypes there are some that look interesting enough worth giving them a spot in the game.

• What will the dynamic campaign look like? Will it be like the one as cold water/Atlantic fleet (assign some budget to buy units and deploy them in the battles around the world etc.)?

  A: It will be real-time on the map and there will be some supply system to manage the assets

• Yonderboi - What are your thoughts on WW2 as setting? I really think the Game would be phenomenal in a WW2 setting. Would you support modders in pursuing this idea with small adjustments to the game where the cold war would also benefit from? Armor and penetration modeling for example?

  A: The game mechanics is mostly Cold war era oriented so some aspects like armor vs shell etc. are too simplistic to potray the WW2 naval combat as good as it had to be.

• Atali - How did Seapower originally start out, and how does it differ from the current game?

  A: Originally, back in 2018 when it was codenamed "Taskforce" it was envisioned more of like Cold Waters successor with small 6-8 units task force under player's command. Later in 2019 that transitioned towards something that could be described as modern-day Battlestations title that was more action-oriented and taking place on locked 500x500 NM maps. Including mouse-controlled aircraft, launchers, turrets and so on. But once we realized we are able -and in fact are forced to due to nature of systems modeled- to make the missions span more than 500x500 miles square maps, we decided to make it more sophisticated naval strategy and then it evolved bit by bit feature by feature into how it ended up being now.

• Jonathan - Regarding the potential future dynamic campaign, will we see in depth mechanics like the soviets rolling out older and worse equipment as we thin their forces. Other examples are seeing Convoy routes change over time as some routes become too dangerous, things like SOSUS existing and being a sabotage target for the USSR, equipment malfunctions like weapons failing as supplies run low, a potential territory control on land as armies maneuver in the background, and possibly the ability to build new ships, aircraft and facilities to replace losses

  A: Yes you will likely see the AI selecting the best available assets from a persistent inventory of units. And that routes will change in response to territorial seizure, spec ops actions etc.

• Ability to put custom video in campaign briefings? Just like in video section of tutorials?

  A: This functionality should be in the game already in Linear Campaigns. FreeContent can use the WPF MediaElement tool to play mp4 files.

• Will the original scenarios be reworked? there's some included that just are not as fun or well designed

  A: Yes, scenarios are being reworked as new features or mechanics are added to the game.

• Craig - What are the general plays regarding linear campaigns and the dynamic campaigns that are planned to come in the future. Will it be strictly naval based, or will the current land units be more heavily involved with the strategic picture.

  A: In the dynamic campaign the land units will be most likely limited to airbases, shore batteries, radars, SAM sites and important installations/targets. There are no plans to implement mobile troops and the frontline progress on the land will be most likely abstracted.

• Would you ever consider adding nuclear warheads to things like Torpedoes?

  A: That's something we were against for plenty of reasons for a long time but in the end we might consider it long down the road if we get to do it correctly on a technical and visual levels.

• Ondřej - What are your planes regarding performance scaling? The game makes it already possible in some aspects (eg. simplified graphics). That being said, scenarios with higher unit count leaves modern hardware underutilized (only a couple threads used) while the performance is suffering.

  A: We plan to further exploit the Unity Jobs system to enable multithreaded systems to be explouted more fully. That said this is a pretty significant architectural change so it will be gradual.

• Jon G - Could you implement auto generated civilian ships, aircraft and biologics with preset waypoints to different ports and airports? Biologics will just be random obviously.

  A: The dynamic campaign will auto-generate sea/air civilian traffic.

Sea Power - 1st AMA

Hello everyone! It's been nearly a year since our last survey, where we set out priorities and got to work. While we have not been able to deliver on all of them as quickly as we wish, we plan to release the first iteration of AI upgrades in the very near future. In the meantime though, we would like to host our first AMA to see what all of your questions are about the future and current state of Sea Power. Feel free to submit your questions here!

Note: Your alias/name will be shared publicly if you choose to fill it in on our AMA form. If you wish to remain anonymous, feel free to put N/A!

https://forms.gle/8GEEBWJoQxYjbGAr7

*Should be active for 2-3 days!*

• LSM-1 model redone with proper texture, details update etc
• Multiple AI aircraft going for the same target
• Wakkanai port map data for backgrounddata
• PLAN 03 P-2H now correctly drops sonobuoys
• Vessel shifting position due offset of center of mass
• preset altitudes array was not sorted on aircraft/helicopter loading
• Error when loading textures for pla_h-6d squadron4 modex
• Nike Hercules missile material bug
• CGN California SPG-60 added as additional fire control channel
• Updated translations
• Added A-6E SEAD and SEADLongRange loadouts; thanks nuclearstonk!

• Unity Update due to security vulnerability issue
• PLAN Type 010 and USSR T43 CIWS gun angles fix
• Updated land unit, vessel, aircraft descriptions and callsigns (thanks N0jge!)
• Incorrect hidden objective behaviour in Event Log Objectives tab
• Updated PLAN 04 with MiG-27 replacing Armed Bizjet; corrected backstory
• Mission Editor: Possible nullref when removing a Trigger
• possible nullref when dragging a unit between Formations on Formation Manager
• Corrected Chengdu frigate hull sonar mount position
• Added missing LOD1 to Type 024 and LSM-1
• Several typos
• Lots of small mesh errors
• Changed PLAN 03 mission to reduce exploit chance
• AI CVS (anti-submarine carriers) will now correctly launch ASW patrols
• Kidd DDG added SPG-60 as 3rd missile channel; removed incorrect Variant3 from NV Gearing mod

• Luda I description
• Chengdu ammunition: hy-1 -> sy-1a
• PLAN 02 mission replaced anachronistic MiG-23 with MiG-21
• Qiongsha-class painted in white ;)
• Null refs
• Updated translations

PLAN update details

New units included:

• Chengdu-class frigate
• Jiangdong-class frigate
• Jianghu I-class frigate
• Jianghu II-class frigate
• Jianghu III-class frigate
• Luda I-class destroyer
• Qiongsha-class landing ship
• Shanghai II-class patrol boat
• Shanghai IIB-class patrol boat
• Type 010 minesweeper
• Type 024 (Heku) missile boat
• Type 037 (Hainan) corvette
• Yukan-class landing ship
• Type 033-class patrol submarine
• Han-class attack submarine
• Wuhan-class cruise missile submarine
• J-5 and export F-5 Fresco fighters
• J-7III Fishcan fighter
• Q-5 and Q-5A Fantan attack aircraft
• H-6A and H-6D bombers
• Z-8 maritime patrol helicopter

• Barnegat-class frigate (converted seaplane tender)
• Modified Gearing-class frigate (converted from Gearing FRAM to represent surplus USN ships in use)
• LSM-1 class landing ship

• PS-1 maritime patrol flying boat
• US-1A search and rescue amphibian

• C-141B transport aircraft

New Scenarios!

• Clash in the Paracels
• Battle of South China Sea
• Operation Silent Spear
• Escape from the Sulu Sea

Bug Fixes and Changes

• Type 148 Tiger hullnumbers mapping
• Alvand railings
• RIM-2/RIM-67 missile positions on Mark 10 GMLS to match photos
• Mission Editor: Reform and disband formation actions saved to mission file but weren't loaded from it
• Mission Editor: Custom airgroups were not loaded from the ship/airbase variant file
• Mission Editor: Corrected a phrase for the EN localisation of Reveal Action
• Naming convention fix on JMSDF Sub Duel
• Attempted Fix for SEAPOWER-AXS where LinearCampaign singleton can spawn in an incorrect place.
• Huge calculation error for units at date line "edge" of our flat Earth (pun intended!)
• Some out of bounds longitude positioning when crossing the date line "border"
• Corrected EN localisation for waypoints settings confirmation dialog
• Libelle class torpedo boat bowwave position
• MiG-17 range/fuel mass correction

• Updated translations
• AI: Upgrades to autotargeting for aircraft. Aircraft will try to retarget to closer targets
• Aircraft speed is cruise when guiding SARH missile
• MiG-21Bis model update: triple rod IFF antenna added
• Redone all existing MiG-21 liveries to higher resolution
• Moved Head of the Snake mission from NATO to Other folder

• Mission Editor: Destroy and Despawn units actions
• Mission Editor: Enable Swap Taskforce checkbox to enable/disable transfer when a side is selected already
• Mission Editor: Checkbox to allow/disallow transfer of all aircrafts that belong to a unit to transfer to another side
• Mission Editor: Reveal Units trigger action
• Mission Editor: Button to copy settings of currently selected unit to all waypoints of its group
• Mission Editor: Disable/Enable Units action for a Trigger
• Ability to disallow transfer of child aircraft when airfield is transferred to another taskforce
• Added loading background images for PLAN units

Dev Blog Update - \

PLAN Content Drop ETA, AI system Update, and More!

PLAN Dropping Soon!

Hello from Triassic Games and great news, we are now targeting Oct 1st for our next big content drop!* This will include a variety of PLAN units, and some other units we really wanted to make and add into the game. The full roster is quite a bit larger than our last content update, so we want to thank everyone for your patience with this upcoming update.

*There is a small chance there could be a delay, but we hope to be able to release it on the first of Oct!

Sneak Peek - Upcoming Units:

• Q-5 Fantan

• Luda I-class

• Jianghu III-class

• Wuhan and Han class submarines

• and more!

AI System Update (very soon!)

More good news! We are now planning to release the very first public iteration of our AI improvements later in Oct. Coming to Sea Power soon enough, scriptable AI (Javascript) which integrates into the save/load system! This will only include Carrier and Airfield behaviors for now, and we plan to expand on it in the near future. We've heard your feedback and we chose this to be our first target for the new AI system. Once this is out, we hope our modding community can start exploring and adapting it to other aspects of the game as well. Can't wait to see what you all will make with it and how much you will enjoy it!

We have also begun working on pathfinding systems, so that way ship captains will no longer drive themselves onto land. Beached ships are costly to recover honestly

Performance Improvements (soon)

After this update drops, the second half of Oct. will be focusing on another round of performance improvements, which will delay some AI work until later. We are very much aware that there are still some intense performance drops in longer missions, and that we will be investigating some potential areas for improvement.

Autogen System Upgrades (WiP)

Ian has been super busy at work testing new lighting, improving shader blending, and procedural world/terrain generation/simulation as well to help make our game's world more immersive and accurate. We don't have too much to show for it as of right now, but the plan right now is to build up the system to be more flexible to create more interesting environments in the future.

This will also include much needed improvements for our terrain overall, in hopes of achieving a more immersive game environment. Snow caps on mountains being more varies, more colors, more depth!

Community Showcase!

Screenshots:

- from Cosmo7438 over at the MPS discord! Awesome shot with the stars in view!

- From michhughe over at the MPS discord! Ready the life rafts!

- Modded Screenshot from skyblazer2060! Worlds biggest ducky! (Mod Made by Skyblazer: Linked Here)

Workshop Showcase: With over 2500 subscribers, this mod will really bring not only ships, but all types of units to your missions! Check out their work and see what the community is capable of!

• Fixes for California
• Grisha 3 gun angles
• S-24 ammo points
• FlightDeck Loadout usage; "Empty" loadout is hardcoded to be empty
• ESM in contact analysis
• Vertical mumbo-jumbo for aircraft
• Tutorial 3 whale reveal slide timing fixed
• Missing text for Intercept station role in ui.txt
• Wrong name for Flag mesh in Combattante
• Wind direction for clouds and ocean waves.
• Corrected missile channels on USN fire control radars: - All non-SM-2 ships get a 50% reduction in firepower. - Added proper CG/SM-2 upgrade to Leahy, Belknap, Long Beach for a three- to fourfold increase in firepower.
• Corrected shape and size of SYR-1
• SYS-1 combat system no longer indestructible
• SA-N-6 fire rate
• Removed Jacks from Jackstaffs
• Mission Editor: Erroneous +1 to waypoint telegraph value on Load
• Mission Editor: Custom Air Group content was not loaded to the Air Group tab of the Flight Deck window
• Mission Editor: load of an Attack waypoint added target unit to the parent unit group of the attack waypoint
• Mission Editor: incorrect logic of selecting previous waypoint when setting up new waypoint properties
• Changed "innocent transit" to "innocent passage" in event 2 of campaign
• Weather effects could be carried over from mission to another mission
• Nanuchka mast flag was disabled

• Gun loadout to soviet planes
• Updated translations
• Mission Editor: waypoint path for currently selected group stroked with red now
• Scenarios folder file and folder naming convention cleanups
• Added descriptions to some units (thanks N0jge!)
• Allow sorting of files by name or date in FilePickerView
• Mission Editor: Added stack traces to the Save/Load/Save ss error messages
• Mission Editor: Auto generate ammunition checkbox for the Custom air group on the Flight Deck window
• Mission Editor: ETA time for waypoints
• Mission Editor: distance in nmi from previous waypoint added for waypoints
• Mission Editor: preparation for the Destroy/Despawn a unit trigger action in GUI
• New JMSDF Sub Duel 1985 mission; new JMSDF Scenarios folder
• Trigger to Enable/Disable FlightDeck AI; Display of FD AI status in DM/Flightdeck
• Added SYR-1 antennae to Leahy, Belknap and Long Beach
• Basic aircraft max autoattack range limiter
• Add confirmation dialog to Recover All
• Add Rebase and RTB to Formation Manager for Aircraft/Helicopters
• SH-2 Seasprite liveries
• Added modex support to SH-2F
• SH-2F squadrons and squadron assignments for all escort ships
• Better aircraft max auto-attack range limiter