{"id":31924,"date":"2015-07-07T02:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T06:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=31924"},"modified":"2016-01-22T21:21:47","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T02:21:47","slug":"world-of-warships-open-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/07\/07\/world-of-warships-open-beta\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>World of Warships<\/em> open beta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been keeping an eye on <em>World of Warships<\/em>, if only due to the renderings of the various ships (as a kid, I used to love the diagrams of ships in publications like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Purnell%27s_History_of_the_Second_World_War\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Purnell&#8217;s History of the Second World War<\/em><\/a>). I doubt I have the time to play the game very much, but I&#8217;ll probably sign up for the <a href=\"http:\/\/worldofwarships.com\/en\/news\/common\/obt-now-open\/\" target=\"_blank\">open beta which began last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TgkM10WAOdM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At <em>Massively Overpowered<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/massivelyop.com\/2015\/07\/05\/behind-the-scenes-the-sights-and-sounds-of-world-of-warships-vessels\/\" target=\"_blank\">MJ Guthrie<\/a> talks to the developers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Immersion. That\u2019s not a word you often hear associated with lobby-based PvP games. But in the case of <em>World of Warships<\/em>, the third title in Wargaming\u2019s WWII-era trilogy, it\u2019s more than just fitting; it\u2019s defining. Although not a battle simulation, <em>WoWS<\/em> offers a genuinely immersive experience thanks to the historical authenticity and the level of detail in both the audio and visual departments. You\u2019ve heard the devil is in the details? Well that\u2019s where the immersion is, too. And now that open beta has started, more players are finally able to dive in and experience this for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about how the development team achieved such a high level of immersion, I went to the source: I visited Wargaming\u2019s headquarters in St. Petersburg and talked with the devs who create everything you see and hear in the game. And after watching the creation process in action, I appreciated the ambiance all the more when I jumped in for a hands-on in the closed beta.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Accuracy must take second place to what the players say they want, however:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sounds really start to shine through once you turn the music down. Although the game\u2019s smart music slider suppresses it when you fire, try clicking it off sometime to focus on the many ambient sounds. Tohtash said that the team has already added \u201cabout 3,000\u2033 different sounds to the game. Players will actually hear different metallic sounds from the engines and hulls when the ships change speeds and from the guns when they fire. Engines have four different sound elements (engine, turbine, resonance, and post effects), and guns have three (attack, body, and echo or tail), which combine with recoil, load, and double echo. Using the various elements, the team took care to make different caliber of guns have different sounds. On top of all the types of sounds is the fact that they are positional, changing depending on what view players are in. If your camera is too close to the gun, you will get ringing in your ears after the shot!<\/p>\n<p>Artillery sounds in <em>World of Warships<\/em> are something that diverges from historical accuracy. The team has access to reference videos, but focus groups have not wanted the more accurate gunfire sounds; they favor big booming ones. Tohtash admitted that actual sounds alone are a bit dry, but once effects such as implementing the bass and the full range of frequencies are added in, the sound is richer and fuller.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been keeping an eye on World of Warships, if only due to the renderings of the various ships (as a kid, I used to love the diagrams of ships in publications like Purnell&#8217;s History of the Second World War). I doubt I have the time to play the game very much, but I&#8217;ll probably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,7,5,230],"tags":[30,623,1056],"class_list":["post-31924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-history","category-military","category-ww2","tag-navy","tag-wargames","tag-worldofwarships"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8iU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31924"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31927,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31924\/revisions\/31927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}