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Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter brings you an authentic and historically accurate destroyer simulation along with gripping anti-submarine warfare set in the turmoils of the Atlantic Ocean during World War II.
Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter is a simulation, naval combat and world war ii game
developed by Iron Wolf Studio S.A.
and published by Daedalic Entertainment.
Released on December 06th 2023 is available on Windows and MacOS
in 14 languages: English, Polish, French, Spanish - Spain, Russian, German, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Turkish and Italian.
It has received 1,038 reviews of which 783 were positive and 255 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.2 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 9.89€ on Steam with a 67% discount, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i5 6400 or AMD equivalents
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 6GB
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 12 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX compatible
MacOS
- OS: Mac OS X 10.15
- Processor: Intel Core i5 6400
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Radeon Pro 570X (720p Low)
- Storage: 12 GB available space
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I'm having a pretty good time playing this game. The campaign is pretty fun. The voice acting and cutscenes are pretty bad to be honest, but the jank is more charming than jarring. Voice acting during gameplay is decent enough, with only the obvious pausing for the "insert number value here" part of the dialogue being really noticeable. Captain and crew voices are decent, XO's voice is clearly recorded with an inferior mic. Gameplay wise, I enjoy the mechanics. I play with the "auto-pilots" engaged, so I cant speak of how true to real life the different stations are, but everything seems pretty authentic from a layman's point of view. The auto-pilots assists do enough to help but not make you feel like you are just pressing "ok", you still have to figure out good approach angles and defensive strategies. I got this as a fan of the game UBOAT, wanting to be able to both hunt and be hunted, and this game has scratched that itch. Missions are pretty cinematic and give a good feeling of actually hunting down subs and protecting the convoy. If you can get past the learning curve and the cutscene jank/voice acting, there is a really fun uboat hunting game hidden inside.
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great fun to be on the other side of a uboat action. Was finding it difficult to get a decent run on an attack on a uboat and thought i was getting the warping, fast turning uboat bug but switching to the OSC Projector and DRT instead of the tactical tab and it made more sense and was then able to predict the ubouts heading and evasive manoeuvers and also when to fire depth chargers. Now that is sorted really enjoying the experience and it can get quite busy when you have 5 or more attackers to deal with and getting some good results. A few things could be polished but nothing that is spoiling my experience. If you love the battle of the Atlantic or uboat games then this is another good game worth trying.
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Played sub sims since the NES days. This is a must have game if you’re a naval warfare fan. The stress the DD crews endured must of been incredible. This game represents how you have to stay on top of the boats and be aggressive and relentless.
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Having served four years as a Radarman aboard a US Navy destroyer escort, I was pretty excited to find this game. The graphics are ok; but not groundbreaking. You'll mostly find yourself on a fairly placid and misty sea under a Maxfield Parrish sky at night. Game play quickly becomes hectic as you find yourself rushing from one contact report to another. It's really a computerized version of the movie Grayhound, and the story scenes are your typical WWII atmosphere and navy talk. At first you'll be daunted by the various stations aboard your vessel, with gear named DRT, OSC and TRR, but you can allow your crew to do most of the calculating while you concentrate on dropping your ordnance on those pesky uboats at the correct distance and depth, and you'll find it's more of an art than a science. There are many ways to play this and it's up to you how immersive you want to get in plotting your boat to the target. I've simplified my game play by remaining mostly in the external view while following radar and sonar reports. I've learned that the best way to learn this is by saving a game at the point where you're approaching the target and just keep practicing until you score a kill. It's best to approach the target either head on and even better from directly behind, a difficult thing to do, but then you can really straddle it with all your charges. Even then you'll find subs to be quite elusive and you'll most likely receive a chewing out from a desk admiral in a white uniform with Frankenstein hands after failing your first few missions. You'll often get to see periscopes but even then that sub will twist and turn at the last moment to make you miss. Judging the depth is even trickier, and any attack on a sub that dives below periscope depth is pretty useless. Some subs will dive real deep and stay there if they are constantly attacked, making them almost impossible to hit and the only solution is to leave it alone for a while and allow it to return to the surface. If you catch a sub on the surface you can use your deck guns but don't expect much accuracy from them...and you have to maneuver to the side to bring all your guns to bear, but I think the main thing is to drive the sub under. I get the feeling that most players give up on this game early on by the low percentage of players that gain even the most basic achievements. Some scenarios will give you one or a couple of escorts that you can order to attack contacts and even sometimes an air asset. But be forewarned; you'll find it frustrating as ships in your convoy will be sunk in spite of all your efforts. Sometimes you'll have six or more subs attacking your convoy, with five going undetected, and you'll have to waste at least one escort to keep picking up survivors. You'll also find yourself enduring a lot of story line scenes before and after missions, and I wish there was a button to immediately return you to the main menu after colliding with another ship or ice berg to avoid having to wade through a bunch of cut scenes to get back to a save point and back to game play. Instead, you'll spend a lot of time sitting in front of the main loading screen with a bad painting of a destroyer on a misty sea. Overall, its really a very simple game, and I don't know how often you can chase subs on the same ocean before becoming bored. And you don't get a lot of visual satisfaction from sinking them. There is a small screen that shows the sub being attacked and explosions around it if they're close enough, but the descriptions of those hits is confusing and you can't tell the difference between "near hit" and "regular damage" and even if you score a kill the image of the sub doesn't change and you don't know you killed it until a voice confirms it. So that's it, really; get to where the sub is and sink it, not as easy as it sounds. Good luck, sailor.
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I like operating all the various sensors to track the u-boat. I'm a fan of submarine simulators and this is good to see the battle from the other side. The game is well done, runs smoothly and I haven't yet encountered any bug. The AI uboat are very aggressive (more than I am when I am in their place), maybe too much, although the game might be boring if their were more tame. Not sure how many hours it will be fun to play this game as it might become repetitive. I bought it at a bargain price, so not complaining here. The devs made a top-notch effort in delivering a polished simulation. It makes you feel your are Krause in "the good shepherd" novel by Forrester, and that was exactly what I wanted to feel. Unrealistic: uboat captains are too aggressive. Unlimited ammunition.
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Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter is currently priced at 9.89€ on Steam.
Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter is currently available at a 67% discount. You can purchase it for 9.89€ on Steam.
Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter received 783 positive votes out of a total of 1,038 achieving a rating of 7.23.
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Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter was developed by Iron Wolf Studio S.A. and published by Daedalic Entertainment.
Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter is not playable on Linux.
Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter is a single-player game.
There is a DLC available for Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter. Explore additional content available for Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter on Steam.
Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter does not support Steam Remote Play.
Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
Iron Wolf Studio S.A.
Publisher
Daedalic Entertainment
Release
06 Dec 2023
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