Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information
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Design warships the way you want them, command fleets, win the naval arms race for your nation!
Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts is a naval combat, naval and world war i game
developed and published by Game-Labs.
Released on January 25th 2023 is available only on Windows
in 10 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Ukrainian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Greek and Korean.
It has received 7,169 reviews of which 4,515 were positive and 2,654 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.2 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 33.99€ on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: 64-bit Windows 7
- Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz, AMD Phenom II X4 940
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 660, AMD Radeon HD 7870
- DirectX: Version 11
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 4 GB available space
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I like the game, currently in a 1890s campaign as Germany. However, I would only suggest it if you run the Dreadnought Improvement Project. MUCH better balancing than base game.
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If you love late age of steam and steel naval history, and have studied the tactics, ships, etc. of that period, this will scratch a particular itch for you no other game ever will. It has issues, sure, and doesn't 100% accurately reflect history, but that's fine. It's a video game; not a history book or documentary. It gives you that *feel* of designing these behemoths and their support ships, of finding the balance of speed, armor and firepower, etc. It asks you to make decisions like, "Is this ship worth refitting, or should I scrap it, for instance. This kind of question often comes up at moments when a war is definitely coming, or even ongoing. So even though it's going to have limited utility, that hull may actually still make a difference with just a few upgrades, or might get sunk the first time it encounters stiff resistance. The whole game is about making those decisions constantly, and while the combat is actually pretty excellent for what it is, once you grasp the nature of naval combat of this era, you'll find that it's very, very frequently your ship's designs and your overarching, admiral-level decisions that bring about victory or defeat. Did you balance the trifecta of speed, defense, and offense effectively? Did you research the right technologies? Did you allot your resources in a way that let you keep up with the technology of the adversary you now have to face? Should you have put some of those resources you used to build two giant battleships into maybe more destroyers and light cruisers to give yourself better sea control, or will your two monsters showing up let you devastate the enemy fleet to such an extent they justify that expenditure? There are more detailed sims of this type, but none that feel this satisfying. This is the only one that gives you that graphical, 3D image of a turret being blown nearly into orbit after a magazine detonation, or of just sitting and looking at this *thing* -- this floating war crime -- that you designed. That also has the effect of making it feel legitimately painful when you see one sinking; it hits your pride to know that you spent the brainpower, time, and in-game resources to create this beast that is now simply gone. The design process itself is immensely fun; the game's greatest asset. Ship components are based off their respective navies' actual designs, but allow for so much rearrangement that you can really come up with some interesting what-ifs, like, "What if the BIsmarcks had three triples instead of four twins?" It also tends to teach you that history created the ships it did for reasons. There's a definite advantage, in the endgame, to the general configuration used for the Yamato and Iowa class; the classic, "Fast Battleships," for instance. That doesn't mean you have to use that configuration, though. You can do something wild, and might be shocked at how well it works. Want to use a battleship hull to build what amounts to a slow, heavily armored, 20-inch gun Monitor? Nothing's stopping you except whether you've developed the tech. I'll probably end up with at least another thousand hours in this game before I hang it up for good, and still might find myself coming back to it for a quick jaunt from time to time long after that. It's just that good at being what it is. If you love this period of naval history, you can't go wrong here.
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All the negative reviews talking about how the developer shut down are missing the point. It's actually a good thing that game labs shut down and heres why. Because there are no more patches this game is now a stable base for modders to pick up where the developers left off. The patches were not good for a long time and generally caused more problems than they solved. I recommend not playing vanilla and using the dreadnought improvement project mod by BrotherMunro.
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Despite all it's Problems, I really enjoy the game. Shame the Devs abandon ship. Glad they fixed a lot of the issues before they left. Hope the modding community can keep it alive. Doing my last play through for a while at least. The game for me ends in the 1940s, i usually start at 1900. Recommend first time players play the US. They are stupid easy to play, and a great way to learn mechanics. It's a slow start because the US is isolated but it's possible to conquer all of Europe by 1915. just stay out of wars until 1907 and keep the transport and research slider at 100. Limit which ships have torpedoes, the AI is not that smart and will full broadside a friendly less than 300 yards away. I only put them on CLs and DDs. I've had battles where I've lost more ships to friendly torpedoes than enemy shells. my Current play through I have a German CA, KMS Wuppertal that has sustained over 230 torpedo hits from friendly warships over 15 battles or so. And the Most important thing is, Never send Battleships and BattleCrusiers out un-escorted. Subs and destroyer swarms are nightmares for lone BBs and BCs
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To preface this: The game studio was acquired and basically dissolved by a private equity firm. It's almost certainly never going to be updated again, even though it genuinely did need some more love and polish. Now, despite this problem, I still enjoy this game. The campaign has its shortcomings, namely in minor nation conflicts and the lack of player agency in land warfare. The AI nation balancing is so-so, and it does have some peculiarities. However, the ship designer is reasonably intuitive, and the battle UI is perfectly fine in my eyes. Performance can start to drop as the save goes on, if you've still got multiple major powers surging upwards after ~1930. This is a very decent game if you like tinkering and fiddling with things. Get it on a decent sale though, because it's definitely abandonware in the strictest sense of the word.
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Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts is currently priced at 33.99€ on Steam.
Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 33.99€ on Steam.
Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts received 4,515 positive votes out of a total of 7,169 achieving a rating of 6.21.
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Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts was developed and published by Game-Labs.
Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts is not playable on MacOS.
Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts is not playable on Linux.
Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts is a single-player game.
There is a DLC available for Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts. Explore additional content available for Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts on Steam.
Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts does not support Steam Remote Play.
Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts 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
Game-Labs
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Game-Labs
Release
25 Jan 2023
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