Uboat VR has new Dev team

[RadMan]

FYI- for anyone that's been as excited(and impatient) about Uboat VR as me, apparently Gameformatic SA gave up the project and now a new developer Titan Gamez is now making the VR port. Here is the link to the game page https://store.steampowered.com/app/1455390/UBOAT_The_Silent_Wolf_VR/

They also have a discord you can join(link is on the game page) and they respond very well to any questions. They say they are completely overhauling the entire game including the campaign to better fit for VR. Only sad news is it is being developed for quest 2 only first(Pimax/Index owner here), then after they said they will make it for PCVR with of course more features than the quest 2 version. I'm just glad the project wasn't dumped completely.

[Dewgle]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2929738399

[RadMan]

The reason I am not very involved in discussions on steam or discord is because of exactly what you just commented so cheers. Yes it's a niche market but uboat has almost 14,000 reviews, I hardly think all 14k of those fans know each other lol. I am simply a fan of all things ww2 including uboats and I'm a fan of VR so in case other fans of the VR port weren't aware that is why I posted this, so take it however you want. The more people that are supporting the port usually means the better it will be. If nobody is interested thats when projects get scrapped, and I have no financial gain in any of it, just want to get to play a good uboat vr port.

[Red_Seven_]

Originally posted by McDewgle:

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Man I'd like to have the time you have available to deep-dive into such things just to say something equivalent to what the 'That's an ad!' meme does which you could drop without any preparations.

[Dewgle]

Fun fact: Both Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter and U-Boat VR (now UBOAT: The Silent Wolf) contain code and assets from UBOAT.

When PlayWay acquired Deep Water Studios under contract, they also purchased the intellectual property rights of the game and all of its assets then immediately turned around and started distributing those assets to other studios they hold contracts with.

Uboat Commander DeGenerals (under PlayWay)
Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter Iron Wolf Studio (Sold to Daedalic from Playway)
Uboat: The Silent Wolf VR Formely GameFormatic, now Titan GameZ (under PlayWay)
Uboat Mechanic Simulator Live Motion Games (under PlayWay)
All contain assets from Uboat as shared through their common publisher, PlayWay.

And they never stop trying to promote their other games to the Uboat community. Either through the Events & Announcements system which are always been met with negative responses from the community as seen here and here or through covert marking agents such as Tanatos or RadMan.

All attempting to piggyback on the success of Uboat's large market share to push their other products onto a captive audience. Not only using Uboat's assets to produce other games but using you, the community as a product in itself.

PlayWay's portfolio was garbage before they acquired Uboat from Deep Water Studios. Nothing but shovelware work-sim games that had an incredibly short contractual development period of 3 years before getting shoved out the door. But with the rights to those assets and access to the large community that Uboat represents, they now have an opportunity to upgrade their portfolio and make money hand over fist. Good for them.

But these kinds of manipulative marketing tactics are deplorable and should be squashed whenever and wherever they happen. Remember kids, publishers are just banks that specialize in video games. If you ever hope to make a video game of your own someday, do everything you can to self-publish or this is what happens.

[MaGicBush]

Disappointing it's only on Quest. I have a HP Reverb so I will pass I guess. I was looking forward to grabbing this in VR when it released.

[Godefroy de Bouillon]

well said, indeed the marketing process is quite disturbing, even probably invalidating for updates of uboat in the future. because if another product works better let's admit uboat will quickly be shelved, like many more games, if that happens they will say that now it's the VR version and the other is obsolete! but who cares about VR, I've been part of an aviation simulator community for more than 20 years, and personally you try VR, but it's impossible to play in concrete, most sim players don't Don't buy because it's VR, they are aware that there is dev and a guarantee of the future. When will they understand that this kind of apat does not work with simulator geeks.
and say that it will not be necessary to buy so that this does not happen! but there is always a penguin to buy snow. after that if it works for you great. friendly