A Beginners Guide to Cold Waters
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 พ.ค. 2020
- In this video I will be going over the basics of sub control and combat for the submarine simulator Cold Waters. It is a very complex game with a steep learning curve but when you get the hang of it you can sink (pun intended) hours into this game and have a SHIP load of fun!
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Nice tutorial, just bought the game, looks challenging and fun, I love simulation games
I bought the game for 10.95 on a 75% off
Great tutorial, thank you.
I'm a big fan of Red Storm Rising (C64) and spent many an hour chasing Alfas and Typhoons. I'll check this out as it looks a worthy successor.
It's a fantastic game. thank you for the compliment
It IS the spiritual successor to RSR...but the lack of free roam and the short campaigns are a bit of a let down...even with mods the games get repetitive rather quickly...however the fact it HAS mod support makes the game that much more fun and replayable
Im way beyond for a Beginners Guide, by Playing this Game for Weeks trial and error, but I'm still happy I decided to watch your video. Thanks for the tips and help :) I still learned something and that's what's all about :P
Really well done tutorial mate. Many thanks!
Just got the game and this tutorial helps a lot. I’ve actually just completed the tutorial that you demonstrated on and I’m just overwhelmed with control options. Lol. Since this is a bit dated has the updates brought anything new I should know before sending my crew to their graves?
Is the mission editor any good? I would like to set up a practice range mission where have a variety of Targets in front of me which I have to detect then acquire and then shoot various different weapons., without the risk of being killed. Just so I can practice the procedures.
I haven't messed with it much so I don't want to give you bad info but the game overall is fantastic and has great mod support
Very professional made beginners' tutorial
Thank You very much
Very good video. Convinced me to finally buy it.
I just discovered this game on Steam. I've been watching a few videos and I'm about to buy it I think. What are your thoughts on the game after playing it for the last 3 months?
Playing this game again after a time and oeff thought what did i stepp into again. But within no time i got the hang of it again. Love these missions where you have to drop off special units. Keep a low profile they say. Me going all in sometimes just full send it to the top and shoot some missiles and sending the crew down with mach 5 again. So much fun to see the ships go down left and right of you, just to hear after the mission ends this was not you target. 😂
Most informative...Thanks!
Great video, thanks for sharing your crash course. I love Cold Waters but haven't played it in some time so I needed the refresher.
No problem and thanks! I enjoyed doing it and this is a game I drift back and forth to because it's great brain candy and not multiplayer so it's a good game to kick back and get your Hunt for the Red October on.
@@strikemedic87 Ooh brilliant movie reference and a fantastic movie at that. I have just started a campaign in Cold Waters, I am rusty but it's great fun. I think the area where I need the most improvement is definitely in detection. I understand the layer mechanic and I drop below it when sweeping for hostile subs but I cannot raise my detection tools under uh... I think it's fifty feet(?) so if they do not actively ping I am not sure how I am meant to locate them and I don't like going active for the plethora of reasons I am certain you could guess.
One of Connery's best may he RIP. It takes some getting used tom you do need to be at 50 ft or less to raise your masts. There is actually a button on the UI that you can click that will take you to periscope depth. Another great TH-camr to follow who puts out amazing CW vids is Sub Brief. He was a submariner in the US Navy and does awesome vids on in game Stratagies.
@@strikemedic87 Oh awesome. Thank you for sharing that info. Appreciate it mate, happy new year to you and yours.
Thanks and same to you! Hopefully 2021 will be better than this shit show year!
Nice job on the tutorial. Just bought the game. Can't wait to hit it.
Thanks! It's fun and super immersive. Just get ready because hunting in the deep is an exercise in patience!
Helped out alot, thanks!
Good video thanks for making it.
Half price sale this week on Steam! I played it years ago, looking forward to hunting again.
Do you think the newer ones are more challenging ? I am new to cold waters games and I'm curious where to start
@@evonekky3672 The 1968 version is simpler but harder to win. I think it’s a good foundation for the 1980’s if you can deal with bad Allied torpedoes
@@fmerritt2001 thank you
question
When i fire my harppon missiles. they have a constant miss rate. One mission 4 UGM-88s miss consecutively, and by only a few feet away. I tried having rader out, esm, and parascope out.
Yet i see in other videos the missiles seem to home on the target.
What am i doing wrong?
Great video thank you
If this is like Red Storm Rising (which I'm a pro at), then you want to set your PAP (that blue square, when firing) not directly behind a target. When your torpedo goes active, you don't want to make the enemy think the Torp came from a straight line from you. You want to throw it way out to the sides before you set it active and home in. Like activating it in a direction so that when it goes live, the enemy will fire down that bearing. Well you want that bearing to not be the direction towards you. Attacking from the sides.
Hi. I just bought this game on Steam, discounted. I have installed it but not attempted to play it so this tutorial will be a great help.
I also purchased Cold Waters soundtrack but it isn't in my library, any ideas how to install this. Many thanks
I had no idea of what I was doing but my stallion almost hit a helicopter lol
Good video thanks for making it.
Only issues I have is your voice is to quiet and game is to loud to hear your voice properly.
Hey thanks! So this was one of my first videos on the channel but I have since updated my audio setup! Check out some of the newer stuff and let me know what you think!
@@strikemedic87 Thanks will do.
This is the game I've been dreaming of since first watching Das Boot a few years ago.
You need to get Uboat if that is the case. It’s a submariner’s dream game.
Hi. Does it have a keyboard overlay like the old Red Storm Rising game had? That would make things much easier.
I actually haven't played RSR so I couldn't compare but there is no real overlay.
Is RSR worth a buy?
@@strikemedic87 Hi. The RSR game i played was like 30 years ago on an old Commadore C64. It was great for its time but very, very dated compared to cold waters. The overlay made all the key functions easy to remember. A very good idea.
Nice video! On a different channel a guy showed the view from the cockpit of helicopter and he was dropping sono bouys. How do i get into the aircraft? Can I also control the ships?
That would be a mod. I'm not sure which one but there is a big modding community for the game. I primarily play vanilla ad this is more of a side game for me that I don't dedicate much time to. Still an amazing game though!
@@strikemedic87 How do i join the modding community? Is it on steam?
@@strikemedic87 Actually.. i got cold waters confused with dangerous waters.
Any advice on where to start for a new player ? Is this too challenging for a lay person ?
It is difficult but not impossible. I suggest learning basics of flight and pilot terminology to understand what's going on. There is a great TH-camr called grim reapers that do awesome tutorials
@@strikemedic87 thank you ! Much appreciated
What guy doesn't love subs? I really want to download a game and start to play . But to be honest, this looks quite challenging to learn. Looks like an plane simulator where you have to be a damned piolt to play it :)
What's that long pipe on the outside of the sub😅
Thanks for the tutorial. This is basically the modern version of Red Storm Rising from the late 1980s. I used to play it on the Commodore 64 which had great sound for a computer in those days. While RSR's sound wasn't the best, it still soundd awesome plugged into my stereo. Good times! I picked up Cold Waters on sale some time ago and will be giving it a go here soon.
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Thanks for the tutorial, but the sound of you vaping is nails on a chalkboard to me
The occasional vape hits are hilarious 😂
Hey bro gotta keep the nicotine levels stable!
14:30 glad to hear you vape! thanks for the tutorial
Better than smoking!
Can't hear a thing... so low is the voice that the game's sounds overrun it
Wish I woukd hace watched thus first.
I wasn't about to pay $40 for a game from 2017 and not the greatest graphics so I thought the price is a little steep. I found a free download but if it was half the price I probably would've actually bought it.
Where did you find the free download?
What is the mean mission time? A bit late on the party.
Its hard to say. Depending on the objective and your luck you could be in and out in 20 minutes or you could spend over an hour dodging enemy sonar and torpedoes to get the perfect shot on your target. I would block out at least 30 minutes for each mission. You can always speed up time using F9 but that comes with dangers of missing warning signs of detection and reacting preemptively to enemy moves.
@@strikemedic87 OK thank you very much, this was very helpful. I thought some missions would take like 3-4 hours (even sped up) and I was really hesitant about buying the game for that sole reason
@@giorgosdetorakis5105 You sound like someone who played the old Jane's 688 game back in the day.
@@Kaelland That game is a decade older than me though.
@@giorgosdetorakis5105 Oof! Now you're making me feel old. :P
Jane's 688 was actually a really solid simulator, but it could get tedious in a hurry.
Online game?
no. This is a local file single player game only. you will only save progress on the machine it is installed. So if you have it on two different PCs the saves are not transferrable
Spacebar is fire weapon not set weapon course
Nope, pretty sure it's set weapon course
spacebar - set weapon course
right click - fire
Nice vape hit at 10:22 haha
@10:10 I don't think that they have a harder time 'hearing' you when you're below the thermal layer. It's not like you changed the amount of water between you and the enemy much at all by going deeper. You've made the water more dense by going lower. The sound will still move through that denser water, but it will do so more slowly and will bend. They'll actually have a harder time plotting your distance with accuracy. They'll have your bearing, and possibly your heading somewhat, but they'll also have a harder time calculating your estimated speed. Distance is difficult to calculate with that thermal layer interfering. In short, their plot on you will not be very accurate if they're not on the same layer as you are. Same with another sub. If the other sub is in the same layer as you, both of you should have pretty good plotting information on each other. But when you're separated by that layer, either you above and enemy below, or enemy below and you above, the distance readings are simply unreliable and can vary enormously from the actual distance. You get a similar effect with light waves as you get with sound waves -- when passing through transparent mediums. If you create a layer of transparent material such that the top layer is less dense than the bottom, when you shine a light through that medium, the difference in densities actually causes the light to slow down and bend while it passes through. The same happens to sound waves under the water. I have the game as well, and I have noticed that this effect will often cause you to launch a torpedo at an enemy in the right direction, but you'll sometimes set the torpedo to activate too late -- essentially activating after it passes the enemy surface ship -- caused by thinking the ship was farther away than it actually was. I usually set mine to go live & passive back & forth 'seeking' sooner as a result. I've seen others show that, at least in this game, passive seeking torpedoes seem to be more reliable than actively seeking. Jive Turkey, an actual retired sonar operator who plays, seemed to take issue with that as well. He seems to believe that they've dumbed down the active seeking on the torpedoes, relative to real life...
If you're gonna do tutorials turn that music crap down
This is good stuff, I bought this last night and it's really helping a lot. New sub/scriber. o7
Thanks, glad you like it! Check out some of my other videos! Life's been crazy with work and kids so I'm behind making content but I hope to have some reviews/overviews out soon!