Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts

like the game alot but dont like the system that we have to wait other nation building new ship it wash my time to get my navy ready......and the game load more longer if more nation come up in play.....that is just me saying it dont know if this happen to other player

Awesome game. I like that you are only the admiral of the Navy. So there is some empire management but not the whole empire so it is a nice break from the total empire management games I like too. And the navy battles are well done.

This game should be more known as one of the best made naval games, you have so many options for this game

very good ship builder progression is as slow or as fast as you what it to be with the next turn button just keep an eye on your tech and stats some tech "upgrades" can some times work against you, happened with me and semi amour piercing shells.

Engaging, fun game. Better with mods.

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.

abandoned just like every other game put out by game-labs, not worth the price even on sale.

Still needs a ton of work, mainly the money balance with AI, money management options, being able to take over a port needs to be a lot more simple, cutting off AI ships is pretty much impossible even if you have 500 ships.

TLDR: the game had so much promise, some of which it delivered. But ultimately it has been left in an incomplete state which makes me quite sad, so i cannot recommend this to you, unless you can pick it up fairly cheap.

I love the ship building, especially the WWI era dreadnoughts, main reason i bought the game, and have mostly enjoyed over 400 hours of game play focused on this.

But the game is still buggy, the ship building does not offer as much freedom for component placement as one would like and the campaign and its AI sill needed a bit of tweaking IMO.

The UX also is not great, and probably one of the main turnoffs for the game, especially in the campaign mode, its usable but wears you down over time. That along with rng of the appearance of minor nation conflicts and having no player controlled ability to influence these, really puts a dampener on the campaign mode.

Unfortunately, Game-Labs has a bad history of making interesting concept games and then over promising and under delivering in the end. I guess shame on me for buying an early access game more on promise instead of something finished and polished.

campaign mode is broken, you cant even build a single battleship without paying for cheat codes :( but this is fixable with a json editor to make an enjoyable experience. The game is otherwise amazing!

Honestly its a pretty alright game it has just been abandoned by the devs after a terrible update and i honestly cant recomend a game like that to anyone

Love the ship builder in this game...makes you feel more invested in the ships you make and it is satisfying to see an old model you made that was so well designed, it can be in service for 50+ years with refits. Also I like how you don't have absolute control of your countries decisions. This makes it feel more like you are in service to your nation, not a dictator.

Unfortunately this game has been abandoned by the developers. However, the game can still provide some fun, even though it is feature incomplete.

i loved the game when it came out really loved the building ship part a while ago they made some stuff better that was then sadly. now after this new update in Dec not got at all! game chugs like a old dog when their is more then 6 ships it gets worse when you do 1950's ships 1v1 slogs so bad i was really hoping for "Improvements" you know the thing that they do updates for? this game could have soo much more now? its nothing more then a ruin down 2 star motel cant understand why they leave it like this with the last update. should players get it? hell no should players get it when its sub 15 bucks sure if you want to. all and all i give a hard no unless they do a surprise update and randomly fixes everything and the game becomes a 4 star hotel with amazing service.

Actually very good game, easy to design ships, fun battles, but it's sad it won't receive updates anymore

good strategy game, very involved and the ship customization options are very fun

The good part is that you can design ships. The bad part is that a large number of them are broken, incapable of slotting parts and modules assigned to them. This would be OK if not for the unbalanced mess that is campaign mode.

The odds of any of this getting fixed? Poor.

The devs seem satisfied with the product as is, which means it's not ever going to get fixed.

Not only is the game abandoned but the developers broke the game with the last update. Several nations are now broken to the point of it being unplayable due to pathetically low crew recruitment. Also past a certain point the game just decides to give you a 40 to 50 million defect in your funds making any further progress impossible.

peak fiction action

also though game abandoned mods pulling up to save it

It saddens me to say that this game had so much potential, but even after all these updates, it still, unfortunately, falls short. A few years ago, this game seemed so promising—I had an absolute blast playing it back then, with the expectation that the bugs I encountered would eventually be patched out and that it would evolve into an awesome naval warfare game. But sadly, that never happened.

90% fantastic design undercut by 10% flop in execution.

The appeal of putting together 3D warships ranging from pre-dreadnoughts to the superbattleships of WW2 is totally realized here. You can model real life warships or go off the beaten path to make some truly "inspired" designs to your heart's content, and this part of the game really is excellent. The campaign mode is engaging, the campaign and combat level enemy AI never made a painfully obvious blunder, and there are few titles that can give the same experience of guiding a nation's development as a naval power.

The core issue with the game is the combat level maneuvering AI. In a game all about building warships and arranging fleets to fight each other, the maneuvering AI cannot even sail in a straight line. The fundamental issue is a lack of look-ahead/PID control for speed or turns. When a ship needs to make a turn to follow its leader, the ideal behavior is that it shifts the rudder hard to begin the turn and then, as its bearing approaches the target, it slowly returns the rudder to a neutral position such that it does not oversteer past the target bearing. In UA:D, however, the ship will not back off on its rudder angle, overshoot the target, and then try to reverse the turn leading to a sine wave pattern behind its lead ship. Because ships cannot regulate their rate of closure, it will typically overtake the lead ship, colliding or turning away to attempt to fall back into formation, which cascades its failure to ships behind it, as well as subordinate divisions set to follow the tail of the lead division. It is more common than not to see your entire fleet - instructed to sail in straight lines due North - scattered over an area ~10,000 meters in diameter with some ships straying directly into torpedo range of the enemy force.

The issue extends even down to the lowest levels of manual control of ships; instructing even a single ship to turn to a new bearing will cause it to oscillate left and right of the target for multiple minutes! This is a glaring oversight that should never have been present in any build in the game, let alone what the developers have claimed is the final release. Every other system in the game has been completely undermined by a lack of attention at what should have been a core concern for a game about ship combat.

There are other, some fairly serious issues. The "Screen" and "Scout" orders roughly translate to "suicide charge the enemy," as there is no measurement for the relative threat of an enemy force, or the threat that force poses to the division's assignment. Cruisers will charge headlong into the enemy battleline - despite the fact that the enemy task force's destroyers are nowhere near in range of launching torpedoes. The campaign UI can become very cumbersome when handling large numbers of ships and ports; there is no way to see on the map which ports have ships in them, requiring you to either hover over each port or scroll through a list of every ship you have, looking for ships sitting around in a random port in the Pacific.

If you want the experience advertised, play Rule the Waves instead.

As others have said: this game is abandonware now.

The devs had something special here, even given how janky it was at times, but they decided to concentrate on something literally noone asked for: multiplayer.

That's right. Instead of concentrating on making the designer function properly, or optimizing the base gameplay, or improving the AI, or making the campaign mode worth a damn, they decided to focus on adding something that the game was NOT ready for and that the playerbase made VERY clear we did not want.

And the multiplayer mode was trash (or so I've heard I haven't played it) and it didn't even come with the base game.

TLDR: the devs abandoned the game that was in a rather shaky state to make a half-baked MP mode (that was PvP only) that noone wanted, and when it expectedly bombed they decided to abandon the game. Well done idjits.

It is a beautiful and fun game. However, the interface was clearly created by a special retard that needs a kick in the head to reset him or her. Fucking seriously. It can be infuriating. 5/10 because of that.

Fun, very laggy on higher graphics when building sometimes. Super fun just to send out strong battleships and watch them fight, or for scenario enjoyers as well.

it is an exceptional naval simulation that lets you design and command powerful warships along the years. With deep customization, intense battles, and detailed graphics. The historical component adds extra depth. Many improvements can be applied in the future, but I think that as for today this is the best strategic naval warships game.

This games has been abandoned without warning, the developing team does not exist any more - so the chance for an update is like the survival chance of a snowflake in hell.
It had a promising idea and concept, and imho could have been great - but it seems funding ran out.
If you want to simply build some ships and blow stuff up, go for it. If you expect tactical and strategic gameplay, don't bother. The AI is a crapshot, best example is if the AIs forces are weaker than yours, it will simply run away with ships made to impossible designs - well, impossible for the player that is.

The campaign lacks several features or has severe bugs that make playing a pain in the ass. A few examples
a) Invading minor nations:
This mechanic is completely out of the control of the player. You cannot interfere with it in any shape, way or form. If a minor nation is attacked or is attacking someone, you can't do anything to help or hinder.
b) Naval Invasions:
Let's say the enemy has a few measly islands in the pacific. Let's also say you go for overkill and send a few million tonnes of ship there, despite the invasion requiring about 50k tonnes. The invasion will still take a few months, up to half a year - and if a single enemy destroyer enters the contested area, there is a good chance the counter is reset.
c) Economy:
There is a real chance, that your economy just goes to hell for no apparent reason. One month you are 700k in the green, the next you are over a billion in the red - without any change in fleet strength, maneuvers, battles, repairs, building status, or the outbreak of war or peace.

i bought it wanting to watch another game develop as i play every here and then but then i read the new patch notes saying that its getting no more updates. it had real promise but the devs didnt seem like they wanted to even develop the game at all.

The game has an amazing concept and it's fun to play. But the game has been abandoned by the developers too early. It's not finished.

This is a wonderful game that was cut short FAR TOO EARLY. Boo to the publishers! I love the strategic feel of it where you aren't entirely in control of the country. (you control the navy and operate with the given budget) It makes thing very interesting and the tactical side when in combat was very satisfying. There are definitely bugs to iron out but the overall experience was fantastic and it's a crime this is no longer being developed.

I sincerely hope the modding community is able to further the game and bring out the potential this game had. This game gave me Creative labs vibes and I was excited to see it finished

I loved seeing the game progress when it was being developed, hoping that it would be made into something great.

BUT, that something great is now never to come. This game is now in "full release", but in reality it is abandonware. It is still filled with bugs and performance issues, never to be fixed.

If you do want to get it, wait for it to be on sale as it is not worth the full price.

I enjoyed this game on and off. I enjoy putting battleships against impossible odds and winning.... But something change the AI is constantly changing targets causing slow reload Battleship guns to make ranging shots before shooting all guns though the constant AI changing targets causes you never to fire all guns and you sail to your death with a bunch of swing and a miss ranging shots. AI will switch even when your above 70% chance to hit . It has really soured this game for me

Had great potential in it's earlier stages, sad to see the devs moved on from this game.

This game had some ups and downs, good updates followed by bad ones. Unfortunately it has been abandoned after a bad update. I really enjoyed this game for many hours but I cannot recommend it with the last and final update leaving the game in a bad state.

Was one of my favorite games and they abandoned it and left it in a very bad state. stay away

Abandoned, bad performance, absolutely nonsensical AI, broken mechanics, theres a lot to complain about here.
Ultimately left to die, if you want a good naval sim buy Rule the Waves instead.

Yes, Unfortunately GameLabs is basically dead and the game will not recieve updates in the near future, but I still LOVE this game. There are still dozens of Mod projects on this game, from minor ones to major mods including one I plan on coding! But the base game itself is a very good one, and at times can feel boring but is overall a really fun game that fills my desire for shipbuilding at a simple, modular level.

The game is blatantly unfinished with countless features simply never added, from islands to proper submarines to carriers to better placement of parts on ships without as much annoying snapping.
Now, the devs have abandoned the game. Nothing promised or suggested will ever be added.

The last update also completely wrecked the games performance in battles, regardless of how beefy your computer is. I've corroborated this with players using 4000 series GPUs and other similar hardware which chug when playing, and my own 1650Ti could run the game without issue up until recently despite being an order of magnitude weaker, handling battles with dozens of ships without a problem and now struggling at 10 or less. Sinking ships seem to be extremely performance intensive now, possibly fire too, with it being especially noticeable and egregious in some naval academy missions or convoy hunts in campaigns where you can expect to sink multiple transports in seconds. Doing so can reduce the game to a crawl.

That the devs have left the game in this state is a travesty, and I earnestly believe it should be delisted in its present state.

Campaign can be a bit laggy once you get to the later stages & have hundreds of ships, but overall a pretty fun experience. Love the ship design mode and its super satisfying conquering territory with the help of your naval presence/support. A shame that they are no longer updating it... couldve done so much more with it. Buy it on sale

Great game, but the systems concerning hit rate have some points to improve. In this game, the way a bullet doesn`t hit the mark is, seeing behavior of bullets, rely on the hit rate that decided for each guns depending on a distance from targets. It appears that bullets do not hit because the zone of dispersion is too large, but they fly to some point away from target in small zone of dispersion, and only an outlier hits the mark. It`s like as if there is another transparent target and most of bullet fly to there, and an exception(how many exceptions exists seems to be decided from the hit rate) goes to the actual target. If this unnatural behavior is modified, the game experience will be much more great.

Pulling the AI from your fleet management made the game unmanageable. Controlling every TB squadron and destroyer flotilla in a battle takes the more attention and time than one person has. I don't understand how the CPU AI manages it's fleet well, but giving the player a tenth of that for fleet management AI was beyond the programmer's capabilities.

it is a game that you should play if you are into ships and war it can be a little anoying but it is deffinently worth it

Fun Game, a bit like Rule the Waves in actual play but much better as its not 2D can you can see whats going on of course there is bugs as they are still updating it but the theme/idea makes this game a go to for all the naval nutts.

Campaign needs tons of work, still very bugged and flawed

DEAD GAME.

Do not buy. Half baked game where the devs threw themselves in every directions instead of working in blocks or a step by step way.

Unoptimized and overly graphical. Sure, it looks nice, but too much of the budget went into graphics and not enough into the game itself.

U.I. is horrible. You can get over 16 popups in one turn... I had like 21 one time. Sometimes the scrolling with the mousewheel works, sometimes it does not. It depends on where you are pointing which should not matter if you are in a scrollable area like zooming or scroll up and down a list.

So many bad things about this game, many are small but the accumulation makes it terrible.

THe strategic aspect of the game is dumb. They should have stayed in Europe and the Mediteranean. Going for a world map, that does not scroll left or right at the end, you need to scroll all the way to the other end of the map to check ou the other side.

Amateurish design made by a dying company who prefers making cheap, shallow and soulless phone games.

When the game works it's fun. The starting load times for campaigns are long.
Loading into the shipyard to design or refit a ship can take over 5 minutes for each ship. The more ships and designs you have the longer it takes to load up.
I've played it a good bit but have never finished a campaign. The waiting 5 minutes to design or refit a ship gets to be slog and kills the fun.

maybe dont buy full prices theres a lot of issues that'll never be fixed but its still very fun (if you like ships and being utterly exterminated by ships with 60000 torpedos and heavy cruisers that only use single gun turrets for better firing rates:) )

Ship designing is good, researching method not the best but ive totally ignored it and my ships still work.

Your army is garbage and youll lose half you possesions and you wont be able to do anything about it

Submarines suck

Politics system not great

but still enjoyable enough (on beginner at least)

Dreadnought improvement project (mod) will supposedly fix a lot of it but i cant get it to work for the life of me, but if you do get it to work its a fairly functional game, plus you can play more nations :)

Due to the recent events, more precisely the game development being largely abandoned, I do not recommend purchasing this game with its current state, at least at a full price.
Overall I'm very positive opinion about this game's concept: It's very unique in its genre, allowing you to "mass produce" numerous ship classes and then build them in large quantities, later to be fought in fleet battles or local engagements. With the strategy part, your actions actually make sense and the battles have consequences.
Sounds great on the paper, but it's very far from being perfect: the enemy's fleets most likely would consist of 30 Destroyers and good luck sinking them all before they reach you. It gets worse in the later game, close to 1930s, where EACH AND EVERY ship class made by the AI will have 30+ torpedoes onboard with 22km range.
In the actual Dreadnought era (1906-1920s), when you deal with the destroyers, the battles will actually be interesting and epic.
Or you could just do a custom battle with your own designs to avoid the problems above which apply only to the Campaign mode.

With a bleak future the dev team has doomed this game into, just don't waste your money on it. There are other promising sandbox games, cheaper and with a better future.

The creators of this game should re-work their company-internal processes and re-define when work is actually finished. This game leaves the impression of a raw diamond at best.

It is An Alright game. I do like the ship building but i dispise the Naval combat in this game. I really wanted this to be a Great game but now that it is abandoned i do not see why you should buy this game.