Crew management is relatively easy and changes to the submarine with the four stats in mind were noticeable. Each member needs to be assigned to a specific position – Helm, Sonar, Gunner, or Torpedo – with varying stats in each of Endurance, Perception, Intelligence,and Strength. Most crew members’ names and stats are randomly generated and you can pay them a one-time fee to join your ship. Each are given their own personalities with, Jay receiving the most backstory out of all the crew members in Diluvion. There are crew members that stay with you throughout, such as Jay Treadwasser (no really, that’s his name) at the helm, and Kat Smith in the gunner position. The music cue to tell you you’re in combat sometimes just invokes the need to run away and avoid the fight altogether.īesides upgrading your ship, progression comes from a crew management system that allows you to make certain aspects of your submarine more efficient. Positioning is key in all combat encounters, but before too long combat becomes an annoyance as these waters are littered with enemies. Through upgrades and purchases you can work your way from one very slow cannon to six cannons and a torpedo bay – at that point though there’s so many explosions onscreen it almost becomes a spray-and-pray situation. On first inspection I thought the resource management would be a giant pain, but thankfully I never had too many issues with it. Torpedoes can be a liability and tend to fly off to the right and explode more than I’d like I mainly only used torpedoes in stickier situations – especially considering that torpedoes, along with food, cannon ammo, and repair kits, are resources to keep track of. Movement is achieved through a Guns of Icarus style of piloting with set movement speeds you can easily switch between. Between landmarks there’s a sense of vast emptiness, and while this works given the context of the open ocean, in practice it’s rather boring to travel through.ĭiluvion’s submarine combat is what you’d expect, but their superior movement over conventional submarines ups the pace of the encounters. The last zone had me extremely tense on the first venture in due to how much darker it was, how many odd shapes came into view, and the enemies faintly appearing ahead of me. Although the last zone is the most interesting, it also seems to be the smallest and shortest to complete of the three. The map doesn’t help as it isn’t very detailed, making it difficult to clearly see where you can and can’t go. On top of that, there are nooks and crannies everywhere in the first zone which were hard to navigate through so early on.
Thankfully, those fish are much more useful in the following two zones. Early on, it’s explained that at landmarks there will be orange fish to point you in the direction of your objective however in the first zone I had two docks pointing at each other rather than the actual objective. The deep sea world of Diluvion is split into three zones, each progressively more interesting than the last. In the first zone I had a few navigational problems. Presented with a choice of three submarines, each having their pros and cons, Diluvion descends into exploring these waters, picking up crew, and meeting a variety of people along the way down into the pitch-black depths in search of those secrets. In this submerged world you, as a captain, are searching the waters for secrets of the past. Gambitious Digital Entertainment publishes this 3D underwater exploration game developed by Arachnid Games. Diluvion’s submerged world may be interesting, and its gameplay might be fun – but it’s not quite as often or for as long as it should be.
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