Triassic Games shared a look at what the team is working on to further improve the naval strategy simulation game Sea Power: Naval Combat in the Missile Age.
We start the reveal with a list of areas the developers are currently focusing on.
It includes the following features:
- Allowing drawable Patrol Zones to which aircraft can be assigned on the map,
- Overhauling the aircraft control UI,
- Updating the threat prioritization algorithm of AI aircraft,
- Implementing kinematics, allowing use of real tactics in air combat, especially during BVR combat.
We also hear about missile kinematics, which is currently in the final stage of testing and should come to the main branch in the next few weeks.
Basically, missile kinematics is a more accurate simulation of how missiles fly. This is important, for instance, to calculate range, as follows
- How fast are you going? The missile inherits the speed of the launch aircraft, and this can make a big difference in how fast it winds up going. A fast aircraft can fire a missile a lot further.
- How high up are you? The air is thinner up high, so firing from high altitude reduces the amount of drag the missile gets.
- How high up is your target? This is similar to the above point, a high altitude target has less air in the way to stop the missile.
- And how is the target traveling relative to you? If the target is flying away from you, by the time the missile gets there it will have had to travel a lot further, so it will lose a lot more speed.
- Is the missile limited by its seeker performance? IR missiles may have drastically reduced range if they can’t see the hot parts of your aircraft and you aren’t having significant body-heating via high speeds and drag, and radar missiles may have issues with small targets low down.
We also get to see an overhaul of the assets for missiles and bombs, on top of upcoming content like the Royal Navy Leander class frigate, a launcher for Royal Navy units, and the Ikara anti-submarine weapon it launches, the USS Merrill DD-976 with Armored Box Launchers installed for Tomahawk missiles, the new intro events for linear campaigns, and the A-1 Skyraider.
Sea Power: Naval Combat in the Missile Age is currently available for PC. Like most early access games, it’s updated quite often with new content, features, and fixes.
A recent large patch added the Chinese navy, while we just got a look at the roadmap up to Q3 2026.