![]() Rather than set itself as alternate history, Waves of Steel tells the story of a strange organization, Jormungandr, slowly overtaking the world’s militaries. While a general-purpose ship will get you furthest, if you’re really stuck on a mission, dropping into the ship maker and creating something that is tailor-made for whatever obstacle you’re rubbing up against might be your best bet for success. If you want the biggest armaments, you might need to sacrifice luxuries in other places. Likewise, the amount you can plug onto your ship is limited to how much weight its hull can carry. ![]() This means, you can’t just grind earlier levels to play the RNG for the best parts. The parts that are dropped aren’t entirely random each mission has specific ones that it will drop. ![]() Waves of Steel is pretty careful about what it will let you get away with. You won’t be able to go completely bananas, however. Stuff like a drill for the front of your ship or even the mighty kickflip are found in these secret caches. Typically, the strangest weapons are found in these secret treasures. You pick up additional parts as they’re dropped by enemies, but if you’re truly intrepid, you’ll plumb the environments for secrets. Waves of Steel is a game that gets by on its customization element, and it knows exactly what players are going to do with that. You’re simply sent into battle with a pre-built ship, and things seem pretty loose but normal. Things start off without you even having the ability to customize your ship. While Waves of Steel sells itself on the promise of kickflipping warships, its buildup to ridiculousness is much more gradual than it lets on. It just needed a way to make naval warfare more radical. I need some time to reflect on this thought, but in the meantime, Waves of Steel figured out a way to ramp over that barrier and into my heart. I don’t, however, find myself drawn to naval simulators. I attribute this to either the hours I pumped into Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2 or that time my appendix decided it was time to come out while I had P.T.O.: Pacific Theatre of Operations rented on SNES.
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