Upcoming work update!

Ok, this is the first post in a long time that got me excited. That is a good sign. I just hope I won't get disappointed later.

1. Set bar low
2. Fall over the bar accidentally
3. ?????
4. Profit

sigh
and they still won't ever submerge

Why do you hate yourself?

how do you know? they are yet not in game .. just because you see a picture?

sigh
Again it's going to be awesome when Uber proves your our wrong. Have some faith.

lol. I doubt they would add submarines that do not submerge. Yes they had that in alpha. ALPHA

and, oceans still aren't deep enough to support submerged subs

Sure they need to change a few things to support them. That's the reason we don't have them yet. If they just wanted to add non-submerging submarines again I doubt it would take until the end of february. They seem to have the models already afterall. Adding a few new ships would not be that much work.
The display of water depth needs a rework anyway, as currently it is so damn hard to see where ships can go and where not.

Why would subs need a submerge ability when they have zero reason to surface in the first place?

Why not?

they could have deck guns, that's about it, which is nice if you are trying to kill hover units - but PA doesn't have hover units.

If they're nuclear, it would look better to have them surface.

Because it's useless filler content that has no purpose out side of getting subs killed by the units they are supposed to counter, that's why.

so...will...
Fabrication Sub be back also?

and also to kill hover units
which PA doesn't have

I agree with igncom here. Subs should not even have a need to surface. Seriously these subs are robotic and probably driven by fusion power. Why would they _ever_ want to surface.
And shooting nuclear missiles while being submerged ... I would guess there are submarines right now that can do that kind of thing.

Unless you make a specific submarine that is meant to surface and surprise air units with powerful AA.

Actually that sounds like a fun idea: Have some subs be able to surface and do something cool on surface, while others never surface at all.

an umbrella submarine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine-launched_ballistic_missile

Yeah, nope.

Neither of the subs in SupCom or SupCom2 had subs that could ever counter hovercraft.

And being surfaced makes subs vulnerable to just about every unit in the game bar AA and anti satellite.

It's a bad idea unless you have subs do what cola colin suggested, but that would require the complete gutting of the current naval units to even balance, as the subs would then be superior to all surfaced based ships.

Not necessarily. You could have an umbrella submarine or an AA submarine that is completely useless in any other situation. All submarines should also be weak vs ships while they are surfaced, etc.