Depth

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Depth Logo Release Date: 2014 Developer: Digital Confectioners Platforms: PC Genre: Asymmetrical Multiplayer Action Game

Depth is a 2014 PC video game that combines intense tension and visceral action in a deep sea aquatic environment. Players choose to play as either Divers searching for underwater treasures or play as 20 foot sharks whose objective is to destroy the intruders into their territory. Gameplay is asymmetrical, with Divers playing a First-Person Shooter in an underwater environment where they can dive in all directions, shoot at sharks, and deploy defensive gadgets, and the Sharks playing a third-person "predator", using their much stronger speed, senses, and close-range assault to obliterate their prey. Victory is achieved when either side drains all respawn tickets of the other team, when the Divers protect their loot robot named "S.T.E.V.E." (Submersible Treasure Extraction Vehicle) until it cracks open all the safes in the area and extracts, or when the Sharks destroy S.T.E.V.E.

Depth provides a unique array of underwater firearms for Divers to utilise and explores a unique avenue in terms of weaponry.

Pistols

SPP-1 Underwater Pistol

SPP-1 Underwater Pistol is the cheapest pistol option for the Divers. It holds four rounds and is a serviceable anti-shark weapon.

SPP-1 underwater pistol - 4.5x40mmR

The SPP-1 preview in the item store on the main menu, which is actually a skin store, but it does allow us to preview the default skins.

A Diver aims his SPP-1 at the shark cage he and his fellow divers were dropped down in.

Surprisingly, there's aiming down sights in this game, even though it isn't very useful most of the time since you want to stay agile as a Diver, hipfire accuracy being really good for the vast majority of man vs shark engagements, and most underwater guns not having very good iron sights.

After firing a few rounds into the cage, the Diver reloads his SPP-1 in a rather janky animation which has the clip of underwater ammo materialize mid-animation and never being really held by the Diver's hands.

The Diver inspects his SPP-1 while a lucky ray of sunlight aids us in getting a better look.

Weapons can be upgraded in this game. In the case of pistols, one upgrade called "Twins" lets the Diver dual-wield them for double the action. Dual-wielding disables aiming down sights, though few will find it impactful.

Reloading the dual SPP-1s by smacking the clips in one at a time.

The Diver inspects his dual SPP-1s while the darkness engulfs our Diver.

Heckler & Koch P11

The Heckler & Koch P11 is the more expensive pistol option. Its two-tone finish seems to be inspired by the two-tone P11 in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life. Owing to gameplay concerns, the in-game weapon can be reloaded without having to send it back to Heckler & Koch first. The reload animation shows the player character removing the barrel group and popping a new one in.

Heckler & Koch P11 - 7.62x36mm Underwater

Note the incorrect description of a "5 round barrel". It actually has 5 one-round barrels; it's possible that this was meant to say "5 round barrel cluster".

The P11 being held by diver Shelly. Note that the laser attachment is unused.

Shelly trains her sights on the submerged castle.

Reloading the detachable barrel cluster.

Inspecting the P11.

Dual P11s.

Reloading the Dual P11s, one after the other.

Inspecting the two P11s.

"AAP-8"

The "AAP-8" underwater machine pistol was added in the Armament update. It seems to be a MasterPiece Arms MPA30DMG pistol, despite the MPA gun being neither fully-automatic nor designed for underwater use.

MasterPiece Arms MPA30DMG - 9x19mm Parabellum

The MPA30DMG in the weapon selection menu; unlike the reference image, the in-game weapon lacks the factory barrel "safety extension". For the size of the magazine, it holds an impressively small 12 rounds in gameplay.

Rifles & Carbines

APS Underwater Rifle

The APS Underwater Rifle is the cheapest rifle option for the Divers. By default, it has an incorrect capacity of 30 rounds compared to the real 26. Upgrading the weapon with Heavy Barrel gives it a massive damage boost, limits its rate of fire, and somehow restricts the magazine size to 20 rounds.

APS underwater assault rifle with extended stock - 5.66x39 MPS

The APS in the main menu.

Diver Finn holds his APS on a planewreck under the sea.

Ironsights of the APS.

After firing a few test shots, Finn reloads his weapon.

Inspecting the APS.

Here's also a good place to have a look at the scope upgrades for the long guns in Depth, of which there are two: a cheaper scope that just offers some zoom, and a more expensive night vision scope.

The scope view.

The night vision scope on the ADS.

The night vision provides a much clearer image of the dark waters.

ADS Amphibious Rifle

The ADS Amphibious Rifle is the most expensive rifle option for the Divers. It has the same damage per round as the APS but has a faster rate of fire, and does not have a Heavy Barrel upgrade option.

ADS amphibious rifle - 5.45x39mm / 40mm

The ADS in the weapon selection menu. Note the tiny magazine model, which somehow still holds the full 30 rounds in gameplay.

Holding the ADS as our Diver explores an offshore oil platform that went under.

ADS's iron sights.

Reloading the bullpup underwater rifle.

Inspecting the ADS. Once again note the short magazine, which seems to be modeled after civilian AK-74 10-round magazines.

Gyrojet Carbine

The Gyrojet Carbine is added post-release in the Meltdown update, named the "UPR-17 Gyro Rifle". It is described as a newly-made Russian weapon on the update page and in-game description in contrast to the real Gyrojet. Its price is intermediary between the APS and ADS, and has longer range but a lower magazine capacity of 10 rounds, which can be increased to 20 rounds with an extended magazine upgrade, both are which are still larger than the real weapon's 6-round magazine.

Gyrojet Mark 1 Model B Carbine - 13mm

The Gyrojet in the weapon selection menu. It's not clear why a weapon that is being used underwater would have wooden furniture.

Holding the Gyrojet while admiring some ancient underwater ruins.

The iron sights of the Gyrojet, which seem more than a little misaligned and feels more like aiming with the gun body.

Reloading the Gyrojet, which involves popping open the magazine slide and loading in what looks like an en-bloc clip of Gyrojet ammo, which is a fictional invention. Real Gyrojet weapons do not use clips and reload round by round.

Looking at the right side of the model during the inspection animation.

Spear Guns

Spear Pistol

The spear pistol is one of the more expensive pistol options, only beaten out by the "AAP-8" added post-launch. They have high damage but are single-shot only, though spear pistols can be dual wielded due to being pistols.

A Spear Pistol on the menu.

Spear Gun

The Spear Gun is a high-damaging single-shot weapon that can kill smaller sharks in one shot and grievously injure larger sharks. Compared to the Harpoon Gun, it reloads slightly faster, and is cheaper.

The Spear Gun in the item menu.

Harpoon Gun

The Harpoon Gun is an extremely powerful single-shot weapon capable of one-hit-killing just about every shark type in the game, dealing even more damage than the Spear Gun. It also has some extra mods that give it even more killing power, such as penetrating harpoons and explosive harpoons that travel slower but explode.

The Harpoon Gun in the menu.

"LJ-10 Volleyjet"

The "LJ-10 Volleyjet" spear gun appears to be the receiver and stock of an early-model Gyrojet carbine (as opposed to the later-model carbine above) mated to the barrel cluster and foregrip of a Colt Defender prototype revolving shotgun (not to be confused with the Colt Defender semi-automatic pistol).

MBA Gyrojet Mark 1 Model B Transitional Carbine - 13mm

The "LJ-10" in all of its befuddling glory.

Other

Handheld Spar Torpedo

A handheld spar torpedo, AKA a "Bang Stick", is one of the available options for Divers in-game. The spar torpedo was the predecessor to the modern torpedo (at the time called the "automotive torpedo") and consisted of an explosive charge on a long standoff rod to protect the ship or submarine that was using it. This version is handheld, rather like the anti-tank "lunge mines" used by Japan during WW2 (though these devices were explicitly understood to be suicide weapons). In-game, it is powerful enough to kill several types of sharks in one hit, at the cost of (understandably) limited range, something which isn't ideal when fighting giant angry sharks.

The "Bang Stick" in the weapon selection menu.

Sea Mine

Sea Mines can be purchased by Divers to offer some explosive area denial. Their explosive nature are deadly to sharks and divers alike.

The Sea Mine in the item menu.

Holding a Sea Mine.

Inspecting the Sea Mine.

Figuring that a Sea Mine is more useful being placed instead of in his hands, the Diver deploys the Sea Mine near an entrance.

Net Gun

The Net Gun is a non-lethal but very useful equipment that fires a large net, trapping any sharks caught in it and allowing other Divers to easily finish off the trapped shark.

The Net Gun on the main menu store.

Treasures

Gold-plated MP41s and Luger P08s can be found as loose treasures for the Divers to collect.

Using a sensor (that detects treasures and sometimes sharks), our Diver finds an old German gun.

Another old and golden German gun. Inexplicably common around the world's oceans.