40-545: The Drowning may refer to: The Drowning (video game) , a 2013 video game The Drowning EP , by Dashboard Confessional The Drowning (novel) , a 2008 novel by Camilla Läckberg The Drowning (film) , a 2016 American-Hong Kong thriller drama film directed by Bette Gordon The Drowning (TV series) , a 2021 British four-part television thriller drama series directed by Carolina Giammetta. See also [ edit ] Drowning (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
80-629: A lug , socket , or impact wrench . If the wheel is to be removed, an automotive jack to raise the vehicle and some wheel chocks would be used as well. Wheels that have hubcaps or wheel covers need these removed beforehand, typically with a screwdriver , flatbar, or prybar. Lug nuts can be difficult to remove, as they may become frozen to the wheel stud. In such cases a breaker bar or repeated blows from an impact wrench can be used to free them. Alternating between tightening and loosening can free especially stubborn lug nuts. Lug nuts must be installed in an alternating pattern, commonly referred to as
120-497: A wheel on a vehicle . Typically, lug nuts are found on automobiles , trucks (lorries), and other large vehicles using rubber tires . A lug nut is a nut fastener with one rounded or conical (tapered) end, used on steel and most aluminum wheels . A set of lug nuts is typically used to secure a wheel to threaded wheel studs and thereby to a vehicle's axles . Some designs (Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Saab, Volkswagen) use lug bolts or wheel bolts instead of nuts, which screw into
160-422: A package containing a note. The note commends him on his attempt to seal the borehole, and promises to return and evacuate him once it has refueled. "We believe that the touch system we've created is the future of controlling FPSes on smart devices." —Ben Cousins The game was developed by Scattered Entertainment, led by Battlefield producer Ben Cousins. With the aim of appealing to "hardcore players,"
200-451: A sea of shoddy touchscreen controls, The Drowning offers just enough moments of ingenuity and potential insights to these traditional issues that gamers will always be able to keep coming up for refreshing breaths of air." 148Apps ' Carter Dotson's criticisms pertained to the integration of the IAP system into the gameplay, saying: "the actual game at the heart of The Drowning is largely
240-489: A shallow free-to-play machine. The missions, involving both arena-based attack segments and defence missions a la CoD Zombies , are all about two minutes in length. They're friendly for pick-up-and-play gameplay, but are mostly just empty calories. The game is also always concerned with pressuring the player into obtaining more randomly-obtained items for crafting, trying to sell more MobaCoins to spend on gas cans to keep playing, and flares to get rarer items from levels where
280-547: A star pattern. This ensures a uniform distribution of load across the wheel mounting surface. When installing lug nuts, it is recommended to tighten them with a calibrated torque wrench . While a lug, socket, or impact wrench may be used to tighten lug nuts, the final tightening should be performed by a torque wrench, ensuring an accurate and adequate load is applied. Torque specifications vary by vehicle and wheel type. Both vehicle and wheel manufacturers provide recommended torque values which should be consulted when an installation
320-403: A tapped (threaded) hole in the wheel's hub or brake drum or brake disc . The conical lug's taper is normally 60 degrees (although 45 degrees is common for wheels designed for racing applications), and is designed to help center the wheel accurately on the axle, and to reduce the tendency for the nut to loosen due to fretting induced precession , as the car is driven. One popular alternative to
360-512: Is deflating and leaves the experience with a sour taste." He concluded that " The Drowning doesn't feature a solid story or nuanced gameplay, but its solid arcade-shooting mixed with a nice amount of unlocks helps deliver a positive gameplay experience. Unfortunately this fun is crippled by an unbalanced timer system that limits game time in favor of an in-app purchase." MacLife ' s Chris Pereira said: "While certainly enjoyable at times, The Drowning ' s free-to-play implementation hampers
400-413: Is designed for touchscreens that you can play with just one hand, with just two fingers in fact on one hand, and one that really fluidly fits in with the way that we hold these devices and the usage patterns of these devices. So we're really proud that we've created a control system which kind of unlocks the potential of this genre on the platform." In January 2013, Game Informer ' s Matt Miller said
440-463: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Drowning (video game) The Drowning is a 2013 first-person shooter video game developed by Swedish studio Scattered Entertainment and published by DeNA / Mobage for iOS . Version 1.0 of the game soft launched in the Australasia region on April 11, 2013. A more complete version of
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#1732883977647480-635: Is done. Failure to abide by the recommended torque value can result in damage to the wheel and brake rotor/drum. Additionally, under-tightened lug nuts may come loose with time. The tool size needed for removal and installation depends on the type of lug nut. The three most common hex sizes for lug nuts are 17 mm, 19 mm, and 21 mm, while 22 mm, 23 mm, 11 ⁄ 16 inch (17.5 mm), and 13 ⁄ 16 inch (20.6 mm) are less commonly used. In order to allow early detection of loose lug nuts, some large vehicles are fitted with loose wheel nut indicators . The indicator spins with
520-480: Is like travelling back in time to the Quake era - walk about a level and shoot everything until you win." He called the game "a failed experiment," writing: "The game ultimately fails at reinventing first-person shooter controls [...] fails at opening up the first-person shooter to the freemium model [...] fails at being a decent first-person shooter [...] It suffers from a paucity of enemy types, locations that barely change
560-437: Is no gas left, the player can no longer play, and can either buy more gas using Gold or must wait until their supply has automatically replenished. "Black" is necessary for crafting new items and upgrading weapons, and is awarded at the end of each level. If the player does not have enough Black to craft an item necessary for advancing the story, they must play previous levels, or purchase Black using Gold. "Flares" can be used at
600-411: Is normally used, so they are sold in sets of four. Most designs can be defeated using a hardened removal tool which uses a left-hand self-cutting thread to grip the locking nut, although more advanced designs have a spinning outer ring to frustrate such techniques. An older technique for removal was to simply hammer a slightly smaller socket over the locking wheel nut to be able to remove it. However, with
640-568: Is only available using real-world money. The game is set in 2021. Ten years prior to the opening of the game, 3,000 blackbirds fell out of the sky in Beebe, Arkansas . As scientists proved at a loss to explain how or why the birds had died, similar phenomenon began to occur all over the world. People began to panic, fearing Armageddon was at hand. Several months later the "Black" came. A thick black oil washed in to coastlines, turning anyone who came into contact with it into zombie-like creatures whose goal
680-475: Is to drag the living down into the Black. The game begins with the unnamed protagonist on a boat, which is subsequently attacked by several oil creatures. He makes it ashore and is about to be overwhelmed by creatures, when he is saved by a woman named Charlotte. Together, they head to a nearby house where they find a note from the presumed-dead owner explaining how to turn the Black into fuel for vehicles. They follow
720-446: The in-app purchase system and repetitive gameplay. The game offers two methods of control. The first, and the one upon which the game was primarily marketed, is a system developed specifically for the game and uniquely adapted for touchscreen devices. To shoot, the player taps the screen with two fingers and the player character fires at the middle point between the two taps. To zoom, the player pinches and expands their fingers on
760-494: The review aggregation website Metacritic . Gamezebo ' s Joe Jasko was one of the few critics to give the game a positive review, praising the arena-based nature of the gameplay and the control scheme. Although he was critical of the energy system, writing, "the whole inclusion of this energy system just seems a bit archaic to the game's otherwise pretty fair and generous freemium model," he concluded positively with: "While other mobile FPS games might still be drowning in
800-408: The Black may be stopped if explosives are dropped down the borehole of the rig. To do so, however, they will need a helicopter, which they can find on the roof of a nearby hospital. They get to the helicopter and head out towards the rig, spotting another helicopter flying away from the island. They tune in to its radio frequency and learn it is on a rescue mission but has reported no signs of life on
840-425: The conical lug seating design is the rounded, hemispherical, or ball seat. Automotive manufacturers such as Audi , BMW , and Honda use this design rather than a tapered seat, but the nut performs the same function. Older style (non-ferrous) alloy wheels use nuts with a 13 to 25 mm ( 1 ⁄ 2 to 1 in) cylindrical shank slipping into the wheel to center it and a washer that applies pressure to clamp
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#1732883977647880-453: The developers designed the control scheme specifically for use on touch-sensitive devices. According to Cousins, "We were unsatisfied with the FPSes on mobile devices, and I think from our research, I think a lot of the potential audience who are really interested in the genre have a phone or a tablet, and they're not satisfied with what they've got out there. [We've developed] a control system which
920-410: The end of each level to raise the player's score by one star. Flares can be randomly awarded during the game or purchased using Gold. "Silver" is necessary to activate "Charlotte's Bounty", which randomly awards a single prize in the form of an item, a weapon, a gas can, a flare or more silver. Silver is awarded randomly at the end of a level. "Gold" can be used to purchase any of the other currencies, and
960-426: The game (Version 1.11) was released internationally on August 3. The game is available under the freemium business model. An Android release was released in 2014. The game's main selling points are its uniquely adapted touchscreen -specific control scheme and "console quality" graphics. Although the graphics were generally praised by critics, the game received mixed to negative reviews, with much criticism aimed at
1000-516: The game to an inexcusable degree." Chris Carter of Destructoid was critical of the control system, writing, "the overly-simplistic layout does not work." However, his strongest criticisms were in relation to the IAP system, writing, "in the hands of another developer, The Drowning would have been something special. Without the energy mechanic and constant drip-fed weapon and item parts, I could easily see myself destroying an entire afternoon blasting apart zombies." Eurogamer ' s Dan Whitehead
1040-464: The game was "one of the more ambitious mobile titles we've seen. I'm excited to see if the team can match its impressive visuals and narrative depth with equally enthralling gameplay." Some of the story elements in the game's prologue were based on a real incident which occurred in Arkansas in 2011, "when thousands of black birds fell from the sky." The Drowning received "mixed" reviews according to
1080-499: The game's obstructive, uphill design, which ekes out progress to non-paying players painfully slowly, is to be willfully blind to how this sort of thing works." He concluded that The Drowning "is a transaction machine first, a headline-grabbing control scheme second and an actual game a distant third." Pocket Gamer ' s Peter Willington was equally critical, writing, "First-person shooters today are far more complex than The Drowning ever attempts to be. [...] Playing The Drowning
1120-404: The instructions and get an old car working. Inside the car, they find another note from the man explaining he has left an old boat in a nearby fishing village. They head there, and find another note in the boat. The man speculates that the origin of the Black may be an oil rig off the coast and they should get to his old speedboat on the next island. In the speedboat, another note explains that
1160-432: The islands. As they land on the rig, Charlotte reveals that the old man was her father. They fling the explosives into the borehole, but rather than sealing the spillage of Black, it opens the leak even more, and hundreds of oil creatures begin to scale the rig as an unmoving Charlotte watches them approach her. Later that day, the narrator has returned to the old man's house. He sees a helicopter flying overhead, which drops
1200-401: The maximum reward level is usually incredibly difficult to obtain. It's not really possible to actually enjoy The Drowning for what it is." Slide to Play ' s Tyler Feasel criticized the arena-based gameplay, and argued that a standard campaign mode would have been preferable. He was especially critical of the energy system, saying: "To wait 30 minutes to "earn" a few minutes of gameplay
1240-533: The newer design of locking wheel nuts this is no longer possible. Removal nowadays requires special equipment that is not available to the general public. This helps to prevent thieves from obtaining the tools to be able to remove the lock nuts themselves. In the United States, vehicles manufactured prior to 1975 by the Chrysler Corporation used left-hand and right-hand screw thread for different sides of
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1280-412: The nut so that loosening can be detected with a visual inspection. In countries where the theft of alloy wheels is a serious problem, locking nuts (or bolts, as applicable) are available — or already fitted by the vehicle manufacturer — which require a special adaptor ("key") between the nut and the wrench to fit and remove. The key is normally unique to each set of nuts. Only one locking nut per wheel
1320-426: The player at the end of each level, based upon the number of stars they have achieved. Operating on a five star scale, scoring one to three stars results in "common" items, while scoring four or five stars results in a "rare or better" item. The game uses multiple currencies. Energy (in the form of " Gas cans ") is necessary to play the game. Each time the player plays a level, their gas total drops by one. When there
1360-515: The player has crafted the correct item. For example, to craft the car, which is necessary to get to the third section of the game, the player needs a lug nut , which is only found in "The Shore" level. However, "The Shore" can only be played after the player has crafted a weapon capable of zooming. Such a weapon can only be crafted after the player has collected necessary components, which are randomly awarded on various other levels. The items necessary to upgrade and craft new items are randomly awarded to
1400-426: The player taps on the character's weapon. A more traditional touchscreen first-person shooter setup is also available, with two virtual joysticks, one for moving, one for shooting. Each level in the game features two types of play mode; attack and defend. Game progression is based upon a crafting system, which also offers upgrades for the character's weapons. As the game advances, certain levels can only be played if
1440-421: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title The Drowning . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Drowning&oldid=1229282163 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
1480-405: The screen. To move, the player taps on the screen where they want to go and the character automatically moves around obstacles until he reaches the designated spot. To strafe , the player swipes left or right on the screen using two fingers. To look around, the player swipes in any direction with one finger, although there is also a shortcut button for instant 180 degree turns. To switch weapons,
1520-465: The way you play, minimal peripheral awareness, and some of the most rote shooting available on a touchscreen device." On September 23, 2014 Deadline Hollywood reported that Radar Pictures had hired Olympus Has Fallen writers Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt to adapt the game into a movie. Lug nut A lug nut or wheel nut is a fastener , specifically a nut , used to secure
1560-613: The wheel to the axle. Wheel lug nuts may have different shapes. Aftermarket alloy and forged wheels often require specific lug nuts to match their mounting holes, so it is often necessary to get a new set of lug nuts when the wheels are changed. There are four common lug nut types: The lug nut thread type varies between car brands and models. Examples of commonly used metric threads include: Some older American cars use inch threads, for example 7 ⁄ 16 ″-20 (11.1 mm), 1 ⁄ 2 ″-20 (12.7 mm), or 9 ⁄ 16 ″-20 (14.3 mm). Lug nuts may be removed using
1600-404: Was even more critical. He called the control system "a clumsy and unnatural way to play an FPS." He was also heavily critical of the IAP system's integration into the core gameplay, saying: "This is a game that cannot wait to start asking you to pay, and has at least four interlocked currencies designed to make you feel like you should. To assume that sort of aggressive monetisation isn't a factor in
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