[Magic1111]

Originally Posted by h.sie

@Magic1111 & Makman:

If you interrupt a crash dive (by setting a new depth) before the sub reaches his crash dive depth (70m?), you may lose the control over the sub - the sub is hanging there aslope with an angle of about 10 degrees. This bug mainly occurs in NYGM, I assume, because of the negative bouyancy used in that supermod. Search the NYGM thread for details.

The reason for this bug is, that the quick-diving-tank is not emptied correctly when you interrupt a crash-dive. The positive buoyancy in GWX seems to hide/compensate this effect, but it will be visible e.g. when compartments are flooded.

The fix from Stiebler and me empties the quick-diving-tank in this situation.

If V15E is done, I'll tell more details about the changes.

h.sie

Originally Posted by Stiebler

Evidently Makman and Magic do not use NYGM. Allow me to recommend that you both try it.

The crash-dive blues occurs when you order a crash-dive; then, *before the crash-dive has completed*, you order a new depth. For example, if your crash-depth depth is 80m, you click on the depth gauge for 150m before the U-boat reaches about 60-70 m.

This causes the U-boat to dive to 150m at an angle. We know now that this angle is caused because the quick-dive tank has not emptied. The quick-dive tank only returns to its normal level when the crash-dive is complete.

It is very hard to control the U-boat at any depth at slow speed, when it floats at an angle.

This is especially noticeable with NYGM, because of its anti-hover mod (no U-boat can hover underwater, it needs forward speed to maintain depth on the hydroplanes.) However, it is also noticeable with stock SH3.

The situation is different with GWX, which has a deliberate buoyancy - the U-boat tries to rise at slow speeds. This is not accurate, though.

Before H.sie's fix, the only way to stop the crash-dive blues was to rise to above the crash-dive depth (for example, rise from 150m to 50m), then crash-dive again, in order to empty the tank. Probably all players of NYGM (and perhaps of stock SH3, Rub, Aces, LivingSH3 etc) have learned this fact the hard way!

[Edit: Ooops. I see that my post has clashed with that of H.sie, who made his post just one minute before mine.]

Stiebler.

@ h.sie and Stiebler: Many thanks for clearify !

Best regards,
Magic