NYGM 3 Super-mod (Current: 3.6 F, January 13th 2015)

[Stiebler]

@Justaman:

I went from periscop depth to 80meters in about 3 minutes... to just maintain depth I had to go "halbe kraft voraus". This does not really feel historically correct... from 15 to 80 meters in under 5 minutes of slow running would mean that in reallity a u boat crew could not maintain silent running for more than 10 minutes before going into critical depth? I read in some threads that the "sinking" effect is made worse by the stieblers patch? Is this correct? I can't attack anything while submerged unless I keep half to max speed?

Yes, that rate of sinking really would be terrible! And very unrealistic unless the U-boat had massive flooding.

As JO313 has already said, disable the Sabotage and Malfunction options in SH3Commander.

The NYGM super-mod has Der Teddy Bar's original fix that causes the U-boat to sink slowly when stationary at any depth. You should not sink at slow speed.

The Stiebler patch provides additionally a separate slow-sinking function that is hard-coded, and operates only at 100m or deeper. It is a fudge-fix, that simply drags the boat down a little below these depths, and will always occur at slow U-boat speed. Thus, when attacked by escorts, you have to decide whether to keep sinking slowly and silently, or to go briefly and noisily to half-speed to restore your correct depth. This can cause some tricky decisions for the player - stay silent and sink a bit more, or recover depth by making some noise from the propellers at half-speed.

Stiebler.