Repairing and Healing

[Viper114]

So, I managed to complete the Coastal Waters mission, netting 50K tonnage. Now I need to look into the other side of Britain, but I've apparently suffered damage from a self-defended merchant ship. The Hull Integrity is at 80%, and some of the crew and injured. I want to fix this, but no idea how. I go to a port and can refit, but I cannot simply end the patrol. And Postpone does nothing, I click it and nothing happens. I want to fix things up before heading on the other side of Britain. What can I do?

[Capt.Warner]

Well if you want to port,look on your nav map and your destination port will have a sub with a square around it.For repairing I guess use your chief engineer click on him and use his abilities?Not sure,haven't had to do this yet.

[kylania]

No idea how to heal, and if you can't heal you can use abilities. It's a rather horrible system. At least SH3 had doctors. :)

[sideways]

From what I can tell hull integrity cannot be fixed by anything other than ending a patrol. This actually makes good sense - crew should only be able to patch things up, not re-weld seams at sea.

Keep in mind that as soon as it's below 100%, anything below periscope depth will start increasing the damage quite quickly, so if you take hull damage it's usually best to get to get back to port quickly so you can get back out and kicking butt in fighting form. :arrgh!:

as far as damage to your crew - i have no idea.

[Viper114]

It's understandable that I won't be able to do all repairs at sea, that's why I want to go into a port and take some time to repair. I mean, the Western Approach mission needs to be done by June 1st 1940, and it's only like early October 1939. You would think I could take a few weeks to sit in port and get back into tip-top shape. But I've tried Helioberg, Wilhelmshaven and even Kiel and none of those places want to fix me up. Kiel, of all places, where I even started the patrol from and got upgrades before I started the patrol!

If I can't get my sub fixed, I'm not going to survive this patrol...

[sideways]

if kiel and wilhelmshaven aren't working, I'd say you're **** out of luck and have been hit with some new bug.

have you looked for the little submarine icon on kiel and WH? It should appear on at least ONE of them.

If it's not a bug I can only assume that while you were en route from whilhelmshaven to kiel, your home port changed from kiel to wilhelmshaven and (like all of us) you didn't get the message.

damn BdU not keeping its skippers up to date.

[Capt.Warner]

Hit Shift+Z,this is the key command to fix it Im 90% sure.Try it out.:up: