Repair tactics

[Walruss]

So after 4 hours gameplay, I got sunk.

I was shadowing a convoy out of gibraltar (2 swann class) and I got bounced by an escort. 2 hours worth of dodging and I take a very close hit, flooding the forward torpedo room and quaters. I send men to damage control (incl the engineer with repair quals), order back slow, ended silent running, and try and arrest the dive, and watch the repair times. 3 minutes in the torpedo room is sealed, but the boat is flooding in the bow quaters still and repairs take too long. 30 seconds too long actually, despite the fact that I was actually finally on my way up (the boat survived to 263 meters!! ). Why did I die? Well at 177 meters the quaters flooded completely (despite 30 seconds left to fix it) and the game ended.

Now surely a compartment would not flood like that? A leak that takes 4min 30 to fix does not take 4 min to fill a compartment?

HOw do you guys deal with this? Is there a mod to make damage more realistic?

[irish1958]

There are several mods that address this problem and h.sie has an exe fix that does also

[VONHARRIS]

One of these mods is the Longer Repair Times v 2.04( LRT 2.04) which allows much more time for a compartment to flood and repairs take much more time than in the stock (or GWX - I think) model.

[derrinurban]

Does your depth have any affect on the flooding or repairs? I was in a similar situation once. I had severe flooding in the bow torpedo and the forward quarters. The bow was too heavy to keep from sinking. No amount of dive plane and speed could overcome it. I spent the next hour or two going back and forth between ahead slow and back standard, between 180m and 75m. I needed back standard to start going up in depth, any thing less just slowed the descent. I did survive but it was all hands on repair duty. I had the compartments full of men and the repair duty full. I read somewhere that having men in the compartment helped with flood control. I always found (might have been my imagination) that flood control was easier/quicker at shallow depths rather than at 200m. This was the reason I kept reversing up to 75m

Hope this helps.

[diluvian]

Does your depth have any affect on the flooding or repairs? I was in a similar situation once. I had severe flooding in the bow torpedo and the forward quarters. The bow was too heavy to keep from sinking. No amount of dive plane and speed could overcome it. I spent the next hour or two going back and forth between ahead slow and back standard, between 180m and 75m. I needed back standard to start going up in depth, any thing less just slowed the descent. I did survive but it was all hands on repair duty. I had the compartments full of men and the repair duty full. I read somewhere that having men in the compartment helped with flood control. I always found (might have been my imagination) that flood control was easier/quicker at shallow depths rather than at 200m. This was the reason I kept reversing up to 75m

Hope this helps.

i've noticed the same things, and can confirm that depth does play a role - increasing repair times the deeper you go, while decreasing them the more you surface

likewise with the crew, after having the damaged control roles all filled up, i placed crew in the damaged section itself and observed repair times decrease