Ultimate noob question.

[VaporizedSteel]

I'm very Newbysh to silent hunter simulation games.
In fact I'm totally new to subim games in general.

In fact Im new to it since yesterday:wah:
I had fun completing ingame tutorials that learned me uberly simple tasks.

And I'm learning from online tutorials as we speak.

One simple sub farring bit that surpasses me I gladly want a solution for right now! Without spending tutorial pages and online videos to understand how to do it.

This bit is the following.

Whenever I dive in my submarine (Gato for instance) and I dive at and/or below 130meters (420 feet I estimate) my subs batteries plummet in just several seconds from completely full, to completely null.

The result is that obviously everything fails. It turns out everytime that my sub quikly bottoms down further into greater ocean depth where it eventually crashes.

What?

I assume that in order to dive deep I need to operate a series of valves and crew orders other then just order the sub to dive for it to do it properly.
But I don't know at all what I have to do to make it dive deep without these nasty consequences.

And I can't seem to find direct explanations from google, forum threads (here and elsewhere)
Seemingly that knowledge is buried within one or more tutorials. Which I do care to read, but I just don't know what tutorials to read.

I hope people can help me out on this one.

[grislyatoms]

Never experienced that. Are you diving to avoid a threat? May have battery damage, if they've already hit you. Beyond that, IDK. Some of the saltier hands will probably be able to answer.

[TorpX]

Welcome aboard, VaporizedSteel! :salute:

Your experience sounds like it may be a bug. Diving the boat should not be very difficult.

What version of SH4 do you have? The latest/best version is 1.5. Previous versions had significant problems. Either that, or 420 ft. is too deep for the sub in the stock game.

[fireftr18]

Welcome aboard!! :salute:

Check the pressure on the bow while we're at full speed.

Make generous use of the tutorials. Use them for more than just what the mission tells you, just use your imagination. I still go back and visit them on occasion when I want to try a new technique or test something I read.
We need more information to help.
What version are you playing? v 1.5, otherwise known as the U-boat add-on, is the latest stock version. The earlier versions had a lot of bugs.
Have you added any mods?
Are you diving too deep? I don't remember the maximum depth for the subs in stock. On the deep dive guage on the toolbar, there is a marker for the test depth. In stock, that is normally the deepest you can dive.

[merc4ulfate]

What version of the game do you run, where did you get it?(download from web or playing off cd) and are you running any mods?