Who else has CTD at the worst time? Stories?

[Hambone307]

First patrol in the S-28 fresh out of Manila. Shakedown went without a hitch, so we proceeded to the south indochina operations area.
As we are finishing the final turn on our search pattern, watch calls out ships sighted. I climb to the tower to see for myself to find that we have stumbled across a large convoy consisting of a light cruiser, and several Heito Maru transports.
We are 5000yds out in rough seas, in the perfect intercept position. Dive to periscope depth, all hands to battlestations, run silent. We target the Cruiser first with two Mk10s, then send the last fish to two of the three Heito Marus.
Time ticking away until impact on the cruiser, I raise periscope about 5s before the fish are set to hit. First torpedo impacts just aft of the stack. Second torpedo impacts.... Crash to Desktop.
I could have cried when I saw that message pop up as the cruisers magazines blew. :nope:

[depthtok33l]

Heading to the port of Singapore to do some raiding from Surabaya with my trusty rustbucket, about halfway there I spotted a task force consisting of two heavy cruises (16k tons each) heading the same course as me on my 180. I setup an ambush, managed to sink the second ship (with 3 amidships hits) while the lead one zigzagged like the world is ending :rotfl2:. Anyways, I didn't know that saving your game near a sinking ship causes a corrupt save. I CTD'ed a few seconds later, tried to re-load the save but to no avail.

Now my game crashes everytime I load that save.
:Kaleun_Crying::Kaleun_Mad::Kaleun_Crying:

[Crannogman]

First patrol in the S-28 fresh out of Manila. Shakedown went without a hitch, so we proceeded to the south indochina operations area.
As we are finishing the final turn on our search pattern, watch calls out ships sighted. I climb to the tower to see for myself to find that we have stumbled across a large convoy consisting of a light cruiser, and several Heito Maru transports.
We are 5000yds out in rough seas, in the perfect intercept position. Dive to periscope depth, all hands to battlestations, run silent. We target the Cruiser first with two Mk10s, then send the last fish to two of the three Heito Marus.
Time ticking away until impact on the cruiser, I raise periscope about 5s before the fish are set to hit. First torpedo impacts just aft of the stack. Second torpedo impacts.... Crash to Desktop.
I could have cried when I saw that message pop up as the cruisers magazines blew. :nope:

I had a similar repeated CTD whenever I sank a particular small freighter. It seemed to have to with 3D rendering that vessel class while it was damaged. Sometimes it would happen as soon as the torp hit while I was watching via periscope or external cam; if I didn't look until I surfaced and went to the deck gun/bridge to finish her off, it happened then. Eventually I sank her mulitiple torps or went looking for something else to sink. It seems to be a well-known bug; the Strangelovian Doomsday Ship

[Hambone307]

I didn't know that saving your game near a sinking ship causes a corrupt save. :Kaleun_Crying::Kaleun_Mad::Kaleun_Crying:

I found that one out the hard way after a 15 hour depth charging I got in my Balao class. I got "lucky" and literally ran into a carrier task force. Sank two flat tops and then got the pounding of a lifetime. Had to save when our fire department got paged out and when I got back, every time I tried to load it CTD. :Kaleun_Crying::/\\!!