Another oops
 

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Hi Everyone,
I entered the harbor to Kolonia, I fired two torpedos and sank the two merchents that were in port. I surfaced and proceed at back emergency since the harbor is to narrow to turn around. I increased the time compression and I started to notice that my depth gauge started changing from 16ft-18ft to 17ft-19ft,19ft-22ft and this continued until about 27ft-29ft and the sub started diving/dropping like a rock stern first shortly there after. I set the engines to all ahead flank and emergency blow X2,the sub barely slowed down and it slammed to the bottom at about 10 knots+600 ft......hull breach bye bye. I reloaded the game and tried the same thing in shallow water.

I duplicated the unexplained dive and I tried ahead flank and blowing my ballast and I still slammed to the bottom of the ocean floor at 200 feet. Then after giving the order ahead flank and blowing the ballast the sub finally began to rise after a few seconds(took longer then usually).Try duplicating this error, it is rather annoying when it happens. In SH3 I finished off a British Destroyer that I had torpedoed by going in reverse and firing my deck gun. I now I could not duplicate that in SH4 if I tried obviously.:down:

The Japanses had NO guns at port , NO DDs, NO bunkers and NO planes so there was no damage received at any time during time compression.

Did you hit a mine?

Maybe for Patch 1.4
 

Maybe for Patch 1.4

I'm glad to see the early retirement thing is being worked on, it's truly sickening to go through the game that long doing well only to be retired with a rude statement such as low performance rating. Boo!
I hate the fact that the real life medals or awards aren't used, but to top that off upon receiving numerous medals of the same type, let's say the equivalent of the Navy Cross, there's no "clusters or leafs" or whatever they're called, added to the ribbon to show that you've received more than one, so when you open your box after receiving four or five of these there's still only the one medal showing and no bronze or gold leaf things added to the ribbon to show you'd earned the others.
I'm not sure how it can be said that you can't use the names of the medals in the game, other games do! Also, how can you use the names of the submarines, or types of boats names if you can't use the medal names. Something doesn't sound right about this. Never the less maybe in Patch 1.4 they'll fix up the medals to show you've received more than just the one, I enjoy getting the medals to be honest, I earned them and I'd like to see them when I open my display box. :D

SnowCajun

Two bugs I haven't seen listed (I admit I didnt read all of them--whew);

1. This is kind of a game breaker--sometimes when there is a howling wind on the surface it gets into a loop and every screen howls even after the storm stops. I have found no way to break this loop short of going back to base and starting the next mission. Refitting does not stop it.
2. This is just kind of an irritant; I keep getting awards for the 7th and 4th mission over and over even though I am on about mission 15 with this captain. Same awards too...over and over.

Welcome:up: azr

RDP

the patch 1.3
 

have u notice the radar in the balao class does not rotate when u are on bridge or externel view, they need to fix that and the subs max depth. the max depth of the balao class is 400 ft the rest i do not know

That was the test depth. Dick O'Kane took the Tang a heck of a lot deeper than that on more than one occasion.

Yeah, he regularly went down to 600. One of his early test dives was to 600, apparently it frightened quite a few on board. The boat sprung some leaks, but the leak sources were fixed at the yard and 600 feet became no big deal. He thought they could make it to 900.

He seemed to indicate that at those very deep depths under a temperature gradient, he could run at whatever speed he wanted to and no one would hear them.

True, but none asked for a transfer after O'Kanes tests on the Tang! :up:

Reply
 

No mines, nothing.

These might have been listed already, but I'll mention them again for the heck of it: :D

• The boat's speed is always reset to All Stop when loading up a patrol in progress.
• If Battlestations is ordered with a non-fatigued crew and then the game is saved, the whole crew will be exhausted upon reloading the game.

Fixes for 1.3
 

I know it's been mentioned, but please give us an idea somehow of hull integrity after damage. SHIII was great in that respect. Also, there are many blind spots after upgrading from a single to twin 20mm cannon. In most positions, you cannot see what you are aiming at when on a Gato class sub. Thankyou very much. I feel these are the best series of games available anywhere.:up:

Another one - again, it might've already been mentioned:

• When refitting at a port, only the reserve torpedoes are replenished and not the tubes themselves.

many times, i have snuck into an ememy pport and attacted docked shipping
at all of the ports that i have attacked, there have alos been IJN ships docked
when a ship is blown ip in their harbor, they should get underway but they dont

Forgive the off topic, but I gotta ask:

I bought SH4 when it came out but stopped playing completely and went back to my good ol modded SH3 after being made to repeat the same dang mission 4 times in a row. But since hearing the upcoming 1.3, I find my self trying out SH4 again with a new career. But of course by the third patrol or so I'm being made to do the same repeating crud again.

Sounds like most of you guys have gone much further into the career mode. So got a question for you, how many repeat missions did you had to go through before it spits out a new mission and you can get on with things? Or does it never gives out the other sets and just get stuck in a loop?

Thanks.