I had a torpedo come full circle and split me in half pretty much. The explosion scared the SheepDip outta me... But regardless I thought it was cool.

Just wish the sonar man had let me know the torpedo malfunctioned. Who gave Bernard the sonar headphones anyway?

im gonna assume that's what got me since i took care of the 3 escorts before they were near me and there was no armed ships in the convoy and no aircraft around.

Has blowing the ballast saved anybody? Never really seems to do much for me.

Blowing ballast saved me. Was going down so i set the engine to emergency speed backwards and blowed ballasts...ship surfaced.

Blow Ballast DOES work, albeit very slowly.

When you blow ballast, do you have to click once or hold the button down? I just clicked and nothing happened. No noise, no bubbles, no improvement in attitude or depth (and only had one compartment with flooding), nothing.

Well, to be fair, I pressed the "E" key to blow ballast in panic more than once, (possibly like 8 times in a row), and my compressed air levels began dropping and I began rising. So, when it doubt... MASH MASH MASH :yep:

yea i definitely prolonged 'the magic' of sinking by spamming the hell out of blow ballast. maintained 90 feet for a while then got crushed at 180?? (all my stuff blew up)

but doesnt the sub in SH3 sink by bow or stern depending on how the flooding is?

i have had a few occasions where the starn torpedo room and engine rooms are filling up with water and the sub was on the surfaced very stern heavy. or when the bow compartments have flooding the thing is very bow heavy.... sinks by the stern and bow etc. etc.

I don't know about stock SH3, but it's certainly there in GWX.:up:

Yhey my boats death got pointed to. :lol:

Yea death is a bit more realistic in SH4, I personally like loosing all your fuel near the end, to bad it doesn't show the diesal(sp? :p ) on the surface... at least I haven't seen.