New record XXI GW mod bottomed out at 750m without taking damage! I did blow ballast and return to the surface in one piece and with a fully visible sub.

Use Timetravelers Crush Depth mod, and you can set the depth closer to actual settings for the boats. I use it with GW 1.1 with no adverse issues. You can also set the range your boat can go based on actual figures that are included.

How is that possible? You didn't take any damage at all? What is your U-boat made out of?

What is the deepest the enemy can hit a sub with depth charges? Is there a maximum level in this sim that they explode?

My pet peeve.

300 meters.

At the 300 meter mark, depth charges will POOF, without so much as an explosion. Maybe 305 metrers tops, but they'll still POOF into thin air. Ive often tried to change that, with no results. Ive acutally watched what would have been direct hits disappear before they hit the uboat while testing. So if your below 300 meters, your effectivly immune from countermeasures, excepting maybe hedge hogs.

Iv'e been down to 495m in a IXD2 but had to edit a file can't remember which one but it had adverse affects on my sub so I had to put it back to the original settings.

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Every time I have tried to go below 175 meters, I have been crushed when I use GW and SH3CMDR. This has occured with 100% hull integrity. I guess I have been unlucky.

Well my wife left me and daughter says she dont want to see me anymore. Then my dog died in hunger when I didnt remember to feed him. So I quess I have gone quite deep with this playing, but hopefully will get back (someday) ? :rock:

Ode to slow crush depth modding.

You can slow down the rate at which your sub looses hull integrity so you can dip below crush depth for limited times, but you'll slowly bleed H.I if you do.

Here's an intresting scenario that happened to me the other day in a single mission. Got pummeled by close depth charges while trying to go deep. Major flooding throughout the boat, bow and stern, but particuarlly the bow. H.I was about 60%, and boat was sinking, but i thought it was controllable, and i did get the flooding under control. And was BARELY able to maintain depth at about 120 meters, and this only by going to flank speed and putting the planes on full rise.

Thats when the 2nd barrage hit. major flooding all over again, and the boat started to dip by the bow and go deeper. Much deeper. Fighting to get the flooding udner control i noticed i was at a really steep down angle, and still sinking fast, thats when i tossed in the towel and started to emergency blow the ballast tanks. Boat was still dropping fast. Thats when i discovered that the 2nd barrage had DESTROYED the bow planes. STill being at flank speed did not help my prediciment. Eventually the depth meter pegged, and the only thing i could think of was, the voice of the cheif in das boat saying, "we've lost control". All the while the effects of the pressure could be seen and felt. Bursting glass, the lights flickering and the control room going dark on and off intermittedly.

Not willing to give up yet, i looked around and noticed still have the stern planes and an aft that was not heavy. I put the boat into emergecy reverse and blew what air i had left in the ballast tanks. Somewhere at 340 meters, she slowed down and hearing the voice from the cheif in das boat again, "She's risiing!".

So there i was, in full reverse, going backwards, to the surface. all the while the destroyers sending more depth charges causing more flooding. At about 40 meters, it looked like i might break surface, but alas, the next barrage destoryed me. Never got back to the surface, but i got pretty damn close.

How would you slow down the crush damage?
I hope that by doing that I can bottom out right next to the ice wall in the far north. Over 1000 meters est 1200-1500m either way one hell of a goal