Uboat lost, what happened`
 

Hi guys, i recently started playing with the GWX 3.0 mod. I was sailing outside Scapa flow with full time acc. 1024x. Suddenly i heard a boom and water flowing, looked at my damage screen and saw that every compartment getting flooded, 3 min later i lost the boat.

What really happened here, no ships or enemy anywhere.

/Rob

Probably you hit a mine, I think.

Mines!!?? there are mines??? hahha, that explains it. :)

Yep, definately a mine. Happend to me twice in my whole SH3 career. Annoying, but realistic.

I love it.

I remember I was doing a patrol off the east coast of England in a type II pretty soon after I installed GWX. I had event camera on and when I launched a torp at a unsuspecting merchant the screen came up and I watched my torp go streaking past a mine tethered about 10 feet below the surface just in front of my sub.

I was like WTF!!????!! ARRRGGGHHH, rudder hard to port, but I didn't hit it, I just headed away from the coast and have never ventured that far into the shallows since. I don't use gods eye view so that glimpse from the event camera was my only sighting of a mine. That's GWX though, always something to surprise ya.

In my SH3 Vanilla, GWX2.1, GWX3.0Gold + SH3Commander
i have never and i mean never hit a mine! I do use external view but i never had to manoeuver to avoid a mine. Even in an IX class boat. :yawn:
Im almost pleasantly surprised when i happen to see a mine nearby my boat.

Mine....check the Campaign_SCR in mission editor for minefield locations.

It was a mine I tell ya...A big blooming, freakin, mine!:D

Once I lost a boat to (supposedly) mines near Heligoland... There was a loud booom, and then about 4 seconds later the death screen (I didn't get to the damage control screen in time) :(

I have ended two cereers there due to mines and as you say Boom and the end :nope:

No supposedly about it my friend. You hit a mine. There are mines off the coast of Heligoland. :yep:

I realize that now. But I got so spooked by the sudden explosion, I almost jumped off my chair.
And I did throw away the mouse :)

Good deal.

Whenever something suddnely bad happens to me when on patrol, I just blame my wife or kids for distracting me.:DL

I'm not quite sure why I havn't learned my lesson yet and tried something else:damn:........Must be that steel plate in my head. LOL.:haha:

Thomsen's No Instant Death Screen mod can fix that.
Well, it will only extend the time between the boom and the end but at least you'll have time to see what happen.
Yep. Thats the price. A slower, painfull death in exchange for the answers you want. Muhahaha! :har:

Can you use the No Instant Death Screen with GWX3.0?:hmmm:

Well, i loaded with JSGME but i didnt died so far.
Although the other features like smoke, realistic damage and more fragile crew works just great.
One direct DD shell can easilly do moderate damage to the compartment that it hit and maybe even destroy it. So far i've lost 3 Deck Gunners with a single bomb and one WO with a single shell that hit the conning tower.

Simon and Garfunkle, remember...."slow down, you move to fast, got to make the moment last...":rotfl2: