Uncontrollable Dive
 

This is the second time this has happened to me in this game, I dive and loose control of the boat till it gets crushed.

First time it happend I was in shallow water, ordered a routine dive to PD and the next thing I know I am at 150 feet, I repeat PD, nothing happens, order "S" Surface, nothing. Lastly I start pressing "E" still nothing and I die.

Second time planes were coming in and ordered Crash Dive. Same results.

Has anyone else had this happen?? I wasnt at battle stations, cant figure it out.

If you take even the slightest bit of damage from planes or depth charges you'll sink like a rock even if you repair everything you can. The damage control screen isn't set up to tell you these things, unfortunately.

Interesting cuse the first time it happened I hadmt been attacked by planes but the second timeI had just been attacked and a bomb did land it looked close but my damage control screen did not show anything wrong???

I have this happen every time I get damaged and I dive! I sink hundreds of feet in seconds. (NO, TIME COMPRESSION is not on) I dive to >1400 feet and sit on the bottom, till the boat floods. This bug is really ruining this for me.:dead:

I've had that happen after taking damage. The damage control screen will only say the AA/Deck guns are damaged. I run on the surface for hours with the damage control crew at work. There's no sign of any trauma anywhere on the boat.. I dive.. sink nose first like a stone.

Just another bug.

I've seen this too. However, I have taken hull damage, repaired it and still managed to control my dives afterwards. Once I even had two gaping holes (one just below the conning tower and one in the aft torpedo room) without loosing my ability to submerge, so it doesen't happen every time my boat is damaged.

Usually I can still blow tanks to surface, or blow tanks just to stabilize at my preferred depth, but it's not a state you really want to continue a patrol in. I'm fine with being damaged to the point where I can't safely submerge, but some sort of indication of that damage would be nice.

hi neal this is happening to alot of us is there anyway you can inform the dev team that this is a critical thing that needs to be fixed with patch 1.2 with the mods out there this is the only problem im seeing so far except for crew deaths happening where you lose your entire crew almost


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And heres me thinking i must be hitting mines when i dive but all along it was a damn bug!:huh:

I think this only happens when the bulkheads got damaged previously. Normal flooding is no big deal, but once the bulkheads crack it's over with the diving fun, even if you manage to repair the initial damage.

I've had bulkhead damage and been able to dive normally after repairing the damage. I've been getting down to 200+ feet without problems in my current patrol despite taking bad damage. Had a lot of fun with flooding too when I have only been able to control the descent by increasing my speed which was fun when I needed to rig for silent running.

I have to admit the whole damage/control system is still a bit of a mystery to me, even after a dozen patrols. I'm still not quite sure what's a bug and what's a feature... ;)

I thought it was a feature. Seems like it occurs when there is hull damage - or?

I have this problem a LOT as well and its a patrol killer for me.

There should not be anything that "kills you when you dive" that is NOT advertised in the damage control screen, period, it just shouldn't be that way.

If I am damaged to the point of no-diving, I need to know this. What if I saved a game after repairing damage? Load the game the next day and dive, BOOM death and no idea why because most likely I forgot I took damage (yesterday) and repaired it.

Needs to be fixed...

The problem is I've had it happen without any notification of serious damage. I get hit, "We're taking damage sir!", I check the screen, only the AA/Deck guns are damaged. But after spending hours on the surface with a damage control crew active, I dive and sink nose first. That doesn't seem fair (or realistic? surely I'd have some indication of that kind of damage.)