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Originally Posted by The_Phoenix
 a hit to my bow by a merchant deck gun shouldnt kill me, ive been taking it like a man for quite some time now, but when i hit "dive" the ship went went to what i figured would be a normal depth (another game), instead it went to 300 feet  . i had 2 compartments flooding and some random damage, but i got to the surface and managed to start fixing it...that was until it kind of randomly gave me the screen of death. Real pleasent ending to a great patrol. |
Did you check your damage percent when you reached the surface? I've died in a crash dive I couldn't pull out of, but usually once you break that point and make it to the surface you shouldn't have died. 300 ft is not that bad. I've made it to the surface with 90% damage and made it back to base.
Don't give up, it's a great game. We've all had many ruined careers. Make sure you are updated. We've all gone through crap where we died and have no clue. Nothing worse than cruising along and get the death screen, could be a mine, reef, a quirk where you don't get a contact report and bombed. I wish there was a better damage model and more details on what happened when you just die. Over time you'll learn how to deal with all these quirks, but even then....crap happens.