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Originally Posted by krashkart
If you're ever near Dover, there was a Southampton class docked close to open water the last time I was there.  |
Hey, have you ever heard my Jimbuna impression? It goes something like this:
STAY OUT OF THE ENGLISH CHANNEL!
I have on occasion made the voyage out to my patrol grid through there in late Aug 1939, and once I even made it home through there about a month later, altho not without having to play footsie with a couple destroyers who found my persona distinctly non grata.
But generally, after hostilities have opened, I avoid it like the plague. And what's interesting is that I've noticed I seem to have better luck on that first combat patrol if I take the long way around and arrive in the Western Approaches by coming down past the Hebrides and around the west of Ireland. I don't know if it's a coincidence or not, but it's almost like my u-boat coming south through the channel the last week of August dries up the traffic in the lower Approaches the first week of September.
So from now on, I'm staying out of there if at all possible.
Anyway - I'm afraid I bailed on the last career and started another one late yesterday evening. I'd finally gotten Flakmonkey's New Interiors mod to work with Integrated Orders and everything else, or so I thought, but when I got out into the Atlantic on my second patrol I found that the enhanced sound from the diesel room went crazy if I was inside the boat and tried to set the TC above 2.
So I knew I had to disable the mod and re-enable it without the sound modifications, only problem was, since I've used my feminine wiles to trick the game into thinking I'm playing at 100% realism when I'm not, I can no longer hit Esc and teleport back to base from wherever I happen to be. The only way I could get above 2 TC without problems was to be on the bridge or in some external view, where my limit is 32 TC.
I couldn't face continuing the patrol at a max of 32 TC just to get back to base so I could exit and alter the mod. So, knowing I was just gonna tank this career anyway and start over (again), I decided to see how deep my VIIB would go.
Took her out into deep water and ordered a dive at flank speed. Believe it or not, I didn't even get a damage report until around 320m, and we were already passing 390m when the black screen of death popped up. That just doesn't seem right!