Glad I came across this thread. I ran my first full patrol with a new character earlier (I'm using GWX 3 and the Merchant Fleet Mod, both of which I'm fairly new to) and I was in an area with a couple of sub-5k tonners and I sank one quckly, and the other one took its sweet time sinking. I didn't want to waste another eel on it so I used accelerated time to watch it eventually drop down into the sea, tip up the bow to an 80 degree angle or so and start to drop in. However, with about 30' of the end of the ship left above the water, it stopped sinking. The ship was 90% underwater, but the very front of the ship stuck out of the water, like some kind of monument lol. I waited and waited and it never dropped. I got credit for the kill, so I just left.
On the way back to the base, in a nearly identical area of the map (BF32 or BF33?) I tried to sink another ship and it did the same thing. It left the very tip of the ship sticking out of the water, and wouldn't go under, except I didn't get credit for sinking that one LOL. Weird.
privateer called it though, the slow sinkers really change this game up and add a nice level of anticipation, depth and realism to the experience...
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