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somedude88 · 01-04-11, 02:38 PM

I don't understand the damage model anymore... After playing the game tricked out with mods, I still have a very difficult time... well... dying...

Just for ****s and giggles, I turned on the "Bismark" single mission and surfaced for a gun battle between two battleships and two destroyers.

The results were nothing short of amazing... It quite literally required the entire battlegroup to sink me... a measly U-boat.
True... I was holed like swiss cheese, but I took dozens of 5.5 inch shells and a few 14 inch shells from the battleships before being destroyed...

Noticing the crazy amount of firepower needed to bring me down, I went into a training exercise where I was attacked by the dreaded airforce.
I didn't record the results, but I must have taken 6 direct bomb hits (I don't know what the poundage was on those bombs) and I was still chugging along... I always thought that just one... two at most would bring me to the bottom of the sea.

Is this realistic at all? If it isn't, is there a mod that makes damage more realistic?

01-04-11, 02:38 PM	#1
somedude88 Torpedoman Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 120 Downloads: 54 Uploads: 0	U-boat strong-like-bull? I don't understand the damage model anymore... After playing the game tricked out with mods, I still have a very difficult time... well... dying... Just for ****s and giggles, I turned on the "Bismark" single mission and surfaced for a gun battle between two battleships and two destroyers. The results were nothing short of amazing... It quite literally required the entire battlegroup to sink me... a measly U-boat. True... I was holed like swiss cheese, but I took dozens of 5.5 inch shells and a few 14 inch shells from the battleships before being destroyed... Noticing the crazy amount of firepower needed to bring me down, I went into a training exercise where I was attacked by the dreaded airforce. I didn't record the results, but I must have taken 6 direct bomb hits (I don't know what the poundage was on those bombs) and I was still chugging along... I always thought that just one... two at most would bring me to the bottom of the sea. Is this realistic at all? If it isn't, is there a mod that makes damage more realistic?