Couple of notes over the last couple of days:
1. I have encountered perhaps a few too many sub hunter groups, but I have no historical data from which to determine this. Just that I've now had three contacts in a row with ships that are hunter groups near the South China Sea, early 1945, so I would have thought that the USN surface fleet and air cover would have gotten some of that tamped down. I can't even get all the way into the South China Sea yet, still up near Taiwan, just off the Luzon strait a bit to the West. No merchant traffic yet, which is what I'm supposed to be after. I do have 3 DD to my name though...
2. Of these groups I've encountered, none of them have pinged me. They all seem to be "passive". However, the 2nd group was right on top of me for almost an hour, seemingly having me tagged. I was a bit below the thermal, and they were dropping depth charges, *WAY* deep below me though. I should have thought to time them... oh well... next time. Maybe - if I can remember. You'd hear a splash, then another, and another. Wait a while, even forget that you'd heard the splashes, and then "BOOM!" they'd go, one at a time. Only once did I get a report of "We're taking damage, sir!", and that was early in the process. I never did see anything on the damage control screen.
3. The "magic disappearing command bar" re-appeared last night - or would that be "disappeared"?... anyway, I'll have to edit me some pictures for CapnScurvy. That's what I was trying to record a movie for last night, but failed. When I re-loaded this morning, it was all normal. Perhaps it was hiding from the constant DD tag-a-longs dropping their cans. This is a "fresh" install, where I actually used the DVD disk and "re-installed" the whole app by deleting most of the original install, and then choosing "repair" in the Ubisoft utility, else it would do nothing to overwrite what I had...
4. I can't remember from my TMO days, nor from CapnScurvy's early SCAF / OTC days (and other mods), but didn't the Balao class boats have a gauge that went below 450 on the HUD? It shows 600 in the Control Room on the wall gauge, and it can be set there.
5. Along those lines, the boats no longer level off reliably near the "test" depth when you use "D" for dive. The depth actually varies. Is that somewhat dependent upon your crew's ability, or is it even there anymore in this v.1beta?
6. The last save I did, which is a "New Construction Balao" from San Francisco Bay Mare Island facility, was 342kb. This is by far, the smallest save in a Fleet Boat Career in FotRS Ultimate. Of course, there's only like 7 or 8 ships, and maybe a half dozen radar contacts encountered the whole first patrol out of Mare, but it's only one third as big as all the other saves I've done lately, and none of those are complete missions yet. Just more to track in the war zone ones than with the Mare Island one?
7. I've probably forgotten something, but oh well...
