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Originally Posted by Rhodes
By they way, yesterday happened one thing, 2nd time after i return to SH4 with TMO update.
Was going to my second objective in patrol, near the Japonese coast, was preparing to surface for the night run and began to have report of damages.
A mine i thought, since I am near those areas. The damage report was bulkhead severely damage and batteries destroyed (bow compartment).
Battle stations and blow ballast, but the sub just become stop in time.
No up or down, no sinking, no compress air diminishing.
Game bug? When one of the batteries compartments are destroyed, the game assume no sub?
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Where on the Japanese coast? Date/Time? Coordinates ?(if you have them) Area?
Yes, a bug in the sense that you took damage and your sub was actually destroyed, but game "half registered" it, if that makes sense. Happened to me before when I was depth charged in shallow waters in 1945, took a large pattern of depth charges, which two or three lucky ones exploded close. I thought I survived but had heavy damage, ordered repairs. DD's kept dropping in area but seemed to have left me alone After few minutes, noticed sub was not moving I went to external cam and could not see my sub under water. It was dark , almost dawn, so when daylight came, no sub, yet I could go inside sub. Hull damage was 38 percent. Escorts moved on eventually. No death screen though, I just had to considered myself sunk.
While rare, I believe this to be a unfortunate side effect of modding the damage model . I have had this happen in other mods that altered damage model as well. I have made some tweaks to the model in the upcoming version and have not had it happen in test, although it is rare in previous version as well. I just consider myself sunk when it happens and start a new career.
Also, if it was a reloaded savengame, I have noticed the damage system bugs happen more often with saved games. Not sure how or if anything can do to fix that. I have noticed modded SH 4 save games tend to have bugs, usually minor and not a big deal but can be annoying.
Far as cause of damage, most likely a mine. The mines were strengthened so one hit will destroy a submarine as it was quite unrealistic to survive a mine hit. Explosive power/hitpoints of the mines was raised to exceed the total hitpoints a sub can take and usually leads to 100 hull damage and screen of death. Sounds like your forward compartment hit them and the bug happened, where you were actually destroyed but game did not register it fully, so did not give you screen of death.
Another possibility, is a submerged AI submarine torpedoed you. I was recently hit by one for the first time. Night time on surface, no warning. Since you were submerged , I find it more likely to be a mine but if you were shallow enough, which I presume you were since about to surface, AI sub could have detected you.