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partyboy · 03-24-07, 06:50 PM

My last patrol was just ruined by what I assume is some sort of bug with damage control/repair. I loaded a save and I guess I didn't realize (and certainly don't remember) my radar being damaged, so while I was running at TCx256, I was attacked by planes I never saw coming, taking serious damage. Ok, whatever, I'll dive and try and escape. This'll give me a chance to see how damage control works.

So, I dive to periscope depth and let my crew patch up the hole, which they do, but I can't dive any further because there's a big hole and I start sinking. The flooding stops and I hobble away.

I get a warning that my radar is damaged. By what? I'm underwater. I surface, and let my crew try and repair the deck station. They can't seem to get anything repaired because everytime they repair the Radar, after a while it just breaks again for no apparent reason, which seemingly sets back repair for everything. Basically, what ends up happening is, with no enemy encounters at all, the game keeps telling me that the Radar is fixed.. then broken.. then fixed.. then broken. No matter how much time I spend surfaced with crew on deck, nothing even gets repaired to completion. The deck repair time will go down to ~18 minutes, then the Radar breaks, and it's back upto 45 minutes.

Then my crew start dropping dead. No plane attacks, no ships, just after a while they die. At this point I'd been at sea for about 2 weeks and my "engage merchant shipping" task refused to complete, even though I sank at least 6 merchant vessels after receiving the task, running out of torpedoes. Enough of this, I set course for Pearl Harbour at flank speed and charge there as fast as possible. I'm (to my knowledge) never attacked once, but a few crew members die along the way. I choose 'refit' at Pearl, and my sub is fully repaired and loaded up with torpedoes. That's nice to know, but I'm done with this. I end patrol and discover that my crew are dead for good, I suppose?

Whatever. Maybe I'm missing something? Can anyone tell me? None of the bugs or isses or anything has bothered me upto this point, but the combination of not being able to repair anything, the mission objective refusing the complete, and my crew members dying, was absolutely infuriating. I don't think I'll be playing again for a while.

03-24-07, 06:50 PM	#6
partyboy Helmsman Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 106 Downloads: 18 Uploads: 0	My last patrol was just ruined by what I assume is some sort of bug with damage control/repair. I loaded a save and I guess I didn't realize (and certainly don't remember) my radar being damaged, so while I was running at TCx256, I was attacked by planes I never saw coming, taking serious damage. Ok, whatever, I'll dive and try and escape. This'll give me a chance to see how damage control works. So, I dive to periscope depth and let my crew patch up the hole, which they do, but I can't dive any further because there's a big hole and I start sinking. The flooding stops and I hobble away. I get a warning that my radar is damaged. By what? I'm underwater. I surface, and let my crew try and repair the deck station. They can't seem to get anything repaired because everytime they repair the Radar, after a while it just breaks again for no apparent reason, which seemingly sets back repair for everything. Basically, what ends up happening is, with no enemy encounters at all, the game keeps telling me that the Radar is fixed.. then broken.. then fixed.. then broken. No matter how much time I spend surfaced with crew on deck, nothing even gets repaired to completion. The deck repair time will go down to ~18 minutes, then the Radar breaks, and it's back upto 45 minutes. Then my crew start dropping dead. No plane attacks, no ships, just after a while they die. At this point I'd been at sea for about 2 weeks and my "engage merchant shipping" task refused to complete, even though I sank at least 6 merchant vessels after receiving the task, running out of torpedoes. Enough of this, I set course for Pearl Harbour at flank speed and charge there as fast as possible. I'm (to my knowledge) never attacked once, but a few crew members die along the way. I choose 'refit' at Pearl, and my sub is fully repaired and loaded up with torpedoes. That's nice to know, but I'm done with this. I end patrol and discover that my crew are dead for good, I suppose? Whatever. Maybe I'm missing something? Can anyone tell me? None of the bugs or isses or anything has bothered me upto this point, but the combination of not being able to repair anything, the mission objective refusing the complete, and my crew members dying, was absolutely infuriating. I don't think I'll be playing again for a while.