I don't know if anyone else has noticed it, but the S class boats are very screwy when it comes to diving...I just got the sim yesterday. I take the Asiatic Fleet and select a S class for my first boat. Weird, I know, but I have been doing it since at least Silent Hunter I, if not Silent Service II.
Take my boat out of port, heading north to Formas to play DHL for the Navy. As I approach Formosa, my non existent radar picks up an airplane. No AA gun, so I crash dive. Here is the kicker:
My boat starts to go down ass end first, and continues this until the ass end is about eighty feet or so, but the bow of the boat is STILL ON THE SURFACE, with at least a 70 degree up angle!:hmm: So to play with it, I order a depth of 100 feet. Stern of the boat goes down to 95 feet or so and the bow is STILL ON THE SURFACE! Bernard apparently has a brother in the US subfleet, Seaman Snuffy. Either Snuffy is my diving officer, or there seems to be a wee bit of a problem with the S-class boats.
Another problem is on the deck gun on the S class. I can't get it to reproduce consistently, but the gun will shoots off center. IE where the crosshairs were pointing before zooming in to the gunsite seems to be where the zoomed view shoots.
I have pictures of the 70 degree up angle, and another series of pictures of a controled dive to PD that ends up pretty much the same way.
I hope I didn't miss the section in the manual about triming the ship...That, and maybe Snuffy has a brother Maynard that is in my gunnery section...