[Beery]

On the issue of the S-class maintaining depth and other similar sub handling issues, players may want to try replacing the "Waves attenuation value - it's 0.01 in RFB 1.22 and it was 0.75 with stock SH4. See if that makes a difference. If so it's back to the drawing board for the flying sub issue.

On deck guns, this is always a controversial issue. In RUb/SH3 we cut back reload times to between 50 seconds for Type VIIs and 75 seconds for Type IXs. The figures were based on real 'in combat' load times taken from two or three well-recorded gunnery sessions. As Perisher says, rates of fire listed for guns in books are fantasies - they are nowhere near realistic because the guns are test fired in better-than-perfect conditions. For RFB I haven't found any specific gunnery info, so what I did was use the German info and estimate based on the differences between a German U-boat and a US sub. US subs used more crew and had a better set-up for loading shells, but the guns themselves were much the same. The only real data I have for US sub-type guns is from a merchantman firing a similar gun to the sub's 4" gun, and that only confirms the one minute per round rate of fire. If anything I've given the sub guns a more liberal rate of fire than was likely to have been the case in a real battle.

Basically, I feel simulation-oriented players ought to try to get used to RFB's lower firing rate because if players go with a faster firing rate they're basically going to use the deck gun far more frequently, on bigger targets and with far less danger than real sub commanders did. With the overstated damage characteristics of the deck guns that's going to translate into thousands of tons more tonnage per patrol than a real sub could have achieved.

Having said that, in order to get back the stock SH4 guns, simply uninstall the RFB mod using JSGME (if you have it) then remove the Deck_Gun_3_50.sim, Deck_Gun_4_50.sim and Deck_Gun_5_25.sim files from the mod's Data\Library\USSubParts folder and reinstall the mod.