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Originally Posted by Brag
Apparently, you will get warning by hull noises and leaks developing. Maybe even a "We are taking damage" warning.
But I have never done it.
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From personal experience --shudders-- at least with GWX it is not instantaneous. I had the misfortune some time ago of being worked over big-time by depth charges. I was already at 240 meters, and took heavy flooding and had both electrics heavily damaged. By the time I could get the flooding stopped and the engines repaired I'd already had to blow the air flasks bone dry just to keep from plunging down. But because my batteries had also been damaged, I had less than 10% remaining charge left on them, and I couldn't make more than 1 knot.
Slowly yet surely I'd kept creeping down. Around 270 meters I started hearing that dreaded glass-breaking sound but with no (apparently) visible damage.. At first around one every 5-10 seconds. Then they started coming faster and faster, this time with compartments springing leaks, equipment getting damaged, and a crew whose voices started getting shriller and panicked.
It took perhaps 15 minutes from the time I got DCed to the time I crushed, and the pathetic thing was is that I'd 1) somehow evaded the two destoyers, 2) arrested a death-plunge, 3) fixed all the damage and 4) stopped all the flooding . . . but I simply couldn't do anything but very slowly keep sinking, meter by meter.
