Bug

[Oby]

Hi all!

I wan't to know if somebody else have the same problem?? Can not dive below 450 feet in SH4!!!(I've installed 1.3 official patch).When I submerge on 450 feet,sub automaticly level up.Tried with button D(for dive) and C(crash dive),but don't work!!

Would'd be nice, anyone coul'd fix that.

Thanks to all modders,who makes this sim even more beautiful.

[DirtyHarry3033]

Interesting question. Not sure why you'd want to, you're likely to get crushed that deep. But if you want to, you should be able to go below 450, I agree.

Haven't tried going that deep since patching to 1.3 so I tried it and it was strange to say the least. Ordered crash dive while surfaced and the dive was alarmingly fast at 1st but the deeper I went the slower the dive got.

At about 440 feet it was taking 5 or 10 seconds to dive 1 foot. At 447 feet I couldn't get any deeper. Boat was fine, no damage to pressure hull.

Tried to get deeper by ordering a normal dive, no effect. Then ordered a crash dive and things got strange. Boat started rising as if I'd blown tanks for emergency surface!!! In about 15 seconds I'd risen about 100 feet and kept rising despite repeated "crash dive" orders. Then all hell started breaking loose - pressure hull damage, flooding, various systems destroyed and the boat was still rising :hmm:

Ended up with me losing the boat of course. Strange...

Seems almost like the ocean is treated like a sheet of tightly-stretched rubber - takes no effort at all to press down on it a little bit, but the further you press it down, the more effort is required. As indicated by the inital crash dive from the surface which started very quick, but the deeper I went the slower the dive got.

And then that weird "rebound" when I ordered another crash dive at 447 feet - it's like that "rubber sheet" let go and launched me back to the surface.

Strangest part though is how I didn't get any crush damage until that uncontrollable ascent happened...

FWIW, I'm running 1.3 patch and TM 1.3a. Boat is Gar class, Dec 1941.

DH

[panthercules]

No idea about why you can't get down past about 450 feet - does sound strange.

However, the "rebound" effect is probably coming from the fact that (IIRC) the "crash dive" command is preset in some .cfg file or somewhere to tell the boat to go to a certain depth (like maybe 120 feet, or 150 feet, or whatever) - thus, if you issue the command while surfaced or even at periscope depth (which I suspect is where the game expects you to be when you issue that command), it will take you down to that pre-set depth. However, if for some odd reason you issue that order while you're already below the pre-set crash-dive depth, the game will probably try to take you to that pre-set depth anyway, which of course would mean that it would be taking you up, not further down, in that case. No idea why you would get damage while going up that way, unless maybe it's just the delayed domino effect and your boat was just reacting (in a delayed manner) to the fact that maybe you had been below crush depth for a while.