Hull Integrity????

1./JG3_Reich · 03-29-07, 05:38 PM

Do any of you virtual skippers out there know how to determine what your hull integrity is after you sustain damage?

I was on the surface and took some hits by an IJN plane. The only damage shown was my deck gun which my repair crew promptly repaired. I then went to a crash dive and my sub dove out of control and that was it. There was nothing that told me there was other damage. Am I missing something?

Thanks in advance.

Reich

Linavitch · 03-29-07, 05:43 PM

From my experience, and reading that of other skippers on here, ANY damage sustained is more or less fatal at any thing deeper than PD.

You can repair the damaged stations on the DC screen but even one bullet hole on the hull seems to be the end for you.

Bum · 03-29-07, 06:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Linavitch

From my experience, and reading that of other skippers on here, ANY damage sustained is more or less fatal at any thing deeper than PD.

You can repair the damaged stations on the DC screen but even one bullet hole on the hull seems to be the end for you.

Thats not true at all.

Hull intergrity is one of the items in the damage center. Have a close look, see the BULKHEAD items...? I think that is the hull percent.

AVGWarhawk · 03-29-07, 06:09 PM

Yes, I think the bulkheads are you key to what is left of your sub. Good luck because my boys have a heck of a time repairing them. But the again, under attack who is going to break out the welding supplies?

Joaoperru · 03-29-07, 06:11 PM

It is true: you repair the bulkheads but you just stop the filling of water.
The first time you gp PD you sink to the bottom

Linavitch · 03-29-07, 06:30 PM

I got caught with an airstrike, near miss, damaged AA and flak guns and one bulkhead.

Repaired the stuff on the DC panel and stopped the flooding. But when I dived to 20m I just kept going and going until I imploded. Nothing I could do to raise the vessel. I have read other similar accounts here too.

1./JG3_Reich · 03-29-07, 06:41 PM

Thanks for the replys Gents!

But I gotta say

In this instance the only damage was the deck gun. Nothing about Bulkhead damage. I will have a look and see.

I sure hope this is something that will be fixed. It is nice in SH3 where you had a % and you knew where you stood.

Thanks again.

S! Reich

Linavitch · 03-29-07, 06:43 PM

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Originally Posted by 1./JG3_Reich

It is nice in SH3 where you had a % and you knew where you stood.

S! Reich

It was nice until them GWX buggers took it out. I had to re-enable it the amount of times I was dying (I still died a lot).

Reinhard Hardegen · 03-29-07, 07:57 PM

Not too sure about all the damage (or lack of) to sink you, I am on my first mission, but have been attacked by two aircraft with hits made to my boat. I just dived to 230 feet and stayed there most of the day, til nightfall to surface.:hmm: So as of yet, I have not seen a bullet sink my boat.

But I will have to try to stay out of their way from now on.

fullmetaledges · 03-29-07, 08:41 PM

I've sunk like a brick as well but there is another part to this problem is that if you sink to the sea floor no matter how shallow you sub seems to crush itself to death. I took out a balao and rammed it into some hawaiian island to see if I could replicate the problem and sure enough my forward torpedo room flooded and as soon as I touched bottom everything else started to take a crap. you can sit on the bottom but if you sink to the bottom because of flooding it's all over.

TheSatyr · 03-30-07, 03:18 AM

With the 5 flooded compartments you have there you don't have any possibility of surviving ANY kind of dive.

One flooded compartment should be enough to sink a sub.

fullmetaledges · 03-30-07, 03:45 AM

the forward was flooded nothing else, but as soon as you touch bottom because of flooding, everything breaks (bug)

Fat Bhoy Tim · 03-30-07, 05:36 AM

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Originally Posted by fullmetaledges

the forward was flooded nothing else, but as soon as you touch bottom because of flooding, everything breaks (bug)

To be fair with a single fully flooded compartment you're dead anyway, as the crew in there will have drowned. All 5 bulkheads gone means the sub has suffered a catastrophic failure along its entire length. Accurate enough if you ask me, even if the implementation isn't exactly intuitive.

StandingCow · 03-30-07, 06:04 AM

During a multiplayer game I had a totally flooded fore torepedo room, the sea floor was only around 268 feet down, so I crashed into the bottom (engines were off cuz I didnt wanna drag). Took no extra damage from hitting the bottom, and was able to repair my torpedo tubes and bulkhead, and eventually surface (aft first since I was flooded).

03-30-07, 11:14 AM

Am I wrong or you do not have DC button activated [second from the right on your second screenshot]?:hmm:

03-29-07, 05:38 PM	#1
1./JG3_Reich Nub Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: New York Posts: 3 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Hull Integrity???? Do any of you virtual skippers out there know how to determine what your hull integrity is after you sustain damage? I was on the surface and took some hits by an IJN plane. The only damage shown was my deck gun which my repair crew promptly repaired. I then went to a crash dive and my sub dove out of control and that was it. There was nothing that told me there was other damage. Am I missing something? Thanks in advance. Reich

03-29-07, 06:09 PM	#4
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,274 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Yes, I think the bulkheads are you key to what is left of your sub. Good luck because my boys have a heck of a time repairing them. But the again, under attack who is going to break out the welding supplies? __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

03-29-07, 07:57 PM	#9
Reinhard Hardegen Raiders of the Deep Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: U-123 (CA7225) Posts: 495 Downloads: 255 Uploads: 0	Not too sure about all the damage (or lack of) to sink you, I am on my first mission, but have been attacked by two aircraft with hits made to my boat. I just dived to 230 feet and stayed there most of the day, til nightfall to surface.:hmm: So as of yet, I have not seen a bullet sink my boat. But I will have to try to stay out of their way from now on. __________________ A quote from Donitz; “The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis.” “For the lessons one fails to learn during peacetime, one pays a high price in war.”

03-30-07, 06:04 AM	#14
StandingCow Weps Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 355 Downloads: 17 Uploads: 0	During a multiplayer game I had a totally flooded fore torepedo room, the sea floor was only around 268 feet down, so I crashed into the bottom (engines were off cuz I didnt wanna drag). Took no extra damage from hitting the bottom, and was able to repair my torpedo tubes and bulkhead, and eventually surface (aft first since I was flooded). __________________

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03-29-07, 05:43 PM	#2
Linavitch Officer Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Hull Posts: 239 Downloads: 170 Uploads: 0	From my experience, and reading that of other skippers on here, ANY damage sustained is more or less fatal at any thing deeper than PD. You can repair the damaged stations on the DC screen but even one bullet hole on the hull seems to be the end for you.

03-29-07, 06:11 PM	#5
Joaoperru Mate Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 57 Downloads: 103 Uploads: 0	It is true: you repair the bulkheads but you just stop the filling of water. The first time you gp PD you sink to the bottom

03-29-07, 06:30 PM	#6
Linavitch Officer Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Hull Posts: 239 Downloads: 170 Uploads: 0	I got caught with an airstrike, near miss, damaged AA and flak guns and one bulkhead. Repaired the stuff on the DC panel and stopped the flooding. But when I dived to 20m I just kept going and going until I imploded. Nothing I could do to raise the vessel. I have read other similar accounts here too.

03-29-07, 06:41 PM	#7
1./JG3_Reich Nub Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: New York Posts: 3 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Thanks for the replys Gents! But I gotta say In this instance the only damage was the deck gun. Nothing about Bulkhead damage. I will have a look and see. I sure hope this is something that will be fixed. It is nice in SH3 where you had a % and you knew where you stood. Thanks again. S! Reich

03-29-07, 08:41 PM	#10
fullmetaledges Chief Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Utah Posts: 314 Downloads: 120 Uploads: 0	I've sunk like a brick as well but there is another part to this problem is that if you sink to the sea floor no matter how shallow you sub seems to crush itself to death. I took out a balao and rammed it into some hawaiian island to see if I could replicate the problem and sure enough my forward torpedo room flooded and as soon as I touched bottom everything else started to take a crap. you can sit on the bottom but if you sink to the bottom because of flooding it's all over.

03-30-07, 03:18 AM	#11
TheSatyr Captain Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 545 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	With the 5 flooded compartments you have there you don't have any possibility of surviving ANY kind of dive. One flooded compartment should be enough to sink a sub.

03-30-07, 03:45 AM	#12
fullmetaledges Chief Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Utah Posts: 314 Downloads: 120 Uploads: 0	the forward was flooded nothing else, but as soon as you touch bottom because of flooding, everything breaks (bug)

03-30-07, 11:14 AM	#15
GakunGak Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Am I wrong or you do not have DC button activated [second from the right on your second screenshot]?:hmm: