[REQ] Actually flooding

[CptCirillo]

My request is that there is actually flooding if the submarine is damged... the main things that happen is i get damged then there are leaks and then the ship "sinks" there is no fun in saving the ship i do not know if something like this has been released but i looked and found notting its something cool i think should be added.

[The General]

So, you want me to come over to your house, seal up your doors and windows and when you get critical damge on your Sub, you want me to fill the room with sea water?! Wow, you're dedicated.

[CptCirillo]

Originally Posted by The General

So, you want me to come over to your house, seal up your doors and windows and when you get critical damge on your Sub, you want me to fill the room with sea water?! Wow, you're dedicated.

well.. you know i love realism why have it in game when it can happen in real life! but does anyone think this is a possible mod?

[Nisgeis]

You do get water in the boat though, it sloshes round your feet, just not up to your eyes.

[CptCirillo]

i know i just wish there was a more realistic ammount of water if it recived severe enough damage

[ezekiel_Stone]

I think that would require alot of work honestly, i imagine water up to the crews chest but they would still be in their default animations. Like the navigator would be hunched over the charts under the water or the con operators would be sitting underwater steering the ship. Without making custom animations it would look a little silly.

[audessy]

Exactly. The animations would have to go with it. Would be kind of cool to see the crew panicking running around and working together on the leaks. However much work involved here.

[kptn_kaiserhof]

i agree ..... i mean a small puddle sinking a ship .... very silly

[Sgtmonkeynads]

Technically you would not need to animate it.
Once a compartment is flooding beyond control, the Captain would move to another compartment.
So...in the game we would never see the crew " up to their chest " in the flooded compartment.

Now, lets say the forward torpedo room is flooding and can not be saved what so ever. The door would automatically shut and would seal that compartment off. The flooding could be represented as water squirting out of the seal around the door, and by shouting from the sealed off compartment. If the repair team inside the flooded compartment fixed things and stoped the leak, the door would open( after the time it takes to pump out all the water ) revealing the normal flooded floor we all see. If they don't we all sink.

This would force the captain to stay away from flooding rooms in fear of being traped on the wrong side of a door...if I were in the rear torpedoroom and the engine room took major damage, the door between the engine room and forward torpedo room would close, and i could not get to the control room ( untill it was fixed, if it were fixed ) or if the conning tower was damaged, we could not get out of the sub. That brings up the issue of emergency hatches being made operatable.

I don't know how to do this, but I am sure it could be done.
If it added anything to the game, it would atleast add the element of fear. Fear of being caught away from the comand room, not being able to issue orders, or being trapped in a sub about to suffocate, even tough your surfaced.

[kptn_kaiserhof]

i admit it would add the element of fear..... and realism

the question is : who can make it happen

[Sailor Steve]

SH3: The first subsim to have a realistic crew and 3D surroundings. People complain that they don't do enough.

SH4: Adds extra crew when Battle Stations is sounded. People complain they don't do enough. Also complain we don't get to see the boat flooding.

SH5: Allows the captain to move freely around the boat, and the crew is much more animated. People complain it doesn't look like SH3 and SH4. It's the first subsim to show flooding. People complain it doesn't flood enough.

Can someone make me a mod so it plugs into my brain and I feel like I'm really there? Maybe even drown when the boat floods?

I'm sure there are modders who will try this, if it can be done. Every one of them had to start learning somewhere. If you want this bad enough, why don't you try to learn how to do it? It will bring you more satisfaction and and the praise of others when you release it.

[SabreHawk]

Originally Posted by kptn_kaiserhof

i agree ..... i mean a small puddle sinking a ship .... very silly

Yeah but a submarine doesn't have to be flooded in the least in order to sink.

[Sailor Steve]

Sure it does. You just want to make sure the flooding stays where it belongs.

[CptCirillo]

I just think flooding would add more realism to the game instead of it cutting out and saying i "died"

[kptn_kaiserhof]

i must agree withCptCirillo because i love the thrill of having to save the boat im sure nearly everybody has seen das boot if you look at the scene just after the resupply boat 'wesser' you see thay get cault in the western approches and are forced to dive and save there boat from flooding


now thats realistic