Where's the crew?

[ERPP8]

A regular type VIIB/C U-Boat has about 50 crew members.
I can only find about 20 from bow to stern.
Where are they?

[The General]

In Patch 1.2

[kylania]

They are not reducing your interior frame rates to 0.

[The General]

Originally Posted by kylania

They are not reducing your interior frame rates to 0.

When you're two compartments away the game should not bother rendering crew you cannot see. This would solve the problem, would it not?

[kylania]

Originally Posted by The General

When you're two compartments away the game should not bother rendering crew you cannot see. This would solve the problem, would it not?

Apparently not, since this isn't the first post asking where the rest of the crew is.

I'm totally happy with an "assumed crew", though I would like to see the zombies in the torpedo room do more than just stand there and would eat a goat raw for crew members (even temporary ones that disappear after a while) to run to the bow while crash diving.

[conus00]

There is actually 50 crew members aboard your sub, they just run away from the compartment you just entered so you only see the reminder of the crew who you don't scare to death.
You should ease up on being such a harda** Kaleun, mate!

Joking aside, you're right. The SHV does not "run" full crew (among other things).

What bothers me more is that your crew members are actually "ghosts" you can walk right through. I wish some modder fixed that issue....

[SKLR]

Originally Posted by The General

When you're two compartments away the game should not bother rendering crew you cannot see. This would solve the problem, would it not?

The game apparently renders only 3 compartments at a time already. Easiest way to check this is at the hatch from the control room towards the crew's quarters. As the camera moves down to simulate ducking through that low pass, if you're not all the way through, the electric motor/aft torpedo room is not rendered, there's just black stuff there. Likewise you can turn around and the fore torpedo room is not rendered as you stand in said hatch. It's a trickier angle though due to conning tower structure.

Or is this some graphics bug i'm having ?

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by ERPP8

A regular type VIIB/C U-Boat has about 50 crew members.
I can only find about 20 from bow to stern.
Where are they?

Less than 50.

[ERPP8]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

Less than 50.

The game says my U-Boat has 52 on board

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by ERPP8

The game says my U-Boat has 52 on board

The game is wrong. Type VII's typically would not have carried 52 crewmen aboard. If you look at the crew lists of Type VII's sunk during the war, you'll see the actual crew number was somewhere in the mid-40s.

[IanC]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

The game is wrong. Type VII's typically would not have carried 52 crewmen aboard. If you look at the crew lists of Type VII's sunk during the war, you'll see the actual crew number was somewhere in the mid-40s.

Yup, 52 would be for a type IX.

[alexradu89]

I would have loved to see more crew inside the sub aswell, at least don't make them animate too much, and not stay in my way

[Nordmann]

Originally Posted by ERPP8

Where are they?

Sealed in the head perhaps?

[subsimlee]

Originally Posted by ERPP8

A regular type VIIB/C U-Boat has about 50 crew members.
I can only find about 20 from bow to stern.
Where are they?

Gosh! Are you suggesting that SH-V in some way falls short of perfection???

[capt-jones]

yes sir far from perfect , but plenty of ROOM for inprovement,they (ubi)say they have sorted the laggy interiorso why dont you give us more crew members,at least double up on some of the few crew thats already therei will settle for forty,better still double up on the officers,at least i will have somebody to talk to when the wife is pouting