Sub won't surface?

Silent Gator · 04-08-11, 09:48 PM

Well this is a new one. I'm playing the Happy Times campaign and there's been two occasions now where I've gone down about 100m or so and can't get the boat to surface whatsoever. It either holds steady or just continues to slowly sink.

Anyone else encounter this? I'm playing the unmodded Steam version.

CaptainMattJ. · 04-09-11, 12:44 AM

ehh this game is glitchy. Try reloading your game and see if that works.

Silent Gator · 04-09-11, 01:14 AM

lol i figured out what i was doing wrong. newb mistake nm

ddrgn · 04-09-11, 01:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Silent Gator

lol i figured out what i was doing wrong. newb mistake nm

what did you do to fix it?

Silent Gator · 04-09-11, 02:27 PM

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what did you do to fix it?

Well I guess there really wasn't anything to "fix."

I'm almost totally new to sub sims, and I'm no expert on how U-boats actually worked, so for some reason I didn't realize you need a certain amount of momentum (and patience) to get the boat to rise from extreme depths.

Basically, I was expecting it to pop right back up like it does when I'm surfacing from a shallow dive. I was trying to surface from like 100+m with virtually no speed because I thought the destroyers would detect me.

So yeah...pretty dumb on my part

CaptainMattJ. · 04-09-11, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Silent Gator

Well I guess there really wasn't anything to "fix."

I'm almost totally new to sub sims, and I'm no expert on how U-boats actually worked, so for some reason I didn't realize you need a certain amount of momentum (and patience) to get the boat to rise from extreme depths.

Basically, I was expecting it to pop right back up like it does when I'm surfacing from a shallow dive. I was trying to surface from like 100+m with virtually no speed because I thought the destroyers would detect me.

So yeah...pretty dumb on my part

you dont need speed for that. you can emergency surface, which blows compressed air into all the ballast tanks and lets you float up like a balloon.

Silent Gator · 04-09-11, 02:33 PM

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you dont need speed for that. you can emergency surface, which blows compressed air into all the ballast tanks and lets you float up like a balloon.

That's what I thought! How do you emergency surface then?

stoianm · 04-09-11, 02:35 PM

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That's what I thought! How do you emergency surface then?

Order blow balast

CaptainMattJ. · 04-09-11, 02:46 PM

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That's what I thought! How do you emergency surface then?

i think its E or maybe ctrl + E

Silent Gator · 04-09-11, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by CaptainMattJ.

i think its E or maybe ctrl + E

Cool tyvm I'm gonna try this. In the back of my mind I thought there was a way U-boats could do something like that.

04-08-11, 09:48 PM	#1
Silent Gator Watch Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 23 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Sub won't surface? Well this is a new one. I'm playing the Happy Times campaign and there's been two occasions now where I've gone down about 100m or so and can't get the boat to surface whatsoever. It either holds steady or just continues to slowly sink. Anyone else encounter this? I'm playing the unmodded Steam version.

04-09-11, 12:44 AM	#2
CaptainMattJ. The Old Man Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Sin City Posts: 1,364 Downloads: 55 Uploads: 0	ehh this game is glitchy. Try reloading your game and see if that works. __________________ A popular Government without popular information nor the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives - James Madison

04-09-11, 01:14 AM	#3
Silent Gator Watch Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 23 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	lol i figured out what i was doing wrong. newb mistake nm