Crash Dive Blues!

[Der Teddy Bar]

Guys,
In beta testing of the NYGM U-boat Mod Stiebler has noted an intermittent issue where he would experience difficulty maintain depth at 1/3 ahead. Try as I might I could replicate this issue.

That is, until Observer found the answer… an Interrupted CRASH DIVE.

Let me start by saying that the interrupted crash dive behaviour is a evident in a vanilla install of SHIII 1.4b, this ‘feature’ is brought to the fore by the NYGM U-Boat Mod.

If you order a crash dive and before the u-boat reaches the crash dive depth (normally about 70 metres) you order the u-boat to another depth (higher or lower) then what happens is that the u-boat sits down by the stern at an angle of about 10 degree angle!!! The only way to get the u-boat back onto an even keel is then to order another crash dive and of course let it complete.

Due to the abundance of positive buoyancy that allows the U-Boat to hover like a Humming Bird this ‘feature’ was not seen by the player. It would have however made the u-boat sink or sink more severely when the stern of the u-boat was flooding but this is something that the player would have expected and hard to tell the difference between flooding occurances.

So if you order a crash dive ensure that you let the u-boat go the full distance, you can however change speed & direction without issue.