**RELEASED** Longer U-boat Repair Times Mod for use with GWX

***UPDATE***

Check this thread for latest version 1.31:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=102438

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**RELEASED** Longer U-boat Repair Times Mod v1.3 for use with GWX v1.0



The goal of this mod is to hopefully make SH3 more realistic, challenging, and dangerous.



Main features of this mod include:


a) Much longer U-boat repair times than vanilla SH3-

This was implemented because the usual one or two minute equipment repair times in vanilla SH3 game is just plain ridiculous, and borderline cheating. Real U-boat damage could take up to a few days to repair, or couldn't be repaired at all, and the U-boat would have to abort back to base early. This is what I am trying to model with this mod. It will now be very rash to run in attacking convoys recklessly without considering the consequences. Also, it is highly recommended that you qualify some crew with the repair skill. Expect heavily damaged equipment to take up to 24 hours (or more) to repair. Also expect to abort more often back to base due to heavy damage, just like it was in real life.



b) Less crew compartment deaths, and greatly increased chance of crew deaths on top deck-

This was implemented because crew deaths inside U-boat compartments caused by depth charges happen much too often in vanilla SH3. In real life, most U-boat crew deaths were caused by drowning due to flooding or pressure hull failure, being killed on the top deck by enemy gunfire from aircraft or ships, being killed by bomb explosions on top deck, or drowning or freezing to death in the open sea after abandoning the U-boat. Most U-boat crew deaths were not caused by the actual depth charge explosion.



c) Removed the cheat message saying 'We may have been detected.'-

This is an obvious cheat that had to be removed for realism reasons.



d) Much slower compartment flooding times-

This was implemented for two reasons. First, due to the decreased crew efficiency (to make the repair times longer), I had to slow down the flood times because the crew couldn't ever stop the flooding before the compartment filled up. Now, this isn't an issue. Second, when a compartment completely fills up with water, you are dead- game over. I think this is also ridiculous. With LRT, the compartments fill up much slower with water, sometimes taking more than 1000 minutes to completely fill up. This will give your crew more time to battle the flooding, without always getting the instant flood death game over screen. So realize that there is a good chance that you will die from being crushed at extreme depths due to pressure hull failure, and much less likely to die from actual complete compartment flooding.



e) Less instant death (game over) screens from 0% Hull Integrity-

I am trying to lessen the instant death screens due to hull integrity reaching zero percent (due to depth charges, enemy shells and bombs). What I have done is greatly increased all u-boat hitpoints and gave each compartment it's own armor rating (no more dependence on hull integrity). Now there is less relevance of hull integrity, except when diving past crush depth. All u-boat crush speeds were greatly increased to make up for the increased U-boat hitpoints. You won't have much time to live once hull failure begins (when going past crush depth). Internal and external u-boat equipment will still be damaged normally.

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I am excited about this mod and have put a lot of time into it. Hours of playtesting and tweaking, trying to get the right balance. I hope you enjoy this mod as much as I have. I also wanna say a big thank you to everyone on the Subsim message board for their support, feedback, and great ideas. The awesome movie 'Das Boot' inspired me to make this mod. Hopefully, you too will experience your own Das Boot moments.



**Unfortunately, using Longer Repair Times v1.3 mod makes some major changes or disables major features in the GWX mod (some examples: the Long Range Gunnery feature disabled, U-boat hit points changed, faster U-boat crush speeds, and much longer U-boat flooding times). GWX AI ship flooding and damage is not changed by LRT v1.3**

**And finally, the GWX programming team in no way connected with or support any versions of the LRT or DRM mods. And they are in no way responsible for any gameplay problems or changes that affect GWX, which you may encounter when using Longer Repair Times v1.3 and GWX at the same time. PLEASE DO NOT BOTHER THE GWX TEAM IF YOU ARE HAVING GAMEPLAY PROBLEMS DUE TO USING LONGER REPAIR TIMES V1.3 MOD! ALSO, PLEASE USE LONGER REPAIR TIMES V1.3 MOD AT YOUR OWN RISK!**


And of course... A HUGE THANK YOU TO KPT. LEHMANN AND THE GWX TEAM. YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST.