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Old 07-20-07, 10:16 PM   #1
Jmack
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Default its pointless !!!!

its pointless !!!! it is really

on my second patrol they assigned me to the luzon area its the second asignment for this patrol for about 15 days now i have been on a storm somedays better somedays worse but still a storm ... things are bad and morale is low, only got 2 merchants since my torpedos mostly explode before the target ( i think it has something to do with the waves ... or setting them to higher speed in these conditions). Spoted a small merchant fighting the waves like we were, even so i decided to attack, but this time from far and set the torpedo for low speed , it hit the target this time making it blow up in a nice and big orange ball of fire , breaking it in two , the weather was so bad that the lifeboats soon where empty jumping from wave to wave.

engines set to full speed to get out of the area ASAP ...

for my surprise ... a betty appeared !!! taking the risk ordered flank speed and didnt dive ( maybe they wont see us in this weather )

well ... MAYBE i was wrong ... man the flak gun fire at will !!!

3 depth charges hit the water just 5 or 6 meters away ... got some damage on the diesel engines and speed decreased has i watched the proppelers rotation slow down, flooding in the conning tower ( as if we werent wet enough), small damage on the batteries and that weird bug on the dive planes ( the one that the sub seems to have batman's ears ). so repair crew got to work. i decided not to give the dive order again because we had flooding and everyone knows how this game acts sometimes . the betty turned around and made another pass at us this time nothing happened ... our gunner must have hit something on the aircraf since he went away .

finally night arrived... ordered repair crew to fix one engine and left the other to later and fix the rest of the stuff . by morning we had fixed the engine and batteries no sign of flooding but the boat was a bit heavy on the rear. gave the order for 1/3 ahead and for my surprise ... nothing , again and still nothing, talked to the repair crew and they ashured me the engine was fixed and it had to work ( but it didnt maybe it was recharging batterie i dont know , maybe i should had fixed the other one ... i dont know). went to see for myself crew management and damage and look for something wrong but except the engine i left for later everything was good ...

to improove things a couple of betty's appeared again, this time i wasnt going to take the risk since everything was fixed, periscope depth order. down we went , but for a stoped boat we went to fast, give the order for flank speed ... but nothing !!! By this time i was getting really pissed at this freaking game. BLOW BALLAST ... nothing the boat still is going down at a steady six knots , so i pressed BLOW BALLAST time and time again , at 802ft first ballast was released and the boat started to break up around me.
this damaged,that destroyed, that very damaged, ... bla bla bla !!!

here i thought how nice they shout that things are damaged but they fix them, so they talk allot. and suddenly the spinning death cam ... wow ... it has to be one of the greatest features of this game !!!! i grabbed my monitor with both hands and took a deep breath, more than 2 hours ... for this .

how am i suposed to know what is damaged if nothing shows up as damaged or even worse even if i got damage analyser or whatever is the name of that thing ... i cant fix it because everything shows up fine !!!!

SO WHAT'S THE POINT !!!! REALLY ???
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