Sub won't surface?

Silent Gator · 04-09-11, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by ddrgn

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

Quote:

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.