Decks awash: A scam?

[Claves_Mortis]

Originally Posted by troopie

Also, I'm unsure If any in-game advantage is gained, I mean, do other units register that you're sitting a little lower in the water, or simply that you're surfaced?

For every surface attack I will go to a depth deep enough to just allows me to get on the bridge / UZO. I am doing this because obviously everything "on top" of a wave / the water is affected more by the waters movement than everything "inside" the wave / water is, meaning that if you are as deep as possible (while still being able to use the UZO) you can use the advantage of the x7 magnification while reducing the shaking part caused by waves, being able to do more precise usage of the UZO.

I do not know if that is historicaly correct, but in Silent Hunter 4 it does work (for the more steady view). If you do live at the sea you can easily try that yourself: get into a small, light (somewhere around 2-3 meters in length will be a size where you can easily realize it) without any equipment and only yourself in it - shaky. If you get your outbord motor, your gas tank, anchor, chord, some friends and maybe some water in your boat, resulting in lying deeper in the water the waves won't shake the boat as much anymore and the boat will also be less affected of your movement (leaning from left to right for example), it will still move, but slower and more predictable.

I also have no idea if it affects the ability of how easily the submarine is spotted by other ships in the game, but as how far your periscope does stick out of the water does affect the chance of being spotted (I am pretty sure about that, but it's only what I feel / experience, no written prove for that), I could imagine how far the tower is above the water does count too.