Adjust crash dive depth in TWOS

[Fifi]

You can always order a crash dive even in shallow waters...only thing is as soon as conning tower is about to submerge, reduce speed and set the depth you want.
(Or just set new depth)

[bstanko6]

I’m with you Fifi.

You are gonna hit that bottom so hard you may rupture the pressure hull.

Then it’s game over!

[Major Sunscreen]

Thanks for the contributions although I rather think the point of my post has been missed;


Im after the location of the relevant file to adjust the target crash dive depth.


The reasons for this are that the normal dive speed is too slow to avoid aircraft when using a realism setting that relies on the naked eyes of myself and my apparently blind ai crew, and the crash dive depth is too deep for the North Sea. It is fundamentally an escape manoeuvre that is set in to motion while the commander, in this case me, arrives on scene and assesses. Instead I find myself acting as the watch officer who instead has become merely a lookout on the bridge.


So simply the file location is required so that I can set a safe target depth that also pays lip service to the fact that the bouyancy tanks will have been flooded then partially blown to arrest the descent, as opposed to a normal dive routine where partial flooding occurs, trim is not adjusted forward and speed remains normal.

Cheers all and thanks again for the suggestions.

[Sailor Steve]

Okay, there's some information that needs to be corrected here.

First of all, Major Sunscreen's dilemma and question are both correct. He (and everyone else who plays the game) needs to correct this. In fact, the creators got it wrong and need to correct it. The average crash-dive depth for a Type VII u-boat was only 70 metres, with a max of about 90. 150 metres is far to deep, and completely unhistorical.

Originally Posted by Fifi

You can always order a crash dive even in shallow waters...only thing is as soon as conning tower is about to submerge, reduce speed and set the depth you want.
(Or just set new depth)

That's nice, but also completely unhistorical. A crash dive involves the complete flooding of the main ballast tanks. Once that is done you are going down until you can pump half of that water out. Also the movable water is transferred completely to the forward trim tank. Half of that has to be pumped back to the aft trim tank before the bow can be brought up and the boat leveled. You cannot just "set the depth you want". Okay, you can in the game, but that's a complete cheat.

Major Sunscreen, I'm glad you got it sorted out so you can play it properly. Torpedo, thanks for your help.