Uncontrollable Dive

[Egan]

Originally Posted by ParaB

I think this only happens when the bulkheads got damaged previously. Normal flooding is no big deal, but once the bulkheads crack it's over with the diving fun, even if you manage to repair the initial damage.

I've had bulkhead damage and been able to dive normally after repairing the damage. I've been getting down to 200+ feet without problems in my current patrol despite taking bad damage. Had a lot of fun with flooding too when I have only been able to control the descent by increasing my speed which was fun when I needed to rig for silent running.

[ParaB]

I have to admit the whole damage/control system is still a bit of a mystery to me, even after a dozen patrols. I'm still not quite sure what's a bug and what's a feature...

[kakemann]

I thought it was a feature. Seems like it occurs when there is hull damage - or?

[digitizedsoul]

I have this problem a LOT as well and its a patrol killer for me.

There should not be anything that "kills you when you dive" that is NOT advertised in the damage control screen, period, it just shouldn't be that way.

If I am damaged to the point of no-diving, I need to know this. What if I saved a game after repairing damage? Load the game the next day and dive, BOOM death and no idea why because most likely I forgot I took damage (yesterday) and repaired it.

Needs to be fixed...

[partyboy]

The problem is I've had it happen without any notification of serious damage. I get hit, "We're taking damage sir!", I check the screen, only the AA/Deck guns are damaged. But after spending hours on the surface with a damage control crew active, I dive and sink nose first. That doesn't seem fair (or realistic? surely I'd have some indication of that kind of damage.)

[donut]

Hull integrity,may not be real life,but the chief of the boat should have some idea to pass on to Capt. SHIII's representation of hull diving ability ,needs to be addressed in patch for SHIV. Skipper's need to know ,to manage crew lives/health.
Needed option/feature !

[Calbeck]

I practically wept...I'd just gotten done savaging a sizable Japanese convoy, some six medium freighters sent to the bottom and another crippled, mostly from deck gun action. To top it off, I'd completed both a cargo transport and a patrol mission, all on the same cruise.

So, I'm heading for home when I bump into a genuine task force. Four fish still in the tubes. I scan the horizon and spot the hazy outline of an enemy cruiser...periscope depth! We're on 'im, boys! Dive, dive...dive? Hey! Stop diving. No really, stop. STOP! ARRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH! *blublublublub*

Note: to this point, I'd taken NO combat damage, but possibly incurred some grounding damage when I bumped a teeny mid-ocean island that didn't show up on the big map. Was going ten knots at the time, and registered no damage at all on the chart, so I just backed up and went on my way.

[DiveMonkey]

I may have your answer!

it's either a bug, or sabotage!

Just happened to me twice on patrol in the Celebes Sea.
No damage of any kind I'd dove to 100ft to have a listen,
Ahead 1\3 I set TC to 64 to speed things up a bit when I notice a message "compress air down to 50%

I click on the comp tab and it's dropping like a rock, I exit TC, BLOW TANKS! AHEAD FULL! and all most didn't make it.

So I started watching it every time I'd dive, and it happened again:hmm: Seems random, but if your not watching it once you run out of compress air there's no were to go but down.

I did finish the patrol...taking my ol S-18 in for a refit

Just ran another mission, I think it's some how related to high sea's, and the S boats.
I don't know but I would lose compressed air even faster than batteries, kept having to surface til finally got nailed by a Bete. Half the crew injured, and moral broken, had to return to base!...they offered me a teaching position at Annapolis....I said NO WAY! dismissed all the weaklings and shanghaied a new crew!