Awesome Sub Physics when damaged! - Page 2

Skweetis · 03-28-07, 10:26 PM

I had a torpedo come full circle and split me in half pretty much. The explosion scared the SheepDip outta me... But regardless I thought it was cool.

Just wish the sonar man had let me know the torpedo malfunctioned. Who gave Bernard the sonar headphones anyway?

Kingswat · 03-28-07, 10:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Shaffer4

Circling Torpedo of Doom?

im gonna assume that's what got me since i took care of the 3 escorts before they were near me and there was no armed ships in the convoy and no aircraft around.

StandingCow · 03-29-07, 12:29 AM

Has blowing the ballast saved anybody? Never really seems to do much for me.

Ragtag · 03-29-07, 12:37 AM

Blowing ballast saved me. Was going down so i set the engine to emergency speed backwards and blowed ballasts...ship surfaced.

Cakewalk · 03-29-07, 12:41 AM

Blow Ballast DOES work, albeit very slowly.

Tobowsi · 03-29-07, 12:52 AM

When you blow ballast, do you have to click once or hold the button down? I just clicked and nothing happened. No noise, no bubbles, no improvement in attitude or depth (and only had one compartment with flooding), nothing.

Cakewalk · 03-29-07, 12:54 AM

Well, to be fair, I pressed the "E" key to blow ballast in panic more than once, (possibly like 8 times in a row), and my compressed air levels began dropping and I began rising. So, when it doubt... MASH MASH MASH

ccruner13 · 03-29-07, 01:02 AM

yea i definitely prolonged 'the magic' of sinking by spamming the hell out of blow ballast. maintained 90 feet for a while then got crushed at 180?? (all my stuff blew up)

GoldenRivet · 03-29-07, 01:11 AM

but doesnt the sub in SH3 sink by bow or stern depending on how the flooding is?

i have had a few occasions where the starn torpedo room and engine rooms are filling up with water and the sub was on the surfaced very stern heavy. or when the bow compartments have flooding the thing is very bow heavy.... sinks by the stern and bow etc. etc.

d@rk51d3 · 03-29-07, 01:13 AM

I don't know about stock SH3, but it's certainly there in GWX.

03-29-07, 01:43 AM

Yhey my boats death got pointed to.

Yea death is a bit more realistic in SH4, I personally like loosing all your fuel near the end, to bad it doesn't show the diesal(sp? :p ) on the surface... at least I haven't seen.

03-28-07, 10:26 PM	#16
Skweetis Watch Officer Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Cambridge, Canada Posts: 335 Downloads: 39 Uploads: 0	I had a torpedo come full circle and split me in half pretty much. The explosion scared the SheepDip outta me... But regardless I thought it was cool. Just wish the sonar man had let me know the torpedo malfunctioned. Who gave Bernard the sonar headphones anyway? __________________ "Is the glass half-empty? Or half-full? Either way, when you're thirsty, there's water to be had in that glass." - Neal Stevens

03-29-07, 12:29 AM	#18
StandingCow Weps Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 355 Downloads: 17 Uploads: 0	Has blowing the ballast saved anybody? Never really seems to do much for me. __________________

03-29-07, 12:37 AM	#19
Ragtag Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Oslo, Norway Posts: 654 Downloads: 163 Uploads: 0	Blowing ballast saved me. Was going down so i set the engine to emergency speed backwards and blowed ballasts...ship surfaced.

03-29-07, 12:41 AM	#20
Cakewalk Engineer Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Ottawa, Canada Posts: 212 Downloads: 7 Uploads: 0	Blow Ballast DOES work, albeit very slowly.

03-29-07, 12:52 AM	#21
Tobowsi Seaman Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 36 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	When you blow ballast, do you have to click once or hold the button down? I just clicked and nothing happened. No noise, no bubbles, no improvement in attitude or depth (and only had one compartment with flooding), nothing.

03-29-07, 12:54 AM	#22
Cakewalk Engineer Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Ottawa, Canada Posts: 212 Downloads: 7 Uploads: 0	Well, to be fair, I pressed the "E" key to blow ballast in panic more than once, (possibly like 8 times in a row), and my compressed air levels began dropping and I began rising. So, when it doubt... MASH MASH MASH

03-29-07, 01:02 AM	#23
ccruner13 Navy Dude Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 175 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	yea i definitely prolonged 'the magic' of sinking by spamming the hell out of blow ballast. maintained 90 feet for a while then got crushed at 180?? (all my stuff blew up)

03-29-07, 01:11 AM	#24
GoldenRivet Subsim Aviator Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 8,726 Downloads: 146 Uploads: 0	but doesnt the sub in SH3 sink by bow or stern depending on how the flooding is? i have had a few occasions where the starn torpedo room and engine rooms are filling up with water and the sub was on the surfaced very stern heavy. or when the bow compartments have flooding the thing is very bow heavy.... sinks by the stern and bow etc. etc.

03-29-07, 01:13 AM	#25
d@rk51d3 Sea Lord Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Adelaide, South Australia Posts: 1,953 Downloads: 207 Uploads: 0	I don't know about stock SH3, but it's certainly there in GWX.

03-29-07, 01:43 AM	#26
Rilder Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Yhey my boats death got pointed to. Yea death is a bit more realistic in SH4, I personally like loosing all your fuel near the end, to bad it doesn't show the diesal(sp? :p ) on the surface... at least I haven't seen.