Help / Questions regarding TWoS.

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1. Everytime i try load into a patrol i get the "Internet experiences problems" popup. Took me awhile to figure out you just need to push ESC to cancel it and keep playing but it's annoying. How do i fix that?

2. Is automatic campaign advancement broken in TWoS? I've played to the end of two campaigns now (the first two), and both times it failed to advance. I had to resort to the fix that requires you to start a dummy campaign and copy some of its files to your current campaign.

3. UBoat upgrades seem wonky. I played through the entire 1st campaign in a 7A (full realism), sunk a crap ton of ships, and was never offered the upgrade to a 7B. After the campaign transfer issue, i decided to start the second campaign (happy times) fresh. Played the entire campaign in a 7B and was never offered the upgrade to a 7C, until i came into port a few several days after the campaign was over (because the campaign transfer had failed).

4. Is it normal to have to go flank speed when really deep (200+) just to keep depth? If i slow down i start to sink further.

5. Night surface attacks in 1940 shouldn't be that hard. I think out of 20 surface attacks vs convoy, i was only able to get away once while on the surface, and that was because i attacked from extra long range. Every other time the escorts found me VERY quickly and i was forced to dive. I would attack the convoy's flank from like 3-4000m and immediately turn away and run while decks awash. Didn't matter. Soon as the torpedoes hit, the escorts turned and ran me down.

6. Is it ok to disable the orbit listener stuff in the patcher without issues? And can i disable the uplay browser in the patcher and still play campaign? I read some post where someone recommended to do that but the patcher explicitly says you wont be able to play campaign if you do.