IIRC the event sub’s stat card listed the correct crush depth, so the artificial limit was likely specifically for that event mode (it’s much easier to test and gather data if players are actually “forced” to fight).
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I already knew that was the reason for the choice. It’s an april fools event, they are purely for testing mechanics.
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As far as I am concerned, submarines are THE most important step for naval warfare before adding modern warships with ship to ship missiles. Both of which I and many others are anticipating heavily.
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Battle for the Atlantic was not an april fools event, that was " Silent Thunder " some years earlier.
That earlier event did not have artificial restrictions on the submarine 's performance compared to what they were listed as having in the files.
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Apart from it starting to take damage at 60 meters, that’s waaaay too shallow
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we shall have subs.
When you shoot smoke granades on PG-02, voiceline says “Anti submarine weapon, launch!”
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Cool
any news?
I’ve been told by some friends that they want to make big changes to the naval mode and add 5 new ship types to the tech trees
If “big changes to naval mode” is true, that would be very interesting. Because that’s exactly what naval needs. Of course if done well…
5 new ship types? Submarines, monitor ships, playable carriers, and no idea what other 2 could be.
I wonder where did your friends get the info?
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Armed Merchants/Q ships maybe? Considering they played a not insignificant role in the Atlantic. Or maybe coastal battleships.
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I visited it a couple of years ago. Other than the fact that some of the pumps were placed outaide the pressure hull, and because of inadequate quality control when building the seperate sections for the submarine, causing major maintenance and hull issues including water tightness. The Submarine was leagues ahead of anything similar at that time.
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As I showed above, I found an interesting image of one but could not identify where or which U-XXI it is.
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My Favourite Submarines which I seriously hope arrive soon are as follows:
WW1:
British:
*HMS M1 (amazing 12inch gun) test depth was 61m which ironically is the same depth limit of the event.
- K Class Submarines.
German:
*Type 31 such as ships like SM U-34 with it’s record of 59 ships in 1 patrol I believe.
WW2:
British:
*HMS Upholder.
*S Class
German:
*U-XXI
*Type VII’s
Japan:
*I-400.
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I would honestly love playable carriers. I need my Graf Zeppelin
Yeah, a lot of post war subs were at lest in some way based on the U-XXI (and her systems/technologies), especially some soviet subd look like “you can copy my homework, but don’t make it obvious”
Yeah, I saw. It’s very cool!
I’m not aware of any source for this claim.
The last news we got was the BVVD interview last year where he confirmed that they plan on adding submarines, top battleships, and “new vehicle types”:
There’s nothing that indicates “five new ship types” specifically, so I find that highly suspect.
But it does seem like Gaijin is considering new types of vessels, and submarines are part of that. Playable carriers also seem likely but are further away than submarines, since we only have bits and pieces of code and text related to them in Mobile, whereas there’s plenty of evidence for submarines in the main client itself.
TL;DR: We can say there are new ship types coming but not “five new types of ships”.
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