What happened to the naval hullbreak function?

[light165neptune]

I remember when 105mm shells (or rather anything with over 1 kg of TNT equivalent) was able to split Fairmiles and other wooden boats in half, but now that doesn’t appear to be the case. Even with an Arras HE shell (13.8 cm caliber, 3.1 kg explosive) most wooden boats are now immune. Also, it now looks like you need a minimum of 20.3 cm in order to actually hullbreak people now. What happened? I suspect it must the realism pursuit.

[TomLiu126]

I’m guessing they increased the hull section HP for small boats when reimplementing the hull strength mechanic.

@Stona_WT

The hulls of ships have had their strength mechanic returned, expanded and redesigned. All other methods of destroying an enemy remain the same, with the addition of a way to destroy its hull to such an extent that unsinkability is lost:

• Small and medium boats can be destroyed by the destruction of any of the hull sections. If one section accumulates damage comparable to what is needed to destroy all the sections of the boat, this will cause enough destruction, not allowing it to maintain combat capability and structural integrity.

[Stielhandgranate]

Believe me when I say nothing in the naval mode is trying to be made “more realistic.” Quite the opposite actually as evidence by the latest patch with massive undiscussed changes. This all has to do with adding health bars to boats and ships that never existed before in an attempt to fix the one ship (Scharnhorst) that was a problem for many players. It didn’t accomplish that, but certainly had many unintended consequences.