How do I escape enemy ships and aircraft?

[Jake Savage]

I am currently submerged, nearby are four groups of small ships. Also three aircraft.
I am trying to head away from them, so I can get back on my mission. But I can't use time compression..
Iv been like this for 30 mins of game time. It's very dull just staring at my monitor waiting.

[Kyrah Abattoir]

go deep for aircrafts.

go quiet for ships.

But also, change course because if they can't see you they can still predict where you went based on speed and heading.

[Jake Savage]

How do I go quiet?
Just go at a slower speed?

[SpiritFire]

if you hover over one of the icons on the right it tells you what is making how much decibels of noise so you can choose to turn things off.

[Zvitatzki]

hints mention too the enemys can detect ur equip like sonar and radio try disable everything not neccessary or abandon the rooms entirely and drive on slowest speed

but yes a engage silent drive mode is currently still missing but wishfull added in future same as alert dive which ringed alarm sounds and made ppl run and work fast to dive as fast as possible
*edit* noticed alert call is there when u go safe deep in combat mode really nice)

in the Silent Hunter series these were present lets wait and see :)

[hbyw618]

go deep ,maybe 100 meter, turn on blue light, shut down everything just release everybody to their bed, theck oxygen if too low, let ur radioman keep listening, the ship will gone in several hours, planes? no idea they just like flies, like they dont need fuel.

[JohnMac]

The blue light doesnt do anything as far as cutting noise down in my testing, all it does it slow oxygen consumption by 15%.

I think currently the only things you can do is slow your speed and turn off the gyrocompass, ventilation system and auto steering engines, and appoint an officer to do it manually.

Desperately needs a proper silent running mode and a battlestations mode, all this faffing around micromanaging gets old...

[Jake Savage]

So I've done all that. Now I'm still just staring at the monitor while my ship moves at an almost undetectable rate, unable to speed up the time, while the enemy ships are around.
My electricity is almost gone, if I surface the aircraft attack.
This is really frustrating.

[Necramonium™]

Launch a decoy bilge, its in the storage at the galley, you can launch it near the stern torpedo launcher

[Vnub]

Go to blue light, is silent running, as far as I know!

[ZombieHunter]

Originally posted by Jake Savage:

So I've done all that. Now I'm still just staring at the monitor while my ship moves at an almost undetectable rate, unable to speed up the time, while the enemy ships are around.
My electricity is almost gone, if I surface the aircraft attack.
This is really frustrating.

Yep you are probably going to die. This is what they did to subs. They forced them to dive for longer than they had O2 for and then they had to surface. And when they did they were good as dead. But most captains would not go head long into such a situation. Sometimes it is best to know when to give a convoy a pass as opposed to putting your boat and your crew into a very bad, possibly unwinnable, situation.

Depending on your oxygen level and depth to keel my advice would be to go deep, DON'T fire any decoys at all. Try to sit on the bottom, go blue light, turn off all non essential systems. Turn off lights in all compartments except for the control room to conserve power and turn off the electric engines. Just sit there silently. Remember the convoys have to 'get somewhere' because they are delivering goods. And if destroyers leave the main convoy they won't pursue you forever b/c then they leave the convoy unguarded and other subs could sink it as well. Also aircraft have a max time they can stay airborne before they must go refuel. Your sub can outlast any aircraft b/c aircraft burn fuel at an alarming rate.

So sit silent for a bit and the situation should resolve itself. Once the convoy is far enough out (use your hydrophones to determine this) blow the tanks and surface and set course 180 degrees away from the convoy and set telegraph to flank speed. You should be able to get out alive.

[crisfire34]

the sonar decoys work well

[Jake Savage]

Haven't been pinged by sonar as far as I can tell.
What's this blue light you guys are talking about?
As far as I know, I can turn my lights to red or normal. Blue?

[CappieBara]

If your click it with an officer you have 3 options: White, Blue and red

[Mattar19K]

The light switch cycles white to red to blue to white.