Engineer/Mechanic wont man the electric engines, I cant submerge!

[Dave]

Hi all,
I'm hours in to a save game, and suddenly, part way through a mission, the Chief engineer and mechanic stopped manning the electric engines. They will man the diesel ones as normal, but when switching to electrics engines, either on the surface or submerged(!) they both go to bed.
I can't MAKE them man the electric engine. I tried in 1st person as well , still wouldnt. I changed them out for other engineers back at dock, but same problem. I checked the fuses at that end of the sub, switching them off and on, but no effect.

Am I missing something here?

No electric engines = no submerging, no sinking stuff!

HELLPPP!

[RomaMon]

do you have the lights off in the room containing the electirc engines?. im fairly sure that if they are off then any jobs in a room with lights off will not be done, since the crew can't see anything

other thing might be because you have selected diesel engines instead of electric engines on the speed dial or whatever its called, but im not sure this should be the case since it should just auto change it to electric when diving unless you are using the snorkel,

i have had my Mechanic sometimes just not tune torpedoes when i order him to, same with loading new torpedoes which might be the same problem you are having, just with the electric engines instead, i unfortunately don't really remember how i fixed this but i think it might've just been letting them do it themselves instead of me getting them to

[Ruby]

Hi Dave,

is the electric motor damaged or is there water in the station?

Cheers Ruby

[Dave]

Hi Ruby, no the engine is not damaged and no water in the engine room.

[Ruby]

Hi Dave,

what colour is the activator?

Cheers Ruby

[Thahat]

Originally posted by Ruby:

Hi Dave,

what colour is the activator?

Cheers Ruby

(i know quite a bit about this game..but what is an activator? i bet he is going to ask the same..)

[Ruby]

Hi Thahat,

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2860039079
Cheers Ruby

[Dave]

Hi everyone, Hi Ruby, I think this icon is red, when I approach in first person.

I have started a fresh new game and the engineer mans both engines as normal(my problem fixed!).
I saw an older thread from 2019 from someone who had this same engineer problem, everyone finally figured it a glitch.

I'm cool to start a new game, but I have kept the affected save game. I will try to report it.

[Ruby]

Hi Dave,

if red, the engine is dmaged.
There should be more info in the tooltip.

Cheers Ruby

[Superlavar35]

I know how to (probably) solve it, maybe the eletric engine room have been given order to evacuate, so if you are trying to switch on eletric engine, sailors wont go in there to switch it on, try verifying if the room are still on evacuation.

[indycar]

similar problem here

i sent chief to man the engines and he goes and leaves the station, than i need to spam him to the engines many times before he mans them