How to get out alive from scapa?

[Fisken]

How do you get out on hard mode?
A few turn of the screws and they start serching again, I cant get any where.

And another question, how do I upload screenshoots to here?
I have a pictur of depth charges lying on the bothom close to my boat and some stuck in the hull and wont expload, anyone els seen that?

[Red_Seven_]

Originally posted by Fisken:

How do you get out on hard mode?
A few turn of the screws and they start serching again, I cant get any where.

Depends on how you attack. If you go silent on the ground directly after letting your torpedos out, they usually don't find you. When they stop again you might be able to sneak out unnoticed, unless a destroyer stopped just on top of your boat.

Originally posted by Fisken:

And another question, how do I upload screenshoots to here?

Screenshot via Steam overlay (usually F12), upload and copy/paste the link or use the ingame screenshot function and upload it to any online hoster and link it in the text.

Originally posted by Fisken:

I have a pictur of depth charges lying on the bothom close to my boat and some stuck in the hull and wont expload, anyone els seen that?

Exact same thing for me here
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1916871957516197610/31DEC53B14491C2A61FBFE70EB5B009C2D754931/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false

They exploded after ~10 ingame minutes.

[Fisken]

Thanks.

I have tryed everything including that but it dont seem to work, dont know what to do now.

Hope you can see this one.

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198029254287/screenshots/#scrollTop=0

[aqwerty]

Originally posted by Fisken:

How do you get out on hard mode?
A few turn of the screws and they start serching again, I cant get any where.

The following worked fine for me: approach submerged and as soon as you spot the Royal Oak, start approaching it until you are just within the torpedo range. Try to find a spot where you are as far as possible from the closest warship but Royal Oak is still within torpedo range. At that spot, stop and calculate the solution (or if your crew does it, let them do it). As the ship is stationary, calculation is easy. Set the torpedoes to the lowest possible speed (if adjustable) to maximise the time to escape.

After preparation, launch the salvo, and immediately start your escape by turning the boat towards the exit route, surface as soon as you cannot be spotted by other ships (this is guesswork when visibility hint is disabled, but around 2 km should be enough at night) and escape on surface using flank speed. This should give you plenty of time to get out without being detected. If one needs to avoid the shore gunnery (they seem to spot you from quite far away), another dive may be needed close to them but then you should be already safe from the searching ships.

[Fisken]

Thanks

I did something similer, but seens I tryed so many times Ive notised that the ships in there are changing there position everytime so they where all behinde her this time so I could get close and escape on surfice.

[=7Cav=PVT.Reed.JH]

What I did, turn everything off and put the blue light on. Move at slowest speed at periscope depth with you periscope hidden. Don't get close to any ship, that goes for the idle ships as well. Make sure the boat is stopped if you need to check your surroundings using the periscope. Then hide it before moving on. When in position, like 3 km from your target, fire all 5 torpedoes, preferably hitting the ship right at its side. As soon as the torpedoes are off, full speed ahead and crash dive to the lowest depth. As war ships move in to drop sink bombs just zigzag with some timing. If it gets too hot, steer away, stop the engine and rest on the sea floor for awhile. Hopefully they aren't aware of your exact location and you just have to wait out their attempts with the sink bombs.

At first I tried sneaking by the sea floor but that didn't work very well for the escape.

From the sea floor, surface quietly with engines off to check if the coast is clear. Then dash the hell out of there. And mind the submarine nets :D

Oh, and do this at night of course.

Some stuff I did that made war ships come straight to my position was
-Putting pump on
-Putting ventilation on
-Sending radio message

Now I don't know if that caused them to hear me but probably. Try to avoid it :D

[Pyrrhus]

I noticed the position of Royal Oak changes every month. Royal Oak tend to appear 12km straight from east channel in October 1939, easy to take out while on surface during clear night and not too many destroyers. During November 1939, Royal Oak moved further NW near land, more difficult position for uboat to attack. So the longer you wait to do mission, the more difficult it could be as well increasingly numbers of destroyers.

[StuKa]

Keep your boat as close to the seabed as you can the entire time to more or less eliminate ASDIC as a threat. If a ship is passing near you, consider shutting the engines off until they pass. You are nearly undetectable on the seabed with engines off, but sitting there for extended periods won't get you out of Scapa Flow. If someone does make a depth charge run on you, it can make for a great opportunity to run full speed and get some distance from the giant mob of ships.

Personally I had the worst case scenario of several duds on the Royal Oak, she was abandoned but not sunk. I had to 'escape' far enough away to reload torps and run ventilation, then went back in a few hours later. Getting in/out the second time was a lot harder because of the jacked up positions all the patrols stopped in.