IRL Stealth Tactics - Sea Floor & Following Merchant

[Volker Racho]

I have a quick question: Does anybody know if some real life tactics apply on the game? Like going on the ground or following / diving directly under a merchant - does this stuff hide your own signature and improve your stealth?

[wei270]

going deep doesn't seem to effect your stealth very much or at all, but diving directly under a merchant work, if it doesn't reduce your stealth rating, it will ♥♥♥♥ up their torp and 90% of the time the torp will go for the mechant instead. and mechant sink by the torp fire by enemy don't effect you.

[knighttemplar1960]

Bottoming on the sea floor does not work.

[Volker Racho]

Thx for the info

[The Inept European]

Ground clutter / bottom bounce does work in the game and IRL. That's being near the bottom, not on the bottom.

[kschang77]

Confirm that going full stop and sitting on ocean floor will NOT avoid any torpedoes. If you pop a decoy it MAY be temporarily fooled and circle, but once it circled you're f-ed.

EXCEPTION: If you fired from shallow (say less than 50m), enemy snapshot a torpedo at you, then they turned 180 and ran (thus, no wire), then you can go deep (300m or more) and their torpedo MAY go overhead and not see you as you achieved big vertical separation before it activated.