r/Barotrauma

I had the idea to build a ship without a navigation terminal, instead just a sonar monitor, a terminal to input desired speed, a terminal to input desired balast level and a single button for docking. I know how to make this happen, i can build it, im tempted to curse this community with it. But before i attempt such a feat i must know has this been done before? would i be treading a worn path? And most importantly would ANYONE play this lol

Edit:im going to sleep dont expect a speedy reply

So I been searching the ship (Barsuk) and there’s just no cargo to grab so far I see it’s not on the floors or in any of the rooms I found, there is a cave next to it but I’m not sure if that’s related and a secure steel cabinet that I don’t know how to get authorisation

Edit: Fuzlet is a life saver on this, it’s in the floor of suit room and roof of command room

Hi ya’ll, I’m captain to a bunch of ADHD goblins who start shooting eachother, stealing shit, or throwing stuff around the second they get bored, and a common complaint I hear is that the day by day missions are too boring for my sub crew (medics, EE, ME), what mods can I use to spice it up?

And no neurotrauma, shit scares me

I know it is linked In-Game, so I guess it is kinda intended to be used? But I'd like to be suprised on what kind of horrors await me and not read all about them beforehand.

On the other hand, I jost got my first mission to take out a Moloch and didn't figure out I need to use Armor Piercing Ammo, until I read the wiki on Molochs.

How do you approach this? Is there some kind of In-Game way to find out the weaknes of enemy types?

Just trial and error?

when my life flashes before my eyes a terrifying message enters my mind:

No living players on the server and respawning is not enabled during this round. If no characters revive or rejoin, the server will end round in 120 seconds.

i've just never been a fan of how the game forces me out of a round just cuz i'm dead. to me, it's a weird thing to not be an option TMK when there's a ton of hyper specific campaign options (i.e. fuel rod and oxygen tank multipliers?).

Recently me and 2 friends of mine started a blind campaign, it's the 1st time playing for all of us and so far we've clocked in ~8 hours. We started off with the Barsuk as our starting sub since it seemed like the smallest, easiest to manage one, but even it we struggle to repair and keep afloat.

We are now preparing to buy a new sub, personally I want to invest into the Orca 2 since it seems like the one easiest to manage and it has a fabricator, deconstructor and a medicinal fabricator, but since even the tiny Barsuk is so hard to manage for us I'm worried we just won't be able to keep up with the repairs.

How to go about using the larger subs as a small crew of 3? Should we just get a ton of bots? And how do you manage the dive suits for the bots? They are rather expensive to hire and previously they ended up just blowing up from the pressure when we got wrecked.

We'd also prefer to keep to the vanilla subs, at least for our 1st campaign, to avoid accidentally getting something overpowered that could ruin the expedience for us.

Any answers would be greatly appreciated.

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So yeah, I made a shuttle with ballast at its bottom, and it works correctly if I test it directly. Judging by the background it goes up with empty tank and down when it's full.

But once I try to test it from my main sub and I undock it, thing just starts to sink right away unapologetic. And I know that it works just how it supposed to since I can see how it's empty through the camera and how it starts to go down quicker when I command it to fill up from the remote nav terminal.

I'm actually out of thoughts on this one. Also I'm pretty sure it worked earlier, but I don't really remember when it was and what could cause this issue now?

Down we go whilst completely empty

as you can see here, I'm trying to build an exploration sub with that compact mechanic + diving room on the left of the sub but the behavior of the water is strange as you can se in the next print

You can see that the water is floating at the second diving suit

I would like to know why this is happening, also I would love to hear other tips about the design - this is my first sub