Seasoned veterans say that you must always learn from hands-on experience, and most tend to agree without any issue. They didn’t account for your inability to navigate around a trench filled with abyssal horrors hell-bent on snuffing the light out of you but’s on you for not reading the fine print.
Now that you’re stuck with the responsibility of performing a parallel park while blind and under a lot of stress, you might be asking yourself if there’s any way to dock without killing half of your crew. Well in this guide we’ll show you just that, maybe this time the reactor won’t spontaneously combust.
How To Dock – Barotrauma
Docking is the first and last thing you want to do whenever you’re unfortunate enough to have command of the ship. You rely on a sonar that only gives you a vague idea of your surroundings while you also have to make sure that you don’t jerk the sub too violently as you move around.
Easier said than done since your environment consists of narrow trenches and cave networks, but not completely impossible if you have enough dexterity.
During the docking sequence you’ll be spending most of your time staring at the navigation terminal, you’ll see the basic shape of the sub you’re controlling and two very thin green lines that need to meet each other.
No, you can’t just call it a day and use the autopilot feature to do the dirty work for you, that only gets you close to the outpost.
You have to make sure that the green lines meet all the way before you even think about pressing the ‘Dock’ button. Ascend too fast and everyone in the sub will have to start squatting to be able to move around properly.
Once you’ve snapped onto the latch a notification will pop up saying that you’ve arrived at the outpost, the only thing you need to worry about next is finding the docking hatch.
If parking a tin can underwater is proving to be difficult then maybe cuffing your rowdy passengers will help you focus.
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