[2026.1] Nose Down

Nose Down Ever noticed how your submarine dives completely flat? No dramatic nose-down angle, no sense of weight and urgency - just a boat that slowly sinks like an elevator. This mod fixes that. Real submarines weren't like that. When a Type VII boat dove, the crew felt the floor tilt under their feet. Nose down, engines pushing forward and down at the same time. On a crash dive it was steep enough to send unsecured gear sliding across the compartment. It's been one of the most requested features in the community - and now it's here. What changes Your submarine tilts nose-down when diving, nose-up when surfacing Crash dive - steep angle, fast rotation, triggered from actual game state: alarm and crew actively flooding tanks. Not a button press Dives are actually faster - pitched nose-down, the propellers push downward too. Normal dive converts ~26% of thrust to depth, crash dive ~45% Emergency surfacing - blow all tanks from the physical valve in FPP and the bow pitches up hard. Normal surfacing stays nearly level Per-class scaling - Type IIA/IID pitch shallower, Type IX steeper. Type VIIC is the baseline. Requires Distant Coasts DLC for Type IX First-person view follows both pitch and roll Speed-dependent pitch - control surfaces need water flow. No pitch at rest; full authority at ~4 knots The angle builds gradually - the further from target depth, the steeper the pitch. No snapping Hanging objects physically swing toward the bow Historical basis Type VIIC data: ~15° normal dive, 25–30° crash dive (beyond 30°, battery acid could spill), nearly level on surfacing. The mod defaults to 15° / 27° - both configurable. Configuration On first launch the mod creates nose-down-config.json in %AppData%\..\LocalLow\Deep Water Studio\UBOAT. Five values: max pitch for normal dive, crash dive, and emergency surface; FPP tilt on/off; per-class scaling on/off. Safe to enable or disable mid-campaign - nothing is written to your save file. --- If you like my mods, you can support