Tutorial broken? (Basic Submarine Operations 3)

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twent
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Tutorial broken? (Basic Submarine Operations 3)

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Hi,

Is this particular tutorial broken when used in latest game version?

* NAME: The tutorial's full name is "Basic Submarine Operations 3 – Introduction to Diesel Submarines and Submarine Launched Missiles". In the Scenarios list, it is listed as 1.3.
* PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: The specific issue I am having is, following the instructions correctly, always leads to the result shown below:
"21/12/2015 15:59:59 - [Russia] You ran out of time. Either you weren’t able to manage the battery effectively, you missed your targets, or you got sunk by the helicopter. Either way, something went wrong. Try again!"
* GAME VERSION: I have game version "Build v1.07 - Build 1567.6" today on 11th April 2025.

* WHAT I SPOTTED AND FIXED: One specific issue I noticed is that this submarine starts with almost-empty batteries (500 out of 8,000 capacity). After a few tries, I came to the conclusion it is not possible to fully charge the batteries within other constraints (time). I've created an edited copy of the scenario, which started with 50% full batteries (4,000 out of 8,000 capacity). That too failed to fully charge within scenario time limit. Edited it again, this time set it to 7,000 charge at start, that finally worked, I reached fully charged before-scenario-deadline status, I was hoping the tutorial was going to progress but nothing happened. Progressing simulation eventually reached the deadline and the same message appeared.

* OTHER THINGS I TRIED: I also tried going under the layer, and surfacing, nothing seems to progress the scenario.

Am I missing something obvious, or is it just a case of a scenario, possibly created many years ago, not playing correctly in the latest version?

Thanks in advance.

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EDIT: I got smart! I loaded the scenario in Editor and looked at what triggers it is looking for. Never used the editor before, but the UI was very clear. It was looking for destruction of the enemy helicopter, apparently. Anyhow, surfaced and destroyed it, next tutorial text popped up.

Technically, I think it is still broken in two regards:
ISSUE #1: Battery start amount and the charge-needed and the time available does not match. I would not have been able to progress the scenario had I not bumped the initial charge by a lot (from 500 to 7,000).
ISSUE #2: For a new player such as myself, the tutorial system does not say: "Now, kill the helicopter!", so anyone blindly following instructions step by step would get stuck.
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