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Well both WoTs and WoW's are suppose to be set in the same time period. Yet in World of Tanks we have tanks from 70-80ies like Leopard 1, and STB-1 (both are used to this very day in fact), so would it really be outside of the realm of possibility? By the way, the only reason I want the 1963 USS Midway

So I'm in my benson, 1v1 with enemy sims, his first salvo takes our 3 of my guns permanently? And then second salvo takes out the 4th gun? WHAT What sort of game is this lol, also this keeps happening, not an isolated incident

Just so you know, I heard from multiple sources that Atlanta's turrets are currently glitched at 0 value of armor, developers are apparently aware and will fix her eventualy

Captain_Edwards, on 03 June 2015 - 08:17 AM, said: Hidden Ktkm in the mix anywhere? Those can pop torps out like crazy. Plus a rogue minekaze with torp reload skills could be lurking nearby giving the impression of more torps per ship. As mentioned before, cruisers were all dead when this incident culminated (check ss) MudMonkey, on 03 June 2015 - 08:13 AM, said: Hmm, very interesting. I havent seen that yet. But I will have one or two eyes now on that. Were those two DDs in a Division? They were not actually, I made sure to check, and in the whole honesty, Kagero might be tagging along because he didn't fire (or did not react) when I popped near them and torpedoed both of them, that Shimakaze tho...

HOLLY crap, this is word for word what happened in my game O.O

Hi guys, I've played American DD's and Japanese battleships most of my time on the beta, and only when switching to cruisers I've noticed that I have problems with aiming. While playing American DD"s, it's mostly shanking anyway, its definitely easy to hit targets spot on from close ranges, and with spammy guns its not that hard to figure out the right trajectory at 12km or so. Japanese battleships are ok, since of slow reload time you tend not to waste shots and aim for slowly moving horizontal targets. But when I switched to cruisers, and suddenly became not as maneuverable as destroyers, and not as armoured as battleships, I soon realized that exchanging fire effectively really matters. I mean shooting at horizontally moving target is not rocket science, you fire a tracing shot, if the trajectory is good you just unload the rest of the clip, no problems there whatsoever. But if a target is bobbing and weaving even a little bit, or even worse - moving vertically away from you, and at ranges of lets say 12km, I would say it becomes quite difficult to consistently hit them. What I typically do in those situations, is try to imagine them in a horizontal position and lead in their general direction to any side, as if they were travelling horizontally. I just judge from the eye, "yup that seems about right, fire away", and annoyingly that doesn't work 75% of the time, making it hellishly inconsistent, especially if you are dodging and weaving and travelling away from your target, trying to make it difficult for them to hit you, and they just hit you anyway shot after shot after shot. So give it enough time, and sooner or later it makes you wonder if you are just plain doing it wrong. Would anyone like to share a tip or trick in regards to aiming properly and consistently when your targets are moving awkwardly? Any help appreciated Kind regards, Aaron

*awkward cricket sounds*

I will when i get back from work, I opened that link but it's all matrix crap to me lol, gonna have to figure it out. Where are replays located anyway?

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Ah I see, no all 5 volleys were visible on screen at the same time (I passed all 5 of them on my way to the smoke cloud), first 2 came from left in about 10 meter distance between each other, others came slightly from the right, also with about 10 meter distance between each other, it seemed like kagero fired first, then shimikaze, but the distance between me and them wasnt that large, as I reached them in below 20 seconds, so even with the travel time accounted it still doesn't add up to me, something is a miss, or a foot

Kagero has 3 tube launchers? There are replays in this game? oO

They are already [edited]

Using it mister This thread can be closed now, I was missing that one particular factor and now since I am accounting for that, my CA accuracy improved dramatically

Ok so I do this thing where I count people shots and magazines in games, something I picked up while playing world of tanks extensively on a purple level. When I started advancing towards the mystery cloud, all cruisers were already dead, 5 volleys came out while I was moving there, so I checked my TAB and saw that enemy has 2 dds left, kagero and shimakaze (2 + 3 = 5, makes sense!), the only problem is when I got there, Shimakaze launched another one (visible on screenshot), making it a total of 6 volley's in about a minute, which already isn't right. She couldn't have possibly reloaded because it took me about 17 seconds to get there (yes I was counting seconds in my head, preparing for their reload) And the biggest problem is that even before I went to investigate, the cloud was launching torpedoes over and over and over, at the rate the torps were coming out (I must admit I wasn't counting them at first) I thought there was at least 3 DD's there coordinating their attacks... Also why the hell were they stationary? This factor alone is fishy as hell.

Userext, on 02 June 2015 - 07:52 AM, said: you know that IJN cruisers also have torpedo right? I don't see where you are going with this mister, the screenshot clearly shows all cruisers dead way before the incident elmattador666, on 02 June 2015 - 07:51 AM, said: It could have been Lag, today i was guarding a island corner with my Sims, everything was quiet until i started being hit by another Sims that was almost on top of my ship... he didn´t came from a cloud, so i assume it was just lag, since there was some lost traveling time on my side....still manage to outgun him and maneuver some dodges, but lost 90% HP Watch this from 0:00 to 0:18 lol, looks familiar?

Lol wow, really? I did not report you dude, what the hell

Userext, on 02 June 2015 - 06:49 AM, said: Are you sure about 5 volleys? because kagero has 2x4 and shimakaze has 3x5 which makes 18 torpedoes. Yea but that makes 5 volleys, and that's only the ones I counted, there was wave after wave hitting the circle cap, and that's the only reason why I went out of my way (abandoned the game objective), to investigate the mysterious cloud with waves of torpedoes coming out of it. Really hope I'm imagining things Numbah18, on 02 June 2015 - 05:03 AM, said: I was in a game where I attacked a BB with a squad of US TB on my end no hit what so ever but on his end he took all 6 torps. Wounder if this is an explanation. Maybe, but my biggest problem here is that the whole situation was just so very... unnatural. Smoke cloud that seemed to last forever, Shimakaze + Kagero in a platoon, positioned in the strangest of ways etc.... I'M NOT CRAZY ''God damn you all to hell''

But I swear to god, this encounter was like nothing that I ever seen before, the torpedoes kept coming and coming and coming and coming, dint seem natural one bit

0:18, check it. You wish it was 4km lolo

The percentage at which rate it happens is clearly way off, just food for thought, when you are playing higher lvl DD's, lets say the SIMS, and unlock Pyromania skill on your commander, that's just +5% change to set something ablaze, right? But with so many shots going out, especially out of american dd's and cruisers, you can have your enemies on fire 80% of the whole engagement. For the guns to get taken out and not be annoying at the same time, the % for that should be not higher than 0.7%, it would still happen occasionaly and would still be game shattering for your oponent

Unless wargamming is trying to tell us not to play DD's agressively? o.O In that case fuk it, give me a row boat and an RPG-7, ill take down the whole damn fleet with it, because I wont get it knocked out every single time

Literally every god damn game now, lol

So basically BB's are unplayable because of grouping RNG, CV's are unplayable because they are plain useless, and DD's get paper mache turrets, like, I like wargamming games but, are they honestly trying to get out of their bloody way to make life miserable for everybody equally and make more clients for Gaijin entertainment, what the hell lol The ironic thing is.... I remember getting on WoWs a couple of months back, and having an absolute blast playing pretty much every type of ship

^ This, I haven't thought of this, I think this might be the factor that I was missing. Cheers mate. EDIT: oh my god you are a genius, that just changed my perspective completely EDIT x2: massive and immediate improvement on the field

I do that as well, I've been purple stated in World of Tanks for years, I think that positioning and situational awareness is one of my biggest strengths both in WoT and WoWs. My biggest current problem isn't any of that, some times you just get in a situation where you are 1v1, lets say Cleveland vs Cleveland, and you are forced to fight at lets say 10-12km, and I seem to lose every single exchange of that description, I need to get better at that particular scenario or just to figure out what im doing wrong currently, because each time i get into that position, my shells are just not consistent enough, while oposition seems to be autoaiming, and since that is no longer available, by default it means that im doing something wrong