Panzerblitz

I think that the problem is not so much the BB range but the whole spotting system and the super-accurate gunnery that experienced players can deliver once they got line of sight to a target. There needs to be a different reward- system which encourages brawling and closing with the enemy for BB captains. I believe that they gave the Bismarck it's 7km secondaries to test something and to get data how mid-range fighting with strong secondary support is going to influence the meta of the current endgame.

The thing is that I actually love their planes and tanks game, mostly because of the realistic damage model and the x-ray gun cam. And that physics engine is really well suited for a warship game and way superior to a HP bar. Also as far as I remember they added more fidelity to the way how water interacts with objects about a year ago. Anyway, their current approach means that they are 1-2 years away from anything bigger than a DD. Will I give the beta a spin ? Definitely. Can it replace the big guns of my Yamato ? Certainly not.

I saw a lot of Wehraboos and Armchair Generals while playing tanks, planes and ships. But... "I would really love to play as PT Boat captain..." ...said no one ever.

At least the Scharn and Dunkerque will allow different tactics. Scharnhorst is a cruiser-killer and Dunkerque can bring her full firepower to bear while showing her front. Just sell us these damn things already.

A PT sim....how cute.... There was actually a PT boat sim which was also called "Knights of the Sea", it came out in 2010 or so. Honestly, this is no competition to WOWS, it's not even the same genre anymore when it's just about PT boats.

Since I saw so many bad teams today who went for base caps instead of sinking players: A good change would be to make bases only capable once the team has lost 2/3 of it's players. That would actually force players to seek out each other more.

Khabarovsk (Gearing in 2nd place) Yamato Zao or Moskva

Jingles has a nice story-telling voice. But he's better suited to be a historian than a WOWS ace

Redid the settings one more time, but then also rebooted. Seems something was bugged, now I get 58-60 fps suddenly. Did wonders for the rigging and railings.

This works for you ? What fps do you get ?

Murders my framerate. OCed 980 GTX i7-4790 16 GB 1866 DDR3 G-sync monitor At 1440 I usually hover around 72 fps at highest settings. When I change the settings I drop down to 28 fps.

The problem is that smoke is supposed to be a defensive consumable - It's the "Get out of jail" card for vulnerable ships like DDs and certain CLs. Instead smoke is now the most powerful offensive consumable, because people can shoot out from smoke without being spotted. And by some magical contraption the ships inside the smoke can see outwards, but you can't look inwards. The best fix to the problem would be to enhance the defensive value of smoke - make it an instant Los break, but at the same time the ship sitting inside the smoke cloud should be blind itself.

"Firestarter" I'm the trouble starter, punking instigator.I'm the fear addicted, danger illustrated.I'm a firestarter, twisted firestarter,you're the firestarter, twisted firestarter. Burned down 2 camping Iowas

Everything that is wrong with this game in one picture....

The whole high-tier meta is off because DDs are the Swiss army knife of WOWS and someone complains about a limited consumable with short duration.

Tirpitz is a completely different beast. Here we are talking about 6 guns. In BB gameplay you gotta make your shots count when you get a good opportunity, when a ship shows it's broadside it will make a big difference if you can throw 8 shells at it or just 6 before it angles away.

It will be the Gneisenau - 3x2 15" just won't cut it at T7. Sure, you have higher reload speed, but you have no shell weight per salvo when compared to the 4x2 16" guns of other T7 ships. The ship's weakness was obvious long before anyone mentioned it.

Lol, you sound like a child. I'm sure Wargaming will miss the enormous revenue you would have spent otherwise.

The toxicity in this game is getting silly. Two days ago I even saw a Supertester in a Kaiser who said "my team seemed to be **** though" after a loss. And if not even these guys can lead with a good example, then you can guess what you can expect from the average player.

Nevermind - I overlooked the / and was in the wrong line. Lock and forget this pls.

I had to re-install WOWS a couple of days ago, since I had screwed up my installation with an old mod pack. Since then I cannot get replays to work again. Here's a screenie of my edited xml. I also set it to write protect, so that the game cannot mess it up. But nothing shows up in my replays folder anymore. I really could use some advice or a download to a properly edited xml.

Nah. Supertesters are usually quite experienced, they will always do better than the average user, so these stats mean little. Also people usually don't know how to deal with a new threat for a while - see Flint and it's current insane rankings. When this ship goes live we will get the first "Scharnhorst is underpowered" threads within minutes. But yes, looks like we won't get to play it "soon". Which is kinda sad, the ship has been teased all of July and still nothing.

I was a Supertester myself about a year ago for 2-3 months. Do not apply lightly, being a Supertester takes time, actually a lot of it. They got testing schedules and deadlines and you cannot half-[edited]it (as I tried ). Sure, once in a while you get to test out fancy new ships, but be prepared to write a nice report about them including details ("Ship X sucks" won't cut it) and a lot of the time as Supertester is spent with hunting down annoying bugs like "Why does turret X not turn properly" and "Find the invisible wall on Map X". Trust me, only apply if you have plenty of time and nerves of steel, cause there is a serious fun:work ratio here.

I hope they finally let us buy the Scharnhorst.

i7-4790 16 GB DDR3 1866 GTX 980 Win 10 Home Game is installed on an ssd with plenty of free space. The stuttering started after the last patch - especially when switching to binocs view some ships stuttered for 1-2 seconds. After upgrading to Win10 some days ago it was actually worse. Today I reinstalled the game and did a clean wipe&reinstall of the Nvidia drivers. Stuttering is gone.