Sharana

http://forum.worldofwarships.eu/index.php?/topic/14258-basics-spotting-mechanics/

The guys on tier X probably have the 15th points. I'm on Shokaku and I used my 9 points captain (max reward top 1%) to start with, currently on 13 points, working for the 14th.

The skill will warn you about plane's detection, so you know that enemy BB can try and snipe you from long distance or if you are far away that's enemy squadrons that are comming to snipe you. Also when retraining the captain (the perk is not active) I understood there is DD near me when I saw the torpedo warnings and my squadrons were sent to attack ships far away insted of searching and killing that DD if I knew 30 sec earlier I'm detected. That's why I say I can't imagine playing without it and it's hard when the captain is retraining.

I posted the entire list in the spotting mechanics. Yeah looks like speed. http://forum.worldofwarships.eu/index.php?/topic/14258-basics-spotting-mechanics/ I don't play DDs, so I don't understand them . I got the list few days ago, so it's easier to interpret it now instead of making educated guessing on something I don't play before

Updated and reworked for OBT version. Added torpedo detection ranges as promised.

Well I have no idea how can someone play without situational awareness as tier 1 perk. I have the Expert Rear Gunner atm, but as I don't want to have free points. Soon I will unlock the 15th and I will reset them to take the tier 5 air supremacy. I don't think it hepls much, as it is very very rare to shootdown some of the annoying float fighters.

The tier 5-6 strike CVs farm more then premium ships if you make good battle. Use the moments as you will solve the MM problems (when there are enough CVs) and earn lots of credits, before this is nerfed (arty in WoT farmed more then premium in OBT too).

Can you be more specific as I don't get what you mean?

I wrote in the AA guide that all squadrons in range will get panicked, it doesn't matter if they are attacked or not. Not focusing them will deal 6x damage of the DP guns instead of 9x with focus (+ the other guns too x1.5).

The russians are joking that only butthurted BB captains use them

Guess how this ended after WG credited it for OBT and lost money this way.

Play with all bombers setup. Yes if you meet fighters you feel useless, but the IJN CVs are in the same boat and you will get more exp on avarage with all bombers.

Pretty much this for now. There is Mac version now that will be tested by the QA (quality assurance) department soon, so it should make it for the release. Until then Mac is not supported.

When someone gets many reports they check him (chat logs) and act, same for bot reports. The compliments are new for now and still useless. They will act as reputation in the future (profile stats), same as the forum one (compliments are +1, reports -1). With positive reputation you will get more reports (max 3 now) and other features. The players who get the most compliments each week will be rewared with some premium/gold/flags/random stuff. So there are many possibilities, we just have to wait for everything to be integrated in the game.

This video is from 0.3.1.0 PT server and this CV was not added to the game after the test, because it was too OP. After that it was nerfed 3 times in 3 different patches. Now it has max 3 TBs (instead of 5) with huge spread.

Sorry if it was unclear. Spotters (that increase the max firing range) are not supposed to attack planes and cause panic while float fighters are supposed to do exactly that. They also slow the planes down by 25% just like regular fighters, so the AA get more time to shoot + you need a bit longer lead with manual drop as the bombers fly 25% slower and you have to account that.

The last week before 0.3.1 I played Yamato and Independance (tier 5 CV). Most of the time it was 2 vs 2 or 1 vs 1. Sometimes 1 vs 2, but never 1 vs 0.

Spotters are not supposed to attack bombers yeas and it's rare, I was pretty shoked too. Also they don't make the Defensive Fire useless, if focusing the AA caused panic for all ship types it would be useless. When there is group of ships the fighters attack different squadrons, so there is 1 fighter in range for each bomber, so I end up with all TBs panicked if I attack group of ships close to each other (overlaping figher ranges) and that's why I said they are way too smart, dropping target after they release the payload or abort the attack and switch to the next going to bomb the ship right away

Settings -> Controls ->

The bes camo is on Hosho (tier 4) with 7.9 km, the others easier to spot. So you can't be 6 km away and don't spot it.

This weekly stats are old and only to show how they look like. Back then with normal MM the games looked like 1/2 CV 3/4 BB 4/5 CA 2/3 DD on the tier 6s I played, so it's not 2 CVs vs 10 BBs and nuke them all. After the 0.3.1 update there were lot more BBs (because of the american line) and the IJN CVs got tight spread back then ... but the BBs were turning so ridiculously fast.

That's for HE shells doing the random amounts of damage when they don't penetrate. AP shells now either (over)penetrate and deal damage or don't do any.

Your account level that unlocks new features. The max is 8 right now (camo) with 7 unlocking the flags.

Exactly that's the reason they won't come anytime soon. You can't unite the economy of long released game with even still unreleased one. Gold and free exp will most likely come after the release. Now it's just bad idea.

WG is balancing by stats, they make weekly stats. In the stream yesterday they said that the balance of classes they made is what they want from the game, everything is fine as concept now in OBT. There are individual ships that may perform better, but they will be finetuned with big OBT stats pool, but no more huge nerfs/buffs like during the CBT. I also saw some stats they published when the players were whining about the fires in 0.3.1.0. They are interesting, so I'm going to show them and you can see how their weekly stats look like. This is the BB Fuso and percent of the damage it takes from all sources. Last week before 0.3.1 patch (before IJN CVs and HE+fires buff) First week after 0.3.1 where HE was so overbuffed (nerfed since then) and the fires were way more common + the IJN CVs had tight USN spread and were roflstomping back then. So how much of the total damage to BBs are the OP CVs doing? Yes there are other threats for them and the CVs are limited, but they don't see out of line with their main job of hunting the BBs. It might feel bad when you get attacked and don't start to evade earlier and probably force the CV to search easier target (more then enough), but it doesn't mean they aren't supposed to do any damage at all.