Mad_Dog_Dante

Who says these are all adults? This game is rated 7 and up.

You seem to underestimate this playerbase.

You have a point about the general player quality, I'll give you that. ^^ As for WG's success, the positive emotion largely relies on dopamine release, WOWS is not a thinking man's shooter, its a junkie's looter. The problem with 'backing up opinions with replays' though is that they are easily dismissable as anecdotal, which they are. I never open replays anyway, too much of a hassle, the game loads like a turd here. Videos are the way to show I really got to get back to work. TTYL.

Thanks. Yup people complain, always, everywhere. ^^ I am not bothered by deadeye as a skill myself and havent used it much, as battleships are not my preferred class. But I do recall hitting a shimakaze at 16 km with 5 BB shells from a single volley. That was pretty unique. I only used it on a couple of battleships, mainly to steer my own behavior on certain ships. It helped me to play brawlers a bit more patiently at start, staying at range and looking for better opportunities before committing to push/brawl. So i kind of liked the skill for that. I am of the same mind when thinking about what the removal of the skill will do. I expect the situation to revert a bit, but not to its original state. Then again, tank builds might be rediscovered as the new hot thing, who knows?

Changes stabilize the meta in a new place. And each change can push it in a specific direction. The cyclical part is that it is a repeating occurance, the result of each instance however can push the meta around permanently. The new situation gets accepted, which does not mean the situation itself is the same as before. You are absolutely right. I do not recall every detail of playing, nor do I need to. We are pattern recognition creatures, and while that makes us miss details even, we can detect even the smallest changes in familiar surroundings pretty well. I am well aware of my biases and preoccupations. Thanks for the reminder though. Lastely, if anything, as a commercial entertainment product, games are all about emotions. And forums are about opinions. Don't be silly. ^^

These threads can be very specific tell tales of how current META's can be damaging to the qualtiy of gameplay. TL;DR Meta's change over time, and can cause a deterioration in player behavior, every time it changes. Player behavior changes reacting to changes in design. The carrier rework made the game more campy. Adding new HE spamming battleships, cruisers and destroyers made the game more campy. Adding a sniping skill for BB's made the game even more campy. We've learned from the introduction of long range damage farming battleships and cruisers that their type of gameplay doesn't help win games. So, 3x more campy = 3 tidlewaves of people complaining over the years about how player behavior got worse. I've seen things you might consider normal that I have never seen before in 5 years of playing. Simply because I've seen 16.000 battles more, and I'm not saying that to dismiss your opinion, but to give weight to mine. I've recently started seeing things like 5 battleships sitting in 1 quadrant behind an island for about 10 minutes straight up to the end of a lost match. Stuff I have never seen before 2 battleships doing that, sure. 3 even. But all 5? Nope. Take into consideration that I play about 1/4th of the matches per week now compared to before. Yet I see this type of behavior more often. This means I can somewhat safely assume this type of behavior is more common in the new META. In fact, this bad behavior might very well now be part of that new META. Meta's change over time, and can cause a deterioration in player behavior, every time it changes. You might actually have to put in some thought to distill what might be behind these personal testaments, instead of dismissing them as 'hilarious'. All I've seen from you so far is you know how the search function works on a forum, and seem to be pretty happy to show off that skill ^^ (j/k)

Yup. This donkey stopped funding these people a while ago.

I waited for to vote until I had a good testrun for a bit. I voted unneeded as in: mainly serves economics. The only thing I like so far is sharing 1 captain with 4 specialized builds for each class. Brilliant idea, well executed with the recall commander feature. 19 pnts will still get you 'good enough' builds anyway, so I can't be arsed to get them up to 21, as I don't play clanbattles.

I bought the Siegfried for secondaries MEME as well. I'd love to get my currency back, what was it, research points? Bought the Atlanta for it's excellent AA umbrella. Bought the Blyskawicka because of its awesome stealth firing capabilities, bought the Flint because it seemed a better AA ship then the Atlanta was after 0.8.0. LOL.

Honestly? Those fantastic word salads are usually never proof of anything nor based in reality, or interesting material for serious discussion. That is why I hardly ever get involved in them. How you demand proof of posts that you earlier dismissed as subjective observations is beyond me. Because these are indeed personal observations, the OP is written as one. I guess I'm too simple for complicated things like that. ^^

I'll be skipping this one liek I skipped all the other dockyard ships :\

Great! Only 239.999.999 to go

Absolutley. We can post evidence based contributions on these forums, as i'm sure you will produce a list of all 240.000.000 threads shortly which will prove your point.

Much like your invaluable contribution of pointing out the 240.000.000 simular threads and invalidation of almost all contributions on every game related forum on this planet since the beginning of time. Pikkozoikum, don't pseudo science us! ^^ PS: To answer OP's question: The Rot continues until all flesh is consumed, or whatever the guy about the whales said

Rofl. You just nullified most of your own contributions on these here fine forums. ^^

As usual, your conclusion is wrong, subjectively speaking ^^

Nope, the playerbase is worse now more then ever. I am are talking about the last 1-2 months here, not years. I played 1 match tonight. Daring, killed 3, capped 2, we were ahead in ships, caps and winning, team died anyway, we lost, me last one alive, top of the scoreboard, match thrown away by a team that simply had a bigger number of bad players then the other team had. Enemy team wasn't great either, ours was just worse. I logged off and played someting else. I can't be bothered. Im a 58% solo WR player, not a unicum, but also not bad. Either I somehow got worse, or the teams are harder to carry now. Take your pick.

I might get the Vampire, play 1 battle in it and uninstall the game

Opened the game, clicked battle, killed 3 ships, capped 2 objectives, we were ahead and winning, team died anyway, 1st place losing, went back to port, got 1 crate, quit the game, played someting else.

I've always had a suspicion WOWP devs have been part of the carrier redesign effort The planes in WOWS look as lifeless as in that POS and the gameplay has about the same depth.

It is like they secretly want to create a whole different game but can't, venting their frustration by shoving weird stuff into this one

The f... is wrong with these developers?

Perfect

They have the deadeye disease @Zagato187 +1