Mad_Dog_Dante

Yeah it's a one time bonus for unlocking the research bureau I guess

Even though I have the Hindenburg in port for some time, I never really cared to play it. I did some matches in it this week, and was swept off my feet by how much fun this cruiser is to play, and how smooth and well she operates. She instantly became my favorite tier X ship. We just 'clicked' from the first match on, everything feels right. Her fire rate is great, her AP is fantastic, and her armor is trollish to say the least, purrrfect for chasing tail or kiting. I really didn't expect to enjoy her as much as I do, but I actually fell in love with her within the first match. So, I'm curious, what sweetheart swept you off your feet, and why? I might have overlooked certain gems in our techtree! And please, show us your build so we can admire this love of yours. My current build is focused on rate of fire(s) and ammo switching for extra sexy times.

I still think the sector reinforcement is a idea to be made less because it was too to not change. Its great to get free respecs, its not great that we need it, and its certainly not great that the AA system is still weird as .

^ This ^ Last respec I reset ALL my captains and only specced a few captain based on what my favorites ships were and the meta. I only respecced the rest once the golden snow flak event happened, based on the meta we have, which means no AA spec mostly :P I'll despec everything again this time and put most of my captains in reserve until the meta is clean and crisp once more :D

Which is perfectly fine for WG. As long as the broken idea caters to feeding whales it's working as intended.

That's actually rather funny because it fits the profile of players that enjoyed the hyper torpedo spam game mode that was coupled to the grind... I even think I remember someone writing on this forum they thought the game mode was great because it taught them how to use torpedoes. Which explains the many early deaths of Benhams i see

Interesting. For me it's the opposite. I decided to not bother with the grind, and because the attached forcefed event game mode was so freakishly bad, and WG seems to be addicted to lootboxes themselves, for me it was the event where I decided to be done with spending money on this game and to free 2 play from now on. My money is better spent elsewhere. Free 2 play companies get addicted to creating addiction mechanics themselves, and once they do they stop creating a game and start creating marketing and gambling systems steered by their marketing departments. The grinds and loot they design gets weirder and weirder and completely disconnects from having fun in the game: symptoms of addiction itself ironiccaly. It's no longer about gamers creating great games, but gamblers creating addiction. Color me blind but I can't be arsed to support companies like that. It's like funding a junky. Also, Benhams hardly ever impress me when encountering them in game, and when I'm in a BB I usually wait for my team to handle them. They hardly ever survive a direct confrontation and I've been killing plenty from the day they appeared on the server. Still, I would love to own one, but can't be arsed to grind or fork over money any more...

Did you play the sub event? If not, it was as stupidly simplified as the carriers are. There will be 3 levels you can drive your sub: surface, periscope and fully submerged. There will be auto features which force you to the surface, auto features which will attack subs and other oversimplified stuff without depth and catered to the most simple minds in our community. Stop overthinking it, WG certainly won't.

I'm baffled by the magnitude of the end result failure of the rework. Just jaw dropping.

What strikes me is a discrepancy: I seem to want a shipgame, and WG seems to be creating a marketing and gambling game.

The only thing I like is the core surface to surface ship combat, in random matches, with a wide variety of ships. I dislike everything else.

I visited tier 2 since like... forever? Pink seems to be the new orange :P

I find this an interesting proposition as well. I have lot's of fun premiums, even high tier ones. Aside from my Hindenburg currently, I can very well live without most high tiers, and resetting everything is basically like setting up a new account and starting fresh, except not because 19 pt captains and shitload of XP, Free XP and credits lol. Too bad the move all XP to the starting ship. Because I am not planning on exchanging anything for cash. It'll be a complete P4free experience this time :P Isn't there a limit on the number of lines you can reset, i think it was 6 max per season or something?

Met @Aotearas, same team, same flank, same minds. Been an absolute pleasure having your Missi on my Moscva side. Radar galore. Sorry I couldn't converse in chat, I'm on my second week long chat ban atmo

Haha no not just one, Hindenburg was my most recent one, and I haven't been infatuated like this for ages. The Kuma was my first love too, GG :D The T6 Cleveland has been one of my long lasting favorites, as was the Atlanta until 0.8.0. And I vividly remember my wild affair with the Kamikaze R once I earned it in one of the earliest events, which was actually pretty cool. Tirpitz has been a long lasting love too, but she faded a little. So I'm now an old fart, infatuated by this beautiful flower :o I know, 11 matches isn't much, but 23 destruction ratio, what the actual.... EDIT: And from what I understand she's supposed to be one of the lesser tier X cruisers right? I'm way worse in stuff like mosva's for instance.

With the research bureau coming, what ship tree would be your favorite candidate to do all over again? For me, if I decide to do it, it would have to be a tree in which I had the most fun in. Im not a min max grinder. So, top of my head: KM battleships and UK destroyers. I just love the secondaries on the upper tiers, and the lower tier german battleships are actually quite good. The UK destroyers just feel pretty nice overall, i cant remember one uk DD that I didnt like so far up to tier IX.

Really? See that's so cool, there's a great love for everyone. I really didn't like her at all... GG man, GG!

That's a pretty odd crush, I love that So what is it that makes you and your Terrible such a good duo?

That's an interesting point about the German BB line actually. I played the tier XI and X just recently and enjoyed myself with IFHE lolbuilds, but the Bismark isn't what she used to be mainly due to the shifted tier VIII MM. I'm not sure what to do. I find the concept stupid and the 'reason' given - play your favorites again - is bull and offending, but it does made me think about what line I enjoyed most and wonder if I would really enjoy playing them all over again. Like LLB points out, fond memories might be crushed because MM and powercreep issues. And there are enough lines with one or two horrible ships in it that makes me want to poke my eyes out enough to never want to reset them again. But it can't hurt to think about possible opportunities for fun since it's coming no matter what. The UK cruisers line is something I had fun in most of the ships too. Are any one of you looking into min maxing the grind? If so what are your plans?

I would love to play those ships, but don't want to eat the walls WG comes up with so it turns out I don't really want those ships after all, and it looks like WG no longer wants to earn my hard cash. 2019 has turned me away from this company for good. I'll just bum off the free stuff that's fun and ignore all the annoying stuff from now on. This , the super dodgy gamble elements, the grinds that require 100% dedication or require to play badly designed kiddy events, the push of an alpha build quality CV rework on to the main servers, the uninspired gimmicks of tech trees, and more, has turned me off so badly that I don't even care if this game survives another fkup.

1000 words to mask another story. WG has seen the last of my cash. I can't be arsed to read these walls of text anymore.

It already is mostly don't you think? I don't mind, friendly fire adds very little for me personally as far as gameplay experience is concerned. So sure, remove it already.

And this is how I ended up. No mission drops, just tokens from my regular ships. What this does to me, and to WG, is cramping my wallet shut, because I don't give a toss about preplaying these silver ships, not being able to finish an event because I have no luck in RNG crate drops really pisses me off, since i HATE gambling. It's pointless to rebuy my old ships to grind for more tokens because the earnings on the tokens are crap, so the ROI is totally bullocks. Way to alienate your clientele.