Exocet6951

Well crap happens. I've learnt that the hard way with the Moskva. 30 seconds from the start one a small map, a DD going 40 knots rushing mid and my priority counter jumping to 8 while I'm still turning to go one side of the map. To this day, it's the reason I don't start a Moskva match without reversing until my concealment range doesn't include any part of any cap zones. So yeah, a Donskoi being spotted early twice and being fun and engaged to oblivion? Completely believable.

Almost as if an undergunned light cruiser with too little range, too little armor, worse AP than the Aosta on T6 and terrible HE performance due to WG confusing SAP shells as HE shells at T7 was a bad idea. They managed to shoehorn the Duca d'Aosta at T6, and now they're in quite the pickle.

We'll see how your opinion evolves when I have to work until I'm 75 in order to pay off your retirement at 65.

If even you come to this conclusion, can you not see how it's a piss poor marketing move? They could give some premium time, some consumables, flags, credits.... But nope, they go for a 40€, permanent and unperishable gift.

Good incentive to not start playing again

Yes because clearly Mr "Bismarck is an amazing snipers and I think fires should be put out immediately, my 6000 battles doing those things taught me well, I have 15k average damage but only 40% WR because my teams suxx" is very interested in learning. This is very reminiscent of new age parental books. "Don't tell your child that running with scissors is bad and he shouldn't do it, but rather redirect him to another activity, hoping that he won't run with scissors ever again!". There's something called negative reinforcement. If someone does poorly, he receives negative reinforcement. I know, I know, that's used for dogs.... But there's a chance that the average WoWS player might be intelligent enough for that as well.

lol at the fact that toxicity apparently only means being mean in chat. Ok for your banning for chat toxicity, but then ban everyone playing like garbage with no intention of ever playing the game and it's objective. Using your own words: 'The toxic players would really fast stop making the game worse for everyone"....on accounts of 50% of the players being banned within 24h.

How I imagine people being smartasses by saying that you can always play every scenario, so that the mission of the week regarding a scenario of the week is doable: The very same people that will tell you that you can totally use a T1 to kill a Yamato in battle. You just need to use a training room and turn the AI off. Simple !

BB^2? Super Yamato and H45 confirmed! RIP cruisers, RIP DDs, enjoy AP bombs

How to make every DD and CL player lose interest in playing those classes 101

It's not about being good or bad, it's being absolutely braindead and foolproof. There is no skill involved. Just load that HE, get triple fires and heal up all that damage you soak up by being a potato.

Showing once more that you can give potatoes all the hand holding in the world and they'll still find a way to *edited* up. Time to stop catering to the lowest common denominator. They can't handle even the most ridiculously braindead ship in the game.

This. I don't know how they let things go that way, but between general buffs to German cruisers (stupid move to fix the Yorck and Hipper), buffs to fix the Hipper and Roon, general buffs to cruisers (fires burning for a shorter amount of time), the Hindenburger just snowballed out of control.

My first, and probably only ranked experience this season was spotting an entire team using a Z-23, with 2 cruisers full broadside with no camo going in a straight line for 2 minutes while my entire team missed them completely (except for one bot Tirpitz that yolo'd another cap alone), only to then be spotted by a Lo Yang (which wasn't even shot at by my sniping team) and then dying because their team, no matter how dumb enough they were to not even mount camos, was still smart enough to shoot the DD, ie: me. That just tells me everything I need to know.

It doesn't take into account robots though... [NUBO] : Nut and bolt

Well it does. It ****ing does. A bad player that plays poorly and talks in a way that shows he understands NOTHING about the game has an opinion on game balance that has about the same credibility as a chimpanzee perfoming open heart surgery. Come to think of it, I'd trust that chimp over this game's average player. At least the chimp is able to learn.

Prove it. Put your money where your mouth is.

Interesting food for thought. I had a buddy try out CVs after a very, very long hiatus from the game. He had gotten to the Bogue at release, and he tried the Indy a few weeks after the USN CV tweaks. He's not a very good player to say the least, but he's the kind of player that will at least try to play the best that he can. Honestly, compared to the average T6 CV player, he wasn't bad. But jesus, listening to him play was tragic. He was just not having any fun at all. Like listening to me play an uptiered Bretagne or New York. From my biased perspective as an above average player with a lot of experience, I think people don't want to play CVs because they're utterly unrewarding to play, profoundly unfun because of the harsh requirements needed to even strike an enemy all while having to deal with the enemy CV, and lastly absolutely unforgiving. If you look away at the work moment, you can lose all your single fighter squad from a single strafe or fighter lock over a decent AA ship. When you do that, you lose the air fight for the next third of the match. Sprinkle that with massive technical issues and constant "damned if you do, damned if you don't" rage that comes at you from the enemy or friendlies in every match, and it's no wonder CVs aren't played. It's no fun, it's just stressful. You have to babysit an entire team while they hurl insults at you for the most asinine things and you're fighting off enemy planes and scouting. It's like being a parent trying to get coked-up kids on a sugar high to behave while you're fighting off angry bees with one hand tied behind your back. If the UI worked and AA wasn't either a "instant death or free pass" that makes the slightest mistake cost you 5 minutes, it would be much more enjoyable. In the angry bee analogy, it would mean having both of your hands free AND a fly swatter. That and making USN CVs actually worth while.

Ask for memes and thou shalt receive

Are you sure you fixed everything properly ? After a DD binge for the past week, I took about my BBs again, and seriously, what? There is absolutely nothing consistent for me anymore. Keeping in mind that my Alsace waifu has 11.9k alpha.... I've been doing 7k damage salvoes with 8 overpens on broadside BBs 14km away and 8k damage salvoes in 4 overpens on a Kebab 8km away. I can do 1.8k damage on one regular pen on an intact ship, and the very next shell will do a regular pen for 3.8k So I've been observing on the receiving end as well. I can go full potato broadside and only take 9k damage from 3 separate BBs. But lo and behold, I angle and suddenly it's -26k from a single one. Hell, I've seen shells phase through enemies, I've seen shells shot at 350mm belts overpen at point blank range, shells hitting flat turret faces ricochet, and shells hitting bows at blatantly autobounce angles just go through. Now, had this been any random time, I'd wave it off as a massive fluke spanning over multiple days.... But right after an AP fix to fix a bug that made it in game after patch testing showed no bug, despite the bug being evident to anyone playing the game for more than 5 battles. Before anyone asks, I'm sitting pretty on a 200mbps direct fiber optic connection, with the router 1m away from my PC connected via ethernet, PC which can run the game smoothly at 60 fps. So I ask again, AP is fixed and back to normal? As far as thread discussion goes, has anyone else noticed oddities since the hotfix?

Exageration can be humor, und humor ist sehr verboten !

Video footage of WG CV balance team:

So red = bad, blue = good? No *edited* wonder why bad players are drawn to the borders and stay as far away from enemies as they can, they're blue lines and red dots !

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=is+stupidity+contagious%3F

The cumulative double strike thing is a very odd design choice. And it's just that, a choice. A team decided to make it cumulative. On one hand, I've seen a double double strike once. On the other, why? "Rare so balanced" isn't a good argument. I would really like to see the design board and meeting transcript for that decision.7 EDIT: What happens in scenarios if someone gets 10 double strikes? Invisible ship? Is there a limit?