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I'm assuming the complaints are for the high tiers, because my AS Ryujo is a decent credit grinder even with the flat repair cost.

So now we know. National weekend missions, with boot camps in between. Meh. I hope we get ARP or something like Rule the Waves next month. At least now I know what to hold off on buying.

I run it fine with some settings turned up, including AA and shadows, on a laptop with an i3. It's perfectly fine as far as I'm concerned, and I wouldn't want any changes to the engine that would impact the performance.

Either they want everyone to just play ranked and not be distracted grinding t7 ARP stuff, or they just got lazy this month. Well, ranked isn't for everyone, only people who don't mind playing t6 or t8 7v7 with easily-irritated teammates and lots of stress.

Why give them t10 anyway? It's not representative of the meat of the game, that would be t5-t6. You're not even supposed to be able to play t10 exclusively due to the costs. I can't think of why WG would have people play t10 as a teaser either. Suppose you try it that way and then go play the game for real and you have to start with some clunker from the 1900s.

I feel like the current skill system has a lot of room for improvement and expansion, whether broken up or not. Especially for CVs, the progression is almost completely linear, there are just so few relevant skills. Then there are skills that are practically worthless, like Last Chance or the +HP one. A good skill system gives equally useful choices that you pick based on your playstyle, and I'm not quite getting that yet. Needs more variety and balance. Breaking it up would just overcomplicate it - give us more points and more customization options.

I don't know if I'm just good with CV, or just overly cautious with CLs, but I have better average damage with my AS Ryujo (1x torps, 2x bombers) than with any equivalent tier cruiser. OTOH by the end of the match I'm unable to do any more damage because those planes get torn up all the time and I don't have many reserves.

This shouldn't be a skill, it should be an inbuilt mechanic. It's understood that the MM has to use tier spread to keep queue times short, which unfortunately means you have to face weaker or stronger ships. Fine. But to expect people to invest points in order to somewhat make up for the tier spread is cheeky to say the least. Not to mention it becomes uselsss at t10, in fact it's only useful in matches where there is a higher-tier opponent with higher-tier fighters (which doesn't seem too common at t6). Just a badly-thought-out skill that should be changed.

I'm on a high-latency connection, so the slower pace of WoWS works out a lot better. I did try WoT again recently and egad, what happened to it? Why was every t5 match I tried over in 5 minutes due to zerg rushing? I remember a lot more camping and scouting, not just 100% lemming all day every day.

Because these characters are aimed more at children. There'd still be plenty of people wanting to get them just to add them to the collection. Actually, it'd be hilarious to have Mickey or Donald for the battle voices.

Hopefully when it comes back up we'll see another ARP promo mission, or something like Rule the Waves.

How do the economy changes affect tiers 1-4? Do they earn more credits and XP now, or less? Do they earn more relative to t5-t6 than before?

Meh, I'm more scared of some tiny DD keeping me burning permanently with salvo after salvo of accurate gunfire while dodging 95% of all shots fired at it at 13km. I don't think it's a coincidence that my best games were with the Gnevny. And that's without AFT, CE or stealth firing.

I love the new NY port theme and it always bugged me that ships didn't use the appropriate language in comms.

I picked up a Ryujo and had a game where I earned more than ever before - 170k non-prem. Winning game where I killed 41 planes and got a couple torp and bomb hits, and did some spotting. Good game but nothing too amazing. I'm glad for the update since I've always wanted a AS carrier and now that playstyle is properly rewarded.

That's just nonsense. Maybe in the higher tiers, I don't know. But planes can mostly safely orbit DDs and keep them spotted. What bothers me is the large number of afk CVs. A good 1/3 of games I've played the last 3 days, my partner either stayed afk the whole match, or decided to become active halfway through. This is the kind of thing a flat repair fee might slightly discourage. Definitely a game-ruiner for the other CV.

How big was today's update? I'm on a slow connection so it's helpful to know.

Well, why not? I'd rather use the view that shows me the entire situation in one glance, and then zoom in when I need to fine-tune something, like torpedo drops. Why else would I want to be zoomed in on one sector? And what, am I supposed to use the tiny minimap to issue movement orders?

I haven't played CVs a lot (hell I still have less than 500 battles total) but my issues have been as follows: - When the match starts, the game pulls you to the less useful local view. There's no reason to even use this mode at the match start. - From the strategic view, I cannot see the type of ship I'm looking at. That a huge oversight. I need to know if that BB is a Ishizuchi or a freaking Texas, without having to go to the local view. At least show it under the player name when holding down Alt. - Double-clicking to ping sectors in chat should be disabled for CVs. It's too easy to do it accidentally when clicking around on the strategic map. - iirc you have to zoom in to see the health of enemy planes. In general, the strategic view should give more feedback for CVs. Local view should be mainly for aiming torp drops and maneuvering the CV. You should not have to zoom in to get critical information.

Anything CL, CA or BC. That sneaky Brit CL line could have been great for me but now it's all up in the air...

I don't know if this is a bug but am I not supposed to get Arsonist once a day for a killing blow with fire? Or Die-Hard for ramming? I haven't gotten any of these recently, nor any signals, despite fulfilling the conditions.

Definitely random PVP. I should have gotten Arsonist multiple times, and I'm guessing crashing into a BB with a DD, killing you both, should still get Die-Hard. I didn't.

To be fair, ''acquisition'' is a term with multiple meanings and it's unnecessarily used here. Should be ''detection'', to spare people the confusion.

GeForce 940M i3 4000M 8GB RAM Windows 10 Runs at a steady 40fps (where I have it capped) on medium-high settings, except for very busy situations when it drops a little. Can't complain, it's perfectly playable and is less prone to microstuttering than most games (which can be a bit of an issue on middling laptops in my experience).

It mystifies me how/why people can stomach grinding anything past t7. War Thunder does the same thing, but at least there you get a choice of which vehicle to grind with, it's not 100% linear.