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Not trying to quote snipe or anything, but have I missed another update on the Azuma's status? Last I heard it'd been shifted down to Tier IX, to match up with the Kron and Alaska. TBH, I'd be delighted if she did hop back up to Tier X, I could do with something to spice up my clan battle ship selection choices.

well, that sounds legit.

I don't know - that was the one where you were in the Ibuki, and I was lexington-ing around the place wasn't it? I've logged out since so can't see the xp screen, but you were up there in the top 3 or so weren't you? I was providing some close -in support to the guys moving down to the Southern cap, then they got gibbed and I had to fight a bit of a rearguard action. Still, plenty of plane kills!

So in other words, they're a representative cross-section of the wider WOWS playerbase?

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I'll suggest this is being caused by a healthy mix of rng and confirmation bias.

To be honest, I've not had any CV-related issues in DDs since the rework, other than one solitary game where I completely screwed up in a Shiratsuyu. Even in that one, the CV only did 3k damage, the rest was incoming shellfire whilst spotted. The big difference is that the meta's changed to strongly counter lone wolves wanting to sail without nearby support, and a lot of people haven't adapted their playstyle yet to accommodate it. I do appreciate that it's possible I've been incredibly fortunate and not had any godlike enemy CV players since the rework, but if that's the case then they're clearly rare enough to not be worth balancing the game round.

I'm not at home right now so can't confirm it, but haven't they just modelled the Hood's special rocket AA by adding a second mid-range aura for it? (As in it has 1 long range aura, 2 mid range and then 1 short range). The main advantage to that seems to be the mid-range gets a double bonus from the AA mod in slot 3, giving you +4 flak bursts there rather than the standard +2.

To be honest it's worse than that. It'd be like them dropping all ship secondaries to base range only, and for the Tirpitz the 150mm would only fire at ships when they're between 6km and 7.5km .

It's not "mathematically impossible", you yourself posted a game earlier (in the kagero) with around 150k earnings. 160 games at that rate would complete the required 6 tasks, and it's not mathematically impossible to do that many co-op games in the available time. Yes, it's much harder to do it if you insist on trying to complete the objectives in the least efficient method possible, but it's by no means impossible.

@RAHJAILARI in fairness to @_Bajkal, in the two and a quarter years since they posted that comment people have generally learned to fire in to smoke more often.

Have you ever noticed a calm person with a loud voice? I'd suggest not reading little books whilst drinking chunky soup.

I want to join the lottery. Good luck everyone!

Thanks for offering us the benefit of that completely objective and unbiased viewpoint.

I recognise the good intent behind the "top xp loser retains a star", and it does at least mean that stars get added in to the system at a steady rate, but it certainly is frustrating (albeit understandable) to see people playing whose sole focus is to retain it at all costs. I've been out of the country for a few weeks so have only just got into ranked this season (58% WR so far after 25 odd battles so far, rank 11) but it seems to be even more toxic than before. It's rare to see teamwork, and people are far more willing to start spouting useless vitriol and insults than offer any useful advice. Case in point was the match below, names redacted to avoid shaming etc, but I spent a large portion of that match with a dead (detonated...) teammate raging at me for being a useless noob cruiser, complaining that the game was an auto-loss because the enemy had managed to take a whole two of the cap points for a minute and just generally being a massive distraction. It would be nice if people just made an attempt to empathise with others in the game, but it seems to rarely be the case, so I'll see how long I can stick it out for before waiting the rest of the season out.

Well, it might have been a waste of space, but how did you keep track of it? As the saying goes, "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence". Without it, there's really no reason to believe you're telling the truth.

Thank you for your largely unrelated response, although I note you didn't answer my question. Anyway, I think you're picking on the wrong person, I certainly didn't suggest your evidence was non-existent and almost certainly untrue. I know for myself just how possible it is for a series of unlikely events to occur - only the other day I saw a giraffe riding a walrus down the middle of the road! It was overtaken by a crocodile on a bicycle, and then I had to step over a turtle who was skateboarding along the cycle path - when I got home, my cat was looking at me quizically in the window. In fact, it had an expression largely like mine on reading your post. Unfortunately, my phone was low on memory but as evidence that all the above happened I attach a picture below as evidence for all of the above.

@Anthoniusii Have you considered using your powers to massively influence the laws of probability by working at a casino or equivalent? I mean the chances of being bottom tier in 96% of your T8 battles is staggering enough, but then to further compound that by having only a maximum of one other teammate at the same tier in each of those battles makes you unique amongst humans. The casino owners may want to see a little more evidence of your powers than a few cherrypicked screenshots though.

That's a lovely gif, but it has me confused. Why on earth would such an insightful topic - with a well-reasoned and thoughtful opening post - get locked? It's hardly as though the OP just mindlessly splurged some baseless threats and inane comparisons onto the page.

Ah, Spaced. Wonďeeful series, up there with Black Books in my opinion. Incidentally that was "wonderful" but my phone weirdly auto-corrected to that word, and I was intrigued by it.

Ho hum . . .

Well I think that's something which we can all agree on. Look, the reason the OP got such a derisory response is that they came out with this complete nonsense post, written as though it were a stream of consciousness from an eight year old having a tantrum. It's perfectly reasonable for people to request some form of evidence when presented with such ludicrous claims, and inevitably the sort of poster who creates these threads is never able to provide it. As I'm sure you'll appreciate, when the cannon jumps frog the windy shrimp is ornate engraved saddle.

Rephrasing that for the OP's benefit: Goggle trains need STEEL for improvised movements? Haxx!! Explain me why WG?!?

If an enemy ship has thrown a mountain at you, I'd suggest sending a replay in to the WG team and asking them to explain how it happened. It must have been stunning to see though, how tall was it, and which ship fired it at you? I'm not surprised it made you wail, I think most people would do the same if a gigantic landmass was suddenly catapulted into them at hundreds of metres per second.

Barn Hunter Deluxe - it was a niche indie game in the early 2000s where you had to travel round the countryside stealing barns from unsuspecting farmers.