Nechrom

1) No, that's called accuracy stats. It's in every game like this including shooters. 2) Armor gets better with better hulls. The citadel is really resilient and the hull armor is more than enough unless you sit with your side straight towards the enemy. 3) I guess you have to get the last hull and fire control first. But even before that you still get 18 km range which is more than enough. Fuso stock, now that's a range issue.

Skip stock hull. Problem solved.

Stopped reading at "BBs less underpowered".

I thought it was still fun before 0.5.3 even if it wasn't really an objectively good ship. But after the patch it lost the last of its teeth and now it's just a worse Tenryu at tier IV. I hope they will get to it in the next patch and I will give them until then before I start raising hell.

Someone who hasn't played another CA... The Pensacola is fine. It has better AA than the Myoko, it has amazing accuracy, great gun angels and it's more maneuverable than the Myoko. The only weakness worth noting is the extremely long visibility distance.

If your only goal is to disrupt incoming planes, then sure the 5 km base range will help. But it's still really bad DPS even after the buff, and the rest of the pre-tier IX IJN CA AA battery got nerfed (the 25 mm that is). The question is if you're content with just providing your Defensive Fire consumable to nearby ships without actually getting much for it in terms of rewards. Your main gun range sure isn't going to be enough to contribute from BB distance unless you group up with a BB willing to be a bit more aggressive than the average player. There are very few ships I'd put in a purely support role. Atlanta being the only one before tier IX (not counting the MK). Any tier IX or X CA can fill the AA/support role. At those tiers BBs and CVs are often the deciding factor, so providing cover to them is pretty important both by screening for DDs/incoming torpedoes and for AA. EDIT: If you're only looking to provide support using Defensive Fire then just jump in a Benson/Lo Yang and you have the same 5 km base range, more charges for the consumable, ability to surprise the enemy CV when it's too late to abort the bombing run and also have better AA dps than the Atago.

I've tried learning to lead the target using the scale of the ship I'm shooting at. That way I don't get thrown off much when I change zoom levels or custom modded crosshairs. That's the method I'd recommend if you want the freedom of trying out new crosshairs or zoom levels.

Someone actually god mad at a free global skill reset following a major skill overhaul... just wow. Reminds me of one time while I was working at a call center and I was calling people on behalf of their current telephone service provider. When the customers didn't want to change anything about their service or plan, we just gave them a small 7€ credit on their next bill as a thanks for continuing to use that provider and giving us a few minutes of their time. One guy actually refused to accept the credit.

That would not be possible if what they said is true. The changes to the matchmaker only works within an already assembled battle. So the tiers of the ships you play with has already been decided when the new matchmaking feature starts looking at the team compositions and starts swapping ships between teams. I've had bad MM luck with the Anshan basically since I got her. I've seen tier VIII ships in 90% of my battles so far. But that's the way RNG works. It's not going to give you an even spread of outcomes and predictable patterns. Clustering will appear at some point.

20 min is plenty if people don't wait 10 min before they start playing. I'd go in the other direction and impose a lower soft time limit by way of making all battles 3-4 point conquest. Make people play the game straight away or lose fast. One sided battles should be over fast, while close exciting battles should have room to go on for 20 min. Who actually prefers standard battles (as they are now called) over conquest? That's what I'd like to know. I can't come up with a single thing that is better about standard battles.

Do you have the same e-mail address for your PTR-account?

I'll just leave this here...

I didn't play on the PTR but I did get a notification mail that 0.5.3 has gone live. Did you at least get that one?

I'm sure we'll be able to figure this one out using the wealth of information you have provided us.

I think it's better now. The old indicators were a bit small on 1440p.

Sure there are ships benefiting from AFT at tier 5 and lower. But aside from the two I mentioned (Albany and Yubari) they are all solid ships even without that extra range and/or RoF. Omaha definitely doesn't need that extra buff from those captain skills. It's one of the best CLs in the game and not due to its ability to lob shells outside of BB range. A ship like the Yubari on the other hand needs all the help it can get. It's flimsy like a DD, has only 4 x 140mm and mediocre torpedoes. Aside from the skill changes the patch will also slash its AA which was its niche and advertised advantage when they sold it. It wasn't in a great position before 0.5.3 and now it's going to be even worse. That's a good example of a ship which leaned a great deal on those captain skills and which needs to be fixed as a result. But like I said, there are not even a handful of ships, like the Yubari, which will suffer from these changes to the point that they need fixing.

The lopsided teams are supposed to get fixed in 0.5.3 tomorrow. So that's one issue potentially gone. Other than that I suggest you level up a US or Russian DD and go hunting. Lacking CVs it's the DDs job to keep other DDs in check. CAs are the fire support and the screen, not the hunters.

He's saying that's what other people say on the forums. Not what he wants to happen. Read thoroughly, don't just skim.

The AFT change is fine. But a few ships need fixing as a result and not in 6 months, but now. I don't believe that most ships in the tier V and lower bracket needed AFT at all. It just made USN BBs that much more frustrating to use. There are of course exceptions to that rule, like the Albany (which they fixed) and Yubari (which they didn't fix and also ruined as an AA platform). They also need to roll back the Mogami nerfs they put in place specifically because it could use AFT, BFT and Expert Marksman. That's just common sense. Then they can look at increasing the base range a bit if it is needed.

So now we have the Chinese tier VI Gremyashchy in the shop. Two flavors of special offer: Anshan - Ultimate 29.99€ 1 Port slot 3000 doubloons Torpedo Tube Modification 1 Main Battery Modification 2 Propulsion Modification 1 Propulsion Modification 2 50× Equal Speed Charlie London Anshan 14.99€ 1 Port slot Another two-choice deal with no frills if you prefer that. The ship is a Gremyashchy with 0.2 km higher detectability and 5.9 km firing penalty to your detectability instead of the 3.8 km with the Gremyashchy. EDIT: Comes with permanent camo which offers +100% free XP on top of the normal premium DD camo bonuses. - credit to piet11111 and Kurbain for pointing this out. Worth noting is also that this is a more time limited offer than the Lo Yang. You have roughly 4 days to decide.

25 MB uncompressed just to add circles in the water? But I'm not modder so what do I know.

Then use the short range ones. You have the choice. There's a reason why the Sims is one of the most agile destroyers in the game, and it's not so you can cruise around at long range launching stealth torpedoes and spamming HE. Tactical "hit and smoke" is it's forte. Or you can study under Trigger_Happy_Dad if you're dead set on making the long range torpedoes work.

That's your problem right there. Take a chill pill.

A short reminder that the Anshan special offer will end at 06:00am CET(GMT+1) tomorrow (16th February) at which point you will no longer be able to get the ship for the foreseeable future.

Server lag. It's been like this for as long as I can remember. Sometimes it's barely noticeable, but other times your shots can clip through a good portion of a ships stern and likewise hit the air in front of its bow.