Kartoffelmos

Lies! You obviously sailed into a torpedo wall and then lured the server hamster away with some cheese in order to cover your mistake! (Curious to see what really caused it)

Well, I messed up royally in my game prior to the crash/server hiccup, so lucky me!

Because battleships are obviously struggling currently and any buffs to their "counters" is bad for the game.

Once it goes live (if it'll stay like this), BBabies will complain about fires nonstop in two weeks and then it will be nerfed to the ground. Wonder if you have to use AP against other destroyers or if that will even be effective.

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Seeing as some NA players are still salty about the Mikaza never being sold over there (yes, it's not like they had the option of getting it for basically nothing), I'm going to guess that she's the mystery ship.

And that isn't a deciding factor in Epicenter? In addition, every BB know where to (pre)aim, making it an extremely silly mode for cruisers. Not to mention that Epicenter usually results in both teams either racing around the islands or camping at opposite sides. Yes, you do get to do more (damage, etc.) in Epicenter, but that doesn't make the mode any better gameplay-wise.

But what's worse: Bastion or Epicenter?

Except that all/most that damage can be healed, which means that it isn't that huge of a threat that you make it out to be. EDIT: Your last remark also highlights why battleships are in an extremely good spot right now as well. As such, they do not need any more help in the form of nerfs to fires/fire damage.

A lot of salty "complaints" were made after that happened. I almost feel bad for CrySpy and Vogel who had to listen to my ranting .

Met Ubertron in his Benson when Bagel, CrySpy and I were sailing in our Gneisenaus. Well, I say we met him, but he seemed to be busy capping everything in order to achieve victory (which they did). Personally, I spent most of the game defending our caps, but in the end we simply didn't have enough ships to prevent them from capping. I did take down a Currywürst though, so I had a good game, but I still would have liked to win it :<.

So that's why the current meta is called the battleships-meta (or BB-heavy meta if you will) . Heh, you learn something new every day... Using one example that confirms your "theory" does not make it true. Here's an image of the damage distribution that was posted by the developers quite some time ago. Granted, it is rather old now, but since battleships are more numerous now (and carriers/cruisers fewer in numbers), the AP damage should be even higher today (for both cruisers and battleships):

What ship(s) did you play? I have a suspicion that you get thrown into a lot of tier X games as a cruiser since you need to fill up slots due to the current low CA/CL-pool.

I don't know about you guys, but for me, the big secret is the test server itself. It's so secret in fact, that I cannot log into it .

On your average stats? No, I think not. Two bad sessions does not automatically mean that there are exterior factors that are working against you. I could even turn the entire thing on its head: from 01.11 to 02.11 you had an increase in WR of 0,09 %. What event ran that day, since that jump is above your average performance? In addition and I mean no offence by this, the closer you are to 50 % WR, the more you will be affected by "bad players" since you are able to affect close games, but not games where you have a larger disadvantage (see my previous example or think about games with questionable DD/BB players on your side). As such, events that bring inexperienced players (3x XP on win, special missions, etc.) will have a greater impact on your performance. WG/Lesta have nothing to do with it.

You'll have to wait two more hours .

Carry harder or play battleships yourself in order to bring the BB skill balance in your team's favour? This goes for all classes by the way, but it's more notable with destroyers and battleships (or carriers if you are very good with those). I played in the same period and did not suffer for it, so I'm not sure if all the blame is on "bad teams" or the event in general. Charts with axes that are "cut" at a certain value (aka they do not start from 0). Yes, you will see the development in more detail, but very small changes will appear as much larger than they actually are. In your case, your win rate dropped a "whopping" 0,17 % from 09.11 to 13.11 and then bounced (almost) right back the following days . The difference is quite small, but on your chart it looks very dramatic.

I don't really care about other players and their motivation as long as they are not one of those "I play for fun so it's okay if I throw the game by being stupid" or "noob team, stats are luck, the only reason why I don't win is bad team mates". I have to admit that I enjoy the game less if I have a bad session, either because I'm not focused enough or because of questionable decisions of certain team mates in certain classes. And then there's detonations, which ruins my motivation (and enjoyment) in an instant .

So... am I the only one who's going to point out that charts with one or more broken axes are going to exaggerate the differences? In any case, with such events, you get more questionable players online which will impact your performance. In addition, both WoT and WoWs have so-called important vehicles (Russian heavies on chokepoint maps, destroyers on most domination maps, battleships in general) and if you get a potato in one of those whilst your enemy don't... well, carrying the match will be a lot harder if you do not use a similar or a complementary vehicle yourself. For instance, if all your battleships camp at A1 and you are not using a destroyer (in order to cap) or a battleship (in order to hold the enemy battleships back), you will have a hard(er) time.

Well, a free port slot is a good gift, I suppose... I assumed that it was a gift ship, but I would have preferred any other nationality to be honest. The RU cruisers aren't all that popular on the EU server but then again, maybe the gift ship will make more players play them.

Well, there's this tier 3 Russian cruiser named Oleg in the game files: Not sure how another unwanted Russian vessel is going to make me feel excited though. At least it's not a battleship...

Now I understand why everyone and their red-feathered pirate parrot shot at me whenever I got spotted in my Trashcan... Maybe now is not the best time to grind the RU DD line?

Gamemodel3d has the (updated) test build and has been pretty accurate in the past. After all, the data is mined from the test client(s)... In any case, that fact that they are even considering/testing this "feature" is just ridiculous, especially since battleships have enough advantages as it is.

#Battleships must be made great again! Seriously, fire the guy/gal at the balancing department already! The latest additions have been atrocious balancing-wise.