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Again, how you would know precise details of "manual flak" when none were provided?

And how exactly you know detailed works of my version of "manual AA" when I haven't wrote it down, as writing suggestion and feedback for WG is bigger waste of keyboard than trolling you and that's quite an achievement Spawn cost for aircraft was increased considerably due to incessant player REEE feedback about OP planes and "if I want to play planes I'd go air". And shouldn't torps be overall lethal? Its sort of "realistic", apparently the flavor WT players like

Still you can't quite see where you're going by looking at the sky all the time That has more to do with balans way how crew works and how it totally can't be improved by feeding them doubloons golden eagles.

Still prevents you from aiming main armament or whatever you have in hand at the moment

But doesn't it conflict with

No one stops you from starting L0V3 und W@r$#ips game of your own, which will be perfectly balanced they way you see fit

THEN WHY NOT AUTOMATE IMPORTANT STUFF SO I CAN TETRIS IN PEACE WHILE MUCHING CHIPS AND YELLING AT CAT TO SHUT UP

So, guy who learned how to aim with BB guns and deletes ships left right and center is fine, but other guy who spent his time mastering AA is a no go? Besides back in 2018 Halloween event, subs had variable depth when submerged, IIRC even there was achievement for going for maximum depth. But looking at Gamescon reveal, submerged depth is set on -50 meters. You can't crash dive manually to evade derp charges, but there will be consumable that will do that for you It all boils down to players wanting to delete aircraft threat without putting any effort to it, so they can pew pew at boats in peace, which sounds like pre 0.8.7 Minotaur to me. So, next step as "quality of life" would be automatic torpedo evasion? Automatic gunnery? Both, so you can play tetris in peace?

Assuming War Thunder approach, you point crosshair at the sky and all available AA opens fire when you find location of left mouse button, then it would be basically case of finding the lead. Just like in Battlefield when manning an AA gun And in case you've missed it, "automatically generated flak" gives you just enough time to react. With manual aim one might actually learn how2flak and spawn them closer to the squadron, if not outright into the squadron. And yet, somehow players cope with operating WSAD keys, mouse, aiming their guns, switching to torps as well evading them... mostly.

There is hint of possibility it would be at least fun, not sure if WG can pull it off though.

Yep, Wargaming is always in need of more data

Because "press button to pew pew" is even less interesting than throwing a dice every 30s?

Sounds like other ship class... what was it... something about ironing board... flat? Ah yes, carriers

"You see, Smolensk is of balans. If she was overpowered, she would break 550k damage set by Hakuryu of old"

Well, the same could be said about old Ctrl+click on plane or 1st gen Sector thingy. Though you could time in side switches to maximize dps. With new Sector, if you see slingshot coming, you can wait with activation to not waste initial hit on immunity frames.

This is part where you do And estimate yourself if Smolensk is up your alley

If you have Atlanta/Flint, then that would be closest ship in playstyle IMO to Smolensk - glass, many but small guns, though russian get russian ballistics. And there is still risk of Smol getting nerfed, if not from Spreadshiet data showing imbalans, then from "(BB) playerbase feedback". They removed stealth firing based on that, so enough whine and Smolensk can get hit as well with nerf or two

S_O confirmed in REEEddit Q&A coal/fxp ships are "not immune to balance checks" unless they are offered for cash as well. So if you want to be on safe side, Jean Bart or Georgia. Which are also coincidentally battleships, so more forgiving to play and less likely to get nerf via "global change" And these two battleships perfectly fit into "self contained fighting unit" - they have speed, Speed Boost to overcome their clumsiness, armor, heals, decent to great AA, some secondaries for memes, range and good guns, either of overmatch variety or with MBRB for rapid citadel extraction

Atago in a nutshell

Keep in mind you have glorious Russian programmering here, for example gpu in port goes batship full overdrive and WG still can't be arsed to deal with that I'd run FurMark (I think it was) for 15min just to be sure Other thing coming to mind, you can try underclock GPU a bit in driver settings, -50MHz for starters and see how that goes

Quality meth camrade Looks like VRAM failing or overheating, not sure if you can measure VRAM temps though. Try running some GPU oriented stability tests I guess?

If you mean World of Warships ones, they aren't skins - they are separate ships. And they are no longer obtainable as collab concluded in 2016 and unless new contract will be signed, they are not coming back. Maybe some mods will let you apply their skins over "regular" counterparts. Voiceovers you can hear yourself by editing preferences.xml <sound> <voice_mod> IDS_SOUND_MOD_ARPEGGIO_[insert girl name] </voice_mod> </sound>

Except they aren't strong ENOUGH

Define "best": mining salt? Smolensk being long range HE slinger with little game impact? Yoshino fast and furious except battleship? Georgia surprisingly no nonsense (compared to newer additions) ship with gimmicks on her own? Jean Bard. Wanting to play Des Moines while playing Des Moines? Salem Keep in mind tier 10 "premiums" don't have increased credit gains, they only have tier 10 premium paint for that.

Especially as it was hotfix of 0.8.0.1 that shifted focus from flak to dps So pure "flak AA" lasted for whole week.