basharran

Do they disable ammo racks in WoT E-sports? Does anyone know that?

They have made the choice to go with the Pacific war first so thats why USN and IJN are there, that's a fine beginning since they had some of the major ship vs ship battles there in WW2. It's most iconic and will boost sales in the US, most European countries don't have that big a navy at any time in their history so either will play the game or won't depending on personal interest (as that their country will probably never be part of the game anyway). RN would have been the 3rd navy as I would have planned it as it's very well known and respected for the time period WoWs is depicting. KM has some iconic names but other than that is not so special imho (although I think they made some very pleasant looking ships).

If the game is "ready" is not a question about the number of lines and ships but more in balance and mechanics, that would be the major question to be answered. But if you call it OBT/soft launch/release/etc doesn't really matter, WG will keep on building and tweaking so no worries.

That would be a bad thing, knowing how and when to citadel is powerful enough as it is. Detonation mechanic is fine now and doesn't feel out of balance.

Ha, another point to proof that smaller bandwith in tier distribution is a good thing . Have only seen 1 or 2 tirpitzes so far in my Cleveland, no fun there to be had

Well, to be honest too many people will (ab)use shown stats to express an opinion about another player, some people don't need the stats shown to express their opinion nontheless. However this is not to you personally. There is nothing wrong with showing statistics as it currently is (out of the game) and also global statistics can tell the developer a lot about what is going on so all fine by me. In my opinion it goes wrong if we go in any form of XVM style statistics shown ingame. Just pick any thread on this forum and in most there is someone telling another poster they have no right to speak because of "link to stats". I think that's the main reason so many people are adverse of stats being shown.

Only cruisers with 152 mm or smaller guns, so tier 5 IJN Furutaka with 200/203 mm doesn't have this boost anymore. Being outranged is only for the early battleships, from tier 5 and up it will not be the case anymore (maybe except on some stock configs).

Let the stats be as they are since OBT, I don't mind. People who want to base their "happiness" on stats are welcome to do so. Please also respect the other people who care nothing about stats and just want to play a game and have some fun. I personally want to see what I have been doing, but I couldn't care less about the stats of the other people in the game.

It's all a matter of perception and being unable to win despite you trying your best isn't encouraging, I get that. But the logic being implied here is coming from that same perception (centered on self), it is near impossible to create a MM logic to steer all players to around 50%, this is much easier done by doing nothing (a.k.a. let it be random) except of course the setting of the parameters like tier offset, etc. Also the perception that the matchmaker is against "you" specifically can't also be true in a pool of 20-30k online players. So in short: yes, I can understand your frustration. No, there is no conspiracy against you. When it gets to you just go and do something else for a while, works for me!

Sometimes when you are playing you can hit a border (without intention), I think that the disable weapons (including airplanes) option will actually work very well.

I'm affraid his computer won't allow the forum to be properly rendered as well... so hence the absence of updates Game should run fine on any post stone age system, so there must be something wrong in your setup. My gamelaptop (i7 + 780M + 16Gb) runs everything maxed out @60+ fps (1080p).

Have said so in a earlier thread and will say it again: I think flags should be achievement only, this will inspire people to try harder and be decent at the game.

Basically you are rendering cruisers unable to win a lot of games as they cannot kill the enemy BB's anymore (as their AP shells lack the penetration to deal with BB armor). This can't be considered balanced in my book. I do agree that the HE mechanics can be annoying, but this doesn't sound like the solution to me.

It would be nice to have a bit more realism in the approach flight for TB. Even if you are aware and start turning into them, the CV player will simply keep of the attack and change the approach, since your rudder is commited and your speed is low this makes you a sitting duck in your BB (even when you where fully aware and prepared). It would be nice to have 2 cruisers close to you and help out, but we all know this is most likely not the case in random battles and even when in a division the game will start you both on oppossite sites of the map more often than not. So yes, it's a arcade game and I like it for that, but all shipclasses should be "fair" and quite a lot of people currently think CV is not fair, TB bomber behaviour being one of the items.

Should be the case since the screws will start turning the oppossite direction. In the game however this is not taken into account (I see no difference when just 0 power or full rev). The screws are always turning btw (did you notice?)

You know what they say: "The only constant factor in all those games, was you!|". So it happens, just try to have fun each game and let the stats, be stats (let's hope that XVM gets killed for WoT as well....).

Could also be the time of day, available players in MM tier spread, etc, etc. Too much variables and a too small sample size to make anything out of it. Be glad that all ships in a team can contribute something (which is not Always the case in the other WG titles).

I also think it's just bad luck. I play quite often in divisions (60% of the time) of 2 or 3 people and don't get any other results in the MM than when going in alone. And the one time you are top tier you get randomly wacked by a stray shell resulting in you getting the "detonation" achievement

They do this more or less in WoT and there it's very frustrating, I find it refreshing that your personal performance has a greater say in WoWs, still needs some tweaking though and secondary bonuses need to be implemented. But I think WG will get it right this time!

I would rather see a rebalancing instead of a nerf (yes, I know it's a WG game), for instance buff xp and credits for airplane kills and force mixed setups for CV's. The matchmaker should not allow these imbalanced games, hopefully that will be adressed soon, otherwise I can see inrepairable damage to the playerbase. Also just from my small observation from CBT and OBT matches, CV's are almost in all cases in the top 1/3 of the teamlist at game end, no matter if they win or loose. That's also telling something in my book.

Only if it has a concealment as stated by OP of 50 meters (afaik the best concealment with camo paint is about 5.8 km?)

WR doesn't really matter in WoWs as you're personal input is more rewarding than win/loss. Since these improvements you've bought will add to your survivability, they offer you a chance to do more damage and gain more xp and credits (which makes the bonus flags on these even more powerfull). So in my opinion these flags should be as they are now, win them when (un)lucky or never see them at all on your own ships.

If you can pay for something only with money and that something gives you any direct (combat) advantage in game I tend to see it as P2W.

Well Norway showed the Germans that going head on with the RN was not a good idea. They've lost almost all their destroyers in one go there to a battleship with her escorts.

I really like that the flags are direct result of something you've done or has happened to you (I'm looking at you "detonation"). I hope(d) that WG will not go the WoT way with this game. So personally I would like NOT to have these flags in the store.