Karkong_the_Impaler

I'm intrigued since forever, but I'm afraid the gameplay would bore me to death...

Welcome btw.

WG clearly hates Ronaldo, that must be it. But as I've learned, there are way around that predicament! He can simply club T1 seals and archive super unicum status without a modicum of skill required.

Comic sans, checks out. Can we please stop generalizing? There are also Germans who spew Nazi slurs in the game and there is very little I have in common with these persons.

Seriously? Just how low can you go without playing submersible scum?! The classic griefer mindset, people whom nobody told that it's wrong to torture animals when they were little.

As I currently mostly play spammers, I'm not overly concerned about salvos going astray - I just hope the enemy has the same issues and hits me less, therefore anything agile/fast reloading should basically profit. But to be honest it's still annoying if a DD pops up and the first salvo goes into the water. Or when I RMB freelook (which I do a lot) and see, in the corner of my eye, the the salvo spraying anything but my target because.. don't know, spaghetti code, I guess. With Vermont I try to compensate by aiming longer. Also... did no one yet acknowledge the bug? @Seraphice @YabbaCoe Isn't that your job? At least feed us some copium.

I see you and I raise you a Colbert: Made of citadel someone stuck just enough wet toilet paper on to arm every AP grenade. Firecracker artillery, HE shatters on everything, AP not improved - but at least about a second less float time than that cheap [edited]chinese copy 13,8km destroyer artillery with impressive DPM on paper (not so much in reality) but a hilarious psychological effect - no one stays still when under fire. Also, fires. No torps. Zero. Nada. Nothing. Certainly not that Jinan wall of skill. No smoke at all, it's island or bust. Or dodge harder™. Ocean is fun! (Alternatively begging smoke of the DDs, which actually works better than expected. Fast to very fast with speed boost and very agile if you dump all pretense at concealment. decent AA, if you drop hydro, you could get DefAA. (Why, though?) absolutely everybody and their brother "likes" to shoot at you, (what's not to like?) Still one of the most fun boats I've yet played. Where Jinan is an aequivalent of the Great Wall, single handedly stopping the combined assault of a whole flank (if someone spots), the Colbert is more like a Clochard, ragged, competent in the art of running away, begging others for help and murdering stuff from behind a hill. Or face punching DDs untill they show proper respect. I guess it's mainly a question of which gameplay suits you - some ships just click, some ships which are objectively "good" might be meh to you. If you hate the line at tier 8, I don't see how you will enjoy tier 10 any better.

I see a lot of "UA" in clan tags and names. Don't forget the game is dirt cheap if you don't whale and while I love to complain like anyone here (supershits, submersible scum, sky cancer..) it's still a good game, keeping me entertained. Or I wouldn't be in the forum. Or playing it every evening. Also, some empathy isn't too much to ask for, fellow enjoyers of the same game get their world turned upside down by "speshul operations", they have to switch servers and first thing someone complains is that they might not speak english? Seriously? Come on. Also, they will end up on the enemy team as much as on yours, so, same same.

Play horror movie violins in the background to really appreciate this

If I understood that incoherent rant correctly, you believe you're a super unicum in disguise, just held back by getting shuffled into the crap teams, over and over again - is that about right? Well, then, that's bovine excrement, that's the common excuse of the terrible, the bad and the mediocre, because while they feel that they have superior skills, they - somehow and inexplicably - don't result in good stats.

All vertical and touching the lower edge, all aranged that the diagonals are not touched works best for me. I use the auto play.

@Itwastuesday That's you in the Napoli...

Because you don't carry. Being on top of the scoreboard means little. Yes, there are games where you can't do anything. Guess what, even the best of superunicums can't win 25% of their games. But if you keep losing, continuously, then it's you.

Actually you can consider it a higher form of torpedobeats and it does work. Dodge harder™ 20220919_213406_PFSC510-Colbert_20_NE_two_brothers.wowsreplay Edit: threw the Druid one out, because there was too much luck involved... 20220911_202844_PBSD510-Druid_52_Britain(1).wowsreplay

This. People rage more about bad plays instead of complimenting good ones. To my surprise I found out that two in three potato DDs will put down a smoke if you ask nicely and I make a point of complimenting everyone of them, even if I put them on my ignore list (nothing personal, just a nice orange warning)

This win rate percentage thing doesn't really work, for multiple reasons. Alone the influx of new (usually bad) players and say, half of them leaving again, because they didn't git gud so it wasn't fun for them, they basically exist on paper only but still influence win rates. What we really need is some kind of moving average filter and some smart filtering choices concerning class and subclass. Someone doing ok in a Marceau can do ok in a Kleber and is probably not automatically ok in a Shima, you get my drift. Also, the game mode might be appealing for potatos, because "skill based match making" - and thus unappealing for above average players.

Maybe some players skill can't be equalized by the "skill based MM"? We know this happens with super unicums and especially tryhard divisions - I assume it works the other way around, too.

This is apparently so much fun. I play a lot of WoWs and spend time in this forum... but even I don't care the least. I wonder who does. On the other hand I consider watching streamers play a game to be on the same level of absurdity as watching people open boxes on youtube.

That's exactly my point and then again not. I don't see spending dubs to get more rewards, to obtain more ships which are also not fun, not to be desireable. On the other hand unfortunately one has to play these once in a while to find out about if you actually like them. That sounds about trash, but sure, some players really profit from not having to manually aim their guns, it's only natural WG provides more of these ships for the otherwise ineffectual playerbase. If you're above average, I'd probably steer clear of it - Also, I've yet to see a german ship that is fun for me to play...

But is it fun? If you just want a tier X, take a million free exp and get yourself one... and since the discounts aren't available, I'd wait for the next dockyard tier 10 anyway. Although I have to admit that paytorico has it's strengths and is arguably better than the others, it's not appealing to me. Fortunately the game offers thoroughly enjoyable ships for less and since it's the same as with cars, you can only drive one at any time, so the need for more than one enjoyable ship is limited to the instances where you leave the game early. But yes, I've already said so in the coal thread - once in a while you need something new.

Nope. It needs to be balanced against the other ships. That's why the Emden doesn't have the torpedo tubes, because on Tier II no one has. Yes, it probably would be fun to seal club people with it. It wouldn't be fun to be seal clubbed with it. I think that's the main issue here, you don't consider the receiving end. By creating a bovine exrement speshul captain whom I can also put on Vermont? Or Forrest Dump? Or Desmo? For accuracy at tier 8 in the US tree we already have North Carolina, leave it at that. Also Bismarck was famous for detonating british battlecruisers - but what do we get? Cross eyed gunners and a freshly oiled teak deck. Keep on dreaming about an overpowered seal club; This is the reason why I sometimes think that WGs spreadsheet balancing has at least some merit because as long as they do that, they don't listen to you. I'll see myself out.

At least brawls feature "skill based MM", that means if everything works out, even you should have a 50% win rate if the sample rate is just high enough. If that's not enough of an improvement to your usual fare, you are right, there is only coop left where you can safely rely on your team to carry you to victory. Caveat: Unless 'skill based MM' results are skewed by super unicum tryhard divs that get matched anyway, because WG doesn't want them to wait in a queue - but there are no divs at the moment...

Whatever floats their boat, as long as the codes turn up here. I think this event is even worse than the Hampshire one, at least you could space bar through the wall of text and do a mission. But the rewards are quite good this year I have to admit. I use https://www.wows-gamer-blog.com/ , can recommend.

You can still do that, especially with the high volume/atrocious shell ballistic spammers. Just use the minimap to aim at the ship pushing you while you kite, just outside your maximum range in open water. With the Colberts golden shower it's great fun for everyone involved!

Keep Coal for a captain or a new ship? But yes, I feel you, once in a while you need something new to rekindle an interest in the game.