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I will respond without insulting you, which is hard trust me. No, you're disrupting the game for everyone else, yes that falls under botting. Botting is also leeching from your team, you might not leech XP since WG thankfully gives you ZERO xp for exiting matches, you're sucking the entertainment value from the game for everyone who isn't a whining little ....... ( see what I did there, no insults! ). So yeah, it's on the same level as botting and I and everyone with a sane mind will report you for botting if you display that behavior. Get used to it. Me? Dear old me? Well at least I am not some whiny little ...... ( see, again I restrained myself from insults while it's really hard considering the person I'm addressing! I should get a darn ). Ow and also WG off course, you really think exiting battles frequently is not going to get you banned when caught? Think again. WG does NOT give you the freedom to exit to port. Well off course, you got the physical option to do so by quitting the match, but WG will obviously take action against people who do this frequently and/or purposefully. Don't believe me, please continue exiting matches. You say you want a fair and enjoyable game, yet you ruin every game for everyone else if you don't like the matchmaking. The game has a +-2 matchmaking spread, you know this beforehand. I'm not the troll, but someone in this thread is.. You know the game rules, yet you press battle knowing you have a very high chance of exiting the match because you're a [edited] Knowingly risking to make this game less 'fair and enjoyable' for the 23 people left in that match. So again, someone in this thread is a troll, as well as the [edited] Ow yes it has, and you should have been here when the spread was bigger I am sure you would have loved it. The game is not unfair in MM, since the MM is equal for everyone. The only issues atm with MM is tier 5 getting up tiered more often then not ( which makes tier 7 actually be top tier more often then not ), and this is to protect new players in the low tiers ( 1 -4 ). Quitting matches and disrupting the gaming experience for the other 23 players is not feedback. It's troll behavior and it will get you banned.

After the line split there is enough room for a premium SoDak as well as a silver one, again I don't think you're missing out you're just being delayed. WG will probably be fully aware of the fact that many people would want to buy a SoDak class ship, and they will eventually release one ( WG would not model the ship just as ST exclusive, it makes no sense ).

I got both, but my experience might be skewed since I only played Leni with an 18p captain. Leni is so fast, there are many people who will not land shots reliably on you when you're doing 48.7kts ( flag + boost ). The torps a not bad at all ( speed + range ) and with the skilled captain concealment is also really good ). Its imo the ultimate universal DD. Blys is more like the ultimate support DD. Shadow allied DD's and support them from 2km behind them, in later game you can play more solo but you're less universal as Lenni. One thing though, people not having Leni might mistake the dpm for being actual, while it's pretty frequent you won't be using all five turrets due to very bad angles. In that regard the Blys is by far easier to play.

Tbf, the SoDak will eventually be in the tech tree as been said before. So the hype will just have to be put on a backburner. It's not like there won't be a SoDak available for everyone eventually, it just seems that ST will have an exclusive until the BB line is split. For me the only 'issue' is with the use of a museum ship as an ST exclusive, while there isn't much backlash on that here on EU I understand it's worse on NA because of obvious reasons. Even ST members have commented on this and said this, I read NA ST saying he wouldn't play the ship at all if it were really ST exclusive just because he would feel guilty. That should be saying something. But yes, it looks like the PR was not optimal. But, for most EU people, this isn't more then a PR mishab. While for some NA players, Alabama was something they feel connected to due to it being still afloat and that people can visit her. Would you imagine how some British players would feel if they had made Belfast an ST exclusive, even with a sister ship in the regular tree?

People are still not 100% convinced they will not be able to buy it, even when Hans told it pretty straightforward and the patch notes are in line with what he said. Still this thread has 3 pages.. the NA one is at page 18 I think? Which is normal, lots of people on NA will have emotional ties with Alabama ( bit like Belfast here in the EU/UK ). Has a WG employee said anything about the Alabama yet? Might have missed it so I thought I'd ask edit: I read that it's only for people who been in ST for at least six months. So even if you apply now just for the ship it's not going to work.

So, WG should ban you for botting then. Ok, thanks for letting us know. And if others do the same, all the better. We don't need those kind of players anyway.

Pot meet kettle....

This might work against the AI in PVE but not against human players ( they are generally better then bots, well generally then ). Again, PVE is not PVP. Perhaps you should add that to your posts, to avoid confusion about which game you're playing. Dunk is a fast battleship designed to counter panzerschiffe ( not cruisers, but heavily armed cruisers ). And again, your tactics might work in COOP but you should add that to your posts as PVP does not play the same way. People are not as simple ( programming model is pretty predictable in behavior ) as the AI. Dunq turns good but you wouldn't want to make much turns on PVP as giving a broadside is very dangerous since cruiser 203 can score citadels from far longer ranges compared with more armored battleships. Dunq is the tier 6 ultimate bow tanker for a reason. I agree on the gun performance, both in penetration and the high fire chance. Good captains in Dunk will switch ammo depending on targets and utility ( see a BB which just used his repair to repair a fire started by one of your allied cruisers/dds/carriers -> it's pretty common to start multiple fires per salvo so your fire damage will be quite high. This is a very strong tactical weapon and I hate going up against a captain which uses it well. Dunq with manual AAA is pretty good according to people I know who specced their captain that way ( those people play PVP, PVE is not the same as PVP, for instance I never seen the AI doing a manual drop ). Stock AAA is bad but with the manual AAA perk it's pretty good. But manual secondaries... maybe only in PVE as in PVP it would be pretty useless as you would be bow tanking most of the time and you would be using your team to watch your flanks ( bow on reversing if needed, as you NEVER show your broadside not even to a 203 armed cruiser since they will hurt you a lot ). Seriously, playing PVE only ( for whatever reason ) will not tell you how ships 'compare' in PVP as players are a lot better at the game then the AI in coop. Please, take that into account next time. All people wanted to point out is that new players might read your posts and get the wrong impression of the ship ( how it would perform in PVP ).

The reference to the BB(abies) is that WG said they want to remove stealth firing ( that is was added 'by mistake' ) and well which is the ONE class which suffers the most from being susceptible to sustained invisi fire? As to the DD's balance atm, I wouldn't know that's an ST job right I am not commenting on the German DD's because even from specs it's pretty hard to really judge balance. You have to play them in the current meta to see how it works in conjunction with content already in the game ( and perhaps WG is also looking forward a bit to content they plan on adding later ).

Ikr, time for WG to stop listening to those BBabies...

Fire chance is only 'fixed' if you can actually use that DPM right I guess most of the salt is from people who hate having to adapt to a new playstyle ( *cough cough cough* ) That and because these DD's ( well not all of them ) are more universal then the old 'BANE OF THE BBABIES' with faster, longer range and harder hitting torpedo's. I like punishing BBabies, it makes me warm and fuzzy inside. If I want to fight other DD's I will take my VMF or Sims or Blys, they are still all better gun boats then IJN is ( Yugumo might be ok.. haven't played her much ). Also, it's nice we got moved captains and all, but I am stuck with my builds as I don't have doubloons to respec and I am NOT giving WG more money right now.

They do, at least on NA it's public policy to allow a rebuy ONCE, and for the same amount of silver as you received when you sold it ( and you have to have a free port slot when you make the request ). EU I know people who had their ships restored but there is not a public policy like on NA that I know off so I am not sure about the requirements ( I would guess they are the same but ... ).

No, the 20km torps are still in the game. WG only changed their oxygen propulsion to giant whales pushing them forward so they can be seen from the moon

He edited his post 8m after you said that but it still looks the same I won't save Yorck, she's on her way out and I don't know which ship I would downvote atm.. their all good ( except Myoko... but then again I know Myoko is a good performing ship it's just me who didn't like her one bit ).

Not all beta testers were eligible, there were some ( really really really low ) requirements you had to meet. I think it was 50 battles or something. Since beta stats are still visible in people's profile it should be 'easy' to see if OP was given one as reward. Not sure if support would deem that enough though. Also, there seems to be different policies about these situations on different servers, I think I heard that NA let's you buy back premiums ONCE if you sold it ( and if you have enough silver in your account at the moment you request it ). But I have never seen an official EU policy on it. @OP if I were you I would try to get into contact with one of the community managers, it's usually a lot easier to talk with them then with different people at support. Try MrConway

How do you know which players are good ( other then recognizing their names )?

Yeah but that just emphasizes that WG is letting the whole 'gun calibre decides penalty' and now is straight up saying: "We listen to BBabies whine about invisi firing CA/DD's and we can't have that, the whine hurts our ears. So we will remove the concept from the game slowly, so BBabies can whine about CV's again instead".

That is why you are so bad.

Hey I just read it, and it's from Dark_Something ( so a leak from Asia region ). His track record is pretty good though so if he said I will believe the chance of it happening is pretty large edit:

The game resolves on winning, not doing damage and hitting. You can be on the blue line hitting and doing damage, but if you don't contest the caps you're a bad player since you will lose.

As I read in another thread the ship will eventually come to the regular tree ( as sister ship ) but only when USN will get a second BB line/split?

Last stand is a useful skill on any DD. Also, try to not get hit midships/broadside always try to be on a good angle. I don't lose my engine that often at all, more in the new IJN DD's then VMF DD's.

Nah more like this..