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Wait, giving cruisers sonar is making destroyers more interesting to play? I would say it makes them even harder to play, not really more interesting But for final judgement, let's wait until PT is up and we can see how the changes work out. edit: and making situational awareness a tier 1.... bad bad bad WG, no more launching torps at ships which don't know their spotted... bad BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD WG

I got 2 captains which have enough points for it, 1 of which has two 4 points and 1 free one and will get retrained when I buy Zao, the other has multiple lower point skills which I could drop for a tier 5 but I didn't see the need. The best way to get a good captain is retraining for gold ( which I did with one of them throughout the whole line ) and by having a premium ship to get multiple x2's per day for the captain.

isn't MM +-4 atm, so it should still be able to meet a Fuso unless it get's lower MM spread?

Settings - control should allow you to set custom key bindings but in the past they been known to break other things. I leave everything on default now. If you made a change and are unable to restore it to default, rename preferences.xml in your wows folder it will create a new one with default settings.

Shooting down planes nets almost no experience at this time sadly, but thanks for the effort I appreciate you thinking of your fellow players so much that even in death you're trying to be of service

top left, click on portal, top right click on members page -> should be a big download button ( make sure you're logged into the portal! ).

Aha, yeah now I understand the 'favorable' matchmaking comment

You mean mediums right? Right?

+1 for bringing logic to a discussion on this forum

I am sorry but if it is then WG made a fail announcement by calling that IJN tier III battleship the most famous new premium ship, so I guess the answer is no ( really, I do ).

In honesty I think they should have called it radar just to avoid the possible implications when mentioning the word 'sonar'

OP: good captains at higher tiers doing manual drops with stacked bombers -> insta kill ( not always, but often ) UP: mediocre captains at middle tier doing manual drops with multiple squadrons ( but not stacked ) -> BB dodges most of them. There is no consistency. Also, the burst damage is what makes it feel really OP when you do get hit by stacked bombers, as the battleship captain will only see that part and not the minutes needed by the carrier to get the planes in the right position and then attack at the right moment. At least that is how I feel as battleship captain sometimes, but in honesty I am not the best source of info on this as I don't play carriers.

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Sonar works also against submarines

And this is one of the bigger problems I still see in carrier gameplay ( just as cruisers getting far to little reward for shooting down planes ). If rewarded properly much more people will take fighter loadouts I am sure ( well, would still suck if you ended up without enemy carrier... so they also need to fix MM for carriers so that doesn't happen ). And more people with fighter loadouts means less complains from battleships about getting killed by a group of stacked bombers, less complaints -> less need for constant nerf circle.

For a bad carrier captain, a good bb captain will dodge most of his torpedo's even without cruiser escort. For a good carrier captain, they will see which ships are most vulnerable and they will generally get them unless the battleship captain is of equal or higher skill. The problem is partially that there are some really good carrier captains, and a lot of mediocre battleship captains. But in essence, it is both OP and UP at the same time.

It's the best loadout in the game, it helps your team shut down the enemy clickers uhm carriers! What could be more rewarding than making sure your hopeless battleships aren't sent back to port by some stacked torpedo planes? It's not like cruisers are rewarded for giving AA cover really, so you can't really expect them to cover their battleships, especially since those battleships still think they need to camp in the back of the map. Off course the other side of the argument is just ignoring the battleships and let them die, which shouldn't be a great loss for the team where it not that in domination you lose so many points when you do that ( and the enemy even gains some! ). So no, carriers should not be able to run dedicated strike setups, that should force them to also think about air superiority and intercepting enemy bombers thus making it easier for the UP battleships to survive just as long as the carriers are doing. Warning above post contains high levels of sarcasm, mixed with real life facts In the end, killing planes should reward a player with MUCH more xp then it does now, it would be good for carrier diversity and for cruisers.

I haven't been on WoT forums in a long time, someone can see what his last post there was?

The problem is that you almost never get hit by a single shell. If one of the shells does heavy damage, that is the message which pops up while perhaps all other shells have done moderate or even light damage. This mechanic has been explained by ST before and I trust it's correct. In game, when I could be 100% sure I only took heavy damage, I couldn't repair a single point of HP. I would advise you to test it in a training room with someone with a single gun turreted ship which can do single shell impacts/damages, it should really match what I said above.

Ye I had the exact same thing, others have also reported the same occurring to them. Sadly I didn't have pingplotter running and in subsequent matches when I had, there was no issue. At the same time as the rudder issues, my smoke was popping in front of my ship, and my torpedoes were launching in front of my ship and passing right through an enemy battleship. It was a clear cut case of a desync, but since I don't have a pingplotter to match the replay I haven't bothered creating a ticket for it But the issue is still real and relevant to current patch.

I do not see how people who are in cbt can be waiting for obt, if you're playing the game you would know it's not ready for obt.

That's so wrong, you made such an impact on that game by taking out those planes you should have a lot more XP.... ow WG y you no support killing planes....

Not to mention every DD and cruiser I think from tier 6 should have the long lance torp's available to them?

Well you're Dutch, you could be the one stashing them... bad tweaker is bad