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Lol that actually looks kinda cool, pretty sure my son would call it awesome even

HE + fire has become the bane of bb's, meeting a Cleveland or Des Moines spamming HE at your BB usually means burning to death. So yeah I agree, either lower the % chance of fire ( which will still leave HE as really strong with their damage rolls, imho even to stronk without the fires ), or increase ability to put out fires automatically by the crew without using the repair party.

Hey perhaps I just wasn't 100% sober.. ow wait you don't remember I guess... let's keep it that way

A buffer zone with a countdown after which you start receiving damage, to increase incrementally with passing of more time. The damage is spread across all ships, distributed based on damage inflicted prior and proximity seems a good and fair idea. A ship in the buffer zone would retain turning ability but dependent on distance to the border less top speed, which at the end would make the ship unable to move further from the border. I do not really have a working idea for how to distribute damage between ships based on their class. A DD within torpedo range should get more damage awarded then a DD at max gun range, but for gunnery ranges it would require a more gradual scale since while accuracy should decrease with distance there is still the same damage potential across all distances. Any holes in this which I missed?

Des Moines is a beast, I'm a bad DM captain by own admission though. I've gotten as far as Ibuki for IJN cruisers, but so far I think Ibuki > Baltimore ( though haven't played that this patch and it has gotten a rof buff which was it weakest point ). Don't think Zao > Des Moines though, if both captains are of equal ability the Des Moines should win the engagement.

Even if I'm only in the queue for 10 seconds before I see the map loading screen, as soon as the map loading is done I got 5 seconds to spare before the match start, and then I enter the match and it's like all other ships are already moving. My game clock sometimes shows I logged in 5 or 10 seconds after the game started. I run WoWs from an ssd, I normally had 20s to spare ingame where I could chat / see who's where and so on. I tried vanilla and it was the same as with mods, I am certain that is not the case. Though I might try a completely fresh install if it doesn't correct itself somehow automatically as I have no other idea what could be the issue. I also understand that while there are people having the same issues, the fact that other people are already moving before I load into the match is proof that it isn't affecting everyone ( at least not to the same extent ).

I see you have a tendency of sailing into other sheeps, do you consume to much alcohol prior to leaving harbor or are the other players all drunk

This is actually not true, it also locks your elevation which is why you can track a target behind an island, fire while having your aimpoint on that island and still hit the ship behind you. So it does track your elevation.

No other cruiser can match her dpm, a lot of IJN cruisers have a higher dmg per salvo. Though surely, dpm matters more then 'alpha' damage so in essence I fully agree. I have seen Senjo's killing a Des Moines with two salvo's, but even then the Des Moines was able to do a lot of damage to the Senjo while only engaging after receiving the first salvo.

How about you where both wrong, and I hope you will correct that behavior?

Sorry for misunderstanding, it's early it might be the lack of coffee

Not to mention the greetings in chat, and sometimes even some comments/questions about tactics / order of objectives. I really miss being able to communicate before the battle starts!

He is using cruisers, you're using battleships. I got murdered yesterday in my Fuso by a Cleveland shooting HE. Not only did he put me on fire on 3 different places, he was also doing 4-8k dmg each salvo ( well most of his salvo's ).

Well the harbor stats aren't even complete, you don't know the ingame armor schematic, and while I think the Yamato and Montana in harbor stats are correct there been plenty ships with wrong info in there. Btw I'm far far from a WoT unicum, I'm barely 'decent' imo ( welp I guess most unicums consider themselves as being just decent but you know what I mean right? ). But having played a bit more and seeing what HE does to my ships I would agree with you that atm Montana would likely win. If they redo the HE buff in a more balanced way, the question will be up in the air again. And I still feel that even if I have on of the ships being compared, without playing the other I can not really add to the discussion in a way which would bring more then just hunches and personal observations

Stop telling them how to evade my volleys you're ruining my fun +1

A. when account unification happens at release, people will be in the same clan they are in in WoT/WoWp. B. there is a public ts server, there is a public discussion channel in game. C. there is a 'Forumites' channel with super secret password play4fun. So I don't get what the clan reference is, you setting up a new clan for players who are clanless, or you want a social gathering of people so we can all communicate and join divisions while on ts or something?

Proof?

No I would use it to look who in my team can be depended on for having my back ;) They have 8 Type59's and we only 3, I quit.. and no I don't want to hear how wrong I am to do so!

What graphics settings are you using, and what are your system specs? Also, can you make a screenshot the next time you see it happen ( by default prntscr button on your keyboard and the screenshots will be places in your wows\screenshots folder )? Edit: btw, I was assuming the smoke was looking 'wrong' as in flickering or something alike. If the smoke looks like normal smoke then just enjoy the new effects?

Welp to get back on track, I haven't seen anyone yet today since I haven't played a single game the whole day... think I'll jump on it a bit though so fellow forumites I hope to see you there

Do you mean in the water? Those are supposed to be oil slicks afaik.

Rename preferences.xml to preferences.bak, the game will create a new file with default settings. edit: the file is in your main wows folder.

Well I assumed it only made your viewport track the selected target, which off course is handy for shooting at them. But I did not know it also 'corrected' my aim point. Welp, actually, how the heck would I otherwise be able to shoot over islands.. but still, does it only 'correct' elevation or also angle?

I would very much like to know if indeed there is an aim assist ( it seems so, just not sure ) and if so, if we will get an option to turn it off?