krazypenguin

Finally completed Takao mission. Need 13 Russian ship kills for Nachi and 64 torpedo hits for the Kirishima mission (though I already have that ship, am trying just for sake of completion). Note to WG - one of the reasons given for the high tier requirements for these missions was to try and increase the number of players in high tier battles. Here's an observation for you. Tier 8 sucks massively. It's literally like I am playing a different game, and there is no balance between tiers. Tier 8 ships are utterly outlcassed by tier 10s and get destroyed immediately, whilst the Mogami (one of the few tier 8s I have) is obviously a "first gen" which has been left behind by the new lines and is in desperate need of review. Frankly, my introduction to tier 8 has been a nightmare and as soon as I am done with the ARP missions, I'm also done with tier 8 and up. So well done to you.

Had (what sounds like) a similar issue once before and then, coincidentally, again today. In my case, parts of my HUD randomly just disappeared, then came back, then flickered on and off - and no, I hadn't pressed anything - they came and went as I moved the view around. Both times I restarted the game and it went away. Example screenshots: AMD FX6300 6 core CPU, 8GB RAM, GTX 970 video card - I have definitely updated the drivers between it happening the first time and again today. Like I say, only happened to me twice in all my games so not an issue for me - but it can happen.

I'm genuinely considering getting this made into a t-shirt - does anyone have a hi-res version please? On topic - completely unjustified. I mean, team killing is never justified, but even your own warped explanation of why you think it was justified in this case doesn't even remotely resemble what happens in the video. He's near you, trying to hide and stay alive, which is fine (and is also what you do the entire game) as 2 BBs approach you. However, neither ends up coming anywhere near you before you team kill him as he tries to run away. Also, I cannot see what's happening in chat (replay issue\bug?) but you getting chat banned during the game itself is a good indication of how toxic you are. Just go away.

Need to check what number it was, but last night I got my 3rd supercontainer - on a try your luck - and got 1000 doubloons. Happy with that :-)

I'm trying to stay positive. I had time for 3 games on Sunday night. 3 losses at tier 8. Played 4 games last night, 3 losses and 1 win at tier 8. 6 losses and 1 win and not many kills either. Takao & Nachi progress is pretty much stalled and my Fubuki and Mogami stats are woeful. However, I feel I am slowly starting to learn the ships and tier 8. Funny how it literally feels like 2 different games when you go from tier 1-7 to tier 8+. Things improved massively when, after the 4th tier 8 game last night, a friend pinged me and asked to division (but his highest ship is tier 6) so I played 3 games with him - won all three amd really enjoyed all the games and had a lot of fun. Got enough XP for a container and was in a really good mood so I went for a try my luck (which I have basically given up on due to my 2 supercontainers so far both having 250 x flags I didn't want) and got a supercontainer with 1000 doubloons. So, the usual horror show at tier 8 followed by pretty much usual service being resumed at lower tiers and a nice little reward to top it off. I really feel like I'm the victim of some sort of social experiment here!

Been 3 pages since I posted in this thread, so definitely time to reiterate my intense dislike for the Mogami. She's like a Myoko who has really let herself go, getting grossly overweight to the point where she's basically fat, slow and she cannot turn. Her enormous size, low top speed and awful handling mean that you cannot dodge at all whilst her own range is so poor that you can only engage at suicidally short ranges. The turret rotation is so poor that I literally couldn't track an enemy DD as we sailed past each other at 5km range and the firing angles on the torpedoes are terrible. She's got a perfect storm combination of woefully few hit points and non-existent armour. I suspect she is made from purest citadellum. On the consumables front, she clearly comes from the earliest days of WoWS when they didn't really think much about what consumables to give cruisers, so she gets the standard damage control, a crappy short ranged hydro-acoustic search and a useless catapult fighter. Meanwhile, newer cruisers (and premium ones) are picking up actually useful things like radar, smoke and heal. By the way, Mogami should definitely have heal - she's historically famous for surviving huge amounts of punishment (well, that and also being involved in 2 collisions with allied cruisers) before she finally went under. True story. Yesterday, right at the start of a battle, I spotted a full health enemy Mogami who disappeared behind an island. When he reappeared a few seconds later he had already lost half his HP. Poor guy and poor me when I have to play mine. :/ I cannot understand why this ship is allowed in the game in the state she is.

Just in case you were not aware, the requirement for the ARP Myoko is tier 7 - I did the mission (500 secondary hits) in my Nagato. I'm on about 20/15/6/6 I think. Tier 8 is killing me completely, I cannot work out what to do, where to go or... well, anything. Fubuki win rate is in the low 30s, Mogami in the 40s and Amagi is clinging to 50 probably purely due to the low battle count (just 6 games so far). I'm playing absolutely terribly and, were it not for these 2 missions, I don't think I would bother with tier 8 at all. It's like I'm playing a different game :-(

I play my Ishi to relax. I want a ship where I literally barely have to think, and certainly not one where I have to consider such complexities as which is the optimum ammo to load and where to shoot the enemy. Therefore, even though the fire chance is already very high, I run with DE and spam HE at everything. 1 - BoS 2 - EM 3 - SI 4 - DE 5 - Not got that far yet but will probably take JOAT ;-)

Yes, they would. So make it a setting you tick in your settings. That way you have to chose to use it. Personally, I only want it to stop me going into coop modes when WG set the game mode to coop after patches/special battles resulting in me wasting a daily double.

No, because a) how would you know anyway and b) this could be used as a sort of 'sixth sense', i.e. fire torps into an area where no ships are spotted and then get informed that your torps have been spotted = you now know that something is there. So no.

I cannot offer you anything other than a like and an "I know exactly how you feel" Since the start of the ARP missions, I've had a horrific time. I'm grinding tier 8 ships which I am not good enough to play and I cannot (generally) get teams that carry me. My stats in the Nagato (secondary hit missions) have plummeted to the point where my WR is now below 50% in it, and my new tier 8 ships are dreadful - Fubuki at 32.14% WR, Mogami has *just* climbed back up to 50% (and f*** me, what a horrific ship that is) and I lost my first 3 Amagi games in a row until I finally got my first win. Nothing has gone right for me since the ARP mission started and I'm really not enjoying the game. At this rate, I suspect I'll be taking a break after the Takao and Nachi missions, assuming I even complete them. In fact, I created a topic about how much I was hating things but I never posted it. For the lols, here it is: The only crumb of comfort I can offer you OP, is that things must get better sooner or later. In my case, since midday today I've played 6 games and won them all, so I feel a little better. Hang in there.

Yes, I am QI of stone having. Yet, enough QI am having to understand the gameplay mechanics of radar... You?

Where to start....Google translate? Hideous mod pack? 8 bit graphics? Smallest mini-map EU server? Poor man's consumables? Too much for me, I'm out. Happy Friday night forumites :-)

Is there somewhere that you can see how many you have openened? I stopped counting but I got my 2nd SC, on a try your luck, on about my 40-50th attempt. Got 250 of the -100% chance of detonation flags. Already had 200 of them. Disappointed (again).

Yeah, I once watched an episode of Neighbours, so maybe I'll buy it too.

A tier 8 premium IJN battleship please :-)

It's almost as if WG want to force people to play new, powercreep lines *cough German DDs cough*

This ^^^ Insanely dangerous weapon to both sides - the IJN lost numerous vessels thanks to their own torpedoes being detonated. Chokai at Leyte (a single 5" shell hit set a fire that detonated her torps) and Mikuma in the aftermath of Midway are both good examples (Mogami is widely reckoned to have survived that battle only because her surviving officer was a damage control office who immediately ordered the torpedoes jettisoned - the photos of Mikuma clearly show the devastation her own torpedoes caused her) I'm an IJN player and would be happy to have more realistic long lances in the game as an option, but they would have to come with realistic damage potential to the host ship. You want the rewards, you take the (massive) risk.

Wrote a long rant explaining why the Mogami is the worst ship in the game but the forums ate it. Cannot be bothered to type it again. Mogami sucks. This ship is a disgrace to the IJN Cruiser line.

Seconded - but for all ships, not just Belfast. I've lost track of the number of times I have activated the wrong consumable in battle. Sometimes I end up using them all out of sheer frustration and desperation. In my Atago: Quick, activate heal pronto! *presses key* "Fighter launched!!" fffffuuuuu....

Slightly more worried to have had my first ever experience of "WoT matchmaking" the other day. That's when you division up with a friend, both in tier 5 ships, press battle and you are the ONLY tier 5s in the game. Everyone else is tier 6 or 7. That's the sort of BS MM that needs to be stamped out - I'm going to be deeply unimpressed if I start seeing that sort of MM in ships (like I do in tanks all the time)

Pretty much this. It's not impossible for things to change, especially in the USA, but the system is generally so entrenched and... heavy, for want of a better word, that making real, meaningful change is extremely difficult.

Yup. Over the weekend I started playing my (stock) Mogami to try for ARP missions. Due to the unfamiliarity with her compared to other IJN cruisers (seriously, she steers like a cow and is sooo slow) I accidentally beached her. Broadside on to an enemy North Carolina. He killed me from full health, without a detonation, in a single salvo. 35k hp gone in 1 second. Without a detonation I don't think any other class can do that to a BB? Meanwhile, in the game in which I elited my Nagato I sniped a Scharnie from 20 odd km, hitting him 4 times with my first shots, before scoring a succession of citadels on pretty much everything else I shot (6 in total) to get ~144k damage. Didn't do anything different from how I normally play the Nagato - RNG just said "today you win!" A game or two before that in the same ship I managed 28 (yes 28) over penetrations. So yeah, that sums up BBs for me.

I thought so too. This is a bit vague but November's calendar states: 26-29 November: Weekend Special: Cyber SalesName says it all, doesn't it? And there is also some XP bonus there! I'm wondering if the "XP bonus" could be boosted xp conversion as this would tie in with a free xp mission and also a "cyber sale"...

Careful Conway - they might send you back to the gulag again if you side with the players too much!! (but thanks as always!)