ShinGetsu

Akatsuki-class and Shigure are cuter.

The simple addition of the Ruddershift module at tier 6 would double the potential of the Kongo-class actually. Give it maybe a bit shorter reload, a bit more AA and a less horrible turret rotation, and that would be a very, very decent tier 6. Those ship are almost legendary for me. They fought bravely during the WW2, exactly like how the Myouko class and Takao class did. I believe they deserves a bit more love than "simple" reskin and a change of name.

Hipper can very reliably hit citadels of cruisers at maximum range.

That's a game mechanics in order to give DD and cruisers some survivability. No cheat involved. If you got caught off-guard, you just got outplayed. Be a good boy and sink like you should, and improve your awareness so it won't happen again. But coming here to cry and threatening WG to not give money anymore until they "fix" one of the most fundamental mechanic ingame is both childish and useless.

Client can't know something the server doesn't tell to it. Which means the client can't show non-spotted torps since the server never told him they existed until they are spotted. That's absolute.

That's NOT a cheat. What you fail to understand is game balance. Tell me, man, how can a destroyer with a measly 15.000 HP would be able to do anything in the game if he was constantly spotted ? Unless you make the whole game full of Khabarovsk, which I believe battleships players will like even less. You are not trying to improve, you are not trying to see if there's any counter to destroyers (and there are a TON of them : not sailing at the same speed and same bearing all the time, map awareness, planes, hydroacoustic, radar...) you're just complaining about your little issues. Go play the destroyers yourself, try the Japanese, and you'll see by yourself why smoke isn't "cheating". Seriously, Battleships are already easy enough to play. The issue is on your side.

You misunderstand my point. Using XVM for choosing your target, be it the bad or good player, is fundamentally misusing it. You don't target bad player because XVM says so, you target them because they offer an easy target when broadsiding, because they tend to overextend, and so on. You don't target them because what kind of player they are, but because of what they do in battle. I call XVM disgusting because that kind of "targeting a player because of his stats", was overly infuriating in WoT. Arty focusing you as a low tier because you had better stat than the top tier heavy at your side, complete idiots ruining their game because "he haz blu stats he haz to die" and rushing you and four friendlies only to get a shot at you (fun when there's only one, not very fun when the idiot is in your team, and even worse when 4 idiots do that. Yeah, they kill the "gud player", but they also all die and seal the fate of their team by doing that...) Once again, I had more than enough experience in WoT to attest of how bad for the game XVM is since most players don't know how to uses it correctly. I played with enough unicum (and real monsters with incredibly stats at that time too) And that's not theory crafting, if anything that's empirical proof. On the other hand, I used XVM to know what kind of allies I could trust. I never went to sidescrap next to a 42% WR because I knew he was going to push me at a critical moment. If not blocking me or shooting at me because I was in his way...

I expressed it very badly. Sorry about that. What I wanted to say is : Hipper got the same guns as Hindenburg, but 2 tier lower. That means that, while AP penetration of Hindenburg is lower than all other 203mm tier X, because all tier X cruisers excepted Hinden receive a huge buff in artillery performance, Hipper got basically tier X AP which are much better than its counterpart. Am I clear now ? For instance, while Hindenburg got the same artillery of the tier 8, Zao receives a huge buff in AP penetration and velocity compared to Ibuki. And given it faces many tier 6/7 cruisers, it can hurts and sometimes straight up one-shot broadside cruisers, and of course hurts broadside BBs. Well, keep in mind that I played it quite a while ago, and it wasn't yet that BB-campy meta. But the recent bow armor buff seems pretty promising when you're top tier against a flood of Tirpitzes and Bismarcks.

Yeah, but that's the same for high-leveled players in WoT. And yet highest-winrate in WoWS are higher than highest-winrate in WoT.

Ambushing with using islands is the key. AP DPM ? Yeah, it's not incredible, but AP burst ? Whenever you catch any target broadside, AP does huge damage. And unlike Hindenburg, you have a lot more AP potential. Also, the armor. 27mm bow means you can tank without fearing the overmatch the 380/381mm battleships guns. Meaning you can bow tank all lower tiered BBs bar Nagato, Mutsu and Colorado, and more importantly you can bow-on against Bismarck and Tirpitzes. Uses it.

The German cruisers have good tier 8-9-10. However usually if you hate the Hipper you'll love the Roon and vice-versa. Hindenburg is very strong in random battle, it's tanky though a bit slow, have reliable guns, and very good torpedo for yolo-ing and ambushing. It's a beast in close-quarters. French are a mix between the RU and IJN actually. Strong, reliable guns with decent rof, very good at kiting away, and decent torps though not enough of them. They lack a bit of utility compared to the radar or hydro cruisers, but at least their AA is strong on higher tier. Don't try to drop a Martel with a lower tiered CV, you'll hit almost nothing and lose most planes.

French tier 8 is one of the best cruiser at that tier, but before that, Algérie (tier 7) is good but a bit boring imo, and the lower tier are terrible. For the russians, with IFHE they works really well, but only tier 6, 9 and 10 are interesting IMO. Shchors and Chapayev works well but nothing special either. If you don't like playing sniper, at max range, you won't like it. Brits have their own, specific gameplay, not comparable to the others. IJN are good all-around, though weak in AA, but at least they are all good. Mogami being a bit different with the 155 (requires a different captain)

Utterly wrong again... Just compare the best players stats between WoT and WoWS. In WoT best players are around 65% WR, in WoWS you can see as high as 70-75%. Yeah, everything is much slower, but being low or top tier matters much less in WoWS, and being slower also means you can more easily force a 3v1 situation into a triple 1v1 situation you have much better chance to win. Player skill matters much more in WoWS actually. The other reasons is how errors can be punished with a single broadside salvo in WoWS.

Wrong again. Especially in the case we're talking about now.

First, he clearly played very badly that game. Second, you were in a Nicholas, even without XVM, denying an IJN DD with an USN DD is your job. No matters the statistics. I would have done the same when playing in your place and without XVM. Your "priority target" given by your bias and the target you should priorize anyway just happened to overlap in this case... You're not "mission killing" or whatever, that sound like a very bad excuse, and I never felt "mission killed" by anyone. If I can't contest a cap, I'll see it, and I'll go somewhere else. If my counter is in front of me, I'll just bait him somewhere else, and so on. But what if you were in a, say, Moskva, with radar, and you see a potato in a Gearing denying a cap with a purple Atago supporting him, angled and kiting. Based on your explanation, you'll focus the Atago. Look, man, you're wrong. I have enough experience in WoT, and I played with enough unicum there to know that. You won't achieve sh*t by only focusing the players that knows how the game works. Actually you'll be baited in their trap by doing that.

Right now it's only an external application, and I really hopes devs will block any kind of XVM ingame. Worse case I'll just hide my stats.

You totally fail to understand my point. The simple facts that YOU are using XVM to focus a player "because he has good stats" without considering what ship he is playing, what his position in the matchmaking, is he even important to focus at that point, is using XVM wrongly. That's facts. And you're not "mission killing" or whatever. You're just brainlessy focusing a player without any reasons whatsoever other than his stats. That's toxicity. Like I said, I had 23000 battles in WoT, with more than half being focused because I had good stats. Even without talking about it in your team, using XVM to focus on a particular enemy is misusing it. And that's f****** facts, there's no counter argument to this, man. Believe me, you're doing more harm to your team with XVM than without. XVM makes you biased toward the enemy team, that's the second worse possible utilization of this mod. (The worst case is "screw it the enemy team is better I go back to port") Uses XVM to see which allies you can count on.

That's not ad hominem, that's facts. Using XVM for focusing players "because he have good stats lol" is both toxic and using it wrong. There's no other word to describes how disgusting that mod can be. I had 23.000 battles in WoT, I know what I'm talking about. If you can't understand my point, you better uninstall it, because you're doing more harm to your team than without. Also you don't need any XVM-like to see if a players play well. That was true in WoT, that's even more true in WoWS.

Let me tell you that, you are doing it utterly wrong. You are both using XVM like complete idiots in WoT did and showing why this mod is so f***** disgusting in the first place. XVM should NOT be used to focus better players : - First, because a good player is harder to kill. When he notices he is focused, he will uses his allies, angle, kite away, bait you, and so on. It's a waste of time. - Second, because "focusing the good player" sometimes doesn't make ANY sense. So you'll focus that angled Yamato because he's unicum but ignore that DD blocking the cap because he's a potato ? - Third, because if you focus bad players instead, they'll die quickly. No matter how good a player is, he can't reverse a 10 v 1 situation. You win against good player by isolating them, not by wasting time trying to kill him, or even worse : suiciding to get him (I've seen that enough in WoT, ret*rd rushing me because I had blue stats and wanting to get a shot at me no matter the cost, and I wasn't even unicum... And I'm not even talking about the arty focus ) But more than anything else, XVM should be used in order to know which ALLIES you can count on. Even ignoring all the above, uses it to knows which players are nothing more than meat shield or border-hugger and which players are likely to push, smoke smartly, radar DDs and so on. Right now, with how you're using that XVM-like, you're not only not helpful, but you're making XVM as toxic as it was in WoT. Stop that crap, now.

You can find it on others ships as well. If I remember well, it's a "fake gun", a device to train crew on the gun maintenance and reload without actually using the real thing.

Oui.

En russe fait passer APHE avant CE. Chope le dès 10 points, c'est essentiel.

And HE can be very useful depending on the situation. "AP only" is just a bit less dumb than "HE only" And yes, 63% fire chance is delirious. Dunkerque got 35% and that's already broken.

Is OP the kind of player that asks Khabarovsk to cap in early games ?

Last, si tu savais le nombre de kill à la torpille que j'ai fait en croiseur sur la partie tout à droite de la carte. xD Tu nous fait Larmes du Désert ?