thiextar

Yup, i have been hiding in ranked mostly recently, but i decided to play a random battle with a low tier friend, and having spent most of my time in ranked, i forgot about the whole rework and picked a destroyer.... I was a handicapped cruiser that entire battle, and regretted every decision of my life leading up to it. Decided to hide out in ranked again after that battle. Randoms are just completely unplayable at the moment, so after those 11 days of ranked left, i guess i will have to find a new game to play until wargaming fix this crap, if im still interested when they do...

What internet connection do you have? Fiber? Copper cable? Wireless?

Not suicide yolo, nor camp, something inbetween, its a fine balance. You havent been tanking for your team tho, as i notice you still have one repair party left of what appears to be non premium repairs, so based on if you have si or not, you have used 3 repairs too few during this match, which means that you probably took most of your damage at the end of the battle, when it was already decided. I can also see that since you are so low, and unable to repair much more hp, you probably took a lot of citadel damage and not so much light damage, meaning that you probably didnt angle properly against the battleship. But im grasping at straws here really, if you would provide a replay(it doesnt have to be a great battle, actually average battles are best for this) We could comment on specific things you should have done/can do better, rather than providing general advice based on guesswork as we are doing right now :)

Impossible to say without the replay, but what i can say, is that when a battleship is the last ship alive with tons of damage, hes done something wrong. In bbs you are supposed to tank for your team and assist them, not camp at long range. Also, you cant win every battle, but you can win many of them(around 55% if you are decent, or 60-70% if you are really really good) Anyhow, some replays would be very helpful, that way we can comment on your gameplay and provide you with specific things you can improve on.

You have to think of how your suggested changes would affect gameplay, not how realistic it is

by playing a cruiser instead

Please elaborate on which windows function gets stuck specifically, do you mean that your operating system crashes? Also, please post your complete pc specs, cpu, gpu, storage devices, ram etc.

I decided to only take out my kita in ranked, dds are unplayable in randoms atm... Still tho, ive somehow held 73% wr so far this season, kita is glorious.

Its not about their balance... Its about how they affect the meta. Before the hotfix aka cv nerf, all you saw every battle was two massive blobs of ships duking it out at 15km. I just dont see how wargaming are intending to make carriers strong without turning the meta into pigshit.

Why not let people name their ships "biggus d*ckus" if they want to? I really dont see the problem, they can spam it in chat all they want currently anyways...

So if you press rctrl+rshift+backspace in a battle, you get freecam... not in replays, in live battles... while you are alive.... No idea how or when this slipped into the game, but my guess is 0.8.0 Nice one wargaming

No problem, i had no clue it was here before tho, could you really do this while alive in battles? Seems very weird to me

Makes total sense to get premium time refunded. Random battles are currently completely unplayable. Theres also the fact that we are all currently forced to play on the public test server.... No matter if people think the cv rework can become good or not is irrelevant, cvs might become a good part of the game in two months, but right now, they are completely ruining the gameplay and have turned the live server into a test server. People buy premium time because they like to play the game, not because they want to become wargamings test puppet.

If that is why they did it, their stupidity is beyond measure lol. Just balance the different tiers instead of a massive wall of flak at tier 8....

Just a simple "intentional because x" or "we did an oopsie" will do wargaming, I'd love to know the answer to this question

The big issue is that literally ANYTHING must be done to ensure that bobbing doesn't become the new meta. And the big problem is, that as soon as CV's become somewhat capable in this rework, blob meta forms. I really really don't want the blob meta to stick, but I think the only way to avoid it is by keeping CV's weak, it's sad, but I don't see an alternative

So the hotfix is coming tomorrow, but all i know about it is a post with some highly innacurate changes such as "reduced efficiency of hakuryu" Has there been any proper change log posted anywhere? With actual hard facts and numbers as to whats been changed?

I mean, i wanted a change with more dps towards continuous and less to flak, that is good. But what in the name of all that is holy is up with the jump from tier 7 to 8? Are there any reasons for this, or did you just task one team with tier 1-7 and another with tier 8-10 and they both misunderstood what 25% means(25% less or 25% of)? Doesnt help that there are no numbers or anything to go on in the patchnotes.... How are we expected to adapt to changes that we dont even know anything about? Im so confused, please bring out proper patchnotes in the future wargaming.

Great post! I definitely agree that there needs to be a way better refund than simply some doubloons, and more than that, i feel like it has to be something that atleast symbolically hurts wargaming aswell, because if they could get away with just giving out the doubloon value, we would see so much abuse of this system(release op ship, Nerf after a few months, offer some useless doubloons.) I like the idea of simply offering any ship from the premium shop for those who wants to refund. When they bought the gc, it is because they wanted to play THAT ship, so when refunding them, it seems sensible to let them pick from a large collection of ships as that has the highest chance of offering them something that they want to play. It would also kinda dissuade wargaming from abusing the system by essentially forcing people to buy doubloons. Remember folks: This is a big decision and must have been in the making for some months, which means that wargaming knew full well that these ships might get nerfed when they put them as bait in the christmas containers. All those people who gambled hundreds or even thousands of pounds to get... the doubloon value of an op ship, and wargaming must have known....

Yep, not getting numbers and precise changes sucks, have an upvote

numbers. Give us numbers, precise changes, details. This change log tells us nothing useful...

Still no numbers or specifics....

I could respect those reasons, and i probably would. If it wasn't for the fact that wargaming has already abused this system for quick cash before it was even deployed. A few days ago, it was announced that you were looking to balance the gc, and from the russian forum, that you would look to do this to other overpowered ships. Nerfing premiums is a big deal, so i would think(and hope) that you guys didnt just decide to go down this path during the morning meeting, it must have been discussed for a long time, and you guys have surely known this for atleast a few months. This would mean that you guys knew that this nerf might happen before selling the christmas gamble boxes, which biggest selling point was that there was a chance to get these super-rare overpowered ships. Sure, you got some other crap which theoretically made it "worth it" anyways, but i dont think anyone bought these crates to get some random flags and doubloons. Putting these op ships in the Christmas containers, when nerfing them must have already been getting discussed/planned, is a massive bait and switch for all those players who spent hundreds, or even thousands of pounds trying to get these ships. What refund will they get? 10000 doubloons? What will you do when you release new premium ships? Release them slightly op, "Correct" them after a few months, and offer some doubloons in refund? Long story short: Refunding in doubloons opens the gates for massive abuse, something that you have already taken advantage of a month ago. And quite frankly, knowing wargamings track record, i do not trust you guys to not abuse it further. Im not blaming any developer or anyone personally, but do you really think that the rich suits that wants to see high quarterly numbers, wont abuse this?

A dubloon refund is no refund at all. Either you don't refund and get a nerfed ship, or you refund, get some Doubloons which you can only spend on other ships/stuff. In either case, you don't get what you paid for, and you don't get your money back = not a refund Refunds need to be full cash value, because a dubloon refund is straight up scammy and greedy. I would love to hear your point of view on this @MrConway

No need to take it away, just make her have to chose between radar or smoke. Right now its a bit much: he and ap, good dpm, smoke + radar + hydro, concealment module at t7, super acceleration. etc etc. Its all a bit much. Anyways, unless wargaming will offer a serious refund(not doubloons), then i am strongly opposed to any nerfs.