xxNihilanxx

The CV rework was, like that popular, UK quiz show with Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman, F***ing Retarded.

Free bump.

It's amazing how many of your detractors have the little green "Beta Tester" tag under their name. Wiped stats, my arse!

In the last 21 days he has played 13 CV battles, which is over 3 times as many battles as the next nearest class, BBs, which he has played 4 games in - with 3 games in cruisers. Looking at his overall games played is far from relevant when discussing the CV rework. Just another guy that plays mostly CVs since the rework telling the other classes that things are fine whilst not really playing those other classes. This thread is full of hunters telling the birds that there is nothing wrong with a turkey shoot.

It's way past time for your medication, it's obvious the voices are telling you to talk codswallop on the forum again.

The guy is beyond delusional. It would be funny if it wasn't so tragic. There are poor unfortunates running around convinced that god is sending them messages via their TVs that have a less tenuous grip on reality than our friend. It is probably better not to excite him too much as that is likely to result in him having one of his raving episodes. Spare a thought for his carers.

Don't worry mate, it comes to us all.

What he means is that if you rush up the tiers you will get annihilated at T10 quicker than you do at the mid tiers. The ships may be appealing at that tier and seem invulnerable because they are always top tier but inexperienced players get hit so hard there that they get blapped back to T5.

That's the thing though, it so isn't. This game is not difficult in the slightest. Obviously, like most things, some players will be better than others, but at its core this is quite a simple game and I really do not understand how people can be so bad at it. Like most things in life it just takes practice. This is why I always recommend people don't rush up through the tiers as, by doing so, players will deny themselves the one thing they need the most - experience. If you take the time to progress gradually you learn the capabilities of all the ships you sail and all the ships you face. You learn what to engage and what to avoid. The rest is point and click. How many times does a person need to sit still in a smoke screen only to get torped in smoke to learn not to sit still in smoke? How many times does a person need to get blapped by a BB while giving broadside to learn not to give broadside? Similarly how many times does a person need to get instablapped whilst turning to launch cruiser torps at a BB to learn not to do that? I'm sorry but this game is nowhere near as difficult as so many make it seem.

As far as I can recall it's some dude with an Italian sounding name. Fuctifino. Actually, I wouldn't worry about it. The site shows that you have played the same amount of battles in the last 24 hours as you have played in the last 7 days. Which incidentally is what it shows for me (although it says I have played over 7000 battles today) but I haven't played tanks in years apart from a brief session a few weeks back cos a mate asked me to come play a few with him.

Looks like you already sold it. If you haven't been playing in the last 24 hours then who has?

I don't understand this point. What do you mean by "getting nothing out of it"? What is wrong with gaming for gaming's sake? We always have the experience of playing a fun game, for most of us that is reward enough. Progression is far from key in this game, it happens when it happens. In fact, the more difficult the progression the more rewarding progress feels. Not everyone is hooked on instant gratification or incapable of enjoying anything without reward.

I'm sure you do. There are also people out there who think they are Napoleon but we don't listen to them either.

Neither does he. When I met him on the opposing team he just yoloed into a cap in his BB and died at the start of the match. What surprised me was the fact that my Dallas didn't take a single secondary hit. Go figure?

Pulling up outliers and exceptions does not in any way refute the fact of what I wrote. I was merely pointing out that when most of us say counter we are meaning something entirely different to what you think a counter is. My answer to this thread is, as ever, fact based. There isn't any way currently to counter AP bombs. If you look elsewhere on this forum you will find that I recall an incident when in an all-but full HP Kutuzov I did exactly everything you list as your supposed counters and still got hit for 3/4 of my health in a single drop. So much for countering AP bombs. It is a commonly used device by some people on this forum to assume all complaints against their preferred playstyle to come from potatoes who cannot deal with that playstyle. We see it often. In the case of the CV "debate" we see things like: "just because DDs don't where the P key is.... blah blah" "if players can't stick to heavy AA ships... blah blah" "if idiots want to go off alone... blah blah" And so on and so forth. The thing is, much as people would like to believe, it isn't just the idiots and potatoes complaining about this. Many of us are pretty good at this game. We know all the stuff we are supposed to do. We do all the stuff we are supposed to do. And despite all that we are telling you NONE OF IT WORKS!

Not one thing that you have listed here is a counter to anything, let alone CVs. They are, at most, ways to mitigate damage. Mitigating is not countering. Consider: DDs are said to counter BBs. Why? Because a DD can, with a successful torp spread kill or terminally wound a BB, even from full HP, before it can escape. BBs are said to counter CL/CAs. Why? Because a BB can, with a single salvo kill or terminally wound a cruiser, even from full HP, before it can escape. CL/CAs are said to counter DDs. Why? Because a cruiser has the speed and rate of fire to kill or terminally wound a DD, even from full HP, before it can escape. In all the above cases the counter to a vessel renders the vessel no longer in the game preventing said vessel from further attacking oneself or a teammate. So tell us again about your list of counters to CVs. All they will actually do is slightly mitigate the amount of damage a CV can do in one attack. All vessels can mitigate damage from other vessels but this is far from countering them.

Oh guys, my disappointment is almost too much to bear. Such stout fellows falling from grace in such a manner. What is this world coming to? First Trump, now this... I need a stiff drink.

"Hiding like a coward" was exactly the right thing to do in that situation.

I had the pleasure of meeting @Europizza in his CV on my team tonight whilst sailing my Seattle. It ended up being a very closely fought game which thanks, in no small part, to some timely fighter cover we were able to win as it meant I could block a cap long enough for us to scrape through on points. Was good to meet you mate.

With the exception, then, of exactly one class - and we all know what class that is... So, if the presence of a CV forces all other classes to somehow work in conjunction with some random guy that we have no legitimate way to influence then surely that should be extended to all classes. The CV should not be able to solo-play either. This is why, for balance purposes, WG absolutely have to remove the ability for aircraft to spot unless under AA fire. That way the CV also has to rely on his teammates, just like EVERY OTHER CLASS!

Oh mate, I had the night from hell on ranked last night - with or without you I could not buy a successful team. Was good to see you in battle again, though.

While I agree that it was a mistake to allow rental ships in ranked, as if the game mode wasn't frustrating enough, I was allowed a glimpse from the other side of the coin a couple of nights ago. In a match with, I think, 3 rental ships per side and after the game was about 2/3s over (we were winning) one of the guys in the rental BB (may have been GK) announced in chat... "Wow, 204K damage" "Only my second ever game at T10" "The most fun game of WoWS I ever had!" "Oh man never had a game like it" He then went on to comp all of his team, such was his excitement. Yes he had died, but not in any silly manner, and he had sold his life dearly holding a position. Honestly, I couldn't help but feel good for the guy. His joy was palpable and not a little contagious. Of course, any sense of shared joy goes out the window when you are met with sights like this: *EDITED* as player names were clearly visible in the image If you are going to allow rental ships, WG, is it so hard to do what most competent game developers would do and have them spread evenly across both teams? It goes without saying that the guy in the non-rental Kurfurst may as well as have been sailing one. Had him in several games and he was terrible in them all.

Our illustrious hero, @Beastofwar, is missing a serious trick here. Twitch! Can you imagine the huge following he would have if he were to stream his games while giving his thoughts on what is happening at the same time? He would be raking in the cash. Come on Beastybaby, make it happen.

Had the pleasure of meeting @Beastofwar tonight on the enemy team sailing his Pyotr Velikiy. He announced in all-chat that we should all use flooding valves to scuttle our ships in order to save him the effort of having to sink us before promptly yoloing into the cap and dying horribly, horribly. Was a fun game.

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