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Completely off-topic but I remember seeing those exact two ships doing the exact same thing on the same map. I wonder if I was in the same game and didn't notice you or if this kind of behaviour is becoming more common.

While this is undoubtedly true it does not take into consideration how many more people are not buying T8 premiums because of the constant T10 games. I have a number of T8 premiums but if you look to see you will find they are only the ones that care little for uptiering (Atago, Kutuzov and Lo Yang being the ones that spring to mind). I would also have bought a Tirpitz, Alabama, Eugen, Roma, Kii and Gascogne were it not for the fact that that is a lot of money to spend to be permanent fodder for higher tier ships. I have spoken to others in my clan and they are the same - I even managed to dissuade one of our members from buying the Roma by mentioning that it would just be constantly uptiered. I know that the overall stats for T8 matchmaking, as issued by WG, show that the scale of the problem is not so large but these figures do not take time of day into consideration. At the times that I play, usually 10pm to 3 or 4am getting into a non-T10 game in a T8 ship is practically impossible. It isn't that I am not able to do well in a T10 game with a T8 ship but the constant uptiering ceases to be enjoyable very quickly. I don't mind paying WG to have fun but I won't pay them to be constantly frustrated.

Maybe this is the perfect solution then? On those occasions when one CV has waited aaaaaaaaaages in the queue, instead of just forming a match instantly with whoever is there once the second CV arrives just put both CVs into a one on one match and leave the rest of us out of it to play a normal game.

The worst I ever had was a 2v2, me in a DD and a CV vs another DD and CV. Fun, fun, fun. The next worst was a 4v4 - 1 CV, 1 BB, 1 CA/CL and 1 DD per side. To make matters worse I was in an Ognevoi and they had a Lo Yang and our CV was worse than useless so I had enemy planes above me the whole time. I was so annoyed. At the end I was down to about 125HP by the time I had killed their Bismarck, Fiji and Lo Yang but the satisfaction as I dodged multiple waves of DBs and TBs to finally kill the enemy CV was almost enough to make up for it.

I agree it is pretty annoying but in all honesty this is something that the CV players should be fixing themselves. Sitting in the queue for ages and spoiling a game for a handful of others is nothing short of pure bloody-mindedness, in my opinion.

From what I have seen so far with regard to the online CC reviews it is a straight up better Gaede in all areas (except, of course, in the areas where it isn't!?!?). So it is an improvement on probably the most mediocre DD at T6. I am not sure that "better than mediocre" qualifies as a definition of OP. As for being Befast/Saipan level of broken? Well, hysterical much? Good? Yes. OP? I don't see it. P2W? FFS give me a break. I think I'll hold off on rushing out to buy my reinforced umbrella because I am not convinced that the sky is falling, to me it just looks like an acorn. Also it is worth keeping in mind, folks, that the people making the review videos on youtube rely on getting as many views as possible, they are hardly going to say "there's nothing to see here" now, are they?

Was a fun fight, could have done without a few of our ships just feeding themselves to your team but isn't that always the case? Good to meet you guys as always.

Same here. Guess things aren't as fixed as they think they are.

I am probably teaching my grandmother to suck eggs here but, just in case, you do know that in close range brawls you can scroll out to minimum zoom and that will allow you to aim your guns considerably lower?

A textbbok case of exactly the kind of ship that has no influence on the outcome of the battle. Well except for helping to ensure the red team win, that is. If you had even the remotest clue what you were talking about you would know this already but unfortunately you don't. If you actually understood the game half as much as you think you do then you would not still be a (barely) average player. No offence intended but you are so far out of your depth that the Marianas Trench seems positively shallow by comparison. @Culiacan_Mexico knows what he is talking about. You, on the other hand, do not.

Actually the source for this is a Japanese book (sorry I forget the name) based on the accounts of people who were actually in the Japanese war council at the time, nothing whatsoever to do with Russia Today. The Japanese had sent overtures to the Soviets hoping they would be allies but when the Soviets rejected the offer and, instead, invaded Manchuria and cut through that mainland territory like a hot knife through butter the military government went into abject panic. Fearing they would lose their Emperor in the event of a Soviet invasion (the Soviets didn't have a particularly great history when it came to dealing with imperial personages) they elected to surrender to the US instead. So you are suggesting to me that you know the reason for the Japanese surrender better than the Japanese themselves did? Curious. We all know that history is written by the victors and yet still people assume that history to be "gospel".

F***ing tell me about it. What was I thinking?

Thanks for saving me the time of making a lengthy post. As you say the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had very little influence on the Japanese surrender, the "hawks" cared little to nothing for civilian deaths (more civilians were killed in the firebombing of Tokyo in March than were killed by either of the atomic bombs) but they were devastated by the Soviet declaration of war and subsequent Manchurian invasion. The myth that the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki "saved lives" is just Western propaganda. NEVER mention that film. EVER. As for the concerns about the Nueve de Julio, well, just because something bad happened it doesn't mean we should pretend it didn't. Including a ship that was subsequently used as a prison does not automatically condone what happened. We shouldn't just hide ourselves away from uncomfortable knowledge. Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

The teams he is on certainly don't.

Had the pleasure of facing @lup3s earlier in his Alabama whilst sailing my Hindenburg. Unfortunately for him the team he was lumbered with were less than stellar in their performance.

In that case, radar was never needed as a counter to smoke as the counter to a ship sitting in smoke would be to stay outside the range of its guns/torps.

Yeah, fair points. I guess, then, that we have to rely on the win XP bonus to cover rewards for teamplay as the side that exhibits the best teamplay has an inherent likelihood of also being the winning side.

That part would be quite easy, I imagine, it could use the same check that Priority Target uses to determine how many enemies are aiming at the ship before it got smoked.

You can count as a solo player, you just need to get good at the game. Instead of decrying those who are good at the game you should seek to emulate those better players. Learn what they know. What you, and others, tend to ignore is that one needs to be a pretty good solo-player first in order to be part of a 3-man division of good players. Just putting three "plebs" (as you call them) together won't make an OP division, the divisions you decry as OP contain players who would just as easily kick your arse solo as they would in a division. Stop revelling in being bad, quit rejoicing your ineptitude, don't try to bring others down to your level, just improve. This game is really not as hard as you and so many make out.

You are making the mistake of not realising that the word "Random" in Random Matches pertains only to the way your team-mates are selected, ie randomly, and instead are assuming that the word "Random" is some kind of indication of how the mode should be played, ie randomly. This is not the case. Random matches is not the same as Casual mode, Co-Op is the casual mode. Prior to the introduction of Ranked and Clan battles, random matches were the only PVP mode available in game. Ranked and Clan battlea added a new layer of organised, competitive PVP but their inclusion does not mean that the original PVP mode suddenly becomes casual. Co-op is still casual mode and players can go there and try all the things you described in your post, nobody is stopping them, but if they want to join a team-based PVP mode they should be prepared, know their ship and to play to win.

Maybe, just maybe, if you didn't waste time on "improvements" that nobody asked for you would have the time to work on the ones that most, if not everyone, did ask for. I appreciate you taking the time to give us the in-port, Whack-a-mole minigame that is trying to ready up a ship with the new division window, but did we really ask for it? How about you put future "improvements" like that further down the list and move the stuff we actually want to the top?

*cough* Division Window *cough*

This thread is one of over-reaction and hyperbole, I'd thank you not to bog it down with such trivialities as facts and details.

So now, when in port, the game is zoomed in really close to the selected ship such that it fills my entire screen and I end up looking at a close up view of a small section of the ship. I can scroll out to see the whole ship (the way I used to have it set up) but wait a few seconds and the game decides I want to zoom back in. Why? What was the point of this change? Please revert this completely unnecessary change, WG, it's fugly.

You'll have to jump on youtube and journey down that particular rabbit-hole yourself.