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Idk - I took 20k+ dmg from a broadside Texas in the space of maybe 5 salvos (~5k fire dmg incl.). Having even more dpm would certainly make the Atlanta perform statistically better while still being a situational ship with a certain character. The Atlanta to me is (1) an area denial tool (shooting over islands/contesting caps), (2) an assassin if she gets the jump on a DD/CL/CA or (3) a dmg multiplier if she gets to play the support role where she isn't being focused. Still I think she should be squishy and easily out of position if played without care. So giving her that 3s reload and 9km torps should make her (too?) strong enough to compete with other cruisers of her tier. I think of her as a light french autoloading tank (WoT) Another thing is that the Atlanta's captain cannot have too many skill points because she can fulfill so many viable roles and does have so many weaknesses that can be countered by picking the according skill set. But that also means that her performance is (no matter the role) quite skill point dependent which also leads to new players performing badly. I didn't use a captain with camo expert or demo expert (went full AA) so far but that will be the next testing stage. With a base detection range of 10,7km one has to be very aware of the surroundings. You suppose that this should be taken away by giving her a base camo value that is better than it is now with camo expert included. I say that'd make her far too easy to play and nearly pay to win. Just imagine running into an Atlanta platoon that popped up at 7-8 km and had all the time to get into an advantageous position, thus having you singled out. You'd be 100% toast, regardless of what ship you're in. I say, buff her strenghts (dpm) and leave her many weaknesses (which leads to skill points being very valuable). With 3s reload she should be able to pull off around 55-60k average dmg for me which would be totally fine at t7.

Exactly, they are the Gearing's gun but with a much higher reload (5s compared to 3s base). I wouldn't say no to that 3s cooldown Problem would be the Flint. edit: Looked it up and it seems that the Atlanta doesn't have the exact same guns as the Gearing. Mk32 mod 12 vs Mk38 mod 0

I pay min 10€ per month for WoWs anyway - before that I paid for WoT (same) and LotRO (20€). The thing is that these f2p models only work while there is content to grind for. Mostly players pay for the convenience of having a shorter and less harsh grind. Once a game runs out of permanent new content it might have to rely on a true fan base that will keep playing just to enjoy the gameplay. I would be such a player. Yep Of course this won't happen while WG is making good money off this franchise.

I meant modding in the sense of "completely" new games, for example CS, "Median XL" or D2 "AfterMath". Or look at StarCraft 1/2 "tower defense"/ "special forces". But this is unlikely to happen anytime soon in WoWs.

And of course the modding scene (very limited here). Plus there are potentially ship enthusiasts - but who knows how many. I played Diablo 2 and mods for over 10 years so I certainly like to stick around for a long amount of time.

I certainly hope we will Five years are nothing *looking at CS*

Have you ever seen someone who's a Python native trying to learn C ?

Submarines are slow and easily countered by destroyers... This only delays the "problem".

Look at WoT, the junkies are already moaning because of "no content" and "only premium tanks". Also this would certainly mean changes. Not a lot of people would buy flags/premium time if there wasn't any need to grind xp. So they'd have to sell fluff items and/or make it a sub-based business model and hope that a reasonable amount of players would stick around. I would be fine with both.

A player base that will keep p(l)aying after all those ships have been released (maybe subscription-based).

I never said it's bad AA but calling it "super strong" triggered me.

The Bogatyr is a pre-nerf St. Louis with extras (speed, fire chance) but I admit that tier 3 games get old quite fast.

I'd say he's a lot better than average without looking at his stats.

Her AA is sufficient but as a proud owner of dedicated AA ships/captains I wouldn't call that "super strong"

Because the vast majority of players sucks to a certain degree and the Atlanta amplifies that suck to sucky levels of sucksucksuck

Try playing the Bogatyr with all those CV seal hunters atm

https://www.ivona.com

Plus they all use aim bots

It's obvious that you are not here to learn or listen. My advice is to go and play the Bogatyr with EM and AFT and enjoy clubbing seals, the new MM will make this even easier! ps: Thanks for keeping the average Atlanta stats laughably low, makes stat padding quite easy.

Birsmarck's 7km base secondaries make me want to do silly platoon things Tiers 3-6 look really nice on multiple levels to me. Look at that tier 4 belt armor Of course tiers 3 and 4 will suffer from laughable dispersion.

Looking at your average dmg: Did you mount the range upgrade module?

But why?

It'll be the Maus of WoWs?