Takeda92

Oh well, Germans confirmed to have better torps compared to Japanese XD Better than tier 8 IJN torps in speed, damage (I think it will be changed though, can't be 38k) and detection, for only 4 km range less!

One question regarding those torp tubes, are they fixed fired from the bow or where are they located?

They said they will try torps on BB and decide if they stay or not based on balance, I guess that's why w have both Bismarck and Triptiz, one with torps and other without!

One question though.. did Yuubari get it? She wasn't in the patch note and I see no reason why the make the difference even bigger with her compared to the rest of tier 4 cruisers including the Iwaki alpha!

Tier 8 is rather interesting.. so Lexington is doing way better than Shoukaku that is doing very bad (OP US CVs nerf? ) but the best one is Mogami? It seems reasonable the Midtier IJN CV nerf and USN DD buff. Furutaka and Mutsuki with the worst stats of their tier.. who would have thought, I mean it's not like we were telling WG about it ever since CBT In comparing to Mutsuki, Hatsuharu and Fubuki are doing alright.. just like everyone were saying in CBT. Aoba leading ahead of Cleveland? who would have thought? Well we all know Aoba is an improvement over Furutaka anyway. Myougi and Ishizuchi stands out in tier 4 as the worst ships.. with the latter having the worst winrate in the game of 35% The high winrate of St. Louis but equal average xp of the ship tells volumes of how easy to achieve of a ship it is.. nope, not OP at all!

All IJN BBs till tier 8 now have a stock hull with low range and they will upgrade to their old CBT stats with the elite hulls. How did you skip knowing that after playing both Myougi and Kongou?

CV perma spotting DD will have to do with enhancing DD AA vs planes.. like you get more dps the longer you shoot. There's nothing you can xhange in a carrier to fix that.

How will we know the fighter rebalance will close the gab between USN and IJN? it could be another USN FT buff for all we know.. except if you already know as a supertester and you are indeliberately implying that The reason I'm voicing my concern is because I know devs won't do it that way.. we are talking about the guys who came up with the idea of removing manual aim after all!

Compared to the pinnacle of OPness that is Cleveland or the reliable/accurate Aoba, or the Shotguns that are Fuso and New Mexico or even the angel of death that is Ryuujo (soon to be nerfed though) what does Mutsuki bring to the table? a torpedo stats of less than 20? 6 torps that reload 75 seconds and 2 guns only? IJN DDs had that 2 tiers ago and will still have it in tier 7. The only thing you can hit with those torps are those who sail in straight lines. If you consider meeting opponents who know how to minimize the damage from 0 to 1 torps (like what happened in my CBT experience) those torpedoes are very lack luster, with damage per torpedo of 8-9k on BBs. Higher DDs at least get guns that enables them to pop shots at other ship and set them on fire, or finish off other IJN or low health DDs if you play your cards right. Shimakaze for example can defeat any IJN DD she meats 1v1 and possible even Mahan if played right. Mutsuki can't say the same if she faced an Isokaze with better guns and torpedoes for close range combat. In Hatsuharu at least, once you get used to the longer detection range you will feel that you have more options.. The torps are actually good speed and damage wise and the guns aren't terrible either. Now Minekaze with the slower guns is also not very good gun platform (worse than Isokaze) but she compensates with fast, spammable torp reload, something Mutsuki can't do. Mutsuki has the same issue as Kagerou at tier 9. the guns are terrible at turning (but slightly better) but in Kagerou at least you do get very powerful torpedoes. so even though you are one trick pony you at least are good at it.

This change without changing fighters or bombers will make them weaker than USN. 2 IJN TBs can only hit 2-4 of their torps which what a USN TB can do but with more damage, instead IJN TBs get a TB and FT that is weaker in every respect to their american counterpart? So US carriers will get supremacy on all 3 fields. IJN thing was the strike loadout, instead of nerfing that they should rebalance them around another, new uniqueness. Don't forget IJN still have the weaker carrier unlike the auto AA forcefield US carriers get. The fast reloading doesn't meam anything because they put the same amount of planes in the air anyway. For these loadouts to work, fighters and DB damage needs to be buffed on high tiers.

Zaou gets 8km torps!

I only have 2 Reppuus myself.. but I have 601 Reppuu squad I got from one of the events (my best fighter so far) and another 601 zero I got from Amagi kai.. these are my only best fighters. At least I have both Akizuki and Maya kai ni, and I crafted some nice AA radars for them

Because you very accurate guns on a battleship

Of course IJN BBs are weak, they are balanced around having weaker armor, AA and guns for more speed and range that is useless because they have shitty accuracy. I used to think Fuso was OP and now New Mexico seems to have cruiser-like accuracy for the same number of guns.

Well Eugen has the same VA as Akizuki, since we are getting Teruzuki it's very likely she will get the same VA too which gives us hope for Eugen sister.

+3% of 0% chance is still 0% I assume!

Yeah, AA nerf will definitely solve the problem I mentioned in my last comment

Honestly I'm worried that it will be too good of a ship, this plus its popularity will make half the queue filled with Bismarcks.. tier 8 matches will be nothing but Bismarcks and all tier 5 and 6 ships will face Bismarcks most of the time due to MM issues.

That's the problem. Cleveland is just too effective against destroyers, cruisers and battleships as well as carriers. There's not a real counter to Cleveland that a Cleveland can't counter as well. For those saying shoot it with AP and profit, well he will also shoot your cruiser with AP and profit because apparently 152mm are good enough to penetrate any cruiser citadel. If you say angle and hide your citadel well a Cleveland will also do that and hide his citadel and he will just out DPM you with HE. And WG wants this abomination to stay in the game until they release the next US cruiser line?

Forum after Bismarck being sold as a premium: If Bismarck was good: "p2w game" If Bismarck was bad: "WG hates German ships" and "I want a refund"

I like how the video started with accelerated speed then back to normal speed. It's like the ship came out of hyperspace XD

Don't ask me, that's what they said in one of the devs Q&A that was translated on NA server

Not really a big fan of the map. The land mass in he middle is too big and both teams play very defensively, mostly a skirmish around the big two rocks... until someone decides he want to go through the channel, oh boy. Maybe reduce the area of some of the land mass

Considering Furutaka only gets 6km, and Omaha gets 5.5km, I don't see why premiums get an enhanced stats. They said somewhere that they think Omaha is underperforming and might get buff (lol) so we will probably see the same change for Omaha, but where does this leave poor Furutaka?

As you can see torp range is 8.2km.. quite OP for an American cruiser.