OVanBruce

Where is the info about the new ranked season?

Being fan of WoWs is suffering. If I were to remember all the story from Alpha to now I'd probably leave for months, specially taking into account I've been very active in the forums.

From a group of 9 people I played with at the start of OBT the only one left is me. 2 of then were even supertesters who left this game in complete dissapointment. A lot more with whom I played ocasionally have dissapeared too. And yet here I'm, still having hope in this game and even willing to invest on it (I bought premium). Yet I'm probably conaidered annoying by the WG staff because I keep complaining about the wrong doings of WG. Remembering all the great stuff we hoped for this game during Alpha and CBT have been really depressing.

Well, of course you can citadel a Baltimore silly but it takes just an small angle and a few km to deny those citadels. About hitting stuff, well... get good and use HE over 12km, no really, I did the same all the time with Ibuki to prevent useless salvoes. Baltimore strenght it's the armor layout though. The AA is indeed the best of the game when using the AA barrage skill but it's not like it will bring down lots of planes in a few seconds, but you still need to play thoseplanes and know when to acticate the skill to make it hurt a lot. The ideal distance is at 3km, bonus points if you catch an squad with your fighter.

Showing your broadside to a fully prepared BB is allqays a lottery, you sometimes have to take the risk though so be prepared for heavy damage whenever youtake that lottery ticket. My best advice is to allways be wary of BBs positions on the map, if their guns are facing you and if they are loaded. Quite a lot of stuff to have allways present like also CAs positions, planes positions, torp trajectories and last known positions of enemy DDs, even more if you take into account that any other class in the game can deal heavy damage or sink you with few shells/torps. But that's the beauty of playing cruisers on high tiers. You graciously dance with death with each step you do in the battlefield while shooting left and right with precision and frequency.

You'll be missing Zao though, that's practically the cruiser that every cruiser captain's heart desires.

Oh no, Baltimore is a tank and it's practically impossible to citadel by other cruisers. Combine with it the best AA of the game and it's a solid ship imo.

New Orleans has better armor, much less prone to get citadeled by other cruisers than Myoko. Better AA both in range and DPS. Better turrets and turret layout. Myoko has the better shells and alpha strike potential, also, torps. I'd take the Myoko any day

I must be the only guy running a hefty profit on tier X. Then again I have premium but besides that the only thing you need is to be... good. Most tier X ships represent such a huge leap from tier VIII and IX ships so you dominate then and those will allways be in every match to give you enough damage to have a profit. I play with a Zao BTW, currently grinding the Admiral Hipper too.

Tone. Mark my words so we can suicide together when they release her in the most expensive bundle of all.

Most of my Ibuki grind was done in 4 days playing almost from morning to evening last week: Thursday to Sunday. If you want to call meeting the same players lots of times and even start to recognize nicks that you didn't know before "healthy"... playing Hipper gives better results but the familiar faces do pop up too.

Afaik shells getting "delayed" have been a thing in the game since a long time.

So it not only happened to me. Same ship, Zao, same problem, bugged turrets, in my case were the 2 frontal turrets. Was 3 days ago. Maybe something the supertest should look at.

Imo, any enemy team that's got 2 or more Shimakaze and maybe a Kagero without your DDs being up to the task of hunting then is pure insanity. It can literally paralize a whole team. And when it's 2 Shimas Vs nothing, ay lmao.

German cruisers armor is good against AP but terrible against HE.

Mate, I'm not even the one complaining the most. I do have optimization problems like VERY long loading times on the first match or the ocasional bug, like some days ago where the 2 frontal turrets of my Zao bugged and refused to rotate and load ever again. You just have to read the first 2 pages of this section of the forum. There is allways a thread or 2 about people with lag spykes, package loss, fps issues even on high end PCs, and those are just the most common. Hell, last week we had a full storm thanks to a patch that literally broke BB AP, low caliber HE, no smoke from the fumestacks and the allways recurrent shell delay.

No, I don't. My laptop may not be state of the art but loading issues are very well known, lag spykes, problems with sprites not loading, among others. There's still much to be done in terms of optimization for this game. It may not give problems to high end PCs but it does to medium and low end even with low graphical settings. Why do you think there is a mod that offers low poligon versions of the ship?

Before the patch that broke AP I've been one shotted in these situations even just presenting my bow so this patch did help cruisers that manage to make a good ambush since it seems citadels on cruisers at very short distances are a matter of luck if the cruiser knows what to do.

Today I faced an Amagi in Admiral Hipper at 5km. Presented my full broadside and got damaged by only 20k despite receiving all 10 410mm shells on my centerline from an Amagi broadside. So I guess BB shells on close distance do cause penetration damage or even overpen but not as frequently as before the patch. Citadel roof did prevent me from getting citadeled. The duel ended as it should be with my Hipper gallantly torping the unholy beast and sending it to the bottom, where it belongs. Funny stuff was seeing my 8 shells dealing 15k AP damage on each salvo to the Amagi. Kraut AP is stronk!

Because this game uses much more memory, CPU and VGP and it's an unoptimized mess still full of bugs?

I doubt that even that gaming specialized tablet by Nvidia could reach 10fps on this game.

Ah, the usual vodka MM with all Yamontys in one team and the other only has Tirpitz. Yeah, have gotten a fair dose of that kind of matches.

Personally I think the problem lies on how the whole learning of how to make a CV succesful works. The big leap from low tier gameplay to high tier gameplay is quite distressing, much more than on DDs. So you are in your Langley or Zuiho, loitering around with your planes on the map without a single care in the world, except enemy fighters and the ocasional Yuubari. You pick your target, you drop your load, rinse and repeat. On low tiers you can easily get away with this mentality thanks to the general incapacity of players and low AA of the ships. Then, the great leap happens, you reach tier VII. EVERYTHING HAS AA! AND PEOPLE ARE NOW EVADING, CRUISERS ARE COVERING BB AND THEIR AA REACH VERY FAR! WTF. Well yeah, mostly that happens. So suddenly you find that your old tactics are crap. People that are imaginative found a way to cope with this but for people like me it was either watch someone better than me or keep failing horribly. There is a whole lot of stuff to learn from more experienced and imaginative players out there, specially on CVs because the stuff you need to cope with the increased AA isn't written anywhere in the game and it's even counterintuitive. That's why, even if I've allways doubted their personal qualities I've allways recomended watching Papedipupi's stream or Aerron's videos since I learnt from then. I'm not some übee CVnt but I can make my attacks work and have good battles even in that valley of death that are tiers VII and VIII for CVs. True, things get better on tier IX and X but without the wealth of knowledge you got thanks to others and the suffering you won't be much better even with the überplanes of Essex/Taihou and Hakuryuu/Midway. Just my recomendation for any CV player struggling or players just about to hit those tiers. Come back CVs, we cruisers want planes to shot down!

15 or so flags on Ibuki, though I didn't even noticed...

It's funny how there are so few CVs now. Playing tier X means getting a CV 1 out of 4 times and sometimes you get 2-3 games without a CV even on tier VIII. Population looks healthy on low and mid tiers though.