Excavatus

what does this mean? What does it have to do with anything? how hard it is to understand... it cannot be..? not even a single time.. no..

I dont know what is wrong with that ship, (DOY) but last night, I saw our DOY in the end of the battle, got penetrated from the bow by a richelehuehuehueue (frenchy) for 18K... complete bow on.. Lets not forget the arse... the part after the Z cannon of montana.. is just free pen damage from almost every angle.. My moskva is particularly fond of that arse! Ok a couple advice mate.. first, please stop answering everyone in a seperate message.. just read hit the (+) for multi quote.. then read another.. hit (+)... rinse and repeat.. then answer all of them in the same message.. Second, you dont need to record your battles. Game keep replay files. under the game folder/replays (If they are enabled from options) They are very very tiny files. So, just keep them, and post your replays. you don't need anything specific to do this.. and again.. This is a bow on yamato! there is only one thing can overmatch this thing.. and that is another Yamato (or my beloved musashi) A tirpitz or a bismarck with puny 380mm guns.. cannot even dream about that.. Because of this... A bow on yamato is immune to penetration because of the armor + angles. You can check the armor values in game.. or here is the fish So again... A tirpitz, doing 20K damage to a bow on yamato.. is not possible.. so.. 3 statements in one sentence.. 1) Yamato taking 20K damage in one salvo 2) yamato being Bow on 3) It was a tirpitz doing that damage.. They cannot be all true at the same time..

15km away tirpitz, bow on yamato 20K hit.. would you be offended If I tell that "I don't believe you?" any replay may be? because If you ask me.. that scenario above is impossible

Targeting individual planes is a good idea... and If there were individual players on those planes from WOWp, it will be a must I guess.. It can be tweaked right now with all the changes. But for the bots.. I don't think there is a need for it.. there will be squadrons for CV players on both sides.. and you can evenly distribute the real players from WOWP.. you have 4 players? 2 to each side.. 3 players 2 - 1 distribution (types of planes may be I don't know) Max 7 individual planes per side.. can be done..

the thing is.. It is not the 2 tier matchmaking which caused the problem. That Haku can easily delete a montana. It is not about the montana AA but it is about how many planes that Haku prepared to sacrifice. and survivability doesn't care about the AP.. If you would have given the example of hindi, not a yamato.. that would have been better.. but you know 1 on 1 an NC with surv. built have a great chance on a hind.. The only thing can a hindi do is come close and torp.. and I am talking about 2 NCs here.. I think even a Yamato will have problem against 1 vs 2 NCs.. lets not deviate the subject here actually.. right now.. CVs.. are either wrecks you. or you don't care.. there is nothing in between.. when it comes to CV vs CV... either one of them mops the floor.. or they lock down each other.. The main point is.. Everything about the CV is on extreme ends of the spectrum.. either excellent or abysmal.. nothing in between.. that is the major problem that this rework trying to solve..

Playerbase getting worse with time is not a sole problem for WG, It is the generation problem for the whole world. And frankly WG has to do some of the things to keep getting new players. I don't agree with you. This game still has a learning curve. We can see that by many number of german CA captains, launching 6km torps from 15kms away. That is not a learning curve for us maybe.. but a curve is there. On the other hand, the problem you described about the MM with a ranked battle.. is actually not an MM problem. it is a CV problem. because right now, there are 2 outcomes for AA.. you either obliterate the enemy planes.. or they just don't care about you. Me and my friend in AA specced NCs.. next to each other.. got obliterated by a hakuryu in the last week.. yes we downed a couple planes.. but couldn't distrupt the patterns.. So.. Current condition is.. CV planes either useless against an AA.. or too strong for it.. thats all.. and this has to be changed. For the WOWp side, I am with you.. as I've fantasized a solution for that. Keep the CV captain in control of a strike squadron.. and let 7 WOWp players take of from the CV in that match.. in fighters, bombers, TBs.. This would be perfect.. awesome!!! or at least better than this.. but I don't know if it is possible.. A button for NO CV match would not work.. like people asking for no arty battles in WOT for years.. and not getting it.. But I agree.. new implementation will cause problems.. may be much more.. may be enormous problems. The thing is, current state of the CVs has problems too, but too less players to give efforts to solve problems and the state has passed beyond the repair. CVs are too far away from the intended direction, it is impossible to bring them back to road. So the WG will delete them, put new CV at the start of the road again will try again. Yes.. there will be problems, but there will be opportunities, means and reasons to fix them as well..

agree.. fly high.. spot bigger area but only bigger ships.. fly low.. spot smaller area but can spot smaller ships.. and being shot at :) Fly slower spot longer.. get shot at more.. fly faster spot shorter.. get shot at less..

first of all, we all need to accept one fact! CV's in the current condition are played by very few people which is caused by both the playstyle (RTS) and the skill level needed to play them good. Skill levels between CV captains can be a real deciding factor for the outcome of the battle. and when you consider the general state of the population in this game, you cannot change it into better without changing it entirely. We need to accept this first. Second, they are (WG) giving enormous times and resources, accepting refunds way before, trying to get feedback as much as they can... We first need to respect all of these and give them the benefit of the doubt. all negative "THIS IS crap! THIS SUCKS! THIS F.UCKS THE GAME!" attitude neither correct nor helping. Critic? always.. we need to do that constantly. Respect? we have to give it, because whether we accept or not, WG is trying to earn money, and that road passes into the heart of player happiness! The video we've seen is just the first step. Just to show us what the CV gameplay changed into.. nothing less nothing more. It is very early to talk about the Dots, damages, CV OP or UP or Broken etc etc.. It is early for talking about spotting, CV sniping. we have no idea what will be the new CV will capable of.Even WG don't have any idea about that. They have plans? but they don't know what will happen. If you ask me.. I found the new CV gameplay more fun looking, but I've always thought that the CV gameplay has no place in randoms.. too sophisticated for that. Hell CVs are too sophisticated even for RL, look what they did to the NAVAL battles in the history... one idea, manual altitude control.. can cause these.. you can fly too high, you get to spot a very big area ( like quarter of the map )... but cannot attack at all (SPOTTING COMES BACK) You can fly too low, you use the cover of the islands to stealth strike.. or even.. UNDER THE RADAR? But the point is.. Lets accept, even the %90 of the people who claims "They are done with the game" will stay.. and at least half of them will continue to play CVs. Lets accept, even the most loud whiners love this game. If they didn't, why they would stay here for this long? Lets accept, we need to support WG and devs in this process.. I am not talking about being a fan boy... I am just talking about being civil.. thats it..

Sorry mate.. but wrong.. You balance the game for the average skill population. So the average people continue to be average, good players continue to perform good and potatoes continue to potatoe. If you balance the game for the best player, then the averages cannot perform average and become potateos.. then there will be no averages left.. Only bad and good players. I am sad to say that, but skill cannot be a factor in balancing let alone balancing for high skill.. Those kind of games are not wellcomed anymore. Because people always want easy wins.. they just want to have "PHUN!" There are numerous games, numerous incredible games which tried to cherish the skill and effort into their game.. died.. or turned into average or lowest denominator before dying...

I know how to do it but doesn't have the knowledge about modding to do it. It was actually very basic. The mod looks for the names on the both team lists... and If detects anyone who installed the same mod. It just highlights the name. Thats it. Like the XVM puts an X next to the XVM user in WOT

ok lets fantasize a little bit shall we? since the WoWP practically dead.. What If the idea behind this a little bit about bringing that people from planes over here... what If they are thinking about 1 squadron for the carrier captain, then individual planes for WoWp players.. especially fighters.. to get out there from a carrier and attack enemy aircraft to protect your strike squadrons... or to attack enemy strike squadrons.. Imagine, as a carrier captain, you get a full 12 plane torpedo squadron to control, and 7 wowp players take off from your deck with fighters? wouldn't that be awesome????

One of the most important sentences from @Sub_Octavian etched in my mind is, "We definitely want to prevent the ability of being more than 1 spot at the same time to be removed" I believe this really frames the idea behind the rework..

I can only talk from the adversary point of view for Stalingrad and Wooster. For stalinship, I think that ship is neither broken or OP but an extremely powerful ship which punishes mistakes very hard. But It goes down much easier than a moskva. I prefer to see very good player in the enemy team in a stalingrad rather than a moskva. Much better reload, a little better mobility and a little better stealth (even for moskva) easily punishable citadel, very susceptable to the fires. Yeah that is a BB. Everyone says that.. I agree.. A BB without an armor! :) You just need to be extra careful when going against one because not only the ship is powerful but also and more importantly you will know that the captain will be a good one. I've seen hindi captains having a field day with stalingrads.. and zaos... all the same.. The problem, If you insist playing against its strenghts, stalingrad will wreck you... But that is all the same, even with the tier 2-3 russian DDs with abysmal torps.. ıf you charge on it blindly you get torped.. I accept there are very poweful advantages of stalingrad but there are good disadvantages you can use against it. May be removing the normalisation angles would be good.. but we need to wait and see for that As for the wooster.. That thing is annoying as hell.. I really just want to reach out the screen and grab the f.ucker who plays and spams HE over an island onto me and squize him until he turns purple with green dots and pisses himself.. and my feelings are just as the same for harugumo and kitakaze.. But.. there is a big butt! I was feeling same against the minos.. until I got one.. That ship is soooo much fun.. and.. omg.. I love minos.. now even though I get frustrated against mino captains.. I am not homicidal against them . and I believe that will be the same with the wooster and harugumo when I got them in the future.. The point for those ships are actually I think, frustration is an intended mechanic for them to you to make a mistake under that rain of shells and the anger builds upon inside you.. Here.. My 2 cents.. go get a gum for yourself.

I have some friends who would be extremely happy If WG put them in an ALL tier 10 match with their Kamikaze / Kami R / Anshan / Fushun (how many are those bastards are there?)

It is not about giving the advice.. It is about the content and the delivery way. On the worst case scenario, If you give proper advice in a kind way, no one will report you. Just ignore you.. So you get reported because either, you used bad words to give advice or you didn't give an advice at all, but just mean words. (yours is second category as I've seen above posts) For example, last night in a map, a lone DD was going into A cap in the southwest corner from N spawn. He asked for help, I said "Can you please not go there? with only 2 DDs, we need you in the middle. A is useless on this map" He said, "With 3 radars, I cant live long enough in middle cap" I replied: "I will be just behind the cap to help you! (in my musashi) and got another "Wilco!" from a montana! Chung Mu said: Ok.. lets go! turned back, got into B.. got detected by Donskoi radar! 21 shells from 2 BBs was enough for him :) capped B, went to C. capped there by helping shima.. Point of the story.. If you want people to LOOK WHAT you are saying, you need to focus on HOW you are saying it!

Ranked Battles so far!

Just after the battle which your ship got destroyed finishes.

I say, If they put one of those High AI bots from the operations, not from Co-op It would get at least %50 WR.. Playerbase is dumb enough for that.

Good point for that Heal actualy, I forgot the heal yes..

Yeah, the problem is completely on that packet loss.. %90 smthng.. You need to figureout what that is. If you can PM me the non-reducted version of that SS, I can take a look at it for you..

OK, What does a ship can have as pros and cons ROF, Accuracy, Penetration, Concealment, Citadel Vulnarability, Smoke, Radar, Torps, Fire Chance (HE) so, lets assume there are 3 really dakka dakka ships in the game.. Worcester, mino and harugumo at tier X Mino is fantastic, but don't have HE.. Actually we thought and laughed, WG should give mino HE for april fools day. Then they give HE to Wooster.. Dakka dakka with HE?.. at least he doesn't have smoke.. yes radar.. can kite awesome.. but mediocre concealment with no smoke.. ok.. both these ships have vulnarable citadels at least.. Then WG picks a ship, give it dakka dakka, then remove the citadel, give it 12km torps, give it smoke, then think about it.. the dakka is not powerful, make it powerful enough to pen BBs.. What can be possibly wrong in this equation??? I don't care about the harugumo actually. They are just frustrating to play against.. That ship is just making me to stop playing If I am in a BB or a not so agile cruiser.. İt is just.. Last night, I was in moskva, trying to disengage from a fight, but there was a mino, wooster and a kitakaze in the same smoke.. That is not good play.. that is just crap.. I am not saying I cannot deal with those ships, I am just saying, putting more and more and better dakka ships into the game, should't be the way to fight with BB overpopulation.. let me try to explain it with basic colors.. :P

I see that you got your name back! Gratz! On the other hand, I reall would like to see a CB season, other than and / or not only tier 10 battles.. Make it a tier 6, 7 8 9 or 10 just frigging make it 2 or 3.. or just make it both 8 and 10.. or 6 - 8 - 10 with different rewards.. Ranked tier X CB tier X Legendery upgrades tier X new campaings tier 9 and X I love high tiers.. but its getting boring a little bit..

Oh I love giving broadside to the surprising enemy BBs in moskva.. Since it is just agile about a floating brick... Only 2 sentences ring in my ears! "Resistance is futile!" "Cafer! go bring some cloth!"

If you think this is a miracle.. you have a problem, If this is sarcasm.. I have a problem :) Pick one!

I Just need one thing from WG.. Please put a bigass, covering at least %90 of the screen big, red flashing message, just before the game starts and 10 seconds into the game, which say.. "YOU CANNOT WIN IF YOU GIVE 2 OR MORE CAPS TO THE ENEMY!"