Bear__Necessities

From what I’ve just watched on Flamus stream. Enjoy the death throes of a once a mighty game.

Ohhhh today was just as bad. I totally feel your pain. I mean... the quality of players has dropped through the floor. Here is my morning of misery. and then the last one took the absolute piss. Might as well have just been me vs all 12 of the reds.

Got sick real quick of having to pull results like this EVERY game to maybe get a win. So jumped into the baby Benham of T4. And took out all the frustration on some poor baby seals. Though nearly 2k base exp on a T4 ship is not normal

So, I like my Neustrashimy. Good torps. Good concelement. Guns do hit hard when shells actually land... but and a big but, my god I lose guns all the time, which is a problem when only having 2 turrets. I run the RU captain with the preventative maintenance skill. The preventative maintenance module and still lose them every other game. Any other Neustrashimy owners suffering this? Or is this just a case of extreme bad luck?

Yo! I'll break down my thoughts happily :) 1st up. What the stats show. So Black does beat the other stats of my Neustrashimy bar WR. But in large part that is due to Black being around longer and having it's stats levelled out. For Instance top page on the' Strimy does not even fill 100 players where as black has 15 pages so take that with a pinch of salt. When you judge by the top 5% of the player base in T9 DD's. Strimy is a whole level above Black. Secondly they put their damage and usefulness into different areas, I'll explain that in more detail in my thoughts on each ship. Black. Black is a strong DD, with the US smoke and Radar combination. It's a very team orientated DD that offers good all round play. Pretty much the feature of all US DD's. It's good in cap contesting as it can force out other DD's, or use islands to get close and radar larger ships for your larger ships. It's guns are good up close but drop of in effectiveness when getting further away. But you can still rain HE and cause fire on large slower targets like BB's. It's torpedo's are slow but that actually catches a lot of ships out. and with their decent range a BB or large cruiser will likely stumble into them thinking they have already passed. Then you start fires! Yay for the BB's :P .Overall, good solid DD with no real weakness, nasty radar that can bully key zones, great when combined with teamwork but will not match the likes of Kitty, Mogador or Jutland in a fair 1 v 1 so use those tools to make the best of it and make your enimies cry. It's STILL one of the best DD's even after all the newbies have been added. Neustrishimy. The 'strimy is a surprising DD that while does not look great on paper with the numbers shown, excels in actual game play. 1st up, them guns. Only 2 double turrets. They give the impression you won't be doing much with them and they are a secondary thought. Wrong. They are very accurate guns. In fact the most accurate guns of all my T9 DD's. They have a slower rate of fire but they hit often (52%) and hit hard. 1700k per salvo (ish). The Torps. The torps are it's main damage strength, they hit hard, fast and have good range and respectable reload. I would suggest kitting out for a torp set up then using guns when close and needed. While not enough to sink a Kremlin from full HP to 0 you will still dev strike most ships if you land enough. If you hit a DD or cruiser? especially when they have no heals. You've ruined their game already. Now these 2 factors sound ok, nothing that makes it stand out compared to say Black, Beham, Kitty ect. Until you factor in the next 2 strengths. Heal. Concealment. Heal, the heal is fantastic. I cannot stress how good it is. It enable you to take a beating, and go back for me. Considering it's a DD I've had games where I've taken just over 40k's worth of damage. That's more potential HP than some full HP cruisers in top tier. If you find yourself in an unfavourable fight, you can disengage and then heal back a fair bit of HP. The survivabilty factor is great. The concealment is almost best in class. Only the IJN DD's like Yugumo beat it's 5.6 km as they have 5.4km. When you combine that package all in one? Great DD. Truly. My personal preference? For me I have the most fun in Strimy, I like torp focused builds. Hence my love for IJN DD's and Benham. It's now down to you to decided. I recommend reading LittleWhiteMouse's review on Black https://forum.worldofwarships.com/topic/116070-premium-ship-preview-uss-black/ and watching the vids in this thread made by a great NA DD player for more 'strimy breakdown https://forum.worldofwarships.com/topic/189586-introducing-neustrashimy-the-cockroach/ Hope all this helps

That’s it WG. I’ll pass you the petrol to keep tipping on you’re PR bonfire to keep it going. Honestly. I didn’t think you could beat the PR, PR show. But ya did.

WG: we don’t want to anger the community anymore WG:

DD’s are more than playable. If you’re struggling. Stick to the other classes you enjoy. There is no expectation for you to perform of the bat if you’re not comfortable in them.

I play it when I feel like just punishing the player base. If I wanna play a fun T10 cruiser, I’ll take out Mino, Hindy or Des Moines.

They are medical grade. Not “street” stuff. As for server differences. NA and EU are very similar. Only tangible difference I’ve noticed is at least every speaks/insults each other in the same language.

I can get hold of some good drugs for that.... For a price of course

NA ain’t all that different from what you make out. I’ve played it.

Can’t say I’ve found NA difficult myself. If anything my cruisers get left to farm even more

low tiers are kite or island play, great at ambushes. 6-7 you can be more aggressive. Fiji may just be the best silver ship in the game. 8-9 are use smoke and islands but can be deadly. The Mino at 10 is a riot. For the really gusty it's a great radar cruiser but needs high skill. Smoke option allows you to whittle down an enemy in such a short time then re-deploy to the next target.

RN. Hands down best line in game.

Radar isn’t that much of a problem these days. Or should not be. They’ve been out for ages. Everyone should know the range and duration and it’s easy to work around. I say that as a DD player.

Smolensk not so much actually, and I’ve played it a lot the last few months, nearly all wins and good ones... even with record breaking games... and it doesn’t get close to what I can achieve in Benham and Enterprise credit wise... :(

Benham is a credit monster. So is Enterprise. Both almost equal Missouri for credits. I’ve been able to break a million in a loss in Benham several times easily. That’s without the best credit camo and flags. As for how I find Benham to play... My results in it speak for her capabilities.

If if you don’t do well in it why do you keep playing it and making your teams handicapped from the start...

They do this with almost every event and problem that occurs. They have no real communication tool when it come to speaking to the community. Are you sure about that cost? Nobody else’s math seems to match even close to that amount. Overall, it’s another WG personal relation disaster. Of which there are many.

Have you tried thinking that maybe, it's a crap comparison and that just because other people do it, doesn't mean you should.... Just an idea....

Yes, yes they [edited]did. Astonishing.

It's all we can do. WG have shown they don't listen to us, the players.

What does it matter. My team won. I won. Even with a CV on EACH team. Does not take my point away. In one game, the Daring game. The Audacious killed me off. After I capped and blapped a Kremlin for 85k, they focused me, I died. Ship happens. In the Harugumo game, the Midway flat out ignored my flank, yay! In the Shima game, the Audacious occasionally came close, but mostly focused on the closer flank. Frankly, most CV players are potato. So frankly it does not matter what the CV did. What matters is I just got on with it. And that is the only way to deal with CV's. Just play to your best ability.