OldGrandad

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On clicking the 'Gold' Boost button got the below error;

Is the undercarriage supposed to be down on any rocket carrying plane?

Oh dear, you lot have never had to use rollers to iron your clothes!

After receiving an update on the PT I thought I would give it another go. Had the 'defend the base' scenario and again, the mission was so overwhelming I have now lost complete interest. Overwhelming? Absolutely. AI accuracy is beyond comprehension, no matter my evasive manoeuvres I was struck with unerring accuracy my multiple enemies. Even playing passively, and using the healing ability of the supply ships I was soon for Davy Jones locker. No kills but 80k damage was not too bad considering the style of play I attempted this time. I have dealt more before, but that was trying to use a little more aggression but that leads to an even earlier demise. Believe me, I do not want it easy, far from it, but I at least want to feel I have a chance. I can't even fault the ally team as unlike others I have played with previously, they did try to work together. The 'snapping point' is where the last few waves of enemies all come at once, it would not be too bad if the ally AI support arrived earlier as by then, your team will have suffered some casualties. It is a vast shame as the devs nailed it with the Halloween event, when a team worked well together all (or a majority of) tasks were completed. Being reasonably rewarded for doing so, also made it replayable, many times over. Please do not make the skill needed at a unicum level, but base it around what average players (working well together) could possibly achieve.

The AI ability is beyond absurd. A T6 cruiser (me), dodging and weaving but being hit consistently by a Kolberg! was the biscuit. The devs really do not have an idea about how to balance, whether it be in the live game nor these scenarios. You have to give a player the notion they have a chance, not give your AI bots unerring accuracy and ability. Even if you raised the ally tier level to 8, a lot would still struggle to complete a mission. Believe me I like a challenge but I am going into these missions just thinking, how long will this struggle last? The Raptor mission is the only one that has a degree of opportunity to win, the others, not a hope. Some may say they achieved it, and so they may but we have to look at the happy medium where our 'average' players sit and not 'unicum' standard players. As it currently stands it gets a firm thumbs down.

You are as wide of the mark with this (and the quoted patent of old). Whatever you choose to pick that involves team games, you will invariably find a quote regarding 50% when it comes to average of talent/skill. Same in every sport that you can partake in, some are extremely skilful, some are good, some are average and of course, some are mind blowingly awful. As for flags, that means nothing, as it is your input and not the flags that has an influence. WG rigging the matches? Is your team being bribed to lose or are they (as a team) just not up to the job on the day? Keep wearing your colours, on the rigging of course......

Um, time? 35 mins and counting.....

Hmm, from my perspective there is still 40 minutes to go before it starts?

OP being a little dramatic. I purchased the single HUNT FOR THE BISMARCK – 1 container on my NA account and it certainly did not have what the OP declared had in them. In fact container descriptions are; Earn Bismarck and two permanent camos faster with Big Collection Containers, each holding a random collectible with extra surprise goodies like special Signal Flags or consumable camo! At work at the moment but the container I bought did not have 7 in it.

Sorry this is late. I convert to mp4 purely because I only watch on a monitor and the resolution is fine for me. No news on where else any personal bindings are kept other than preferences.xml. Did you have any luck deleting that file and creating a new one?

From the day they introduced the modules as SC 'gifts' I was bitterly disappointed, like opening the Christmas present from an old aunt knowing it was going to be some hand knitted socks....... Like others, would prefer SC's to be a little less frequent but with the re-introduction of the flag packs (and other oft desired gifts).

Hmm, ok what if every single player in the battle took your stance? Riveting action no doubt, all chatting about their latest knitting patterns, bemoaning the weather, what battle you ask?

Although it works well on WoWp where planes have limited health pools, here on WoWs many ships (with larger health pools) can be hit by many different ships dealing similar amounts of damage, and that is where the problem lies. WHo, or how many of the players get 'Kill Assists'? What I do think is a little unfair, is when a player deals significant damage to a ship, and then for one player to deal a very small amount of damage to get that kill. I suggest that kills that do a very small amount of damage (<5%?) that culminate in the kill, get it 'downgraded' to 'Kill Assist'. I am in no way suggesting that the current system gets undermined, but merely to suggest that the registering of ship kills can be split, for example; Instead of 10 ship kills being registered, using the percentage of damage dealt by the 'killer', it could be 8 kills and 2 assists. Experience gained is not altered at all, just the registering of the kill.

You will lose some quality when compressing but the software I use is Freeemake's Video Converter. There are many others but this does what it says and is easy to use.

As above or Alt+F4 should close the game. Had one today where I was stuck in loading screen, Alt+F4 then re-enter game and all was well.

You are all boring, metric and imperial. More like how many elephants does the Yamato weigh, or how many olympic swimming pools would be filled by the sea in Ocean? Keep it technical chaps!

Saw the thread title and was waiting to read a joke - why did the battleship cross the road........

@InfinityIncarnate You are point blank refusing opinions of very experienced players and trying to legitimise your mistake. You are using analogies that do not truly reflect what you did regarding the subject of your initial post. Use this bizarre analogy to best describe what you did. You and your friends are on a hillside with a car, your friends are scattered with some to your far left and far right. You set the car rolling and it gathers speed downhill but suddenly, a friend starts running towards the path of that now out of control car. You have now put at risk a friend's well being because of your ill timed action. So, you firing torpedoes that you have no control over once the button is pressed is that car in my analogy, the ally ships are your friends in my analogy, yet you still want to defend putting your friends at risk by your actions? Accept you are wrong and learn from those mistakes as that will make you a better player. Carrying on as you are now, and declining the fact you are wrong will not help in your improvement in the game at all, and that is a shame.

One point missed, divisions will mostly be up tiered (unsure of percentage but the OP's example is par for the course). A point previously made, being bottom tier in my eyes is the place to be, no shame in being clubbed by a ship 2 tiers higher, but the when you do the opposite.....satisfaction!

I am going to ask the most basic question, have you rebooted your PC since getting that message? Have you recently updated your graphics driver? If so, roll back to a previous version and try again.

Remember Trigger_Happy_Dad and his karma? ->karma collector

The karma points system is one of the biggest failures introduced to the game. As you have found out, doing well can lead to negative points in karma (from salty players), and has proved to be more of a lemon than a useful addition. The amount of battles you do, you are bound to come across more salt than others so just suck it up buttercup! <-(tongue in cheek!)

The clue is you mentioning HD activity. What sort of free space do you have? You are downloading compressed files and a lot will need decompressing so the install will consume a lot of HD space until the temp files get deleted. Have you got multiple HD's?

All, I am writing this just to give you some form of warning. If you are a user of Windows 10 you will be due to be updated to the 'Creators Update' anytime from today onwards. I have tested this on 2 separate machines, one was an updated Windows 7 machine, the other a 'pure bred' Windows 10 machine. On the updated Windows 7 machine, the actual update went apparently very well. I say apparently as all seemed well initially. I have a specialised label printer attached to it, and post update it failed to be visible. Thankfully a fresh install of the drivers was all that was needed. So, keep an eye on older peripherals and their drivers when updating. On the newer dedicated Windows 10 machine, on 3 separate attempt the installation froze at 75%, thankfully rolling back was a painless affair. This could be down to a multitude of things such as security applications for instance. So, with this in mind and abusing a latin phrase, 'caveat installer'! This is not to put fear into you but to make you aware of possible problems. Bottom line is, install now with some possible risk involved, or wait until millions more have done so leaving others to discover issues. This way when updating later on, hopefully buggy installs will be a thing of the past (for most of us!). I for one am now going to wait a while before attempting to install again. Again, just a heads up. [edit] Despite numerous attempts at getting my printer drivers to work on the ex-Windows 7 machine I had to give up and regress the update [/edit]