Karasu_Browarszky

You'd be surprised how many people out there think that is the ideal spawn point.

This is what I do in part, but doing it all the way like that is a dangerous tactic because it puts you in the cross-fire focal point. So... do you recommend sticking with the other ships rather than choosing your own path, in a sense, as a priority? Screening fails most of the time, even if you aren't alone because for some reason, if there is a CV, they are not spotting ahead. Your DD's, on the other, do press forward beyond the center zone leaving your flank wide open for the enemy DD's (and subs, when and where applicable). This is also what I like to do, 'checking the numbers', as long as you get the right idea what lies ahead of you. Sometimes some enemy ships remain mysteriously unspotted....

It's not a picnic for the divisions either, because you can be placed on the opposite flank from your div buddy. Overall, about 80% of the time I can trust the game will give me the worst possible spawn points.

They never do, though, do they?

This could be at your end. Have you gone through the usual procedures, like Check & Repair, Install additional software, run the game in safe mode, and you probably have generated a WGCheck already. I assume WoWS is the only game/program you are having issues with? I'm having different issues, myself, with crashes, critical errors etc. These issues also 'spread' to the browsers and the desktop crashing the PC.. the file manager, or the GPU drivers/display drivers. TBH, none of the above fixes have done anything to fix those. I've adjusted the graphics settings, and yesterday I restored the default settings in my Nvidia control panel (global settings, only power mode is now set to 'adaptive'; I also run WoWS under the global settings without any change to them). I haven't yet played enough to say if that made any difference.

Well.. I've been having the occasiona 'critical error', and when I started tinkering with Nvidia control panel settings + in game settings, it actually got even worse. I did not get those critical errors, but I started getting black screens. After one black screen there was that annoying Windows sound and nothing worked. Had to force reboot the PC to get anything back, relaunch the game, get into battle and so on. I then chose to try something else. I resetting all the Nvidia control panel global settings to default, except for the power mode which I set on 'adaptive'. In game, I have further reduced the graphics options and I'm now running the following set up. No idea if I will still keep getting the errors, but the graphics look surprisingly decent even with this low settings, and the FPS is very good around a little over 30.

Don't recall anything like that. If we get patrol boats, could we also get some of those ferocious British trawlers too?

I see... BK-31 is an armored patrol boat of the Volga Military flotilla which sank in 1942 at Stalingrad. Seems to have been found in 2016, raised and then undergone restoration. How would an armored patrol boat figure in WoWS as we know it beats me. More likely it's not something we are actually going to see in the game.

Interesting you your equipment picks are somewhat different, yet both of you have the concealment module. I know in many situations adding concealment makes sense, unless you get spotted by planes or subs constantly, of course, in which cases it makes practically no difference, and is also useless for the secondary situations as well. It's also worth 4 pts in captain skills so I'm wondering a little. Fire prevention would take the build towards secondary build as well. Maybe one important consideration is what sort of captain skills you could pick that are good for the Iwami, but not completely wasted on some other BB. Unless, of course, you sidestep this issue by taking one of your cruiser/DD or even CV captains for the battles you play on the Iwami.

So, we have a hybrid ship, the problem is where do you go in terms of the build, equipment and captain skills wise. Is there such a thing as a hybrid build too?

Something similar, mostly critical errors that come either when logging in, in port, in settings, in battle... and once I had a crash that gave some other reason for it. Mods don't seem to play any part, in my case at least. I've had these errors even without any mods, in safe mode etc. Windows repair installed, GPU driver updated, no effect on this issue. Several virus scans run, no detections. I'm thinking it may be a resource related issue with the game, if it's now requiring more resources to run stable than before. However, even reducing graphics settings etc. hasn't really helped much. I haven't noticed any forum/WG web site related effects with this, but I have encountered issues with web browsers, like Opera and Edge in particular.

This might be why you actually don't see subs being all that popular in the game. Which is a good thing, actually, for most players.

Me, obviously. But I can't tell you much about the ship,though, only a couple of battles so far. Other people might be better at giving a personal rundown on the ship. We talked about the Iwami earlier, have a look: Here's a build video worth watching. And YT has a lot of actual reviews to help you out.

Nothin can compete with the ocean. The next best thing are the maps that have a clearer separation of land mass open water, meaning they have rather bigger islands, fewer rocks, or the rocks and islands are concentrated more on just one or two areas of the map. The worst maps are those that are kind of in between, and especially those with rocks in the center of the cap zones.

I'm actually getting critical errors even in safe mode....

Don't blame them, quite frankly...

The result? Longer and more expensive grinds?

I have to log in in safe mode to be able to play at all.

Curious why you felt you needed to get those T6-T8 permanent camos?

WoT manages it, although their idea of a clan emblem makes a postage stamp look like a canvas. I'm sure there's image technology available which could filter out most of the unwanted stuff in the process of submitting the designs for approval which would cut down significantly on the 'human input needed' part of the approval process.

If only we had a thing like Clan camo, Clan insignia and Clan flag.

Yes, obviously, this only applies to the various military style camos and those of muted color schemes. Not if you are sporting a screaming red neon camo to make sure you can't be missed.

On the pragmatic side, one reason for still using a camo is if it makes the ship visually harder to see in battle.

Well, as the theory goes, we here on the forum represent the vocal minority, and we are selling the camos for credits, so I must assume that the silent majority is throwing credits to get as much of these pointless camos as they can as we speak.

Correct, the combat signals still do. Only the economic signals were converted. TBH, I'm not sure if the rationale was quite sound, and if this is a win-win situation for us players. The one change I wholeheartedly support is the camo change.