Karasu_Browarszky

Are we talking about our dear Admiral @NikolayKuznetsov before or after his (her?) recent makeovers?

Based on the comments on the video (no, it is not the Battle of Port Arthur), it is a composite video made from footage taken from a Japanese TV series and a Russian movie: 坂の上の雲 and Адмиралъ Nicely done, though.

Well.. you are right they decided to do something with Deadeye, but all this time since the infamous CV rework, I don't think they've ever acknowledged there is a problem with the CV's as a class. Will they acknowledge there is a problem with the secondaries or is this some kind of a Secondaries mini rework we are seeing here, rebalancing the entire mechanic to reflect their new focus, meta or whatever. It's a little strange if the new secondaries suit some ships while others end up on the losing side. If so, what are the implications for game play?

But if the revenue curve keeps going up? Which will matter more? I'd like to have 'functional' secondaries, in the sense that they are actually worth something myself, even though I've rarely had full secondary builds except on some German BB's.

Yes, this is true, can happen...

People don't seem to want +1 MM... I've tried to solve this by playing tier X, because when I've played tier 8 I've typically come against tier X's. However, now it often happens that playing tier X I find myself being bottom tier...

The biggest problem with the secondaries are their (effective) range. Also, unless there is a target spotted in that range, there's nothing to fire at, in which case all the equipment and points used on the secondary build are not as idle, but actually away from something else that could be put to good use.

It isn't, nor should it be IMO. Those caps are an entirely artificial gimmick substituting the real thing (map control/victory conditions/forced retreat). Their only purpose is to shorten the battle, not to resolve it, unless the enemy is completely inept. Obviously, if you manage to hold the caps and keep your numbers intact, you will win, probably relatively quickly. If you start overextending (as pointed out in above posts), you risk defeat. In a game built on maximising damage, it's a safe bet your team will push and risk defeat which will leave the window open for the enemy team to exploit your mistakes.

That is a huge problem if they are actually referring to CC account as being a press account, because the word 'press' implies an obligation to follow the ethical code of professional journalists, which by definition is not the same as propagating propaganda, though I realise in this day and age the distinction between these two mutually exlusive concepts can easily become blurred, by design. I myself do actually hold a press card as something of a relic, though I can't by any stretch of imagination consider myself as a professional journalist. I would, however, consider myself obligated to follow the code, rather than tow the company line, as it were.

Same for me, it must be a very popular game mode. (Or a very small server...)

Leaking State Sikrets in other words.

Do I also detect a hint of sarcasm in that flavour?

But only fools can get away with saying stuff other people couldn't.

Correct. Even as the last surviving ship on their team, a good CV player can flip the battle given the optimal conditions.

I see what you mean. This would work the same way as having limited ammo, but unfortunately it mostly applies to BB's only, and theoretically to some cruisers. HE spammers, torpedo spammers and CV's are mostly immune to this mechanic.

I can fire 18 shells per minute meaning I can fire only 360 shells in a 20 battle, theoretically. This is not the same as having limited ammo, though, or those HE spammers and torpedo DD's would run out of ammo much much faster in a 20 minute battle because of the time acceleration in WoWS. And so would the CV's run out of planes, if there were such limits.

@AndyHill there are no ammo limits in WoWS.

No, they can't. Instead they've learned to be very good at dressing it up and putting it up for sale in the Premium Shop.

But if everyone will be playing CV's, won't they become too popular and get nerfed?...

Maybe I should join them...

I can't share your optimism when it comes to that. The best you can hope for are two things, the enemy CV is reasonably incompetent AND will keep coming back to you for some more... and even then that constant attention is going to wreck your game. On the plus side... it may help your team somewhat.

Ah.. run out of planes will he then?

The way I'd expect it to go, if there was a ship that is harder to play but also packs a bigger punch, that is the ship the best players would go to. However, it isn't necessarily going to be popular just with the best players if it gets a reputation for being a 'winner'....

We're all in this together!

One possible solution, by way of a compromise, is that you could set your game to choose which functions are run automated and which ones you want to handle manually. The only hard fast rule is you'd have to have manual control over at least one 'area' as it were.