Karasu_Browarszky

Hmm... they've recently added them or am I (again) mixing things up?

It is a really weird one.

Very noice, Guv, thank you. However... how do we complete this one: Vive la France (Sorry for using foreign lingo on the English forum.)

How many of us have problems accessing wiki.wargaming.net? I haven't been able to access the site for few days, the suggested solutions did not work. I know I'm not entirely alone with this problem though it hasn't generated much attention on the net. Someone on Reddit suspected some IP's could be blocked.

@ThePurpleSmurfA very thorough explanation, cheers!

Seems. whatever it was, got sorted out elsewhere. However, I've started to like the Cloudflare setting.

Admittedly I'm using a modded client, but this is what it shows me. Is Lappland still only 'for testing purposes' or is it actually going to get released as a special ships and if so what would be the currency as Småland is a free XP ship?

Actually, now that you mention that.. I haven't noticed that with my guns, but frequently on the first press my torps don't launch. They only launch after I change my aim somewhat.

On the other hand, I've noticed some other game publishers like to mix up something extraterrestrial/UFO stuff etc. as 'Halloween events'. Personally, I'm not aware of what the connection between space aliens and Halloween might be, they aren't even wearing any of their mum's sheets with expertly made holes to see through.

Once all the info WG is collecting gets sorted out, we will learn this event was yet another resounding success!

Don't know if that is related to how ships that are within your gun range according to range information are nonetheless beyond your actual gun range.

Shouldn't something like this warrant some kind of reaction from WG?

TBH, I've played battles after the update, and I haven't actually noticed anything out of the ordinary. Could be I'm not just paying attention, of course...

Nah, it's just Halloween. If you see ghosts, your PC is haunted.

Yes, Modstation has that mod. The one problem with it, though, seems to be that if you pick one of the premium ships not available either in game or in the shop, it gives you the preview. Selecting a ship to play is not quite as straightforward with the modded techtree as I would like, but it is still a nice option to have in addition to having to tinker with the filter settings in the carousel view.

None of that matters if you got a half clueless team, though. I just had a battle where I had to run around on my Richelieu trying to keep the team alive. We got to about 920 with twice the number of ships than the enemy and held 2/3 caps. Then, my team switched to pointless suicide tactics... in the end we were lucky to win by points. I didn't do particularly well myself, of course, but half the time it felt like I was busy trying to fill in for the half that didn't do much anything. We were lucky to have good damage scorers, though, like a t6 Trento.

The techtree is the fastest way to select a ship (not the bleeding carousel).

It's probably highly unlikely the wiki.wargaming.net would suddenly decide to block incoming IP's, the only instance I've run into that is with some US based sites that block visits from the EU. I can't exactly imagine why any ISP would want to block their clients from reaching the server either, but someone somewhere along the route is either actively blocking traffic or it's some kind of a malfunction or an unintended error.

One solution would be to rely on bots in randoms, but I guess it would not be a particularly popular change. With bots, however, you could solve the problem of unbalanced numbers of certain ship types in battles, typically too many BB's and too few DD's by having a fixed number of each class of ships present on both teams.

In my experience, Minsk can be a very dangerous opponent.

Investing in bat claws and spider webs always pays off...

I opted for the Cloudflare option 1.1.1.1. Works very nicely, and avoids the Google snooping and tracking problems which personally make me feel uncomfortable. Google and I and not exactly bosom buddies.

There is no easy fix to the problem of rushing tears. If you think progress is too fast, that is only half the problem. The other problem is the change of gameplay from low tiers to high tiers. It's not as simple as learning to cope with new mechanisms such as radar or improved ship/cv performance, longer ranges etc. The change is gameplay goes deeper than that, and sometimes low to mid tiers provide tactically sounder game play than the high tiers. It would be illogical to think people who learn tactically better gameplay on lower tiers, suddenly lose all their skills on high tiers. It's simply, IMO, that the change invalidates all that was previously learned, and most average/casual gamers cannot adapt to that and learn to play the same game differently, as quite possibly better skilled players are able to do.

Yes! I try to make weekends last all week if possible!

Seems it is weekend. Had a battle today where three of our ships played sitting ducks for about 5 or 6 of the enemy ships. I assume they imagined they were 'holding' the flank'. They weren't.