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Afaik, not anymore.

Design a ship, put it on sale without proper QC checks and tests, sell it to people and put a note that it can be changed/balanced in future (on buyer's expense) because every ship needs to be balanced at some point....I see. I guess them doing their job right before releasing a new ship into the game, taking player's money and then NOT changing what they sold would be too much to expect.

“Lightening to Jutland, what to expect?” - Great games.

"Which of the T8 radar cruisers is the best?" - I don't think there is a clear answer to this question. Some people like using stealth radar and they can choose Chapa. Some like US ships and longer lasting but shorter distance US radar. Some ships are very dependent on maps, like US and UK ships as playing them in open water (say, Ocean map or others with less islands) like Soviet cruisers wouldn't be the best idea. Some could say, i want to be able to radar when i'm in smoke, there you go, Belfast '43. This is kind of like asking, which is the best T9 DD and again the answer would vary widely, imo.

Most important thing for WG is more customers. One of the ways to inform and entertain customers is to hire some guys for free, call them CC and let them represent their games. WG doesn't spend a dime for hiring them, imagine, they do this from their own spare time with hope of reaching enough viewers and subscribers so they can earn good money like Flamu, let's say. They call this real job, imagine. WG doesn't pay anyone except their own staff. Anyway,they get more customers through ads, recruitment program, CCs, etc. and introduce all these ships in a shiny way which we would all do. What we wouldn't (or at least some of us) do is screwing up the fun part of the game with all these reworks, pr-like events, ruined new ranked mode and such. But we are thinking from the quality part of view, like how the game could be better, more fun. WG is thinking how can we make more profit? Is playing CVin RTS noob friendly? - No, exact opposite...-Then, make something new that everyone can play with ease...And they did, now 40% tatos in CVs ruin all the fun. -How can we make more people play ranked? It seems difficult for them. -Well, we added a Sprint version to attract also the tatos into ranked. --No, that's not the right way to do it. If you make it like that, tatos will feel like they are playing a tato version of regular Ranked. Remove regular ranked mode, add its rewards to Sprint, make it seem like it is a new rework sht, this way now everyone and even the tatos will think they are in real ranked and are achieving something...--Why don't we have CVs in CBs? --There was a strong opposition agains...-No! Squall, Gale and Storm league much more clans than handful clans in Hurricane and Typhoon. You want to have more customers or satisfy egos of handful clan players? --But CVs may ruin the game play with spotti..--No! Add CVs to the CBs, that's it! I can continue but even reading this much is irritating. And you know all this sht anyway. The main point is to reach more and more customers. If it takes to dumb down the game to Forrest Gump level, then that's what they will keep doing, as they have done until now.

I play a lot, and had CVs in more than half the games i played yesterday. Today there were CVs in about 1/3 of my games. So i don't know what you mean by i want to be 0%?

Depends on which league you're talking about. Golden league is full of CVs and mostly FDRs/Midways. Out of every 10 FDR/Midways you may see only 1 good CV player. The rest are wannabes playing CVs but still since it's a broken class, it destroys the whole match. No fun for either side.

I understand why you go to ranked but you have to give some in order to get some. In other words, what do you give to the team in return? Nothing. Because you are trying to learn how to play in ranked. That means the team is playing one player less which is a burden for the team. They need to carry you to victory every game. Is this fair to them? Coop is the place if you want to learn the ships and game mechanics. Not even randoms. You should know the ship armor, guns, maps so u know how to position where to position when you go to randoms (let alone ranked). Besides, you won't really learn much from ranked Bronze or Silver. Heck even in Golden league. People in general who play ranked have no clue how to use minimap, where to position with which type of ship in which maps. Some go yolo, some are afk, some try to cap with BBs, or some DDs leave their flanks and ships exposed to enemy DDs. If you are looking to learn these things in ranked, all you will see be the wrong role models. Right now golden league is full of bad (i mean very bad) players, i can't imagine bronze or silver. If you really want to improve yourself and play better, join a clan. Check https://wiki.wargaming.net/en/World_of_Warships Watch videos, etc. Do division games in a Clan. It will be much better for your improvement than trying to learn in ranked mode. Here you can check some clans; https://forum.worldofwarships.eu/forum/507-clan-zone/ I think this is the best option for you.

How about; - Playing less selfish and more for team? - Your fun can be others' nightmare, did you ever consider that or that is also on the egocentric part of you? How about; - Trying not to learn how to play this game in ranked? This is an example why ranked mode has become utter nonsense.

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Game overall is nice, ship designs are nice, mechanics can be better but still okay to play the game. Game has many ups and downs. I know it is a cliche to say that, but it has nice things as well as a lot of things we don't like. Now, the game modes primarily should be fun to play, so it can attract enough amount of players. -CB mode for instance, I'm sure it's a lot of fun for many clans out there. This is the only competitive mode in the game. -Operations mode, i haven't played it for a year but it must be fun for some players. -Coop mode, same, it has its own player base. -Random mode, is not fun due to all the changes, reworks, broken cv class, etc. We still do play because it is the main mode, but is it fun? A big NO from me. Some of us don't even bother with random mode anymore and play only CBs, imagine the frustration that was created by WG decisions. -Ranked mode, this new reworked mode is actually the old Sprint Ranked mode. Compared to old sprint mode, there are more rewards here, anyone who spam enough games will reach rank 1 in any league. Yes, in the old real ranked season it was also possible to spam 1000 games and reach rank 1 but that season was limited to 6-8 weeks, average and below average players usually couldn't climb up to the rank 2-5 within 10 days to first two weeks, people had the chance to play with many good players in this first half of the season in high ranks. Anyway, current sprint ranked season is a joke to some of us and is great for the ones who struggled in the old real ranked seasons. This one is designed to make more people happy and feel like they are achieving something. All in all, is this reworked ranked mode fun? Another big NO from me.

Oh so you didn't play with Stalin at all but got stuck with my 5 games in Petro? Go play some games in Stalin and we can continue after that.

Check my stats. I have both. Did you play with Stalin?

True, and Stalin is also tanky with more hp, radar, better speed and better guns with better ap penetration. Yet, in the end, you can deal around 10K salvos each time to a bowed in petro or stalin with Yamato. I haven't played with other tier 10 BBs for a while, so i don't remember if they could do the same. Thunderer/Conq can do it with HE. You are right petro it is the meta ship now but it doesn't mean it can deal with a good BB and esp. IJN BB player.

It is a one trick pony. It's ap is useless against non broad siding BBs just like Slava. It just has a deep in water citadel (meaning very low), and a tough nut to crack for some ships (and definitely not for the likes of Yamato) but it doesn't mean it's a swiss knife either.

Yes, a Yamato can one shot even a non-broadsiding cruiser.

It’s edited* with underscore. I don’t think he will publish but I can if I manage to run replays. @VIadoCro Edit: For some reason i couldn't upload it to YT. When i record the video with Nvidia, it also records background noise. Do you know how i can fix it? Here is the replay though; edit: No naming and shaming please

In a ranked game ten minutes ago, A Thunderer camps with his back pointing at me at around 20KM. But I have Yamato with spotter up Each shot 15K damage, he continues to stay motionless and starts moving right before he sinks. And this is what he writes me after the game;

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You mean the exaggeration part? They do it on purpose. They need to entertain viewers to keep them. Also they show maybe their 5th, 10th game in the ship after they learned how not to get deleted first and how to use its gimmick. So, pretty much their videos are about showing the ships capability which doesn't mean in every game a player with Austin will go berserk and do crazy amounts of damage. As you said, once people learn to angle against Austin, then what? I angled and WS'ed against a unicum in an Austin and I in a DD in a ranked game two days ago, from 8km and he couldn't sink me with RB on. It is just the hype which WG aims to create about new ships (as always), and it is done via streamers. I'm unsure about the concept. WG wants to come up with new ideas, new ships with new gimmicks that will awe players. So, they give a gimmick here, gimmick there and in return, ship gets heavily nerfed. Look at Slava, Ap is only good against broadsides, no armor whatsoever, worst bow in/horizontal dispersion. Austin, no armor as if they put Atlanta into T10, twice the reload time of Wooster, with sap RB being the only gimmick. Yolo Emilio, has crawling smoke as a gimmick, yoloes into a BB, sinks it and gets sunk which any DD can do. Let's see what will be the next one trick pony/one gimmick ship coming from WG to keep us busy in the forum. Vampire II?

Flambass and another good player who is also a streamer from NA both said they got one shot deleted many times in Austin and it is a very hard ship to play, to bring its only trick into the game play. Yoshino/Brindisi sails full broad side, Austin uses RB and sinks it but barely. Imagine from the same 8-9km distance, Yoshino/Brindisi sails full broadside, and you have DM/Salem/Wooster/Stalin/Petro, or other cruisers waiting to AP him to death. Yea, Yoshino/Brindisi would get deleted again. Austin in this case doesn't have AP but accelerated sap which is almost as half good as Venezia sap btw and the ship has again almost half the hp Venezia has. As you and some others stated, streamers also make it dramatic for viewers in an exaggerated way. That is why I ask your opinions on forum and watch as many videos as i can before spending resources on a ship 'cuz i don't trust the videos streamers show. They say it themselves that they only show the good videos as there is no point of showing how they get deleted in 5 minutes anyway.

My opinion is based on experience, yours is on assumptions and on a fantasy world. That's the difference. Exactly, you too.

Yes and their mistake was sailing full broad right? It is the same with Austin. If you don't show broad side to Austin, it can't do anything with its sap, or can deal very insignificant amount of damage. Austin, Yolo Emilio, Slava, Champagne, Petro and maybe some others i can't remember now, are just one trick ponys.

You have to know before being able to explain in the first place. You have not played neither in Austin nor in Slava but you try to explain others they are op? Yea, sigh... Neither do you. I don't care if you care or not. Of course it is players since ships can't play themselves alone. No one, esp. the devs care about whether those factors are relevant to you. You don't know Slava, never played it. What you wrote is utter nonsense in the most polite way. Slava cannot decimate enemy team effectively. Slava is a one trick pony. It is extremely dependent on broad sides. No broadside, no damage dealt. That's Slava. You can 200K in a game while in another 70K, totally dependent ship. There are other BBs that can deal more damage, tank more damage and contribute more into to win. Whether you consider it overpowered or not doesn't mean anything, since you have zero experience in it.

And what about when you one shot them with a BB?