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Meh. Agreed of course with belfast, but less so with kututov. I still play it because it's my main credit grinder. Sure it is (way) stronger than a lot of t8 cruisers, but given the state of the matchmaking I don't feel even the slightest bit of guilt. There are some cruisers in reasonable tiers that I would recommend though - yubari. Very specific ship, but as Tyrendian said, tier 4 sees very nice (cause protected) matchmaking, and you could pick it up for a quite low price on a sale (like below 10 euros) - but especially Degrasse. Tier 6 has better matchmaking since a while now, and while she isn't very special in any way - like a lot of french cruisers - she is a very decent allrounder that could certainly teach you a lot about cruiser gameplay without BS matchmaking. - maybe others as well, though those are two I have experience with.

HOLD IT RIGHT THERE BUDDY Really, I hope I'm on time. Do not, NOT, go for the Atago. While she isn't a bad ship, she is absolutely not suited for beginners. Trust me, the main reason I'm saying this is because you're gonna hate yourself for buying her. 1. It's an open-water, roaming cruiser, which means you'll have to be sure about map positioning and angling, or you are just gonna get blapped. 2. Amplified by what I said yesterday: tier 8 is broken. Most of the time you'll be playing her against tier tens. Atago has just below 16 km of range (right?... ;) somewhere thereabout) and the tier ten meta is passive AF, and a lot of people play at 20km'ish. 2b. Maybe you heard things like "yea but Atago can handle being uptiered cause heal and decent armour" or so? Cause while that is somewhat true, in an almost constant +2 tiering, it's also quite irrelevant. Also, powercreeping. 3. In a lot of games, you'll have to be extremely opportunistic with her, i.e. not engaging/shooting as much as you'd like, but wait for a good time. That is not easy to do/know when. In an ideal world you could try her out on the public test server to see yourself, but that's not how it works I'm afraid. Also PTS is (even more) retarded, so it wouldn't be representive. But please trust me on this, and I'm extremely amazed no one else tried to talk you out of that idea. So, if you really want t8, I guess Alamaba will do, although she isn't that much different from the North Carolina AFAIK. Maybe just grind that ship? And that's one you can really try on PTS. I've heard people saying they have fun with a Massachusets (sp?), that's also a US BB of tier 8. Just a suggestion. I'm really not joking about the tier 8 being broken by the way. In general I avoid that tier like the plague. I won a cossack (T8 Brit DD) a few weeks ago on a stream, and I contacted WG to return it (streamer got me some premium though :) ) I haven't bought a tier 8 in ages, and I wouldn't do it unless it was a ship broken beyond belief and/or tier 8 matchmaking gets fixed. So, not before 2034. So I remain with my recommendation for scharnhorst, or anything tier 7 (I saw sims being recommended. Z39 would be decent, leningrad too) The other recommendations, but for other tiers, are also very good, i.e. Ishizuchi, Julio, Arizona, etc Going full tier 8 is just an excercise in painfulness in general. Going tier 8 cruiser with, no offense, limited knowledge of the game, would just be full blown masochism.

Wouldn't recommend. Tier 8 is broken and gets uptiered an extreme amount. Unless you really don't mind that, then it can be good cause more XP & credits. If you desperately only want a BB, I'd recommend scharnhorst. wut?

Just luck. Give it another go for let's say 10 games, then come again.

I actually waited with activating the defAA until the CV committed to that drop with one squad. Listening to El2a has its advantages :D Don't really know what would happen if he dropped his AP bombs on me after that with defAA down on my zao. Can't remember all that *edit... Also, at that point we already knew he was *edit, cause just before that he tried to strike a cleveland. But his *edit got rewarded (or, not punished) by the cleve's *edit, who either didn't run defAA or didn't have it mounted to begin with. Both are depressingly equally possible these days.

QFT - the human factor cannot be ignored. WG waited long enough for the player base to effectively mitigate CV's influence. Hoping that your AA cruiser is not completely useless and out of position sadly didn't work out. Hoping that your AA cruiser is actually AA specced also didn't work out. There's so many layers of random in that counter strategy. This probably also lead to ABSURDLY high AA values IF you actually decide to spec for AA. So that non AA specced ships still have a slight chance/flavor. Did you just quote yourself for truth? Damn, this was an interesting thread as it is, now I'm even learning advanced forum tactics

Somewhat, sure But most other classes are represented by more than one player in an average game, so more chance of skillgap balancing out. How do you think there are those regular 20 and 30 percenters in tier ten carriers I mentioned? I dare you to try to get that low of a winrate in any other class, it won't work.

some random points - Quite sure CV could be "fixed" (in a broad sense) as it is now if WG didn't stubbornly refuse to listen to CV mains, thinking of fara, @Commander_Cornflakes, @El2aZeR etc, they probably all have buttloads of ideas - WG certainly made some things worse. The addition of AP bombs that can blap some BBs AND a buttload of cruisers is bloody retarded. See also Graf Z - on the question "What is your reason for not playing CV?" (in my case, why stop after a relatively short while), most important is the bloody UI. I am all but confident in my "CV skills", but if I have to go doubt whether a screw up is me or the UI, yea, never mind. - CV biggest problem gamewise is probably mentioned UI, gameplay wise it is skillgap. There is a ton of +- 30% (+-10%) idiots in tier ten carriers out there. WG certainly can be blamed here as well, making playing tier ten in general too easy. (economy can learn a lesson from WoT here) - I'm not really sure why so many people are so looking forward to CV rework. I see it as very likely that it might be even more frustrating to play against, cause WG.

Nothing, cause tier ten is dead. If you do want smt, go conqueror, ultimate cure for relaxing high tier gameplay after seeing too much braindeads.

Most important I'd say is don't go to overagressive. If you're the (one of the) only target(s), BBs will shoot you, and those AP shells bloody hurt in gearing.

While going on a lazy stroll with the monqueror, divving with @El2aZeR in his haku, we met @WarburtonLee in his Z52, who did a great job.

Hello, I tried operation yesterday to close off the day, got crit error. Total screen freeze, can't even make a screenshot of the error description, the screen freezes in gamemode. (10/10 WG) Can't even alt-tab to the error, or ctrl-alt-del (or whatever means) to the taskmanager. What works is going winKey-Tab, and there at least I can click the X on the error, which, a few seconds later, also makes the game properly crash & close (...........) Went back in the game, +- a minute or so later, crit error again. Rinse & repeat. Today I started with operations, same story. At that moment I thought my client was f*cked so I did a client check. After that I tried with a coop game (Didn't want to give operation teammates an AFK'er again), and everything went well, so I thought problem solved. After that normal PvP games, no problem. Till I just now tried the operation again. 2 minutes in, crit error. Going back in, again, etc. So this crit error ONLY appears when I try operations. That's some impressive coding, but whatever. Questions: 1. Anyone else having this? 2. If so, found any solutions? 3. If not so, any suggestions? Thx

Would be For all x elements of N, for all y elements of N+ : (x + y) > x Can't be bothered with finding all the right symbols ;)

Good one. While a lot of the memes regarding this game are stupid, the one about mongday really isn't.

Oh, trust me, one could fix stupid with duct tape. But it would probably be against some forum rule to explain how.

It would be elitist to get angry if some BB shot and got "only" 1 cit instead of getting a devstrike or so. Calling the general playerbase idiots who ruin this game (with suiciding, borderhumping, reversing from 1st minute etc) isn't. For me doesn't have to be "good" (according to whatever algorithm), I'll settle for average even. The ones below that should get their own little playground, and as the OP mentioned, they wouldn't even notice.

A. (from reddit) Yup, that's every server (including that one) chosing at least one better ship Is Hinden even that good still? (Not even thinking about the 1s reload nerf first, but it used to be known as ultimate starsaver, and I think a lot of other ships will just take the star) Also, 26% Yamato on SEA. Kek? If anyone here per chance played ranked there (as well), I desperately want stories. Also, BBs desperately need buffs...

Moskva is team dependent to the extreme. Maybe even love for the motherland can't compensate that.

Yup. At least NA has gearing as more popular.

Yes, you're supposed to take this thread that serious. They prove everything, including there being extraterrestrial life.

This. I once truly hated carriers, though that's long ago, until I realized it's not carriers I hate, but the skill discrepancy between the players and this playerbase unwillingness to play this game as the teamgame it is. With all that bloody retarded bowcamping in tier ten I find myself constantly wishing for carriers in every game

Well we can't all be as devious to want Pay to Lose

Is one supposed to say 'lewd'?

around 16. Then my chatban was over.

Already changed my comment - you too slow (But, logic and math aren't synonyms, not in anyone's interpretation. One might be derived from the other, but that's smt else)