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I'm wondering if others have had the same experience -- every convoy I have been in (7 so far) -- the team guarding the convoy has won. Does that mirror your experiences?

I just hate having to install an exe file on my computer from some random dude.... I guess I should get over that but it seems super risky

War Gaming should take some of the most fundamental mods and make them base into the user interface. We shouldn't have to resort to mods to be able to have the following functionality, it should be built into the base UI: 1) Details about ships from the main combat screen (User name, clan name, ship name, ship nationality, hydro/radar and range, torps and range). We should not need an encyclopedia next to us to figure out this information for the 600+ ships in the game. If we were really on a ship, some junior officer would be responsible to know all of this information about friendly and enemy ships. 2) Time till battle ends and win rate for each team. 3) The tech trees should contain all ships of that nation, even premiums. 4) The chat screen should include the name of the person and their ship. 5) Timers for your smoke duration, and for time hydro'd/radar'd should be standard. If they are not going to include this level of functionality in the base UI and force us to use Modstation - then WG should timely update it before patches go live. /rant off

Ok its good to know... no one (who responded) in the last two battles I had, said they had seen a match where the attacking team won.

I did the same -- and so far I like it. Especially when trying to grind a glass cannon. But, I have definitely seen a change in people's play style, far more yoloing. Anything that helps reduce camping in this game generally has my support... but maybe we should be careful what we wish for. One thing is for certain, its going to change the meta. I probably should have voted that its too early to tell.

I don't mind it, I just find it odd.

I seem to recall an informal poll in the forums... or maybe it was reddit... cant remember ... but the average player who responded was like 50 years old.... Is WG out of touch with its customers? How many 50 year olds watch anime?

Its not fun, and its too rare to make it worth always carrying a detonation flag (especially on BB's). Why is this mechanic still in the game? I just had another clear win in a random decided by a detonation - 300 point lead, Ohio with 2 caps at 80% hp against a sub at 30% hp - one sub torp causes the detonation and game over. Why is that fun? Detonation was (and still is?) under the old flag system nothing more than a cash grab by WG. Make people buy flags to avoid a BS mechanic. It is time to recognize that the damage it does to the game far outweighs whatever income WG might make from it. /rant off

I got my first super container in a long time today ... totally worth the wait and anticipation: /off sarcasim

I have been using the WoWS modstation for years. I used to use Aslains (come clan mates still do) but I switched one time when his site was down. I suspect, but don't know, that 75% or more players at tier X are using mods?

I cant remember what ships have torps, the hydro or radar ranges, the torp ranges, the speed, the detectability, etc of even the ships I own, much less all the new ships that have been introduced lately. I'm very dependent on Badaobest... this is a big hit to me.

I got it today for the first time in forever... I thought they had removed it from the game... In a CA without smoke, it is such a F'd map.

Just had the same thing in a ranked battle -- lost a lot of karma.,.. reloaded, did not fix, rebooted, did not fix. Next battle was fine. Makes me think it was a problem with the particular instance

forget it.

Well at some point everyone does unless we want our games looking like old commodore 64 games so every system can run them. This is really no different than the people complaining that their video card from 2005 is no longer going to be supported.

It must take into account what ships you already have because I had none of those and 360 ships before opening

I'd say I got damn lucky -- from 34 Super Containers (2 non-super,,, not sure which):

NoZoupForYou nailed it

I agree this is their logic, but its still flawed logic. Give customers what they want and you'll get more customers. Keep forcing customers to do things they don't want to do and you'll lose customers. With a different management team WoWS would have magnitudes of order more people.

I agree 100% -- the battles are fun and fast. I was sad when I hit rank 1 so quickly, I wish I could still que. 12v12 gets old.

Not sure if this is a known bug, but the rules for ranked sprint say that it is allowed to have a division of 2 people, but when you form a division and try to join the ranked sprint button is greyed out. Anoyone else having this problem?

I've never divisioned in Ranked before, but figured since its just a Sprint season, why not give it a try. Hopefully they'll fix this soon.

I've tried playing some replay files today from games played last night, and when the replay files launch WoWS, it gets stuck on the loading screen. I've tried disabling all mods and restarting the computer, neither worked. If I just try playing the game I can play the game, but I can't get past the load screen for replays. Have any of you tried to play a replay file lately? Is there any other way to play these files? Thanks!

So the right answer for WG is to simply remove CV's, that is the best decision for the health of the game. Of course they can't do that anymore due to the headaches of dealing with all the premium CV's they've sold and the very vocal minority of people who like CV's. So what can they do instead: 1) Remove the ability of CV aircraft to spot (only the CV player sees the ship, for the rest of his team it only shows the location as a yellow mark on the mini-map). 2) Reduce the damage CV's can do to DD's. 3) End the insta-recall (i.e. you have to wait an amount of time equal to how long it would have taken to fly back to the CV before you can launch again) This has been mentioned before in the mega-thread of CV despair, but its relevant to this thread too.

That is just disgusting that WG doesn't see the problem here. Granted that is an exceptionally good CV player, but it just shows how helpless you are as a non-CV if a good CV player decides to end your game. Even the ships with excellent AA didn't stand a chance. And taking an Odin from 45%hp to zero with one pass... wow. And of course the insta-recall to the CV so no wait on being able to launch again. I think his ability to get another flight out there rivals the reload time of some BB's.