Absolutely HORRIBLE patch. The issue with the CVs was that it was hard for a regular player to play them well and the players who were good at them just dominated the game. Now they are made easier for regular players to play but now the CVs are more broken than they ever where. I have 59,33% win rate and ~7k games under my belt so I think I know a little what I am talking about even tough I have not played CVs that much in the past because I did not enjoy them. Now during this patch I have played the tier 6 carriers a few times and i have both liked them because of the new game play but also mostly hated it. Here are the reasons why:
First of all before the patch the CV players could spot the entire map with their planes and that was a huge issue, but now they are still able to spot the entire map because the planes are too frigging fast. It does not matter if the CV controls only one squadron if he can spot every cap circle in the domination mode in just a few seconds and light up the enemy team right from the start of the battle. Now there is no use in dividing your team tactically when they all get spotted immediately when their ship hasn't even reached half speed from the start of the match.
Secondly the low tier planes are getting shot from the sky way too fast so they can not attack higher tier ships without losing every plane they have. And also the top tier planes can not be shot down even with AA-build cruisers or battleships. A Hakuryu class CV can still drop 4 torps at a time without any of them getting shot down even when AA boost is on.
Thirdly CVs have WAY too fast plane respawns and infinite amount of planes so they can literally send their squadrons to die without any punishment of doing so and losing them all, and they can just spam one type of planes without any need in any case to change plane types. Also the fact that there can be two CVs in a match does not help here one bit.
Fourth thing to note is that some planes do not do that much damage and some of them do a crap ton of damage but it is still damage that the player can't do nothing against and the CV does not take any damage in return because it can not be seen anywhere. Also the planes cause floods and fires way too easily and if the torpedo squad gets destroyed and you repair the flood then it takes only 30 seconds for the next torpedo squad to arrive and then you get permanent flooding. I mean we do not have destroyers in the game that can shoot torpedoes at the rate that the CVs are now able to.
The game got ruined so badly in this patch that I don't think I want to play it anymore before you do something about this CV rework.
