RAYvenMP

why so triggered? WG made the game he streams for a living? There are certain rules, especially when you take someone else's IP, stream/share it on our own channel and get paid by 3rd parties for it. IP owners may or may not take it as promoting , if such promotion meets certain criteria and rules imposed by the IP owner then both benefit from it. When you decide to not follow the rules, you are out. WG will loose one promotional channel, he will loose his income. Now, whos gonna be more "devastated" from that? not saying that WG does not deserve criticism for many things, i just dont see how him being crap and toxic to other players has anything to do with WG. without WG Flamu would be probably now mashing real potatoes in some restaurant in Helsinki for a job, maybe he can stream that, i am pretty sure there will be something to whine about

Flamu needs WG much more than WG needs Flamu. Streaming ships is his full-time job, people follow him because he has skills and big mounth - and negativity and controversy sells. He knew that he is balancing on the edge, why you think he stopped using his own account? CCs don't need to use press account to play test ships, but chances that WG will ban press account are small, so it was low risk-high reward decision. He will have to play and risk his own account now, and if he continue to be PoS person (or worse, as his FREEEDOM post implies), hes not gonna be around much longer, and that will be end of his streaming career, because the moment his switches games, he drops to 1/10 of views (and he tried and knows that). I used to watch him and learned a lot from him, but his mental beakdowns and constant whining just became unbearable lately. I don't need to be reminded that CVs are crap every 2 minutes and spend another 5 mins between games watching him opening profiles of 30% ppl who "ruined his game". Only thanks to those 30%s he can be 70%. If we had some normal MM, none of those 30%s would be an issue, but as i found out in the lastest "MM is fine" poll, people dont even want decent MM, they will trade all the landslides for occasional seal-club when top-tier.

does it say somewhere for how long will this be available?

you forgot to mention : - you had 10k HP left and no heals when this duel started - real problem in this battle was loss of your own CV - 90% of T10 ships can beat T8 CV in a duel easily (and literally all cruisers). Its easy to mitigate dmg from first drop, second drop (esp. TBs) is dangerous as you are probably in a turn from first dodge, but in case of T8 CV vs T10 CA, second drop does not generally happen. replay or BS

CVs? HE spam? Dead eye? they just pale in comparison how fucked up, unbalanced and unfun the MM is in this game. WG may think that "other games have random MM also", but those "other" games follow completely different design and mechanics - like respawns of vehicles 1) no skill based MM in a game with "one life" per match and HP pools. After 5 years of changes and new and new mechanics and 450 ships with tons of gimmicks, there is absolutely no chance for a new players to play "effectively" even after 2000 battles. They can barely grasp what the ship they play can do, but to be decent, knowing EXACTLY what your opponent's ship can do is crucial. Dozens of ships were already removed, you can't even check them in-game, and what kind of new player will spend hours watching guides, pen/armor tables, consumable combinations etc. New players being potatoes is not a problem, but MM putting majority of such players on one side, and semi-veterans on other side is ridiculous [edited]. Radars? no problem, take these 5 radars on this side and here you go some Ibukis and Neptunes on the other you keep track of every click of every player in this game WG, how about using those [edited]spreadsheets for something useful like normal MM? WR, PR or even goddamn battles played.. just WHATEVER but not random. i don't care if i win or loose, just give me GOOD BATTLE not this 8min on average shitfests where every second game is complete landslide 2) +2/-2 MM. WHO WANTS THAT? show me one person who wants such MM? your "ship diversity" excuse is years old. Now we have hundred of ships available for +1/-1 easily. It was weak excuse even before but now is just dumb. You created system where 8th and 9th tier gets strong module slots, system where BBs from T8+ become immune to overmatch, system that give all T9+ cruisers heals, systems that AA on low tiers is close to nothing and then you make MM that T8 and T9 fight T6 and T7? who ever asked for such thing? It is not fun and never was, so if its not for fun of the players who the [edited]is that good for? you can keep wasting resources on new pixels, subs or god know what, but MM is absolute core of the gameplay, you don't fix that, you can keep spamming your new pixels as much as you want, no one will care when the game is NOT FUN. PS: Also [edited]epicenter. When you create game-mode that absolutely everyone hates, what the [edited]is the point of it?

i understand your situation, but you have to look at it also from different angle. There was period of 6 weeks of free respec. Some ppl did not play, some did not want to and some maybe could not. If they do exception in your case, there might be dozens of others "inactive" coming in and asking for the same, and there is no way for WG to verify each "i could not play" story. If you really could not play due to technical reasons, but you were following the game on social media or so, you could have just clicked the mass-reset button on the website lessons learned you - even you stop playing the game, but do not completely quit, keep an eye on the events once or month or so (reddit/forums etc). It is my favorite thing to due while...having BIO brakes WG - maybe during patches that completely change something major, do and auto-reset for everyone. I can't really imagine anyone would keep using your "auto assigned" skills and you can't expect that someone with 100 captains will now spend 50k dubs to come back to the game.

WG already stated at some point that we dont have enough players for "bracketed" MM and considering this is niche game and WG knows that, we most likely never will have enough. WG will not let the queue times increase. Only other option is balancing the team after the team is already selected, what will obviosly come with some flaws, like what to do when there is only one 65%WR players among of 24 selected? well, it will simply get matched to the second highest one. It is still far better option than having it all random IMHO

as someone who make alt account to solo play, you shoud be well aware what is the impact of skilled individuals on the battle flow. now if random MM puts several of those on one side and none of those on the other side, how is that even remotely balanced and how can you even pretend thats BETTER than actually having good players on both sides? no one is asking for perfect balance, but for better balance, and that is achievable within the limits of the current playerbase and if you and your 2 palls don't like that idea because of your own reasons, thats fine, u made a statement why, i don't need all 3 of you to copy-paste the same thing on 2 pages there is a reason why the best PVP games out there have some sort of skill based MM also. WoWs may never have it becasue the limits and design choice may never allows that, but we can improve things on smaller scale without separating bad and good players entirely

every thread you 3 special trolls join becomes mess, i guess thats how you kill time while being in queue. we will resume normal discussion after clean up

all i see is squad of 55%, 57% and 51% in solo, playin in tripple div boasting about 65% WR. and with the statement that "skill based MM will kill our WR so NO" thats enough for me. bring some arguments why skill MM would be worse, we can resume normal discussion

i am well aware who they are and tbh considering you play in tripple div 99.99% of your games, 65% ain't that impressive either, that equals to maybe 57-58% solo WR. But i assume that most of the ppl division for fun not stats, but in such case why the statement "i wont sacrifice my WR" when you admit it is not even yours and you are carried? do you understand that rewards in this game are based on your battle performance and Win is just a % bonus on top of that? you can have 100% WR but when you score 1000base exp in half of your games it will still suck, and in landslides everyone gets shitty base EXP can't you three get a single account at least for forum posting? i get it, you 3 fellas dont want skill based MM becasue you dont wanna sacrifice your WRs. Noted. Thank you for your opinion

you can't cure retarded with MM, think a bit what the landslide is and how is it triggered and how that can be fixed without possibility to exclude the "retarded" and you will find out that only way to do that is simply by putting the same about of such ppl on each side, they dies and 12v12 will become 10v10, no issue with that

you don't clearly understand how the rewards in this game work and how lenght of a battle impact them, Yes the 50% win bonus is nice, but when you earn 800 baseEXP in a 7minute win, that would really mean much. Or are you trying to tell me that landslides are not caused by MM? i wont get dragged into stats discussion sorry, but i can point you to some guides to improve your gameplay so you can actually start being usefull to your division mates.

jealousy? really? so a guy who say that he does not want games to be more balanced becase his WR may take a hit is perfectly fine, but me pointing out he is far from impressive player is toxic yea?

i am pretty sure there will be group of special snowflakes who worked hard and abused every mechanic available to boast their purple shinies. They will sacrifice fun of 20+ players in battle for the win, hell they would would opt to play a gamemode where they can just click BATTLE and results of glorious win calculated by some AI will come up. I know that 70% guys come at the price of those with 30%, and thats all fine. Skill based MM would make it harder to smash a team of potatoes in 5 mins, and if winning at the sake of quality of the gameplay is all what you care about, well, i feel nothing but a pity for you. #wontsacrificemuhWRbro newsflash: in the landslides EVERYONE already sacrifices XP, credits, PR etc. why is WR that important to you? you think some one cares? or those that care find it impressive you have 65% WR with 1600PR? when i see that high WR with low PR i know its all division carries or low tier stat-pads, so "i wont sacrifice my WR", seriously? gitgut

thats not how it should work, Skill based MM does not put potato to your team to balance you out, but put a similar skilled player into oposing team to balance you out. Have a problem with that somehow?

WG can't fix suiciders, but WG can balance suiciders on each side (they are easy to identify, 30% WR kita with 5k average is hardly a big thinker). Landslides are not when each team will loose 3 ships to suicides in first 2 mins, landslides are when one team looses 5 and other team 1.

i never said that respawn is solution to MM. It just mitigates lost fun factor and inbalance caused by early mistakes that may snowball into landslide quickly the way the battle works in WoWs, respawns would not help anyway, only solution is better MM. 24 random players are always there, all is has to do is using some logic assigning them to teams, nothing else. no impact on queues but i think that WG/Lesta employs 50 art designers and 2 programmers, hence its "impossible"

6 v 6 with 10 second respawn times and skill based MM and yes, MM considers classes (tanks, support etc) but thats an action game, if we check direct competitor's most popular PVP game mode, you have no-skill based MM, but up to 12 respawns in Arcade or 2-6 in Realistic WoWs is much closer to the Arcade one obviously. random MM is not that much of an issue when you can respawn, also the game mechanics there allow single "unicum" to wipe out whole enemy team without a scratch technically, so there is no "impossible to carry" scenario. in WoWs unicum can have great influence over the battle, but will take dmg no matter how good he is Now, individual influence on the battle is not the problem, neither is the fact that potatoes play with unicums, problem is that MM allows team of potatoes going against team of unicums (extreme example, realistically you can say bunch of 40% going vs 50% rather often). This creates landslides and after many years the gap is HUGE and landslides are extremely common, i would even say that 30-40% of my games are landslides landslides are crap. No one learns anything, no one earns good rewards and it's not fun

try few T4 games to see the differences between Coop and Random, especially that CVs can actually hurt you and DDs wont just yolo al the time. Don't izolate yourself neither by overextending or also by sitting too behind. T5 is nearly the same, except you may go against T7 and thats where the crap starts to look bad. BBs are best class for learning. i also dont recommend turning off the chat, if you see someone toxic, just block him. Chat is important

class playstyle, positioning and "stay alive" are basics ye? so if knowing HOW to play, WHERE to be and how to kill and stay alive is basics, what is mastery then? you have 17k battles and 28 T10 ships with average 56%WR, what makes you think you know just "basics"? At this point you know everything about the game, its just your playstyle that holds you back But OK, apparently there are ppl who love fighting Sinops in Omahas or similar. And you like Epicenter also So i guess i was wrong, WG is actually providing what the players love. good hunting

i don't mind +2 in DDs or even CVs I honestly don't really care that much with +2 from my personal PoV since i don't play BBs or CA at T6/T7, but that does not means its not stupid mechanic and especially for newer players complete torture. And they can''t even balance that agony with occasional top tier they get, since to "carry" in top tier you need to actually know the game pretty well, so they instead snipe Fuso in NC from 20km for 10mins and feel powerful, and then the game ends.

i know that you take IFHE for the 105mm's, but does the gains outweighs the loss of fire chance?

you said "favorite class", not most played, or Top performing specific ship. My favorite class is objectively BBs (bleh, but spreadsheets say so) and subjectively my personal favorite are DDs.

from a different thread : MSAA is multisampling, usually superior to anything else in regards of image quality, taxing on HW FXAA is shader based AA, low HW impact, blurry but over MSAA is capable of AA some effects like gunfires, or railings etc TXAA is like a mixture of the above, uses MSAA but with shader optimizations from FXAA, less HW hungry than pure MSAA, less blurry than FXAA