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Do NOT do this. Actively trying to deny the enemy CV is attempting to lose the match. Fighters are worthless at anything but scouting or defending your own CV. As a CV you are not only the most decisive factor in a match, you're also the most selfish one. Beyond prioritizing targets and potentially leaving a fighter to scout if possible there is nothing you should do for your teammates as it actively hinders your ability to influence the battle. Oh, and while we're at it, do not play RN CVs. They're awful at pretty much everything in comparison. If you want to go the easy route, pick US. If you want more of a challenge, IJN will suit your tastes This is contradictory. Developing CVs is a waste of both money and time.

*insert overused meme here*

Xmas season always has the worst of the worst crawling out of their holes. Get used to it if you want to continue playing instead of taking another break.

More like teammates intentionally sabotaged the match via suiciding because "omg we dont want to win with a dishonorable carrier". Truly WG has succeeded in eliminating toxicity against CVs with the rework.

7. Kidd. Though you do realize Kidd AA is actually pathetic?

Was natürlich völlig vernachlässigbar ist solange man die Verluste richtig managed. Weder DM noch Massa haben besonders viel AA. Die DM zuerst mit AP nuken, anschließend die Massa schlachten. Kriegt man auch locker mit 'ner Shokaku hin. AA ist extrem lächerlich heutzutage.

Simple reason for that. Most skilled CVs ranked out immediately at the start of the season. Haku used to have a 60+% WR at the start of the season compared to 52% now. Reworked CV concept is still fundamentally broken and they are still overpowered. The sole reason why they do not dominate is because the grand majority of CV players are (still) terrible. Everything you say that supposedly "works" against CVs is solely down to the competence of the CV player and has nothing to do with the skill of the surface ship.

In tests I've discovered that it leads to one extra plane shot down on ships with good AA while making pretty much no difference on ships with bad AA. In some cases using SR even leads to fewer planes shot down depending on enemy plane approach angle, speed and type. Take from that what you will.

No, it just means the enemy CV is incompetent and as such not a threat anyway. Expending points and upgrades to deal with such players is therefore unnecessary and thus just as useless as it would be against a skilled CV player. Sector reinforcement does not boost flak performance. T10 CVs perform perfectly fine and are still easily the most game deciding factor in a match. They just face harsher MM nowadays due to MM changes.

Flak can always be dodged no matter the amount as flak walls have a maximum width. Flak tends to target reserve planes when attacking. It may seem like you're not getting hit but that is actually not the case. Attacking early is therefore a terrible decision. Smolensk and Friesland both have pathetic to mediocre AA. The reason why these or any other ships can prevent first strikes is due to sheer inability of the average CV player to avoid flak which nowadays instakills with AA skills and/or DFAA. Meanwhile when a CV player can avoid flak a full AA build becomes absolutely worthless. The sole reason why CVs tend to no longer save a star is because their economy has been nerfed harshly, not because they're weak.

Except the CV cannot realize that DFAA has been used until committed to an attack. This isn't RTS anymore. The rework in itself is broken, so meh.

You... do realize I'm talking about autopilot pathing?

You do realize that gambling is, well, gambling right?

Nah, pathing wouldn't look nearly as bad with the old, actually functional autopilot that wasn't actively trying to get you killed at every moment. :P

This. Even minor lag spikes can have huge ramifications due to the incredibly poor quality of the rework. One actually has to admire WG for messing up so terribly on so many fronts. Now that this is out of the way, I'm sorry, but what kind of CV pathing is that? And did you really use your boost restore at the start of the game?

This is what WG fundamentally built the rework around. Trying to fix it automatically means breaking reworked CVs. To demonstrate this with your proposals: Reintroducing the panic effect on DFAA will make any strike pretty much nonviable with the push of a single button. As reworked CVs only have a single squadron to attack with that'd make them useless. Reducing air spotting range to 1km effectively makes DDs invulnerable to air strikes due to render delay unless otherwise spotted. Because reworked CVs are supposed to universally be able to attack and kill all classes this cannot happen as otherwise the concept fails at providing an enjoyable gameplay experience. Now you may say that reworked CVs make other classes unenjoyable to play as well as there is nothing they can do against them. Which is true, hence why reworked CVs need to be scrapped. Will this ever happen tho? Extremely unlikely at this point.

The "problem" back then is the same as now. The grand majority of CV players is incompetent. Objectively speaking AA wasn't worth much up until 0.8.5. 0.8.7 meanwhile made AA worthless again.

http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_6-47_mk16.php http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_5-38_mk12.php http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNGER_59-60_skc25.php Need more?

Up until 0.8.4 AA didn't really do anything. Then 0.8.5 came which made CV population plummet for obvious reasons.

That was also the point where reworked CVs became more unpopular than RTS ones. Do the math.

Because having actual counterplay to reworked CVs would break the rework.

CV development is unprofitable, you're unlikely to see Aquila (or any other CV, really) anytime soon.

Only 5k per attack? Aigle got lucky. (I'm not even joking.)

Ofc, but that is not to say that this cannot cost you the win. Edited in in the post above.