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Some KC news: - Event will be small with only 3 maps - new ships from a new illustrator from Taiwan - one of the new ships will be an Italian cruiser with a long name (probably Abruzzi) Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/kancolle/comments/coem1m/misc_information_from_the_abyssal_circus_in_810812/ I'm gonna guess those maps have a dozen stages each with a ton of PT imps, princesses and installations sprinkled everywhere.

Regardless of whether this is a good idea or not it'll never happen. This is one of the ways WG monetizes the game after all.

TB mod is completely useless. You want to drop as close as possible anyway and there is no benefit for starting a run early. Attack aircraft mod is likewise useless. Just know your timings and you won't ever need it. Personally I just went with the AA mod. If a CV is dumb enough to snipe you, chances are they are dumb enough to run into flak.

All the kiddies squeezing in last matches before school starts again. My Enterprise WR dropped by about 3% in the past few weeks, too.

On a different note: Oh boy. Please get a Steam release and an EN translation, please get a Steam release and an EN translation, please get a Steam release and an EN translation...

Ship being attacked in question is a full AA Kremlin. Should work against non-full AA. Yeah, no.

Your own fault playing a GZ then quite frankly.

Just use proper heal timing to get 2 drops then.

Individual factors are used as multipliers in PR calculation if I remember correctly, so if you have high average damage but no kills and bad WR you'll end up with a bad PR regardless. However rectify just one of these factors (say, just 1 kill per match) and you'll get a stupidly high PR easily.

On quite a few higher tier ships something like 40k avg damage is already considered unicum. That's because what is unicum/great/good/etc. is determined by average numbers of that individual ship. Don't use the color to determine what damage numbers are good. Know if the actual numbers are. The only thing the color is good for is determining how pathetic the playerbase is.

What makes Kremlin AA amazing is the combined effectiveness of all auras. So just slingshot past at least the long range one and you'll be fine.

I'm fine with gamemodes being on the slower side, however Epicenter is completely static in nature on the highest tier maps. If you want to play a 24/7 campfest just load up Worms in artillery mode or sth. At least there you have other variables that ensure dynamic gameplay. Yes, there are positions you can take with cruisers. None of them are central on ToD or Islands of Ice.

Which all validates my original point about how Epicenter does not encourage nor enforce aggressive play contrary to popular belief. There are no central positions for cruisers on the highest tier maps which provide adequate cover. That the circle is so big just enhances the overall passive nature of the gamemode since you are able to contest the outer two circles from long range. As for DD behavior, given the average skill level of the playerbase let me express some extreme doubts about that.

AA targets reserve planes, not actually attacking ones.

They were used to test guided missiles (no joke). Guided missiles got scrapped, so these DDs were scrapped as well.

https://wows-numbers.com/player/557739811,Sturmsee/ Here. In the last 21 days you have actually performed worse than your overall average which is kinda impressive in a way. As for relevance, well not only did you use the previously mentioned bull, you also wrote this: Having omitted the most important factor of all, namely own player skill, is not telling at all. If you are a gigantic liability to any team as you are now, you're bound to get losing streaks far more often than someone else, simple as that. Except, again, there are similarly or more skilled players out there with Karma close to or even on 0. According to this theory I should be winning way more matches than them, yet I do not. A sample size of 1 is more than sufficient if you believe such behavior to be hardcoded in the system. It clearly is not. It's like saying 2+2 isn't necessarily 4 because I'm the only one here who has made the calculation. And why should anything be done? In any halfway serious PvP game skill is what should always be the primary factor in determining the outcome of a match. Using some arbitrary value instead just outright spits on fairness and sportsmanship.

Definitely seems like MAA isn't going to be worth it on AA heavy ships, although that might require some testing. AFT is a guaranteed waste of points as flak can be dodged and DFAA is going to enhance flak damage to instant kill levels anyway. Can't wait for glorious invis flak to oneshot squads. When in doubt, just take BFT. If you have already, be happy about 4 free points you can now spend otherwise I suppose?

Except we do know via simple comparison. This is my current karma, which I believe is the highest I've seen so far on the entire forum. Yet I do not win any more matches than similarly or even more skilled players across all classes, which I should according to this laughable theory, thus easily disproving such a claim. And no, karma should not be used to influence anything gameplay related. How you gain or lose it is far too arbitrary. Except you've made your stats a discussion subject in your very opening post. Especially with this laughable claim: So allow me to make an on-topic statement. You're not 2nd league. You're FAR below even coop bots in performance. We can filter for recent stats and you have NOT improved in any way, shape or form. In fact you have arguably gotten way worse. Stop blaming anything but yourself for your incredibly poor performance.

Until you realize that you can easily get over half of your HP wiped out before you even leave spawn by something you're supposed to be good against. I can only hope the new AA rework does her some good but I highly doubt it.

Got the Flint recently. Only played Shipstorm and one match in randoms, but then again she's basically an Atlanta (a ship I used to like until the CV rework) with smoke instead of radar so I knew pretty well what I was getting into. No regrets here.

Azuma, aka Project B-65, would not have been equipped with 18" guns, there were proposals to up-gun them with 356mm guns but these were rejected. As far as I know neither torpedo armament nor radar (obviously as the IJN literally had no radar system when the B-65 design was finalized) was planned for her, though it is ofc possible that the latter would have gotten retrofitted. Not that it particularly matters as IJN radar capability remained horrendous in comparison to allied systems. IJN BB AA is actually pretty decent, performing especially well against DBs, and they maintain high survivability against most types of air strikes thanks to their armor and torpedo protection. Also the ability to use catapult fighters instantly elevates any ship above most dedicated AA cruisers. Hakuryu is currently the most powerful T10 CV, being outclassed only by the Enterprise which is laughably overpowered. I'm unsure how the Shokaku performs (and T8 CVs are a balancing cluster anyway), but apparently Ryujo is pretty good when compared to her contemporaries. Likewise most IJN BBs, cruisers and afaik gunboat DD line are still fairly competitive. Sure, the torp DD line might be trash in higher tiers but that's one out of 5. To claim some sort of anti-Japanese bias based on that is laughable. (In fact ironically at the beginning the game was accused of being too pro-Japanese/anti-US as their ships were often considered better than US ones.)

Eh, imo the extra SG radar made her more than worth it. It's not like she's terrible either. I believe the only foreign ships I'm still missing are the subs, so I'm hoping for those to drop.

Quite frankly there's rampant camping in Epicenter too. In fact because there is no push or any other dynamic movement on the flanks (since there is no incentive to push) I'm sure camping is actually more prevalent in Epicenter than Domination. That would line up with my experience with this gamemode.

Behold, the power of ed players. That's right, they lost half their team in less than 5 minutes. I'm unsure what the current record for fastest match is, but this is certainly the fastest match I've ever played.