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I imagine the decision to change it involved lots of vodka. Can't explain why it was deemed necessary otherwise.

And a sad, sad thing that is. T_T

Curious as to what games you're referring to. Can't recall a single notable RTS game coming out recently. Last big release I remember was SC2: LotV. I mean sure, the oldies are great but they usually don't have an active playerbase anymore (if they are playable online at all) and you can only play campaign or against the AI so many times before it becomes stale.

I've seen examples that have none of that, yet I've known in an instant what they represent. And quite frankly I don't see how anyone could mistake such for something else. Besides, UI designers driven by not only functionality but also by aesthetics. Radio buttons on an otherwise clean interface are fugly, no matter how functional they may be. Would I prefer functionality over aesthetics? Certainly. I do can understand however if someone goes the other way unless it makes the UI utterly intolerable in some way. And in my eyes the drop down menu in question is far from that.

Very well then. Oh, it isn't? Your playstyle, which is extremely common in randoms, is pretty much the primary reason why halfway skilled CVs perform so well. And no one cares for your lies at this point anymore.

....You do realize there is a picture just a few posts above in which you can see the hit location, right? It's nowhere near the 21mm plate.

Direct hits to modules such as turrets, AA guns and the like deal no damage. That applies to both HE and AP shells. Looks like you hit the torp tubes to me.

Making it clear that the option to purchase them for doubloons exists in the first place. You do realize that I'm talking about consumables, right? Do know what this is? (Serious question btw. Have we already reached the point where people don't know anymore what a drop down menu is?)

That's the entire point I was making, you know? People like iChase are capable of dominating because everyone else is so ludicrously abysmal. Go watch some old dev videos and read some official statements, please. It's funny how every time CVs come up you eschew proven facts given by the devs themselves. The moment they stop catering to camping damage farmers like you.

So you should be able to beat an olympic level athlete with all effort invested? Because that's essentially what you're demanding. Let me reiterate, you are complaining about that when you introduce a factor in which your opponent is better than you, you lose. Isn't that perfectly fine? Don't they deserve to win because they're better than you? Isn't that only FAIR? WoWs is a PvP game. By its very nature it's a competition and not all rainbow and sunshine. And if you don't possess the spirit to play in a competitive fashion nor want to invest the time and effort to be able to do so, then you have no right to complain when getting stomped by someone who does. Likewise you deserve to lose if you have invested less time and effort than your opponent. Anything else would be unfair to him. If anything if "git gud" is your only problem with a mechanic, then it means that mechanic is perfectly fine. Get torped? Git gud and WASD hax. Take massive damage from AP shells? Git gud and angle. Miss by miles? Git gud and learn to aim. Get burned down? Git gud and manage DCP and repair better. Etc. etc. etc. Yet for some reason in most CV discussions "git gud" isn't a reasonable argument. And to be fair there are plenty of problems with CVs beyond simply "git gud". Really, if "git gud" were the only problem with CVs then there'd be no reason to rework them.

Now imagine playing CVs. You have the best view over the entire battle AND you have to stay in the match until the very end more often than not. That means you witness every. single. up of your team. And best of all, they will usually find some way to blame you for it! Playing this game in general makes you lose faith in humanity hella fast, but playing CVs just takes it to a whole other level.

Huh, same here. Forum theme setting is probably just tied to your account then.

Don't listen to all these scrubs. Karma is the most important stat in the game! On a more serious note, I'd hate for karma to be related to anything beyond what it is now. Just existing can be reason enough for some people to report the out of you. Actually check that, considering how high my karma no amount of reports is gonna drag me down low enough and I'd love to get some freebies!

Make them punish anything that doesn't want to teamplay and is not a no fly zone. Which they do. From a pure design and balancing standpoint that's fine. Whether the community will see it as such is another story. Let me get this straight. You perform even when there are no CVs involved, but you'll lose when the enemy gets the advantage in skill while your guy has essentially failed to grasp the basics of CV play? Or alternatively because your clan is incapable of playing against CVs? Because there is literally no way you cannot prevent the enemy CV from striking or fail to scout in organized play unless you or your team up tremendously. One would think this'd be the natural outcome. Get a potato to play one of your DDs next time and challenge the other team with their usual lineup. I highly doubt the results will be all too different. I'm not disputing that CVs are the most influential class in the game but your example does nothing to prove it. A high random WR does not mean you're a skilled CV player. It means you have at least grasped the very mechanical basics, nothing more, nothing less. It's not even the entirety of the basic fundamentals, only the mechanics. Just knowing how to strafe and manual drop catapults you into unicum territory easily because almost everyone else is abysmally bad at the game, CV or otherwise. Just take another look at Notser. He did well in the game which he displayed when talking about why CVs need to change, right? WRONG. How he performed in that game was tremendously bad. Really, really bad. And yet he still pulls a 56% solo WR in CVs. Or perhaps even worse, iChase. Watching iChase play CVs is physically painful. It literally makes me want to smash my head in with my desk. Yet he can pull a 66% solo WR. All because he can strafe, manual drop and knows kinda which targets don't have enough AA to stop his strikes.

It depends on what you define as "working", really. From a pure gameplay and balance perspective the inherent design of CVs is fine, being a class that is the primary teamplay forcing aspect of this team game and has tremendous support potential at the cost of requiring little skill to counter and is completely incapable of performing other vital roles. The UI design too for the most part follows established and working design principles, only let down by a lack of responsiveness and a huge amount of bugs. This ofc requires that most players actually see this as a team game and that there are plenty of counters available in the overall RPS scheme the game is built upon. Here's where things start to fall apart, primarily due to WG making a hilarious number of incredibly stupid design choices over the years.

Uh, whenever I switch themes it just stays that way regardless of how many sessions I close or open. Using Chrome as well. Do you have cookies disabled or sth?

Honestly that video makes me question if Notser has ever even touched a CV.

Well, to be fair it takes far fewer CV players to saturate MM than any other class as there are at most 4 per game. In that context low tier CV numbers could be fine despite a low number of battles played comparatively speaking. Remember that CVs were never meant to be a popular class and designed with that in mind.

Historical accuracy is largely, if not completely unimportant.

You know what the sad thing is though? These bots are still better than at least 50% of the playerbase.

QFT.

You should probably look at the unique players statistic instead of total games played when talking about population. A small amount of players may still account for a huge number of games played if they're dedicated enough. Total WR for CVs is worthless as a measure because CVs are mirrored. A Haku vs Haku game e.g. always results in a WR of 50% because one Haku wins while the other Haku loses. Thus the only match up that influences the overall WR of T10 CVs is Haku vs Midway. I agree that the video Notser made is full of , though. Laughed for 5 minutes straight when he said WG has truly tried everything to make the RTS concept work.

And people tell me that Notser is actually good.

Well, if this is about ingame reports then it's worthless for WoWs as only the chat report function actually does anything.

And this is why Ocean is clearly the best map in the game.