Aerroon

I just got a game as a T10 Hakuryuu! Aaand it was a 7vs7, so not a full match... ^ just to illustrate that the CV mirror means CV matches suck (at T10).

T10 CVs suffer from what I warned about before they introduced mirror matchmaking... and what they suffer from is mirror matchmaking. If I can't actually play my carrier like 16 hours a day then it's not really unexpected that you won't see them around. I can only really play a carrier from like 5pm to 11pm my time and even then it can get sketchy matchmaking. At times other than that there is usually just no opposing T10 carrier in queue and thus you'll be waiting minutes and mostly still don't get a game. Now add onto that fact that anti air is so damn powerful now as well and how carriers get rewarded much much less than other ships doing the same kinds of actions (damage, % of health taken, ships sunk etc) and I think you should be able to see why people don't really want to play CVs at the highest tiers. Lower than that you do see CVs quite often (especially T7 and T8 and below), but if those get put into a match as bottom tier they're kinda screwed.

My suggestion to current Shimakaze captains is to play at night. It increases the chances of running into those tier 9 battleship bots so you can farm them since they don't dodge torps.

Bogatyr - This Is Why Zone Was Removed [112k DMG]:

I can kind of understand this. It was the same with carriers though. It was essentially similar players complaining about it about carriers and I always pushed against it. And here we are now: when's the last time you saw a BB ask for air cover from cruisers? It used to happen every other game in CBT. And that wasn't because the players were somehow better or friendlier, it was because that's how you survived CV attacks.

Here's the thing. You guys are trying to blame this patch, but it really isn't this patch. It has been a long time since the Shimakaze was good and this was in closed beta. Ever since the closed beta smoke nerf torpedo DDs have not been very good. Since then the number of threats has only increased for them: another line of gun destroyers (USSR) was added, SONAR was added, RADAR was added, absolute detection range was increased (potentially, since target acquisition seems to affect it now) and there really haven't been that many changes to buff the T10 torpedo DD. Oh, and the biggest issue with them is still around - there is still nothing to protect you from a carrier just coming in to permaspot you with planes. There is no avenue to fight against that. "But hang on, Aerroon", you say, "Surely they were good for a while - so many people complained about her and said she was great!" To which my reply is: was she? Because I didn't see that. None of the torpedo destroyers have been awfully great beyond like tier 5. And how can I tell? Because in organized play they aren't used: you don't use a torpedo destroyer in team battles or ranked, because neither really works out all that well for you. The only reason that they seem to work so well in random battles is mostly because of the incompetency of the enemy that doesn't work together or doesn't respond appropriately. Essentially you're relying on your opponents being bad, and at T10 this is less likely than it has ever been before and it will continue going this way (although I do wonder how the influx of bots playing T9 BBs affects this - those are like the best ships to just torpedo down and I've had multiple games end up giving me nice results because of the bots).

Thing is though, you can't go into the dangerzone as a torpedo DD. It has been like this ever since CBT ended. WG nerfed smoke incredibly hard from CBT -> OBT and never compensated destroyers for it. And destroyers at the end of CBT were already considered meh at it. Now add 2vs2 CV matches and RADAR and SONAR to this and what the hell does a torpedo boat do? You can't go close range because you get murdered by yet another gun boat of destroyers, laser accurate with fast shells cruisers, SONAR and RADAR. My #1 complaint about CVs for the game for (about) a year has been that DDs can't do anything against planes spotting them over and over. And it's still there and yet they have lost so many things in regards to survivability over time (or rather new ways were invented on how to kill them). There's a damn good reason why the Shimakaze is so low on the winrate list and has been for a long time. And if you then take the one thing away from them (unspotted torpedoing) that could give them some sense of survivability you're screwing them over even more. Sure, a Shimakaze should go close and risk their ship, but where's the defense against RADAR? SONAR? What about planes permaspotting you? Oh and assured detection range can be higher now as well! DDs were my most played in CBT and now least played in release for a good reason.

Isokaze Insanity by DenmarkRadar:

Anyone got proof on somebody having a 19 point captain? Cause at 2000 battles I have a total of 8.13 million XP. The person would need to have gained 11.5 million XP on just one captain. That's like a good 2500 games on just one ship (captain).

Amagi's Last Stand (or is it?): I-is that a Sad Witch?!

Nah, 100 battles in one day is fine. The issue is if they do this for a week straight. I have done a 24 hour strea- WAIT. You're calling me retarded, aren't you?!

Except literally anything that's moving away from you at almost any angle or uses WASD at any point in time, right?

Tirpitz Reversing To Victory:

Selection of Team Battles with the Dream Team:

Hey guys! I'm going to do a Q&A session with MrConway on my stream on the 23rd of April at around 17:00 CEST (if you're in a different timezone you can see the difference here: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?dataset=&i=17:00+CEST). We'll be playing some matches and doing the QA. Perhaps even someone else will come around. I would appreciate it if you guys posted some questions here that you have that you would like to ask concerning the new update (0.5.5), which is on the test server. So questions mostly regarding the weather, new sinking effects, ship rebalancing, why Strangers123 hates the new carrier changes etc. I'll be picking a few of them and then they'll get a proper answer (hopefully). Questions should be in by tomorrow as they need to go through a bunch of people before they can get answers. PS unannounced content questions aren't a very good idea, because the answer is always "sorry, we can't tell you". Link to stream: https://www.twitch.tv/aerroon tl;dr: same announcement in video format: https://youtu.be/s6Qe2FWEXZ0 QUESTIONS ARE DONE I picked these:

If I zoom out 6 times I can see my home! Actually even at 5 I think.

I would just like to point out that one of the bots has a >51% win rate. Also, they're anime names really, not just Japanese.

I think it's fine if premiums can be used. What's not fine is that you have one role and a premium and non-premium ship that are very similar yet the premium ship is leaps and bounds superior to the non-premium ship. Eg Mogami vs Atago. Atago is simply just better because of the availability of heal (and a few stats differences). The other issue which HAS to be addressed is to either be able to "premium" a standard ship or make the captain "premium" OR make it so all ships are treated as premium in regards to captain retraining. I'm not going to take a Shoukaku into team battles even if I expressly buy one because I will either have to move my Hakuryuu captain to her or simply play at a massive disadvantage because I don't have the right captain skills available. And the only way to retrain my Hakuryuu captain is with 500 doubloons because WG said they have no intention of doing it by credits and it's practically impossible to retrain an 18 point captain as it requires MILLIONS of XP. Oh and even if I do move my Hakuryuu captain to Shoukaku I would then have to move her back after team battles are done. And no, I'm not going to do that (and neither are almost all players), so what just happens is that said player doesn't play Shoukaku and perhaps doesn't even play team battles because of that. This latter issue isn't as pronounced at the moment because premium ships are considered to be very strong and as main picks to it. This means that you can take your best captain along. However, how many of you guys have a 15+ point captain on a Mogami, New Orleans, Amagi, North Carolina etc? I would imagine very very few.

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But it's a free game, doesn't that mean development is free as well?

The USS Texas Bringing You Freedom:

Q&A Session with MrConway and Tuccy VoD on Youtube:

Finally, the VoD took FOREVER to process properly:

Been around since CBT afaik.

Twitch VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/aerroon/v/62350001 Youtube one is coming. Sadly, windows 8->windows 10 migration messed with my teamspeak audio devices and thus I couldn't pick MrConway's and Tuccy's voice out over the game sounds because they're ont he same track.