Deckeru_Maiku

At least for the average BaBBy there's one very vital reason to take out the Furry Taco first: It has long ranged torps... and as we all know, torps are so OP for a BaBBy that he immediately loses his shiite and concentrates on the one possible threat in his sight - the Furry Taco!

Yeah, WG not being able to make it no option or to give their players enough information so this can't happen is really unbelievable...

Always the same with different names... First task has three parts: get 250 base exp, get 500 base exp, get 1000 base exp (for the third only won games count, I think) Second task also has three parts: get some more base exp through only won battles. 1200, 1300 and 1500 or so... Today (or yesterday?) these were called something with "Pearl Harbour" or so... but as I mentioned, names are different, tasks are always the same. And as you can (theoretically) do both tasks each day, and they started Dec 1 there's a maximum of 62 tasks to be done with 40 being enough for the Dreadnaught. Probably there will be a chance to buy the Dreadnaught later - in January - because I guess quite a few people won't manage to get those 40 tasks done in time. I'm at 16/40 right now and guess I'll manage it..

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Uhm, how about "no"? I get my fun from winning battles. No win = no fun. And I also go brawling against 2-3 ships in Random battles, when I use the right ship for it (like... Bismarck, Tripitz, Warspite, Musashi, Izumo, several other BBs... you get the picture...) But these bots are so utterly effing useless... a couple battles ago I managed to get stuck with a DD at an island and a WG bot cruiser went past me without firing a single shot at a stationary target - me - that was less than 500m away from him. Then my torps had recycled and I sunk the poor sucker... With some of my DDs I sail circles around bots and they are utterly helpless... even more so than the ordinary human potato... That not fun... that's slaughtering the helpless.... And no, I will not play like a potato on purpose to make these battles more "interesting" as that wouldn't be the result. I could tie my left hand behind my back when playing, but that wouldn't make the bots any better and probably wouldn't give any different results either.

As I'm playing nearly exclusively CoOp right now for the missions I can answer that with a definitive "Eff NO!!!" CoOp battles are utterly boring as soon as one manages to "detect" the standard procedures the bots follow. Bots can still not use smoke properly... DDs drop smoke and sail straight ahead. Cruisers behind them sail just through the smoke... okay, that's what the below average human potato does, too, but in random there are at least 12 players to sink to gather exp... Right now I managed several battles with very low exp in CoOp, as the battle ended about 5 minutes after the first bot got spotted... each human player got a sinker... and oopsie daisy - battle done with nearly no reward at all.. My winrate in CoOp has been around 98.5% or so before I started this "Get Base Exp and Win Battles" chain - not it's 98.99% As I've played ~78 CoOp battles since the start of December, I can assure You that none of it ended with a loss. And I can remember exactly 1 (one!!!) battle, in which the bots at least had a small chance to win. One in 78. That's not fun, but utterly boring... If it wasn't for the sheer potatoness of random battles I see in the last couple weeks and if there wasn't the need to get base exp from wins I wouldn't even think about playing CoOp (well, except for some Missions that are easier to be done in CoOp like "shoot down 20 planes...") and as soon as I'm done with the Dreadnaugh Mission chain, I'll probably won't touch CoOp for a very long time again...

I usually play early/late afternoon german time and unless I go down into the depths of T2 to T3 battles, I never encounter a queue time of more than 2 minutes with T4 to T9 ships. And a solution for too long queue times would also be easy: reduce team size to 8 players when a certain time has passed - like 2 minutes maybe. Or replace missing players by bots. Would probably give a better quality battle than with the below average potatoes anyway..

This is a quite good description of how my last about two to three weeks looked like. So... seems WG already implemented that skill based MM? And I don't really agree with "always having some potatoes on the team" being worse than "having 90% potatoes on the team, while the enemy has only 10% battle after battle after battle" Potatoes have to be spread out among the teams, not put all in one place to face a team with only few or no potatoes. And a skill-based MM is the only way to achieve that.

Scenarios take too much time... normal CoOp battle in any T8+ BB I have is done fast and gives 100% winchance* indepedent of the amount of potatoes on the team * at least that's what I experienced the last couple days. As long as I play concentrated, I probably could manage to pull off a 1 vs 9 "upset win" in CoOp. The only problem might be that when You get a good team, the bots get sunk too fast, so the exp amount isn't that high... but 250 exp in five minutes and a win beats 1000 exp in 20 minutes and a loss resulting in no base exp for the mission anyway... ^^

The problem is, with the current wave of potato teams I'm getting, getting the base exp might be easy - but you need to get them in won games... which is the crux. Doesn't matter how good you play yourself, 11 potatoes can still eff up any hope to get those 2nd mission each day done. Reason enough for me to play those missions in CoOp only.

Whenever one of those "kill x planes" Missions pops up I take my good old Zuiho for a ride in CoOp - like I did today... as usual the battle was over quite fast, so I barely managed 50k damage or so, but my single Fighter Squad managed to shoot down 20 bot planes... and another one went down to Zuiho's AA. Mission accomplished...

Try to get to 10km or less and that broadsided Yammy will be in a World Of Pain tm I ain't a good BB player... I usually only can do one thing: push and brawl... and my hit rate is a terrible ~25% in about all my IJN BBs, because I usually shoot at every target that enters my range, be it BB, Cruiser or DD, which of course leads to tons of misses... But when the occasion arises, and there is some braindead potato BB showing me broadside when I sneak up to it from behind an island and I get it at 10km or less... oooooh, then those guns do really hurt... Some ships even suffer quite a lot of damage when shot at from the front by the Izumo at lower ranges... Can't say anything about using it as a maximum range shell lobber though... I do shoot from that range, while moving forward to the enemy, but as I don't really expect anything worthwhile coming from it - except maybe some lucky shot detonating a cruiser or DD - I don't even really try to remember the results of those shots. But yes, even I do better in most of my T8 BBs than in the Izumo. But that's not the ship's fault - just my own...

Now imagine people playing CVs/DDs/Cruisers doing the same, because there are again and again and again five BBs per side in a battle... Queue shows 100 BBs, 20 Cruisers and 30 DDs? Nah, not again... *leave queue, go CoOp instead and get in a battle with eight ships total of which four are BBs*

Only had the two free Santa Containers and got 500 Dubloons from each... okay-ish... a ship would have been nice, but as I just got the Tripitz B from the last BFC I won't complain...

Today I managed a nice 100% winrate... ...in CoOp. With the current Missions to gain a certain number of base (!) exp from only won (!!!) battles, I decided it was more time effective to play for these wins/base exp only in CoOp missions, as the chances to win with a team of me and seven potatoes against eight WG bots are exponentially higher, than me and eleven potatoes winning against a dozen non-potato players.. I can carry a CoOp battle usually with little problems, even as a low tier... but during the last week(s) in Random I've encountered so many utterly horrific teams groups of players braindead potatoes, that no matter what I try, winning has become the exception... when I do 46k damage and sink three ships in a Vampire a loss is not expected or appreciated. So I guess until those "Gimme that effing Dreadnaught" missions are done, I'll only do CoOp... Nonetheless some positive news: From one of the last two Extremely Pigmented Friday Containers I got a - Tadaa... - Tripitz B... Putting my secondary specced Bismarck Captain in it lead to some very nice results. Mostly in CoOp though, but one random battle gave me one sinker, 68k damage and a win. And today I - finally - managed to get the Admiral Halsey mission line done. Didn't want to put him in the old New Mexico that rusts away in my harbour (or any of the US DDs/Cruisers I have) so I got him a brand new and shiny Lolorado. Only one battle done in her - with Halsey at 50% skills and the Lolorado totally vanilla - and managed to get a win, 70k damage and two sinkers.

The most proper way for You to play it now would probably be in CoOp. Then, after a couple 100 battles You might have learned how to kill bots with it, which would make You better than about 30% of the playerbase..

The lottery I want to join! And of course a big Thank You All to all the people offering the prices!

& & I see all them pretty pictures but can't help to wonder where them wheels are at?

Doesn't nearly everyone?

It's supposed to be a secret but it has been proven long ago that only when owning every permanent camo available - that means for each ship that can be bought, not only the ones you have in harbour - you get a favourite MM.

Checked right now.. it's 15.322.065 exp... would need 612.883 Dubloons to convert them... So when shopping that 14.500 Dubloons for € 49.99 it would only take € 2112,97 to convert them all... Oh... and on the Krasny Krim I got 498.847 exp gathered *cough*

That man not only deserves a high five, but at least a high ten! There is a reason, why I always play my last battle of the day in the Crispy Creme: After a day of trying to carry sacks full of potatoes, it's terribly satisfying to go out in this little troll vessel, just to go dakka-dakka-dakka-dakka all the time, annoying anything in it's reach by sending rainbows of HE love at them, never really doing much damage with a single hit - unless for a random gift from RNGesus that produces a Detonation - but still starting fires again and again and again, which can even annoy T7 BBs if they just burn often enough so they have to spend their valuable repairs to keep going... all the while the Crispy Creme sits behind it's island waifu and goes dakka-dakka-dakka... or it uses it's superior stalinium armour and arse stern-side wiggling abilities to dodge the shells sent it's way... I especially like to play the Crispy Creme in T7 battles... it's utterly relaxing to know that a) everybody - enemies and your team too - thinks that it's just a useless ship so b) nobody expects you to do any good in it or c) even expects you to survive for more than a couple minutes... so you can just fool around a bit and do what you want and either you really go down - as everyone expected - or you might be the last ship floating and the saviour of the day...

So after a couple battles I can now make my statement: "New" MM hasn't changed much if anything at all. AsI usually don't play the same ship over and over and over again, but instead play different ships of different tiers on every play session, I still don't get the Low Bob / Middle Bob / High Bob percentages that are supposed to be in place. Recently I had a day where I managed to be the low tier ship in nine out of ten battles. And in most of those battles, there were more ships of higher tier than ships of the same tier as mine. And there's another thing I noticed... in most battles that had a CV in them, the poor sucker ended up as (one of) the low tier ship(s). Must be great fun to play a T6 CV in a battle with three T8 BBs, 2 T8 Cruisers and several T7s to spice it up a bit... Just another sign that even THIS simple change has consequences that WG hasn't thought about. ^^

Exp that could be converted? Way more than I would ever care to even just think about... Though I did convert a couple thousand a Year ago or so, when for some no longer known reason I got some Dubloons for free or nearly free... But with 12k battles total played and quite a few of them in fully researched ships, there's probably still a couple millions left...

And that's the reason why I don't buy stuff except for some low-cost low-tier ships... So in total I have maybe spent € 100.- or so since buying ships to get into the beta... no need to rage about not getting stuff from free (!) containers. But I am very thankful for You spending Your money to keep this game alive. It's people like You who make it possible for me and most others here complaining about Your rant to play the game. So just ignore them. Please spend more money and feel free to rant whenever You want on this forum...