Deckeru_Maiku

corrected this for you.

Nah, that would be to easy... and historically correct... I trust them to come up with some really utterly stupid idea... so stupid that I can't even name it, as it takes a utterly deranged mindset to come up with such stupid ideas. Even your's might be dumb enough to give you a slot in their gamedesign department...

Intersting to see that this seems to be your main concern... but yeah, CV mains (or at least "fans") and wannabe subbers probably are recruited from the "farm other ships" instead of the "lets win that battle" group of players... And it's also interesting that the "do x% of damage to a ship to get x exp" seems to be unknown to y'all. Only the most useless stat in the game - PR - is mostly made up from doing damage. Exp comes partially from the right things in battle - capping, defending caps etc - and doing % of damage against ships. It's supposed to be "do 5k (say 80% of HP) against DD and you get more exp than when doing 15k (like 30% of HP) against a BB" Which of course explaines the utter frustration of CVs whose DD farming rocket planes got nerfed and will no longer allow them the same exp output, as rocketing BBs might be do more damage but less % of HP damage...

What do we learn from this? Well... there's no "DD flood". In high tier BB rule supreme and in low tier there's - due to tier 1 and 2 - also a shipload of cruisers, but in the end they look like high tier people don't really seem to have an interest in playing CVs. Only a small % of sadists seem to be eager to ruin other players fun. More at the low tier, where they can f*ck around ships with even less useless AA than on high tiers. Tells you a lot about the mindset of CV players I'd say... the whole f*cking reeeework was a pure and undeniable failure. Still not even 5% of players interested in playing WGs favorite child. Still they can't state it publicly because russian mindset... and fear of losing their jobs if they would... Will be interesting to see how the "rocket nerf" will diminish the number of CVs even further.. and what WGs reaction will be... probably another idiot move...

When I play my T5 Hill and I'm going to hunt a T4 or T6 CV I start shooting as soon as I got it in my range. Because I want it to send his planes after me... because usually at that time I probably have already secured a cap and sunk one or two opposing ships just to get the chance to push through to the CV... so then it's my purpose to take as much of his attention away from the rest of my teammates, allowing to act unmolested by planes. Hill is a nasty little bugger, nimble with okay-ish AA, so it's not easy to take me out. And once in a while I really manage to sink the CV.. or sometimes two (when high tier against T4 CVs). And once in a while it really helps my team to secure the win... Depended on how you explained the reason - "Hey, I'm on my free day, but there's a situation at work and I have to go to un-f*ck it" vs. "sorry, got to go. Trouble at work" - even I might have been inclined to give you a report. 'Cause if I would have had reason to think that you were playing while at work I'd seen that as unfair for people playing with you and on the other hand also as cheating of your employer. So was your "short explanation" good enough? Or maybe just too short? Anywho, you lost nothing but a bit of karma and the trust in humankind.. so nothing really valuable lost, hai?

He didn't claim to be a GOOD BB main. And still he managed to be a far better BB player than You by a quite huge margin for about 4k more battles than you. And playing 2500 more battles in BB than in the next most played class makes him a "BB main" in my eyes.

Nope.. got immunized by playing shiploads of DD, Cruisers and BBs. So no problems in that department... Jepp... and I had the honor to even - at least - manage to de-plane two CVs in the same battle... okay, it was only a Hosho and a Langley... who thought it a good idea to go after my Yubari... which proved to not really be a good idea. Now even 44 plane kills in that Yubari were enough to deplane one (!) f*cking T4 CV

Nah, being a Unicorn is a "must" and it doesn't even really help. But it helps of course not to be a mentally challenged imposter, with hidden stats so nobody can check the claims done... I'm a quite average player, which is easy to be seen as my stats aren't hidden. It's also obvious that I play most classes. Some more, some less... some better, some less good. So at least I have a base for my ranting here on the forum. Which isn't something that all people here can say. Especially usually those with hidden stats...

Like the role of "Fighter CV who defends his teammembers against enemy planes" Not that I ever played a fighter setup CV... still during my - few - battles as CV I managed to take down quite a few enemy planes... In Langley I shot down 13 planes per battle in average. 14 in the Bogue.. 18 in Hiryu... and I managed a 60%+ winrate in them without having to do exessive damage or kills against ships... So CVs had a value for the team... Now? CVs are there to p*ss on teamplay, farm damage and/or take out easy targets for their stats... and start to whine about nerfs when they would need a little skill...

Ah.. so no longer stat-padding? Yeah, that is a viable reason for a whine... boohoo... can't go after the low-HP easy DD targets anymore and have to go after targets with (a bit more) AA and see my planes go poof because flak... Yes please... would be fab if all CV players stop spottind DDs. Wouldn't bother me a bit. It's not that they would have done it before on purpose... it always was only a sideproduct of attacking DDs with rockets.. On the other hand it's [edited]hilarious now to see CVs still going after my DDs with rockets or - even funnier - with torpedoes...

soooo... BBs it is, right? We always knew you were the closet BB lover type...

Pray tell, how would that be different to the current situation? We have to play against CVs if we like it or not already... Of course... if nobody wouldn't play other ships than CVs in randoms/ranked/whatever except in CoOp... what would WG do then?

next time You play your Okhotnik you might be able to give it a try

Grab a clanmate, go Trainingroom, let him ram an island and try to torp him... if it reproduces then, WG has once more f*cked up... I haven't noticed anything like that (yet), alas I haven't tried to torp ship cuddling with an island yet...

The green spread marker kinda "jumps" right when the torps are launched... how about just a glitch / lag-spike whatever? Or maybe Flamu got a nervous index finger and f*cked up the launch? Don't want to defend WG here, but I can't really anything too weird in that moment. If would happen all the time, it should be possible to re-do it in a training room mayhaps? Until then "Don't hold the press - it's not yet news..."

Wouldn't try that with an US DD, but with others - and especially in the Tiers I usually play (T4 to T7 or so) it seems to me as a working tactic... or at least I have the personal impressions of it working (with several DDs) with my ~6100 DD battles

Sorry, can't stand that voice of Flamu, so what I am supposed to see there in that video?

Switching back and forth between what? AP and HE? HE and Torps?? Considering the time that some DD guns need take to reload, switching to torps can be easily done... and depending on the DD it can be quite effective, as even when "expected" some shot-gun style launched torps can f*ck up the opponents maneuvring. Might not work against Unicorns, but of these I rarely see any in my battles

Without stats even that might be bragging... ...and this definately is a hyperbole, which would tons of video evidence to be made true. An Okhotnik with it's slow turret truning rate is well advised to use it's torpedo launchers in a knife fight with another DD. And quite often (!) I've been quite successful with that tactic against opposing DDs. But probably I'm doing it all wrong

That's called "switching sight to the next launcher", which of course gives you a slightly different launch angle.

I wonder if in a knife fight with another DD if it would be better to take out the engine with AP or guns/torp turrets with HE? Hmmm...

I don't have no problem with the in-game economy. If You think so, You probably didn't really understand my post(s). But that's okay. As I said, for me it's win-win...

Would be splendid if they werethrowing punches against each other, as in the olden days... before WG decided that CVs shouldn't be able to fight it out between themselves... when a bit skill was needed to do good... which, of course, isn't something that WG could allow, as potatoes are supposed to do their "dakka-dakka-dakka" without being bothered by anything.

I'm playing a lot of DDs... and a nice amount of Cruisers and BBs... and before the reework I thought of CVs as a rare annoyance due to the low number of CV players in the game. When there was a opposing CV in a battle, it had to better than the CV in my team to pose a thread. Sometimes it was, often it wasn't. And it had to outplay me, too, to take me out of the game. Sometimes they did, mostly they didn't. With the reeeework all options to keep the opposing CV from f*ck anyone anyway anywhen have been taken from the game. Only incompetence of the CV player is left as hope for the targets. And isntead of "sometimes" we encountered CVs in a majority of battles now. So no, for me the RTS CVs were a rarely encountered nuisance - and now they are a f*cking plague in the game. And yes, the way WG changed the mechanisms of the game is to blamed... 12 a side... we wouldn't want them to have to spend too much time in the queue, right?

I guess those who are way better at playing CVs than me would call it a case of "Git gud"