Admiral_noodle

It's not even as simple as BBs at front or back. Yesterday I played a game with a friend in a division of Kongos. Hotspot. Spawned top left. In this situation it's usually bad to go charging down the 1 line especially in domination. So we went to the middle of the map. Supported DD taking B cap then got involved in the scrap for C. Then a Cleveland (dead) started having a go in chat saying we were brainless and should be reported. Not sure why exactly. We won the scrap at C enabling cruisers to cap it while I finished a rather surprised New York BB. Then we went back to B and defended it from the enemy BBs who had done nothing much way out on the 1 line. Our division came I think 2nd and 3rd in XP and I got 69k damage in Kongo. But the game was marred by endless "report both Kongos" in chat.

Incidentally I find it harder to citadel Koenigsberg side in and close up than at an angle with plunging fire. I'm guessing her deck armour is terrible. Anyone else find this? Playing her - and Nurnberg - seem vulnerable, but I usually have great games in them by dancing about at long range. And sometimes even torpedo ambushes! I love Koenigsberg and get big sister.

Kill stealing doesn't exist. Exclusively only firing to kill secure is a thing and it's bad play. Finishing off low HP targets when no one else is bothering is good play. Good players will get kills anyway. Bad players won't play for the team anyway. That said i would like an "assist" ribbon in the game where you do >50% of the HP damage and someone else finishes off.

Me too. Don't bias poll options - what about kill stealing isn't a problem?

Worth it? Aren't we missing the point? Is it FUN? Well. Shorter games. Faster paced action. Sometimes more teamwork... I've decided to do ranked and entirely not focus on my rank. I'll focus on each game as it comes and ignore my rank. I'll never get to #1 anyway due to insufficient time, but I'll get XP, some nice rewards if I do rank up and it's a nice change to randoms.

New Mexico is better I think, especially in ranked.

Also angled ships are harder to work out the lead on, harder to judge speed. And people will shoot someone else if they can. So it's a huge bonus

Are we still crystal ball gazing? What will come will come.

I still like the idea that the top 3 or >800 or something XP on the losing team don't lose a star and the bottom 3 on the winners don't gain... But that would be a completely different mode. I had a game - high caliber, top on XP. Rest of the team died and I can't carry that hard. We lost and I lost a star. I had double the XP of second place. Meanwhile a bb on the winning side disconnected after doing a bit of damage then hiding behind an island. Could have been accidental but his team got him his star. Annoying. To get to high ranks you can't just be good. You have to put the games in to get to a position where your average say 60% win rate gets you to the top. I haven't got that kind of time sadly.

I'm not bothered if the next ships are British German or even made up Swiss. Sure I'll get all excited about playing the RN... Then if they are half way historically accurate the forums will be alive with moaning I'd just like a new tech tree in Q1.

It's fine I've got started already. One game one defeat lol

I am stupid. I'd set the graphics card to a global 23hz refresh rate.

I have a 970gtx too. I've noticed that in latest patch my fps has gone from 60 to 25. It's spiky in border less windowed mode. Full screen it's smooth but still says 25fps. It's annoying as I upgraded my graphics specifically for the game, got great performance now it's mediocre. Any ideas? i know nvidia doesn't do windowed mode as well as full screen but I want my fps back.

Call it going full potato.

It's a good mission. More like this please. Exhorts people to play better. XP based missions +1

Yeah. I feel it works fine now. I managed to one shot an atago with Colorado today and my Koenigsberg and Murmansk (especially Murmansk) are forever getting reduced to a couple of k HP in one salvo from a bb. Meanwhile cruisers are now actually playable against BBs. You just need to be careful and treat them with respect. And don't expect a cruiser to take in a bb 1v1 and win because they won't.

Have you seen the new mission? Come top X in XP in a win. This is positive.

Am sure that will come. Just when. I've never experienced clan wars so I don't know what I'm missing. I think one of the problems is a lot of people already play WoT and that has so much more content. A bit like going back to simcity 3000 after playing cities skylines. The older game is brilliant and I had years of fun with it... But I wouldn't go back...

View Postchazwozza, on 04 January 2016 - 11:35 PM, said: "Better gameplay would make a massive improvement spotting/assisting etc" Agree. There needs to be spotting XP and assist ribbons to encourage better gameplay. Look what XP for capping did - worked well. Pretty sure a ribbon and XP for focus shooting down planes while in proximity to bb/cv shouldn't be hard either.

Short answer: to unlock more ships. I have North Carolina and I really want the famous Iowa. I level up to play the ships I like - even if I actually enjoy mid tier game play more. Then again I like that high tier game play is different. It's almost like unlocking a new game at tier 8. That's really good in the game as it gives you new challenges.

Yeah. And since getting it on Koenigsberg if dodged *into* salvoes more than once

OP is entitled to his opinions and entitled to not play if it's not fun. Personally I find it just as fun as ever and will keep playing. But then I'm obsessed with ships. I got bored pretty quick with AW and WoT. Tanks just aren't my thing. I want more content but I'm patient enough to wait. There is plenty I've not done with the game as it is. I don't like all the anti-ARP sentiment though. If you don't like it then you don't have to get involved in it or see it. I'm not an anime fan but I'll try for ARP Kongo just... Because. I'll even try ARP mode to see how it looks. I like that there is something else in the game. A new tech tree or three would be nice. In March please. (And if it's a bb line I'll so be doing that)

It's fairly situational and you have to apply a lot of intelligence to understand what it means in different circumstances. Plus you can use it to your advantage and the teams advantage. I don't think it's massively game breaking.

I sometimes inquire if someone is a bot. Like when DDs rush off to the back of the map or other odd behaviour. Then when they aren't I'm just confused. It's not toxic that often but even u can get frustrated when my team is visibly being useless and making bad decisions. I don't even mind poor shots and poor dodging etc, as long as it's clear they are trying - and playing with a brain. Like a cruiser flatly ignoring the DD on cap right next to him to shoot a bb. So I usually try to imagine my "team" as AI. That way I can't blame them.

So I was playing the men of emden to get XP on my Nurnberg captain. I managed to do 57 hits at virtually point blank range to an Erie bot on 357 HP, without doing any damage. I actually had to switch to AP to finish it off. How does that work?!