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Thanks! I rather make videos for the community and perhaps helping some new player getting better at DD playstyle, then helping and supporting WG as a company. These days I can't even bring myself to make videos at all on this game.... or even play the game.

WG in a Nutshell! Doesn't care at all about the game or the people who play it, just to make a quick buck at selling some Huanghe´s and maybe some that use currency to grind a decent CV to some easy marks. Expect more and more of this in the future. Just watched a match of Clanwars and almost fell asleep. Looked like the bombing raids in WW2 over a complete smoke covered target. Like watching paint dry.

Hinden is pretty stronk!

Nope! Never was and never gonna happen.

Thought I reset all my captains before leaving the game, but cant seem to find the big red button on the articles or news posts on the webpage? I think there was still some time to do this, right?

Thanks buddy! Dont know why its so hard finding/searching for it on their page.

TX Henri IV was pretty OP before but has been nerfed a bit (no hammer) and powercrept also a bit. Seen many way people play this ship but I found success in long range fire spam 19-20 km away with insane backwards gun angels and great accuracy paired with speed boost for dodge and MBRB for insane damage. Haven't followed every back and forth in the nerf process but know they nerfed the engine so you couldn't use the boost to dodge with same success as before. But I guess my playstyle would still be viable. Same as everyone else a bit vulnerable to CV´s and high accuracy big shell ships like Stalingrad, Petro, Shikishima etc? Its a bit of a selfish line since you mostly play in the back like a Thunderer. You set a sheiit ton of fires and farm damage. Set 2 fires on a BB, wait for him to use damage con, then use MBRB to set 2-3 perma fires and rinse and repeat. Not really a brawler but great torp angles and devastating AP if someone show broadside.

I still think Shima is OP AF but I agree the torp spreads are probably worse in game. Dont know how many Fat BBs just slid between torps at perfectly aimed salvos.

Guess its time to re-buy some sold T10 .... again.....

Such BS regarding WeeGee apology. Of course, this was something they all cooked up and not some random crazy guy acting on his own (Lee Harvey Oswald much?). And total BS that they have punished someone for it. They just say this to please the angry mob, because none of us can of course check or confirm this or actually see who they punished etc etc. So yet again a planned attack on the community and then some half assed BS apology. They don't even care to come up with a good cover story any longer, why would they? Players still pour money at them like [edited].

Two main tips I would say to newer players is NEVER go straight for the cap at start of the game. It is seriously the ONE thing the entire enemy team expects you to do and also do their best to counter. All the DD players that die the first 3-5 min always went for the cap. No game gets decided over who won the first cap in the first 2-3 min. Go towards the cap and stay outside the cap and start lighting up the enemy team for your team instead. Launch well predicted torps where you think enemy DD sits (they usually sit still broadside on.....) or towards radar cruisers or pushing enemy BBs. Then just stay there and gain information as more and more enemy ships gets marked on the map. Where are the DDs and what DD is at what cap. You see enemy torps? Count the spreads and figure out which DD you are up against at your cap. Where are the radars? Which length and duration? Wait until enemy DD moved of to pursue other endeavors, then enemy radars got bored and moved of for a kiting HE spamming position, then you push in and steal the cap and the enemy would have had it for like 1-2 minutes and now you will have it for probably 5-10 min. A DD player that gotten 1 cap and then moved of to another or a torping mission will rarely double back to try and keep a cap that is getting flipped. Also best builds for the DD/playstyle. For all my IJN DDs which I play a lot of and have success I go for Last stand, Survivability Expert for extra HP, concealment, AR, all torp skills, AND RPF. Since you always will pretty much have best concealment in class/tier and you have RPF you will always be able to control the engagements with enemy DDs thus rendering smoke pretty much useless (hence TRB). With some experience and skill you can use RPF and by seeing which way it points and what other enemy ships is in your vicinity you can pretty much tell exactly where the enemy DD is and where he is heading. many times you can foresee an encounter and start turning side on to where he is pushing you and the moment you out spot him you turn around and double back and keep him spotted so your team can shoot him, which usually ends up with him loosing a lot of HP (which makes him an easy mark even for you IJN torp DD guns (remember ... crappy reload but high Alpha and fire chance), and/or trigger him to pop a smoke (with little use). Also when you do go for a cap always pull a 180 and reverse into the cap showing narrow profile towards where the RPF is pointing (usually closest DD and most certain the direction enemy torps can come from). Never park broadside on in a cap (or in a smoke) its the best way to get nuked by an enemy torp. Unfortunately I see this behavior in every T10 game I play.

Thanks for the complement! But this is only because ive specialized on IJN Ninja torp boats since CBT 2015 and Shimakaze was the first T10 ship I ever grinded in the game. @Europizza do you have a Youtube channel? Because I would definitely need some tips and tricks regarding IJN Gunboats.

Yes, if you have Asashio (my favorite ship in the game) there is little reason to play those at all unless you plan to grind the Shimakaze, which is a great ship as well. With Asashio you get more damage output, more credit and XP gains and both TRB and smoke. If you need any tips on her I have a full playlist of her on my channel. 2 of my 3 Solo Warriors is in the Asashio.

I always go for the TRB option on those ships. I would say that if you need to play with smoke in these ships you are probably playing them wrong. With more and more radars and long range hydros on every other ship smoke becomes more and more useless. TRB on the other hand can decimate an entire flank if played right. Here is a few examples on how to play TRB Yugumo

This! And also add, that if you get 3 very bad players in random the rest can usually carry them to a victory but if you get 3 bad ones in ranked it doesn't matter if the rest are Flamu, Flambass and Sailing robin, you still loose. And since most sane and skilled players stay far far away from ranked (specially with addition of cvs and subs) it is almost certain you will get majority/4-5 bad players in ranked. So if you like me are competitive and always play to win it is frustrating beyond belief to play ranked. Also in ranked you get more of those trolly players that jumps into a game just to screw their team over. Also more of players that jumps into games where they just afk in hop their team get them a win anyways. So Ranked is just a sheeiit show that is a huge magnet for bad players over all.

For me this is very simple. There is only one ship that would get me to open up my wallet again to WG or in this case start to play the game again, and that is the T9 Benham. WG has made it perfectly clear that I will never be able to buy this ship unless I go full retaaaaard and do "gamble for loosers"/buy their insane loot boxes to try and get it which is less of a chance then winning the Poweball lottery. But if I uninstall for more then 6 month and instead use my time and money to play GTA, Cyberpunk, upcoming Far cry and other great games, I might get a "PLS come back" email where I can get Benham after winning 15 matches. So that is what I will do! BTW, what article had the reset all captains button? Might as well reset everything if I going to uninstall for 6-8 month. Might be 2-3 new captain reworks during that time.

Hey, at least you get a chance to be tester for Dutch cruisers, Russian carriers and subs homing torps................ Naah, just uninstalled myself. Not going to install again until I get a mail for the chance for a free Benham. Been a huge whale first 3 years but lately I had some 1-2 random game a week and mostly just logged on to get daily free stuff. But this was the drop that convinced my to uninstall. Yup, most company's would think loosing your playerbase would be a bad thing. But this is in line with how WG operates, so in their book this is probably a success...... No, the reaction could probably not get worse then it already is right now, but by doing this I think they will loose a hell of a lot of players who was just on the fence before. So just another huge FUBAR and fail for WG. Shocking I know ....

WG just convinced me to stop playing at all until I also get a chance for a Benham, GJ WG! You just lost another one.

After all the shitstorms counting 4-5 years back, all the forum posts, and all the Nerfs and all the fuckery that is a foot .... you give WG money?! There leis you problem. Everyone giving this company money get shafted.

2 Days to come up with a short, empty, meaningless response to one of the biggest actions taken against a game publisher in ages?! (I even heard Electronic Arts go "Are you serious?! Hold my beer....!!"). You could have sent me a bag of cash and I could have come up with a way better BS answer in 2 hours. No apology at all?!? .... really? Little white mouse has worked more on this game then I bet many of your payed employees, and this is it? Everyone ever supported you are leaving and this is your response? I sure hope none of your investors read these forums. Buy at least you have Yuro I guess....... Question, when you now surely will put a huge price tag on the Missouri, will you compensate those who you fooled inte buying RNG gambling boxes for it or are they just collateral damage in your latest "Miscommunication"? I would feel so fooled and shafted if I ever had bought one of those boxes now when you change it to a fixed price. Maybe they have to summit a support ticket and hope, but then again they have already used those boxes so that is a no-go. "We're carefully analyzing her adjusted earnings following the update". Is it hard just to copy-paste the bonus she had pre-change to that of the mission? Or do you "analyze" to see how big of a nerf to the old bonus you can get away with? Any word on the stuck on island problem? Any word on the shells landing short bug? Any word on the torps changing course bug? Or are you just occupied with dumping a new broken, unbalanced and probably untested class into the game?

Not even close to as good as they were before and you will never know how good or bad they are ingame because reasons .... They still cost a lot and playing secondary/brawl style will just get worse and worse with HE spam, torp spam, nuked by CVs and soon homing torps from subs. Also Secondary's getting knocked out by CVs, Thunderers and firespam in general. I still do it more of sentimental reasons then they being actually good.

Just was out and about doing some photo/droneflying in Gothenburg when i stumbled upon Friesland in Gothenburg harbour. For s split second I was tempted to launch my drone and get some stellar shots of the ships from the sky as I have of HMS Småland that is a museum ship in Gothenburg. But then it struck me that it might not be a great idea to fly a drone close to an active warship of a foreign nation....

And this is what I have stated from the start, so I dont understand why people argue?!

So counting CVs only about half the team invisible. Not gonna play BBs anytime soon. At least cruisers like Henri and Hinden can spam from great range and have hydro/def AA. Good luck to BB mains.

I think that is a nice wish but I think we both can agree that it is hard to always control the engagements with other DDs and also always to have eager teammates ready to support you in your endeavor. Dont know how many 1000 times I managed to outspot and permaspot other DDs and NOO ONE of my close teammates even bother to shoot at him. Ive been a DD main since 2015 and I know that I will have the most effect on the outcome of a battle the longer I survive in that battle and pushing fights with other DDs with very little control over what outcome will come of it (how many teammates of his will shoot me, will my fight trigger a nearby radar or a CV strike etc etc) will not make me survive during the match. But it all comes down to how you choose to play DDs and how long you want to survive in said DD. Dont know about you but in 95 % of all games I play 80-90 % of all DDs are dead before the half game mark, and usually they did Jack shaeeiit, or maybe was able to do a Kamikaze run on a enemy ship. Im usually alive to the end and get some decent results and in most cases are the reason we won.