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That part has already been covered, please take the effort to point to the very part you disagree with.

So the co-op player (I am, check my profile if you dont believe me) went out on a quest - the tale of a Legendary Dragonslayer whispering and luring me to pvp - that, and the fact that I had a fellow Scrub with me: ReaperJack. So I went on TS, put on something fitting for the audio and derped into one of my rare pvp games (that would be nr. 15 in one month or so after the 3 month rage-quit): Captain is retraining, so basically nothing is working aside from 50 % CE and 50 % EM - 1st game in the Banjo. Could the legends be true? A cruiser that doesnt suck a$$ from a straw?! Hell even I can hit with those arcs (although I overshot a few salvos in the beginning - wonder if thats why I was undershooting a few times in Fuso in the next game ). Best part was when a Des Moines was giving me a side shot from 17 km - I had AP loaded to maybe get some penetrations (since everybody praised the AP) -> Double citadel + the other hits = 19+k ....... god damn! I will "probably" play this thing a few more times ....... in co-op. My preliminary rating: (probably standing until the next CV craps on me, or the next random double citadel through the bow .....) €: Also high tier pvp games truly ARE the playground of the "skilled": Really damn impressive, if I may say so myself .......

ThinderChief in his La Glascannon and true to its name I got a 7 overpenn salvo on his broadside. Had to finish him of later ofc and lost only 1 karma for it. Sucked in the rest of the game while Jack, my divisionmate, carried but hey we won, so .......

I didnt notice until now ...... shame: and I can even tell its not an A 500 with ram extension because the joystick isnt moving according to the steering input. And yes, thats not a shitty video, it used to run like this ......... totally not a shitty port but "great optimisation" because the ageing Amiga was still "able to run it". €: Sorry but I cant resist: Remember when recently WoWs was cheering themselves that now the music would change in pace and drama according to the battle circumstances ....... well even Wing Commander 1 did that - and had it more shades to choose from for a finer tuning than WG .......... ah WG, you never fail to limbo under any bar set by games decades ago. /€. We are again at very base issue: Does it look bad? Maybe; it simply doesnt matter because for very basic things like a magazine explosion there is ...... well nothing. Ship gets real fiery and hot n shi7, and then sinks, yo! That after nearly 2 years of being "released", 1 year of obt and god know how much else development time ....... This is what everyones having in mind: ........ not a shitty 4 spot fire. How about ingame (effect only ofc) physics? So far this game does what? Changing of the surface texture and some damage decals ....... if people had told me back than that 20 years from now, things would essentially look the same ......... (and this is showing mercy: I could get a longplay of Power at Sea from 1988 and say it still has the better "Bastion-Mode" ) Nobody is asking for anything ground breaking but ....... Company of Heroes (2006 made it felt when you knocked the clutter around with a artillery barrage) Even Wing Commander 1 generated some visible debris darting away when damaging an enemies ship hull. This game has some stock fire ..... and some damage wallpapers that look worse than Homeworld 2 (2003) but better than Fighting Steel (1999), and some crisp overall textures ...... aaaaaaaaaand thats about it. Remember Wing Commander 5? First the shields would flicker, then the enemy would loose small junks n air with every hit, then spiral out of control talking some crap about how his death means nothing, then explode with a shock wave which shakes your fighter if close enough and then you see the remains/debris still drifting on the old course, drifting more and more apart, getting lost. THATS good immersive FX. Here we cant get the sound department to stop [edited]up the gun sounds every other patch. One root of the whole problem. Thx for the effort, appreciate the info. Impressive. How come when it comes to shafting WG takes great effort and suddenly can do anything from video editing ( ) to irreversible excluding people, but when its about obvious things like smoke-bug or Bastion-epic fail, or simply somewhat impressive magazine detonations - its suddenly and always "eventually" or even "maybe".

True for ISP around the globe, but ofc the Americans top it. ^^ I mean the whole video is great but .......

Thats what I dont get, by dropping Vista (well not really) and XP (that one) you are excluding a lot of toasters. I had an old PC, DC oced 3,8 ghz 6 GB ram 8800 GTX SLI that could run the game (hue hue hue, that one is even 10 years old! - so much "optimization") better than some toasters I bet (as a single 740m will still struggle with a single 88 GTX if its only 64 bit DDR 3 one), but it used a XP/7 combo. I never went Vista, but for a broader scope of people a XP/Vista combo would be more likely and is completely cut off by now. From what I read its not discontinued as in "not recommended or discouraged", but rather they went the extra length and made sure the game wouldnt even start up!

This. By now its well known what every BBaby wants to happen when a cruiser dares so much as to get spotted at all: I leave it to someone else to post the BB-Bingo-chart ..... btw: OP can always choose to fire HE shells, they never overpennetrate and can cause fires. Lets see if his avg. damage goes up that way. True.

Since when is 7 year old ancient/museum - esp. if we throw in russian potato-pcs as well?! If we go down this road we gotta first have to harmonize terms. I can play it on my at least 8 year old Notebook (cant remember exactly) - doesnt tell anything about how powerful said notebook was. If it was a _Netbook_ and the game would run as it does, no one would complain. Could also be desktop replacement .... (its not ....) So if I play "Pac Man - The Revenge" with "nostalgia graphics" on a 10 year old pc that game is even better optimised? If the game is lagging behind more than a decade, and you "can play it" (broad term as it screams "how") on a 7 year old pc you really shouldnt be surprised, now should you?

All you say is true but: Yes and I and everyone else playing this game could come up with a whole list ............. _well known_ issues remaining untangled for years. Like ....... I dont know ..... the shitty carrier UI ...... the still broken damage system ...... or simple things ....... like the broken chat. All those things have nothing to do with "finicky and unachievable perfect balancing"- In this game, when I am logged in, I cant even set any here/away status .... hell, most of the time I cant even read what has been written. So yeah, no more p2w premiums, no stupid gimmicky-lines until stuff is fixed that, sometimes, game developers 2 decades ago got right in their first attempt - I would be right there with you - but in case they are not capable or willing to do that and drive the game more downhill in the mean time, I see no reason why they cant do that with lagging only half a decade behind in terms of eye candy. tl;dr: If WG is not willing to tangle the more important things anyway, "no rescources are lost" on making the shitty game at least looking only 5 years old. Thats another thing. If we go to the low end of the spectrum, older pcs, nbs or, you know, the russian potatoes pcs used all the time as an excuse, I dont think the game looks good at all for the HW it consumes. Remember Crysis? If you toned that down to 9700 pro-demands it looked like Return to Castle Wolfenstein - which ran great on a 9700 pro - so thats a match. If on the other hand you use HW that provided a good trade off between performance and eyecandy in Crysis and play WoWs the result is ........ disappointing. So this game commits another deadly sin in terms of game development: It doesnt look good for the resources consumed/available on either end of the spectrum, while leaving free and broadly available HW sitting idle. Examples: Tessolators, or the "usual DX 11-speedup" for DX 11 cards on DX 10.x rendered-games, etc ....... I really admire the "how-low-can-it-go" kind of approach if its done right - like playing UT 3 ond Voodoo-cards (yep thats possible with some ...... tinkering) but WoWs is in that regard just a slob. Tbh I dont follow that any more. Could you link it, plz. Also I have to see who said what + with the example of the Smoke disaster I dont consider any red-statement on their own game to be fully reliable ......... Then again even if the next patch would bring that overhaul, its like a worker being late for work and expecting a standing ovation for showing up at all ......... P.S.: I am not a native speaker and just glancing over it, I noticed it may sound harsh towards you in places - which is not the intent (except for when its about WG ofc). I actually enjoy the discussion and reading you pov of the matter. 1. It doesnt run on ancient HW - at all. 2. Even on less ancient HW it doesnt run well and looks way worse than contemporary games of the time.

Denmark/Netherlands?

Lets look at the "base" then. With the introduction of GF 8000 series (2006) and HD 2000 series (2007) there werent any more DX 9 card designed (maybe the old [licensed] Intel igpus but those sucked hard and you couldnt play the game on them anyway). -> Decade. Yet this game remains as D3D9E game ........ Has to be OS limitation right? With the decision to cease support of being able to run the game on XP and Vista, Win 7 has the become the min standard. Win 7 _always_ shipped with DX 11. So whats the shittiest graphics card to play the game with? My shittiest would be a nb version of a 4650 1 GB GDDR3 oc between a desktop 4650 and 4670 - but lets look at the minimum specs, shall we? nVidia GeForce 8800GT/9600GT and higher Intel HD 4600 and higher nVidia GeForce740m 830m and higher VRAM: 512 MB Screen resolution - 1280*768 Well first: These specs are bollocks - a 8800GT is way more powerful than my NB card and I play it on 1600x900 not the min. resolution. Unlike the old G92, the Kepler chip on the 740m (and it is a pos if you got one with 64 bit DDR 3) is fairly new ........ but hm I fail to see a single DX9 card. If we assume a niveau like 9600 GT/4650 we would be needing something like an 1950 XTX anyway ..... so DX 9 cards? Out of the question. With establishing that (a rather powerfull one - if its a old card) DX 10 capability is the _bare minimum_ this game demands, what about DX 11? Thats 2010 for NV and 2009 for ATI - not quite a decade but ...... Coincidently the mentioned Intel IGPU _IS_ also a DX 11 chip - to strong for the most part and to weak if you want to play but ofc it can compete with the really old stuff. So thats Haswell 2013 - fairly "new". Now all DX 11 chips have Tessellators - as required by specificaton of DX 11. Now guess what? From the lowly Intel IGPU to the heights of GTX 1080 SLI - those are doing absofuckinglutely NOTHING. Its not choosing between 2 things, its a piece of HW being able to provide extra eyecandy at no cost. So Tessellators are a new thing, right? Well ...... no: The first _consumer card_ with one was the ATI Radeon 8500 in 2001. So lets pick at something ....... ah yes the shitty "quicksilver"-water in WoWs. Anyone played Age of Empires 3, or Earth 2160 (both 2005!!!)? Yes back then the "quicksilver"-water with reflections and all (if you could afford it) was a rather new thing; a step up from the "breakwater"-textures. I played that on things like a 9800 pro or x850XT. You could use the idle hw to improve that shitty arse one and a half decade old water ......... for example. I also never played a released game that dared leaving out things like ........ trees/vegetations. ............ and later they went ahead and were _celebrating themselves_ for adding that. I played on hw that actually was limited enough to have it understandable to leave out trees/vegetations (Atari 2600 comes to mind) but even those did it, even in the most basic way possible - but it was there. Have an example: As you cant divide by 0, this over 3 decades older home pc with an 8 bit CPU had _infinitely more and prettier trees_ than this shitty game by release. Now I am not without reason and I like the small stuff they have added, airfields, radiocamps, villages, fortresses (not fu<king bastion!) etc, but given their track record and the overall state of the game I find it hard to throw them petals ...... in their case, I rather use caltrops to convey my overall opinion. Also thats their (understandable) excuse they should give to their team for not having a nicer looking game - _its not_ a excuse you as a customer should be willing to accept so fast. Economically speaking its makes a lot of sense (from my perspective) if I retire early and you in return work till you drop dead. So it would be understandable for _me_ to be happy with that solution, its should be _very alienating_ if you bring the very same thing up _in my defence_.

Get yourself some SGSSAA then ....... a1070 is barely enough for 8x ......... and the iq is still far from perfect - so your 970 will find something to do. Ofc you are right on the matter of graphics - I had a post laid out that even on the basis of a decade old hard- and software -> there is no excuse, but it was in another thread and apparently forum censoring took care of the thread and I cant find it now. Thing is, I really dont feel like typing it down again .....

I suspect full rocky horror picture show only with more pillows and 2d girls. btw: Wtf did I just watch ....... 3x!-edition. Just so you guys know, I ll take this as a free pass on the pony flood at least all through may ..... Crap bought today: Banjo, Igloo and Emily - played non of them ofc. So today in the evening there will probably be 4 things: 1. T 10 cruiser in a co-op match - for great justice. 2. Bitching how shitty and useless even a T 10 cruiser is ... at least the arcs will be better ........ 3. Bitching about how ugly and sluggish the Iglo is. 4. Bitching about how I could have been so stupid to buy another shitty cruiser - and a T 5 even ........

WG Mission -> didnt even bother.

This. ......... and sadly I am guilty of raging not enough and need to give a piece of mind more blunt and directly to all the cowards, parasites, wallet-warriors, etc. Ofc I could play with Kimie again, they idiots will neg-rep me then by proxy alone. The biggest question I have concerning this broken Karma system: Is it THAT poorly designed that you can give a WG-Staffmember a chatban if you are in a division and maybe coordinate with the rest of the teams a little? Not thinking about any abuse of the system, but instead "raising awareness of the issue" at the truly appropriate point.

I am so fu<king sick and tired of getting teamkilled by idiots. Yes, no co-op Kraken - normaly I wouldnt even port that - and how could it be if your guaranteed farm on the CV is never to come? I dare to say that my avg. damage and xp in co-op could be at least 10-20 % higher if not for those wankers; and if for some miracle no human bot is tking me - "friendly" bots armed with the full blunt and dense force of WG-stupidity are more than willing to take over.

Cant say I am surprised sadly. So thats at the very least Loran, Kimie and me spending our time with stuffing needles in WG-Voodoo-dolls. I actually have a lot of them but ............ stop playing the Saipan! Atm I am grinding the French T4 ........ and if the T5 is crap I abort the line. Same thing with Emerald (I will NEVER play that thing in pvp again) but a more pronounced grind and a WAY MORE SHITTY ship - if the T6 sucks again bye bye RN cruisers. Thing is in co-op I also give less of a shi7 about WG constant way of retarded missions/event, moar p2w etc ....... Everyone knowes that Lyra-Plushy is best. (!!!) Are there even any SFW ones? Protected is right, as in no way in hell you are getting any........ Thats one way to get a pair of hot ears as it is the upgraded version of "go put a paper bag over your face, dear" aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand that would be ............ good, or bad? I know its easier to get chat banned again after having them received previously but ........ I still cant fathom why didnt get a cb yet. ^^ I guess I need to do more rightful bitching and salt dispensing. .... I actually feel the same about the forum, in a sense that only Kostis did it right about expressing his opinion about WG. btw: Have a great Laborday guys(/girls and whichever amount of adjacent daiki ... pillows) ! Maybe enjoy a muffin? (not a single technicolor pony in it, promise)

I hope you didnt sell yourself low and at least demanded a plushy on AOs dime. Anyway: I assume we are stuffed to the brink again ....... so another expansion? Or just WG lifting their stupid imposed restrictions .......... btw: holding up the clan honor in co-op: Lately I have been around more and more folks with clantags. Doesnt mean I play less agressivly, but it does usually mean less merciless tking from that side-with-the-tags ....... usually. ^^ On one side co-op is getting a little boring again (or is it the not ending grind with the meager rewards?) but then again, going ham, thinking about a limitation in the KIS at the same time AND listening to something ridiculous: ...... well, cant do that in pvp. Part at 1:42 is perfectly fitting to take on a good melee in the most ridiculous way possible.

Well looking forward to June/July then ...... well except the heat ofc. Also thx for the recommendations. but anyway: Madam Pinkie: I sense a soul in search of Pony (or at least a Clan) drawing close ........ (just wait an be amazed by the prediction of Madam Pinkie ). P.S.: 3k co-op battles. Since we cant have over 30 members in the main chapter, I can now slowly work on getting the average up again. Also with over 100 more co-op than pvp battles, I am now definitely a co-op main player.

Just had a epic game in french T4, but all I can show is this, due to the replay not working correctly. The game also said (but I didnt take a screen since I wanted to look at the rep.) I had 22 torps spotted, but I am betting on more fired at me. I went into cqc with several torp armed cruiser and while at it the CV came for me 2 with 2 squads ....... all that in a ship I fondly call the Tragi-Comedy due to its abysmal rudder shift, turning circle and huge size. Took 0 torps and this is also thx to actually having sensible players with reasonable torp use on my side; instead of the usual merciless tking .......

Forget it, I offered WG more than a few times to take my Kamikaze R away after they turned it p2w and do a 25 $ donation (instead of sending money my way or ingame compensation) to the ABCSG, or if thats is to much of a hassle, the ACS (they do have a fat DONATE button on their page). So far: Not even that ........ €: Also the pink ribbon is usually about female breast cancer awareness. Have the matching one for male breast cancer too, for the sake of complete documentation:

Yeah well results like these are only possible with a full human team (altough its late still 7 other "humans" on my side, all camping behind the cruiser and islands ofc): Could have gotten another one, but the torp reload is to long ......... Seriously if there is a DD captain with some ballz or generally aggressive players and you are in the slightes unlucky (wrong side, slow ship, shitty spawn, etc) its can be rather difficult to get any damage done. And "friendly" bots on your side mean generally pure chaos: 1. They may quickly farm everything and you get barely anything done. 2. They may die instantly and the higher the tier, the more likely it to be to turn out to be a unwinnable game. 3. Merciless teamkilling ........ btw: Isnt WG generous. Only 50k xp required for the mission and you can do it even in co-op! Except that results like this still give only way less than 500 xp so only 100-150 games required. Yeah ... I shouldnt even have looked at the ever so stupid missions, but something down there suggesting progress and thus gets your curiosity up.

Looked it up in the techtree ........ thought my game was glitched to hell n gone. Russia + Paper explains it tough ..... .......... but cg on those games!

WB, WG! I only saw you a few times ingame and its been a long time. Also, where did you get that idea? Its only some carefully laid out bait; and you cant deny: Every 10-20 or so pics we get a new recruit or someone coming back. Proof? Right up there! I would have been disappointed even. ^^ (cant put it into a spoiler or no one would get the joke/troll ;)) I would totally watch that one too. I bet its not what the guys who had to carry the dismantled pieces around for a forced march would say. I envy you. So far it has been an ok year with snow laying around for days and even some weeks instead of 24 ° on fu<king christmas eve and a warm draught to go along with it, but I am already dreading the summer and not be able to sleep due to heat and god damn vermin keeping me awake too. Bone Appetit! €: Also upgrades are on discount ..... so got me thinking of buying new stuff as uprade discount is as good (or even more on high tier ships) as a normal ship/tier/nation discount. 45 millions in the bank means I can get 1-2 of those (finished means fin = finished grind of the ship before, else xp missing) : 1. Fin-Izumo - temping - well not really but it leads to Yama. 2. Fin-Iowa - well ...... kinda boring and just a shitty Missouri + meh Montana. 3. Fin-New Orleans - finishing the unholy triforce of shitty T8 cruisers ...... I dont know ..... DM is kinda tempting but thats about it. When I played it waaaaaaay back on the PTS I prefered even old 16 km detecton Pepsi over this pos! 4. 16k-Zao - deeply disappointed with Ibuki. With that amount of armor, hp and stealthfire gone I see a ship that cant still cant kill eg a Kaba (due to her armor even with HE/AP, balanced Komrade! lets give it even heal on top!) but instead dies to 4 shells of a highter BBs - also balanced comrade! 5. fin-Roon - everybody keeps saying its a steep upgrade over abysmal Hipper - yet another shitty T9 cruiser? I bet it still needs range mod so you cant go for more daka of the reload mod. 6. 11k-Charly Chaplin - rather interesting because the Shores is great, but then again same ship but with seeing only T10 due to MM? I think aside from the novelty of radar (and again the removal of stealth fire) its bound to be a worse ship overal, although it is manly due to bonkers MM. I also have some captains with undistributed skills laying around: IJN 11, USN 13 and 9, KM 13 and 11, RU 12 and 10 that could go onto those ships. Also 146 k free xp - so unlocking modules like Izumo to get it to [edited]turn, is not a issue. ......... so äh, any recommendations Scrublords?

I actually thought I would limit myself to that one of the night only but ....... nah, that groundwork is too good to pass by. Actually I dont like tea very much. We have a lot of that stuff in all variants at work for free, but I usually stick with thinned juice along with food and coffee/water for the rest of the time; but thats okay since I am not a: (yep all those, and more , pics are part of a basic line of hilarious pics always called something along "pretty pretty princess". I guess AO will probably understand the reference, as I suspect is based on something weired/japanese/anime. Again, I couldnt really just pass that one just by ) Also: So much princess, so much majestic creatures of the morning. (Ugh, Doughnuts and similar stuff would kill me in the morning ...) Actually ........ ....... and there are a ton of pics to that theme. btw: If I remember correctly this on should be still on the ISS: https://imgur.com/a/u16WKas well as this one: http://imgur.com/a/V9egm ___________ ..... so much for holding back for now because today is new-episode-day anyway ....... If I were you: So its already getting into the evening again and its been a full day since I got home from yesterday around the very same time. What did I do so far? I ate, fell asleep because tired af, woke up, read for I think 2 hours, went to bed again because moar sleep, ate again and played with the birds -> day well spent.