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Did read up on them. So its "Kot" which means, in a forum-conform-way, "Doody" . Also to appease our Developer-Overlords there is: [quote name="The Russian name for this class was Project 56 Spokoinyy ...." There you go, "Spooky"-class Destroyer. (Hm if you think about it: For a DD thats actually not that bad, and probably the friendliest name so far. )

And now we can play proper BS-bingo. Lets pick (rumored) skills of which other people think they wont make it into the game because "that would be completely retarded". Winner gets at least 5 Internets.

So we get ships like "Smelly" + "Neu(new)-Trash" (to not be confused with "Old-Trash" aka "Trashcan" ) and "Bias-Projector 56"? Well I like me own bias-DDs I still have to make the obligatory remark about "RN BBs still going to enter the game after them DDs" - for great justice. For rest of the announcement: I wish I could be more exited, but everything has a "this is overdue", "should have been added during in beta" or "took you long enough" attached to it. Its like, how it is really hard to cheer over some plumber arriving like 56 hours late ....... Yeah, its sounds kinda douchbaggery but honestly thats how it is ..... Take the depot: Its not like there was a placeholder shitty cheapass UI, there was NOTHING all the time.

To late, AO, way to late. You are NEVER going to hear the end of this: Yes he will. Damn I should put THAT in my sig. Well there is no need to hurry. More like: because + I know. Still I raised that one in the first place from around 80 to over 256.

Hm true the Hotel was lower that I thought. In my mind there were 2 nearly empty rather healthy CVs blasting away at each other. Interesting battle tough. 3 Fires and a flooding - no repairs .... I would have chewed on my liver. Still CQE with a T 10 CV on another T 10 CV ........ I imagine that one to be a rather rare on. Thx for the upload!

Actually its tying this out again. I think I saw it one of Flamus ship review vids a while ago and tried it in co-op via Aslains. I thought its broken because the lights made no sense - turns out they are lagging behind horribly. (Look at my shot at the very first picture when he still was visible: The light says standstill, I think, but I rather saw him reversing slightly so I aimed for the stern) So I naturally first thought its completely useless as its far slower/or more inaccurate than my own perception but it has 2 ...... no 3 uses: 1. When its in parts of those maps with poor contrast and foggy already. Like a grey-dark ship with dark smoke against shady side of a dark mountain on winter north. 2. When the target is burning in the 2 midsections (or even more) and you cant see crapanyway. 3. I still get sometimes that annoying thing when smoke is completely missing . Its not as bad as those months ago (back then this thing would have been _really_ useful), but still when WG "fixes" something, you can still consider it partially broken. You could get the same effect from a other-side-approach by removing fog on maps, or reduce/make the fire-effect more see-trough, but I consider that a reduction in eye candy overall. Dunno if I keep it, it has its limited uses and is not obstructive or intrusive ....... btw: Just so you know; I am also trying out the navigator (?) mod because I thought that might be borderline cheat. But tbh either I dont get how to use it correctly, or its also quite useless if you have a minimap and/or a shift key/mouse wheel. Pssst! No need to tell them that with 2 Forumites in the game, we still nearly lost to bots.

kind of? We demand replay of glorious 2ndary battle for great justice!

Moving on quickly to the restoration of honour: .... but Hava, this is nothing special? Yeah, I know just follow along. See the damage on the Klingon-DD? So he was smoking and I was like ....... well ..... lets just look at the replay : "Target that explosion and fire!" No moving forwards or backwards, as well as the SE-skill can save you Sunshine. (For some additional hilarious stuff: Watch the 9 years old "Wrath of Sulu" on YT. [i cant believe its still up after all those years!] Its bad. Its stupid. I dont know whats wrong with me, but I find it hillarous. "Are we firing torpedoes?" ) For people enjoying DDs getting shot in smoke: Shout out tough to ShortyPzJg from [WARGG] - I didnt hear a single hackusation. So, a lesson for the new players and some not so new players that are unfortunately on my team and refuse to shoot DDs when I am in a BB: You shoot even at UNSPOTTED DDs.

Today was a good day. Not that I did not suck, but still thats why I division up with those Scrubs: To get carried. I might have to put todays post into multiple posts, maybe; because of picture limitation. Thus I will put a lot, but not everything, in spoilers. Green tree of high tier, ofc still out of reports because of idiots, is always soul-soothing. .... but wtf is going on with WT? All of a sudden I am a Mogami player? ......... for not touching that one in weeks or months? ..... and sucking in it? I feel kinda feel offended ..... ^^ Onwards to the actual games: Lets start with some random FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU - as you only get any reward if the capture is completed. Ok next battle was both great victory and a disgrace. In a Missouri-Kutuzov-Ibuki-division we were mopping up any and all resistances on the enemy caps and in the game in general. They enemy team also had a afk Shimakaze, of which I was in a position to farm. He was angled against me at around 30 °, but remember AFK and I am in a Ibuki - with the accuracy mod. So I missed him - with all shells of a full salvo. From 8 km. Twice. (before I had reloaded for a 3rd salvo he was dead, obviously) I mean seriously?! But keep that episode in mind, as we will return to it later, when I will regain my DD-shooting-honour. Next up: First decent game in the Takao. TBH I barely played her yet. Some co-op games (naturally ) and this was only the second pvp game. I call this: Killstealing-level: Loran. I got incredibly luck and a shitton of fires, but even so: Every single one did less than 2k damage; which is less than the average damage per/BB shell. Take notes, you BBabys, crying that HE and fire is op. OFC, I did not finish stage 4 or 5 of the Mission, because I hadnt unlocked that one yet ...... =

Nah, they only join all to demolish the beautiful clan average of co-op battles played I created. I think we should add 2 conditions to join: 1. Having watched all episodes of MLP-FIM - as it only takes ~ 22 minutes. 2. At least 2k co-op battles. Everyone else is to scrub even for the Scrublords. €: And while we are at it: Could we plz switch the Clan-Logo? Look at her, even licking a Window. €2: TBH, I doesnt matter what you guys say. As far as I am concerned thats at least the Logo of the Pony-Division of Scrubs.

When WG "doesnt/didnt touch the smoke". I think for a time that was the most common cause for a DD death.

Really? Its either me not getting the sarcastic tone or its outright hilarious. But yeah, this time its at least not the AA, the shells, the dispersion or even the armor - that has allegedly be nerfed. And thats WITH the cred flag. Otherwise you would have to deduct 60 k ........ So lets recap, shall we? Even WITH premium time AND the cred flag, I wouldnt have reached your half a million creds ....... yeah totally nerfed. Not true. In this game the whole point of a premium is to be better than a corresponding silver-peasant ship and earn obscene amounts of captain xp for some even easier clubbing in the future. ... reduced repair costs, free camo and credit income are like point 98-100 on the list of why they are p2w boats. If the matter would truly be different then the PE would be a much more popular ship ........

Wait until they start working on his kill stealing. I mean sometimes even the game clearly states: "Outrageous Killsteal" - but Loran for whatever reason insist on calling those medals "Devastating Strike". In that regard with having another case of the Loran-epidemic spreading to other people as I distinctively remember even the enemy team accusing AO of kill stealing.

Thx for the Vid. Lets say I am not surprised about the results. (Marvin is pink AND chat banned?)

I had a Game in a Gneisennau a few weeks back. Was looking bad already but we tried our best to turn it around at the enemy cap. I went with a Gneisenau against 2 Leningrads. Guns on my side vs Torps and Guns on theirs. Several minutes later: 2 Dead Leningrads. Hilarious. And yes they torped from different angles and even sides ....... (Game was lost, ofc)

Oh yeah "Loran Matchmaking" is legendary! Just a word of caution here: Its epidemic. I now also get the worst MM possible. Only known cure so far is "Kostis Matchmaking" - or its rather a temporary symptom suppressor. But even he is getting sloppy recently, or might even fail to do a thing about "Loran Matchmaking". Wait you dont believe me? Here take a look at Live: A poor victim of "Loran angry typing" that has now also spread to him. So be careful when licking the same windows as Loran.

At least now I understand what was a few hours ago all of a sudden going on ....... Damn, that thread was exiting to read, but now I want my ship pr0n of the promised fight. I demand satisfaction! So can any of you guys point me to the showfight? And Marvin, lay off the Arizona, use a balanced floor-penned p2w-free battlesheep; and also use the damn shift key!

Ah whole complete undivided %? Are you sure? Dont you want to double, no tripple check this? Damn we need this thread in Gameplay so more people can share the joy; because you wouldnt want them to miss on such a massive discount, now would you?!

Comming back from todays ragequit ....... well technically it was "tomorrow" already. I finally got to play with lup3s. (I kinda "recruited" him to the Forumites channel - just like I haven been "recruited" by Marvin all those months ago. Well maybe I used a little less to what amounts of "screw you" - but still in a similar way. ;)). So far I have always been on rage-quit or co-op trip but today we went into a T8-9 spree. Successfully I might add. Even better and more important: Another Forumite which is able to stand my bitching in TS. Anyway, lookie lookie, what beauty is now in my port: Anyway, for todays Game Ill pick this one: It came down to our 2 DDs (one of them lup3s) and me defending B. Enemy BBs were a NC and a Bismarck so not the best of chances. Enemy players actually had a brain each and decided to flank me with both BBs. Since I was dead anyway I decided to put it all one chance and RNG-Krom did heed my prayer. Got a nice big salvo into the Bismack and he got sunk later which enabled us to win on pts. I also think I did my fair share of spotting and tanking. A big thx to lup3s for Games; and again, being ablo to stand my bitching.

I ran into IcyJones on the enemy team (sadly ) and 2 other Forumites - at least thats what my division mate lup3s told me. ^^ Sry for not recognising you. ;) At least I found a place to dump the ever-available compliments. ^^ Anyway I immediately decided to keep Icy warm because I figured he would be one of the player who doesnt immediately put out a fire and I would get some damage. Had a lot of return-mail comming my way too ... Next was a heroic charge against a Shima which died according to plan ........ and then I was alone on that flank with DDs keeping me lit up so I couldnt disengage, and at least 18 46 cm barrels to play catch with; amongst other "minor threats". In the end a pretty crushing defeat for our side. Anyway still always nice to see a Forumite. €:

Wait until the true horror unveils: 1. WG with some more completely retarded mission/event that promotes playing like a lobotomite; announced _at least_ 10 hours late with most info found on sea and best/fairest deals on US and RU - as always. 2. Holidays - like a weekend but longer and much much worse - all around Christmas, New Year and even the 3 Kings. 3. People having- and spending money on this game means utter Noobs and Wallet Warriors will cause "The Last of Us" having a lesser Zombie count; as well as decent player getting some more p2w advantages. Pick your poison. I could go on bitching, but Diablo 1 had it summed up all those years ago already: I mean serously - it talks about: Divisioning compared to playing solo. WGs mission design and fairness across the servers. "Working as designed" - TM. All that in 3 sentences and 12 seconds - what else do you need to know? .... Come to think of it. Diablo 1 has predicted a lot. I can immediately see "Halls of the Blind" describing Noobs and Wallet Warriors perfectly in a manner akin to a poem. ^^

Already rage quitted. Been in a so-so mood when I started the game, and it certainly has not gotten any better, but hey why type things down a second time: Teams are still completely horrible and its usually not fun to lose OR EVEN to win. Raw damage numbers certainly dont tell the whole story but cruisers are so god damn useless its not fun at all. And I am stuck with one I have to grind trough, as well as with the damn grind for the Takao. 7 more victories for that ....... One shotted a Roon in the beginning - and then apologized. I didnt feel exited but sorry for the poor guy; thankfully he was a good sport. So unlike a BB which can actually carry, tank and bring the fight to the enemy: Shitty cruiser. Basically being useless like some BB players, but with the added bonus of being a floating citadel anyway. And more: "Cant carry while getting blown up all the time ......"

My little (immediate) RageQuitt-Preventer: Divisioning is Magic. Yep, thats what I call a Division-Carry. One of the very few decent games today. I swear they were mostly steamrolles and completely retarded. One side would simply refuse to put up a fight and get gutted; while everyone get shitty xp. Seriously, on side wins, half the ships the ships are still alive and only 1-2 ships of the winning team are sunk. WTF. Ive seen it all today and Live and I ragequittet since it was simply not really entertaining. If not for bitching on TS, I would have probably quitted even after 2 such games ...... Takao-Status: 10 more victories ....... I might get it done after all.

Now comming to the last paragraph: I am actually pretty there with you. I had a game the day before yesterday where I spent missing/overpenning a Königsberg at 10-12 km. A broadside Königsberg that was either stand still or barely moving forwards and backwards a little. I only got the citadel when he down to 3k hp -_-. The thing is here that cruisers are so infinitely shitty that the FIRST need their buffs to make them playable and then we can work on giving BBs more consistent results fighting them. Not the other way around. I am actually a cruiser player ........ or I was. Now its 50-50. Recently, I basically mostly played BBs and cursed about shitty cruisers recently. Its not like BBs are no "skillboats" ( ) either, its just that cruisers are pointless. The counter absolutely nothing and everything hurts them immensely. From that perspective I actually argue against the class I nowadays play mostly ....... So yeah, I know how frustrating the RNG in this game can be when shooting cruisers from close up: http://forum.worldofwarships.eu/index.php?/topic/10242-which-forum-members-have-you-seen-in-random-battles/page__st__2620__pid__1485203#entry1485203 But I also know how hard I usually dump [edited]all over any shitty cruiser by just shooting in the general direction. You might tell its my "amazing aiming skills" but then again: Why do the same "amazing aiming skills" not grant me better results when trying to hurt BBs or DDs at a distance in a cruiser? Of all the cruisers I own (you can check my profile) I find currently 2 "acceptable" albeit still pretty desolate: The Pensacola and the Schors. Pensacole has no armor, but it dosent matter as armor on a cruiser is useless against BBs; and BBs are whats killing you. What counts is that it turns (rather -_-) fast and tight, has usable HE and AP, and a acceptable turret traverse. The fact that at least lower tier carriers are reluctant to strike you sweetens the deal (albeit useless against same tier or higher tier cvs). The only thing this thing needs is a axe to cut down the stupid radar-mast ....... Schors: The ballistics are somewhat acceptable and fire does scale with the HP pool. Its a shitty lottery but you can get sometimes good results. More importantly you can play strategic. HE DPM against DDs is also not to bad. Armor again is irrelevant. Turret traverse is good and AP is not to bad either, albeit 2nd fidel to HE-spam. Here obviously the turning circle is the major issue.

Thats the point you are not faster anymore when the battleships become fast (and some low tier cruiser are also not faster than a BB anyway) because ...... a battlehip can angle effectively and actually go in a straight line for more than 3 secs without instant evaporation. I would even argue that a 25 Knts german battleship is faster than a equal tier german cruiser trying in vain to avoid shells. About the dimensions: Read up on them, will ya? (some random quickass choices) Karlsruhe: 142 x 14 m Kaiser: 174 x 29 m Hipper: 200 x 21 meters. Bismarck: 250 x 36 meters. Myoko: 204 x 17 m Nagato: 215 x 29 m Pensacola: 180 x 20 m Colorado: 190 x 30 m. The question is quite simple: Can you hit a Kongo? There you go, you can now hit. citadel and delete all higher tier cruiser without all that "annoying armor" all over the place, but instead citadels running pretty much bow to aft. Also you are long dead before reaching 10 km. The problem starts when a BB decloaks at 13-16 km (depends obviously) and you are no longer "allowed" to turn, because even a salvo shot into the end of the turn and reaching you angled is a quarter of your hp gone - up to and including outright insta deletion. And thats just ONE example of ridiculous situation. I cant wait for cruiser that outspot equal tier DDs - like some BB do. Or cruiser that actively prey on their supposed counter - again like some DDs do. Lets talk about the "railguns". One of the few cruisers with rather decent shell flight times ..... To bad the same tier BB still laughs at that. Lets see who has to hit what to actually do damage (again random choice): Stuff that is vulnerable to 152 mm HE shells. Oh gee, you gotta hit a target smaller in size than a DD from 16 km, or enlist in the shitty fire lottery that, may or may not earn you some mediocre damage. So much for supperior cruiser accuracy. Damn those poor BBs. We should have citadels apply a dot that drains 0,3 % hp, only stack up to 4 times and is fully repair and. on top, healable too. Then they finally they can enjoy the same "OP"-meachanics. For the cruiser: All is obviously vulnerable, but just look at the size of that citadel. And its even above the waterline, like on most cruisers. How convenient. Manoeuvrability? Again, can you hit a Gneisenau Iowa Bismarck? Because those have similar speed and turning circle compared to a Schors ...... Can you hit a DD from 8 km in a Mogami? There you go, you can now hit a DD from 12 km in a BB. Absolutely no cruiser needed. The Schors and Ru cruisers in general are actually at least decent in shooting ( =/ hunting) DDs. Most cruiser are mediocre or outright absolute crap in that regard (Hipper .......). I have killed cruisers with only 2 shells. I have yet to do the same with a cruiser to a DD with 4 shells (lets say heavy cruiser with double the rof).