viceadmiral123

When I play my t9 CV, a lot of players complain about match making and carriers being OP and the like. What I find is, most of the enemy ships are usually 1-2 tiers below me, enemy CV captains don't defend their team, and everyone generally plays solo. I honestly expect CVs to keep getting nerfed until it is no longer required to team play against them.

So many replies, thanks for the advice! I love that, for battleships, you don't really need a 5 point skill like the carriers do, which opens up a lot of options. I think I will be watching a movie on the side while my battleships reaches some action. Gonna spend some free exp on hulls.

I expected rudder shift times to be INCREASED, not decreased. Can't wait to see what mess this makes

This is why the randomness of match making made the game different every time. Sometimes your IJN carrier will face 0 or 1 carriers, but stronger anti air guns from other enemy vessels, other times you will face 2 USN carriers and have to adjust your play style accordingly. If every game you play is a mirror game of your carrier on the enemy team, where is the fun? Having played a lot of games in both USN and IJN carriers, I can say each have their strengths and weaknesses, and the thin balance is rolled over by the bucket of joy that match making is.

USN carrier has way stronger squads, both fighters and bombers. Tighter drop, more damage, more planes. They are supposed to be lacking in speed compared to IJN, but I don't see how this is helping if you are IJN.

If you really cared about winning you would have gone for the farthest target, and not get kills for closer ones. The experience in not bad in a draw, anyway.

To be fair, collision avoidance cannot be completely turned off. In auto-pilot mode, it is always on, regardless of your settings.

It is an issue that high tier ships don't earn proportionally more credits. In t9 it is not uncommon to be losing credits per battle. The trade off is that you are using a stronger ship I guess.

It may come as a surprise to you, but ships in tight spaces are main targets for bombers.

The first game after I start the client is always longest to load, missing the game start. After that it usually loads just in time for the start.

Why is it so strange for most people that carriers are important to the team? They are the most expensive ship to buy, upgrade and repair in their tier. They are also limited to 2 per team, while other classes are limited to more than 2. It is natural that you want to protect your carrier from the enemy DDs and planes, and your carrier will give you some air support and vision. I usually don't send my planes to finish off dying targets but let my team take the kill. It is better to weaken ships that are on full health.

IJN CV has other, secret bonuses over the USN I am honestly surprised that only the IJN carriers are "overperforming" and the USN double torpedo bomber setups are fine. The way I play my Taiho, it is surprising it is not getting rebalanced Anyway, it will liven things up if the matchmaker puts equal carrier forces on each team.

Next patch will balance the MM of carriers. Now, instead of crying about how you can't dodge torpedo bombers, start learning how to protect your team CV from them

Depending on dogfighting bonus and tier of aircraft, you may lose 2x4 IJN vs 1x6 USN encounter. As I said, you are not going to get air superiority vs USN carriers.

Nothing big in this update. Everyone likes small balance tweaks and new maps. Keep it up.

Go for BB or CA at t10, depends on your play style. DD is useless compared to others at that tier. CV I do not suggest to have as an only t10, maybe the second t10.

Cleveland CA is t6, and because of it's superb AA you can see it in t9 games. The CA will die easily to enemy ships, but it still reks planes.

The only thing I partially agree with here is the tight spread of USN torpedo bombers. IJN not only have less planes, but a wider spread, which makes the torpedo density a joke compared to USN bombers.

With the current matchmaking, any changes would be a shot in the dark. Do you talk about balance between USN vs IJN carriers, because USN have stronger fighters and can deliver 2x5 (out of 6) torpedoes to a large ship, for ~9k damage each; while IJN can deliver about 3x2 (out of 4) torpedos to a large ship for much less damage per torpedo? If games don't put CV versus CV, nothing of this matters, and the only balance is how well the team play together vs bombers.

I don't use premium and play the t9 IJN CV, although I can honestly say it's very hectic. Enemy ships have great AA and players know how to deal with planes. About t7-t8 is where it is most enjoyable, you don't have to pay as much for ship upkeep.

Most maps are not suitable to "follow the main fleet", simply because you move yourself closer to the enemy carrier and he can circumvent the ships anyway. Furthermore, if you get detected, you will be taken down by the enemy battleships in 3-4 good salvos. Exp reward and the feeling that you ruined the enemy CV's attack is a good reward for sitting in one spot for 5 minutes.

North Carolina is a keeper ship. BBs are extremely annoying to grind, all my free exp goes for them. Hang in there.

The game is unreasonably intensive on the system. You get the fps your computer can give. Try turning off programs that are running in the background.

Spotting damage for plane squadrons as well as DDs, if you don't mind

Guys, what's with the long posts? It's a game, enjoy it and let the devs do their thing.