Isoruku_Yamamoto

Well im gonna get the Tone i think, kinda ironic isnt it? Japanese whaling generally means quite the opposite

Ive got the flint, bought it for steel back then. It is an insanely good and fun ship, great weaponry and consumables, but yes it has been powercrept. Play it right and it is amazing for ranked, wrong and youre better off in any other ship. Flint is pretty unique, but not twice as good as lazo for instance. Totally different styles, id say flint is in fact more fun. But.... 168k is nearly a t9 coal ship eh

Wow, thanks mate. Never even noticed these go into the armoured DDs, so ill check out the armour schemes next time. Thought they were standard 19mm tbh. But then HE is still kinda viable to use for many DDs, long as you dont shoot midsection. Well, i kinda missed this part, since the armour layout is stated less obvious in announcements than before, or at least it certainly didnt get my attention

So the Tone has been added as a standard "Ship only" bundle in the armory, which nowadays all come with a port slot and a 3pt commander, against the 300 doubloon premium of including the port slot. However, unlike all other ships in the armory, in the case of the Tone the ship is added as a "Special" bundle with the contents of a standard ship bundle, rather than as an actual standard ship bundle, meaning i can't use a 25% discount coupon on it. Doesn't make sense to me, as it was advertised that the Tone would be coming to the armory, not the weird packs per se, and it is in fact available in the same way all other ships are- you just cant use the discount coupon. Is this intended or was this effect overlooked when adding it as a "featured" ship in the armory?

Will Tone remain available in the armory as a regular ship when the special bundles are removed ( 2 july) ?

Im not sure now tho, it says bundles will be available untill july 2nd. Will the Tone itself remain availabe for longer?

I bought myself the Austin the other day, and i think its bloody funny. I wouldnt necessarily rank it the strongest ship every, i'd say a Des Moines is better on the utility & overall effectiviness front for instance, but theres a pretty unique playstyle & the fact that you can obliterate some ships that are hard to whipe out quickly with other ships is pretty cool. German BBs, smolenks, minotaur, DDs, light cruisers all melt for your SAP, and using the reload booster just after a DCP can set someone on fire 3x if you plan it carefully

Well lets face it, im a sucker for the IJN cruisers, ill get the Tone at some point

This would make sense for the Ise, since that was in fact only for sale shortly, but its weird in this case imo. I get the idea, but it doesnt quite correspond to the patch note "Tone has been added to the armory", at least not if you look what the message "has been added to the armory" normally means

Look, there arre ppl will help you, you were unlucky. 2days should be "at least more than 36h i believe, so the number of displayed days can be off by 12 hours either up or down, if im correct. Thing is, if you looked on day 0 at 02:00 in the morning it could display "2 days left", while you have 40hrs left. Then if you come back on day 1 22:00, 44 hours have passed, so all of the "true time" you had remaining.since you postedthis around 2300 cet this seems likely to me

They forgot a lot when changing from RTS to rework CVs, including all campaigns, the wikipedia (because they forgot to update/edit all metadata). This seems like a minor issue, but still indicative...

What people tend to overlook is just how easy it is to deplane post-rework CVs, its just that they dont deplane entirely. But losing 12 aircraft in FDR means he wont even be able to fly with a full squad after that. Yes, he can gwt single wings to attack, but have you ever tried using an actual CV with only single attack wings? Would require a lot of changes, i think the main reason they didnt do that is cause a CV then would never be able to keep up with the pace of the game. It would require doubling- tripling CV strike alpha i think, even for the FDR, to remotely balance the duration of one attack run out

Exactly what aspect here is different from regular CVs then?

Well okay, but: Issue 1: any submarine warfare was based on ambushes Issue 2: most capital ships that were sunk during WW2 were sunk by coincidental encounters anyway, clear exceptions being the Bismarck, Tirpitz, Yamato and the Battle of Midway. Issue 3: subs didnt "hunt" conveys in the way of actively searching for those either, im using the word "hunt" to refer to actively attack and encounter an enemy ship once that ship was spotted

..... You do realise that subs did in fact hunt warships, particularly aircraft carriers and battleships but they woukd sometimes engage cruisers, noteable the USS Indianapolis (one of the most famous cases due to te captains court-martial)

Sooo, when a sub fires a torpedo and pings the target, the target player will be notified in advance && will even be told WHERE the ping comes from? Well, thatll make it bloody hard to hit anything at all

Im just gonna say it, cause it cant be said enough. If you think its a bug, on update day, read the bloody patch notes. Also, i think its lame these rewards were removed, achievements having a reward was one of the better things in this games economy imo, really neat thing

My bad, i indeed didnt understand which skill change you referred to. I personally miss secondary build umikaze A hull most of anything :O

You do not remember that correctly. Neither cruisers nor DDs get such skill now.

Theres too much novelty right now for that to happen. WoWS probably has over 100k active users, and you expect less than 5k to use the auction & bid 25M? I personally am not a huge fan of such auctions, more of limited sales, but i will bid on the coal auction. Not sure precisely how much, id have to clear my inventory a bit to see how much value i got floating around on top of my normal credits

Would it not simply be an issue with aiming? I know many ppl use dynamic crosshairs; i avoid them because of issues like this (and many more)

Yes, though had it and had to actively focus for last stage. Pushed myself to play some german CVs to score cits, so that was decent for a change

Actively catching friendly torpedos. Now dont get me wrong; i think youre a ***self-censored*** if you do that, and i will report anyone i see doing tgat, friend or foe, but ppl actually do this. This behaviour needs to be more strictly monitored tho

The best way to address this specific issue is in fact by seriously lowering the research costs for tier 4 & 6 carrier modules, aswell as for tier 6 & 8 CVs themselves. But thats counter intuitive, so that wont happen

Why simply its the Tirpitz of course. Not the best, but a ton of fun- which is why any newbie looking for a tier 8 BB ends up buying it. IT HAS TORPEDOS!