159Hunter

No

Amen to this. If you want to rant about OP ships, at least NAME them...

I lose them from time to time, but not as often as you guys describe here. Also, my rear turret seems to be the most prone to it :p

Really, a dd that sails straight with planes nearby is a stupid as a CA sailing broadside to a BB. So all you have to do is spam some torps in the puff and you'll hit? And you know this from your extensive expererience in CVs? So I agree, maybe you need to learn about CV mechanics before exlaining all CV captains how they should play their ship...

So then, you want to choose freely where you spawn? Or you want to select out of a number of spawn points? What if two people choose the same point? What if you entire teams chooses left and you choose right? ... Too many problems with this, just leave it as it is right now.

Seriously, are you making two posts to complain about one thing? If it bothers you that much, play DD yourself

Really, you just try to twist all words / ignore those you can't twist. You mentioned in your first post: torping a DD in smoke. ( see second post I quoted ) I then repy: you can try to torp them when they smoke up ( aka you can still see them pop in and out of smoke ) . And then you agree with me in your second post ( see first post I quoted ). But rather than agreeing you'll add another phrase ( then one before the bold phrase ) saying something I did not say. Of course a CV will torp a DD out of smoke... You sir should go play some cv games , or pay more attention to cvs playing ( and not those enemy cvs coming to hurt your ship, but to what they are doing an entire game ). If not, just leave this topic

Except, not all planes on a CV carry torps, so you'll need to have a set there. But I agree, if you see a DD smoke up you can torp, otherwise it's just not worth it. Cause shooting at those tracers might work for a cruiser, but torping blind like that won't work. So that means that DDs are also OP, cause people are posting topics on them as well?

Comparing Yamato and Midway with regards to decapping is just bad actually. Neither class ( CV - BB ) is well suited for it, the decapping classes imo are CA and DD. However, the Yamato does have the advantage that it can decap every 30 seconds, the Midway needs to take into account the turnover time of his planes and has less decap options. The Midway can decap all caps, the Yamato can only decap those depending on his position. Also, not all capping happens by a DD, if a Midway has to decap a tier IX or X CA, gl with defensive AA... Yamato: can control a zone permanently and thus deny acces to that zone, a Midway can do this to a lone BB, but only for the duration of his attack run: if he keeps planes circling they'll die to AA - fighters. As soon as he engaged, he needs to reload and wait another few minutes before being able to influence that zone again. Also, if I'm not mistaking: a Yamato can also " focus down important enemies " and a Yamato can also cover substantial portions on a map, depending on how good the captain positions his ship. A Midway can strike anywhere, yes, but only if the ships aren't grouped together. In that case AA will deny him that option. Yamato can shoot anything in range, regardless if they are grouped together or not. As for: CVss dealing three times the damage corresponding BBs deal. Guess you need to look at your statistical data again: average damage in Midway is 114k, average damage on Yamato is 85 k. So yes, they deal more damage and no, peope are not asking for an average damage ok 245 k on a Midway ( allthough your xp in such a game would still be inferior to a Yamato with 85 k for some reason ... )

CV players will not whine if the lose all ships to a fleet. What we do complain about a lone BB nullifying an entire attack run.

Free flags? Free silver, free doubloons? If that's not enough of an incentive for you: don't play random.

Suck with it? So who should we compare people to: you, Flamu ...? This is a game, people play it for fun. If they don't like CV they will not play it, same goes for BB, DD and CA. Just give up already, cause you'll ruin even more games. As for premium; the least you should use is premium damage control, premium hydro could be usefull if you feel you run out of them often.

We've got enough potatoes in ranked as it is now. We don't need even more by forcing people to play all classes.

We need more tier VII premiums for ranked, so keep em coming WG

I agree. Also, part of the reason why CA will always pick the AA modules ( fighter, defensive fire ) is because they have no other usefull options. Especially for the defensive AA, so picking that one is a no brainer. From what I can see a lot of high tier US CA will also pick fighter over radar ( for what reason, I have no idea ).

A solo NC shot down 41 of my Midway planes today, I attacked him in two waves of two squads and still they fell like flies. How on earth is this balanced AA? He didn't even have cruiser support and wasn't excessively manoeuvering, so my planes went straight in...

No I don't, and because I didn't play 500 games, I didn't get free goodies? BTW, that 500 games was known from the start as well, so where's the deception?

How did they deceive us? We got free goodies and all we had to do was play the game as always...

It's not because you don't like these ships, that others can't. And those that do might want to buff them? As BB mafia do constantly :p

First battle of the day, got the same issues.

Honestly, I'm glad there are so many islands. That gives you more options on how to approach an objective. The most dull map imo is Ocean ( aka map without islands ).

If WG can't figure out a way to avoid this + balance MM with (normal) divisions, then they might as well remove them from random games alltogether.

I know bogue in AS is a thing, same goes for Lexington. But most other cv players I encounter are in strike / balanced (high tier US ) anyways. Now if that means you occasionaly encounter an AS CV then you will do less damage. It will take you a lot longer, and more positioning to do the damage, but you'll still do damage ( remember that Bogue in AS is 'special' as at that tier the amount of ammo is just ridiculously high, a lot less of that at higher tiers ). Remember, a CV is not all about damage, you need to do spotting as well. Look at team battles, most cvs might attempt a DD strike, or maybe a lone BB. But otherwise all they do is spot ( because AA is ridiculous ). So yeah, they might not end up at the top of their team, but they are a valuable asset for the team.

I still fail to see what's wrong with an AS CV. It's annoying: yes, it will reduce your damage potential: yes, but it does add an extra layer to CV gameplay. If you remove the AS setup, you might as well remove the balanced setups cause they'll be useless, and then we're all in strike? What fun is that, all in max damage mode? These loadouts will at least give CV players a choice on how they want to play.

Removing AS loadouts will not balance out CVs. The AS loadouts can be anoying, but they are in no way the unbalance for a CV ( with maybe the one exception of the AS Hak that is more balanced than AS ). If someone can explain me why those loadouts are removing balance from CV game: plz do, cause I don't see it. - Yes they will annoy a strike CV, but only from time to time, - They hardly do any damage, so the CV player will need to play more to gain xp, - They are the only usefull setup in the heavy AA based Team matches ( cause you can't approach those ships anyays ) So explain to me what the unbalance is and how CVs will be balanced after AS loadouts are removed.