GulvkluderGuld

Good post. Will be missing you and the forum. No way I move to the cesspool that is discord. Thanks for many good discussions over the years. Game has changed too and the game i loved playing has already died and I already quit, but was keeping up here hoping or better times. well, RIP. Likely my last post, so thank you all the fish!

Doing this with 3 days warning in the middle of summer holidays...very similar to how politicians showes down unpopular legislation under the radar. Not cool. Secondly how are we supposed to access the development blog? Isn't that part of the forum? Third - Goodbye. Been here since the beginning and the forum turned into the best and most interesting way to keep up with the game and have a laugh. With that gone I'm not expecting to keep the game either. Over the last year or two it also stopped being a battleship game like the old days so maybe it is for the better. The game I liked already died. RIP WOWs.

Play tier 8 instead, its comparatively better now. Or Ranked. I still played my asashio occasionally before simply quit playing.Tier 9 being ruined was a major contributor to why i quit. No reason to complain in so many words when WG only understand €€€ reasons.

Looking forward to see how WG will solve this one.... WGs protected class getting oneshot on droves? WG patented sledgehammer response: NERF THE CULPRIT!!! Dev: But sir, we're not allowed to nerf CVs! WG: then....BUFF CVs!! Oh wait....

Already exists in the form of Operation Defense of Newport station. It doesn't surivive a reality check with the playerbase. Old style / hard mode had an Izumo or Lexington as the final boss accompagnied by tier 8 and 9s. From sheer stubbornness I remember playing it 30-40 times and winning....once vs the Izumo. The lexington ran to the corner and was impossible to sink with a tier 6 CV.

I stopped playing, but watching this slow motion trainwreck unfold on the forum is more entertaining anyway

You really should direct your attention to the second part of the post which was the relevant to the topic and part of the reason I dont care. Nonetheless I'll answer your curiousity if that is what it is - it is possible to keep track of a game that you dont currently enjoy without it having gotten under your skin. I spent a lot of time and money on WoWs and might still return if the meta would change (unlikely but possible). The forum (dev blog) is a good source of information (and fun sarcastic topics) about the current state of the game.

Luckily I've stopped caring and quit playing. That said, 1-5% sounds pretty neglectible.

Basically the platform is so overpowered it's nearly a poor mans Jean Bart at tier 8, but in a cruiser slot. On a tier where cruisers dont get heals, Cherbourgh gets one. Of course that requires some pretty extreme balancing of the offensive potential. Thus the awful sigma, dps and traverse. Doesnt make it anymore fun to play than a Colorado line BB (good armor and guns, terrible mobility)

You wish. That perk is only available to cruisers.

Skyrim Crusader Kings Borderlands games Just to mention af few of the more fun and good games out there. Sure its not warships, but they're fun. Didnt even notice its been 1-2 months since i played more than a couple WoWs games. Sorry, not maybe not what you want to hear.

Since 9 in 10 games is infected by CoVid and half the remaining games are infested with submerged parasites, you waste your time friend. I already quit playing anything higher than tier 8 about half a year ago. And I've not played WoWs for a month or two now. The only thing left I enjoyed was ranked. When WG forced you to grind through tier 5 bronze to get to the fun silver, I quit that too. I rather play randoms with 1-2 subs than being forced to play through bronzehell on tier 5. And now WG allows CVs and Subs in Ranked, the surface ships will be reduced to targets competing for the record time in a "just dodge" minigame. I play other games now instead. Fun games. You should try that for a while too.

Currently just started grinding the tier 9 Takashi. AP seems underwhelming to say the least. HE volleys do consistently more damage than AP on a similar target since I've yet to score a citadel even on flat broadside CLs. Shimantos, Neptunes, Edinbourghs, Omonos, clevelands - it doesn't matter. I'm forced to the conclusion WG added AP only as a bait trap since its 100% always better to fire HE.

Couldnt agree more. But I do expect it to get worse for DDs. If only WG will make subs not go faster than 30 knots submerged. They're already rediculous. And just maybe make it possible to dodge torps (it is presently, but alliance looks like too much). They already have made dodging impossible and wouldnt surprise me if russian and french SS when added will go 40-50 knots and actually outrun some torpedoes!

A single volley did enough damage to oneshot a DD and apparently the reload is around 30s. That sounds like an overestimate or do you think I'm still underestimating that SS? Classic WG. Create a problem, sell the solution 2 years later - WG will sell premium DDs with hydrophone "radar" that can actually spot subs. Kinda doubt DD players will drop so hard. They're still too fun to play and subs too one-dimensional (although with Alliance I can see myself being tempted by the Dark Side). If WG succeeds in creating many more games without any DD (its already quite common), nobody will spot or cap anymore. Your average sub player like to camp behind allies afterall.

This is all beside the point. My point is the the detonation protection is a joke and might aswell be removed. It is bad implementation. I dont care if they remove the system og make a single volley that hits within say 1 second unable to detonate a ship, but if such a system is put into the game, it should be an effective system that is easy to understand. Then again it's not the only such system in the game, its almost as if WG have a track record: Karma system, AA mechanics, Sub detection mechanics just to mention a few. Introduce a problem - sell the solution.

This is exactly the issue. From a user perspective the protection is too small to be noticed and its presence is highly misleading.

Of course - deto flag sale would drop if it did

mate i know its ridiculous, but i made a similar post about a month ago about this mechanic. My full hp DD got detonated by a single CV drop. Got hit by exactly 2 bombs. The first hit did just enough damage to get ne below 75%, second one detonated the ship. Spent some time figuring it out but the 75% protection isn't worth the paper it's written on.

Get the tier 10 for yearly SC and completionism? That's my reason anyhow. As a line it's like a worse version of the CA line. Shimanto wasn't so bad in ranked where it's always top tier. Had quite a few 100k+ games playing it like i would play the CAs. I specced mine for torps and land a few each game, decent fire chance and ambush potential on DDs makes it a decent glasscannon. It would be playable even uptiered if not for the incredibly slow shells and lack of gun range. Good AA huh? Thats a good joke. Was expecting the tier 9 to be tough due to MM. Currently trying to decide if I should just FXP it to get a port queen Yodo. As it is I get 100k games when top tier and < 20k when bottom tier since there is 100% always CVs and 5 BBs targeting the CL first.

Fixed it for you. DDs going extinct replaced by WG's new pampered class.

Tromp already exists

That matches pretty well with my Småland experience - except for the braindead speedboost. Even with that, not much hp left after 20 more secs of getting shot. Turrets breaking too, and engines - pretty much the DD fun and engaging DD experience of being spotted. Thumbs up for taking up the challenge! 5,8 isnt so bad - never realized, playing IJN torpboats all the time i'm not regrinding Akizuki.

Guess I never met one who plays it like you. Out of curiousity, how is your experience when opposing smoke-DDs bait you into shooting, knowing to use other friendlies to keep you permaspotted (20s) once they smoke? Or just CVs in general? FYI I regard Olands as almost free Xp pinatas in my Asashio. Outspotted and out-smoked - its not the DD dpm that matters but the support

You must enjoy a challenge and that is some great advice. I'm far less charitably inclined: For the purpose of carrying games, I found tier 5-7 are utter garbage and tier 8 none too good when compared to the tried and tested Japanese lolibotes or pretty much any other DD line you care to name - new german and even the lower tier italien line included. And maybe I'm still pissed from the first time a half hp BB pushed around my island and facetanked all my torps without batting an eye before blowing my full hp visby out of the water - still on a quarter hp. Anyway they are very easy to outplay for any dd with smoke of similar skill.