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Some might even go as far as saying the Exeter is the T5 Stalingrad

You can play games while at gulag? Teach me comrade!

Compare it with the Emerald and it becomes even more laughable. P2W much?

Easier? Domination mode is already too difficult to understand for a lot of players let alone this funky PUBG-kinda game mode. I forsee even more frustrating losses because in this game mode the match can be decided in the first few minutes when your team is reluctant to get to the boosts. EZ GG

How is it wargamings fault that you cannot fix your internet and ruining the product for a decent number of their customers by not doing so?

#bringbacktheoldislandsofice

Not everyone is a unicum but seeing people with over 5000 battles playing their T10 boat with 25k average dmg and a 30%WR is just mindboggling. I'd gladly help them to improve but those stubborn players will gently tell me to p!ss off if I offer them advice. So call me an elitist but the hightiers would be better off without them. At lower tiers you will have people derping around and the game will still last 20mins. At higher tiers a single ship lost after 2 mins (and that happens almost every game it seems) often has a snowball effect resulting in the much talked about landslide games. Having people with atleast some understanding of the game will prevent this. Ruining the fun of 11 others for your own "PHUN" means you're just being a selfish little c*nt.

This is why. "you have been reported."

Since people like to wave around the server stats of the TX cruisers saying "See?! See?! Stalingrad overperforms!", this is the top10% of every ship except stalingrad. Since the latter is sailed by the top 10% for the most part anyway, ofcourse the overall stats are skewed. So I compared the overall stalingrad stats with the top 10% of other ships. And what do we see? Surprise, surprise, almost the same. If you look at the top 10 players for each cruiser you will see that every other cruiser has players who do way more damage compared to the top 10 stalingrad players. TLDR: If you get rekt by a stalingrad its not because you faced a superior ship, its because you faced a good player that will probably also rek you in a DM, Zao or Hindi.

FTFY

Man I must have been doing it wrong for all the time I've been playing this game. Playing for the win, playing to survive.... **** that! Suiciding xp farming is where it's at!

Hot damn do I feel privileged for getting more xp and credits for not having to play against bots all the time.

First of all I'm not an expert in BB play and certainly not a Yamato expert (which I also just unlocked a few days ago. C ya never izumo!). But as far as I can tell from experiencing competent Yamato players they always seek for opportunities to punish broadside. By doing so they position themselves in such a way that they create crossfires on enemy ships. Sometimes its a good idea to push with the team and to support them at the caps by tanking and your presence as a heavy hitter. But in other instances it could be helpful if you'd sit in a spot where you create a nasty angle on, for example, that one Rader cruiser. And IMHO multiple BBs in one spot isn't really helpful. Getting the right feel for positioning takes experience and a lot of games. In my most conformable ships I know exactly where to be and what to do to be effective but in the Yamato I'm also struggling. But once you've played every map a few times with a certain ship you start to recognize patterns and good spots. So my number 1 advice would be, get out there and try different approaches to a battle. See what works and what doesn't. :)

I agree with what you wrote, although you can use the smoke detection penalty as a "oh *edit, a ship is really close" warning. And to be honest, the hightier player base is so bad these days that blind smoke shooting isn't really a thing anymore. Most people I encounter sailing kurfurst's still need to discover what this weird thing called "hydro" is.

Weegee "it's not a bug, it's a feature."

Although I don't like ichase this video helped me in my Yamato grind.

@Redcap375 The stalingrad isn't some sort of holy grail of ships in which you can do everything you want. It has all the strengths as described above and the same goes for its weaknesses. Previous season we all said worcesters were OP. Season before that yueyang was OP. Season before that radars were OP. I'm just not sure what you're getting at. Are you saying that having them is an insta win? Or that once your clan has them you're gonna field 6 of them because you can? Like some clans did at the start of this season. I doubt you will have a lot of success since people adjusted to dealing with stalins quite quickly. I just want the people shouting it's OP to feel the weaknesses it has. Now they just see the damage it can do if not played against correctly. To be honest I'm not even scared of a stalingrad. You know exactly where it is so I can angle accordingly. I'm far more scared of a zao popping up in my flank.

Asking questions

Cleveland is awesome. So is Seattle. Position well and you shall have great damage games and salty tears from the enemies will flow in rivers HUEHUEHUEHUEHUE

@Shoot_Him_____ If you cannot defeat stalingrads in the enemy line up you dont deserve to win since you didnt play well enough. Altough the average player who owns a stalingrad is pretty decent, so it will not be easy.

These are the players that make sure T10 battles last only 10 minutes on average. "back in the day" the matches lasted way longer because there where no people in high tiers who had zero experience. Not saying the gameplay was more fun back then but seeing the stats of the average player at high tier today makes me sad.

Can someone please tell me what is fun about this gamemode? It adds randomness to a game that has too much randomness already. Having "perfect" weatherconditions is fine as it is. Keep this stormthing to operations where it belongs. But I guess some will say it looks cool and is fun because its unpredictable. Well, that is exacly the problem. That unpredictability. I mean it is looking great and the devs have really done a good job implenting weather into the game. But in randoms it can flip won matches by being an advantage to the losing team and not based on skill or good play but by sheer luck of being wellpositioned when that thing lands. That is a bad gamemechanic imo. It is really hard to calculate, predict and adjust your moves to your enemies' moves when you cannot see them until theyre in your face. This is exactly why arms race was such a "succes". It is fun for a couple of games but then people return to randoms. Now sadly I cannot evade these storms so I'll have to make the best of them. But so far every game in them has been feces.

Care to elaborate? I see you have plenty of experience playing the yueyang so you can probably judge best. Oh wait...