GarrusBrutus

The logic to all these unlogical things is game balance. If a Yamato could one-shot everything we'd soont have 12 v 12 Yamato games.

What do i get?

@Execute0rder66 I am missing an option...

BB(abies) - A nickname for your typical average WoWs-BB main, the largest group of players to whom Wargaming seems to cater the game.

Cant have such firestarters in World of Bbabies.

In the eyes of the ignorant player everyone is a cheater.

Judging by the average cheat accusator I'd say it's most likely the latter.

Hahaha yeah I kind of expected it already. ;) and with that logic, IFHE might indeed be the better solution. But strictly looking at armor values you're up against (such as most bbs you face in TX) you don't gain that much extra pen at the cost of a lot of potential fires. As I see dfens has elaborated on already. It does seem like a personal preference and not a "be-all-end-all" kind of thing. For example, I know for a fact that John_the_ruthless from O7 doesn't use IFHE on worcester as I saw him stream a couple of days ago. I'd suggest give both a try and see what nets you the best results! In the end you're the best judge of your own results, right? Ps. I took last stand because I often kite open water and I don't want to get my rudder stuck after I just repaired f.e. Necessary? Not really. But I hate dying from silly things like "my rudder is stuck" or "my engine got broken".

IFHE isnt that viable anymore as it ruins your firechance.

Dont look at wows-numbers.com. It doesnt give you a complete picture. Or would you say that Salem is in dire need of a buff? Better watch weekly stats here: http://maplesyrup.sweet.coocan.jp/wows/shipstatswk/svr/eu/ship_20210320.html

Not WoWs itself in particular but the people I got to know through WoWs over the years, yes.

Punishing players for bad performance? WG: We dont do that here.

To give you an example. During the last two new ranked seasons I've been called everything ranging from cheater or camper to noob by a wide variety of individuals. But I'll let my ranked results speak for themselves. I know what I am doing, so if someone disagrees on how I am doing things then good for them. Haters gonna hate. Most of the time they haven't got the slightest idea how to play themselves. When you start to embrace these kind of "compliments" or fanmail as El2azer would say, they only bring joy instead of grief. At the moment getting toxic comments is almost an integral part of playing wows and its up to us to not letting them "win" by being affected whatsoever by such comments. Even if some super unicum goes on a rant in chat. So what? I've even done so myself at times. I won't deny it. Often to just let go some of my frustration and not to make the other players feel bad. Those other players will likely never change anyway. My feeling when I explain how did what I did to a novice player I killed and they say: "STFU, you're obviously cheating":

Long story. ;) But in the end its a double edged sword: You won't read the potatoes raging at you out of pure ignorance, but you'll also keep yourself from having a teammate that does try to cooperate via chat as well as funny banter going on. And honestly, if potatoes blaming teammates for their own inadequacies triggers you that much, I wonder how you made it to 15k battles (not meant as an insult, just genuine amazement). This happens almost every lost ranked match. It's never the fault of the backline dmg farmer but always the fault of the dd. Whatever, potatoes gonna potate. :)

To trade positively you want to create a situation where you have support and the enemy DD doesn't. You want to make the fight as uneven as possible. So rather him coming towards you than vice versa. The thing I see happen way to often is this: a friendly dd goes straight towards a cap at the start of the match and gets into an unfavorable gunfight. Instead of eating a couple thousand hp of damage and escape without firing its guns, this particular dd player engages and loses all his hp. He then cries about how his team didn't support him. If the trade seems unfavorable (enemy DD has friendlies nearby or is in a kiting position) DO NOT engage. Rather wait for, or create, a favorable situation. In specific dd vs dd gunfights its always good to know your enemies dpm, his armor scheme (for example AP is brutal against khaba), his consumables (does he have Mbrb and/or heals?) and his standard manoeuvrability/detection range. For example, if you're in a shimakaze it wouldn't be beneficial for you to seek a 1v1 against a smaland. It outdpms and outheals you by a countrymile. But if you can create a situation where you ambush it from an unexpected angle whilst the smaland is already engaged, you might have a chance to kill it. That is the difference in skill: look for, and create, situations that give you the edge over the opponent. Use terrain, use friendly spotting, use your ships' tools, use everything you can. Remember that there are more "tools" in the game than you think. I'll give another example: One of my favorite DDs is the Udaloi. It's a real multitool gunboat dd. I've specced it full gunboat with gives it a detection range of about 9km. Some might say that it's a weakness compared to low det range DDs, but you can also use this feature to your advantage. Once you get spotted you know there is a DD relatively close. So instead of keep going forward and engaging in close quarter combat vs f.e. a smaland you already start to kite. If the enemy DD is dumb and opens fire, you will always trade favorably as you're already turned away. Now, does this work every match? Ofcourse not. But the "use my own detection range to know where the enemy DD is" principle works most of the time. Same goes for fighting against DDs that do not have smoke. If I know the enemy DD doesn't have smoke (either not at all or you know it's on cooldown), then there is an opportunity for you to seek a fight. Once the enemy engages, you smoke up, he stays detected by friendlies and voila: EZ damage.

Wargaming: thank you for your suggestion. Here, have some epicentre.

Then I don't understand what exactly is "unplayable" about such matchups? It requires you to think and play differently. To play as a team and cooperate.

Guess you were a BB then? Because I don't mind such matches once in a while. My radar mino relishes them.

@El2aZeR do you have a Halland-getting-gaped-clip somewhere?

I actually did. But perhaps you missed it. I said that the game is ever changing with each update. Maybe the controls will change again in the future, who knows? One thing I can assure you is that the game will not stay exactly the same for a long time... It has been this way since the first update. New ships, new balance, new mechanics, etc. Etc.

Your opening statement was just hilarious. A player that is statistically among the worst, says he thinks he is... not bad. A severe case of lack of self knowledge. You reap what you sow. Either we are all c*nts or your choice of words was poor.

He isn't. There is a difference between expressing yourself and proclaiming to be knowledgeable when in fact your not. I have the basic human right to express my feelings and thoughts and opinions about for example quantum mechanics but I know that my knowledge is very limited and I should therefore not make claims that surpass my level of knowledge.

So we agree that you're the worst player here and should therefore not throw around silly statements such as "machine gun ships are overpowered" as you clearly havent got the slightest idea about game balance?