GarrusBrutus

Is that the infamous "balance" everyone is talking about?

Rumour has it that all the good players are in coop.

inb4 the funpolice shows up to close the thread and point at the massive pile of chaos that is the cv rework thread.

How sad is it that as a game developer you cannot balance things in four frikkin years.

That is like someone saying "Who cares that that guy killed you behind a wall? He kills you, next you kill him. Circle of kills." I'm sorry but that is just utter nonsense. It is useless discussing something that is broken with you because to you its apparently just part of the game. To me it is not. And I sense I am not the only one. Watch this and tell me all those enemy players had "fun".

What is wrong with 2 or 3 CVs? Do you have a couple of hours? You are litteraly the 0.00001% who does not mind getting his behind gaped by constant waves of planes. "they played better than me" wut.... ive been killed by 40% new players because they were in a toy that could just crap on me no matter what i did.

What I dislike is wargamings inability to attract new players to the game without boosting them into the hightiers immediately and without properly educating them about the basic game mechanics and strategies. Yes, I know it's an arcade game but the steady influx of more and more 35-41% wr players is detrimental to the quality of the game. It drives the longtime players away because they can compare the quality of the matches of today with those of a few years back. It is also the main issue that made me uninstall the game. As a veteran and unicum player there is no challenge left. 95% of the opponents I face tend to be beginners and/or low skilled players. Having a good game is no longer a satisfaction. "but ranked and clanbattles? There you will find players of your own skill lever right?" yeah, but after 13 seasons of ranked and 5 seasons of clanbattles that also becomes repetitive. Playing against the same clans in clanbattles and playing with atrocious and selfish players in ranked really sucks the life out of me. In my opinion the game is on a slippery slope downwards. We will get more and more content to grind and to pay for but the overall quality of the game will only get worse. That is unless you love 6 minute roflstomps that is..... But it's not my cup of tea.

Think of matchmaking what you will, albeit it's totally random or programmed. If you have played thousands of games yet have a winrate of 45% or below, it's not the matchmaker that is the cause of your loss streaks. Claiming it is rigged to have you lose games, says more about you as a player than anything else.

Ofcourse it is possible. But you can put in as much time and effort as you want, it will not change. Why? Because $$$. Wargaming makes money of people trying to skip that part of the game. Removing that means less $$$ for WG.

That is your choice. You could use it to avoid having to sail stock ships but you chose not to. Indirectly you did by talking about protected matchmaking for stock ships. That will never happen because people can rig MM in their favour by always playing stock ships. Nobody argued about that? That is the whole point of this thread. Players feel matchmaking is unfair. But it isnt. Players who say matchmaking is unfair want this: Now this isnt fair, it is equality. This is fair:

if i could influence MM in my favour by sailing stock ships then I would. But obviously you cant. So maybe start to think about using your free xp to unlock modules once you grind a new ship? @SEN_SEN_Channel_Portugue

33% after 5000 battles....

It was really nice to hear all the museum staff talk so passionately about the history. Really made the experience a whole lot better.

Yep, usually once per session.

Filthy rich state patters! They ruin this game!

I havent tried range mod myself but i can imagine it being very powerful due to the great shell arcs when you compare them with other CLs. As opposed to the minotaur and the worcester the smolensk cannot equip radar, which is a very powerful tool to pull game deciding moves. So in order to defeat the enemies the only thing she has got to offer her team is melting big targets. But that is MM dependant: MM with very few BBs and the smolensk will struggle greatly to be gamedeciding. Sure you will rack up great dmg numbers, but in order to kill one tier ten battleship you already need to do about 150k dmg. Go figure. ---- not saying she is inferior or OP or yada yada yada, but it is evident that even mediocre player can rack up huge damage numbers without much effort in the smolensk while going "hurr durr 300k and i lost, i wonder why, must be my noob team" on a consistent basis. Just out of interest go look at all the tier 10 cruisers on wows-numbers.com and sort for "maximum damage". The smolensk has been out...what? a couple of weeks? and already hit 400 k. Most cruisers that have been in the game for years havent reached that. It will be only a matter of time before some lunatic does a 500k game with it in the perfect smolensk-environment. -----

Most people started playing when there were only USN and IJN lines. The game had plenty of depth then because amongst others I fell in love with it. Adding more and more ships, gimmicks, game modes and more didn't change the core of the gameplay but made it harder for newer players to catch up and "git gud".

@RAHJAILARI 20km Shima. Problem solved?

People use the report system to vent. "Oh no I got reported, what am I gonna do?" said no one ever....

Inb4 5 Kiev setup.

I don't think we understand each other. Atleast I don't understand your answer. :p You're talking about tier difference while I'm talking about mm monitor being busted.

MM only counts the ships the players use in the battle. So it isn't accurate. People might have played thousands of games and 1 game in their current ship. If they lost that: 0% wr. So the presentation is skewed and doesn't say much about the teams abilities. I always wonder why people use that anyway. What advantage does it give? Just play the game and kill everyone. :)

Below is my build. I do not use SI since the last heal isnt that useful. It will most of the times only give you about 2k hp back because of the AP dmg you take. RPF is really useful for DD hunting and estimating incoming torpedoes. DemoEx because muhhhh fire. Incoming fire alert since you will be island camping a lot and people tend to try to lob shells over it from 20km away.

Seems like it isnt for most of the players.