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OK. a bit more nuance could make miracles Aotearas... The point is a specific shipclass/ nation kill mission is not working. Like we saw with the Emden Challenge (for those who don't know: 1 part was to wreck X DD's, X CR's and X BB's. People went in beserk to the DD's, ruining the games for everyone). The tier req is something we can live with (AFAIK). If they'd just tweak it to "destroy 80 ships." Or 100 for that matter, it would be much more balanced. Still not that easy but you'd avoid your Russian vessel boycot. Please Aotearas: you'll get more done with honey than with salt. Insulting people will get you nowhere. I think we all want the same thing: a nice, maybe difficult but doable challenge. The ARP haters can go on their grinding, don't open Y'port ever and forget about the whole thing. While the fans get a decent chance to complete their collection. That way everybody's happy and Wg will only have more satisfied costumors. In short: my suggestion is to lift this "russian" boat boycot.

Yes. I like the campaigns as well. Not easy. But there's no time pressure as well. and the rewards are nice IMO. I think this a great addition to the game. I'd like to see more campaigns in the future. F.e. specific shiptype campains. My only strong suggestion would be to be able to switch tasks but keep the progress. Otherwise I'd feel "stuck" in a specific task. And there is a task I still don't understand: "spot 2 DD's as a BB" What is meant by that?? Somehow I got 1/2 now. But I don't really understand what's being asked from me... To put it this way: make it a bit more clear for dumb people like me....

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I'm not sure I understand you correctly OP. Does this game have a future? Overall: all games will eventually come to an end. Either loss of interest or something more appealing will show up. Don't know when. But I do know it will happen. As far as the RN issue: I guess it's a matter of liking it or not. I don't like it at all. Frankly I hardly ever seen a RN cruiser in action. Either they're hiding behing rocks, in their smoke clouds or at the bottom of the sea. They are annoying at the very best. Heck I don't even run from them in a DD. I just went straight head on in a knife fight (I wasn't cornered or something or even detected: I just went in) with my hatsuharu against a Leander. We were both full health. OK, he brought me down, but only because he had help. I kicked 90% health off of him. Scored 1 or 2 citadels. Kept agnled and his pingpong balls just bounced off my armor. Heading face on to a cruiser in a DD is something I wouldn't consider apart from those puny vessles. IMO they are the joke of this game. But that's my opinion. Nothing more. Though I can't understand why I respect people like the RN line. As far as MM? Hm. I think it has improved very much. The shiptype and tier distrubution are fair IMO. No I don't like it when I'm with a T8 in a T10 match. But both sides have the same tiers in 99% of the cases. So both sides have equal "handicaps" or advantages. About the IJN DD line reshuffle: I didn't make up my mind yet. I treid Hatsaharu, Fubuki and Kagero. IMO they don't feel that different in play as they did before. Yugumo and Akatsuko I still need to get used to. So I don't have an opinion on those. My problem is: I so don't feel like regrinding Hatsaharu again.... The new update: I can't really put my finger on it but the whole game feels different. Don't know what or why but I have the feeling I'm re-inventing the wheel again. But I'm getting the "nag" of it and I start to like it again. The "censorship?" Do you mean here on the forum? Can't say I agree. Yes IMO the moderators are a bit "oversensitive" and often I don't understand why topics go to the archive. But overall if you put fundend critic it is usually no problem. Overall: I'm still a satisfied custumor. No, not always. When I get frustrated I use the allmighty and ever working "alt-F4" hack and do something else. AKA: you can't win all the times.

I've seen it too. You'll get your hands on it.... "soon."

IMO this question brings me to a yes and no answer. Yes: the DD's are the most stealhty ships so they qualify best to cap. No: because I lost countless battles in which the DD's were obsessed by capping and suicided in the process. Speed boost on and rush to the capzone. Not looking at all if there's backup, finding an infested capzone. And rather than taking a tactical retreat (AKA: live to cap another moment) they stay put in their clouds only to be torped and radared out. Leaving their team with 1 (and often 2 or 3) valuable scouts less. Usually you'll see the outcome of the battle within 5 minutes. How hard is it to just stay in front of the capzone if it's loaded with reds?? You'll give more or less your positing away if you contest it.

Actually I had 2 great moments. 1 battle in which I broke my dmg record and 1 where I earned a solo warrior Actually I had 2 great moments. 1 battle in which I broke my dmg record and 1 where I earned a solo warrior

Interesting statement OP! I like PvP the most: bigger teams, far harder challenge and I like the rewards. Also I always striving to improve my skills. IMO the PvP aren't that toxic as stated. yeah there are some morons there but they're quite rare. I am sollowing the missions as well and did the 5 kills on Coop this week. I had a blast! I really like the more relaxed atmosphere. And heck: the bots are by far not the "Jingles straight line BB's" I took them for at all! IMO the AI is well programmed! Also I met some salty people there as well. I opened a battle "I am a bot. Take me to your leader." One guy found it necassery to report me for that. So IMO saltyness is a poor argument not to play PvP. Communication is always important: just say honostly you're new-ish at PvP if you want to try. I think that will give you understanding. And don't rush into higher tiers at once if you like to venture out in the PvP. But heck: I do love to meet the Coop guys in PvP battles! Please give it a shot or 2. And I think I'll return to Coop once in a while.

Can we blame your ex for this too?? I now have 97 containers collected in total. I'm switching every type in a row. had 3 supers (IIRC) uptill now. So the 5-ish% chance with try your luck seems plausible. I had 1 super though when I selected credits. Got 50 ocean souls instead. So it seems the supercontainer is not related to the containertype you chose in the first place. I more or less expected to get a credit-like SC when it would fall on a credit container choice.

Lol. Before .15 you'd be begging for this result. Any T9-10 match would be punished by a reward of -150K proft standard. No matter how hard you tried, how you tried to play your part for the team benefit you'd always be rewared with the -150 profit penalty (in the best matches that is...). Now I am not part of the 0.000001% population who's having the most lousy game with only 1 Kraken and 0.3 M damage. So I am extremely happy with the newconomy. For this loss I just laugh. 2 mediocre battles and I've won it back. My point: please stop whining OP. There's something at stake and sometimes you just have bad luck....

Lol/ This is so funny. The actual fact is we don't know anything at all... My advise: just wait untill we know something other than the ship will come "soon."

Yeah I saw it after my post. Sorry. My bad.

OK. I might have not put my post as I meant it: I am asking WG. Now I realise it seems I am demanding.. Sorry for that. For the record: I have finished all the missions by now. And By far am I asking to just give them away. Not at all: a good challenge is always nice. But the X nation shiptype destroy is too much depending on chanve rather than skills.... We had the same problem with the Emden challenge: entire games were ruined because people chased DD like madman on order to kill secure them. In that time nobody played DD's in the required tier lvl's anymore. That's no game fumn for anybody IMO! What I am meaning to say (I think I am speaking on behalf of everybody who likes a challenge): nobody will ever argue if a challenge is hard. But make it doable. The destroy X types of ships is too much luck depending. are there any Russian boats in the MM at all? If not, why would I bother at all? Wreck me, get it over with and on to the next match... Or: heck I won't take a Russion boat because I will be focussed out by the Nachi grinders. That can't be the point of this entire game?? Or can it? It is really beyond me why the the req is not "destroy 80" (or heck 160) ships in that tier lvl and get Nachi. So nobody is "safe" and everybody have equal chances! We all love this game and are not afraid of challenges. Even if we don't make it we'd still have the feeling we had a chance. Sorry If I am ranting now. I just don't like to see people suffering. Edit: I am playing a lot of Russian ships on the req lvl. But nobody would want I'd give myself up for free. I'd dare say I'm a bit experienced so it is extremely hard to bring me down in the vast majority of the matches...

OP. Would you mind if I don't understand sh*t about your rant? you have WR stats which I am planning to achieve in my next life. Also you're doing just fine in Tirpitz! I never ever seen a Yamato, Montana or a Bockwurst player who doesn't take a Tirpitz seriously! Just point your bow towards him and go full speed ahead. Either ram it or torp it. The T10 cruisers? Oh let the Zao kite my on extreme range and spam it's HE. It's annoying at best. Just point you @ss to him. Let it damage saturate and he will spend the rest of the game shooting you in vain. The Des Citadelles?? Hahahaha! And the Minotaur: angle your ship @ 1' or 89' and all those puny shells will bounce of nicely (like they all do in the RN proud fleet. Regardless what ship you're playing). Oh. The DD's. Oh yeah: spec Tirpitz on secondaries. Granted: it's not a Bismarck. But in sec range they melt like butter in the sun. AA wise Tirpitz can bite off very well. Tirpitz is vulnarable when focusses out (more than other ships) and other Tirpitzes are making me scared. When I play Tirpitz I notice the reds are litterlay obsess in getting me down. I've won lots of battles because of that. But other than that: nothing else impresses me in this absolute beast of a ship.

Don't obsess with WR that much. Remember: you only have 1/12th part influence on a win. Nothing more you can do that try your utmost best. There are just those periods in which you're simply forbidden to win. If RNG-us is saying "no" and/ or your stuck with a camping potatoe team there only so much you can do. Also there's the "you factor." Everybody will make huge mistakes. I certainly am. Learn from them and become better. If I look @ my WR I'm stuck between 50 and 51% for eons now. When I threaten to get too close to 52, I'll just have 20 or 30 losses in a row. Though I don't have hard evidence to support this: I have the feeling that if you switch shiptypes regularly it somewhat seems to better your odds...

Pray to him wherever you can. There's not a real consensus if actual sacrifices (Virgins, goats, food) will help. Some "tricks" I try in His name is to change shiptypes/ nations regularly. If you don't have His blessing on, say BB's, go to cruisers. In some cases His light will fall on you. Also I've noticed signalflags have a very negative effect on His Mood. I can clearly remember a Sharnhorst battle in which I equicped the ship with the appropriate fire flags, a captain with DE so the fire chance was, IIRC, about 33%. Per shell. I hit about 40 times (bad score I know). And got 1 wretched fire. It to took me 20 self whippings in order to get back into his grace again. Also in my XP: each signal flag means 1 potatoe on my team. Short version: it's the 1 thing you cannot influence in any manner at all. My advise: don't start to doubt yourself. It's of no use. RNG is making this otherwise wonderful game into a blunt gambling bout.

Errrr. This will seem like paradise when you keep playing OP.... There's only 1 way: accept you will have win prohibitions for a string of battles. I've seen gazzilion of battles where I thought "WTF?" How the heck did we just lose 5 ships in 30 seconds? We were way ahead in shipkills/ caps 31 seconds ago?!

Suggestion: please let the progress be somewhat more clear by displaying the numbers....

I like the campaigns! Tonight I am trying out the new update. I think I must get used to the new IJN DD's very much. and it's been made very clear I'll be in a win prohibition (got way too close to 51% WR I know... ) for some time. So I won't chose the win X tasks for the coming time....

Excellent post! I'd like to get an offer for a Sims in port. Didn't buy it when it was out and now I regret it.

Obviously I am not participating in the other lottery. But for this 1 I'd like to apply!

They sent you a Yamato battlecake???

Any "non-soon" ETA that anyone knows of?

Good post OP. Not to mock you but we've been over this numerous of times. To put it short: the overall consensus is cruisers should play support roles. That way the jack/master traits shine the most. Also cruiser roles is changing going up the tiers. In the lower tiers you can get away with solo yolo tours. In the higher tiers you'll be punished for that. 1 point I do agree and I have put that in many other threads: the capping is IMO a too dominant factor. Too much nicely raging battles have been cut short by that 1 "sneaky DD" who managed to lay still in the cap for 3 minutes. Though I agree cap pressure should remain in order to counter the already huge camping problem IMO it should play a less significant role. My suggestion would be to increase the needed cap time by going up the tiers (no I don't mean 20 minutes @T10.).

I don't like to see people suffering. I'm spamming Russian cruisers like hell. I even ask in team chat if enemies are grinding for Nachi so if the situation appears I'll happily suicide for them. There aren't that many russian boats in the higher tiers since the ARP mission. IMO that sucks. the Nachi grinders have less chance and the Russian ship grinders are being stalled. My strong suggestion is to change the mission to 20 IJN, 20 USN and 40 non IJN/USN ships. Or heck: 50. So that way nobody is "safe," there still is a challenge and people don't get burned out by tunnelvisioning only to russian vessels....