Shirakami_Kon

Who will save the frog though?

Was nice to be with you all here. Sayonara.

OG Belfast, T61...

I say we get some actual real contribution to the community from Fastmotion by flooding and overtaking his forum.

Give it a few weeks after the forum disappearing and we'll still miss him even if you two are right. Specially those that have been here long enough to remember SkybuckFlying being around before he got banned will understand that no matter how much someone may annoy you sometimes in here you end up noticing when it's not there.

I have similar feelings, I don't really personally know anyone in the list or played with them, but I've been here long enough that I recognize and feel as I knew every one of the mentioned in the list. I just remember meeting with Copium in the same team in randoms once, where we had a nice match, and winning one of the generous rewards of the christmas event that Lup3s and others organized every year, guess we won't have another round of that almost tradition now. Feels sad to lose this place even if I wasn't the most active participant myself, it was still interesting to check all the discussions we had here, where I learned basically all I know about the game. Not sure how they pretend to pass a chat without any structure as a forum over Discord, but well... In any case, I also want to join in a last farewell to all users that we usually meet here that will read. It was nice to spend time and talk to you all. Fair seas to you all.

I... I see...

It's not about being an old timer or not. I use Discord daily already, I checked their excuse for a forum replacement as Seraphice asked us to do and I still know it's not in any way close to the forum we have here. But serves their purpose of cutting down any form of criticism they get, so... For my part, I pretty much feel like OP. There's no point in bothering anymore. See you guys. It was nice while it lasted. Fair seas out there.

I have a Max Immelman that I was willing to throw in a trade if it amounted to enough value to get another free ship even if some tiers lower, but looking at the list of options you can get in exchange, (even if the discount value was actually good enough to begin with) I don't know why would even bother. The idea behind the possibility of trading some ships sounds great, the implementation we're getting is... yikes.

I don't have any submarines or will to touch that game mode, but I'm curious if it is possible to play submarines in there and see if there's any interaction at all between the mines and subs. The least I'd expect from WG at this point is that subs become immune to mines just by diving below periscope depth under the logic of mines not reaching deep enough under the surface or some other bs like that. I'll be genuinely surprised if they allow the new carriers to screw on those abominations for real just by dropping a mine field on top of their head so you can at least... I don't know... grief another kind of griefer? Man, isn't the new content and new ways to play the game with it extremely interesting and engaging?

What do you mean plain bad design? You must be joking. How can you possibly not see yet the flawless design into having to sail forward in a mine field and not appreciate how your excellent ship based ASW armament to clear the mines in front of you in your way is all located on the stern of your ship? You're clearly unable to grasp how great minds work.

I seem to detect some inconsistency here between your comment and your avatar.

Imagine WG really expecting a lot of the playerbase to willingly expose themselves to griefing. Anyone sane would think that at this point they finally played themselves into publicly showing how much the silent minority enjoys CVs, but we all know deep down already that spreadsheet knows better than us and there's no hiding from it just how much we are ABSOLUTELY LOVING this amazing content, so... What can I say. Hooray!

I only wish WG remembered Mogami also has 155 mm guns when they buffed the ridiculous 36 seconds battleship turret traverse on Omono to 30 (hooray! now you *only* feel like a Kremlin with those 155 mm guns), but did nothing for Mogami.

For cruisers as others have said already, Mainz is the best premium currently available for ops. Bayard can be great too and if you were there and got Kutuzov back in the day is another great choice. For BBs you want something fully secondary built. Brandenburg and Tirpitz being the best currently available. I'd say in that order, but it's really up to personal preference with what main gun arrangement you prefer. If you happen to have a Massachussets around it's also great. Some DDs can be fun to play and made work, but are commonly just overshadowed heavily by the ships mentioned earlier. I'd recomend just avoiding CVs in operations. Not because of the usual "CV bad, yadda yadda", but because unless you're a literal god at the class they are usually just a hindrance really in the ops format. Hope this helps.

As long as I can maybe trade the CVs I got randomly for something actually useful I'll be happy, but we'll see.

Does anyone know if there's any option in the game settings that affects the splashes on water? The ones when a shell hits the water, instead of a ship. I find myself often hating it in situations where an enemy ship ended up heavily focused, specially near some German BB, all those splashes everywhere near the ship you try to aim at in those situations end up in... well, you not seeing most likely. I'd rather turn the effect off as nice as it looks and all. Anyone knows if there's any setting in the game that affects it? I would appreciate knowing. Or maybe if WG could be bothered (even if unlikely) adding it if not. Thanks.

Yeah, I found it too. Thanks everyone for the help.

Oh, I see. Thank you both, I'll check it.

Me, myself and I make a pretty darn good team if I do say so myself.

Shooting stuff, as hard as they are trying to screw it and let slip bugs about it.

Also, did everyone notice how effective the AB nerf was in reducing BBs in queue there? I haven't seen one in queue since.

Now you have asymmetric battles, which are made even more to brawl than Brawls, ironically. You're not even put against actual people that may know what they are doing and yet you don't fail to see that one BB sniping in the back for some reason. At this point nothing will change that, some people just see the PT icon show a 1 and some shells flying their way and will leave the map. You'd even think that at least them driving a secondary BB means they'll push, but no. Not like the guy that also rushes in and dies is better but even those feel more rare at least.

I have to give it to the assymmetric battles mode that it brings the carry harder meaning to a whole new level when you get 2 bots in your own team that just yolo in and die 4 minutes in and one of these Schlieffen guys that drives it like he stole it.