Shirakami_Kon

Majestic.

I teamkilled once after someone attempted to teamkill me first. I ended up first on my team, what's wrong with that? (Ending up first of the team I mean, not teamkilling).

Thank you for sharing this, sir. You made my day.

I might be a weird one then. I always have more problems with planes (from actual decent CVs at least) that with actual ship launched torps, even japanese (or more specificly Kamikaze) ones. I remember playing a lot of Kongo some time ago in a tier flooded of Kamikazes when there was the mission to get them and I dodged those torps all day long back then with my Kongo. I'm really not scared at all of Kamikazes in what seems and even more maneurable ship.

Happens from time to me. It's usually BBs that complain so much, they look like since they play BB they're invincible or that they don't thing they can take those massive hits since they play a BB. But just ignore them. The funny thing for me in your case it's that the guy complained and accused you of cheating because of taking a massive hit from a proper BB while playing a Dunkerque. Like if Dunkerque was tanky or something.

Friendly reminder that it's very maneurable for a BB, (from what I heard in Aerroon's review about it) so it might not be as easy as you may think.

I'm not even bothering. I don't see this being really effective against anyone you couldn't shot in smoke without it because they just park in smoke and don't move at all, the moment they just move inside the smoke so just placing the cross over the last seen position on the minimap doesn't work you're again shooting blind like usually, but meh. Maybe it gives someone the placebo effect of doing something against potatos in smoke and that makes them happy but I don't see that much going to that mod.

And better guns, better damage consistency, might depend on the battle but IMO it's a better firestarter on average than Atlanta... As I said early the only reliable thing in which Atlanta is better than Atago it's that Atlanta's AA it's insane. Other than that it's the worse tier 7 CL, and compared to arguably the best tier 8 CA it's total crap. Edit: I forgot to say that I completely agree that Atlanta can be pretty fun to play, but that's all that Atlanta has going for it at the moment.

Atago. Has good concealment, good guns, excelent fire chance, with CE and the stealth mod you can even try to stealth torp, fast, has heal at T8... The only thing that matters that Atago lacks compared to Atlanta is AA, but that's all. Some people may argue that DPS, but IMO with the mortars Atlanta has you mostly waste that DPS anyways against anyone slightly competent, so I'd still go for Atago. Atago is such a great ship.

"Random sudden question". To give some context: the other day I made my way to Bismarck finally so I thought it was worth it a 1000 doubloons purchase to retrain and respec a 19 point captain which made me wonder what I was thinking three months ago and went for the "infamous" I guess full secondary guns focused build of skills. I have to say months ago I was not convinced about the drawback of just being able to fire my secondaries at one target but seems totally worth it and again, I don't know what I was thinking months ago not goint right awys for those skills. This however made made realize after using that captain in my Scharnhorst later on and destroying a Benson that got in a bad position and tryed to yolo me at 3 km chasing me after missing his torps to yolo rush me until his torps were ready again that... that actually happens. What I mean it happens? That DDs (or even cruisers for that matter) feel confortable in what should be the tremendous mistake in staying for long at like 3 or 5 km of a BB. The only threat, the only thing they fear it's the main guns. Don't get me wrong, I understand that the manual secondary guns skills needs a point for being there, and I'm completely fine with BBs like Bismarck, Yamato and other BBs with really good secondary gun ranges to shoot tons of shells to hit only one at max range of the secondary guns. But when a ship, no matter the class gets to 3 km of a BB and just stays there... It's a mistake, and should be punished like one IMO. I even remember when I first got my Yamato, half a year ago more or less that me and a friend made a... pretty dumb division, me in Yamato and my friend in a Umikaze in co-op, for the lols, since my friend wanted to "sink the Yamato" but his best ship was tier 5. At that time the bot Umikaze mirroring my friend went close to me, I gnored the Umikaze while dealing with the enemy Yamato and after three minutes that Umikaze was still alive because of the utter inacuracy of regular secondaries and gained time enough to sink me. I understand that BBs can't have sniper secondaries at long range unless you invest skill points in skills for that, but secondaries are somewhat an "emergency self defense system", I think it really should work like that in ranges of about 3'5 km or less and have some actual use at least instead of being just a thing to laugh about except for another BB you'll hit because it's huge. So finally, my question about all that wall of text (sorry about that) is: Are you aware of this state of innacuracy of the secondary guns at such short ranges? Why can't secondaries have dispersion buffs at really close ranges like the main guns?

Meh, considering some decisions taken from time to time I don't see surrealism being the biggest drawback against repeting the event again, so why not? It could be a new game mode, just like co-op or operations. I'd like to have a chance to play it too. From the videos I saw about it looks fun.

Pretty sure that will make that one day WG will "listen to the players" and since there's no tier that's not awful in ranked they'll remove the whole ranked thing.

Third option if I have to pick one of the available ones, other than that I don't even play ranked unless I like the flag they give at rank 15 which is the only thing why I would ever bother with ranked.

More "what if"s... I'm getting really tired of all this, I loved this game because it was decently accurate with the ships for the most part. Thing that every line throws out of the window more... If you can't make a whole line of ships comfortable enough don't do a whole line and do what you can, but respect how the ships were like you used to. Please. What's next? Release Conqueror with that stupid heal and range because now we can ignore that Yamato was the biggest and strongest BB in the world and that after sinking her everyone agreed that BBs were a thing of the past and no one would ever build again a BB that huge to not repeat such a massacre just for one ship so obviously the RN would have stick to that plan with the Conqueror? Implement in the game something even more ridiculous than Yamato? Will you give it 10'6 km secondary range without upgrades while you're at it? Will that premium RN BB still be the Monarch? And will you repeat the Gneisenau mistake with the KGV? Good... Well done...

Nah, that has some logic involved. That guy was on my team behind my Gneisenau ranting about no one capping because he wanted the cruisers and the BBs going in the caps without any spotting at all only the get focused from every direction without warning only to let him go behind us unspotted to get the cap himself risking 2/3s of the team. Strategy that we were so noob we couldn't understand the magnificence of the plan. I know it's not very polite from me to say that, but I've never seen a DD player that retarded. After failing in convincing us in following his masterplan he went all the way around the map I guess in hopes of flanking the Benson in the area which pushed him to the border of the map trying to not get spotted and sunk him there while trying to pass to the north middle of the map without even shooting back at the Benson once. I don't usually care about stats, like I'm anyone to tell anyone to "git gud" but this guy was so special that later that day since I still remember the nick he used I checked his stats to get an idea of what kind of player it was. Which I surprisingly couldn't do, but well, whatever.

See? You get it.

Wait a bit, they can't keep up with all the premiums they are spamming. Give them a rest.

You don't need ranked for that. Yesterday I had an Akatsuki in a random battle behind my Gneisenau insulting every single one in out team because we were all noobs that didn't cap. After 5 minutes of cries I just mentioned the irony of a DD complaining about anyone capping anything but I was just a noob that should go play doll and shut the f*** up. The guy was so behind all the team complaining he even scored last in our team.

Missouri is the only premium that you get for free XP for now. It has been rumored that IJN Musashi it's going the next one. Note that "rumored" though. And Musashi is yet another BB, so if you don't enjoy BBs that much it wouldn't be that interesting either.

IMO that search of gimmicks for every single line and premium ship it's what usually destroys the balance of this game every time one of those came out. Why do we even need that? I mean, it's ok when you have no different roles to play but we can't say that they didn't do the effort to adress that. Now we actually have so many of this wonderful "gimmicks" that it's a problem. Honestly, why should the French BB or any new line or ship have to have a new gimmick of it's own? You think people can't just play a new line of ships just because they like those ships and they need to have something telling them "play this"?

Well, that Scharnhorst got secondary hits. Which means that the Schanrhorst was actively brawling something from close range enough. Which probably translates in more income from him because of potencial damage tanked which a CV like Kaga never gets unless getting into a real bad possition and probably even damage upon his spotting. My bet would be that that's what adds more rewards to the Scharnhorst income even if he did less damage since now these things are rewarded with more credits at the end of the battle.

Not that Warspite is the worse BB to dodge torps either. I mean... sure, when the battle is limited to 7 ships and you're against 4 DDs you might have trouble dodging all the potencial torps, but yeah, Warspite deals fine with this situations for BB standarts. Haven't played ranked this season myself so I have no idea myself how's this season but in previous ones I rarely saw that much DDs.

Are there any plans in expanding the new operations game mode for all tier brackets other than just tier 5 and 6? Honestly, operations gave a lot of life to my tier 5 and 6 ships which I wouldn't use anymore if it wasn't for that. I think it would be it would be a nice incentive to keep playing tons of ships instead of just keeping them in port gathering dust once you unlock the next ship in the line.

But Yamato heal was OP, even for the best BB ever put on sail. Conqueror's one is fine. Specially when Russian BBs are released. Then you'll know an OP heal. 100% health back just by using it. I'm thinking in starting to seriously bet about that by how things go. Radar too, why should a BB be ambushed or let any other ship escape his guns? I'm expecting turret traverse and reload huge buffs to balance that and make a proper use of the radar before it hits the life server. I mean... It would be a shame that a BB could make such low profit of his own radar like a Missouri, right?

That would be nice to have with Graf Spee. I mean... that collaboration may be anime (some people don't like it, some people do) but even if it's from something like that the skin for Graf Spee from that anime is really nice. I already have Graf Spee but I'd really like to have the skin of the collaboration one.