Aotearas

That's a nice word to add to my vocabulary, thanks.

Isn't that one of the benefits for having one own forum platform? That you can help shape the environment for any interactions by actively moderating and if need be suspending/banning the bad eggs? I mean if, if overwhelmingly negative actions are what drives the devs away, why on earth would they go for a third party platform where they have exactly zero tools to deal with any such toxicity rather than use their own forum where they do? I don't understand ... Also, as much as overblown toxicity is a no-go, that kind of backlash doesn't come out of the blue. The message WG staff should take away from this is twofold: start working on a proper communication strategy for community interactions (which involves cracking down on belligerent users) and once a constructive dialogue was established, actually listen to the feedback rather than seemingly decide things over their heads anyway. Because the latter is what leads to a lot of pent-up frustration and fosters a "why try and be constructive if they don't listen anyway ..." mentality.

Well, shave my back and call me an elf, it actually worked. Blogis bait efficacy confirmed.

Guess that's a theme with us. I still remember that Bogue player that somehow thought trying to strike my Cleveland was a good idea. He fed me 24 aircraft ... which I believe is close to the maximum capacity. Along with a couple Zuiho planes I ended that game with 30+ aircraft kills and I had even joked about that right at the start (I think Morten was even in the division for that game ...). Sadly no Clear Skies though ...

I'll try to go for a critical hit:

Oh, that means you'll join TS in the future then?

Same category as WASD.exe Presumably people don't know it's there, so anyone that does is cheating.

There's good divisions, there's bad divisions and mostly divisions are just average joes. What's important about divisions is that it enables teamwork on a much deeper level than what you'd typically find when trying to work with a random team. And that's the thing that makes a division, teamwork! That works as a force multiplier. So if you get three super unicums on voice-comms that selected ships based on synergy between each other and employ proven effective strategies, you have a potential game winner right here. If you get three potatoes that decide that all three of them going through the channel on Two Brothers would be a great idea ohnly to get torped on the other side, you're instantly down three ships -> bummer. If you get a division that's simply just three people doing their own thing, they might not be a division at all for what it matters. You're as likely to get that super unicum division on your team as you're to have it matched against you. Same with potato farms and everything else, that's how random MM works after all. If you feel that you're getting the business end of the stick more often than not, only thing you can do is git gud, git friends and be the super unicum division yourselves, problem solved.

Dayum, what Hex editor version are you using that's compatible with WoWs?

What are the differences between servers when you said EU was brutal? Sorry for offtopic, but this does sound pretty interesting. Also, welcome!

The [sCRUB] clan is full atm (darn 30 member limit) afaik but we do have a sister-clan, the [sNUBS] No idea how full that one is, you'd have to ask either BadGene616, Loran_Battle or xXx_Blogis_xXx ... they 're the ones handling recruitment. Not that actually being in any of those two is a requirement to hang out. You can just pop an ingame message if you see Blogis active and he can invite you to our community chat channel where you can team up with us. We're also typically very active in the official WG TeamSpeak server so if you see any familiar names, just hop into the channel and say hi. I can also recommend the Forumites chat channel (made by Sturmtiger_304, password: play4fun) but sadly that one seems to be rather deserted lately so no idea if you'd actually find someone there (not sure if everyone is hanging out in their own channels nowadays or if WG introduced more chat shenanigans). Same goes for Black_goat_beard btw.

Typically you want to shoot AP at everything that's showing a nice flat side. All you really have to make sure is that your guns have enough penetration to defeat your target's armour thickness at the point of impact. Even a DD can unload quite a nasty AP dpm if they get a broadside to work on. Even against a battleship, aiming for the superstructure (16-19mm armour), bow and aft end hull armour (19-32mm) and the casemate armour (very similar to the bow and aft hull armour, though some deviations exist) can give you very juicy normal penetrations. In a DD you won't citadel a battleship or even penetrate its belt armour, but aiming for the aforementioned areas can really add up very fast. Depending on your gun and target armour, some cruisers can get citadeled by DDs at close ranges (and for very strong destroyer AP like with the russian 130mm or the german 150mm (tier VI and VIII) you can even citadel them from near maximum range if they gove you a broadside). Or long story short: Your ammunition choice should be least dictated by your class, but much rather how cooperative your target is (well angled: HE; nice broadside: AP) and how good your gun (caliber and penetration) and their armour is (can you defeat armour thickness or maybe even overmatch certain armour sections?). Don't worry too much though. You're on the right way and the rest comes with experience (knowing your ship and the enemies'). I do recommend taking a look at a couple game mechanics like autobounce angles, overmatch (if AP caliber is 14.3x greater than armour thickness: no autobounce and straight to penetration check), HE penetration (1/6 of caliber (or 1/4 for german BB main and secondaries)), damage saturation (a.k.a. bulletsponge protection, very noticable when trying to sink something with HE) and taking a nice long look at individual ship's armour viewer!

The GNB event was faaaaar better, with many more attractive goodies to unlock with pearls which you could spend for those rather than needing to hoard them for the reward ship at the exclusion of essentially everything else. Really the only thing about the GNB that was lacklustre was the communication screw-up about the secret prize for reaching the final community goal with those 10x camouflages. Everything else about the GNB was heaps better than the current event.

Tried everything. Reinstalling. Checking file integrity, uninstalled, cleaning my PC's registry to make sure, then tried without any mods ... but ever since patch 0.6.1 the game crashes multiple times per session. "World of Warships has stopped working" Not driver failure, nor any hint in the error message of what I could try and check. The game ran absolutely PERFECTLY prior to 0.6.1 ... I had maybe three game crashes in total before that patch, now I get that and more per day. WHAT. THE. F*CK. DID. WG. DO? What changed with 0.6.1 that causes all those crashes? [/rant]

That is the answer to your question however. The MM is dealing with an overpopulation of BBs, with more BBs than CLs/CAs per game being normal. Guess what introducing even more BBs would do to that ...

If that's what the tracker says, then WG should fire the guy who made the introductionary video, because that one clearly shows that the icons only occur once a team has beat the other to a category win.

Well, the website tracker clearly shows Red having already won all five categories, presumably for the entire first round. So that's 1 out of 3 points already for Red. WG would've done better assigning teams randomly and that's something that should be rather obvious even without hindsight.

Interesting. I'd mirror that experience with having had teams that were so consistently and intensely bad that I'd guess there was a holiday somewhere because that was weekend warrior niveau (at best). Just, oh my ... Anyhoot, onto the good stuff: BBQ'ing BBs, well done.

Depends on the tier. If Richelieu would be tier VII then hulls A and B would seem most fitting. If she were at tier VIII, I'd say hull C (though the AA would look a bit weak for tier VIII, then again hull D and E AA would be too strong imho, it's the US BB supposed shtick to have strong AA). D and E would seem more like something reserved for a higher tier due to the strong AA, maybe as top hull configurations for the Alsace (particularily if they'd split the Alsace into two consecutive tiers, one for the triple turret desing, then the higher tier one with the quadruple turret design). Not sure if there's anything else one might put into tier X than the quadturret Alsace though, my knowledge about french ships is spotted at the very best.

Oh boy, I'd stay clear of Aphrodite ... and Hera for that matter. Among the greek pantheon those two easily stand out for their jealousy (and that's saying something!). If you as much as just pay the tiniest shred of attention to another woman, they'd instantly smite you ... or start a war. Hades however was a pretty chill guy. Also, sassy: Poseidon was funny too though. He's basically the greek god of "come at me bro".

Was mir erst letztes Jahr beim Nostalgie Trip aufgefallen war ist das in jeder Episode ein neuer Tanz war.

Dips on Hades!

Getting complimented by teammates for a good game is nice. Getting rage-report-bombed by enemies you sunk is even better though. Only getting accusated of using cheats beats that for the highest form of multiplayer appreciation, the "N00bel-Prize"

I use mods, but I had also tried not running any after a clean reinstall and it still crashed. And no, only programs running in the background is my antivirus, teamspeak and the software for my keyboard/mouse.

Nope, nothing on my end changed with that patch (or thereafter). OS won't be the problem, I'm using 10. And I'd suspect that if something with Win10 were off after a Microsoft update, a lot more people would be having issues so I'm convinced that's not the source of the issue. As for GPU drivers, I'm am using old dirvers because my GPU is old and the ones I'm currently using are by far the most stable I can find for my hardware setup. Newer drivers would decrease my GPU performance and I'm not going to switch since World of Warships is literally the only game that's misbehaving. Then again, if it were the drivers crashing, I'd get a different error message.