Aotearas

The ship descriptions are fluff and have nothing to do with ingame characteristics. As far as we know, french cruisers won't get radar.

Just as bad as ever since 0.6.1. Crashes roughly every third game when I try to enter battle. Random crashes in port when selecting ANYTHING. Infinite loading screen when trying to log in again after a restart following a game crash.

I'm pretty sure the fact that the Iwaki Alpha is stealthier when shooting than not is enough to show how moronic the detectability changes are. But WG just don't care, so the all we can do is try and make the best of it ... or stop playing at all (WG is trying hard, though I'm not quite there yet, give it two more patches or so).

So, WG is offering a discount on upgrades for the tier IX upwards upgrade slot so people who used the Aiming Systems modifcation to increase their main battery firing range can switch at a discounted price if they want in light of the recent changes to stealth fire removal. Plus a lot of ships have gotten a native range buff on top anyway. But I think WG forgot something here ... particularily the Artillery Plotting Room Mod. 1 for the US BB line in the second upgrade slot available from tier V onwards. With increased base firing range, that upgrade is no longer needed (or given the typical accuracy at longer ranges, no longer effective at the extra range you get compared to before), but the alternative upgrades in that slot are not discounted. So, was that just an oversight (in which case I'd have to ask, will we be getting a discount on that slot's upgrades soon to make up for it?), or was that colaculated, but failed to get communicated in the patchnotes?

Don't have her (though am still planning to get her) but from all I hear from mates that have some experience in her the opinion is largely the same. She's just not very agile. Plus on the bigger end of the scale so not exactly easy to dodge stuff with. So a buff to her agility (manouverability and acceleration/deceleration) might just be enough, at least for a start. Don't think she would've been that effective with stealthfiring anyway since her low caliber shells mean her AP couldn't be too consistent with penetrations at longer ranges that isn't perfectly sailing broadside to a hailstorm of shells and her HE wouldn't penetrate anything with more than 16mm of armour anyway so the only value there would be to simply pour enough shattered shells into that ship to try and start a fire or two with the low firechance. The only effective benefit from her stealthfiring would be not getting shot at in return, but with an agility buff making her able to actively dodge incoming fire would amount to roughly the same end results. At least that's my theorycrafting from looking at her stats and secondhand experience. So yeah, agility buff would be neat. Or maybe give her Defensive AA if WG doesn't think they've been screwing over CVs enough already

Videospiel Soundtrack? Nu habt ihr Aotearas' Box aufgebrochen: (also known as: Red Helmet's Extermination) (also known as: The Sun Rises) Ehrlich gesagt sind die OSTs von allen genannten Spielen voll mit exzellenter Musik (manches muss aber im korrekten Kontext des Spiels erlebt werden um es richtig auskosten zu können) und ich könnte den ganzen Tag damit verbringen die zu verlinken, aber dafür bin ich zu faul. Kann alle genannten Spiele auch nur empfehlen. Wer die nicht gezockt hat, husch husch. Fast alle von denen sind etwas älter und damit günstig. Obgleich mit CnC Red Alert muss da ein wenig getrickst werden ... und das Spiel ist arg alt. Ookami ist Konsole (PS2 oder Wii). Wer eine von den beiden hat und Action Adventure Spiele a lá Legend of Zelda mag MUSS sich Ookami zulegen. Kein drumherum, ein echtes Meisterstück!

Oh look, this again. Newsflash: World of Warships is a teambased game. It pits two teams of 12 ships against each other. It's not a 1vs1vs1vs1vs1vs1vs1vs1vs1vs1vs1vs1vs1vs1vs1vs1vs1vs1vs1vs1vs1vs1vs1vs1. You are supposed to coordinate with your teammates! So why would you want to remove the ability of players to division up with others so they can work together more effectively (by assuring they will be in the same game and on the same team with a ship loadout possibly specifically picked to offer the best synergy between them)? And no, clan divisions didn't just start popping up lately. It's just now that clans are officially recognized in the game with tags that you know which people are in one. Many people, those in clans or just groups of tightknit friends, have been divisioning up together long before any clantags were introduced into this game. Last but not least, if you have trouble dealing with divisions on your own, you have two basic options: -Get friends. -Git gud.

Heh, drove those enemy DDs proper mad with my torpedo dancing. Fletcher that finally got me even exclaimed "finally" in chat when my poor little Yamato went to dance with the other fishes. 55 Torpedoes spotted, 2.5kk potential damage and naturally I dished out some of my own. And then there was this: I even teased the enemy CVs about having all my AA gunners on shoreleave. Because well ... typically CVs avoid the Cleveland like the plague and mostly for good reasons, especially equal or lower tier CVs, so I'm being a cheeky git about it. But these guys, they must've really, REALLY hated their pilots or something because they just kept sending their airplanes to me. Not over me, no. TO me. As in, they wanted to strike my Cleveland. The BALLS man!

Well, we're the EU server. Apparently we have more money than neurons so WG doesn't care.

The range buffs are just there to ensure that with the new detectability bloom when firing, no ships are left with greater surface detactability than firing range (which would mean the ships actually become stealthier after firing their guns!). Seems they missed the Iwaki Alpha though ... don't see her getting a range buff and her guns do have .6km less range than surface detectability so theoretically, unless you have a CE captain on that ship you will be harder to spot if you keep your guns firing constantly WG, what more do you need to see how ludicrous this new mechanic is?

Hmm, that might a viable proof of concept to show how inane this blanket approach for this spotting mechanic is. Any ships with greater base detectability than firing range would actually get stealthier by constantly firing. Though looks like the Iwaki Alpha is the only ship left with that characteristic after all the range "buffs".

Heh, at least it's better than the whopping 5% discount on the Saipan WG tries to bait me with regularily after I played some CVs ...

Wenn du (Avantgarde) Metal magst kann ich Diablo Swing Orchestra nur empfehlen. Die mischen auch gerne all möglichen Musik Stile mit Metal, ist also gerne etwas anderes als was man sonst hört. Das erste Album kann man sogar kostenlos runterladen. Soll auch demnächst ein neues Album rauskommen *squeeeeeee* Würde gerne etwas aus dem 'Pandora's Pinata' Album (meiner Meinung nach bis jetzt das beste von DSO) verlinken, aber neuerdings scheint UMG alles auf Youtube zu blocken ... , mal schauen für wen's funkioniert.

The fact they say less than 10 seconds is unfeasible but refuse to change the bloom to anything between 10 and 20 seconds just shows they don't give a flying damn. WG simply wants to kill any form of (stealth) gameplay that can't be defeated by a simple button press to keep the learn-resistent idiots happy, because learn-resistent idiots are their prime source of income as they keep throwing money at WG.

'Epicon' ist eines der wenigen Alben dass ich in diversen Jahren gekauft habe. 'Break From This World' evenfalls von Globus ist auch eine Goldgrube:

No you didn't. You're arguing your opinion. You haven't brought up any argument that is supported by facts. The only things that were changed on the Yuubari were the global AA nerf, as compensation for that she good the Defensive AA that she hadn't beforehand, and the later inclusion of the Aiming Systems Modifcation 0, which is a direct buff as it turns the Yuubari's guns into pinpoint accurate guns. Damage output potential was never negatively effected as far as I know. The only argument that you have that stands on halfway solid grounds is that it shoots down less aircraft than before. But that's still more than any other tier IV cruiser does and it's the only ship within its MM bracket that has access to Defensive AA, so the AA efficacy is ambivalent depending on how you measure the performance. Everything else you're talking about, guns, torpedoes, armour, etc. is just you asking for buffs for which the serverstats (both global and recent-only) show exactly ZERO necessity. Even your own stats in the ship are showing you perform better with it than most other ships you have played. You have absolutely no basis to ask for buffs. None whatsoever. There's nothing wrong with the ship performance, there's nothing wrong with average performance and there's nothing wrong with your own.

Finished my grind with the german tier VI DD Gaede. Actually like that little bugger, if it weren't for that terrible tier VI MM bracket. Those 150mm guns can be quite cheeky and the torpedoes are rock solid.

Grüße angekommen

Actually, you just said why you think that argument is worthless. That's all well and good, but it doesn't mean you're actually right with that. Meanwhile, all the stats that people (including me) have brought up paint the picture of a highly competitively performing cruiser for its tier. And those stats aren't made up from opinions ... they are based on cold, hard facts.

Hardly. Many consumables are mutually exclusive. That means many consumables can be tied to a shared keybinding without conflict (Defensive AA and Hydro for example, there isn't a single ship with access to both at the same time, other such consumables are the catapult launched aircraft (either fighter or spotter) and Surveillance Radar). Other consumables like the damage repair party (heal) aren't mutually exclusive with anything so they can have their own dedicated keybinding. First step to minimize keybinding conflicts would be to schematically organize the keybinding of consumables and their position in the UI bar to visually represent that. Just like we have the damage control party always in first place and always bound to the "R" key. And lastly, even if making a conflict free keybinding chart were unfeasible, offering players the chance to rebind their keybindings or just shuffling around the consumable order to their own preferences can go a long way in preventing any issues.

The question is, what comes after the french cruisers? The Royal Navy was announced to get another branch, but with the current fiddling with CV mechanics it seems unlikely they'd introduce a RN CV line. So it's either DDs (which I haven't seen a lot of people enthusiastic about) or BBs (which a LOT of people are asking for). Guess what would happen to the BB population numbers with the introduction of another long awaited BB line. We also know Wargaming is working on Russian BBs. If WG really wants to cull the BB population numbers down to a more balanced class balance, they'd have to favour the underrepresented classes (cruisers) quite a lot to railroad players into playing them. French cruisers, maybe a cruiser line split for the US with a light cruiser line. Introduce the Italian cruisers. In between they could squeeze the RN and French DD lines (Mogador looks yummy!). And only after that WG can start introducing more BBs. But what's the chances of that happening when everyone and their dog is asking for more BBs? Right now, with so many games with more BBs than cruisers per team (with MM like 5 BBs, 3 CL/CAs and 4 DDs hardly being uncommon!) I'm starting to consider a hardcap on BB numbers for MM to be an acceptable measure.

I just don't think it has to do with disrespect or making light of a tragic (insofar as war can be tragic, someone was going to die anyway as is the nature of warfare) encounter at all. Hence my reaction. I however unconditionally agree that the joke is tiring when it's being made so often. It was a chuckle the first couple times but by now it's just beating a dead horse.

I find it a wee bit hypocritical to cite the sanctity of life and respect for the dead against making jokes about detonating the Hood, whilst gleefully mentioning of having the ship in port. Because unless you'd buy it just to look at it in the port, playing it would mean her sinking every now and then, with all the implied loss of crew over and over. You'd be diluting the memory of the ship with that just as much as those joking about ingame detonations, just by superficially different means. History is as much about respect as it is about acceptance. Things happened and all we can do about that is remember. The only disrespect would be to misrepresent, deny or outright falsify history and denounce the courage of those sailors that fought and died. No one's doing that here, so there's no harm done.

Ship characteristics alone never tell the whole story. Or how would you explain so many potatoes underperforming in ships like Yamato etc. pp. (I've had guys in Yamato with over a hundred games in it and a mere ~30k average damage!!!) ? How players play their ships is as important as the ship itself. So yes, that random WR stuff is relevant! The two are directly linked to each other and neither shows the full picture by themselves. You don't get to just cherrypick the arguments that suit your agenda.

Heh. Ich sehe deine Saber und erhöhe um eine Lancer (na ja, technisch nicht korrekt aber das wäre eine etwas längere Geschichte)! Scáthach. Und wenn euch der Speer bekannt vorkommt, habt ihr vollkommen recht!