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Triple secondary spec Mikasa. Bonus points if you actually hit something with your main guns!

Same as I'm taking it.

But according to Sub_Octavian it's a bug. So, can we just settle on WG not having a bloody clue as always?

6000 steel for the paid missions. Hmm ... ... yes, not as high as to devalue this rare ressource and competitive efforts. It's just more steel than you could earn reaching Rank 1 in the 10th Ranked season (5500 steel total all rank rewards combined). So, WG is in full process of devaluating free XP (inflated free XP earning due to signal flags and camouflages, free XP ships getting more expensive and other ships that could be free XP ships only available for coal), devaluating coal (just a recent massive price bump from the tier IX Musashi and Jean Bart coal pricing) and now you can de facto buy yourself the equivalent of a Ranked season grind (b-but you still have to do the missions some might say ... yeah, but playing CoOp/Scenarios/whatever is a whole world different from grinding Ranked!) worth of steel. Is this WG's attempt to balance steel ships? Just make sure everyone can buy them?

Please no promises you won't keep.

That. 32mm of lovably scorchable real estate.

Yes.

Still think the other explanation is more likely, simply because the math adds up without going into the nebulous saturation guessworkings. Also pretty sure it wasn't a case of just hitting more shells than hit ribbons displayed, but that should be relatively easy to find out once @Reaper_JackGBR posts the link to the replay and we can see where the other shells went (should be easy to count with Repulique only having 8 shells to hit with).

Quite honestly, I wouldn't trust WG to call a bug a "feature" simply because they have no friggin' clue how it interacts with their own damage mechanics and gives them a PR pass to just ignore it since it's "working as intended" even when it quite evidently doesn't. Anyhow, at this point this is just semantics; it obviously doesn't work as it should, whether that be intended or a bug and it needs to be fixed. A late addendum: I also distinctly recall Sub_Octavian replying with "that's a bug" in my old single hit, double damage pen topic where my DD got hit by a single BB AP for twice the damage of a BB full pen back in the day. So that makes two conflicting statements by WG about the alleged "feature". https://forum.worldofwarships.eu/topic/85023-overconfidence™/?do=findComment&comment=1984835

Or we do the other math, divide the total damage of 7250 by the 1450 (ergo 10% of max damage on the Republique) and see it results in a perfectly neat factor of 5. No need to explain away the mismatch of a full penetration with a vague "saturation could've done it" and go for the much more likely explanation that those three shells somehow resulted in five instances of inflicting the 10% max AP damage according to the new large calibre AP interactions. A game mechanic that makes no sense, is counterproductive to the "fix" and would classify as a bug under any sane scrutiny. Either way, the supposed fix in the patch doesn't work and that's the important take-away from this thread.

It's a bug when a single shell applies more than one instance of damage, which is what this is about so you can stick the rest of your uncalled for rant where AP doesn't pen.

@MrConway, @Tuccy, @Sub_Octavian, @Crysantos ... Overconfidence™? Update straight from a disgruntled Discord server: @Reaper_JackGBR just hit a Daring, got the normal penetration ribbon but the correct 10%/overpenetration damage. So pretty sure the problem highlighted in the TO is indeed the double damage bug plus hit ribbons doing their usual thing.

Players: "US AP bombs are absolutely broken, plz change!" WG: "We hear you. US CVs no longer get AP bombs." Players: "YAY! Wait, why do IJN CVs get AP bombs now?" WG: "GIMMICK COMRADE! IS BALANS, DA!!!"

Welp, no point in trying to reason someone out of a position they never used reason to get into. Just be sure to never climb inside a microwave with all that tinfoil.

Doesn't look like anything special really. Have had that happen to me too, annoying but ultimately not a severe problem. And the Edinburgh didn't as much profit from youre camera being wonky for what was a couple seconds at most, but from you having given him broadside for a couple salvoes before you even tried looking at him. You would've gotten sunk there even if you had no camera issue, the only difference might've been you getting another volley off, but that wouldn't have changed anything really. So yeah, most definately not a hack at all, just the usual control shenanigans being annoying (but ultimately of negligible impact).

Ah, a Scrub birthday ... welp, time to read the entire thread again

Long story short: I want to start my way up the KM tech tree and hit my first impasse. Dresden was a lot of fun, but the Kolberg ... being matched up against ships like the St.Lious, let alone the tier IV and even tier V ships, simply isn't on the same page as me. It's mostly just the gun performance. 105mm cannons are just not cutting it against other cruisers, the best I can do is be a nuisance for enemy DDs but any such captain worth his salt can and will simply keep away from me and though the Kolberg isn't slow, it's not fast enough to catch a DD. And yes, I know about the perils ahead in the KM cruiser tech tree, but I'll worry about that in due time. So, any tips to making the Kolberg work aside from hoping for stupid enemies and favourable matchmaking?

For the future, if you wish to share replays, you can upload them here. And if you already have a video recording of the battle, upload it to Youtube rather than a sharehost that wants my email adress. Also, whilst I'm by no means an expert I find it highly doubtful that some random bloke in the game could take control over your client. And if that were possible, I have even more doubts that someone with access to your client would go out of their way to concoct something as esoteric such as you losing control as opposed to just forcing your client to close down.

No, for the free XP. The containers and whatever is in them is a bonus.

Mods are out, can't be long until:

That's not exactly required to play against CVs though. Whereas other classes share the same real estate and counterplaying them comes down to understanding their positioning and target priorization, counterplaying CVs is pretty much just limited to their aircraft presence. And I've touched upon the basics of countering those in my above comment. It's not like knowing how to strafe or manage multiple squadrons is going to make you a better battleship/cruiser/destroyer player.

As for counterplaying CVs, current system and rework should offer the same basic principles of strike deterrence and damage migitation: Be close to friendly ships with lots of AA (or alternatively, be the ship with lots of AA). Torpedo bombers want to drop you from the side, so turn into to minimize your target profile and possibly even close into the minimum arming distance if the CV dropped too close. Dive bombers want to drop you from bow to stern, so turn away from them to give it the minimum amount of ship within the drop ellipse. Also, don't wait until the drop to start turning, you want to make yourself an as uncooperative target as possible the moment you see attack aircraft (obviously not at the expense of exposing yourself to all the other enemy ships, hence why it's best to be close to lots of friendly AA where the CV is least likely to even try to drop anything).

And that's your mistake. You need to pick a camo with an additional fXP bonus like Frosty Fir or Spring Sky. Ka-Ching. Base free XP is 5% (0,05 for later reference) of total XP. Add Papa Papa (+300%), Ouroborous (+777%), Hydra (+250%), Leviathan (+200%) and Spring Sky (+777%) we can add up a total of +2304%, which applied to the base 5% equals 115,2% of total XP is being converted into free XP (since the free XP bonuses are a flat +% modifier the math should be pretty simple addition of bonuses and then multiply with the base XP modifier: 2304 x 0,05 = 115,2). And that's without the bonus you can get from clan base structures, which I totally forgot for a while ...

Ah I see, you went through the CV larva stage first

Starts?