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A little more Co-Op fun -

Some Co-Op Kutuzov fun - Plus a new ship I just unlocked and had a great time Torping everything - Can You Guess Which DD? (answer in the Spoiler)

Would there be any chance that WG could look at this Co-Op issue please - when you have Bots on your team and both sets just end up ramming each other within the first 2 minutes. It really reduces the fun when 1/2 yours and the enemy team die within the first 2 minutes because of this. Thanks!

People tend to be stupid, unable or unwilling to look at chat, the instructions, the tasks in the top left or the various map "pings" people do. I had a 5 star Loss earlier because 2 ships wouldnb't enter the cap circle in the NE, they just sat 1-2km outside and shot away at the bots while ignoring all the rest of team who were screaming at them. I think some people are just too stupid to play the game and should go back to dribbling instead

But you still can't get rid of the ships, if you wanted to, you still have to hide them instead which, while it may be no issue for some, seriously annoys me and my OCD-ism

Finally unlocked the YYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTTTTOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Seems to be up and, more importantly, Stable, at the minute. Played 4-5 games without issues, other then the dozen or so game breaking bugs they already know about but can't fix as sorting out BB citadels are clearly more important...................(sarcasm )

Thats odd as the complaints started on here within two minutes of 5am GMT (6am CET) but there was no complaints from 4am GMT on the forum (5am CET) when the servers kicked you out.

Maybe someone got CET and GMT mixed up as it went offline at 5am GMT (which is 6am CET)?

Just seen this on the EU front Page - The EU server will be down temporarily on Friday, March 16 between 05:00 - 05:30 CET. The game will be unavailable for 30 minutes while minor server issues are fixed.

Yeap, can't log in at 5:00am to 5:07am GMT/London time.

Yeap, ran the Op 5 times now in my Atlanta, always top of the leader board with the Heavy CA's (Pensacola I'm looking at you) at the bottom, every ....single....time! Out of the 5 plays I've won 4 (3x 3 Star and 1x 2 Star) with around 1400-1700XP, even when I didn't feel like I'd actually had the best game but the 5th game, wow, I did great, killed planes everywhere, smashed DD's kept BB's on fire and had a really good game, the best I've had so far in this Op with 170k+ damage for only 3 kills but 17 ships damaged, 69 planes knocked down and finished with nearly double the XP of the next player yet the mongs (sorry, other skillful players) in my team still allowed the very last DD to sink the BB and lose the game, despite me pinging the map showing it's location, thanks to the TWO Pensacolas who were within 6km of it decided instead to shoot at the Hipper/Eugen comdo 15KM away with their slow reload. Random players sometimes makes me question whether an IQ test should be necessary to play this game!

Someone on reddits came up with the idea of making the skills of the "enhanced" captains show up as gold on the captain skills screen so you can instantly tell which captain skills the "enhanced" captains have. Simple and very easy UI fix but will WG carry it out, will they ****! They're still too busy breaking the game with each new patch rather than maybe stopping for a month or two and just having "Fix our ****" patches with nothing new added and just everyone 100% concentrating on bug fixes.

Thats some very good work there but the real shame is that WG will do nothing about it, because they are so utterly lost on how to balance something as simple as "Big BB should have bigger detection than smaller CA/CL" - I mean that "MUST" be impossible to balance, right??????

Played for about an hour without issue then played the new T7 Scenario where there is lots of torps in the water right at the end (24+ enemy and a few friendly ones IIRC) and my 4.6Ghz i7 with GTX1080Ti dropped to under 10fps for about 5 seconds when the enemy torps started hitting BB's. Afterwards the Port was very stuttery when adding signals/camos or moving between screens. I shut the game down and restarted it and it is fine again. PS Played 4x Scenario and was top player every time with 1400-1700+XP yet only managed 3x 3 Star and 1 x 2 star wins - potatoes everywhere

I've got - 1x German 1x USN 1x RN 2x Russian and I've got a further 1-2 on 18 points (IJN DD's).

Whinge thread - ignore if it bothers you. I play to have fun and wind down but after 12 matches today I eventually smashed my keyboard against a wall in sheer frustration and rage at dispersion, RNG, bad players, stupid overpen mechanics, salty chat etc and reaching that level of rage on what should be my rest/relaxation at the weekend just isn't right. I'm tired of doing EVERYTHING right and then watching RNG throw my shells everywhere like a juggler with Parkinsons. I'm tired of firing nine 16in AP shells into a static broadside Edinburgh at 12km and only having 2 shells hit (1 overpen and 1 bounce!) due to RN-fecking-G. I'm sick of watching a Itchy-Sushi sail straight into my Nikolai ambush at 5km and only take 4 out of 12 shells at the water line and still not get a single citadel. I'm tired of outmanoeuvring torpedos only to get rammed to a stand still by a moron who is still zoomed in like a noob in a T-bloody-10 game. I'm tired of shooting at a broadside ship and getting low 2-3k damage while he shoots at my very angled BB and gets 10k+ damage. I'm tired of watching all the cruisers run away when I'm pushing in a BB, and I'm tired of BB's running away when I'm supporting their push. I'm tired of cruisers bouncing my BB AP yet when I'm a Cruiser every shot within 100m becomes a citadel. I'm tired of trying to organise a team in chat, the lemming trains, the salt, the "shut up noob, LTP!" everything. I'm just sick of everything and burnt out by it all so I'm going to quit for a while so I can try and fun the game fun again in the future. I genuinely hope the game gets better as people who have put the time and effort in deserve better.

In today's Co-Op fun thread is a very interesting game and a cheeky one - Interesting - I spawned in the North and middle of Estuary so I went down to the big island right in the middle and waited near the right side for any DD's and got lucky. I killed a full health Gaede first, then from the left side came a Bylska which I also solo killed and then finally back on the right came a Mutsuki which tried to torp me but missed and he became my 3rd solo DD kill (all with guns) for about 1/2 my health. Staying in the middle a New Mexico started to come around the island and took both torps launchers to the broadside before I spotted another lower health NM coming around the bottom of the bottom left (on the map) island, so I sneaked down the side of the island until I was about 3km and popped out to surprise him with another set of torps. I think this was the first game in a very long time where I solo killed so many DD's but that's' just the way the goes I guess. Cheeky - TL:DR Almost got the Bot CV to torp himself and also detonated a DD . I started in the North and left side of Hotspot so drove down into the A Cap to face the Shiratsuyu which I detonated after a few shots. I activated my smoke and Hydro and picked out a Yorck coming around an island in-front of me but his hydro picked up my torps, all but one of which missed, leaving me to gun him down for the kill. I then charged a New Mexico and, as I'd only fired 1 salvo of torps at the Yorck I used my other set to YOLO torp the NM from about 2km which left me in open waters with the CV right in-front of me and an Alabama towards B so I charged the CV down while shooting at the Alabama, keeping him on fire a few times and, as the game was won, I thought I'd try something different which I'd seen on youtube so I got very close to the CV and let him torp me, only to dodge at the last minute and allow his own torps to kill him which almost worked perfectly only the drop was off and the torps just missed the front of his ship. Realising it was a bit silly I gunned him down for the win instead.

I saw an Aoba "accidentally" throw this Op. The exit point was in the North and, with 5 ships left, two of us entered the exit point while the Aoba sat about five hundred metres outside (about 20 seconds from standstill) and the other two went after the last CV. With about a minute or so left the Aoba said he'll enter exit point (and win the Op) near the end so we could farm more damage on the Wave of Bots that appear in the North while we're just yelling in chat to enter the exit point and win. With about 30 seconds to go he starts sailing towards the cap only to get his engine knocked out only, as he's not on fire and he's still firing his guns, he's not noticed that he's slowing down so has repaired the damage. About 15 sec before times up he realises and repairs his engine but it's too late and , with 3 out of 5 ships not in spawn, we lost the game. It took a great deal of control not to rage but to see the "funny" side of that.

Some odd Co-Op action - It's rare to see many T9+ Co-Op players and even rarer, as a T7 Atlanta to get dragged into a T9 Co-Op game as T7 MM is so full, but when it happens it turns out to be very XP profitable! On the Shatter map starting in the South and on the Left side under the A Cap, I headed towards B to blunt the T7 CV but he decided to attack the Right side fleet (also with an Atlanta of their own). So I stopped by an island and turned my guns towards the A cap and caught a T7 Akatsuki DD and a T9 Chung Mu DD broadside at 9km. I HE'd the Chung Mu to death and a friendly DD took out the Akatsuki before my last salvo could finish him. He was followed by an Atlanta that put up a little fight but, being broadside meant he also took a lot more damage than he could cope with as he suddenly fixated on a friendly DD and we took him down together. I lobbed some HE at the Colorado also at A and got a few fires which were instantly put out and as I was trying for more I was suddenly detected by something close by at B. As I swung towards B I spotted a T9 Yugamo DD charging at our Colorado who was at A and, with my radar up I managed to lob more HE shells sinking it. By now I was in the B cap steaming towards the North and the CV so the CV tried to focus me resulting in a few downed waves but he eventually burned to death before I could get in range. Now usually a 78K damage 3 kill cap would get me around 500-650 Base XP but I forgot just how XP profitable it was to kill ships that are 2 tiers higher than yourself, plus the planes kills also helped but it's still a much higher base XP than I was expecting and was completely surprised by it!

What's wrong with having the Option to disable them via a tickbox? Somewhere in the Settings page under Display Options would be ideal, that way people who want to use them still can and those that don't want them can remove them. That way EVERYONE is happy, YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY WG!!!!!!!!!!!

Stupid bloody forum double post!

I didn't think was possible to Seal Club at T10, looks like I was wrong

I wonder if they could make each operation available to play for different tier Humans just by changing the bots you face i.e. if we pick "Ultimate Frontier" the current T7 Op and then keep the same setup but change the Bots to the following - Human T5 Only - Bots T3-6 Human T6 Only - Bots T4-7 Human T7 Only - Bots T5-8 All WG would have to do is change the Op "setup file", nothing else needs to change, not the objectives or maps etc, just change the Bot Tier level and suddenly you've got "new" operations plus you could even make Human T8+ Ops too for "Hard" mode.

The biggest problem (and it will only get worse) is the there is no "skill cap" allowing access to higher tiers. A complete potato earning only 250XP per game only needs to play 4000 games in a single ship to reach T10 from T1 and, as the game is getting older and older, more and more potatoes are playing more and more games and therefore more and more are reaching T10 just due to playing 4000+ absolutely awful games. I loved Gran Turismo's "License" system which was a natural "skill" barrier for players. Until you improve "X" amount so that you pass a test you couldn't access better cars/races etc but, as WOWS has no skill barriers, the only metric which actually matters is "Number of Games Played" and NOTHING ELSE, not skill or gameplay experience gained or WR or kills etc, just "How many games did you play?" and, if it is over 4000, you are 100% guaranteed to be a T10 player.