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Played the new Dunkirk Mission a few times (LOL @ Randoms so only a 2 and 3 star win) which felt harder than on the PTS and also earned less XP (used to be a base win of 1k XP now getting <800). Then played a few games and just got really bored really quickly, the game (even in co-op) just doesn't excite me so I'm going back to play Cold Waters for a bit to see if I miss WoWS much.

Not for me, although I'm in a minority I'd guess. I've already got more than enough doubloons, free Xp & credits for the amount of time I actually bother playing this fairly broken game any more.

I voted No and No. I bought the Belfast but nothing else in the sale interested me. However if a "new" Grand Finale sale is announced later with different ships/bundles I might be.

From a purely business perspective WGEU *must* have brought in so much money this year that they can afford to say to customers who want to spend even more money "No, we have spoiled you enough, please go and spend time with your family's and stop giving us money". That is the only reason I can think of for the lack of ships available during this sale. That can be the ONLY reason I can think of for WGEU taking the very strange step for a business, by deliberately choosing to sell only 20% of the premium ships they have available (10 out of 50 premium ships available) - they must be too rich already!

Picked up the Belfast "standard" bundle on the sale and heard it was fully OP Pay 2 Win - well we'll see about that! After an IFHE spec captain was added I played 10 games in co-op, came top 8 times, had 1 bad game where I forgot about stopping in smoke and got wiped out and 1 game with a 4 kill DD rampaging (came 2nd though with 3 kills) with an average damage of double the co-op servers normal level and 2.6 kills per game - Yeap, not OP at all

LOL, thats a 50% discount on doubloons. It's a good job the off was limited to 1 per customer or people could be farming multiple Belfasts for Doubloons, although you can still buy 2, one plain bundle and one premium bundle.

Also expect to see the dumbest crap you've ever seen as people seemingly go out of their way to be awful at the game! Kraken against the Bots but still a loss with more XP than any of the winning bots due to 1 DD friendly torping 2 ships before he died, a CV who sent his planes to A1 (maybe the CV bug got him), a BB who just went straight ahead and didn't shoot his guns once that I saw and a Cruiser who rammed a DD and didn't repair the flooding afterwards, YAY!!!!!!!!!!! It ended with with my 1/2 health Cruiser vs 4 ships (1 DD & 3x CA) and I would have won if I realised my torps had reloaded about 10 sec earlier than I did!. I swear most PTS users are actually like this behind their monitor

Another week only playing a single game but holy hell what a game - Not bad XP/Credits for Co-Op - I like the lowered citadel as it allows me to brawl a bit more (my preferred play-style) than a USN BB really should be able to!

I used removing stealth fire as an example of when a game mechanic change "did" nerf some premiums (Gremy, Ashan, Blyska, Yo Lang etc) as well a bunch of Silver ships. This example was used in my original statement of "Premiums can be nerfed" but you said "Nope, they can be nerfed" - that is the confusion for me. So, just to be clear, this is what I think is being said by both of us - I said premiums can be nerfed and gave stealth fire removal example of a gameplay mechanic nerf. You said premiums can be nerfed and gave stealth fire removal example of a gameplay mechanic nerf. Now both of those are the same (hence my confusion of the debate you're having) so is my understanding of your words wrong?

Jingles......................................accurate information......................................LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL I love the wee gnome lord but he is globally known for "getting it wrong" in his WoWS videos, whether it's ship ID's, Port/Starboard, ship facts & figures etc although to be fair his History chats are usually very well researched and I'm assuming he reads from a script/notes for those (his speech pattern changes).

Again, we're both saying exactly the same thing but you're talking like we're saying something different, which is where the confusion comes in

I think he's raised a valid point. If you disagree or are bored with the topic then there is the mature option of "don't read the thread" you could choose as opposed to posting in it.

MTM78 - I'm confused, I said that Premiums can be nerfed and gave an example of how a game mechanics change nerfed premium ships but you said "nope" and then said the same thing as me?

Oh they can nerf the crap out any premium - Just look at the stealth fire removal which hit the premium DD's.

Lee - There was a reply posted by WG on this forum's Q&A section (linked below). Basically they are saying WGEU has "payment issues" with single flag packages causing banks to decline payments for numerous small transactions (or words to that effect) but they're looking into this for the tuture. That sounds like a bunch of crap to me, as I think WGEU have the wrong end of the stick - i.e. they seem to be talking about selling a single number of an individual flag (so just 1 Sierra Mike for example) which would understandably cause bank issues if you are being charged say 5p/cent per flag rather than what we want which is single flag "bundles" like 50 sierra Mike etc.

Yes (for me). Mine looks dull and washed out until I turn on Post Processing, and then the game jumps back into full colour. Post Processing Off Post Processing On So why that doesn't work for you I don't know!

Not played for nearly 3 weeks (now finished GR Wildlands) and haven't missed the game at all. If "Cold Waters" was more Sim and less Arcade I'm not sure I'd have been back for a few months. However I am back for a bit and wrecking co-op as usual. I noticed that the bots now try to actively ram me in the side (rather than bow to bow), use AP way more often and still seem laser accurate (minus dispersion of course). Okhotnik game with 6 kills Some "island ambushing while the Bot CV has 4 squadrons above my smoke" Benson action A "manly" Tirpitz game with nearly 350 secondary hits is always fun - god I love to brawl!

Noticed this myself - I found that if you turn "Post Processing" on to any setting you get the "full vibrant" colours rather than the current washed out look.

Demolition Expert (+3% fire Chance) should now be a considered option for brawler builds, just to get that fire chance % back :D

Just checked my bonuses and I've got the camos awarded but I haven't checked in-game yet to confirm.

Had a T6 Molotov game a few days ago in Co-Op vs 6 T8 BB's and a T7 IJN CV - As a cruiser player I'm finding less and less enjoyment as the months go on and I'm playing the game less now. Eventually I'll just quit if the MM isn't altered to prevent constant uptiering. I mean I don't mind playing 25% at +2, 25% at +1 and 50% at same tier (and -1 too) but playing 75%+ of +1/+2 tiers for T5/6 players is a joke.

Or they are a way of tracking your progress, seeing that you are/are not improving, seeing which part of your gameplay needs improving etc....................and checking other potatoes in an argument

Had some awesome fun, made 1 million credits over 2 matches in Co-Op (well 750k once costs taken etc) and called it quits after a Kraken with teammates so bad the 2 bots on my team came higher than everyone else but me Kutuzov Kraken with a final Ram-Kill for the 5th one The new lowered Iowa/Missouri citadel doesn't stop citadels, got 2 on the bot before being surprised by a Zao/Neptune combo at under 5km, killed both and only took 1 torp

Found some utter buffoons in Co-Op who somehow managed to make to T8 (Tirpitz/Amagi) without understanding that HE isn't the only shell they can fire! They spent the whole match firing nothing but HE and both came bottom of the team list. Both had over 6k games played and both had a WTR of under 500. This is why the game will die, potatoes being able to FAIL their way to high tiers due to the vast number of very low XP earning games they've played just adding up. My guess is both will have T10 ships by 10k games, what a bloody joke! After the rage I went out for a blast in my Derpitz just to show them how it's done and, with nearly 400 secondary hits, I had a blast!

Yeap, the Bots have a version of RPF built in. I did a "chase me" thread where I took a DD against a Bot Cruiser in the Training Room and it followed me for about 10 minutes without it ever detecting me. After 10 minutes I got bored so dropped smoke and waited for it to charge in and get auto-detected at 2km where I killed it.