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WG have repeatedly and loudly said NO multiple times to big changes to Co-Op. They might tweak team sizes, or tweks spawn points etc but that the most they'll do. The reason is that PvP/Random brings WG more money, so despite there being around 30% of players who ONLY play PvE, that 30% are ignored for the 70% of PvP whales.

I completely agree with you, I took 6 months off after the disastrous CV-Rework in Jan 2019, I took another 6 months off starting from Feb this year, and now I've knocked my T10 snowflakes off (not bothered with T9 or lower stuff), I'll ditch the game yet again til Xmas where I'll only knock off T10 snowflakes again before ditching it once more afterwards. When WG can't even keep me as a Co-Op player because the game is so over-stuffed with crap, you know they've screwed up. I miss the early days when you'd get just 2 new ship lines in a whole year, and patches were every 3+ months apart so things had time to settle in and breathe. Now WG are so desperate to retain customers and attract new ones that they feel they must pump out eleventy-billion things every patch, with zero time for anything to settle before the next patch 4 weeks later brings another eleventy-billion things. It's maddening to see what they've done to what used to be a decent game with just a few issues to sort out compared to the current mess.

WHICH NO-ONE IS DOING BECAUSE THEY ARE ALL PLAYING CO-OP FOR SNOWFLAKES............... you know what, there's zero point talking to you and your warped sense of reality. Even WG have said I'm right - "Commanders! We have updated the Asymmetric Battle matchmaker to improve the combat efficiency of the VII-VIII tier team. We have also added the possibility to complete combat missions for Asymmetric battle on tier VII-VIII ships. You can receive up to 4 Gift containers as a reward for completing these missions. Details are available in the game client. Changes will take effect after server restarts tomorrow." But you just continue blathering on in our own little world mate where everything is fine and you are the only one who truly knows what is right/wrong!

Looks like it's fixed now. I got the message as soon as I clicked the EU button, I never even got to WG's website just straight to that error message.

I know you like to miss points constantly, so much so that I wonder if English is your first language because you seem to misunderstand it so much, so I'll try again - People are playing 50-100-200-300+ etc Co-Op games right now to knock snowflakes off. Once they finish doing that, they'll move on to either Dockyard missions (best completed in Random rather than Asymmetric) or Campaign (T2-4) because the Asymmetric mode has already got a bad reputation after people play 1-2 games with bots everywhere and don't play it again. If WG had started Asymmetric mode in 2 weeks time, people would have finished their Co-Op snowflake stuff (the biggest grind/excitement for most people right now) and then would have moved on to playing PvP again so more of them would have been available to try the new PvP mode, so player numbers would be higher with less bots involved and the game-mode might have stood a better chance as opposed to the issues now of very low player uptake because EVERYONE IS PLAYING CO-OP TO KNOCKOFF SNOWFLAKES!

None of which are a good enough reward to make enough people play it and prevent T8 teams being filled with Bots, ruining the mode for everyone. Once the mad rush to knock-off snowflakes is over the numbers "may" increase but I think by that point the mode will have been poisoned by a continual loop of too much negative press over the numbers of Bots making even less people play it until it's removed as worthless. It was a nice idea but, as always with WG they can't plan things out properly. Ideally it should have been released 1-2 weeks into this patch, to allow for players finishing off snowflake stuff first. I mean just think of all the stuff that landed in 0.9.8 - Snowflakes (mainly Co-Op) New Campaign (T2-4 Random). New Dockyard (Random) Asymmetric Battle. It's no wonder players are being scattered around all the different game modes!

Nothing's changed. I'm a Co-Op main and they played today the same way they played at the start of the year. One or two ships may do weird and wacky things but overall in the 31 games I played today everything played out how I expected to.

Done, added 31 SC's.

After 31 SC's I wasn't far off! - No steel, 1 ship and 2x 1k doubloons. Ships 1x California Signals 50x Wyvern 25x Wyvern 25x Leviathan 25x Leviathan 25x Bailisk 25x Red Dragon 25x Red Dragon 25x Red Dragon 25x Oroboros 25x Oroboros 100x India Delta - HP 100x India Delta - HP 100x November Echo Setteeteen - AA flags 100x November Echo Setteeteen - AA flags 100 Zulu Hotel - Commander XP Camos 50x Valentines day camo 50x International Womens day camo 50x Type 59 Camo - +200% XP 50x French Riveria camo Resources 15,000 coal 15,000 coal 15,000 coal 50,000 FreeXP 50,000 FreeXP WG Items 30 days Premium 14 days premium 7 days Premium 7 days premium 1000 doubloons 1000 doubloons and now to ignore the game until Christmas when I go through this all over again

Hi, When I click EU server I get the following Error Message - All other server buttons work correctly.

I've 31 SC's coming so I mainly expect Signals, Camos and maybe some Coal/Premium Time. Not expecting Ships, Steel or Doubloons.

5 years into the game and WG have had to completely redesign CV's and now commander skills are being completely redesigned yet again for the second time, and all because WG have no roadmap for the future and therefore keep powercreeping themselves, continually forcing an almost a complete redesign of the large elements of the core gameplay just to compensate for their inability to plan. This re-jigging of the Captain Skills isn't a "good thing", it's just a symptom of how badly broken the game is that it takes the redesigning of a major core element of the game to try to fix it, and we all know it's badly broken because we're all celebrating the redesign like it's a "good thing" rather than being angry that WG have let the game get so broken that it needs such a drastic redesign to try to fix its many problems - Only It won't fix anything, it's just another plaster being stuck on which might stop the superficial bleeding for a while but doesn't solve the core problems which are killing game from the inside. Do I sound too negative? Thats experience I get from 4.5 years of WOWS and dealing with WG! The game has some really good features but WG's inability to plan is really hurting the game and the players!

I'm not going "thank WG" for bringing back an Op that they'd already ruined twice before (income nerf & Autopilot broken) and has still taken over a year of promises to "fix". At some point people need to realise that WG are like an abusive husband that players keep coming back to just because WG promises they've changed, only to be surprised when they get bh-slapped once more by more WG nonsense.

I've only played 31 games since Feb which is amazing considering the lockdowns mean I now have so much free time. In contrast I've spent about £300+ on new games on Steam with most of them only being bought BECAUSE they were on sale. Maybe it's the natural ebb and flow of older players who buy lots initially when the game still excites them only for their wallets to dry up after a few years when the business practices of the company running the game finally annoys them enough but I can't see how this "sale" would excite new players in any way at all?

Hmmmmm, got 31 TX ships, only played 31 games since Feb so this single snowflake event will double my number of games played If it wasn't for the Snowflake/Santa events I'd not play at all right now.

@Rukenshia - Thanks Dude/Dudette! Your site has been a huge help over these events!

Kitakami just entered Live testing so the servers are getting choked on 40+ extra torps per ship flying around every 3 minutes

Ideally, WoWS v1.0 would include a game engine change away from BigWorld, just like WoT V1.0 did, but I'm not convinced that'll happen for a long time yet.

Is the Ship Model a completely new one or is it just more of WG's current laziness of popping new turrets on existing models and saying "New Ship!" and they've just regunned the FdG model with a few extra tweaks?

I'd Ignore individual ship Win Rates - the rest of the "individual performance" stats you have for that ship are OK so the WR is more down to your team. Here's the reverse of what you have - My MK has a near 51% WR over 69 games which sounds good, only my "individual performance" stats are terrible, I was just carried by my team a lot -

Just to add regarding "bundles" - The easier WG make it for us to give them money, the more money WG will make. It may take a little extra work for WG to create extra "non-bundled" items for the store but the increased financial benefits will make it worth that little bit of effort.

I've always said I'd never bother with the rubbish that is RB, yet this ship would make me consider using up all my 3M FXP to reset lines just to get it. Sad really

Derpski the T3 Ru DD - 10 torps every 20 seconds - only 4km range so gotta get close - 171 battles averaging 50k damage Clemson the T4 USN DD - I think it's possibly the most "overpowered when compared to the other ships at it's tier" tech tree ship in-game - 99 battles averaging 65k damage

Is it - E-Razer - as in an electronic razor for shaving? or Eraser - as in something that deletes a thing? I'm with the other dude who also thought you were called E-Lazer

I was referring to WG's test itself as "disastrous" rather than the Subs themselves, which TBF were also disastrous Virtually all the "data" WG got from this testing is worthless for any except "do Subs cause the game to crash" and the 5.9-6.1m exploit. For every single other metric the testing not only failed hard but the results WG got are so utterly skewed due to the bots thats it's absolutely worthless and a waste of 6 weeks of effort. This is just like CV-Rework when PTS CV testers including myself told WG numerous times that the Rework on the PTS was a massive failure with dozens of examples and reasons why. WG didn't like being told that they weren't the geniuses they thought they were so WG management ignored everything, took the awful bot-filled results as accurate and then had the nerve to claim that "as the PTS was undermanned all the (bad) results are worthless so we have to make it Live and test on there instead", followed by 6+ months of wildly swinging balance changes caused by all the issues that everyone on PTS told them about. It's just one more example of WG management being bad at managing, amongst the hundreds of other examples we already have!