tenacious_torps

cherry has the big advantage of being restricted to actually useful ships. if you want/have to play operations solo, this alone makes it the safest bet.

way too arcade. if this becomes part of the mode rotation in random battles, i will stop playing randoms altogether. well, at least the tiers arms race is restricted to.

t10 is boring af and having it shoved down your throat for all competitive modes doesn't help... wg are shooting themselves in the foot big time, burn out is more or less inevitable.

since lots of people haven't any issues, how can you say the problem is on WG's end tho? run a trace and you might get some actually useful info.

@El2aZeR Indeed, the problem lies far deeper than that. It's an issue with the in-game culture. Of course, I'm aware it's hardly exclusive to this game, but we should aim for something better. I'm with you when it comes to that keeping the star mechanic, but I don't believe for a second that changing just that will help all that much, if the mindset doesn't change. It's a team game, we need more than the removal of mechanics that reward the opposite, we need incentives to promote teamplay more.

Good on you and @MrConway and the rest of the team for that. Yes, it is visible - and I'm thrilled about it. I've been highly critical ever since... well, possibly the SirFoch disaster was when things reached a point, where I just couldn't keep any somewhat impartial stance any longer. Got me a ban in the process, but let's let bygones be bygones. I really think this was handled rather well. Now, I still have trust issues, to quote some other dude in this thread, and still think too many decisions have been made with too much marketing and too little betterment of the game in mind, but these are steps in the right direction. Visible steps. In fact, I recently, and for the first time in a long, long while, bought longer term prem time. Take it as a declaration of moderate trust. I'll still continue to be a pain in the backside, when it looks like another screw-up is in the offing tho. Actually, I hope you welcome a critical playerbase, it shows we're invested in this game and care about it. Cheers, tt

or maybe not, wtf just happened there?

alright... keeps you saner

alright... keeps you saner

alright... keeps you saner

I'm sure we'll hear about it, if this goes totally overboard in practice, but I highly suspect the opposite is much more likely. In the end we'll just have to hope that eventually the people in charge will develop some common sense and good judgement over time. and if they don't... well, I bought the shovel already... :D

just law of big numbers, mate. eventually you're bound to run into such streaks. personally, I take online gaming as a crash course in expectations management, it's rather therapeutic and keeps you sane.

@crysantos thanks for getting this mess sorted asap. seriously, I'm beginning to think things are actually improving in the communications department. which is a nice and unexpected change, so keep going. :) Of course, there's still the matter of the OP and his mate to be resolved, now that the bigger issues are dealt with. Proof is in the pudding and all that.

^^ on the other hand, if proven idiocy became a banning offence the playerbase would be immediately quartered. and drawn. and possibly burned.

Was that a serious question? In any competitive mode I assume you got RPF on Gearing, even if Harugumo has it too - which I don't really see all that often - you know from what direction you will get spotted and have superior concealment, speed and agility. Keep spotted, force smoke, torp smoke, wait for radar cruiser to react to F3-spam, smoke up yourself, gun down, if still at all necessary.

Thanks. Hope you get a clarification that will suffice to avoid a full blown beepstorm, it's certainly lurking on the horizon.

Harugumo is slow and has all the agility of a pregnant cow close to labour, this is a non-issue. Every other DD can dictate the engagement 1vs1. Where it gets nasty is when the Harugumo teams up with the one actually way OP ship right now - Worchester and her stealth radar. That's when you realise you just grabbed your ankles... But the thing that needs fixing isn't the IJN DD, it's concealment less than radar range.

Good lord, this thread... It is completely irrelevant whether you think sync-dropping is unfair and should be banned or not. We have an official WG spokesperson on record that it is fine, so that was the state of matters until yesterday's evening. Now we have another official WG spokesperson on record with the exact opposite and people have been sanctioned already. Let me translate in real world terms. Let's assume you're in a country, where you are supposed to drive on the right side of the road, regardless of your preference to driving left. Now overnight authorities decide, nope, from now on it'll be the left side, but do not announce that decision. People leave for doing their usual crap in the morning and loose their driving licenses. Even if the decision in itself is in line with your preference, I'm sure you can wrap your head around there being an issue here. I hope that was unsubtle enough to finally get the point across. (for the record: I think sync-dropping is a tad low even in randoms and smells of insufficient testicle size, but whatever...) Seeing how @Crysantos has had more than enough time to eat and sleep by now, I expect we'll see some clarification very shortly. On other, completely unrelated news: I'm off to buy a bigger shovel with an ergonomic handle for throwing large amounts of shite.

again, dude, this stopped being about the OP more than an hour ago already.

given the recent buffs to moskva armour and iirc izumo too, it's become somewhat valid not my preferred build, but it's not nonsensical, if you think shatters are an issue. gets you also over the treshold for GK deck, for example.

Might want to consider IFHE

the only thing they're sure to detect is the exact time when you clicked battle. if that happened to be simultaneously for you and your clan mate, they might jump to wrong conclusions. the thing is of course, that it's bound to happen ever so often given the sheer number of players, so that would be really bad news.

@ferry_25 I consider it far more likely that somebody effed up and WG are now going into turtle mode again. pretty much what happened at one point in the foch affair.

you're both right, but allow for crysantos actually needing to eat and sleep, like any other human being. we can blast him tomorrow, if necessary.

While it is entirely likely, that somebody on the internet will not tell you the truth and nothing but the truth, is it more likely than yet another major league communications eff up by WG, who have a long, long history of at best giving vague and confusing info, if not outright contradictory or straight into completely bereft of facts territory?