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How about a button that allows you to play without CVs? I saw in a pole on the forum that 75% rather play without CV. Let give this option! Then CV's can battle it out for themselves like in the battle of Midway. btw:. during the battle of midway, 41 torps were released by the Americans on the Japanese Carriers/ships and 0 hit. All damage to the carriers were done by dive bombers. Completely opposite from WOW where the torps do the most damage and 3 torp planes on tier X can have 6-8 hits.

of course... I see ships in silly camo's. people can get tier 10 captains...

Make it possible to play random - NO CV games. It still [edited]annoying when a CV player sucks. You basically already lost before starting or you run over the other side which is also no fun.

What's still the case, if 1 CV is good, the other suck, the game is for 95% decided. This was one of the biggest issues before the reworks, one of the main reasons for the rework. it still sucks!!

Can we stop with the little girls avatars - camo's - port - voices in a warm game?? Ps same for space camo's in normal random.

Hi, I just had a game in my Grozovoi vs a Midway. Normally my Grozovoi shreds planes like it was an AA spec'd Montana before the terrible 0.8.0 upgrade. The CV spots me right in the beginning and I turn into him to make his aim time as short as possible and be a target as short as possible and he bombs off 15k health in his first run (2/3 of my total health), that leaves me 9k health. I use a heal and I turn on my AA consumable and with him staying in AA range he does 2 more runs. The second he mostly misses ( 1-2-k) and the 3rd run finishes me off. What's more, I didn't shoot down a single plane, I only did 9860k plane damage. Is this normal? Is a CV supposed to be able to kill a DD with Bombs? Besides being spotted all the time, the CV is now able to finish me off within 2 min of the start if he sees me? Should I as a result now stay with AA cover as a DD and not play in front of the fleet to spot for torps? Not close enough to the enemy to torp? Is AA that has been able to kill 40 planes in a game due to a skillful flak avoiding CV player useless? What happened to this game? Has wargaming made the CV now playable for the pre 0.8.0 bad CV player with the effect that the good CV player makes his CV OP? Of course, the only solution is to nerv it, or make AA stronger and than the bad CV players start crying again.... where is this going to end?

I heard Notser say he used the brake so the AA would dissipate and do no damage. But what I read here is, the faster you fly, the wider the flag. So, zig zag to the target because the flak is always shot in your path? And what can you do when you are in bomb-torp-rocket run range? Only braking and as little manoeuvre as possible since the aiming rectangle gets bigger otherwise?

I saw a game today where a friendly AKAZUKI shot down 47 planes.... 47!!! Even for a AA cruisers that is impressive! (I have had those games in my Groz also, not as much but multiple times 30+ plane kills)

I was alone. I was almost in cap and no other ships near enough. They came from the enemy side so I am absolutely sure it was just me. A full squad and none were smoking coming from the enemy side, I assume 100% health. I don't have it every game, but sometimes I wipe out the squad completely and in this case even before it reached me. Maybe it is then a tier VIII carrier against my tier X Grozovoi? All of them right in my flack? My Groz is fairly AA specked. When I zone it goes to 150%, it has the AA consumable. (Yesterday I killed 47 planes with the Grozovoi in a game it that had 2 CVs a side)

Where are the carriers? I have played almost 10 games and NO carriers. I'm in my Kidd (together with my Grozovoi my best AA ships- don't laugh, it's true) but I have not seen a single CV in a game this morning. The meta of the play is already FUBAR'd, but now they FUBAR'd the CVs so much no one wants to play in them? Great idea to have a shoot planes assignment in the FLY STRIKE WIN assignments. You can leave FLY out of the title I think. Thanks for the Alaska, can we no go back to pre 0.8.0?

I disagree, I play DD. I play Kidd or Grozovoi - when planes see you, it's too late and they are within AA range - you can switch the zone in 3 seconds so attacking planes are always facing 150% AA - Besides the 150%, you have the AA consumable - Carriers want to focus you with their rocket planes so they bring the planes to you to farm Just played a 2 CV a side game, Grozovoi got 47 planes.

it would be nice if once in a while (more often then now), call it gunners expertise or sheer firepower, you shoot one of the incoming planes so fewer torps are dropped.

Just had a Double CV a side game in my Grozovoi.... 47 (yes 47) plane kills. What is weird is sometimes you seem to make little damage, but 1 full squad was completely shredded before they reached me.

yes, I can't play at this moment either... that means they are down for 1 hr at least. Must be some serious issue.

Depends a bit, Groz and Kidd have repair and AA consumable. I have done 30+ plane kills with both already in double CV games. :)))) So for the assignment, it is very good.

Roll back the patches! Give us WOW pre 0.8.0 back!

I don't like the new CV play at all. I find that DDs are better capable to shoot down planes than cruisers or BBs who have like 6+ times the guns. When I have a 'shoot planes down assignment' I use my Kidd, Grozovoi or Gearing (exchanged speed boost for AA consumable). Especially with the new detectability, it like catching flies in a web. Also, the fact that the zoning in a DD switches really fast means that planes will always be on the 150% side. Perhaps CV planes stay away from my Montana (AA spec'd) which they can spot more early than the DD or not, I shoot down MUCH more planes with my DDs than in my Montana. Sometimes it's attacked 3 x by a wave and I take down 2-3 planes where my DD would do 5-6 or even 8 planes per flight. Personally, I think that AA support should be (I think) a cruiser role. If you see Notser's last video he is defending his team from planes in a Gearing. This shows how much the Meta of the game is affected to the point of being silly. And, stupid CV players, stay stupid CV players. The majority of them still support the flank that's already winning and not the flank that is outgunned and really needs their help. So, on the CV irritation side, nothing has changed other than the fact the game is less fun, a lot of players are complaining, we have had 3 rounds of nerfs, buffs and fixes and the end can't be near because it's still a mess. General buffs influence high tiers in another way than low tier. The fly-strike-win assignments are super simple to keep people playing but the complaints remain. I also notice that CVs are less and less in the game due to all the nerfs. Even without the CVs I personally notice that it's quite easy to stop playing where 3 months ago I would still do one more game. I wonder where this is going....

Awesome, not to hard assignments, actually enjoyed playing the Atlanta again. Hadn't touched it in a year or so. The hardest one was shooting planes due to the lack of CVs in the higher tier games (don't play lower tiers). But after 10 games with either my Kidd or Grozovoi (DDs do the most plane kills) I managed. pity about the new meta gameplay. I hope they well go pre-patch with the work. I'm actually hoping the old carriers are back, it was far from perfect but WAY better than now.

I actually think WG did so many changes that you only see a carrier like once every 6-7 games LOL. That's also a way to stop the negative feedback/comments. So, since that is resolved, can we now go back to the pre-patch version and get our old gameplay back? Where BBs and cruisers shot planes and not DDs? I am doing the fly-strike-win assignment using my Kidd or Grozovoi, averaging 20 planes per game if (big IF) there is a carrier in the game. I'm not a DD player, but I had to play like 10 games to get 2 games with a CV in it so I could kill the planes. Killing planes was the hardest assignment due to the lack of CVs lol. Ps When will WG see the light? Or will this game die a slow death due to less and less people playing it.

SO many fixes, changes, different modules, captain skills, ships that were dominant are no longer, DDs that are like planes killers, BB's that can't hit a plane, damage that's is spread out over the incoming planes. CV players that are so focused on their FPS type flying they don't see messages or DDs coming for them. What about... out of the box... we go back to PRE 8.0.0? And we introduce a skill limit to play carriers? Or, even leave it... I will never complain about shitty carrier players any more...

Hi Guys, I have been looking around the web on best practices for the upgrades and new captains skills but didn't find much. So if any of you have a suggestion for the ships upgrades and captain skills, I would be very grateful!

Hi, I am fighting with the zoning, even when I have a full AA spec'd Montana, if I have no other AA ships near, the first flight always comes through without loosing a plane (yes I know, not very realistic, but WG has dropped realism when schoolgirls became commanders and we had haloween & space camo's. With the consequence that the planes are now on my 50% side for their return run. Are you guys also switching zones during the raids? I know on my Groz that pays off since the switch is very fast (5sec). I find it very annoying to do since often I am also in a battle, ducking evading whatever the planes dropped on me and meanwhile also not trying to give a broadside or ramming into something. In that sense, I like the old Manual AA better click on a torpedo squad and usually shred them in my Montana or seriously disturb their drop (with full flack focus more realistic than everything surviving IMO).

I agree with you... that's the advantage of a ship with no tower. But again, where a DD can point X guns, even with only 1 side, a BB can point between 3-6 times as many guns. So in concept you are right, but in numbers I seriously doubt it.

More changes to fix something that's broken in the core... like the 20% spotting will matter significantly, with their ridiculous speed they will fly 2 seconds further and still spot you. They keep nerving and nerving and nerving. The carrier is OP in presence, if he focusses you he is on you every 30 seconds which is insane. AA of some DDs is more effective than Cruisers or BBs who have a LOT more guns. Because of the swift zoning on DDs their AA is always 120-150%. Just killed another 30 planes in my KIDD... just silly!!

Hi, There is a lot of talk about the new CV update which all started with bad CV players having a big impact on the game vs normal to good CV players. My question is, has that really changed? I have had several games where one CV players spotted, dropped his defensive fighters correct, held an eye on the chat for help requests, find/kept DDs spotted, helped the weak flank, punished split of BBs , forced ships to turn and expose their weak sides. Where the other CV just did 'it's' thing. And maybe the impact by a CV because of the patch is a little less but certainly not enough. A good CV player has MUCH more impact on the game vs a bad CV player and still has MUCH more impact on the outcome of a game than a bad/good DD-CC-BB player. To accommodate this patch we had to accept: - ridiculous spotting (within 1,5 min everyone is spotted) - respec'ing captains - respec'ing ships - if you CV targets you, attacks every 30 seconds - silly amount of catapult fighters - completely different Meta of the game - forced huddling of the ships just to be safe from the CVs - DD play no longer fun - short range ships can't hide - position themselves - Multiple CV games (then it's just a shooting arcade) - planes that can't be shot down on the first run because damage spread out fairly evenly - the silly F key - Zoning (seriously? people or people with machine guns running from side to side on a ship? Really?) So why WG did the patch, is still an issue. The impact is huge. You can release 10 more patches but every patch will bring its own issues (noticed that now hardly anyone plays the Hakuyu?). The base idea (which was good) turned out to be solved bad (in my opinion). My suggestion: 1st role back the software 2nd allow carriers only to advance to the next tier once they have met certain criteria (Like win rate, av. damage, reported x times for bad play then y games no CV, or a combination of these things). This way more skilled players will come up the ladder of the carriers and you will not get a player like me (who got his tier X carrier with gold and free XP) playing high tiers. Ps. For anyone reading this to the end, I NEVER play my Hakuryu or Midway other than Coop for some mission criteria because I suck at carriers and know it :)))