ThePurpleSmurf

If this bothers you already in low tiers, then this is not the game for you.

It looks badass …

Patience. The game is only 5 years old and this feature was suggested only about 485 times. I'm sure it's on the list of coming soon™

When did that happen? According to your public accessible profil, you played your last 8 games in September 2020. Update BTW, having 3 kills or 200k damage doesn't mean that you played a good game. I've seen this many times that people are useless hiding, sitting in the back and doing nothing and when the game is totally lost, the enemy team pushes hard to kill everyone and this is when the useless player 'shines' and mops up a few low HP targets to get kills or players get cocky and try to ram or broadside for no reason. Yes, the result screen numbers look good, but it does nothing for the team if you are useless for 18 minutes and then score 200k in the last 2 minutes when the points are already 950 for the enemy team and 120 for your team.

but…but… they want to play the game as authentic and realistic as possible As i said in another thread, Ranked should have strict rules when it comes to amount of commander skill points, camos, signals, minimum amount of random battles at the same tier Ranked is played at, to ensure at least some experience. There is Random, Co-op, Scenarios where people can derp around as much as they want. There should be at least ONE game mode with a certain enforcement to play the game in a proper way.

Decided to qualify for Silver. First game, one of my teammates. Two year old account and this was certainly not an alt account judging by the game performance. We won however. The second game was a loss, because a full HP Thunderer on my team refused to leave the A line, when we were in a 2 vs 1 with me playing Republique and getting burned down by an enemy Thunderer with 10k HP remaining when i died. All my Thunderer had to do is push up and help me kill their last ship, but nope. Eventually he moved up but then stopped to cap with 90 seconds on the clock remaining and 300 points behind, instead to push the enemy Thunderer who was nose in and no way to disengage, easiest kill on the planet. Naturally we lost the game by points because the time ran out. I came in second on the team, lost the star because of this imbecile who came in last on the scoreboard, oh what a surprise.

I had the same question as i'm a DD main and love my Gearing. Same torps but more of them are a great area denial and herding tool. In the end i decided against Somers, because quite a few Somers owner told me that it's not really a good ship in the current meta. Virtually non-existent AA in a meta with at least 4 out of 10 TX CV games sounds like hell. There are a lot of gunboats out there, Kleber, Marceau, Smaland, Daring, and so on and the gun power of the Somers can not even scare a Shima, the gunboats will wipe the floor with Somers and there is no running away against 45+ knots DD hunter. So what remains is pretty much a torp boat that is designed for division/team play in comp environment, but because i'm a solo player and only play ranked, if at all, i would trade a lot of pain for 2 additional torps compared to Gearing, especially that i like to fight other DDs and i'm not a huge torp boat fan. In the end of the day i scratched the Somers idea and considered the Bourgogne. A great ship without a doubt, but it's yet another long range mainly HE spammer that also has a hard time in randoms as a solo player. I know first hand how often i meet them in randoms and how i smack them around in BB or Cruisers - not very appealing to be on the receiving end. Now i think it's best for me personally (solo player, my play style and so on) that i rather not buy Somers or Bourgogne but instead get 3 Made of Steel camos for each class one, on Daring, Hindenburg and Republique. I think i get far more value out of the camos than out of a DD that is most of the time an XP pinata for gunboats and CVs or a BB that is a long range HE spammer when there is Thunderer, Alsace and others available, which i already own. Long story short. Think about how long it took you to gather the steel (for me very long, because no CBs and skipping a lot of ranked seasons) and how much fun do you get out of the invested steel. If you are not a DD player, especially torp boat, and you want to play the ship only a couple of times or maybe a few dozen times in randoms, then the investment is probably not worth it. If you have a constant steel income and don't need to save up such an amount over 7-9 months or maybe longer, then go for it. But also consider that Somers does not get removed as steel boat because it's op or because it's too popular. This means, it will most likely return as a coal ship in the future.

Back in my day defensive AA was a useful consumable

TYL

Not in WoWs directly afaik, but you can do it easily with a short AutoHotkey script. However, make sure this is not considered a cheat.

Actually they should never withdraw any ship that was given out by coal or steel, simply for the fact that it creates a huge disadvantage for players who didn't have the chance to get it. Look at tournaments, clan battles, ranked. Everyone who got the i.e. Smaland is a god now, dominates the competitive modes while others are screwed and have no real equivalently strong ship available. If a ship is overpowered, nerf it. But removing it because it is 'too popular' is just plain stupid decision making and only displays how poorly WG handles these situations.

We had this topic just recently and someone said he tried all settings to hide the camo and it didn't work. So there is a good chance that you can not hide it yet, but maybe WG will add an option some day.

You can use Shift + X to lock on sector. This is very useful if you aim at a ship that goes dark behind an island and it would completely throw off your aim. CTRL + X locks the guns on bearing ... SHIFT + X locks the guns on sector. However, with lock on sector you will have the dispersion penalty, because you are not logged on to a target. But still, it let you shoot over the island instead of into the island or you can blindfire a stationary target, for example based on last known position from inside a smoke screen without vision. I've quickly made this Training Room demonstration video that shows how it works. Notice that i aim at the Montana, then press SHIFT+X. Notice that i'm not locked onto the target anymore but also look at the minimap, see the aim circle stays on target. I then smoke up and move the ship, you see the crosshair on the screen has a different position of where my shells land, look at the minimap, the aim circle stays on target regardless. Then i press SHIFT+X again and you see how the shells suddenly land where i aim, also the minimap aim circle moves away from the Montana.

You guys dream about free respec if they change this skill? We know what will happen: Hey captains, take these 100 doubloons and these 5 missions that give you another 50 doubloons each for a total of 350 doubloons. This should be enough to reset 2 out of your 58 BB commanders for "free" - but hurry, the missions and the reset is only available for 24h during a weekend. Oh btw, have we mentioned that you have to manually opt-in for the missions by clicking a hidden button in some random news article?

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I'm honestly not eager to play Gold, because there is no real incentive after they removed the JR flag (the true reason why i ever ranked out in first place). The only reason why i might do it at some point is for the ranked token. I have 8 left from old ranked and i need 10 for a ranked special camo for either Black (150% bonus to XP, FXP and EXP is really nice) or Bourgogne which i maybe buy in future. But then again, if i rather buy a bunch of Made of Steel camos for multiple TX ships instead of the Baguette, then i also don't need the ranked token and have no reason to go Gold. I can't help it, but since all signals and ranked camos were removed as rewards, there is no real reason to play ranked at all other than steel. The signals were nice to stock up for a couple of months random games. It was nice and fun to have this option, so naturally it got removed.

Why is there no Tier 9 "Made of Steel" camo, for let's say 7500 Steel? Everything for TX only is kinda lame and boring.

Same. I ranked out in Bronze and i'm not sure if i should go Silver. My main concern is that there aren't enough player in Silver for the rest of the season and then i'm forced to go to Gold, which is more time consuming. Next week there will be enough in Silver, because everyone who want to rank out has to go through Silver. But i wonder what happens the session after next week.

These drops happen even on the strongest hardware and you can watch it on pretty much every stream that it happens. Most common situations are zooming in to an island (very annoying if you try to aim at an island hugger cruiser) when FPS go down and shells fall short or you shoot with a delay because of the dip. Another very common situation is aiming through a smoke screen or through a burning or sinking ship that is between you and the target. Transparent particles seem to cause massive dips too.

You mean like one side 3 radars and the other side none? Or one side has gunboat DDs with 8+ km concealment and the other team has 5.5km concealment with hydro? Yeah, totally balanced MM right there. If they don't care about this stuff, why do you think they care about the Tone?

Not necessarily. Yes, there are a lot of issue in the balance department, but one major flaw since forever is the game performance. And from what i have heard from several people is, that the game seem to run a lot smoother and no FPS dips at all - at least on PTS. We'll see how this transfers to the live servers. But if they improve performance while at the same time the visuals, then i'd say it's a good thing and not a waste at all.

Okay guys, i bought some matches. I hope i get the 15 fires done before the police catches me. Wish me luck.

Let's start with something easy. User on your blacklist, who are on it for a reason, should never end up on the same team with you again - but they do, because blacklist users does jack, like so many other 'features' in the game.

I meant, put the salary on hold until this dev completed this mission and then, as reward for the mission, give them back their salary. And no, this wasn't meant seriously. 1

After at least 12 years (this is when you created your account) of internet experience you still take everything on the internet dead serious and it never occured to you, that some stuff might be sarcastic or only semi-serious? smh