ThePurpleSmurf

I'm a DD main and these changes affect me the least. Even better, I can now finally use my smokes selfish and do not have to waste them on *edit nice team mates in an attempt to save them from their own stupidity because they are pushing into positions with no way out. So remember kids, if you see me ingame do not ask me for smoke, because …

Got this ship today as freeloader from the mission. #1: 5000 Free XP

Are you a BB main? Because as DD you often enough wish there would be more splashes, because it makes hitting you much harder for the big ships. I hate these splashes too if I shoot at a DD that runs away with low HP, but I love the same splashes if it's me who has to run away to save my heinie.

As I said, it's personal preference. But I'm not done with testing the torps, because I have not yet decide which are more valuable for my playstyle. They should just give the Lo Yang only one type of torps with 8km, 60 knots and 13500 alpha, problem solved.

It's not that the weak long range are useless.

I experiement with both types. The short range hit much harder and are much faster which make them great if cruisers or BBs push your smoke with hydro or if you push enemy DDs in their smoke, they stand no chance against these torps. The long range torps are slower and hit way less hard, but they reload faster and are stealthier (1.1km compared to the 1.4km for the fast short range torps) and are better for crowd control or to flush ships out of smoke. Both have pros and cons, but I think at the end of the day the long range are more universal because the short range ones are pretty much useless in standard or epicenter mode. But I have not decided yet which one I like better, more testing required. :D

On a serious note, Lo Yang is borderline overpowered and IMO the most versatile DD in the game right now, except for the Z-52. The hydro has more range than any other DD except said tier 10 Z-52. The torpedoes do not deal much damage, but they are extremely stealthy which take many players by surprise. The one less gun than Benson is no big deal really, because the combination of smoke + hydro make up for it big time. Just learn to know what ships have radar (real radar, not hydro like the Lo Yang has) and what range they have and do not push blindly into caps unless the radar ships were spotted and you know where they are. Avoid to get too close to radar range. Yes, a DDs job is to contest cap points but it's no shame to abandon a cap for a few minutes if a radar ship is nearby and return to the cap later. There is plenty of time to take a cap back at a later time. Battles must not be won in the first 3 minutes. This is not meant to brag, but as you can see on my Lo Yang stats below there is nothing wrong with this ship and it is very capable to stand it's ground even at tier 10 in mostly solo queue. The mistake number one 99% of DD player make is, that they play way too aggressive and pay not enough attention to the minimap and the location of radar cruisers. Overconfidence lead to suicide very fast in this game.

soon

See title. Not possible to insert images in posts and uploading to the WG server return an error message, that files can not be uploaded. Please fix asap, so we can post brag screenshots and potato shaming screens again.

different hoster UPDATE Hmm, it seems only certain image hoster work for direct embedding. Weird stuff.

Insert image from URL: Direct Link embedded: Forum Upload: UPDATE Looks like both methods work again.

This is called Direct Link. If you say post the link, then it is like you do embed videos, you copy the link and paste it into the comment field and the forum software grabs it and embeds the video for direct view. Jesus sake.

Does not work either. It's the same as insert from URL, the preview works but as soon as you hit the save button it only shows the file name instead of the image.

Yeah I just noticed, when I tried to post a Supercontainer screenshot.

Second SC within 24h with TYL. Not sure if it's bad or perhaps usable with the upcoming smoke changes. Bigger smoke circles allow ships to sit further back in smoke to be concealed.

So your greatest achievement today was to show us how to post file names without the actual images? I'm impressed, gj.

The general skill level is plummeting since months and there is no hope in sight. It's terrifying how many players lack the very basics of this game.

This is always the case and always the answer the community get from WG staff. If the Devs have enough time to screw us all over with fundamental changes, such as the upcoming smoke changes or the stealth fire and other thing, or develop a mess like the RN BB line, they should have time to invest 1-2 weeks to fix or improve literally dozens of small yet very annoying things in the game to just improve the overall quality of their game. And to be honest, with more than 4100 employees on WGs end there should be at least one Dev to be found who can handle QoL changes full time. QoL changes is what makes players (customers) happy, not so much major failures like Graf Zeppelin, RN BB, Clan Wars, just to name a few. m2c

How can you say this? There are plenty of useful tipps in this thread and readers can even learn something about american and british history. This is probably the most constructive thread in the whole internet.

Well, I'm not ungrateful or complain but these flag in particular are the least useful for me personally, that's why I consider them 'okayish'. For me personally the combination of ship xp + commander xp is less useful, because … well, I explained the reason in my post above. Nonetheless are all the new flag very good and of high value.

Yeah, these flags of the new ones are the least useful. I prefer Dragon, Hydra or the Free XP flags. These Red Dragon are somewhat a waste, because the ship XP are good for grinding lines, but the commander XP is useless in that case, because I boost my commander with Elite XP. The commander XP is nice on 19pt captains, but then the 100% ship XP is wasted, because ships with 19pt commander are usually Tier 10 or fully upgraded anyway. So the combination of ship XP + commander XP is kinda useless for me.

TYL pick, it's okayish I guess

Now wait a second. Isn't this is what the independence day and the bill of rights is all about? The brits colonialized north america and later on were kicked out again (in the history books soon to be referred to as the real brexit). The congress declared the remaining american colonies an independent country and called it the united states of america. Which we all know, was later known as WG NA So technically the NA guys kicked out the Brits, but they kept their language which make all citizens of north america at least somewhat brits. Well, I don't see any flaws in this logic, do you?

If you behave ingame, which means less reports and positive karma, you get rewards from time to time on NA and also on RU, Who knows, maybe we get it on EU too, far far in the future. This is the reward camo on my NA account:

Play on NA, problem solved.