ThePurpleSmurf

Citadels anyone? Not the highest damage but playing objectives and securing 6 kills is always nice

The 2 new SCs from the campaign With the 2750 Doubloons from ranked, this 1k from the SC it's almost tempting to buy some more Doubloons and get the Lo Yang, now that it's on discount and the new Pan-Asian line will be released soon™

Looks more like one of these over confident cap yolo rusher, popping instant smoke in the cap zone and sit there broadside on as if they never knew that torps are coming his way in a couple of seconds.

FTFY

This! Ingame Profile/Summary you can see the numbers for average per battle and records. If you hover your mouse over a value it shows you in a tooltip which ship it was. My potential damage record is 3.1M in my Des Moines.

We all understand these changes wrong. In reality it is a indirect BB economy nerf because they just got too many free flags for Fireproof and Dreadnought.

It's you lack of competence at high tiers, especially in cruisers, that you do not understand what problems comes with the high tier maps we have. There are several maps, in fact most of the high tier maps, that are almost unplayable for cruiser in particular, but also for BBs, because there is no cover at all for the major part of maps especially around objectives. There is NOTHING you can do when you are in an uptiered cruiser that has a firing range of 15-16km when the enemy ships are 17-18km far away. You can not shoot at them but they have the firepower, once you stick your nose out, to oneshot send you back to port. Anyone who has played more than 10 games in tier 10 battles in a cruiser knows exactly what i talk about. That you do not know it is not my fault of explanation or lack of details for my complaint, it's you incompetence to speak about high tier gameplay because you spend so much time seal clubbing at tier 1 to tier 4 where this all does not matter. And YES, in this case your stats matter a lot, because they prove without a doubt, that you have literally zero experience with the problems I mention in my first post and it was YOU who made the claim that I wrote this out of frustration for one lost battle and implied that I'm a bad player and this is why I lost a battle. Both is not true.

All these stupid weird changes in attempt to fix the high tier gameplay meta and make people play more active. Seriously? These changes suck big time and will force more *Edited high tier meta on us for sure. WG, you want to fix the gameplay and make high tier fun again? I tell you how to do it, because probably the majority of players already know how to fix it but for whatever reason you, WG, close your eyes and put your ears into deaf mode and screw with game mechanics that don't need a fix. WG, here is your solution on how to make high tier fun again: Fix your goddamn maps! Pretty much every map is *Edited and THE main reason for the meta we have for a while now and players complain about it again and again and you, WG, just give a crap! You uptier T8 into T10 on maps like Desert of [edited] Islands or Mountain [edited] Range or Oki[edited]nawa without any cover at all. Oh yeah, it is sooooo much fun to play Cruisers with a 15km firing range when the nearest enemy ship is at 18+ km behind islands. Yep, it's much fun to sail into open water to HOPE to land a HE shell on these sniping *Edited that have the ability to nuke you out of the water with just a few stray shell, while they complain about 12k fire damage over 15 minutes time they take which they can heal back to 100%. Dump these crappy maps and create new and good ones. If you are out of ideas, contact the top clans in this game and ask for suggestions or even make a public map design contest and you'll be surprised how this game could improve. And get rid of this crap of a MM you have in place and refuse to improve it. Honestly? I give a damn if I had to wait 5 or 10 minutes for a match if I knew that it will be a good balanced and skillwise even match. Domination mode with 2 DDs and no radar ships against 3 DDs and 4 radar ships? Oh looky there, a 2-ship tier 8 division against a 3-ship tier 9 plus a 3-ship tier 10 division? Oh yeah, the joy. MM these days seem to be fair and well balanced I guess (at least when you have Vodka for breakfast) More and more baddies get into high tier and ruin the gaming experience for everyone else who is at least somewhat competent, but apparently potatoes are valued higher than decent players even the decent players throw just as much money at you, WG - perhaps even more than the potatoes, which brings us to... Lastly, one of the main faults why we have so many *Edited players is because YOU, WG, do not educate them, you do not teach them when they are new to this game. Force them to learn the game, the game mechanics, know why they should use camos and flags, how to use their ship properly and what their ship role is. FORCE them to learn before they are allowed to play random battles and ruin everyone elses game, have them at least play 500 games in Coop and have them take a test (yes seriously, a test) and only those who can answer 25 (or whatever amount) game mechanic related questions correctly can unlock the Random Battle and Ranked Battle button! If they fail the test or refuse to make it, lock them in Coop, they wont notice the difference anyway and still throw cash at you! If, for whatever reason, a potato breaks out of Coop and ruins everyones game in Random, please PLEASE, fix the 'Plays Poorly' report and once a player pass a baddie threshold (let's say 25 reports of plays poorly) throw him back into Coop for the next 50-100 battles so he can learn more. Now hurry, quickly lock and delete this thread, because it contains swearing and, even worse, the TRUTH! Sincerely yours, a pissed off Smurf

Wait, let me get this straight. According to wow-numbers.com we both have played about the same amount of games (4300) on EU. While you have played approx 75% of your games in tier 1 to tier 4, where -shame on you- a HUGE chunk of your positive stats come from tier 1 Hermelin seal clubbing, is your performance in high tier (this is tier 8 to tier 10) a below average (almost bad) rating with a 43% win rate. You play BB only in higher tiers and you have only one tier 8 cruiser (that sits on an impressive 41% win rate), no tier 9 or tier 10 cruisers though. I on the other hand hate low tier, that's why I have played approx 65% of my games in tier 8 to tier 10 with a great (last approx 2000 games it was mostly unicum) rating with a 55% win rate which also is significantly higher considering only the last 1500+ games. And yet YOU call me a bad player who has no clue about high tier maps and gameplay and no rights to complain? Well, hard to argue against you as you have so much more experience and insight than I do, I guess.

This! Someone who skilled IFHE also skilled DE because it is kinda mandatory and if IFHE becomes useless again, there is no need to skill DE anymore.

You should not confuse the competetive gameplay with the random battle gameplay. High tier clans for the reason, because they usually know more things and more deeply than the average joe. For example, how big/small should islands be to give enough cover for certain ships classes, but not so much cover that they can camp there for the whole battle. How much have islands be spaced so ships can actually turn when not detected and stuff like this. The average joe would just put islands, and many of them, just somewhere and go for the cosmetic impression only while really competent players actually can design maps with strategic relevance and in ways that make pushes and (somewhat) coordinated actions possible. And you mention it, the competetive clans right now sit in smoke and do not much for the most time of a battle. But why is this? Because they play the same maps that we have to deal with in random too, the same poorly designed maps that force this playstyle if they do not want to get deleted right away.

Oh it's this crap again where people at the GC can try any ship they want (usually tier 10s), no upgrade and modules and gaming time is limitted to 20 minutes (including selecting a ship, equip it, queue for battle and so on) and in middle of the battle the GC ships go afk and sail a straight line into the enemy fleet, because their test time is up? Yeah, I remember those and there was quite a few of these account in almost every battle.

Just the usual free flags most others have too. On NA I have also these

Yeah it's ridiculous. I did not test it on PTS myself but I saw a video on YT where a BB had 2 fires and an enemy ship came into 5'ish km range and he could not shoot at it because he literally couldn't see anything except black smoke from the fires. I hope they add options to enable only some effects or disable it completely to keep the old effects.

They use a mod called Fog Remover. It's in Aslains Modpack, as well as in the official WG Modpack. It basically removes all weather effects ingame that impact the clear view. UPDATE And NO, it does not remove Cyclone or stuff like this.

Playing objectives, scouting for the team and throwing randomly area denial torps in the water sometimes pay off. 3rd Solo Warrior in total out of 5800+ games on NA and EU combined - still have no clear sky yet.

Khabarovsk - no matter how well or bad I perform in it I can not win games All IJN DDs - it just seem I can not perform at all with these ships Hipper - was a major PITA to grind through. Despite having 40+ games with a 1700 WTR I can not carry and sit on 45% WR or something like this But then again, I'm a potato and it's probably me and not the ships that cause these problems.

So it also seems fair that the 'fire victims' a.k.a BBs can heal 100% of the dealt fire damage back? It also seems fair that BBs can delete a Cruiser -at all tiers- with one salvo? Yeah seems fair to cripple any class that is not BB to the ground, because reasons. In all seriousness, WoWs is less and less fun to play with all the changes (more to come, see smoke changes and so on) that favour only one class and kicks the other classes in the face again and again. I already play a lot less WoWs than I used to and I stopped any money investement into this game for my whole family until the real problem (first and foremost the maps in general sucks big time and are the main reason for the shitty high tier meta) are addressed.

The way Expert Loader works is a bit stupid. You have to wait until your current amo is fully loaded, then switch ammo type and it works as intended. The perk does NOT work if your ammo is on reload and you switch ammo or if you pre-select a different ammo, then shoot and hope that the new ammo will be loaded faster.

So am I the only one who feels like the changed behavior of the compliment/report menu annoys the heck out of me! Why the eff was it changed so the menu fly-out to the left side now instead the natural right side? It is soooo irritating and annoying how the menu behaves now. This better be a bug and will be fixed ASAP! If you don't know what I talk about. Rightclick a name in battle or post battle and try to report/compliment a player, then you'll see it.

Used to be Gearing but now it's Z-52. Why? German Hydro, 'nuff said.

The 2 SC from the mission did not disappoint me - well they did but it was what I kinda expected, so it did not really surprised me. 100x +50% Commander XP Flags and 100x -20% Time of fire extinguishing Flags.

Economically a satisfying Gearing game. 4 kills (2 full hp dds), 140k damage but unfortunately no caps or the base XP would be much higher.

@Barney_Wobba Your Kraken might be impressive to you, but if you look at the stats altogether you see that you did very little for the team. 63k damage and 5 kills only underlines that you finished off low hp targets, the below 1k XP underlines this even more. This looks like a typical game of a BB player who sits all day long too far back or out of position and when the battle is already lost the enemy team, low on HP from the battle, chase you in the greed to get that last kill and you get some kills with stray RNG-luck shells. If you look at stat sites like warships.today you can see that you have a way below average aiming (very poor main battery hit ratio) and that you do a way below average amount of damage across the board. But on the other side, you are very new to the game with only 800 battles. Let's talk again once you have 2000+ battles and actually some experience with higher tiers.

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