ThePurpleSmurf

The crystal ball was strong with this one. On stream it was mentioned that about 60% of all voter picked 6-3 EU so the chance to win something might be lower than you think.

The same was said about the RU players but they did pretty well. There are quite a few NA player on EU and OMNI have alts on NA and already lost trainings games against APOC. I predicted a win for EU too, but I would not go as far as saying 'lol NA all low player'. Actually I hope for a close fight simply because this is more enjoyable to watch than the usual roflstomps we have in randoms more than enough.

This pretty much sums it up. This ship is not good at anything and no matter what I do (dispite the fact that I have well above server average stats) it just feels extremely powerless, near to impossible to carry games. When I play US/KM DDs, Blyska or Des Moines I feel very confident to be able to carry a game even with a couple of potatoes on my team. Playing Yorck I permanently feel useless for the team, can not even quickly delete a spotted DD at 8km because the RoF, low amount of shells and turret traverse is so lousy. Oh well, 6k XP away from Hipper which has far better guns (AP becomes useful, turrets turn much faster, shell travel time is better) and I do pretty well in it. I already know this, because I have the KM Cruisers unlocked on my NA account. Perhaps Yorck is not the worst ship out there, but for me and my play style it's together with KM DD T-22 by far the least enjoyable and fun to play ship. It's just a pain to grind through it, like so many other mid tier ships.

I've played more than 5k battles on EU and NA combined and I must say that I have never, not a single time, had the feeling that someone blatantly cheated or used aim bot. Most 'cheat' situations can be simply explained by one player played horrible and the other player was competent. Like for example shooting and kill ships in smoke. If you know the right techniques and are experienced, it is almost ridiculously easy to hit a ship in smoke. Also players especialy bad ones, which we all know is the vast majority of players in this game, are very predictable with how they react and what they will do to incoming shells or torps. Long story short, most 'cheat situations' can be explained with experience, plain and simple.

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I think I try Cleveland first and look how it goes. If it sucks I'll go with Ernst Gaede or more likely the Farragut because I can use my 19pt Fletcher commander on it.

Tier 9 battle! No comment! (also notice the 2 dead enemy ship icons in the channel ^^)

WG while you are at it, please remove those pesky little islands that keep on teleporting and appearing out of nowhere in front of me when I try to dodge and flee from incoming shells or torpedoes. It's not fair that it (my virtual life) ends like this. Thank you! Yours faithfully, ThePurpleSmurf

Ranked coming soon™ The ranked PTS test with ranked details was announced in the asia forums. Interesting part is no mentioning of special upgrades as rewards but various types of camouflage.

This pretty much boils down to the fact that I friggin hate (read H A T E) BB gameplay. BBs are boring af for me, because everything is so slow and clumsy and this applies to Yorck too. A reload almost long enough to boil an egg, a turret traverse speed that I can take a nap until the guns are on the other side of the ship. Tanky? Yeah in theory, in reality it is either max range camping (which I also hate because I'm a DD-kind of guy that is used to close range slaughter) or brawling. Dispite having hydro and torps, this ship handles like garbage and with this ROF and turret traverse it is far from a brawler, so what remains is sitting at 17km and toss out a few HE shell now and then. The whole Yorck gameplay is too much BB-style which I frickin hate and is kinda the prime example for an unfun to play ship. Yes, Hipper is similar, but the fact of the much much faster turret traverse speed makes it much more agile and dynamic. Roon is a great ship, even it is a long range sniper-type too. But the high ROF and relatively fast turret traverse speed make it fun to play. Hindenburg is a gem. I have the Roon (and of course it's predecessor Hipper too) on NA and do pretty okay with it and I played the Hinden quite a few times on PTS and know that I will love this ship. Yorck, meh. Nürnberg was fun though after the 360° turret change.

This is so ridiculous. I have it very often too that I get instantly 2 fires with the first salvo when I'm in Des Moines and as soon as the BB repairs I can rain HE on them for 3 minutes and no follow up fire.

I skipped last ranked season pretty much, but I need XP camos so I'll probably ranked out this season again. Also need flags, but WG decided to give us crappy upgrades instead. But then again, I consider speed boost and hydro special upgrade pretty useful on some ships.

3 months IIRC

Actually they do, kinda. From time to time everyone get 10 badass FTW camos (+333% commander XP +20% credits) if you manage to not get chat banned for a certain period of time. Quote: 'Awarded as a part of the reward system for good in-game behavior.' On Topic I just got reported for being nice for once. It was a T7 match and upon start I looked around and saw many ships without camo. I said in chat, that I have somehow the feeling that we lose, because so many ships have no camos or flags equipped, which is usually a thing newbies do. Instantly guys replied that they can not effort the credits to buy a skin. I explained to them, that this is a lame excuse, because you make enough credits at T5-T9 to easily can effort camos. Camos and flags are not just a skin, but actually make your ship much stronger, enemies detect you later, enemy shell have a higher dispersion so they survive longer because they take less hit. Furthermore does this help the team, because ships without camos/flags are usually the ones to die first and this put the team at a disadvantage. I was really polite and explite why camos and flags are important. As thank you I was called a toxic **** that should not be allowed to play with other people and on top of this I was reported as well. What is wrong with the WoWs players? Is the majority of the playerbase really that stupid and just can not understand simple stuff in the game?

I'm usually someone who tries to play for the team and sacrifice own damage and kills for the greater good. But the XP system utterly sucks and does not reward teamplay or playing the objectives at all. In fact, it only takes into account how much damage you can deal or rain HE on enemy BBs. This is why I'll become the most selfish a-hole DD you can meet in WoWs with immediate effect. Look at this game I just had in my Gearing. It is by no means my best game and the dealt damage is pretty low (actually bad) too, because I focused on playing the objectives and to spot for my team while remain undetected as much as possible, means not using my guns much. As you can see, very little usage of my guns and only 2 torps hit, but this was enough finish off a Yamato, which is a big help for the own team. Then 3 solo caps and an assisted cap. You'd think this gives nice XP, right? But you already see at the total XP with Premium account that it only gives 1680 XP in total. Let's look at my other effort for the team ... As you can see, I did almost all of the capping by myself, so it was close to 4 solo caps instead 3 + 1 assisted. I also spotted 35 torps for my team so they can avoid them plus close to 135,000 damage upon spotting, which is a decent number. Because I stayed most of the time undetected I have only 790k potential damage. Spotted 9 warships also helped the team so they have a target to shoot at. In my potato mind this is pretty much as much playing objectives and playing for the team as it gets as a DD. But let's see how this compares to sniping backline camper that did pretty much nothing, especially the Moskva with radar which wasn't used once in this game. That's it?!?!?? For all I did for the team, well smoking up the Hindenburg and other cruisers do -by nature- not get any XP reward at all, dispite this is a huge help for the team. The Moskva did nothing, did not kill anyone, did not cap, did not support with his tools (a.k.a. radar) and still has the same XP as I do for being constantly at the frontline, getting radared and hydroed and shot at by Zao, Roon, Missouri, Hindenburg and risking my ship so other team mates have a target to shoot at?! Well, sorry in advance to anyone who get me on your team but you pretty much do not exist for me anymore. You want a cap zone so the team get points? Well, you know where the caps are, do it yourself. Want my smoke or that I spot for you? Well f... you. Once too often WG showed me that DDs are the idiots of the game, that we have the highest risk and the biggest impact (well, after CVs) on the outcome of the battle yet get the Edited rewards for it. So I follow the WG advise: if you can't beat them, join them. This is what I'm going to do from now on, raw damage is all that matters to me and I give a crap about the so called team at all. Teamplay in WoWs is a lie anyway, unless you are in a strong Div or if you happen to have this 1 out of 500 games where a couple of competent players actually play together for a win. TL;DR XP System sucks, no more teamplay of any kind or team effort at all. Selfish damage whoring is the way to go! [update] p.s. The Yugumo that got more than 500 XP, which is almost half of what I got, did literally nothing in this entire game. It was on Hotspot and he was west of the Island at A cap and just threw torpedoes down the line as area denial. He did not cap, not spot, not pop smoke for allies. He did nothing yet he get half my XP. Seems fair I guess. This post has been edited by the moderation team due to swearing

You know, the more threads like this one the better, because this let WG know that there is something not okay. Because of these 'yawn threads' was the high tier economy changed, because something was not okay. Because of these 'yawn threads' was the current container system implemented. Because of these 'yawn threads' were a lot of mods/addons implemented into the vanilla client. Because of these 'yawn threads' were many ships looked at and buffed, because the community pointed out the problems. You don't need to like these threads, you are welcome anyway if problems get fixed based on threads like this.

CV: I'd rather remove an eyeball with a can opener BB: I friggin hate BB and refuse to play one unless absolutely necessary CA: Des Moines, (soon) Hindenburg, Cleveland DD: Gearing, Z-52, Benson, Blyska

1650 base XP on a win is average at best to be honest. But it's not about if it's a good or bad result. How can a camper like the Moskva, who did nothing for the team not even used his radar once because he was sitting 10km behind the cap at all times, have more base XP than a DD who did about 800% more for the team by capping, spotting, smoking allies and killing a T10 enemy?

Yeah, Yorck must be an amazing ship and with my experience of 4000 played games I just need to git gut. The fact that Yorck has only a 49% WR and an server average of 26k damage does mean nothing. I mean, even the widely considered shittiest ship in the game, the Indianapolis, performs better in WR and average damage. And even the worst ship by WR, the Indianapolis sister ship Pensacola, has a higher average damage output. You can turn it as you want, the Yorck is a POS and having an okayish game once every 20 games is not what I really consider enjoyment, let alone the complete lack of being able to carry a game. But we all have different opinions, which is fine I guess.

Yes it is very quiet but I actually like this. Though, there is another possible bug. The Interface Volume and Voice Message Volume are set to maximum, if I lower the volume just by one notch (like from 100% to 99%) the sound goes extremely quiet.

Is there a reason why the report/compliment menu is different in battle and post battle? The 'unsporting behavior' is only available post battle. And why is there still only 7 compliments possible, even with the changes? The game is full of salt, hate and whatnot, at least the compliments should be at least 20 a day, so people who show manners or play well can be at least placebo-rewarded.

Range Mod because it makes the DM much more versatile. Too many open maps and reversing BBs kinda force this decision. DM is a BB shell magnet, the second you are spotted you are pretty much doomed and the closer you are to the target the easier even the potato BBs will hit you. The reload is already so fast, that a .5s faster reload does not really make the DM stonger. I use this build on DM.

That's what we all thought when we were new to DM and then we had the game when a Yamato/GK/Montana was looking funny at us and boooom 80% HP gone from 25km+ no matter how the DM was angle.

The fun stops at the moment when you click Install Game

It's this time of the week and many of us have the urge to share the horror we encounter in battles. Please remember to blur or whatever the names to avoid getting into trouble! Just had a 10 vs 12 game. Well, actually the two most useless team mates killed two other guys which pretty much brought us down to a 8 vs 12.