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An educated guess would be we ll see alaska in 0.8.1

Aand that would be the part 2 of the reason I for one traded my prem cvs in as soon as it was an option - it will be months (if ever) until the line cvs are in any kind of balanced condition, premiums (especially old ones) even more so (needing the individual quirks to be interesting) and not wanting them op (easyer to buff then nerf later on) you can expect WG to go with "preventive nerfstrike" on them meaning a year could pass before its worth taking them out and having them as port ornaments for another year...

Yep just imagine how many potatos would keep shooting them for the rest of the match and then posting about the cheater that didnt recive any damage...

Yeah in ops it kinnda works mostly t3-t5 ships and usualy yoloing and in straight line most of the time...

Problem is simple you have a t6 cv, there are 2 or 3 t7 ships reasonably close, you lose entire flight for 1 or 2 torp or bomb hits, you can barely aim to hit dds and when you do you shave off 1-2k of their health, you can come back of sorts but you lose 2 minutes to get maybe half his health off, even if its a low aa dd its hardly worth it, and if its a kidd or similar entire flight of planes just vanishes, and its not a fluke i was on both sides of equation and its quite easy to reproduce... Not even to get started what a minotaur does to a t8, poor sucker yesterday didnt even have time to say oh crap before his t8 planes were gone

Did some t6 cv play last 3 days, im speachless, for the first time i seriously think it might be best they just scrap the class and be done with it...

I used to put my dd captian on it PM-LS-BFT-AFT-CE-SE-AR but IMHO she just doesnt cut it anymore, used to be she was a thumper for AA work but the way AA is structured now she just doesnt perform, KIdd beats her hands down in downing planes but unlike her isnt made of glass citadel, helena is also better in AA, good ol lolanta just doesnt have enough mid/short range AAA to be reliable, might be a Flint is a better choice since it has lot more of it

Not enough of them to be heard? Btw you do realise the proper way to speak to companies? You know, the wallet...

Oh yes they do, you only need to speak to them in a certain way as a player community and they will listen very intently

Well with captains you change their skills or perks or whatever you want to call them so what else would you chose? I mean not that these tweaks they are doing changes the principle upon whitch you build in core, for most parts for non cv ships you have 3 options - focus on AA (ships that have prerequisites for it to be worthwile), you ignore AA and rely on "classic" builds (ie tank build, gunship build, etc) or some ballance thereof (usually only applys to CAs and few bbs) so tbh i dont see the pressing issue there, the RDF argument is valid for cvs and it might be warranted to give free respec on cvs but tbh those 4 points are not that essential its not optimal but you wont live or die by those 4 points, I m mot saying I oppose free respec would be nice to have it for full duration of this but I dont see it as that much of an issue

Well what skills would you change?

uuhh now we know what replaces musashi ^^

same as ever - PM-LS-SE-CE-RDF-TLE-AR

This isnt even shootin in the foot anymore, its more in the line of playing chicken by holding on to a live grenade as long as possible before throwing it out of the bunker bunch of you are sitting in, sooner or later somone will win the game with an unbeatable svore but kill off all spectators in the process...

Afaik the turret made for the borodino sits on the vladivostok fortress

IMO the concept of nations is flawed, there is now no true nation flavour at all, all cvs have all plane types aldough they have an emphasis on the one or the other plane type its not a good concept, what they shoul do IMHO is something like this: US line - small (hvar) rockets and massive strike AP dive bombers IJN line - fast TBs with deepwater massive strike torps (shorten range and decrease speed a bit) and weaker HE bombs RN line - massive rockets and weaker torps but with a higher flood chance The lines dont get the 3 rd plane type only 2 so you pick before battle what you want to play and live with the choice ie - if you are bad at dropping DB on dds and you picked the ijn cv that doesnt have rockets better pray your team focuses and disposes of them or have your medicine when dds come for you, if they want to make premiums special and different they can change the ammo types they drop or even give them all 3 types of planes but 2 tiers lower so you trade hp, speed and damage of planes for more versatility Number of planes per strike group and total flight size can be adjusted for balance as needed however i would suggest that it increases each tier ie t4 say 2 planes for rockets, 1 for torps and 2 for bombs, on t6 3 rockets 2 tbs and 3 dbs etc, the higher you go the nastier aa is and runs are more costly you simply cant expect that you will drop 5-6 times in t10 for instance becouse your planes get shredded while are setting up the run you need to drop your ordnance in 2-3 drops for an counterbalance make planes regenerate longer

@ArakusNope if they planned that, they wouldnt have bothered to make the rn cv line... (btw i know youre jesting) On topic - I do belive WG genuinely want this rework to succede, also there is no doubt that console play is in the bottom of it all maybe not so much becouse of code sharing or even model sharing as much as playstyle an "look and feel" consistency across platforms, alas its not first or last time consoles impede on the pc gaming world, its just such an enormeous market that even a marginal slice of it is too much of a bait for any company to resist and espetially in far east and by companies that are based there

Wait how were you not been able to return to the battle? Even if your ship was sunk in the meanwhile you can still enter the battle if its still in progress in fact you cant stop that and are pulled back in after you reconnect, only instance you dont get put back in battle and get pink for the disconnect is when it had ended in the meanwhile and its not the teamkill penalty

@OP As people said you would most likely be served best by going up at least two lines at least to t9 but if you really want to use those you have i d say - play 50 battles in monaghan with gun deck and same with torp deck after that see if you more like relying on torps or guns and choose next ship according to that

Pinging?

If there would be more events (daily, campaign, etc) for low tiers or said events we have now wouldnt start from t5 upwards more people would play them however it might be worse for newcomers as well...

Well i guess they made it so a reasonably strong clan can do it easly enough so you get some oil for the clan wallet however it pans out besides qualifing and winning are two entirely different things alltoghether ^^

He thinks pf that Naval battles for oil thing

Well if you used mods in the past you should know whitch are on the blacklist nowdays and clean house (if a reasonable user is expected to read patchnotes it shoud be double the case here) if you are abaolutely sure about the mods or you didnt use any at all only other option is some gfx injector tool and again you should then do a clean install (unfortunatley a windows reinstall might be needed) with a whql drivers and without suspitios tools, sometimes the flagging might be a bit in the grey but then again its a mmo game and 0 cheat policy is a must

Works as i intended i guess we all get salty occasionally but most dont get the ban so i guess it really takes a lot od abuse to get it