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Its either because its deliberate, or because of the new autopilot. And neither way they can or will fix it....

Eh, better to not play Random OPs anymore, look for a group to play with. Can even enjoy Narai when its not OP of the week that way. 99% not playing random OPs anymore, just doesnt make sense. Yesterday we did 1 because we didnt have enough players, and it was pretty much useless to have the others with us. Im actually more pissed that we carry them to victories when they clearly dont deserve it. Let them keep failing with like-minded players...

and doesnt have smoke...

Id go for SI first, but thats down to how you play the ship. If you can stay alive long enough for the extra heal, its totaly worth it. If you dont... well, then extra heal doesnt give you any benefit does it?

Well, look at Bretagne in port (if you use mods, you can also look at Cesare armor). I think getting pens on Cesare is easier than on Bretagne. Kongo and NY are pretty squishy, covered largely in 16mm plating König, OR and Pyotr are floating tanks - they are mostly or entirely invulnerable to HE except superstructure ofc. Bretagne, Iron Duke, Cesare are somwhere in between, but if the Cesare was bow-on rushing you, its probably not that easy to hit, as you will always hit the turrets - but thats the same for every other BB too.

I was just curious what your proposal was, as that wasnt clear. And whether that guy should be allowed to play T4 or T8-9-10 doesnt have anything to do with MM? Its WGs business model, fasttracking people into hightiers.... they wont change it

So if MM puts that guy in the other team everything is fine?

Well, i think GC actually has a worse armor profile against HE compared to Bretagne. Might depend a little if you were running IFHE, that helps against Bretagne but not against Cesare. You just need to hit the Cesare in the front half to get HE pens. From the center on to the back, it has 43mm armor making it impossible for your HE to pen it. And then there is still the issue with satuartion, maybe someone else farmed that section on the Cesare before you did (like superstructure) so you only could deal half damage, while maybe the Bretagne wasnt saturated at all.

Yes, everyone of those i own - Missouri, Iowa, Montana. US BBs dont have the dispersion mod in 3rd slot afterall, so i think you should use it, even tho you lose a little bit reload for it.

Well, i covered that in the first point pretty much? But i got forced to play with divisions, because the level of play dropped. Whether other decent players stopped playing OPs altogether or they went into Div Ops only doesnt really matter, as the core of the problem was: Gameplay was so bad, there was no use to go solo into the queue. Why waste my time there? Might aswell play when i have others with me for Narai (or Dynamo /Cherry blossom when they were still around). sure, rewards arent THAT great if id play solo, but they are only super good if i play 4-5 people max in Narai. Better only 4 ofc. With 7 people in Narai i wouldnt use flags at all, as id get less XP than solo in a random OPs.

Bad players . .. ... the end They are the root of every problem in this game.

Well, thats how one game few days ago looked like: - Warriors path, center spawn, 3x division i was Fletcher - Enemies have Venezia, Wooster, Daring division, and i KNOW they spawned center (we were only div, they were only div) + CV in the game. - I go A, because on C we already have a DD. - Before i get to A, our C flank is half dead (DD+Smolensk) - After capping A, enemies already have B+C, basicly everything is dead on the other half of the map. - Meanwhile, nothing happens on A, everyone on A sits behind the islands. Enemies are ofc supersmart, they just run away mostly, except Balti+Bismarck camping islands near A They played roadblock, so their other flank could close in on us. - Daring moves over from B, noone helps, i fight him for a while, enemies catch up from B/C and its lost. Well, it was lost before i got to the cap really. And thats atleast half the games these days. Probably more, ofc not only for my team, but both sides.

I think the problem is this: - Good players migrated from random OPs to division OPs with equal skilled players so they can basicly pick any Operation they want (why play Newport, if i can play Narai with 4 guys?) - Lack of good players made average players quit OPs for good, because the level of play got too low so it wasnt worth for them to keep playing. - We are left with the worst players who dont care for anything and would play any gamemode however they like for as long as they feel like it. Playing with those players is 50/50 failure, so why should i go back there? I would have no problems dropping in for random OPs too, but its simply not worth it. I might waste close to 20 mins only that those glue munchers throw it away in the last minutes (Killer Whale anyone?). Then i get 500 XP for a loss.... And not to mention, im basicly locked into playing a few ships, because they are hardcarry ships and other would simply not work. So i look for 3-4 others, pick Narai because its fun + good rewards and be done with it. With 5 guys, one can even play a DD.. (unlike random OPs)

Yeah, sniping the lex would be great, but not sure if it ever worked for us (maybe once). But i have sniped the Phoenix behind it

Then you should do it with 5 or even 4 guys, gets more interesting and better rewards If you havent done that already.

Well, atleast you werent on their side... Alltho these days, doesnt really matter. Too many games are like that, and both winning and losing because of that is horribly unfun But for some reason, it also seems to be a certain side of a map that always behaves like that. Like on Tears of the desert, spawning where the enemies are i encounter that often aswell, while spawning on the other flank doesnt have that problem. Same for Ice Islands too.

I sometimes watch a streamer who has 14k battles played and almost 58% WR... and he has like <10 Karma. And he barely uses chat

Im raging rather often in chat (especially these days, since it cant be called playing a game anymore what the average player is doing), yet i dont actually get reported that often for it. Most of the time i get reported by teammates or salty enemies. I assume atleast, since there is no way of telling who reported you. Ofc sometimes they expose themselves. Was just chatbanned, and i think i lost 3 or 4 karma during that period And during the game which triggered my chatban, i even got complimented I dont think it is? Majority of players is so bad, why would they ever get complimented? Most of the time, they will probably report each other to keep their Karma at 0. I think, unless you are often top XP earner, you wont accumulate karma. Lets face it, most people cant understand whats happening during a game, but some might throw out a compliment based on first in XP, or getting a kraken/highcaliber or just turning the game at the end (if they are still around)

Cant be anything else. 80% of wows players these days must have that feeling constantly No it doesnt. If it would work, then we would have +-3 MM all the time. If you are alone, you cant get thrown under the bus.

Could have been a bug or specific problem with asashio (maybe when it got introduced?) Shima has 20km view range Just start the video and you will see Same for Asashio. Btw, if they dont use 20km torps, they cant spot as far.

Yeah, have played a couple myself. But Fiji is still better

For every good game in Richelieu, i have 3 meh games, and its exactly how you describe: 3 games overpens, shatters bounces. Then one game citadelling ships left and right. Funnily enough, Lyon never had that problem. JB has it to some degree. Bourgogne doesnt have that problem at all. Not sure how Alsace/repu will be...

Its the reload booster which french ships have access to. Its useful to have 1 more charge, but not absolutely necessary. Cruisers get it at T6.

Well, GK definetely can make a push work, better than most other BBs. Ive had games, where i had to push DDs, and that worked much better because i had Hydro. Sure, GK is huge and sluggish and might take a torp because of that, but its not the end of the world. Better than any other BB, which constantly has to evade to throw of the torps, and you wont gain ground as fast as with the GK. And then there is ofc always the possibility to get 2 other people in a div, and have them profit from your push That is everything but useless to me. And i prefer it over Montana. I might even prefer it over Thunderer because of the way i want to play. It has a very good armor against both HE and AP. Kremlin can tank HE better, but if someone might get a broadside shot, it can still get citadelled. Or Yamato is even worse in that regard. And IFHE HE is irrelevant for GK, only HIV can get past 50mm pen with it. All others either already have 50mm, or wont reach it with IFHE either. I think the problem is, too many people want to play it secondary build "manual secondaries mandatory". Most players would profit from a tankbuild, but because it has secondaries, people think they must use them... which is wrong.

We will never have balanced MM, that would also mean rigged MM btw. Balanced MM would be, put good players on one side, then add bad players, and all average players are moved to the other team. And this is just horredously bad and unfun. Why would you want to improve, if you get a sack of potatoes every time you play? And if you go my account WR, you have those special cases who have 50% but 60+% with CVs. So if they are in a CV, they are good, and in every other class they are bad.