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Not always anymore... Got a Twitch rare drop containing PEF, i already had that, and i got 10 million credits for it

So basicly good players arent allowed to play at all, since the amount of high WR players is extremely low Not to mention, that if players with only 60% WR play against each other, what will eventually happen? They will all move towards 50%, there is no alternative. Sure some will drop slower, others faster, but more and more will drop out of that certain threshold, and it would increase waiting time even further.

Massa is strong and unique, id get that one. After that prolly Lenin because russian bias. Imo all those others arent special in any way, and could even be considered mediocre at best.

Yep, thats what it has come to. I stopped playing Solo OPs already last year. Literally no chance to play let alone win with the average playerbase. I mean, it wasnt easy back when they introduced OPs, but hard carrying worked almost every time. Now? Can forget about that... its because, what the people do cant be considered playing. Coop mostly lame, unless you play DD yourself. Then you get the big share of the cake (but most of the bots still survive most of the time) Randoms... yeah, i think its unplayable. What i hear from clanmates last couple of days is horrible. I dont get those people btw. They play for the directives (gotta do this and that) so can they have fun? Doubt that. But after this grind, next one is already coming! So they can never just play the game.... pretty sad

That would probably leave you out of the best in the line - the GK. Out of all german BBs, i think thats the one i enjoyed the most. König/Kaiser are so long ago, i can hardly remember (also i was a newby back then^^). But i remember them to be rather decent. T3-5 atleast. Bayern i really didnt like much. Gneisenau/Bismarck made me pull my hair out sometimes, even tho they certainly can get decent results.

- You are less angled than you think - You angle too much so they can hit your bow and overmatch it where they are able to - You aim too high and overpen their superstructure. - You ricochet if they are angled and you hit thicker armor than you can overmatch At ranges past 15km you should be able to dodge shells to some degree even in slower BBs.

If you increase the caliber (which is btw not something WG would do, as 460mm guns are historically accurate), you would get even more overpens on thinly armored targets. For overmatch purposes, 10-20mm more will make no difference. 460mm overmatches 32mm of armor, while 480mm would overmatch... 33mm, and i dont think this plating even exists anywhere in the game.

Yamato has still most battles played, so also most likely the highest amount of individual players. Like Yamato has 28529 players showing in the leaderbord Conqueror has only 9868. Ofc this is somewhat skewed, as only people with atleast 80 battles are in there, while the total amount of games played include all players (who have their stats not hidden) Top 5% Yamato players are 1426 people, but for Conq its only 493. Naturally, those 493 have better stats than those 1426 from Yamato. If you sort Yamato and Conq by WR, the 100th place yamato player has 71,82% WR, while Conqs 100th best player has only 68,75%

Its not about playing against better players - its about playing with BAD players all the time AND deliberately because MM will put them with me. The better i get, the worse my team becomes, sounds like a good incentive to become better

People cant play - nuff said. There is this german CC streamer, who has like 58% WR but he doesnt know where to aim with Yamato. Ofc it cant work then. And then people even tend to play Secondary Yamato Couldnt be bothered to grind Yamato yet (alltho i would like to have her) but i got poor-mans Yamato - Musashi. And that thing wrecks everything already If you buff Yamato, i DEMAND buffs for Musashi too

Didnt know that one... makes sense tho when i see what Venezia can do

Probably yes. At this point, i feel the game is so horribly unfun to play on any level, that quitting is becoming a serious option. I mean, i just hope that it gets better - but it will get worse all the time. IFHE rework? Subs? It will not get better, it WILL GET WORSE. Im collecting snowflakes in Coop last couple of days - basicly no fun at all. Game ends after 3 minutes, half of the bots are alive (who wonders, now that we have 9 bots but points tick the same as before). DDs kill everything because bots are dumb. Playing BB it often ends with <20k damage, as you cant get to shoot at any broadside, since DDs torp everything before that. Playing Operations is pretty much dead aswell. They are half bugged at this point, and you basicly gain no rewards for it. Not to mention, half of the time you fail because players are worse than bots. Playing with a group works - if there would be groups left to play with! Most people quit the game, and they got replaces with glue munchers. Randoms... dont get me started. Horrible, and now with PR grind its Horrible times 10. Heard today about an Alaska, that didnt want to radar 2 DDs in smoke because "someone else will kill them, i radar when they are weak so I GET THE KILLS"!!!! think about that one Lowertiers infested with CVs, hightiers infested with premium noobs/newbs and idiots who are grinding for PR, making your life miserable. Ranked doesnt need any explanation, thats a given CBs, well, they were fun when i started to play. But its just less and less fun with the ships WG is throwing out. T8 CBs were crap because Russian BiasBoats and Kiev setups. Now we got the same on TX with Klebers and ofc russian OPships in general. We get more ships, but less variety as the new ships are mandatory to be picked. Even ITA CAs, while being frowned upon by most players, are not balanced. Look at Venezia. That thing can oneshot DDs. And getting 10k volleys in regardless of angle is kinda annoying aswell. Why bother? Not sure... 99% time to move on. 1% is the hope it will get better

I start to question if anything matter at this point. Why not just sell EVERYTHING? We have tons (not even joking, it feels like every game) of players with a couple of games running wild with their JBs, Georgias, Frieslands and now even PRs. Can it get worse by selling everything else? Hardly, since those players dont have any captains, modules, premium consumables or anything else (well, how could they? the game DOESNT ALLOW THEM to use camos, captains, flags or any other if they have too little games). Why not go step further? T8+ you have to use upgrades on your ship (not joking btw, i think half the playerbase doesnt use those because lack of credits/interest or just lazyness). Thats like a win-win: WG makes money, people might have a little bit easier time playing since they gain the advantage of those upgrades. At this point, i dont think anything matters anymore. Unless WG starts to sell a-bombs to nuke other ships, average player is so bad that it doesnt matter much with whatever you give them (super commander, special ships...). They might get slightly less worse... maybe? I mean, they also suck in Smolensk, Stalingrad, Kremlin, Enterprise (CVs in general ), so who cares? Look at Kuznetsov. Would it help a potato that gets citadelled/torped in his russian BB because MUUUH BROADSIDE LOOKS NICE!!! ? No, he just dies - most of the time atleast. Other times, he might survive a little bit longer, but eventually still dies because overextending or other stupidity.

I think we dont need to talk about LMs requiring a grind to get them - that has been like that since they introduced them. But why change it like that now? The current version makes sense: You want LM for Ship X, you have to play ship X to get it. Also, you dont lose anything in the process. Now they put it into the RB. So i have to reset a (maybe more than 1?) line to get any LM. But not even that, i also have to get 5 TX lines before i can reset one! So new players get pushed back even further in their grind for a LM. They could get a LM for their ship even if they have only 1 TX ship. Now they need 5 Tx lines + play 1 atleast once over to get points (which is ofc open for speculations since we dont know the price yet). Best case, they get 1 LM for the 10k points you receive for having 5 TX lines. Also, i can play any line to get a LM for any other ship i want. Which also makes less sense than now. And losing a ship sucks. We would have liked for our DD player to play Grozovoi during last CB season, which he couldnt since - you guessed it - he reseted the line

Musashi is probably the most OP BB on T9.

All normal Cruisers have same dispersion, except IJN Cruisers got better one. To the last part: Conserve your health the endgame, Then go in and [edited]everything when you cant get crossfired anymore

I think there is missing an option with the premium account. I basicly never purchase premium, only did it a couple of times with doubloons (which i got 4 free^^) to get more out of +200% first win bonus. If you play for several years, you can get a nice amount of stuff even while using no money (i only bought cossack for 89cents, but i have like >50 premium/special ships by now). But i agree what WG has been doing: This constant Event marathon this year is annoying. Its one thing right after the other, Clan battles, Clan Brawl, Ranked, Ranked sprint, new line every 3-4 months, special gamemodes also every couple of months. Timegated grinds which only last 1 month...

While i only played a couple of Hindenburg games this year, its still my highest damage Cruiser. Hindenburg is definetely decent even nowadays. But i think, the lower tiers tend to struggle a bit more.

I think playing BBs on lower tiers is pretty simple: DDs arent those evil torp slingers which can hit you from 10-20km. They basicly have to be detected while torping. Also, they tend to get spottedmuch easier because of own DD/planes/Cruiser and smaller maps in general Cruisers dont have the same DPM as highertier Cruisers while BBs have better armor to shatter that HE. In turn, BBs are less accurate and slower. Being slow means, you also cant get into trouble that fast. When you get to T8+ BBs, this might be totaly different.

Then its still the players fault - not the ship could also play secondary Montana, but i wouldnt wonder if it sucks After also playing Montana, i actually think GK has a place afterall. GK is less reliant on your teammates (especially DDs) screening for you. With GK, i can push in and dont have to fear to get a full load of torps from a camping DD. With Monty, you could get yolo spanked basicly. Even tho i only played few Monty games, but i happened several times i got enemy DDs just sitting in the caps waiting for someone to push, while my DDs were licking the border (if they werent already dead after 3 minutes). Could have pushed in ofc, but probably would have died without much use. While GK doesnt really has to fear DDs. If they want to ambush, they can forget about that because Hydro. I might not be able to dodge all torps even with Hydro, but i can migitate the damage by dodging. And I dont get citadelled like Monty does in the process.

By looking at the rewards, i also think stage 3 (18/36) is what WG think you should get by playing casualy + 4 free. Basicly, get couple of XMas containers and some other stuff. Stage 4+5+6 are heavy grinding or whaling.

I feel, getting good damage in BBs is a lot influenced by RNG and what ships the enemies have. Lots of Cruisers broadsiding and RNG saying yes? Thats easy damage there. While on the other hand, having a lot of DDs + couple of CVs in a game and the usual 5 BBs, you might not get that much damage in, especially if you focus on shooting the DDs. Sure, if you can play good and get a decent position, you will get more opportunites to get high damage in. As for CVs, it really depends on target selection. I always go for DDs first. They have much less HP than a BB, and BBs can be farmed easier (atleast on T4). Not to mention, when DDs are gone, games can end pretty quickly because the enemy team just folds, which doesnt leave much time to farm more damage. Nah, 30 games in one ship is not enough to get a even distribution of good/bad/average teams (not to mention just having a [edited]up yourself) This showcases this extremely good imo.

WG would probably tell him to buy a T6-7-8-9 premium ship. Or better yet, buy a T8 CV Looking at your stats: No you dont. Shokaku is your best ship considering avg damage. Infact, 6 CVs are your top damage dealers (granted, 1 is RTS ) WR is mostly irrelevant due to low sample size.

Well, can never be sure, thats why i rather keep sarcasm out of threads like these. New players can easily take you serious. WIth how WG is balancing ships lately, being a jack of all trades like the german CAs is not something you need/want. WG is making min/max designs, which stomp over those ships. Everything till Hindenburg is nothing special imo. The French CAs are the main competitors, and often they are just better than the germans.

I think you just lack experience. You can upload the replays here, so we can tell you what happened there.