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Ofc we already moved way past any point to salvage anything. Changing Economy would be one thing (or block battle spamming and stop stupid missions / Hall of fame) Would be a start to force people to actually PLAY the game. I dont consider rushing into certain death 2 mins into the game as actually playing, even more so if BBs/Cruisers do it. But you can see that with an alarming frequency lately

Whats bad about it? I have them all aswell (from Leander that is)

https://wiki.wargaming.net/en/Ship:Update_0.8.5#Improvements_to_the_Game_Mechanics

Same as above mentioned AP mechanics: If you hit an AA mount with an HE shell, you would have caused 0 damage previously. Now you deal overpen damage.

They could make it so they would atleast l2p, or play lowertiers. Alltho i can understand, that the risk is too great that people would instead quit the game, and those players are the cashcows for WG because they need to spend money, otherwise they couldnt afford their unique playstyle

One shell can only hit one ship. I actually wanted to know at some point, parking 2 ships next to each other, overpenetrating the first and hitting the 2nd - doesnt work. Even if the shells overpenetrate, they dont do anything to the ship behind.

No? Only Yamasushi can overmatch 32mm of armor. And even then, NC (or US BBs in general) do have 38mm midships to even be able to bounce that. Yes, NC/Massa dont have both Deck/Upper belt with 38mm armor like Iowa/Missouri/Monty, but still. NC is imo still one of the best T8 BBs. If Vladi is stronger - that depends a bit on playstyle maybe. NC has good accuracy at any range. Too many people just play against russian BBs playing into their cards, i.e. they start bowtanking. Bowtanking duel against a russian BB is a lost cause, because its better. Get into its flank, then you will beat it.

Arguably the highlights are T8+9+10 But people can always go for Dallas -> Wooster, which probably are all awesome, with the exception of Seattle which is more on the meh side. Id say, US Cruiser are harder to play in general, but they arent weak if played properly. Cant comment on Pepsi, because i skipped it with the Split. Omaha is paper, but strong if played properly. Going down the US CLs further, they are less squishy (imo) but still dish out insane DPM. US CAs are imo a bit more squishy than their CL brothers (ofc they can be extremely tanky against certain BBs), but shine with heavier Alpha damage.

At this point, id love to see thousands of @El2aZeR like skilled CV players in the game - wows would be dead. It would literally be unplayabale for surfaceships. This leads to the conclusion: CVs are indeed OP. I see it like this: Even a less good CV player can ruin my time, simply by trying to attack me, even if he cant properly do it. He will still spot me for the team. The same skilled DD/Cruiser player will make mistakes which lead to his death. Saying: But if one of them is much better is not a fair comparision imo. Ofc a Unicum or better player will be a tough nut regardless what ship he plays.

I guess what @El2aZeR is saying, that its mostly down to the CV if you are allowed to have a decent game. Majority of CV players is still not good (yeah, i wanna write something else, but im not allowed to~~). So can you have a good game as a DD if the CV is bad? Sure you can. He might be doing something else, like trying to snipe your own CV, which gives you the possibility to do what you want, as if there would be no CV. Playing DD with a CV in game, ive had bad and good games. But i cant deny, without a CV, games are MUCH more enjoyable and i can produce better results (goes for Cruisers aswell).

For this id like to add: Omaha is probably even less noob friendly So if you manage Omaha, you should manage Pepsicola too?

But those ive had always Best one was 2 Overpens on Hindi for 11k with Missouri Alltho, a shell should be able to overpen one section, and still detonate in another, thus dealing Overpen+pen damage. Shouldnt even be a bug. Yeah, i know many people who complain about that. Must be intentional IMO.

Bots?

Smolensk is not that great at winning games tho. It lacks gimmicks which allows it to specifically hurt other ships that can carry games, especially DDs. about "statpadding": The harder it is, to do well in a ship, the more PR you can farm with it. Easy to play ships are hard to get a high PR, that includes basicly all BBs, but also strong Premiums like Steel ships (Bourgogne/Stalingrad). And fairly new ships aswell, since they lack the amount of players needed to get a meaningful average value. That is mostly down to good players playing new ships first. Usually the best class to get both good PR and WR: DDs, but they are also one of the hardest to play. Cruisers can yield outstanding PR, but struggle more to influence your WR. Ofc when you start at 45%, you should increase that with any ship you will play, as long as you play it well.

Thats actually a "bugfix" where Penetrations didnt cause any damage. To fix it a little bit, certain penetrations now deal overpen damage instead of no damage at all. F.e. you penetrate at a secondary battery, you will get overpen damage, because if you would overpenetrate that battery in the first place, you would also receive overpen damage.

I dont think anything like this exists, but there are changelogs for the patches on the wows.wiki The best way is to google for a specific ship, you might find something that way (not guaranteed tho) as for Hipper, got actually buffed 2 times, but thats like 2 years ago IIRC: Plating from 25 ->27mm Built-in IFHE for German HE which buffed its penetration from 1/6 -> 1/4.

That was actually the biggest problem for me. The derpiness of those guns, felt like playing a german BB but without the armor. Nagato felt so much better, and Amagi was a letdown for me. Izumo soon™

If jewels are made out of dirt Imo its actually the opposite: Economy is still too forgiving, so a lot of inexperienced players can spam TX games without the need to learn to actually play properly on that tier.

Can always combine it with grinding?

Skills commanders accordingly. People cant ignore survivability builds and expect to get away with it, simple as that. Sure it sucks, and Smolensk is bad for the game (so are many others btw) But its far from invincible.

And then people/WG wonder, why there is so much toxicity around... WG adds it by themselves! Just spam games nonstop, hope you are getting carried. 3 mins per game - who cares! Let those fools play 15+ mins to give me my point rewards Sadly, why would WG change anything? Those people probably also throw large amounts of money in the game, so its win-win for WG. Are there any options other than spamming operations? If he didnt play Random/Ranked/Coop as you said

FTFY Citadel damage can only be repaired as on all other BBs -> 10%

Been playing Montana lately, and i dont necessarily agree. GK can still make pushes, which Monty cant do. Both because of having even better armor (f.e. agaist Yamasushi overmatch) and against DDs because of Hydro. Ive done a few pushes with my GK, which im sure wouldnt have worked with any other BB. Even if you play a Tankbuild GK, you still can and have to do the risky pushes at times, to turn the game.