ForlornSailor

@Akula971 is right tho. This "sixth sense" is the most stupid thing that exists. Has nothing to do with making DDs immune. Against cruisers - fine. Since they can stealth AA. But against DDs? The info, that your own plane is detected is, looking at the impact, between Radar and RPF. WGs try to make planes behave like surface ships is just stupid.

Indeed. It gives me more damage and XP and stops the bots from torping me.

Ive been pointing at this since the day the first stats were available - I even called it out before that because it was so damn obvious to happen. Oh the people telling me I would be wrong, I have no idea etc etc. Good to see, more and more people see the same things.

Stop giving them stupid ideas !!!! You damn well know, this is all going to happen now. On the other hand: How about Radar on CVs? I mean, we talked about radar on planes but I mean on the hull. As such a CV could smoke himself up (smoke on CV is a given now) when detected, then radar the DD and [edited]him up with his secondaries. Glorious.

Time to celebrate: milestone! . For that game I selected one of my favourite ships - the Fiji. Worthy ship, not so worthy round, eventhough I was on someones stream. ^^ (atleast I won tho). But the Gadjah round (which was random game 3999) made up for it. Great end screenshot. You wanna shoot me? Forget it ! Gimme dev strike & end the game

Thats simple mathemathics and you will find the answer, if you check, how many BBs (CL/CA/DD) and CVs are played on the Tiers between 6 and 8.

Most likely the same old thinking: I cant do anything to defend myself. Eventhough, we all know that isnt true, passive mechanics as AA can lead to these feelings. Even if they yield better results then a player might be able to achieve by himself. I tried to argue for that for a long time aswell, that AA should need more attention / skill from the player and then should yield better results, if done right. In return, not paying attention to your AA / activly engaging in however such a mechanic would look like, should provide very limited self defence. It would make both sides more interesting. A CV player wouldnt know what to expect (and thus doesnt face situations likes "great. 5 minos. cant do anything") and a surfice player has a way to activly use his AA and has a good feeling about defending himself. It would have been up to WG tho to come up with something workable, since they dismissed any ideas in that direction coming from the community in the past.

I have to say: I was wondering about the same stuff. All of a sudden, people with red stats that out themselfs as "main-somethingelse-then-BB" get defended and a pat on their shoulder. The slightest "l2p" remark, even in a friendly way, and you have a couple of Pinschers biting your wades. Im waiting for a BB-thread again, to see, if people changed (as if) or we are indeed seeing some agendas beeing pushed. Odd times to be in the forum indeed...

Thats true, Ive been preaching this forever. That capping is now pushed to late game, is the fault of the new CVs tho. And you cant even farm damage on the flanks, atleast if the enemy CV knows what he is doing. btw: Most caps / almost all maps can be contested or capped with a DD, no matter what and how many radar ships are in the game. Its a matter of positioning and thinking. Playing for the objectives as a DD against the new CVs (against a skilled one) however is a complete different thing.

Yea, thats true. Before, you couldnt play coop during the night (well, you could, if you dont mind beeing the only human around), now this is completly different. I wonder however, it thats a good thing overall for the game...

When Im alone in my clanchat on a sunday weekend. When I hear the same stuff from other clans, that I play together with. When I dont find anyone to division with. When I have people asking me via pm, if the game is any better right now, because they cant be arsed to check for themself. When I have people telling me via pm, that they dont want to play game anymore because its not their game anymore. When all of this above suddenly happens on several occasions and it has never happened before. But how I really now, is this: http://maplesyrup.sweet.coocan.jp/wows/ranking/index.html 2019/03/02 = 1.957.662 random games recorded 2019/01/19 = 2.831.616 random games recorded Dont you think this is relevant? Operations are dead aswell. The OP channel in game was super alive during the last half of 2018. We lost half of our operations, among them 2 of the most favourite - Dynamo and Cherry Blossom. Before, you needed 2 mins to find a division. Now? good luck. Co-op might still be more active tho as it used to be. Waiting times are really low and I play a lot more coop myself then before.

Yea, the current meta can drive you crazy. What I´d suggest to you: Pick ships accordingly. Kronshtadt isnt a good pick right now and I had horrible games in DM-class myself. Everything changes however, when I go out with Fletcher or Minotaur. Just sayin.

I have 1 cita so far - using an Alaska myself tho . Range was something like shortly under 12 km, not fully broadside, he was slightly angled. But that was 1 out of three salvos.

Kudos for that, im sure it wasnt easy at times ^^ Indeed it would. And it should happen. But WG stated at some point, they will not make matchmaking-restrictions like that. New ships with radar, especially when they are so easy to get like Alaska always influence the meta. With the new CVs on top - playing DD right now is ****. Pretty much on all tiers. I had a game like that with Benson a couple of days ago... 0 torp hits. Because enemy CV knew what he was doing, I was the only DD (hello permaspot) and the entire enemy fleet moved in a blobb. I knew right away, the Donskoj knew what he was doing, when I touched the cap, he got spotted from air and I saw he was 11,6 km away - he parked right in a position to cover the entire cap. Nice. With this example Id like to start a post, that is relevant for this topic. CVs have changed the meta. People stick together, often there is one gigantic blobb running over the map. Now the problem of the spotting by the CV left aside, this has two impacts on DDs: If you are an Asashio - youll love this. just circle the blobb in safety (often that blob is stationary or slow anyway) and throw your torps from safety. A few other DDs (only T10s) can do this aswell. What about the rest? They are screwed. How shall I get my Benson close to a blobb, that consists of 8+ ships and has a Donskoi, Chapayev, Cleveland or a couple of Alaskas in? But this is not restricted to radar. How shall I torp anything with a low/mid-tier IJN DD when there are 2 CVs flying around spotting me all the time? Ive had games with 0 dmg in Shinonome (a DD I used to love) f.e. Now about the recent changes: 6 sec delay on radar and the sign above your friendlys, when they used radar. In the right hands: this is a very powerfull tool. Yesterday I made use of it for the first time. My friendly minotaur used radar (thx to the sign I know this now). So I could chain the radar pretty perfect without giving my teammates any visual delay. So what I did was this: I saw the DD on the minimap. I waited, till he was visible. I shot 3 salvos with Moskva, I pressed radar right away. (thats 6 on the delay from the mino radar + 3x9 sec for the reload and 6 sec from my delay from my radar for my teammates = ~39 sec - mino radar is 40 sec). Also, the Cossack would have STILL managed to espace after beeing radared for over 50 sec, because he was at 11,7km with 1,7k health and I thought "man I dont get him" then he is still open at 11,8 km and I remember "oh yea, my radar is 12 km now" - next salvo, bamm, dead. So WG has given good players now even more tools to get a DD killed. Unnecessary changes, too powerfull for decent players, and unnedeed in the current meta. But hey : ive always argued in this thread to leave radar untouched. I wonder if someone is happy now? Where are the people argueing for the radar delay for the team now? You have been in this very thread. You got your will now. Can we hear you again? Are you happy how your idea turned out?

Might be too much logic for him. That Pigeons and chess thing comes to mind . Small look at his profile confirmed: CV hater. He sees bad CV-folk everywhere and feels the need to attack them (since he cant do it in game ). btw. you missed this one: Games, posts - who cares when your bloodpressure reaches 250!

Weekends - now also in the Forum!

My Moskva broadside said спасиба !

So far! I asked this 6 people so far - still waiting for an answer.

@MDDestroyers are you not ashamed of your behaviour ingame? btw - someone is right now writing a ticket to WG, adding screens and replay. Your violated quite some rules there.

This perfectly sums up, why I am here aswell.

I´d kill for that. Have you had the "AA on steroids" yet? Or as I like to refer to it: WGs attempt of giving me a heart attack. Its nice when you are in a crucial moment, trying to angle and dodge your mino against a Kurfürst, while planes hoover over you and then your ears explode.

The thing is: It depends how you present yourself. Dont symphasize with someone, because he has similar stats as you. And in return, dont talk down on people with better stats or hate them for some reason. People are different. Someone stomping in the forums, raging, thinking he knows it all, deserves nothing better. You look for honest advice - im the first to help you out. You can ask tons of players here, I dont make fun of anyone, that comes to the forums, asking for real advice on how to get better. Doesnt matter how bad his stats are. I have respect for people, that deserve to be respected. The others? screw them. People are quick to point the finger. However, some of them might be right. The thing is: you need to differentiate between angry plebs and constructive critic, even if it comes in bad shape. During the game, people are often dissappointed when they see huge missplays. Chances are, you do make them. Ofc everyone makes them, better players just make more better decisions. So try not to get triggered by the comments and try to think "does he maybe have a point?" This way, you can use even angry comments to your advantage. Nobody cares anyway who says what, its the internet, people literally cant personally insult you - because they´d need to know you personally for that. Same goes for reports. And, as I even suggested to OP: you can always use the forum as a source and ask for help on how to improve, if you want to. If someone doesnt want to: fine. But dont expect any sympathy coming to the forums with whine.

Yea... shouldnt he be much better with all his experiance? Yet he hardly has any influence at all. btw, in case you missed it: he started bringing up stats. As did you towards me. So you better call yourself a troll, because you started it

Uh another one is triggered. Played solo only when I started the game. Still better then his newest Fletcher WR. And I dont whine around in the forum. Oopsie, pwnd...