ForlornSailor

I know m8, I know... its just, I refuse to be silent about things that are wrong. And if I type my fingers bloody, if I´m sure about something, that would make the game better, and I know, i´m not the only one thinking like this, I just wont shut up. Even I know its futile. Maybe, some day, WG are tired of all those whining-topics and will actually listen. Hope dies last. Man, you are barking at the wrong tree. Dont get me wrong - I agree with all that you say. But if you look at the stats of the ppl atleast in this topic - its obvious, nobody qualifies for the group of players, you describe. You want to see how the "average player" plays this game? Open twitch and watch those ppl with <5 ppl watching. It will open your eyes - it did for me. There are ppl out there, playing CV - not starting a plane for 5 mins, looking on facebook while ppl are screaming for AA and scout. There are ppl playing 3 div BB sailing in a perfect line, spotting a DD 5 km from them, doing nothing - not turning, not shooting the DD. There are ppl that sail as far as possible from both caps in standard-battle, talking to their (non-existent) twitch-viewers about their "superb-tactic" that they will do within the next minutes - not understanding, that their base is capped. After all of a sudden, the rounds end, they´ll go "What a crap team". This, my friend, has all happened. Ive seen it. So, what can we really do about this? I started to spend a lot of time in the forums, cuz im pissed about this missplay, that you describe. But its really a waste of time, I think... Sometimes, its good to vent. Happy New Year to you too! Im not saying I have all the answers. Your suggestions sounds good too. Both is better then what we have now. Says a lot about the current "20 sec for all". Erm.. as a Cruiser its not really RNG to get citadelled. If you take damage, there are often Cit-hits involved. Depends on the cruiser you play. Take Shorchs or RN CL T9+ and chances are, you did get more hits to the citadelle then penetrations. And before you tell me to "gäd gööd" I´d suggest you take a peek at my stats... and still my point stays. wut? Did you just say that? Ive never done as much damage with one salvo with my Cruiser as Ive done with BBs. And my ratio of Cruisers to BBs is 10:1. Yea, thats why cruisers lead the average damage on the Server by far, and peak right at 200k at T10 . oh wait... That I actually fully agree. Did you ever tried stealth fire at max range? I gotta tell you - its not easy to hit, even a huge BB - if he knows WASD. And the damage you do is pittyful. Can you decide a game by this? Sure. if its a 1vs1 situation. Else not. Be realistic.... I can only write for myself. Im sure I dont want it like this. Im either not crying "nerf BB to the ground". Ive had this same type of discussions about CVs, where ppl said to me "all you want is nerf CVs to the ground". I dont. But there are flaws in the interaction, that need to be addressed. I even argue, that BBs need to be more accurate. Why the shell damage need to be this high? It can be lowered. In return, accuracy can go up. So, better players, knowing how to aim, get rewarded. Cruisers, that know how to dodge, get rewarded - instead of beeing punished by the odd shell bouncing in your cita no matter what. On the topic - a BB that has 20 sec gunbloom and goes invisible between salvos automatically while a cruiser has to stop shooting and wait for this to happen - is wrong.

Hey there. Yea... get used to it. WG keeps making this game more selfish and less teambased with every change. They took away my teamplay strategy from my US DDs, that I loved so much. Now, im reduced to a smoke-HE-spamming-joke-of-a-gunboat, that cant hit Torps, cuz we are living in a cowards-Meta and everything is running away from you. And my torps do 55 knots. This is US DD Gameplay from T6 to T8. One could ask the question: Hey, if you want to spam HE - why not play RU CL ...erm, wait... Belfast .... hmmm... Zao... nono, now i got it: RN BB ! Dont get my wrong - I totaly agre with you, you are right on the mark. Im just frustrated.

Best thing is, when you are desperatly fighting to turn a game around, just to realize, 3 BBs in your back are ho-ho-ho-ho-ing each other constantly... Then you know, they are really putting the same efford in winning then you are...

Well. For a BB the 20 sec is awesome. Often he can "blink". which is funny, cuz WG said, the 20 sec wont be lowered, cuz they dont want ships to blink. The time should be according to guncalibre. Maybe calibre in sec = gunbloom. As in : 406 mm BBs = 40,6 sec. 152 mm CL = 15,2 sec. 127 mm DD/CL = 12,7 sec. Thats a fair way imo, if i dont miss anything out of the order.

If you like Budyonny and Gneisenau, you gonna love Scharnhorst.

For somebody, 2018 seems to be a lucky year. I suggest to play Lotto ASAP!

I really think this game needs more options for clanplayers and players with above avarage skill to play among themselfes. Then I couldnt care less what happens in the randoms xD

I can talk on behalf of Moskva and Hindenburg. Get Hindenburg. Moskva in the current Meta is at such a disadvantage and super hard to play.

Tirpitz wasnt allowed to leave port after ´43 (? gotta check the exadt date). Hitlers order. He was afraid to lose the last big surface ship. Also, with Tirpitz stationed in northern Norway, the ship was a constant thread to the Royal Navy, Convois headding to the Sowjet Union and England. Thus the RN needed to protect the Convois and have Planes & Fleet ready constantly. Which did cost them loads of resources - which were low anyway. From that point, it was even a smart move to keep Tirpitz in port. A Tirpitz doing nothing was still more worth then a Tirpitz on the bottom of the sea - even if it would sink 3 big RN ships while going down.

I agree, 86° is too high. You should clean your case - atleast once a year. Every 10° hotter, that a CPU (or any PC component, for that matter) is running, will reduce the lifespan by 50%. General rule. btw - Wanted to have that type of cooler a few years ago @cherry2blost but my dealer just ran out of it. Didnt want to wait or order online, since I already had all other parts at home (at those days, im like a child at xmas. no way I could wait another 2 days before playing LEGO with mainboard, CPU, cooler, GFX and so on xD). Also, about the video of you in Fiji: I have a better one. I managed to dance with 2 BBs in a row with Chapayev once and sink them both with torps. I even troll them shooting HE on their belly, as they are perma flooding. ( I nearly trolled too much, the NC actually managed to turn the turrets with me and nearly punished me for playing with him LOL). Gonna upload ^^

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Had this 2 days ago. Clearly I completed what was needed (checked 3 times, let a mate check my screen- nothing wrong). Didnt count, just had to do it again... Had this one too. But luckily this one sorted itself out the next day.

@Sargento_YO nothing better then to watch an awesome match with some nice chips. thx for that. Highlights for me: That you found & killed the DD with 8 sec on the clock AND ofc, the super salty 3-man-div WITH CV that said to you: LEARN TO PLAY REAL SHIPS - lol ! how hilarious is this?

I think you missed the plot. completly. @DFens_666 brought this up to prove, that historcal "facts" have nothing to do in this game. Yet you critizies him. If anything, you are attacking the position of @darkstar73, who used historcal non-sense.But cant do that since you are "on this side" right. So rather make a complete non-sense post yourself. Way to go...

Whatever it is, its frustrating...

Many of the things discussed here (and not discussed) are a matter of perspective. Its a glass is half empty / glass is half full thing. Lets take the concealment as an example. North Carolina / Conqueror / Moskva / Hindeburg / Donskoi w.e. - the interaction between them. Now, you can go and say "BB has crazy concealment, its OP". Or you go and say "The concealment of the Cruisers is too bad to be competetive". Or you chose another path and say "Those older cruisers (and BBs for that matter) have been powercreeped". Thing is: is it really important to argue about, which side is wrong? IMO its rather important to acknowlege the fact, that there are certain values in this game out of sync right now. It doesnt matter if the BB is at fault or the Cruiser or anything else. It would however be important to work on those issues, to make the game better in the long run. But WG hasnt really made the first step - or its all working as intended.

i7 3820 was introduced in 2012. And if you look at the recent developments in CPU-Power - there is absolutly no need to replace this CPU. If anything, I laugh at ppl throwing money out of the window every year to get the "best" CPU. You gain 4% of processing power. in some areas. totaly worth it. wait: not.

You can play this game on a 10-year-old Computer with a Dual core and 4 GB or Ram. Besides that, I wonder, what has it got to do with this topic? New Year. Brings out the best kind of humans I guess.

@kenalb did you know, there are replays in wows? All you have to do is to activate them. search the forums or use google for "activate replay world of warships" and youll find it. Then you can upload the replays here (takes 15 sec really) and we can tell you exactly, if there is something fishy going on or if its just a matter of you making a mistake.

Might be obvious for you, but not for many others. I worked in IT-Support for a while, what Ive seen there... Do you leave your browser open while gaming? Sounds weird, but when I leave firefox open, my game will most certainly crash. Usualy happens during loading into a map. When I close my browser before playing - it never happend *knock on wood*

You know whats really the biggest problem of it all? New Players will start of in cruisers. At some point, they will be deleted from a BB and have fights with them, where they see, they do very little damage to them but get blasted back. What happens is a "monkey see, monkey do" reaction - they will switch to BBs. There is a reason, that we see most bad players cruising around in a BB. And what happens then, is, that they get deleted from torps, fires, anything really, but cant deliver those awesome 1-shots themself, that they have experianced while beeing on the receving end. At that moment, the BBaby, that comes to the forum, complaining about this, is born. Thinking about it... makes sense. You are right. Also makes perfect sense. Its in line with the usualy "fix a fix for a fix, that was implemented for a small problem, with another fix to eff-up things more".

So. where does this leave us now? Who really profited from that smokechange? BBs? Hardly. Overall it removed teamplay and forced passive play on them. They might profit, if an enemys is spotted while sitting in smoke and get a free shot on a juicy broadside target now. Cruiser with smoke? Sure not. Several times it made me stop firing my guns. Thus forcing passive play on me and hoping, my torps will do the trick. Cruisers without smoke? Even worse. Many of them have a smoke detectability that will leave them spotted, when they use the smoke of a DD or a RN CL. DDs? I dont see it. Rushing smoke to give vision on the enemys in the smoke is risky, borderline suicidal. Depending on whats in the smoke and how skilled that person is. I personally want to stay away from the smoke unless I know I got good backup. Safest way is still - stay away from detecting that guy in the smoke and hammer him with torps. You dont want, that he knows, you are there with your DD. A lot of recent changes promotes selfish gameplay. Pan asian DDs is just another example. Like it said before - what you show on your those pics is exactly what I used to do with US DDs. Smoke as many ships from my fleet up as possible and spot for them. It was really rewarding to see the red team turning in anger, cuz they couldnt target anything anymore while my guys could shoot free. I dont need the damage myself. I dont need to be so stupid selfish to sit in my own smoke with my tiny guns firing for 2 mins and crying at my other DDs or the CV to keep that BB spotted so I can get lousy 10k dmg or with luck 30k if i give him some permafires. Now its pretty much the main use of my smoke. Did I mention, recent changes make you selfish? But I worked around this. I just Divison up with Belfast & Fiji in my Mahan and we farm away. Again - selfish play. Thinking about this, I have a couple of things to add. First - if you are detected or not rushing a smoke before was only determined if you are spotted by something else - a third ship or a plane. Now - its also determined if you have fired your guns or not. So, technically, before you could rush a smoked up RN CL and fire at a target over an island f.e. and still be undetected. You cant anymore. Besides that - nothing has changed. Yes, you will spot the RN CL now at 5.....6 km depending on which one you face, if he shoots his guns - but he knows this the exact same moment. Actually - taking the rendering into account: he knows it before you can see him on your screen. Also, the moment you fire your guns, you will be detected yourself. There is no way around this, as no cruiser has better smoke concealment then RN CLs. So conclusion. Smoke change made the game more campy. It rewards passive play and punishes aggresive players & teamplay - thats what I also read from everyone here, right? So, I asked this question before the change and my position didnt change : if smoke was so bad and a problem, then why was it addressed in such a stupid way? Same goes for SF really. It keeps eff-ing up the game. Also, I wonder, where have the ppl gone, that had the opinion, these changes will finaly make the game playable? It will get rid of camping, cowards & borderhuggers, they said. Yea right.

Buy 3 CVs and get a T1 Montana for free? sounds reasonable. I literally had tears in my eyes from laughing, thinking about how that would look like. Just imagine, everybody in the server going like WTF? when Super-Montana turns that Chapayev consumable on, firing salvos at a reload of 1 sec, healing about 200k HP with each hit. That would be so hillarious.

As is super serial ? :p

True. Also, needs to get speed buffed to Khaba level + french speedboost. Result can be seen here: