ForlornSailor

finally someone who has the priorites right! And I almost lost faith in humanity

Playing Radar Edinburgh. I check the lineup: 2 DDs, 3 caps. Alright, lets do this. So I sneak up towards one cap, covered by an island, my RPF pointing me to a DD coming to the cap which indeed turns red. So I radar from save position, can lob some shells, my team does the rest, DD dead. So I think im good, start to move out of the islandcover to make a turn.... WHY AM I SPOTTED? Apperently, that 2nd DD made the move across the map and just arrived when my radar went down. Im in full turn, I see a Roma shooting at me: 3 hits, 3 citadells, im dead. A Roma of all things.

Yes - shooting HE in his Kurfürst!

I have a strong feeling, that ever since *some* new dude in WG is in charge, they do not release high RoF cruisers anymore. Since CV rework, all cruisers have slow reload. Nevsky is the only thing that come to mind, with her 6 sec, thats somewhat deviating from that. Also, they see DDs as something without smoke these days. We got the french and then the europeans. There has been a huuuge shift in these 2 classes, Belfast 43 is just another proof for that. "Classic" wows balancing approach would given her a slightly better reload then the original Belfast, im sure.

+HE + better HE then Belfast The 10,5 sec reload are holding me back a little tbh. and the heal!

So who cares about PR? If you want to farm PR, I suggest you get Kurfürst, get the range module, put yourself in the back of the map and shoot HE at Battleship. Thank me later.

FOMO I guess? People, just ignore such type of "events". I think I looked 5 sec at it and then forgot about the entire thing. A perma camo is highly overrated anyway. You dont need it for grinding, because the regular camos have way better bonus. Then you certainly dont need it for a ship, that you dont like / never gonna play after you finished grinding. And even IF you play that ship once in a whil here and there... think about it this way: Each game, you play that ship with the perma camo, you save 1 regular camo. Unless you plan on playing hundreds of games with Bismarck just for fun (why would anyone?) - you absolutly dont need the perma camo. Its the same with the halloween event. Oh, I can get a T9 perma camo. awesome. Not gonna play like 40+ hours in a game mode I dont like while getting zero other rewards.

Well, then this game might not be for you. You will not reach your desired goal, no matter how you want to temper with the matchmaker. "Balance by winrate?" Right. Winrates says nothing about the playstyle. A 40% dude might be a DD that guns in gunz blazing on his shima, dead in 2 mins. Another 40% dude is a HE-shooting Kurfürst, camping in the spawn. You want to "balance" games by put such people up against each other, since you think, it makes a fair and balanced game - after all, they both are 40%er - aint gonna work out. Still will be rofl stomps. And this game is build around grinding XP and grinding credits. People need to play for the win and need to be rewarded for it. Again you want to punish the better players and cut in on their winrate, thus their rewards, and boost bad players income, whil fixing nothing of the core problems - which is bad play and nothing else! Quute the opposite: you let the bad players to believe, what they are doing is right since their performance is on pair with better players. You can twist and turn but literally every "balancing of matches" runs down to this. Ive yet to hear one concrete suggestions, that would not have this outcome. But explain to us your idea.

Have you ever heard about Apples first version of Music shuffle? It was totally random. So sometimes, it played tracks from the same artist in a row or in a alphabetical order. So people went nuts "oooh that cant be random". So Apple introduced a mechanics, to prevent this. Music shuffle wasnt random anymore. But people were happy because they thought its random now. Thats what we see here actually. These people would only be happy, once the matchmaker prevents any sort of streaks. Wow, I would quit right away If I knew I have no chance to win 10 games in a row anymore. Why would I contonue playing after 2 wins? NExt game gonna be a loss to keep it "balanced". I can only shake my head, how some people want to "improve" the game.

Gotta be honest here: looking at the minimap - I couldnt help myself but have the same thoughts about that Kurfürst :D

Here is how the year is gonna end: US falls into civil war. Turkey attacks Armenia. Macron ceases the opportunity to attack Turkey, blaiming them for beeing behing the recent terror attacks. Erdogan declares holy war on europe, most muslim nations join. Pakistan nukes us on xmas eve to prove a point, US is too busy with their own problems to help us, India nukes Pakistan a day later because why not, Iran thinks "well one more doesnt make a difference" and nukes Israel but it falls short and loses its path so it hits Saudi Arabia, Isreal ofc notice what the real plan was, nukes Iran and a few other countries because preemtive strike is best. Meanwhile, in Europe, lefts, center & rights are fighting if the nukes on our captial cities is our own fault because we are bad racists or if we finally should strike back and nuke everyone else aswell. Thanks to the massive nuclear barrage, climate change has sped up so we celebrate new years eve under a red skies and 29°C in central Europe (and Gas masks, painted in santa-style, that the chinese somehow managed to manufacture and ship within 24 hours in huuge quantities to europe). All of us ofc, except the dutch, because the ocean level went up by 2 meters thx to the insane heatwave all across the world. And while we countdown the seconds towards 2021, your cellphone interrupts the celebration: news push! Yellowstone-Supervulcano just errupted! Happy 2021 everyone

Show us the screenshot?

Judging by your recent stats, you are definatly very good, top 5% easily. Id rather see you on my side then the enemy team when playing a DD They do. In both directions. You see people with ~30% WR on their CVs and the only reason, they win a few here and there, is, that they face other sheep-like CVs all the time, so the decision who wins, is up to the team. On the other end, you find this: Mind you, this is solo! I dont reach 80% in tripple divisions on a long run (well only with my favourite ships or when im sealclubbing) so eventhough we have to ofc take personal skill into concideration, such an impact as one player of 12 is huuuge and the ship/class contributes to that.

A good 3x division (even without CV) can work against it. Really good? 2 in 100 games maybe. Thats when your game is really destroyed by the enemy CV. During several hundred games as a DD since CV rework Ive witnessed it only a vrey few times tho. Then there are the decent CVs. they can be annoying but they usualy dont have what it takes to wipe you out alone and will waste a lot of time with you. Annoying but doesnt stop you. That happens somewhat more often. Eventhough recently its decreasing aswell. The bad CV players are absolutly the majority by now. Ofc. but for the enemy good player goes the same as for me: if he dodges the fight with me, he gives me the mapcontrol and feeds his meatshiels to me aswell. You cant do that. Ive had games, where, for different reasons, our division was left standing alone against 6, 7 sometimes even 8 enemys. You are left with a situation, thats usualy not winnable anymore. Those 8 must be the absolute worst players in the world for you to have a chance to comeback. And given that they wiped your team at that point, the usualy aint. So you have to "protect" your teammates from getting sunk. They might be useless, but they are points and health as long as they float. Thats why I like to be upfront, close and personal. Then its up to you to deal with whatever the enemys throws at you. If you fail - well, then you got nothing to blame but yourself.

Yea, they lowered the service costs so hard, that everyone makes a profit these days.

And here lies a lot of truth: If you flank like this, a good CV will notice. Then he will come, spot you & kill you. A bad CV wont notice such a sneaky move so the DD suceeds. Then he kills a useless CV, who was no threat to your team. Either way, he achives nothing. I dont do that in any of my DDs. Apart from clanwars, where this might be needed, depending on the situation - but thats something completly different again. Here is the thing: I rather stay central or go where the heat is, because thats where the good enemy players are aswell. And if you want to win the game, you attack those. As described above, if the good player in the enemy team is the CV, then there is nothing you can do either way. If I´d see @El2aZeR in the enemy team in a CV, rest assured I would not try to flank and torp him, eventhough I know, he is the biggest factor for the enemys winning the game.

Yes I am, because I know how I play this map as a DD and the Yamato would be spotted this way. Shima is one of the superior spotters in the game. Which brings me to: Absolutly. Easy. One of the best things that can happen to you as a shima. You have a huge concealment advantage, they dont have any smoke, no hydro, no radar. Thats a piece of cake. He has a KURFÜRST as backup withhin 10 km to both DDs, oh man, I would kill for a random secondary BB to support my DD gameplay this way. Taking that flank would have litteraly been a walk in the park. After the DDs are dead, which is only a matter of time with the secondary of Kurfürst pounding them, the path for 3 BBs was open. With the exeption of Minotaur no hydro in sight either. I only looked it up after I posted that. The stats of the player in question are hidden. There is having a different opinion about a tactic and then there is witnessing absolute r****** stuff. Im sorry, but no matter how you hate CVs, running around the map border with your DD to try and get to the CV is one of the worst things you can do. period.

Ill help you out again: check, which enemy ships survived. Öland, Halland, Vladivostok, Minotaur, Yamato - thats the entire left flank, where the Shima is moving. You claimed, its a legitimate tactic to cause panic on that flank. How so? not one single ship there sank. The shima prolly wasnt interested in any of them, all he cared about was the CV. Again: utterly useless player, surly in the 40% range with his WR. Going any bet here.

Your analysing of the game and then seeing the result table kinda makes me cringe. It kinda shows me, you dont really know how to play a DD. I think im well in the green to make that judgement and also point out, that the Benham is playing perfectly, while the Shima is useless. Look at the minimap. Right flank with Benham: ALL ships are spotted. Left flank: even a YAMATO ! is unspotted, because the DD there doesnt do his job. thats the Shima in case you wonder. He is leaving his flank completly vulnerable to the enemy DDs. That particular game was seen on twitch. It continued with the Benham taking the cap (you ofc missed the fact, that he fought the enemy DD there and helped getting killed - which would be obvious because the cap is red on the minimap with no DD near anymore). Then the benham pushed through the cap, started spotting the Yamato and North Carolina (which shima is failing to do so). And racking up about 100k damage on the BBs. See how wrong your judgement is? (you could start by identifiying the players correctly on the screen, its not that hard - or is that some cheap shot towards @DFens_666 and you think we dont notice? I cant tell honestly).

yea, for sure I didnt get 7 days warships premium time.

worth it

Ive seen it happen in another fancy way: the reload booster was permanently active on JB. Entrire round with couple of second reload. Aint that nice? Prolly WGs new RNG mechanic - you never know what you get

:D then I was extremly unlucky: 2 games and happend to me once.

79% is about what I reach with divisions aswell. On a larger scale it seems impossible to go beyond that (unless you maybe go T4 any play CV divi) so about 20% of the battles have the odds stacked against you so hard, that its almost impossible to carry them.