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Reminds me of the last Narai OP I did 2 days ago, both NPC (our and enemy) started reversing at the beginning of the OP ... looks like not only human players are affected by this meta shift ...

The problem is, that is the backwards way of doing it. The UU is not a known quantity yet the ship is not popular. Messing with the UU will decrease BOTH indicators (ship popularity and UU popularity) but they are not tracking ship popularity so far (at least nothing is stated in the article). Anyway, let's see how that works. I am not using the UU at the moment so does not affect me and by the looks of it the UU after change will become useless (kinda like the Z-52 one).

I am not disputing the UU review. I am disputing the simple popularity measure as it can be misleading to a large extent in situations that I have described with the Khabarovsk example. Khaba and Grozovoi are at the tail of used ships, outclassed even by Somers and that's a steel ship. So nerfing the UU in that case with such a low tech tree ship popularity is a step in the wrong direction and it is clearly visible.

WG, can you please explain to me HOW you factor in meta changes in the UU evaluation ? In the case of the Khabarovsk, the addition of the Ikea DDs with their fast torps and the addition of the French DDs that can do burst damage from up close with excellent penetration, not to mention Venezia and Stalingrad has made that UU a must have in order to survive without having to hide behind island. So the popularity is understandable and WR difference as well. Try playing the Khaba with the limited range it can get with only AFT is a chore and outright impossible when you get Venezias or Stalins in the game. You can basically abandon that flank. People are used to shooting Klebers now that are both faster and more agile, so Khaba is no longer any problem (ok mayby only to USN cruisers). You need distance in order to survive. And now you are nerfing the UU to make it unusable in open water gunboating as you heal less and can speed boost less (and switching to smoke won't help you as you have smaller smokes now). The whole concept of the ship is wrong. And now you are nerfing the best option the ship had to stay relevant ... GJ as usual. EDIT: TBH I specced out of the UU in favor of rudder shift. Looks like it was a good choice. The next step will be to buy the Tashkent again and forget about Khaba completely.

Pretty much that ... Everyone will either test out subs themselves or has other things to do (ranked etc.). The content rush they are pushing out in the last year is biting them in the behind ...

Weren't the tokens supposed to fix that problem ? Jolly well done WG

Last ranked sprint at T8 the Z-23 worked nicely for me ... I'd pick Akizuki/Lightning/Kidd ... Orkan is an unknown I have faced a few and they are not really cutting it for me, easy to avoid, not rally that much of a problem to deal with.

So they will not be reimbursed for credits ? pity ...

unrelated, can you please explain this to me ? I logged in today (yesterday as well): What use are the tokens now when I have all the bundles ? Or have I missed something in the article ?

That's the wrong way around. If you have to sell the previous ship to get a new one you are not ready for it ... Simply stick to the lower tier one until you can buy and fully equip the new ship. Then move up ... I have made the mistake a few times (Selling a lower tier ship to get to the higher tier one) and I always regretted it at the end.

So I logged in today and got a Submarine token ... but nothing available in the Armory to exchange it for since I have all the Sub bundles at this moment ... What gives ?

anybody has a clue about the captain builds ? after about 10 points I have no usefull skills to spend on for sub commanders ...

Pretty much this. A token buff that is totally meaningless ... I'd take improved AP pen angles over the HE buff any day ...

sarcasm detector failed ? or no excel table for that ...

only tier 8 and up ... lower tiers have 16mm

Soo ... better average XP, much better damage, better K/B, much better survivability with better tanking and spotting ... better hit ration ... gee I wonder why the WR lacks so far behind ...

Anybody has the link for 0.9.4.1 patch notes ? can't find them .... had a look into the 0.9.4 article but that one is not updated ...

well if I could send you those tokens I would ... I only play DDs basically, so a cruiser is near to useless to me unless tier 6 or 7 for Operations ... and the ones for tokens are 5 and 8/9 ...

No, the response was "We learned a lot from the CW rework and don't want to repeat the mistakes we made there ..." unfortunately they did not state WHAT they learned and WHICH mistakes ...

thanks folks, I have to try this ....

Almost fell out of the chair ... That was from one of the containers from the 2nd Directive ...

RN DDs. good guns, decent concealment, defensive hydro and short smoke cooldown .... RPF+BFT and you are a killer ... so far my experience in the Lightning is excellent ... I fail more often than the ship does ...

Remember, rank is not a mark of skill but persistence ...

So where's the difference to this: Yet I don't see tokens and random bundles that limit how many can play CVs at T4 ?

You cannot compare PTS to Live, there's a massive population difference. Also there are a few other ways to do it and not via a random bundle that people are protesting against for event at least last 6 months .... Also if subs were available in training rooms, it would help with the problem a lot and enable some better testing. But no, let's do it the lazy way, piss people off and in the process make them less likely to test .... making the whole point of testing on live server less relevant.