Aragathor

I appreciate the honesty, they are fully admitting to a policy of aggressive monetization. It's their right as a company. It's also the right of players to say "nah, screw that" and not spending money, while also warning people not to invest any cash into this game. In the end everybody loses.

I prefer "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser!"

Don't forget to include over-nerfing and no fun when playing when creating the ship. You know, to make it like WG does.

The fun train has no brakes for whales!

Yes, do it. I have only an 8p captain on her and she is fun to play. Because selectively showing the WR of ships is enough to say how good a ship is. Let's forget it's played mostly by new players. Let's forget that T5 is the first tier players get +2 MM. Let's forget in what state DDs are in thanks to CVs. Sorry, but stats do not in any way describe the subjective fun of playing a particular ship. Yes, the one with useless torps and British smoke. But, German DDs need a buff somewhere.

Got a 300 drop from the first daily login box. Really put me ahead of the curve.

All fair points here, but as long as WG employs people who do not play the game and only look at superunicum statistics we will never get any buffs for these ships.

I joked to myself while making tea that the daily drop container will be a 300 token drop. It was. WG please stop reading my mind. Thank you.

Here it is, @LittleWhiteMouse has created a table for every caliber and whether it should use IFHE based on 0.9.2 changes: https://forum.worldofwarships.com/topic/213359-ifhe-all-night-long/

8 Boxes: 5x 5 points 2x 10 points 1x 15 points Total - 60 points. Boxes still to collect this week - 1x box directive mission, 3x boxes twitch mission.

Well they do say it's until 11 July without any number of games you can play in the product description in the shop: And RU has the same text. Until July 11 you get x3 XP per game, no limitations. So practically they do sell with those terms.

Great job on the icons, you really went out of your way to make them look bad.

Around 16 mil. Nice chunk of change.

It's because of the category. The coupon is only for the category Ships for Doubloons and Bagration is in the category Russian Cruisers.

If they removed access to the slot 6 range upgrade the Smolester would be okayish.

But they also shouldn't be downgrades. Right now the majority of UU are worthless. Nope, it's a massive nerf. You lose 20% of speed boost duration and 20% of HP healed per charge. So you need to play extra passive at max range even more.

It was randoms with extra steps. Played 2 games and then decided to do more fun things.

They just confirmed it in a devblog. Boy the changes look really dumb. As if they were made by someone who doesn't play the game. Yup. The LM looks bad now, on a ship that's already not popular.

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[edited] As to Ludendorff the man, his name just like the names of many others from the period (Lenin, Molotov, Hindenburg, FDR) are stained in the eyes of people. But that doesn't mean that Ludendorff the ship will be in any way connected or glorifying the real world person and their beliefs. As to the data already mined, I'm not impressed. 380mm guns have been heavily nerfed by plating changes and with the bad firing angles the ship looks like a big XP pinata. So we might as well be renaming the ship to Haber, as it will be a stinker!

Looks like WG just doesn't care to create interesting new ships anymore. My comment:

The "more grind, less reward" principle in action.

And not just a ship, an overnerfed joke of a boat that cannot fulfill it's combat role thanks to "balancing". Looking at this event, WG knows how to put a wet blanket over everything that could be fun.

More than a month passed since IFHE and armor were changed. We all had a chance to adapt to the changed mechanics. I'd love to hear how you are handling it, have you changed how you play, have you stopped playing certain ships? Share it. I myself have stopped playing Atlanta, there is no point in playing that ship anymore. The ship has been slammed with two global nerfs that took away all the strengths, first the AA, second the damage. Now the ship is the worst performing USN cruiser at tier 7. On the other hand I haven't noticed anything change for Perth, that ship still performs like before. Also, I have found that Yorck went from one of the worst cruisers at T7 (way back when it had pre-WW1 AP) to being one of the best. So I'd love to hear from you about your post-IFHE rework experience.

Can confirm, both enemy and own ships started to lose launchers and turrets at a visibly increased rate. Especially visible on German ships. It's like the tubes are made out of paper. Had one hit from a 130mm gun destroy a launcher on the tirp.