Aragathor

First of all, if you want to play subs, you really hate yourself. Second, to get submarines you need to research and grind to the respective tier 6 DD (Farragut, Gaede, Icarus). Then you can research the T6 sub.

Guys, I've found the guy who designed this change. Look.

I play randoms T5-T8 with a clan buddy, and sometimes a third buddy. We squeeze the fun out of the game, no matter how WG tries to screw us over. You might give it a try, just to see if it's worth it.

Do you have friends to play double or triple divs? If so, then you can make it work and have fun. Otherwise, save your time.

Hey OP, the only griefer I see in that screenshot is the loudmouth in the Kaga. And it's you. Because any CV in ops, save the two fisted brawlers in Graf Zeppelin's and Loewenhardts specced for secondaries, expect the team to tank damage and die, while they farm. The Maya is playing the op correctly, it's the potato teammates he's been burdened with, that are the problem. I have never seen a win in that op when the team hangs back. And I've seen enough 5 star games to know what works.

Let me check, yup, for $2.50 you can buy 10 positive "real" comments on YT.

Well, previously the return was pretty good. 1€ for 500 dubs and change. Now it's a joke. I think WG is banking on [REDACTED] who will miss the change and keep their subscription. Then those [REDACTED] will keep paying but getting garbage. PS: That [REDACTED] is there as I was warned, I'll be banned if I use the term again referring to people who trust WG.

Not strange at all, this gives them the ability to start strong and then lower the rewards until they are worthless. Example, first BP gave a premium ship, subsequent ones were worse and worse. They posted the rewards this month: Garbage and greed. Those aren't premium containers BTW, those are the trash tier free boxes.

Don't worry guys, it will get better. WG is desperately looking for a Senior Monetization Manager. A Russian Monetization Manager that is. Remember the fairy tale? WG left Russia and is not working with Lesta anymore.

I just unsubscribed. Another genius idea by WG's anti-customer crew. I'm not buying a cat in a bag.

Excess? What excess? Managed to barely scrape for 2 distant voyages boxes. Got the Tarnanstrich for the Tirpitz.

Our favorite toxic Fin has posted his reaction after returning from a holiday: Flamu said we will see a lot of teams in KotS having random "disconnects" because of HP rolls. Somehow, I don't doubt it.

Let me quote WG's official position: So be happy you didn't lose both launchers. /S

Another thing that I forgot to add. This mechanic makes the following upgrades pointless, as players are still affected by bad RNG: -Main Armaments Modification 1 -Auxiliary Armaments Modification 1

The implementation of the mechanic creates the opposite effect. By introducing a random roll, a player can go into battle with low HP modules that will easily break, if he's unlucky all of his critical modules will have low HP. So instead of making HP a set value and adding in a saving throw mechanic, a player can go into a battle with a torpedo tube having 300 and a second one having 1000. Then the next battle a launcher will have 2500 and the other 1200. And those numbers aren't pulled out of nowhere, as Painezor's test is linked in the reddit thread and shows exactly that. Which happens often enough thanks to this RNG mechanic, if you get a low roll. Imagine playing Atlantico and one side of your ships loses all but one secondary turrets to DD HE, happens all the time to me. Task failed, like everything WG does. And here's an idea no one at WG thought of: Remove permanent module destruction. No more permanent gun/torpedo/secondary/aa loss. Instead you get a timer for module repair.

I see only problems with this. Here are a few examples: -You play a torpedo DD, roll low, get hit by HE and permanently lose your launchers. Boom, you're useless to your team when it comes to damage. You can maybe spot, if radar/CV/subs don't gank you first. -You play a secondary ship balanced around having a strong secondary battery. Like Atlantico. You roll low, most of your secondary battery is lost early on. You end up playing a turd sandwich. And this happens to Atlantico a lot. -Your ship has torpedoes as an "extra", other elements of your ship were nerfed to accommodate this (Tirpitz, IJN light cruisers). You lose your launchers, you become worse than pure gunboat-style ships. Having an RNG element applied to modules that were used to balance a ship around, is a brain dead idea of someone who doesn't understand balancing. The one thing, that is being preached at gaming developers who get formal training, is "never punish a player for making a valid choice". WG does the opposite, they punish a player who chooses the "wrong" ship, by rolling the dice on whether he gets a ship that is broken from the start.

Some SCs that dropped for me recently: Not a bad haul, the dubs were a welcome surprise. I will miss the old SCs when they are gone. And for something different: Used remaining tokens from the PanAm Cruiser event for distant voyages boxes. Second and last box dropped the Tarnanstrich, the 2016 Christmas event camo for the Tirpitz. Unobtainable otherwise. Color me happy.

There are some stinkers in the line, like the Izmail with brain dead shell traps on the side. The there's SinOP. In total the line is surprisingly balanced, as it is doubly helpless against subs, with limited DCP and bow in play style.

And Painezor tested and confirmed it. This is beyond stupid, that's straight up malicious. And then you have ships that are balanced around torpedoes. No comment.

Are we seeing the same stats? The amount of people playing is dropping. Especially during big events like Christmas. Last two years there was a big Christmas player spike, with more than 30k people playing. This year, there was no spike. The graph maintains a constant slow downwards trend. Then there is also a question of how many people that are new, who fill out the space left by people leaving, buy large amounts of content? We will never know. But seeing the aggressive monetization and removal of free content? I'm not optimistic.

Indeed:

Gents, there has been a mass coronal ejection on the sun yesterday and another one is coming. In Germany right now YT has massive issues. I expect some network problems in the coming days.

I'm having issues with the compatibility between AutoSpy's Info panel and Navigator (Centre). Will do some testing and see what's what.

The only Halford I'm willing to accept:

It's even better if you see the compensation for people who have all 4 ships, it's 500 fXP. Pathetic cheapskates.