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It was as soon as people realised that camping would get nowhere, damn good fight to be fair. It didn't matter that there were more than 5 BB's in this exceptional case as no cruisers to get deleted. It was rather like a Clan Battle in fat arsed ships

Ah I failed to see the 5 hits implied. That said 1 hit from a Shima torpedo should do enough to outright kill another Shima.

DD's have no torpedo belt to speak of. Was 1 hit, so how could that be saturation? I've seen odd stuff like this myself and I believe they were even looking into weird damage results for torp hits on DD's, but I can't find where I read it a few weeks ago.

Just for some contrast, yesterday at about 2 AM. Mostly BB's that didn't camp, was actually a good fight.

I've no desire to see a "deathmatch" mode and certainly wouldn't like to see the time limit extended, neither would add anything to the game. Yes some of the maps could use a rework and the game would benefit by a reduction in the number of BB's a side (that said had a great game yesterday with 11 BB and 1 DD each side) that use cruisers as XP pinata's, but the basic game mode formats work pretty well.

Not sure how, but it seems to be worse than before this last small patch, I'm getting stuttering after roughly 5 games rather than the 6-8 of before. Restarting the client seems to be the only way to clear it. There's something fundamentally screwed up since 0.7.2.

Can you even dismiss the Special Captains? I can't dismiss mine, but I don't have what Was Seagall.

There are games that award the kill to the person that did the majority of the damage and an "assist" score to the people that did other significant damage. There are many aspects of the scoring system in this game that could use a good rework, the kills flag is certainly one of them. As is spotting (CV's especially suffer from this with DD's a close second). The whole scoring system is far too damage centric at the moment and camping is partially down to this.

Seen some very well played Alsace, a fair few being potato'd of course. Seems like it has nasty guns and isn't too easy to kill unless broadside presented, but that's true of any ship. Not sure there's anything wrong with it and it's even quite pretty!

@Estaca_de_Bares in his Hiryu in a slightly weird 7v7 game on Two Brothers he capped, we won, well played game by the whole team tbh, some good teamwork.

Played 7 games since the patch, slideshow mode in the 8th, playing DD in a knifefight with frame rate stuttering like that was terminal. I had hoped the patch today would solve the issue, it hasn't.

@El2aZeR in his Saipan on the opposite team, horrible faceroll as my team was shockingly poor. Still some comedy ensued and the ratbag didn't feed a single squadron into my Kutuzov!

Smoke equipped cruisers and DD's rely on it and HAVE to have spotters your proposal is ill thought out, or plain not thought out at all.

So it sounds like if you burn or flood down just as the mission finishes, one of those sheer fluke ones to obtain from the sounds of it.

Nvidia drivers yes, Geforce Experience no, I dislike the interface and see no benefits. Not played since the 0.7.2.1 patch, but as of yesterday the issue was live for me without any Geforce Experience installed.

You can install it as the only option in Aslains (I think) as you can select specific stuff. The only drawback with your plan is some people have their stats hidden, they could be bad players or good and the programme only pulls stats from the sites, hidden stats aren't visible to it.

The primary frustration for cruiser play is the very real risk of deletion from full health by a single BB salvo, once you open fire in a cruiser every BB that can see you will do their best to blow you out of the water, with 5 BB's a game there's very little chance of not exposing much of a broadside to at least one of them, often one you can't even see as it's undetected. BB's have long range, accurate guns. BB reload is longer than the 20s gun bloom which has rather stupidly been applied to all classes so they drop to stealth (unless someone is sighted and inside their spotting range) between every shot. BB shells do massive damage and overmatch even bow armour on most ships other than BB's. BB concealment is way too good, including the effect of concealment expert captain skill which is stronger than for all apart from CV. Simple fact is (ignoring a certain Latvians diatribes) that BB's are hard to kill, easy to play and have very little reason to endanger themselves. You only have to look at the Clan Battle format which leads to very refreshing gameplay due in large part to there being ONLY 1 BB a side at maximum, not every team fields a BB. No matter how hard people try to twist the reality, BB's are too strong in Randoms when there are such large numbers with such large advantages.

Pass, seems like useless information to me. I couldn't care less if the person I'm shooting or lobbing torpedoes at has a 25% win rate or 95%, so long as they don't run certain illegal mods that allow them to see the instant torps are launched from stealth or use an aim cheat to help them hit citadels.

Did a spot of driver cleaning and reinstalling on the offchance it would improve things, no improvement 6 or so games and it starts to stutter badly, restart the client and it's OK until another 6 or so games have gone past. Makes no odds if it's PvP, PvE or scenarios and it went to hell yesterday evening in Clan Battles too.

It can't, even with Booster that's on a longish cooldown it will reload 8 torpedoes (16 with booster) only about every 90 seconds and the travel time of the torps is significant. A BB of course can fire 8/9/12/16 guns every 24-30s with a flight time of whatever the range dictates, miss and fire again. If one type of pretty crappy DD is enough to scare a BB driver out of his fat battleship then frankly it's comedy gold.

Was it ever banned? I've seen it as part of Aslains pack since I first started using the pack about 7 months ago. I don't see how it could be of any benefit to me (couldn't care less about stats, I hid mine as a newbie when someone went off on one trying to stat shame and I found the bit of the site where mine were, as it happens I came top in that game, he came near bottom) or to anyone really.

Nope, installed in once to find out what it was then binned it, I've no interest in stats.

Now you're daydreaming! Since when can DD's expect support? Most of the time the support that started that way has turned tail and run away when it's needed.

Ok, so it's now got guns roughly equal to the Kagero, which has got lousy guns and can't hold its own in a gunfight vs anything of equal or higher tier. It still represents no risk to DD's or Cruisers so still easy to shut down. The DW torpedoes are not something to make the already cowardly BB's from sniping at max range, that's already embedded into BB player mindsets.

Played a game a few weeks back with a test Asashio on the red side, to say that it was absurdly easy to shut down would be a huge understatement. It was spotted once while it tried to contest a cap, landed torps on one Tirpitz (two torps I think) and then it spent the rest of the time running away, it didn't die, but it did exactly sod all. Awful guns and torpedoes that can't hit DD's or cruisers so it couldn't contest caps and with a little teamplay (yes shock horror) it was easy to keep it from being able to torp effectively, spotted several salvoes of torps so the BB's had time to dodge easily. It's junk and it's not even been released yet.