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Had a Midway (on the green team sadly) in the channel today, from fairly early on, fair to say it didn't end well for our team.

True it's really not armoured, even angled a lot of BB's will dev strike, this holds true to Donskoi which has a bit more and the Moskva which has more again and is OKish bow on.

This is true. Budy is a good ship, but very similar to Kirov and then Chappy is similar to Budy. Styles are much the same.

Fair enough, that theory is comprehensively disproved then.

Odd, other posts stated that the ships only came in order, so you couldn't get the T7 mission without getting the T5 and 6 missions. Maybe that was nonsense or maybe there's some flukes happen, my clanmates that have had some of the French BB's have all had them in order, me included.

You will have got a mission when you opened one of the French containers, this mission just needs a certain amount of XP to complete. Since it's the Normandie you will also have the Bretagne in port which is the T5.

Well like many (probably most) here I've slapped loads of ships in some battles, think 7 in one game is my current best and farmed no end of damage in all sorts of ships, but as far as I know I've never been reported for misbehaviour in chat, there's no way to tell admittedly when I lose karma.

Are you saying you get chat bans because people use "plays poorly" or similar reports? Why would people use the "misbehaviour in chat"? Unless there's a whole lot of people with an obsession to get you chat banned this makes no sense.

Most of the Musashi's I've come across seem pretty damn deadly, not easy to kill either unless the driver sails in straight lines showing enough broadside.

Which is very difficult to believe. Simply because people post that it doesn't mean they're being entirely truthful or that they understand what is actually offensive or insulting to other people. I've vented in I don't know how many battles at campers, total lack of support and plain awful gameplay, but I've never been chat banned. I don't engage in trash talk that annoys the other side though which seems quite common with some people. Trash talk is aimed to humiliate people and that they dislike actively. As people have said it's a slippery slope, once banned a few times in a short period it probably takes very few "misbehaviour in chat" reports to get another ban and I'm willing to bet that there's some built in timer that's reset each report. The fact is you don't meet the same people in game after game so the idea that people can conduct a vendetta is pretty daft.

I disagree, it serves the purpose of shutting up the truly obnoxious people and stopping them from affecting the wider player base even if it's only for a few days. If they get chat banned repeatedly then maybe, eventually (unlikely I know) they will moderate their behaviour. If nothing else the mute only works for a single game. Personally I've no issue with people getting chat banned, it's the price they pay for acting like petulant pre-teens. Yes this is a PvP game and PvP games also attract the type of arrogant, noxious kiddie types who love to shout at people from behind their keyboards safe in anonymity, but at least with the chat ban system they get a bit inconvenienced after throwing their toys out of the pram.

Didn't they say that after the debacle of "2017 Year of the CV" which got thrown in their faces at every opportunity that they wouldn't announce a programme in case plans change? I think I read that on some forum or Reddit post.

People with repeated chat bans are their own worst enemies, they behave obnoxiously, get banned, fail to learn the lesson and repeat, some of them even spam F keys and map pings (which they know can't be blocked) just to annoy the rest of the team as some type of petty "revenge". If you don't like being chat banned then change your behaviour, it's a problem with YOU not the system or with "thin skinned" people who find your language and behaviour childish. The system isn't broken it's your behaviour that needs to be fixed, even the dumbest kids eventually learn from repeated visits to the naughty step and the system treats serial offenders harshly which is fine. Grow up and you will stop getting chat banned, making threads like this every week or two just gets the same responses which is it's your problem.

@Kradenko I've never tried the filters out, but aren't there some of the mods that change what you can see in port like show only ships with commanders or only premium ships/silver ships and the likes? The modpacks allow you to select just the things you want so won't affect your gameplay if you don't want it to. Aslains for example. http://aslain.com/index.php?/topic/2020-0711-aslains-wows-modpack-installer-wpicture-preview/ Or the modpack on the forum maybe? Worth a look at the least.

Didn't the OP claim to have quit the game a short while back? I can't be bothered to check his past posts due to the walls of wibble text. If he's quit why does he continue to dribble on the forums?

Nothing wrong with that map, it's short (top to bottom), but wide and has a variety of cover. It would play well with higher tier ships, far better than some of the high tier maps in fact.

From that screenshot it looks graphics driver related or it's running on a very weak graphics card. Do you play on a laptop or a desktop? Many laptops have 2 graphics cards, one for every day stuff and one for high demand things like games. To stand a chance of diagnosing the problem we need to know a bit more about your setup.

Of course, they will continue to camp at the back and snipe until late game when they've farmed the cruisers and any DD spotted. No change.

I thought she was already released in final form? Seem some on the live server in games.

Indeed, in that Asashio game I mentioned I told our team that it had BB only torpedoes and the few cruisers and DD's left screened the BB's, any hope he had of landing a hit was negated. It's basically a one trick pony gimmick ship which brings nothing to the table once people have the vaguest understanding what it can do. If WG were serious about a true way to disincentivise BB play they would lower spotting range on all torpedoes and the reload times too. In other words undo partially some of the nerfs they applied because BBabies screamed so much.

I had a game last week on Tears where a test Asashio was on the enemy team, he was chased out of one cap, managed to torpedo one Tirpitz and wasn't seen again even though it was the last ship alive on their team. I would call it utterly useless compared to a Kagero and I can't see a reason to buy it even though I really like DD play. It will do nothing to reduce the number of BB's played.

Which seems perfectly sensible, except of course WG appear to be wedded to their gimmicks that backfire horribly and they won't back away from their screwups. I rarely play my KM BB's since the change to US CV's to include AP bombs, it's just frustrating to get knobbled by 1 or two bombers getting through. Shame I used to find them a lot of fun. As to a multiplicative factor like fires? Good thought, on first reading I can't see an issue with it, someone else might.

If @Sub_Octavian has said it will be fixed then there's a bug in the effect so reducing the fire chance incorrectly not just the text. At the moment it appears that the Elite XP is wasted.

Which is also the case with the Pan Asian DW torpedoes since cruisers tend to be closer than BB's. Looks like each time they produce an "anti BB" weapon they utterly fail to think through the consequences.

Absolutely, spotting of enemies, incoming torpedoes and area denial type teamplay has basically no scoring so it makes the damage farming approach "better" in terms of score, until/unless they dramatically rework the scoring system this encourages damage and kill securing behaviour.If nothing else the reward for a killshot is far too high. There's no type of Assist flag for walloping an enemy that someone else then plinks. I've lost count of the number of ships I've flooded or burned to death just for someone to nab the kill. This applies to CV's as well of course where ideally they should be mostly spotting and controlling the map, but to score at all well they they need to alpha strike stuff. I've heard from many CV players that they find the scoring mechanics are awful for them. For that matter tanking damage isn't rewarded meaningfully either by the scoring system so BB's are encouraged to hide and snipe. All of these factors skew the stats, at least with the new emblems they're not ALL purely damage related.