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I get these ghost shells a lot! They do seem to hit the island, including its explosion, but the shells seem to travel and act normally, but never hit anything nor splash water when hitting water. When it happens, it seems to happen always when hugging an island, particularly with cruisers.

Which country is this btw?

It basically comes down to this. A friend of mine recently started playing WoWS and is at tier 4 (yes he bought higher tier premiums lol, don't get me started on that ) and told me he was banned from all other game modes except coop for 12 battles. At first he said he did almost nothing wrong, till he told me he had teamkilled someone on several occasions and he had left a couple battles early because he didn't like the matchmaking or something? But I explained to him that getting pink is in itself not even a big deal and when playing DD I still turn pink from time to time. It's not a big deal provided it happens only now and again. When someone makes a simple mistake in the midst of chaos, I can understand and it doesn't really upset me (or at least most of the time). Especially back when I was a n00b, I turned pink lots of time. I tried and I tried to find ways to torp from second line and I ended up concluding that if it's possible that an ally could run into the torps within the laws of wows physics, it's probably a bad idea to deploy the metal fishes Expecting your teammates to do what you want them to do is expecting the wrong things from them, it simply won't work and the sooner you can accept that, the sooner you can enjoy this game more And nobody here cares whether you're a president of some great forum. And nobody will throw out the red carpet for you because of that, here it doesn't really matter. People will probably end up perceiving you as arrogant instead.

I'd reckon Kronstadt is a good ship vs DDs? Or at least when shooting them, maybe less so for spotting them

I tend to agree with this and similar posts made in this thread. I do much like the prospect of Alaska and the WW1 German BC (even though I'd much love an entire line or a partial line at least). There has been a lot of new content, I'm not really understanding why some people seem to like to complain about a lack of it. Heck, even a completely new campaign was added along with other new content. However, even though I do like some of the new stuff that is added, I would actually prefer a bit more work was done on the core of the game and a little bit less effort was spend into the more volatile events that last only a month or so.

I gotten Missouri kinda the same day I got Colorado and it worked out perfectly for me Not having a tier 9 or tier 10 tech tree ship is not a good reason to not get it, go for it! Musashi is probably going to be THE best captain trainer you can get for IJN battleships and as been mentioned already, it's a good ship. Frankly, it's a beast compared to other tier 9 ships And to me it's a good money maker as well. I gotten (with +70% credit boost) 1.2m credits with Missouri twice, but yesterday I gotten 1.3m credits with the same credit boosters on Musashi, seems I prefer Musashi playstyle more My opinion? Get Musashi and play Musashi! But be prepared to n00b around a lot lol, check out my stats with Missouri to see what I mean But really, it will help out so much! Months later I finally gotten to Yamato (god forbid Izumo and the 200k fxp it cost me to skip it partially...) and while Yamato is clearly the better ship of the 2 (It's kinda easy to have 1.5x or even 2x the damage I do in Musashi), Musashi is a tier lower and sees maps you would never see with Yamato. And its excellent as ecxp farmer as well The only thing that might change things is if the Jean Bart and Alaska may prove to be much superior to Musashi, if Musashi is totally not your playstype (hint: try the Yamato out on the test server, I can highly recommend it, and you get rewards and help out the development of the game as a bonus as well) or if the carrier rework somehow changes balance so significantly that Musashi gets the short end of the stick. And for what it's worth, you getting Musashi means you don't need to shell out 5000 doubloons for the premium camo as the tier 9 premium camo comes with the Musashi for free. And as a premium ship you can put any captain you like on Musashi (provided it's a IJN captain). Good luck, captain!

Killer Whale is now actually my favorite operation after Narai and Hermes got nerfed. I wish they keep it that way. If people find it too easy, it's a tier 6 ops and the tier 7 and 8 scenarios are meant to be harder. The tier 6 ones are supposed to be easier as it's often the very first scenario new players will come across. It's kinda like saying tier 2 randoms are too easy or something Leave the lower tier scenarios alone. Add hard mode or play ranked or clan battles in purple unicorn clans if you want a harder game. Or play tier 8 CL or whatever. You need hard mode, not another scenario that gets nerfed. Or go play one of the scenarios that's already nerfed Play one of the higher tier scenarios or go play randoms (not boring at all). It's for beginner players. Expect them to make mistakes. Not all scenarios should be for purple unicorn teamspeak commando divisions in order to have a good chance at making it till the end.

And the solution is "Hard Mode"

No problemo

Yes! Give me an Arny for my Scharny!

I think combining all those 3 effects would make it OP. I think I'd prefer only a reload boost, if only as complicated skills tend to add to balancing hell. Active for 30 seconds sounds like a good amount of time. But I think this idea of a secondary battery booster could certainly work and it would fit the german BBs like a glove

But seriously, I think it could be a fitting way to buff some of the German BBs. I'm not anti-gimmick by itself. I do mind some of the ways these are being implemented though. And I do believe it should benefit gameplay!

I'll bet you one Radar Reload Booster for that

-I hadn't considered the rewards for the collection to also be placeholders. You are correct, perhaps this will change Don't get me wrong, I do think this would be a nice way to introduce the new dragon signals to the generic shipfolks but compared to tier 8 permacamos (even though a bit gimped permacamos) it seemed a little bit lackluster. These tokens do seem like very promising to me, kinda everything I could get for these tokens on PTS is stuff that I could actually use (especially new captains, and particularly because they are unique even though not more powerful).

Secondary Battery Reload Booster for German BB!

So far I kinda liked this event. It's very reminiscent to the 2nd year anniversary. I do find the new rewards a bit meh though, I really liked the permacamos that were given away last year Last year I missed out on the really good stuff due to not having any tier 10 ships and due to not having played enough battles yet. Seems I'm kinda not rewarded for these this year. Too bad, but it would've made it all the more enjoyable to me since I missed out last year as well. This year I miss out because it's apparently not even there anymore. The SC for the collection is nice though, but to me it's a bit meh as well. Perhaps this collection is not supposed to have as good rewards as the one from last year? What I do like is the option to get some very fun new 10pt commanders! I am actually in need of some 10pt commanders for some nations so to me this will work out beautifully! The buff to the anniversary camos is kinda nice, I only had 12 of those left in stock so this doesn't really affect me aside from the new ones I'm probably gonna be getting. I did kinda miss the scshrsrsomething (the great) commander having a voice, but I suppose this was intended. I hope I can get plenty of these new commanders! Btw, why not the halloween commanders? Might it be popssible that the halloween event will be returning in the same incarnation as last year? I certainly hope so!

I agree with many of the comments here. My opinion is that it's a bad idea to nerf the tier 8 and 9 cruisers of this line. There was a lot of flak about cruisers getting the short end of the stick and WG decided to give them some love. The USN chapter has improved the amount of cruisers being played by a lot, I hardly see the once traditional 5BB + 2CA/CL + 5DD matches anymore (thank god) and cruisers now often have 5 each team. Good thing! But a side effect was the radars, which this or larger amount doesn't really fit into this meta (be it map design or he way radar works and is implemented) and which is in its turn giving WG a lot of flak. In my opinion it would be a bad move to nerf one of the non-radar cruisers. Especially the DPM is a big deal to me, it was THE reason why I quit playing Hipper when I got it. When I later got CM I continued playing that ship. The reload booster (as Wilkatis has already gracefully pointed out) obviously won't compensate enough for the DPM nerf of these non-radar cruisers. And tier 9 is already in a hard spot concerning the discrepancy between premium and non-premium tier 9 ships. I think it's a bad idea to nerf these ships. Mind you, this is not taking into account the reload booster. If it weren't a nerf, I might have found it slightly useful in some situations. But I found the reload booster rather uninspiring when on PTS. It's basically one extra salvo in exchange for relatively lot of extra micromanagement on top of a 20% DPM nerf (20% is a LOT!). I don't really know about the HIV as I kinda hardly ever played that ship. The French cruisers already have their unique flavor: The speed boost. And this imo makes this line of ships a lot of fun The old Hipper was not a lot of fun and more of a frustrating experience, due to its lausy DPM (which has been buffed since by half the nerf that these french cruisers will be receiving). They don't really need the reload booster. I don't mind if they implemented it without nerfing the tier 8 and 9 ships otherwise, but imo it won't really help them a lot either.

I decided to play some coop battles in the lower tiers (2,3,4 and 5) and bot behavior has changed significantly. Not only are the bots a lot smarter, they are a lot more campy (not hard considering the yolo rushers we have on the live server right now). However, since I was the only human player in all battles I noticed the bots on my team seemed to be significantly more stupid. I really had to do my best to kill 4 enemies for my team to stand a chance of winning. Actually, when trying to win 2 battles in the lower tiers I actually had 2 defeats and one win by barely being able to cap. These coop battles take a lot more time to complete, often being as long as a random battle and I'm not sure this is a good thing. I think I am kinda fine with bots getting smarter in coop but what I don't like is, when being fed up with having to carry a bunch of potatoes in randoms, to have to carry a bunch of potatoes in coop as well When I play coop, I just want to relax and shoot the red stuff. When I like a challenge I play coop and when I want pain I'll play ranked or one of the recently changed scenario battles. But I want to be able to relax and do some routine gameplay without having to have to concentrate every second I'm in battle. If I wanted to do that I'd stay in WoT However, I do give props to whoever programmed these bot behaviors, I think this person did a pretty good job But please, make them yolo more again Bots don't need to be smart (or super campy).

Ran into @fumtu while playing my Alsace in coop. Good thing I warned him about all those crazy nutters out there

There's so many people supporting the sharks lately Tomorrow I will backstab the sharks and join the eagles!

I think it has. I got torped in a low tier DD a couple days ago by my divmate in a Kuma I think? I took at least 2 torps and survived and was kinda surprised I had more then half my health left I think? It kinda distracted me from the game for a couple seconds lol. I did already know about no more flooding/fire damage from teammates but it seems that impact damage has also decreased. I have not noticed a decrease in the number of pink ships though.

Added both of you

At this moment it's 15 games 1x 5 stars 2x 3 stars 1x 1 star 11 total losses. One of the losses included me ending in a team of a single div of 6 that kinda knew how to play. It seems useless. Not only is xp income less then even coop, the Go Navy event is wasted with results like these.

Well I got WAYYY more battles in Missouri compared to you but I'm kinda always needing more credits due to the number of higher tier ships I have unlocked but not bought yet But if this is the case with my stats (which are arguably better then his) so in that regard, giving him a Missouri won't solve his credit deficiency anyway and yes I got premium

It's not an Argumentum Ad Hominem. You mentioned credits being the issue, but Missouri isn't the answer for you and you just not like it. And besides, you can complain all you want it won't change anything. And every message you spend here is another 800k credit game lost forever, right?