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Ah ok, I did switch sides once or twice I believe? Btw, I think that blue single-use shark camo looks really nice! I hope we can get more of them during the event (and that some CC like Flamu gives directions on what to do when you have a particular target for to get to for this event).

Another 2 attempts yesterday (after that I kinda had enough of it and map rotation went back to Raptor) another 2 failures. Slightly above 200k dmg with Helena was not enough, there was too much red The other I decided to go towards the escaping transports side of the map with Gneis, but that Clemson(?) pwned me At least I wasn't under air attack there. 2 others managed to sink the enemy carrier and the rest kinda stayed with our own transports, but in the end it was a loss with 2 stars if it had been a succes. I would definitely like a hard mode like this scenario where a disciplined and skilled organised team is NEEDED in order to succeed Not everyone can create these divisions at will though, not everyone is part of a clan with voice communications and coordination. Ah yes, I seen 2 Fijis going to that corner while the rest of the team was dead (I mean this in the literal way, they were last 2 remaining survivors), they managed to kill that carrier but that objective had already been lost, red cross and all

And have you found anything yet? I don't really understand what the most smart thing to do will be, or if prices will change on the live server. I never gotten many tokens to try out stuff with due to me not getting any when losing a scenario battle (like Narai ). Sounds to me like you will feel right at home in WoT.

So how have you been doing lately? Apparently you're in tier 6 now? Dunno if you're still actively playing, but if so, I can recommend you watch some videos by Flamu. Here's a somewhat older one for Fuso:

26/26 marathon containers+the free container+the indy containers netted me no ships whatsoever, alas.

This version would perhaps be a good template for a hard mode I think? The 'problem' with the current version is that it kinda requires an organised (and at least somewhat balanced) team and a random PUG is basically anything but that. I think this current version perhaps requires too much discipline?

I tried Narai and Raptor on part 2 of the test server. Raptor was another win, this time it took the old route. Narai otoh, loss loss loss, 200k 240k, 190k dmg it was all irrelevant. Too many ships that need to go everywhere RIGHTNOW, the fleeing CV is barely hittable because it is behind islands most of the time and in the midst of chaos you basically have to know in advance who is going where. It's not possible to switch if someone gets sunk of some spawns turn out to be different or your timing is a bit off. I tried attacking the enemy CV with BB and CL and only succeeded once. In a CL (Helena) I got withered down by enemy aircraft (yes I was AA build) or by a Dallas who fired HE over the island. At least it was somewhat possible to evade the torp bombers as they dropped their load on top of the island when I sailed right next to it, but I always died before I could kill the enemy CV. Most of the time I died and once I simply did not have enough time to do enough damage to the fleeing CV in order to sink it..... Basically the group needs to split up in 4 groups, one to catch the enemy CV (will usually require 2 players, unless purple unicorn of course), 1 very quick ship to dispatch the 4 transports, the turret and the escorts and the remaining ones to protect the assault on the harbor itself.... This new operation is very reminiscent to how Ultimate Frontier is now: You need to be everywhere and are rushing all over the map to try to fill in the gaps, no fun at all. Afaict, it's ruined. It's like working in a restaurant and needing to service food to 5 whole families all at once. Fun! (not). I like a bit of chaos but this is overstretching things. The only people who will like this new Narai are the purple organised unicorn clans who necessitated the removal of Narai due to overfarming in the first place. These will have hardly any trouble at all with this ops, but random people or more average 52% players will have much more failures. Raptor otoh (if it's as much fun as it was on PTS) is a bit better now I think? But I only tried it twice so far.

Highest damage I ever had And first time I seen Yamamotos fireworks in action

I broke my damage record! (barely though) And on top of that the first time I had kraken on my Yamamoto and seen the fireworks! Just look at my damage and kills! Too bad I didn't get any "thank you" or +1 from it, but some people are just never satisfied Replay attached for whoever wants to see how a Yamato with 16 second reload sounds like. The game itself wasn't too interesting I think, except maybe I won a duel with a DD that appeared 6km away from me while I was kinda stationary It didn't try to torp me though, for whatever reason. Too bad the game was a loss 20180714_141534_PJSB018-Yamato-1944_28_naval_mission.wowsreplay

I'd rather have these use their 'voices' in the game then be stupid OP

Could we please have 2 special captain, namely these WoWS characters? and as special captains!

I actually managed to complete the 2 citadel + 2 fire + win mission with my Indi. So far I think this ship is pretty good, but you can't go yolo with her and using cover is very much recommended

Thank you for at least reading half of it and responding with your thoughts Regarding the balancing (particularly of BBs), I'm not sure I agree with the newer lines being worse when it comes to balancing. I think the French line is an example of how it is done well. You do describe how trying to add diversity without actually changing the core of how the game plays, it's hardly possible. One could add new BB lines that kinda play the same as the old lines (all with same above-water citadels, all with same and same number of consumables, all with same HE values and reload, you get my point) but the problem with that is that I can imagine this will get old at some point. Suppose WG were to add another USA BB line and use existing ships. Mostly this whole line would also be ships of 19/20 knots till tier 8 or so, and then ships would also be very similar. Why would anyone who has the old USA line unlocked even consider playing the new line of it's just more of the same? I don't agree that we have more and more camping. Unless there's some data that I am missing here. Besides, I'm a bit sceptical to say the least when it comes to complaints about camping. I've seen people do absurd claims of camping and coward, literally accusing people of being full HP while AT THAT MOMENT they are under 50% health, or accused of camping while actually just having capped a cap as a BB, it's often just totally retarded accusations more reflective of their personal frustration instead of being a constructive observation. How am I to take this seriously? But wasn't it always like this? If hit by a torp and leaking, press Damage Control Party. If on fire, wait 30 seconds then press Repair Party. Enemy planes attacking you? Press DefAA consumable. How would you propose consumables be used in a different way that is a good addition to gameplay?

A mini Yammy, what's not to like about it Was it named Ishikari? I didn't know it had torps btw.

What is too complicated for the average player to understand? Where did they mention this? The thing is that it's not only about thinking up stuff that will never work in the regular games (like a teleporter). And options are in fact not limitless. But like I said, it's hard to explain partially due to me not being native English. I was more thinking in lines of what kinds of tech tree branches could be interesting to see in the future and what gimmicks could/should they use.

Yay, it's coming! I'm also a bit irked about its conceilment values, also because of the slower shells (Kronstadt has these railguns). I think Alaska as a tier 9 freemium is the best option to add it to the game and I'm glad it's looking like this will be the case I'm happy it's getting radar and hopefully good AA. How is the fire duration on Kronstadt? Btw, I don't have as much fxp as you have (can't put all xp/fxp boosters and play with clanmate unicorn div for better results like you can) but at least I'll be able to pick between Kronstadt and Alaska

I do agree with Tyrendian89 regarding the exclusivity, but I do think your idea is very nice! Or perhaps some alt camo! After having gotten x amount of xp or played y amount of battles.

I wonder why they gave it the same conceilment value as Kronstadt, I would guess the Alaska guns won't be as railgunny so in that case conceilment could be a bit better. I'm glad it's getting radar, even though it's not because I think more radar is what the games need but because I believe it to be fitting to the ship. But besides that I'm glad they are putting some effort into it, will be watching this one

2nd turret on the model is set a bit higher compared to the fore and aft turrets, so still plausible.

I'm kinda the same about how they messed up arty play. Btw, I think the LeFH is kinda overrated. It's excruciatingly slow, you getting counter batteried easily. Remember it's very slow Zero-dmg non-pens on KV-1's happen a lot. Its quick firing makes it much moreeasy to counter battery. Before the first major arty nerf, it was kinda mediocre. I suppose Kamikaze was 'alright' before the silver ones got nerfed, increasing the power differences between the Kamikazes and the silver ships. An easy way out could be to buff the silver ships (back) somewhat, decreasing the difference in how strong these ships are. I understand why Belfast is OP (combination of its consumables), but I'm kinda wondering what is so OP about Kutuzov except being a good ship with smoke (which yes, it is powerful). WG doesn't seem to be releasing OP premiums anymore (except maybe the Cesare, but it's kinda basically a tier 6 ships put into tier 5 and not a combination of mechanics that make it broken like radar + smoke).

I've tried the VPN thingy in a webbrowser and I can finally access my Arsenal! I don't know what the issue is, I haven't send an email to support yet due to me not having to mess with customer support and all the bad advice I might end up having to do (reinstall and oops, all my screenshots accidentally deleted! That kind of thing). The entire game works now except for this Arsenal so I'd rather not try out and possibly ruin everything just for to accessing something I will probably not have to use often anyway.. But if I can use a VPN to access it, I'm not gonna bother with reinstalling and firewall ports and malware scans and whatsnot. Not worth it imo as my expectations are very low here. I can finally see how much coal I have, it's around 60k now. I have not tried actually purchasing any stuff, but at least I can access it now in light of the next update with these shark and eagle tokens.

The destroyer leader branch seems to be the more interesting one.

Fully agree with the two above

I'm not saying this is it (obviously), but it would explain these specific symptoms and as it's kinda a weird problem I wanted to at least have it mentioned. If this is the case, it's a bug.

This sounds similar to an aiming bug where some artificial limitation to gun despression gets forced, resulting in the gun overshooting and possibly even surpassing its maximum gunrange (which can also be artificially set, which in WoWS actually is done as well) due to what I believe was some bug with positive and negative elevation. You perhaps tried to push the gun arcs WAY down, it flipped from - to + and WAY overshot instead. I mean, why else would your aim behave this way?