NothingButTheRain

I played 4 or 5 more operations today and all of them were losses. But this time it's definitely the players, hopefully this problem will go away once the 200% weekend is over. Teammates in operations since yesterday have been atrocious. Really atrocious, a Cleveland being afk and after 10 minutes someone notices this and sais something along the lines of "All report afk Cleveland" and then the Cleveland sais something like "Allright I'll move". People are deliberately trying to freeride and it's impossible to carry on your own like this. There wasn't even a close call, most ships are dead even before the DD torp part. They don't care, they are lazy, they are absolutely not teamplayers but selfish. They go yolo to top left part of the map and die (so they get good damage and thus good reward if team carries him).

I'm getting lots of disconnects lately. Today I've played maybe 7 or 8 battles of various types and already had 2 or 3 disconnects. I think this is related to me not having played a random battle. I used to have this problem before. It's very annoying.

I still have it displayed correctly. I'm at the xp part.

So yesterday I had a game on Ocean, which I only noticed once I couldn't find any land features. I hear a lot of bad stuff about camping in a BB, but when I play missouri I try to play agressively and try to make use of radar. However, despite trying to teamplay I sometimes get results like this one. Would anyone be so kind as to watch my replay and tell me what I do wrong here? At the beginning I tried to push C and radar their DD, which worked. I did very little damage even though I tried hitting stuff, but gotten over 1m potential damage and even though my damage done is a paltry 15k or so, almost half of it is vs non-BB combatants. I managed to survive till the end and gotten that medal for surviving 120% of my hitpoints, but despite my efforts I ended in last place, getting a remark about camping the edge of the map in a BB by the person ending in second last place right before the game was won, so that might have something to do with it? I also included some screenshots from some of the highlightes of that particular game. Anyway, I want to improve my gameplay and I think this game should provide plenty of my mistakes to see, so there should be plenty I can improve I never quite got the hang on missouri, but lately it's been getting worse even though I gotten over 100 games in missouri already. There's basically no excuse except I must be doing something horribly wrong here or I wouldn't get results like this, right? I do find this game hillarious in some way, but of course I'd want to be able to get better results then this 20180324_014213_PASB509-Missouri_00_CO_ocean.wowsreplay

So far I've gotten these results: 14 wins 8 losses. 5x5* 5x4* 2x3* 1x2* 1x0* (yes we won with 0 stars lol) The 8 losses I was 1st 2 times, 2nd 2 times and 3rd 3 times. I was 5th 1 time so basically my teammates were a big cause in the failures, and this is what I think as well. More then one of these games we gotten the Raptor into the exit zone while ALL of us had died, so some of these were extremely close calls. With Killer Whale I think balance is not bad, this operation doesn't seem to have changed much. Raptor Rescue always was a bit more tricky. I don't know if it's gotten worse, but it certainly isn't easy to win this one unless you get a div of unicorns I think the tier 7 operations are much too hard now, I agree with Butterdoll on this. With CLs it's not even funny anymore But Killer Whale seems unaffected (I have not checked any stats here though), Raptor Rescue is far from a cakewalk but many teammates are just very poor players. Or just lazy and don't really caring much and hoping their teammates will carry them (literally it seems). Frankly, most DDs are wasted slots in operations.

It's unfortunate that I didn't try out the torps to see what would happen It seems that the border can do odd things with the collision models. Possibly the angle is important too, as is the ships in question. There was one vid of Jingles where one ship was up in the air and he could still fire his guns

Well I thought my Sublanta was pretty funny

The thing is that having a couple +200% xp bonusses is really helpfull..but you'd need to get your 6 kills really quick for that. This is the main reason I was in a hurry to get my kills quick :P

If your karma went down 3 points, doesn't this mean you got reported 6 times instead of 3 times? Because I find it hard to believe that 3 bad chat reports will lead to a chat ban so easily I do know that +1 karma doesn't stack. Threw away quite a bit for players who I think deserved a lot The point is that someone who is abusive in chat and is chat banned, cannot bother me with their toxic chat messages anymore. I don't care if they are on discord or teamspeak or wherever! ...as long as they cannot bother me I don't really care

So it's working as intended? I agree that this mission isn't really thought out well, but I managed to finish it with a couple others who had the same problem (killing the one german ship while trying to do it before 1 of the other 4 USSR ships would) by taking 3 others into Killer Whale and killing the german ships there, problem solved since last friday I was frustrated so much by this prerequisite that I asked a couple times the other USSR ships if they wanted to join me for Killer Whale and most didn't even bother to respond...maybe they prefered to have something to complain about, I don't know The 200% bonus is nice for the 25k xp part of the mission, too bad the teams in Raptor Resque really seem pretty bad today

Came across @Bellegar while taking out my Ryujo for Raptor resque. Too bad it didn't end well

We had this problem yesterday (I mean friday), but we were in fact a div of 4 total. After the disconnect we also couldn't select the ship we wanted to take (the tier 6 USSR ships). It somehow fixed itself when we disbanded the div and made a new div.

I did already try to explain that I didn't think it was a significant problem in randoms. It's exactly as you describe, just get the battle finished and on to the next one We don't have a voice server whatever and I don't mind. It's a casual clan. Sometimes we end up doing this when we want a group of 4 and 3 is the max size. Happens rarely though. I agree that for ranked this behavior is more questionable. For randoms it's more just for kicks (I'd rather hope this to be the case).

Easiest is to get 3 other players and div up for Killer Whale. It has tons of German ships so for the XP mission I already had a +200% this day We did get some weird bug with all of us disconnecting and not being able to select the ship again till we disbanded that div and recreated it again. Worked fine afterwards and everybody had gotten all their German needs in a single battle I only have Budyonny as a ship I can use for these missions.

This is how I gotten those 3 German kills yesterday. It works

Exactly this. And I don't think it's a significant advantage these days. Frankly, I don't even know why this seems to be so high up the priority ladder to fix? Why is it so important that this feature gets added to the game anyway? Yes I've had such games where several clanmembers multiclicked, but I suppose most didn't rig the game. Personally I think AFK players and maybe even CV rigging is a more important problem.

Some clans consist of multiple clans in WoWS, but are basically just ways to get >50 players due to the maximum size of clans. For those clans it would actually give added benefit to cheat in this way.

But some clans consist of multiple ones, like the SCRUB one. Technically those subdivision clans are different clans and so the large clans would still be able to meet clanmembers (that are technically in another clan) and the smaller ones couldn't. That's also unfair and I don't really know how this is gonna be dealt with in randoms? My clan doesn't use any voice and I do come across a clanmember from time to time. I think it adds to the gameplay and the fun-factor, but I can certainy understand why it might be not possible in the near future anymore. But as long as those multiclan clans exist and those still can get into the same matches, this won't help.

I recently got Amagi, still trying to make it work. I kinda made Nagato work, so I will probably manage in due time with Amagi. Colorado was to me a less pleasurable grind. The speeds is of course very poor, but having only 8 guns hurts it as well I think. Its armor I found very solid though and it's very manoeuvrable. I really wish there would be a second tier 9 IJN BB tech tree ship to choose from, preferably one of the other designs that Izumo kinda originated from. There's also that #13 class, I'd very much like to see such a ship in the game! The guns are probably weaker then Yamato's guns as they are an older design? On top of that I think Izumo looks ugly. Yes I also find Nelsen ugly and I sure would not want those Britisch N3 ships for the same reason. They did 'give away' that Yamato HSF camo, which could be an extra reason to want to prefer to get Yamato vs other tier 10 ships. I very much liked it on PTS and also like Musashi (and the sound of those guns are frackin awesome! ).

Ah thanks. I heard of Girls and Panzer, I just didn't know what G&P meant

What is G&P?

I want some ARP ships :(

Hello. I decided to ask this question here, even though I don't consider myself a complete newb anymore. I do think this question belongs here, so here I go. I know there is a list of unique commanders on the wiki over here, but this list only includes the unique commanders that have bonusses to some of their skills. I had wanted to look up the HSF cat commander and even though it is in essence a unique commander, it's not in this list. Now I know there must have been a LOT of unique commanders, particularly ones that came with ships like the ARP ships (please sell some ARP ships to me instead of to the bank where they disappear forever!!! ) and the HSF ships, which I believe do not have extra buffed skills. Now my question is, is there a list of all unique commanders that exist in WoWS somewhere?

The problem with toxic behavior is also this: Even if I know they are right and I know I could do better, them being toxic does not help...ever! It helps nothing. If them being mad at me changes nothing about me not knowing what I should do, it would only confuse me more or just plain distract me. This week I had a game where a friendly Gneisenau send torps my way as I was nearing a corner. I watched and then saw the torps were gonna miss when I noticed some more torps from the other direction. Red ones from an enemy Gearing and because I had been distracted (like I would also be due to toxic behavior from a teammate) I had no way of avoiding them anymore. Gearing got devastating strike I've also had players that basically started directing me ("go help Monarch support our DD at C", for instance) and this is more effective. It works especially well in operations btw, where I've learned a bit to direct people myself. Encouragement works much better then anger. Anger will probably get people to shut down or will make them plain refuse to accept any kind of logic instead of turning them into super unicums instantly. So for people: instead of telling someone what he does bad, tell him what he could do better.

I noticed a bit late about this mission and had already played my fair share of operations today, but the weekly one. Maybe we'll meet ingame tomorrow then, looking at your patch I may already like you