NothingButTheRain

The funny thing is, I literally just wrote something very similar to what you wrote here. I only got the Visby thus far but I am totally not liking it and due to the RNG carrot I feel resented to even try to complete all of the directives (currently at the 2nd I think?) for the tokens I would need. My post can be found here One thing I also commented about is the need for a captain with quite a lot of skillpoints, which is extra bleh due to EU having no previous tech tree branches so the majority of players will not have a more highly skilled captain ready for use, which means having to pump ECXP into your captain which may be a thing for people who haven't played as much as people like me yet. I am not liking this iteration of the prerelease, it eats so much time for so few benefits and then part of it depends on RNG at that which really makes me more hesitent to decide to commit to this and how much.

I am not liking this iteration of the prerelease of the new tech tree branch. It's not as bad as the previous, but still it's still bad. Let me explain a bit: First of all, to get any of the new ships, now I need to first play the directives as usually all the other sources combined probably won't suffice to get any of these new ships. Then, even if we get one of these ships (which will be the tier 5 ship), it doesn't come with a permacamo and the captain has only 3 skillpoints, so I need to throw some ECXP into it, which feels kinda wasted because: I get to fight Kamikazes/Fujins and lots of carriers. Especially since I'm the one playing a tier 5 DD, chances increase that the enemy will have the Kamikaze if there is one playing at the time. Having to get 7500 BASE xp ina tier 5 means operations are excluded by default, so I have to either play like 15 coop battles (but probably more like 25) ina ship that I don't even like to play that much (due to reasons mentioned above) and comes with a crappy captain, or play randoms and depend on my team for a win. If I get any of the permacamos at all, I am keeping to getting the tier 5 one at the most. With the italian ships having the permacamos waiting for me was an incentive to get those ships. I don't have this incentive with the british heavy cruisers and I am probably not gonna play these EU destroyers all that much as they seem not very good. The Visby eats tons of damage and has to fight stiff competition for which it is ill-equipped (no smoke+low conceilment means it is at a disadvantage when fighting other DDs and it is also a single sided battle when fighting CVs, despite these ships supposedly being good with AA. I don't see it!). They got slow turret rotation which means more difficulty in knifefights or spend more ECXP to up your captain. These DDs seem to need a 14pt captain to be played well at tier 5 at the least and with this setup I'd need to skimp on SI and EM because this ship kinda needs RPF and CE along with SE and LS. Another disadvantage is that having to first play the directives, then hope on RNG for getting enough tokens, then having to play a line of ships for which most players don't have access to a captain with a decent amount of skillpoints and then playing an uphill battle due to how matchmaking is these days for BASE xp, just to get a permacamo which will be largely superceded by having gained so much XP on your ship, you'll nearly have the next ship in line anyway. Now I feel torn between HAVING to play this ship BEFORE 9th of April along with wanting to also play operations before these get nerfed next patch along with spending more social time online because my friends are having to cope with staying at home due to corona so they also require more time. EDIT: I forgot to mention that PTS also eats time, so I barely have any time to see what the newest patch is about This patch is making me feel overstretched which is totally not what I want in a game. Having to fly through several hoops just to get the candy (and only ONE at tier FIVE at that, which (as I already explained) is bad due to mm). Even though on the surface the idea may seem sound, it is not very enjoyable to me to say the least. This is frustrating, trying to FORCE me to commit to several things all at once because of all of these changes I never asked for. So when was the battlecruiser splits again?

Am I the only one who's first thought of Corona is this here?

Such a shitty joke

Reported you for not having mentioned me in your list

So much this

Apparently I have 7400 signals (of which a significant number is the special signals) and 3200 camos (this does include the cheapo credit camos as I sometimes actually use them when spamming coop). The only camo I tend to sell is the one that only gives extra conceilment as I basically never play low tier DD anymore anyway. I'll use up a large number of signals because signals not used are signals that are wasted. These days I even put signals like ESCL on ships that I play in coop lol. And every extra bit does save some time. The dragon signals and the really good camos I typically won't use unless under certain conditions. Tbf, I used to be in the same boat as you are now. But I like to also minmax my income of stuff which includes signals and camos. Some of the stuff came from PTS for instance, which is a good idea especially if you have the time. And I gradually got more and more just by playing the game and by not wasting signals and camos that I can't replace easily.

I like the scharnhorst with the really cool camo And Alaska is a beauty as well I also like Dunkerque+Rich+JB (if only we had a Strassbourg to make the quartet complete )

I don't know about people defending hard mode. I'm not one of them. I don't mind hard mode either though. I mentioned hard mode in a certain context iirc. I played a lot of solo operations too. But I don't want to have to waste my time when doing so. I don't remember how they tested hard mode with the regular operations. Afaicr there was just one UF ops, not a normal and harder version. Iirc hm was done with the halloween op's only. Farmable? Yes, if you think coop is also farmable.

Stupid typo. Fixed it

Limiting divisions would ruin the gameplay of a core part of the WoWS fanbase. It's a poor suggestion. Some day you will either not play anymore or will be a vet of some sorts and you would wish you never suggested this. Btw, newport is the worst of the tier 6 op's. Best is Aegis. Raptor and KW depend quite a bit on your team whether or not you even make it to the finish line (and quite literally so ).

Yes, I know YOU want to win. We've met again and again times and times again. I know you well enough for that But here's the issue: If you get a teammate who takes a BB and wants to win. Then we get 5 random plebs who's most skillful contribution is to die a 1000 dead swan songs, so only we are left and we're holding the doorline and are getting hammered. What do you think will happen if this teammate didn't bother to equip the 20% heal signal and dire duration reducer signal and took a free consumable and gets burned down juuust before the timer runs out and we end up with a fail.. Now exchange the 6 potatoes for 4 or 5 decent players (so not even a 1337pro 4-man farm group but just a bunch of friends playing ops with 5 or 6 similar to how tcfreer has done a lot of times on twitch). I am sorry, but if I can improve and positify my gaming experience in this way, then I'm sure as heck not gonna choose to take the plebs and drag random sacks of potatoes across the finishline time and time again. If someone doesn't like it, then go hang me. I don't really care. The divs I join are not even always succesful. Plenty of arguing amongst there and sometimes even fails. But this is better then to go hang with the afk-boyz and the suiciding maniacs and disgrunted weekend warriors. To me, this is like going to the local bar and meeting up with whoever is also visiting this evening and chill with them, if I so wish. Or ignore each other. SOmetimes I'd even end up with people I don't like or someone else who doesn't like me, but we come here with a single purpose, all noses staring at the same direction, so it will still work out (most of the time). Btw, I don't think there ever was an UF hard mode? Was there? Tbf, I was only a fan of UF of its very first iteration on round 1 PTS. Round 2 and later I started not liking UF anymore.

I finished the 1st directive yesterday and received 30,30,40 and 30 tokens. I got some more tokens from somewhere else (I suppose the daily shipments which I collected everything as of yesterday) as I'm up to 210 tokens right now, I just checked.

Same reason why I basically never took her out again. Perhaps I did a single time to fill in a blanc in tier 6 ops or something, but I prefer taking Pensacola in tier 6

When I talk about divisions, it's usually some of us guys who have known each other for a long time now, not the random divs that form from the official operations channel that are hardly any better compared to divving up with people you know. I'm talking about the people that tended to blind-invite me for a div when I had just logged in (which people usually do when they have a free spot which they rather fill up with someone reliable instead of some random pleb from the official channel who either barely speaks english, never divved before but read on reddit that narai is great without teaching them what narai even is, or the people spamming "if narai") and I have divved with dozens of times, perhaps even hundreds of times in a few cases. We only use random plebs if we really need to fill in a blanc spot and even then many would re-deck their ships to minimize the risk of failure that one such random pleb can provide. Imo if you take few signals or none at all, you are just trying to cheap out and have your teammates do the work for you. Or in other words "being a freeloader" or a parasite. And I don't take very fondly to those. Same thing as in randoms btw, especially DD mains that end up getting detonated or pick the free consumables (except in tier 3 or something of course). Don't need a 19pt captain to be good in operations. It does help a lot in randoms in higher tiers though. This here is my actual reason for not liking the 60% income nerf to narai (and possibly also the other op's). My top 5 most earned ingame awards, 4 spots are taken by awards for operations iirc. And the vast majority of those I spend in (somewhat) organised divs while being far from fully decked out. Because even if I only equip a zulu, zulu hotel, permacamo and some combat signals, I still want the win and not the frustration of 3 random plebs going trans, 2 random plebs going afk "because they fail so often they just want the 5th star so they enter again and again andagainandagainandagain till one team carries their sorry hineys" and 1 random pleb dying in the first stage of the ops. I have seen this so often, ---> THIS <--- is why I team up with people that I know. So these losers can go play with each other and help each other fail or start gitting gud. NIMBY.

Now I wonder how many would activate 28 days on their alts?

I haven't really tried my Bismarck again post-accuracy buff. Same thing with the PEF. Perhaps I should.

I basically quit playing BF when they started with the games which didn't support modding or support bots (so no offline botmatches/coop or semi-functional offline awards), but there used to be plenty games which had a lot less salt compared to what I see these days.

If only for this, I have to upvote you If there's ONE single thing that Worlf of Tanks COULD have been, it would have been A M A Z I N G. But it got ruined during the time that I played it. Seems WoWS is somewhat moving into this direction as well. But at least there are some improvements as well (and I mean improvements that actually matter and are not just good for commerce like looking good in advertisements etc).

Tbf, divisions and farm groups are usually the same thing anyway. Because with divisions we can keep the potatoes out, which in turn results in getting a better economic reward. And the lack of a hard mode or lack of the higher tier op's make people grind the few leftover op's more, resulting in them getting better. And people like me like to improve and to keep improving, because improving myself is just part of who I am naturally even. But if there's no reward, I will eventually get bored of it.

Rather use Grosser for that

I'd tend to agree with your point here. The 12km radar is nasty to try and play around when in a DD, even when ships like Chapayev are not OP by themselves. The radar doesn't really complement Chapayev that well imo. The 10km is already harder to work with when playing as the radar ship, but imo is the best balance radar. 10km also pretty much prevents the radar ship from positioning in such a way that you can effectively cover TWO caps. With the squishy ships such as Chapa and Donskoi, this isn't as much of a problem but tougher ships like Stalingrad are just pure I won't name the disease when playing DD. I also agree that the railguns are much harder to dodge, even though a single salvo from one of these lightcruisers is not as crippling imo (partially because of the somewhat limited RoF compared to the somewhat limited radar duration and the general fragility of these ships). But try to hit a kiting DD with your Alaska at the edge of your radar range, miss miss miss. Tbf, other classes should have some way to counterplay a ship that has basically all the initiative anyway. If any DD player finds spotting for the team annoying as hell then this player should gtfo of DDs anyway. It's as stupid as having a kamikazepilot fly a modern liner jet or having an offroad thrillseeker drive a luxurious limo offroad through a jungle. Imo, if you (or anyone for that matter) actually hate spotting for the team, you basically shouldn't play DD anyway as no other class has the crucial abilities that destroyers have. It's just soo annoying having your 3 DDs all go to the sides with the rest of the team just sitting there because they cannot effectively combat the enemy DDs that are spotting for their team and are coloring all the caps red.

Like which communities?

Bismarck a good ship? Are you Scheerious?

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