NothingButTheRain

At this time I am expecting narai to be gone for good anyway. I am not very optimistic regarding WG and operations.

Or spend my fxp to get the tier 8 ship all the way from tier 4 on patch day right away.

Calm waters is the very reason why I installed Aslains again because it looks gorgeous! The only other mod that I always install with Aslains is that badge remover for when I get killed as it simply obscures the screen too much and annoys me.

Yes I saw. You were basically the only support that I had and I already got radared there once causing me to have to abandon that cap at first. One lesson I learned from @djfast is to always have an escape route planned and you forgot about yours I got radared a LOT during that match btw, I think at the least 4 times. That 12km radar is a bit too much imo. It should have like 15s radar duration at the most or nerfed range (but the latter would have other unwanted implications). Till next time

Was supposed to be about influence. Loosely this translates to how much your efforts matter and how much fun you are going to have. And that even considering 5 DD 1 BB matches are fine is basically the same as saying 5 CV 1 DD is fine too. Because it is not. Sure, go ahead and disagree with me, but regarding the DD/BB ratio our opinions will be so far apart that any sensible dialogue will be impossible anyway. And frankly I have better things to spend my time with. Feel free to argue about 1BB 5DD ratios being perfectly fine and fun&engaging and I will probably skimp through it.

I kinda liked it I also noticed it was only tier 10 and some of the newer ships were missing. This along with the old Conq guns indicates to me that this was old footage? What cruiser?

Ran into @Estaca_de_Bares just now while playing on The Atlantic. Of course with a forumite now eyeballing my performance I felt inclined to make a good show out of it and put on my carry shoes. And this I did, as this game ended up possibly being my highest damage game ever without having received a single award. Too bad it was still a loss with me nearly having equal bxp to the top in the winning team. We lost by the other team reaching 1k points while the FdG was down to 1200hp or so with me and the Friesland trying to kill him and some hapless Izumo closeby ready for some torps. Till next time and hopefully then we will get a win

No idea. I will see how things are once this ship has arrived.

He hasn't played any battles at all lately btw. It's not like he only quit playing DD. And I haven't quit playing DD by any stretch

I don't know, but I'm probably not gonna be getting that captain anyway as getting the 1k needed was too much of a hassle and the 4th directive looks like a very unattractive week to play (lots of HE slinging BBs mixed in with torp soup, no thanks).

I fully agree with you on the WoT general chat being disabled having reduced the quality of the gaming experience as to me having a friendly chat with people on the other team is part of the fun (this is also a great reason why I dislike the lagging chat ui so much, I literally gave up chatting with other players post-battle because this lag made it unworkable, so I give them a +1 at best nowdays, but it's a feature I still miss). But WoT disabled this for a good reason as chat was too unfun to even read at some point, with all the insults and the threats which is in fact an even more important reason for having abandoned WoT. Last time I ended up rage-uninstalling WoT because of the toxicity. I literally felt like teamkilling and I never get THIS frustrated in WoWS. This is a combat game, yes, but the same could be said about chess and I don't hear the top chess players slinging insults at each other. They just want to play and without the insults chess becomes a much more enjoyable experience.

This is exactly the reason why insulting other players in the game over and over again will never work.

The system indeed got messed up, but like I said, having the snowflake steel once a year is by far not enough to warrant a super price hike anyway, so removing this feature will most likely also not reduce prices. Ever. The snowflakes also keep people playing and grinding for credits because this way they don't want to sell their old ships which now often serve as mere snowflake farmers (which in itself isn't even a bad thing imo, I don't want to sound too negative about this event). I think Stalingrad was designed to be overpowered. After its last test iteration, it got some serious buffs which made Stalingrad OP. I can't attest to Bourgogne or Thunderer since I have neither ships. But especially Bourgogne seems like a ship I would be good at. I'm not sure what mentioning all these ships have to do with the real issue here though. Snowflake event will simply not increase prices as the extra steel making it into the market this way is negligable while still providing several other benefits to the game (like getting the casual players more interested in getting even more steel, perhaps getting them interested in playing a little bit more ranked more often). Quite a bit of fine print going on around here

I dunno. I'm not really feeling these effects lately anyway, but I'm not so sure WG is gonna be leaving coop alone from now on. Op's are not really that fun anymore to play, the old groups are kinda like fish on land now (and getting Defens 2 weeks in a row is also not the greatest, so to say).

Fine, you go think that playing the only BB with 5 DDs in the enemy team (and why not add a couple Asashios into the mix as well) but this is really hard to not see as trolling here. So not gonna bother reading the rest as it seems like a waste of time to me.

I'm not sure what this has to do with you playing IJN DD?

There's a lot of bugs, but imo it's mostly a priority issue rigth now. WG could fix all the operations, but they don't want to. They spend their efforts on other stuff, but I'm not noticing the game getting more fun to play this way. They probably could fix the slow ui, but my guess is that they want their chat servers to do whatever it is that they are doing, so we will just have to put up with it. Not just me, but one of my friends is also unhappy about narai having been removed permanently. He even reinstalled BF lol. But I can't blame him as randoms are too frustrating for him to be the only gamemode for him to spend time in and coop is simply not rewarding enough in his opinion. But this is the way it is and I'm just gonna have to accept this, or not.

The same question could be asked to cruisers in games with a lot of BBs, or BBs with lots of DDs. This is kinda the way that rock/paper/scissors works. of course some games will be more or less favorable to any certain ship (purposefully avoiding the word "class" here) if only due to tier spread. Sometimes you are bottom tier and sometimes you are at the top. Double carrier games are inherently unfun if you are the only DD but 5xDD games (with 2 asashios) are just as inherently unfun if you're the only BB on your team.

This is my experience as well. Exactly this, especially your description of the flow of the match is very alike my own experience. Too many DDs just yolorush the caps at the start and expect others to help save them. Of course it's the same people that also always blame radar and would smoke up to dakka some damage instead of doing the spotting for the team or capping.Essential is to play very conservatively for the first few minutes of the game, just like cruisers also have to be careful at game start. Often the enemy CV won't even focus the DD anyway and if they spot where the enemy radars are going early on, it will make my initial approach a lot easier. It is however also appreciated for the CV to drop some fighters near me and this I don't see quite enough CVs do. Btw, enemy DDs are less of a threat if you use the radio skill and know how to dakka at the right time. Obviously sicne you mention you play IJN DDs, this is less favorable to you as I tend to prefer to sail the generalist DDs (USN and UK DDs). In WoWS it's all about positioning and many DD players unfortunately are simply not good at grasping this concept.

I still remember the times where so many DDs decided to be useless by yoloing the enemy CV and frankly, I think any CV would need to have the means to defend against such attacks. Obviously the reverse would then also have to be the case, for this I would like for DefAA to be useful on DDs (as well as on other ships). I think rocket planes are needed to curtail DDs as otherwise we'd get the 5DD+5DD games back with mostly yolokazes that won't even make it past the 4 minute mark and frankly, I kinda like how it is in the higher tiers. However, in the lower tiers it's mostly 1 or 2 CVs and 3 or more DDs which is kinda ruining gameplay for the other 2 classes. And having recently grinded Fletcher in the current meta, I did really well even in carrier games. For the vast majority of DD players it's (unfortunately for them) just a matter of git gud. And frankly, I think CVs are needed to help prevent DDs from becoming overpopulated again, just like CVs are overpopulating tier 4 making it inherently unfun. Double carrier games when you're the only DD in the team are just hell (for the DD player). This is just too much and also inherently unfun. But when it's more like 2 DDs with just a single carrier, frankly I don't see much of a problem with this as the planes are not that hard to avoid most of the time. One suggestion I could put out is to make rocket planes have a limited range, so carriers can still defend against yolorushers while not being able to fly their rocket fighters across the entire map looking for them. BUT rocket planes are already the slowest planes any carrier has (because their speedboost runs out in like a few seconds instead of running for much longer) so any CV picking this option will already be limiting his own ability to influence the match by not using planes that reach other targets faster. This would also reward agressive positioning for the carrier player vs the carriers that kinda ignore that they have a hull and sit stationary in their spawn. Personally I would also like for carriers to be hardlimited to 1 each team max. If there's more, then let them wait. Or they can choose to pick one of the other 3 classes as I think having the excess carrier players play the other 3 classes would be healthier for the game.

This was my guess as well.

This price hike isn't the case however, as prices for steel ships have not increased after the snowflake event for steel was announced. And with only the snowflake events by themselves it is very unlikely that ordinary plebs would have gathered enough steel for even Flint (which is for now the cheapers steel ship) from 2 xmas snowflake events. It will take years to get enough steel to get any of the tier 10 steel ships at this rate, so this doesn't seem like any issue to me.

I think the second thing may be true, but it will take an enormous amount of psychology to make PvE players play PvP. I'm pretty sure they can do the required reading on this subject themselves and if they go through with it I wish them good luck with it as they will need all the luck they can get to accomplish such a feat. Point 1 may also be true, that it was an accident. I am unsure however if this "all bots were reversing" was on all servers or just the EU one and we would need to know this fact so we could strike through some things. I'm not sure WG sees the tier 6 op's as any threat but they may as otherwise they probably wouldn't have had a reason to nerf narai in the first place.

@HMS_Kilinowski Personally I do like the snowflake event, especially with the extra bits of steel

I mean this sound Is it me or is the only part of this sound effect working these days the very first bit where it activates? Rest of this sound effect seems to be muted or missing? I like this eerie repeating sound. I would like it back. And where is the "First blood!" sound effects?