Captain_Newman

Giving this one a pass. She can feel free to drop from a container at some point, though.

I see CC's criticising WG all the time, and they don't pull punches, either. Ever hear Flamu comment on WG's special decisions? He basically does it all the time, and he's not the only one. CC's aren't the problem. Player base has to start voting with their wallets. Demanding changes while still spending money isn't going to impress them. A halted income coupled with demands to fix stuff would be far more effective.

Just my personal opinion - Jean Bart all the way. Objectively, Smolensk is stronger. Jean Bart I have more fun in, and also feel way better about a good damage game when I did it in a JB than a Smolensk (not exactly an accomplishment racking up damage in it). If I was only allowed to pick one of those two I'm allowed to keep, I'd keep the JB myself.

More along the lines of this...

If you mean the Haida (t7 premium commonwealth DD), then no. Haida's main job is to find and kill enemy DD's, she's uniquely equipped for that. If you want to blap cruisers and bb's, there's better DD's for that, she's no Kleber lining up cits on broadside cruisers. If you want to win by killing DD's and getting caps, then Haida's your girl.

Anyone can get burnt down in their BB from time to time, but if it happens consistently, the problem lies between the chair and keyboard. I'd be interested to know how many people that complain about this check team lineups at the start, take note of the biggest threats, and position so they can disengage / get to safety when necessary, without actually camping the map border... because I see a lot of bad BB plays in randoms. Either they yolo while sailing broadside to the biggest guns they can find (especially prevalent with german bb captains who read somewhere that they can't be citadeled and they're brawlers, so let's sail broadside to half the enemy team, what could go wrong), or they're so afraid of being set on fire they just run to the map edge. Most of them also happen to fix single fires, then rage about fire spammers when they can't fix the 2/3 fires they get when their DC is down. OP, all you've complained about can be countered with good awareness and positioning. Your survival rate, as well as other assorted stats, show that there's definitely room for improvement there. The trick is to position in such a way that you don't instantly suicide, while not being so far away so you're useless to your team. Don't be afraid to take damage at all - as a BB, being a damage sponge is a part of your job. You have the armor and heals to deal with it, and if you're not doing that tanking, your cruisers and dd's are being focused, which will usually lead to a defeat.

You can tell who's a 40-something percenter just by how they play in the first few minutes. Those will be the people with standard consumables. Ez.

In my case, being a lazy git makes life simpler. As in, too lazy to keep updating mods with every patch for me to even bother installing them, ever Never ran anything but vanilla. I'll admit the mod that tells you exactly how long until the match ends based on the current point income could be useful, but hey, that's what clan mates are for

Don't give them ideas

I use VPN to bypass the issue, which means that I dc rarely, and when I do, it's a general one due to the VPN server effing it up, and not of the "everything accessible except WG servers" variety. And in those cases, my client acts like I'm trying to make a new account, sometimes, and that means it now takes much longer to reconnect.

Customer support doesn't even read the tickets most of the time. Two recent examples: Example 1: I encountered a player that is very obviously running a bot. I made a ticket about it, giving them all the details, making sure my ticket is clear and it's easy to understand exactly what I am talking about. This is a player that plays like a hundred games per day with atrocious stats, then when he hits t10, he actually plays that himself and the stats on that ship are actually surprisingly ok (while all the other ones are like, 40% wr with barely any damage and almost no survivability). I made sure this is clear as day. Support's response: "for abuse in chat you can use the report function, but appropriate measures have been taken". I have not talked about chat abuse at all. As for "appropriate measures", here's the player I mentioned spreding joy to his teams over the last week: Example 2: Often, if I get a disconnect mid-battle, trying to hit the "reconnect" button results in the game acting like I'm trying to make a new user account with the same username, so the game tells me my username is taken and suggests new ones. I then have to restart the entire client, which prolongs the time I spend dc'd from the battle significantly. I asked support why this happens, and what can be done so that the reconnect button actually does what it's supposed to do and not think I'm trying to make a new account. Support's response: "some people had trouble connecting today, we're working on resolving the server issues and everything should be working again soon". Apparently, reading comprehension skills aren't a requirement for working customer support.

Only the Gaede and Z-23 get the 150mm gun option. The gimmick of the line definitely aren't guns, it's just that they have a really good hydro. Overall I still kind of like these DD's in randoms, the guns are meh but smoke, hydro and fast reloading torps are nice. However, remove the hydro and there's literally no reson to ever play them, that is the gimmick here. German DD's are not gunboats.

Wait, you can download an entire server? Is this the cause of constant disconnects? Oi, put the EU server back! (not to nitpick, but you have EU/NA/whatever CLIENTS, not servers. This is much like people saying they have two internets, one wifi and the other on phone, and I'm just getting a facial twitch from it..)

I bought some permacamos back in the day, when I was still new enough to not be fully acquainted with WG's practices. I stopped buying them, they're not worth it. It's easy enough to at least not lose money in t10 even without the camo, and buying 5k doubloon camos for ships WG can (and does) nerf at any point is a bad investment. Tech tree ships are subject to constant nerfs, and WG usually isn't that gentle about it (unless the ship is russian, Kremlin perma might be an ok investment). As for lower tier permacamos, when you compare price vs. what they actually do, you'll see a massive difference between t9 and below, and t10 ones. Anything below t9 is a waste of money - only get them if you really like that ship and really like the look of the camo on it, and just want a vanity item. Otherwise, just stay away. In general I try not to get too attached to my tech tree ships in any way due to the constant direct or indirect nerfs and meta changes. It's premiums and reward ships that will give you more mileage, and those come with permacamos anyway.

Shima gunboat build No, not really, just memeing. Akizuki and Kitakaze are pretty good, personally I can't stand the Harugumo, it's so clumsy you could add hydro to it it'd still get torped if anywhere in the open. Friesland is pretty great if you feel like spending a million of fxp. USN tech tree dd's are more hybrids that gunboats, they're not bad at gunnery though. A tad power crept, but Gearing is still pretty ok. If you get a legendary mod it gets great stealth, it's not bad for competitive then. French can be fun as long as the God Class isn't focusing you. Daring is downright amazing, though I'd consider that a hybrid rather than a pure gunboat as well. The good thing about the line is that the tiers you'll spent most time on - 8 and 9 - both have amazing boats, so it's not much of a grind either.

Yea, would be nice if I could stop using VPN to play the game, it does cause some lag spikes and even breakups in voice comms over discord sometimes, depending on how hard the VPN server I'm routing through is overloaded. But this does trade outright dc's for just lag spikes (so instead of not being in the game for 4 min, it's more like 2-3 seconds). Would be nice if WG would actually pull their thumbs out but after both raising tickets, doing the pingplotter stuff, etc, I'm just done trying to convince them, I'd have a better time talking to a wall and the time spent doing that is time of my life I won't be getting back. Pretending everything is fine when something went haywire seems to be a national trait, can't fight that.

Yea, that's just sad. Literally feels like trained monkeys are in charge there. Without the training.

Excellent thread. I like Huskys. Maybe I should make a topic about that... I'll ponder my options for a few hours first.

I noped out of it yesterday when I heard the Arms Race heal buffs essentially turned the Haku planes into T-1000.

Sure, I'll just go back in time and grab myself a pre-AA nerf Mino, shall I?

Jury's still out on that one

Yes, but from that it does follow that it works like, 98% of the time - and I'm probably being generous to this player base I mean, if you run into a unicum that decides to kill you with his CV, you're going ot have a bad time regardless of the ship you're in.

OP, I can agree with most of what you wrote, except about the Ishizuchi. I'm not sure why it escaped the community's attention given how broken it is. Literally a t4 Conqueror, it's ludicrous what kind of damage you can do with it on t4. Ashitaka.. there's a reason why I call it the "Bullshitaka". Used to be much worse, mind you, they finally gave her the good AP shells, the ones she came with before seemed to have been made out of a combination of styrofoam and wishful thinking. It can be workable, but I see no reason to play her in a tier that sees JB's and Georgias all the time, she really doesn't uptier well. Kii - I hate it. I know some can make it work, kudos for that, mine's a port queen. Musashi - good, but I don't like the Yama - style long range gunnery static gameplay, so I rarely play it.

I loved the Amalfi and I quite liked the Brindisi (after feeling the "meh" hard on mid-tiers). Then I got the Venezia, and I see that it's a good ship, I see that it could be fun, and I can deal damage and get kills and whatnot.. but it's cursed for me. Literally every time I take her out, I get a team where half of them manage to die in the first 5 mins. I'm literally lucky if my team doesn't get zeroed in 8 min flat, that's what I get when I play her, so she's been parked for quite some time now. I hope to one day return to her and find the curse lifted. That will be a fine day, indeed.

I can forgive a lot to a BB if the guns work. On the Viribus, they do work, exceptionally well. I haven't played mine much, but the games I did play were great. Sure, she doesn't have AA, but show me a t5 ship that can actually defend itself from planes (as in, actually prevent drops). She can do some torp beats, though - she's slow, but she turns well. Guns, though.. just great. Lots of shiny black ribbons.