Captain_Newman

In general, Azuma's play style is long range DoT dealer. Sure, she can alpha sometimes (hello, Smolensk, guess which caliber of AP has much less chance of overpens on you?), but it's more of Alaska's thing, which is expected to push in closer, radar, kill DD's, get on people's broadsides, etc. In general, I'd say Azuma has more chance of dealing high damage consistently, while Alaska has the tools to influence the match more even with less dmg dealt. But the OP literally does the same amount of damage in both ships both in randoms and coop, so I guess the point of the thread is moot.

Actually, both in randoms and coop your average damage on both ships is almost identical...

Nobody buys the "I hid my stats but I'm really good" nonsense, not after a wide selection of posts made that demonstrate a lack of understanding of the basic concepts of the game. But, hey, if "I'm good" is your claim, it's easy enough to prove. Ball's in your court. Just clamining you are while having hidden stats is about as transparent as a child who was left home alone, found with their face full of jam, claiming it wasn't them...

I was going to say something similar, actually, so let me expand just a bit. The only way to effectively ensure stealth from island hugging as a BB is to go close to them - the further away, the more angles the enemy team has to spot you from. And hugging islands closely will put the Amagi's firepower out of action for a long time. I can see something like a Jean Bart, with it's speed boost, gun booster and all forward firepower using islands to gain stealth and get on someone's broadside - but Amagi? How about no...

How about you unhide your stats, so we can see the results of your brain cells in action... CE can help with tanking as well - it lets you disengage when you otherwise couldn't (and island cover isn't an option, always, depending on map and situation on it), heal up, then go back and do more tanking. As in, it lets you use all your heals instead of one, or none. In simple terms, while not a tanking tool in itself, it lets you do more of it by giving you time to put the potential health pool provided by heals to work. TA module is useless 99% of the time, I won't repeat why as it's been explained well already in this very thread.

No offense, but most of those people probably never bother reporting anything, I've been in this boat before during these kinds of events when there's more people on than usual, I've gone through the whole wgcheck / pingtracer diagnostics which can take hours only to show there's nothing wrong with my connection, and I'm not doing it again when pretty much everyone I know (clan mates and otherwise) are having similar issues, all of which started with this patch. You guys have been told something's wrong. I'm not sure if you can tell a disconnect from someone shutting down the game on purpose, if you can, you can probably see for yourselves. Investigate, or don't. It's probably in your best interest to keep players rather than lose them, as lots are on the verge of leaving as it is given the dumpster fire 2019 was, and constant dc's aren't going to help with customer loyalty that's been compromised already. Or, pretend all is well. It's your company, and your business. I've done as much as I intended by pointing out that there's a problem, and don't feel like investing hours of my time again just to prove something I already know.

It'll be Battlestar Stalinia. It's a soviet space CV that can't be shot at or rushed at all, because, well, it's in orbit..

Huh, you're right. I was so sure that I did this in the past and it worked, too.. my mistake.

Enterprise was just the "I win" button. Keep in mind that a lot of people are having disconnects there, which may have affected it's wr. Mine would have been about 90% without 4 dc caused losses...

Yesterday I won a game in a Marblehead, top scoring with over 1600 base, which I don't consider a bad first win in the ship. Had fun, first thing I did was nuke a kamikaze which didn't understand what hydro is, then fought a konigsberg that though parking broadside to me was a viable 1v1 strategy, and even when he started eating citadels he didn't see this as a hint something was wrong.. It was a double CV game, and one of my CV's, a Hermes, decided to yolo into a cap that contained 3 bb's. When I asked him what he was doing, he said "killing bb's", then he died. I mean, we won anyway, but I was so curious about what was going on in his mind I actually sent him a message just asking what his plan and thinking were when he did that. His response.. "salty, aren't you? welcome to block list noob". Like.. why would I be salty? I just won and top scored by having almost double the basexp of the second guy on the team.. in a freakin' premium Omaha. Why would I be salty? I was just genuinely curious what could have possibly possesed him to move from a stationary position of perfect cover he had earlier, when all he had to do was not move and kept spamming planes.. but I guess I'm chasing the rainbow here, trying to understand reasoning where there is none...

You see the forum's web address? Notice the "eu" part? I wonder what would happen if someone would replace that with "na"

Literally the only saving grace of this event is that the PayToRico is so mediocre. What I'm afraid of is that they will repeat this dumpster fire, only the reward will be an actually competitive ship you will want to own, but it's hidden behind a "free but gib 200€ comrade" event such as this.

This is WG when you report someone for bad gameplay: ..all the way to the bank. Personally, I always found the "report for bad gameplay" option to be the height of hypocrisy. Like, it's so obviously an option that does nothing and is meant as a placebo tool for people to vent with and pretend it does something. It's an "I'm not happy with my team mate/s" button you get to push so you don't bother them with your rants. First of all, bad gameplay is clearly not against the rules, secondly, and let's be honest here, with most of the player base being fairly bad, making any moves against their most numerous customer group would be a bad financial decision. It's the 42%-ers with every premium under the sun that keep the servers running (well, kind of, the disconnects are getting really annoying).

Yea, they sure are lookers. Personally I prefer the Gorizia to Zara, but to each their own. I don't really see the need to play it much anymore, anyway... I don't have anything to grind in t7, and only really play it when clan mates want to these days. And, as strong as the hydro may be, she's no Belfast - and since t7 almost always faces t9 MM these days, I prefer playing something that goes "oh t9, cute" like the Belfast does. Now that ship is just "evil mode activated"

I had like, 4 million fxp just sitting there, so I reset the Haru line enough times to get the Ohio. I might do further Haru line resets when there's a x2 bonus again. Honestly, can't really be bothered too much with it, and don't really think the ships currently on offer are worth it (essentially, WG found a way to charge you about 4x as much fxp for a single ship than it does for t9 fxp ships, and simply put, they're just not 4x better).

You make it sounds like it's just a torpless Zara, missing a rather important feature of the ship: you get the really good german 6km hydro. This makes you the only ship with SAP that also has a ship / torpedo detection tool. If you're smart about it and don't do it in front of all the enemy BB's, you can often rush DD's in caps and murder them rather quickly with that SAP. Once that is done and the DD can't proxy you any more, you use that smoke to get out of trouble. For me, hydro is a very good trade for the sea mines that rarely hit, anyway. Don't get me wrong, the torps can be useful sometimes, but in most battles I find the hydro has more value, which is why I find Gorizia to be a more useful ship than Zara on the whole. You're not alone, though. I've talked to someone that also rages about the ship and insists that it's garbage. Nobody in the clan really agrees, but when he's told to ambush dd's and cruisers through smart positioning, and mostly focus those, he insists that it can't be done because bad stealth. Sigh. I guess we were all just very lucky, then.. If you play the ship in such a way that you never get to use your hydro offensively, you're doing it wrong in my opinion: ofc you'll think it's garbage if you don't utilize it's one feature that really sets it apart. The ship is good if you play her to her strenghts, and in her intended role: DD and cruiser ambusher. Only spam BB superstructures if there's nothing else to shoot at the moment. Angled cruisers will still take lots of damage from your SAP, and if they go broadside, well.. that's what Sansonetti's improved EL is for.

I play DD's less as there's no real counterplay, only damage mitigation measures that prevent me from actually doing my job. Atrocious game design. When subs hit and the only class that counters these stealthy guided torp spammers is the class that can't reliably do it and survive (because CV's and radar cruisers aren't going anywhere), it'll be yet another dumpster fire.

That's different. It's caused by desync between server and client, where the client isn't told to stop rendering a torpedo so it carries on into infinity. However, things like torpedo range cutoff are done server side, so the torp can't actually hit anything once it's run out of range even though you can still see it. In the OP's post it looks like the torpedo clipped through the island. I've heard of this bug but fortunately never encountered it myself.

Don't remind me, had a bit of a cursed run in it yesterday, which is quite odd for me in that ship... Gj dodging.

You're not supposed to be able to mindlessly drop 2 tier higher ships and get away with it scott free (though good CV players that know how to dodge flak and slingshot can still drop pretty much anything regardless of the tier difference). In this kind of matchup you'll need to play a bit more carefully, much like you would with any other class when facing 2 tiers higher ships. You can still have a lot of influence just with your ability to spot - use your fighters to aid with this, as well, or to try and shoo away the enemy CV if you see him harrasing your DD's. Keep the enemy DD's lit up. If they smoke, torp drop their smokes, see if they eat torps or are maybe forced out of their smoke so the team can shoot them. Use islands to your advantage to suprise drop ships, like camping cruisers - flying over islands will auto adjust your altitude, which can help in avoiding some AA as well if you do it right. Go after 2 tier higher BB's later, when they're isolated, been HE spammed with their AA softened up, or both. You can still have a lot of influence on the battle, you just need to be smart about it - assuming you don't get one of those teams that just get stomped no matter what, in which case it doesn't really matter much what you do.

Sure, make it permanent, but please call it "Rock-Paper-Enterprise"

Which is why I did it quickly, in two sittings. I agree with you completely, but I wanted the coal and saw it's pretty quick going (constant disconnects happening since last patch slowed me down a little yesterday, but not by much tbh). Did it in 46 battles, would have been 42 if it weren't for disconnects.

The issue is widespread, and it is on your end. Lots of people reporting this, all of them having a solid connection while being dc'd, all of them ever since the last patch - and I can confirm this myself, as well.

I'm not really a gambler, but I'd put money on this being 0 vs 10.

AA is essential for this time of year. After all, what is New Year without fancy fireworks? They should make the flak clouds in different, bright colors, though. I also have one more request to make AA perfect.. you know that "ho ho ho" sound you get when opening gift boxes? The one that sounds like it's mocking you when you drop frosty firs? They should add that sound to defAA activation.