Captain_Newman

I mean, I'm sure they'd say they're just "reducing the clutter" and "locking non constructive topics", but especially following the PR disaster that is the.. well, PR.. nobody will see it as anything but censorship. This isn't doing any favors to WG, a company that has a lot of work ahead if they want to restore their credibility. Just my opinion.

Only one I can think of is the Kitakami which was outright removed from the game entirely (meaning it was removed even from people who owned it) She had a downright silly amount of torps and was probably responsible for more team kills than actual enemy kills. But.. Kamikaze and her clones, Belfast, Kutuzov, Enterprise... all once available in the store. If they were so concerned about the impact these OP ships have on the game, they wouldn't make them available again to anyone in any form. But, if they're well known op ships only available in lootboxes, guess what that does to your lootbox sales figures..

They don't release these broken ships that they then remove from the store for being broken by accident. If they were actually concerned about their impact on gameplay, they wouldn't be present in lootboxes. These ships have one purpose, and one purpose alone: boost lootbox sales. That's all they are meant for.

mkay. It's actually not, but w/e.

That's just how the cookie crumbles sometimes. Played Venezia twice yesterday. First game, 180-ish k damage, confederate, high caliber, 4 kills, 2 of them DD's.. defeat. Next game, I decide to push and murder a Harugumo, then when it's dead I'd be able to use that smoke to get out. First part of the plan went without a hitch, haru dead, smoke up, I'm turning away, bb's can't see me, all is good right? Wait, what is this radar?! They had no radar cru.. wait, the Mino has radar and has pushed into me? Are you kidding me? 40k damage and I'm dead thanks to that radar and like 3 bb's and that mino focusing me down. Just didn't think a non divisioned mino would be packing radar, AND push into a cap into what turned out to be a one way trip for him (I chunked him to about half before I went down and then my team finished him off). So, 180k defeat and 40k win. Don't think this kind of thing is just you, it happens all the time

Your stats say you're doing pretty decently in randoms for the amount of battles you have - overall. If IJN cruisers are an issue for you, you probably just need to train the kiting CA play style; I would suggest looking up some CC videos playing these ships to pick up the general play style and some tricks. Overall, though, you're doing good so just keep improving and you'll be fine.

Did you even look at the PR directives? To say that the PEF grind is 1% of that is probably being generous. PEF was a walk in the park compared to this.

With a big difference.. if you buy a rolex, it's a physical object you actually own, and will likely actually increase in value as time moves on. You own neither your wows account, nor any ships in it. And one day when the game goes down, you lose everything. So I still consider the guy who said to to be a bit speshul.

Honestly, Smolensk is able to pump out monstrous amounts of damage without IFHE just fine. The difference IFHE makes is that you're able to melt down some cruisers much faster.. but the only thing the IFHE nerf will do for smolensk is make the non-IFHE build the norm, and lock it's owners into farming bb's almost exlusively. But yea, expecting another huge dumpster fire when the IFHE nerf hits. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if they released a steel version of the Smolensk that packs radar instead of torps (so they call it "balanced") or some ludicrous s**t like that.

Man, I still feel the pain of the cursed Kagero. Literally.. this is how I did in the Akatsuki, tier before it: then Kagero: and then Yugumo: Basically, taking the Kagero out meant that I would: - secure my flank by killing the enemy DD, getting the cap, spotting, torping, and generally doing my job. Then, feeling happy with myself, I'd notice that my team has entirely collapsed everywhere else and the only surviving ships are on my side, and we're now like 5 vs 9. Every. Frickin'. Time.

Because it's a high tier premium. You're probably running premium account, too? Not to be a d**k, but this in a nutshell is why high tier MM is as horrendous as it is: the ability to fail all the way to the top. Your GZ stats.. well.. your win rate is actually lower than it should be if you were AFK in every battle, and your damage is literally t2 levels. Still able to make profit, just shell out for a premium ship / premium time. Not having a go at you, but at wargaming here. People have no incentive to get better because they can get their xp and credits just fine by essentially being a weight down their team's ankles.

More like Maybachs, Bentleys and yachts for the people at the top. I highly doubt their programmers and artists get anything but a fixed wage + maybe the occasional bonus.

There is only one Dockyard rule to remember: ignore the dockyard. I'm just glad the PR is meh, it'd suck if I actually wanted it.

Most people don't realize she has guns. Good ones, at that. Another premium that deserves a mention is the Lenin. I love the looks, the guns, and how maneuverable she is. Just don't try to kite away with her, she's probably the worst bb in the game for that due to that flat booty that takes pens like there's no tomorrow. Overall, a fun ship with some strenghts and weaknesses, as it should be.

That's high tier bb's for you.. not much you can do about that, other than play french ones.. or Georgia.

Engine acceleration module won't do much for you on a Monty, don't use it. Remember, this module doesn't increase your top speed, it only boosts your initial acceleration, and because it's percentage based and a bb's acceleration is quite low, the gains are negligible (and won't be enough to let you throttle dodge at range). I would suggest looking up proper builds for ships (modules, captain skills) before you drop money and points in them. Plenty of good players / cc's with videos on specific ships. You can also ask here, though I'd check the profiles of people who do respond in that case - you probably don't want build advice from someone who isn't actually good at the game. Anyhow, on Monty (and bb's in general) use either use damage con mod 2 or rudder shift in that slot, whatever you find more comfortable. With me, cursed ships seem to shift - and I can sometimes get what I call a "new ship curse"; it happened back when I first got the Stalingrad, for example.. it made me stop playing it for a long, long time.. I occasionally take her out now and she seems to work now. I guess the curse moved over to Ohio, the ship in which my shells bounce and my teams melt. Sigh. At least my Thunderer works.

Introducing an 8v8 clan battles format when a lot of clans struggled to get 7 people available at the same time was another speshul decision. 8v8 ranked when they don't let you bring even one division mate is pretty idiotic, too. Overall I agree with the OP, this year was just filled to the brim with decisions that made the game worse in one way or another.

This event is more of a check if you need psychiatric care. Maybe that's what they meant?

Any comparisons of ships in that line that are below t8 are kind of pointless, because the line stops sucking at t8 with the NC. I mean, yea, New Mex and Colorado can hit hard, but the lack of speed makes for some boring gameplay. Newer players will especially strugle with the line as they don't yet know how to position right, and if they find themselves on the part of the map with nothing to do they won't have the speed to get back into it. From what I remember while playing the Colorado, it's guns were pretty good, only issue is the hull is extremely slow. Take the opportunity to learn positioning and definitely, angling - you will need these lessons when you get to NC and up.

No, it couldn't have been. The lowest droppable tier is IV (Nikolai), then it's tV and up. So the crappiest drop you can probably get are the two prem Omahas (Marblehead and Marblehead Lima). You can find a full list of ships that can drop here: https://worldofwarships.eu/en/news/sales-and-events/time-of-gifts/

That's far too many options, which only serve to dilute the argument. All you need is this: Your opinion on the current state of CV's? 1. Fine. 2. In need of changes. 3. Remove from the game. Especially the options 5,6 and 8 are useless. If someone doesn't know or care, they don't really need to vote, nor is their vote relevant or represenative in any way. Another type of poll, which this one leans more to, is "are cv's fine, yes or no", without going into what to do about it if the answer is no - merely as a gauge of overall community's like or dislike for the class. Players are generally not game designers and while some better and knowledgeable players can sometimes make really valuable and good suggestions to developers, most players aren't really qualified to make good suggestions because they lack the understanding and scope to do so. These are the majority, but you can still use them to detect a problem, and what might be causing it. It's then down to the developer to come up with their solution, possibly working with some of the top players making good suggestions. But there is no need to dilute these polls with a gazillion options when all they really do is show the general disposition of the community towards the class, and people generally just add up the votes into the two "pro" and "con" categories when discussing the results, anyway.

They're not. Aeroon said they should make it a 1 year campaign. There is a rather major difference between would and should.

Show us where the nasty shima touched your hydro-equipped BB with it's blazingly fast, impossible to spot torps.. totally worth declaring a blood oath and resorting to using a BS broken class to do it.. /s

Not to mention CA's are a safer bet to get than CL's atm, since we have no idea what WG will decide to do with IFHE, but given their recent track record I expect an amazing success story there on par with the Chernobyl event of 1986.