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Well, at least it looks a LOT more attractive, to me. The bad thing is CVs lose out on so much functionality. -- the spotting, NOW the spotting is a pest. You cannot get rid of it, and he'll just keep you spotted, and then go get his bombs/torps to kill you. Grab your ankles... --> but spotting should still be a possibility. Maybe put the planes down lower, so there is a chance of defence (in stead of the anklegrabbing)? -- the fighters, as for now they only serve in CV vs CV and for spotting. But they are needed! --> we would not want the CV to have to grab their ankles either... but dumbed down 'press button' and hope, while grabbing? I'd say no. And we'll see how it goes with the damage... really a good thing the cross-dropping and hammer-anvil is past tence though.

Yep, same as "oh but if you have help from an AA cruiser..." (duh). We'll see what happens, if they konk it then next year everybody will play CV or AA cruiser...

That will not be a problem. The trick will be how vulnerable they make the planes. Same as now, you get spotted but not much you can do about it. You get torped and not much you can do about it. Just sit back and hold on to your pants, and it is not due to your own fault that you're gonna get it, which is why it is unfair. As in: turn broadside to a BB when spotted, yeah sure, you'll get a paddling, but you deserved it. There's things you can do to prevent it, and that is called 'skill'. If you just cannot do anything except grab your ankles then it's no fun. I hope they remember that at WG.

Yes, THIS. And then there's other ships, too. It's sort of impossible to miss in that film. I'll be waiting to see what they do.

The funny of that is, everyone seems to think 'cruisers can help'. So far I haven't seen them helping any BB at all. Why would they?

Correct. Instead of fixing the current problem, they made new ones, probably. Most likely, though the current options were good - just too powerfull. I like the new view better though. Yes you were. And probably will be. That is what needs to be avoided, it is a cause of static (no fun) gameplay.

I guess so. I like the new view, but if that's all a carrier can do it will be quite boring indeed.

Could have fooled me, yesterday IO was 'taken care of'by 3 light cruisers, took them less than a minute to spam me to the bottom with HE. Probably IFHE, but even then. I still had a 3/4 full health BB. Specced with the lot, against fire and with max heal. Meh. I'm sure CVs will be able to send ships to the bottom. Plenty ways they could balance it though. I just hope it's not going to be the "you're next" kind of thing it is now. The thing is, any objectives are simply reduced to a "last man standing" show, the way things are progressing now.

You wouldn't, not really - as you would also need to keep other ships away - or at least busy enough not to shell the island. But the snowballling effect is true, you'd need to protect it. Could also be stuff like forts with AA or something.

So why would we not get some automated airplane fighter squadrons, land-based? They could be set on caps - if you cap that area, the airfield on it is yours . They could even use that to balance stuff, as in, if there are two or three carriers, the captured airport delivers more planes. And to make even more of a mess the rest of the team could shell that island and if the airport is burning planes would not be able to 'refresh'.

Why would it, we already have torps and shells that do various kinds of damage, and chances of flooding/fire. So we could have airplane-torps and airplane-bombs having different kinds of damage, floods/fire. As in, rockets do hardly any damage, but cause (x chance) fire; or they do damage but hardly ever cause fire. Airplane torps could do big damage but have very little chance of flooding. Airplane bombs could cause heavy damage but almost no fire. Whatever they see fit in the ways of balancing. It could also differ by ship, for example DDs not caring much about bombs as there is very little to burn. Or torps on DDs causing flood but not much else (like AP overpens). There might even be a number/function of DoT caused by specific bombs/torps/whatever. As in, fires are cumulative (which they are... a small fire becomes large if not dealt with), and leaks start big but get smaller pretty soon, never flooding more than X amount (compartimentation in ships...). Meanwhile it would be a good moment to put an end to the endless HE spam (by limiting the amount of damage that can be done by fires).

Might be his neighbour is leaching his Wifi, maybe he has 12 daughters on Tinder, anything is possible. Point is: his internet is letting him down, so he gets punished for that. But it's not nice leaving the teammates with an AFK ship, so that's why. I myself had a PC that sometimes crashed, I fixed it, and I should, before playing P2P games. No reason the whole team should be affected by your crappy internet, or whatever.

Jingles, since he doesn't have to land the thing.

...sounds to me your internet connection is not stronk enuff to take 2 players PLUS the amount of pR0n you are downloading. We used to have that too here, my son and me playing together, wife watching god-knows-what-series on the tablet. The connection would croak, and we'd get pink, and have to play some co-op games... So then we got a fatter cable connection, and hey presto, we can go Netflix and even download lotsa pR0n for when we are finished playing.

Basically: - no more fighterplanes (so no more spotting and air superiority); - you have to control the squadrons like ÿou fly the first plane"; - limited bombs but you can do more runs or something; - endless planes (you can still deplete squadrons, CV has to launch new squadron). We'll see how that works out. But no more clicking on a map kind a thing. CV players will now have to focus in order to bomb/torp/ROCKET(yes a new thing) a ship.

Yeah, it will become first priority to kill the CV. As it should, too. And if you can't contain the CV then kiss your bum goodbye. On the other hand if you cannot protect your own CV, same thing. Actually looks interesting. I like planes. Might get myself a CV.

No you did not, indeed. But I do...

Finally looks like LOL to me. Better than WOWP.

Ooohh how nice it is to own a business.... I'm watching from work... LOL. Can't watch it all though as the missus wants me to cook dinner tonight. Ah well...

Lately I have been playing the King George V. HE is loaded... AP doesn't really work. Bow-camping also doesn't work. Shooting AP at other bows doesn't work... (everyone can overmatch my bow, I cannot overmatch any, in same tier. Gets worse if uptiered. Will put IFHE on it when I have the 4 points. The other line BB is USA, I almost never shoot HE with those. But grindingthe RN to tier 8, Yeah I've seen it, it gets worse in higher tier, not better. I'll griond a tier 8 and then probably no more. Rent TX for clan battles and that's about it. High tier = potatoes galore, so it seems. Would probably lead to potato divisions running the show... oh wait... they already do... LOL.

I wouldn't know, I usually drive slow BBs that take 30 secs to reload and will sometimes miss a barn door at 3km (facepalm...). If I have something faster reloading it is usually a Dallas or something like that, it will not even pierce a cake with AP. So the only thing that I shoot AP at is another Dallas, or alike (which works if it is at least 90% broadside). I can understand the DM too, though. I'd not expect anyone in high tier to stay broadside long enough to fire 5 volleys.

That was good AND funny, but you got the funny because it was sooooo recognisable. BTW I have often been caught shooting HE into broadsides. Damn RNG (was aiming for superstructure) + reload, so shoot what you have. I also shoot AP at DDs, and at CVs...

Of course not, indeed. If I shoot something with my BB, please make sure it doesn't float around at 100HP for another 30secs and puts 6 torps in me. Or somebody else for that matter. Finish them! My DD divmates have high killscore because of that. This is good. Either that or I'd be eating lots more torps.

Well... yesterday I filed a ticket against a player for the first time. He went into a rage various times during game (you could call it 'advice')..., did all sorts of stupid stuff and after 'death' he even went on to call out the position of the CV to the enemy in chat. Yes our CV got outclassed. Yes that guy ended top of the team (we were ROFLstomped, actually). After checking the replay it appeared to me that mainly this was due to that guy being a total selfish XXXXX (his 'advice' was basically asking for meatshields). So, I checked his stats... I'm not a big believer in stats... but... I suspect that even the enemy team has reported him (they said so in chat, they found it VERY unsporty behaviour).

So far I have only seen one, from a distance. But as I lived the whole game I didn't get a peek (after 'death'), and haven't seen one since. I wonder if it really has Stukas and Yericho horns when they dive. LOL!