MadBadDave

Definitely, if it meant MM was +/-1, and if you must (just changing to 1 across the board would be enough), all players PR, not WR are a factor. Why PR, obvious( any idiot can hide behind a unicum and win, how many afks saw a victory ?, PR as we all know is based on damage, I’ve just played a game in FDG, I did ok, taking out a Jean Bart and keeping more than 3 ships busy before finally going down, the team was doing badly and a landslide looked inevitable, until the green JB and Neptune stepped up, Neptune killed 6 and essentially won the game, now using WR we both won, using PR you’d see the Neptune player stands out, as they should. Both JB and Neptune had top Ranked players. Unusually there were 3 top rankers vs 3 top rankers,

It’s not a fun ship, especially if you have played beyond T6, I’d rather play Hosho than the Ark TBH, the planes are dreadful, KAGA’s very good and easy (in cv terms) to play, all 3 plane types deal about the same damage, not very high but consistent. Most people have ark because of its historic appeal, not because it plays well, Kaga is less well known in the U.K. but is both historic and fun to play.

Kaga is good, just select targets wisely, compared to her Ark Royal is really frustrating, planes are painfully slow, torps are painfully slow and arks fragile, you’d be surprised how many DDs have been killed by kagas secondaries 😉.

For those of us that have played other online games like Fortnite etc the contrast is stark, whilst it is true with both games that people naturally improve, have days where they achieve Kraken, confed and high Cal and another where they couldn’t keep an ice berg afloat WOWs is a game totally dominant on the MM and RNG, as a regular in the top tens (on a particular server) in solo and teams of 4,when playing fortnite, pre-wows and yes a winner, once having only fired one shot in a particular game (headshot from a legendary sniper rifle), the other guy was building for Britain and popping shots and rockets off like firework night, my point; no matter how long you play wows and no matter how much you improve, you generally rely on 11 others, your skill counts for nothing when 11 spuds camp behind an island while reds take all 4 caps, how many times you lined up the perfect shot on a broadside sitting duck only to get a bounce, over pen or 1140 damage ?, now ask the same of a fortniter, a head shot at distance of fast moving target is far harder if it strikes it doesn’t bounce, it kills outright; difference; WGs RNG. A higher WR status only implies YOUR team has seen a lot of wins, it doesn’t guarantee that MM and RNG won’t go against you. Wows is all about what WG wants to give us. Who ever reads this I bet you’ll have a period of good and bad games in the next few games, regardless of how well you play !. A noob can hide in Wows to the detriment of the rest of the team, (like the Skane hiding behind a cv yesterday), and yet win, in fortnite you either learn (which wows does not correctly implement), or you die VERY quickly, which in all honesty affects no one else. MM and RNG are solely of WG’s making !.

Dasha and Elena would be a great start, and not in period stereotypical non military outfits, nor trashy school girl’ish toon captains, PROPER multi national, multi cultural women in proper Naval attire be it World war 2 era or Modern.

I choose to play about a dozen games in the training room, against progressively harder targets (from static to do it all), I then did about a dozen in co-ops before venturing into T4 randoms with the easiest T4 , Hosho. With the near constant buffs and nerfs to cv’s, planes, AA sectors keeping your hand in always pays, i still often play a few games in co-ops with Kaga before going into Randoms, especially if I haven’t played cvs for a while (I go thru ship phases, last 2 weeks it was mainly DD’s now its mainly BB’s). A good cv can and does definitely help though, speaking a loud I do wish Kaga had the choice of HE or AP DB’s, I miss one dropping an opponent.

Ranks in relations to MM, eek the gods, surely not, tis that not the point of this post; match maker woes and moans, had greens not had 98% ;-) and less ranked maybe, just maybe the game would've been a lot more shall i say, EVEN. The fact that as you say "and we had more than enough posts about Ranks in this topic. Please stop it, if you want to be taken seriously", indicates a lot of players feel the same way, trying to deny or brush the matter of ranks in match maker is akin to saying cv's are not op. btw I assume you agree with my 2 examples x

Granted not a great example,but it does also reveal the shortcoming of T9 AND T10 players / WG's noob introduction/ progression thru the Tiers, screen shots are one thing actual in game play is another; this game was totally one sided as you can see by the XP, anything to do with the ranks on one side ??, match maker is more than just Tiers, put 12 T10 noobs against 12 T8 Unicums what you gonna get ?. A slaughter (on Skill), similarly if you put 12 T8 unicums vs 12 T10 Unicums what you gonna get ?. Another Slaughter (on ships)

I see there's yet another MM announcement, in news we all know sweet fa changes, Moderators would you please tell WG to stop faffing about and make it +/-1 across the board. It's not rocket science, and we all know MM is at the centre of everybodies moans, whinges, salt spreading, abuse and what ever you want to call it. In the last 2 days I've got re-acquainted with the Alabama, a very enjoyable and frustrating bote, able to do immense damage to any ship in the game, if you can hit them, I haven't played it because as a German BB main the shell arks and flight time are totally different, the dispersion buff to German BB's radically changed the German BB's dynamic, making them more viable, but it also reveals how bad the Bama's dispersion is, there's no doubt Bama and other US BB's have been powercrept, anyway Bama not played because of dispersion, arks, flight time and mainly MATCH MAKER, Anyway In last 2 days I've played 6 games in it, so far; won 4, lost 2, as per normal dire MM, please see screenshot, notice anything other than being bottom tier AGAIN, look at ranks. And this is WG's idea of fair and balanced Match Making ?. This was indeed one of the losses, not my greatest game, as constantly on the defensive as a flank crumbled leaving me to fend off a hesitant and cautious cv ;-) , Bismarck, He Spamming ibuki, Smoked Kidd, Moskva (HE) and Shimi. BTW - Note to HE Spammers; as you can see I was only 1 of 2 botes to survive to the end, the main HE Spammer (Ibuki), did not ;-). one day HE spammers will realise fire damage on a BB is largely superficial, and can be repaired, they'll still do it .

Kaga says Hi 😉. And Atago will be my next Premium (when there’s a voucher or offer on).

Cvs are one thing, planes on them are another 😉, and yes some Cvs are more op than others , I.e Enterprise. I have Kaga and Ark Royal, Arks planes and torps frustrate, while Kagas planes, are numerous they are fragile and realistically T7 level. Unless you have a t10 cv you will face different levels of ships, target the lower tier ships. I always use the team line up screen to check AA levels on red ships so that I can single those weaker ships out, once they’ve gone and you’re only left with strong ships, battle damage would have diminished their AA, repair parties and smoke etc would’ve been used, making that previously smoked spammer unable to hide and with less effective AA 😉.

Then the system has failed, all everyone wants is to play a game, and to report, or compliment with the least amount of time and effort (distracting from game time), I’d rather a WG official spend time fixing one of the many niggles, like the karma system, than investigate and ban someone who’s frustrated as a result of their own failings or another’s.

If you play 10-20 games a day you come across between 230 and 460 players, as a rule people that win moan less but are still likely to compliment or report as bad, when you lose frustrations come to the fore and you report more, especially if you played well and for example a noob cv player went after full hp BBs while very low red Hp DD’s contained the green fleet, etc, realistically even if you only did it once (compliment, report bad, report afk), that’s still 10-20 a day, be honest how many of us have ran out long before the 10th game ?. It should be unlimited or have the option of nominating best and worst player by players on your team, the majority carries and proper karma (that means something), goes up or down accordingly, anonymous it puts you in control rewards the best players and puts the truly bad ones in their place, plus this system would allow for one off poor performances, which we all have. We all see the Ranked players and think wow they must be good, over half I come across are not better than a raw noob, now is that because they had an off game or was it because they aren’t as good as the rank says, I blacklist these players so that they’re highlighted in future games and it’s surprising to see that “Most”, still finish way below me in a random, now I’m only average (just over 50%WR), and about 4th highest in my clan, so what does this say about the ranked system. As per we know WG won’t address this system we’ll still be agreeing to disagree in a years time.

The whole system is a crock of shite, and either needs binning or a massive overhaul. Yes we can compliment but Great players are not noticed, yes I do send a post message to those I believe deserve it, and yes because of all the salt “we” all send, you get the sense from them that your winding them, the salt is borne from frustrations, time and money invested in the game, there should be a better reward scheme where karma actually matters and means something, I.e be in camo or flags or progression/ access to something.

Another Justified Whinge about a game we all care about and enjoy playing, to a degree. Thanks to the lack of competition, that is until C&C remastered comes out, WG have total reign. As long as the money keeps rolling in, they don't care what I, you, or anybody thinks, thats borne out from their continued game handling practices, how much for a black camo ;-). When C&C comes out, for anyone not heard or played it; it's not the original (Dune was), but was the catalyst for the RTS Genre, without it games like Company of Heroes wouldn't exist. XCOM 2, and in particular Chimera Squad has just been released, another game worth looking at. Gears Tactics has also just come out, IF WE ALL PLAYED something else, even for a day WG still wouldn't have a clue why it's been boycotted (in spite of all the posts like this one), but would lose a substantial amount of money. In short WG only think about one thing, MONEY... We all know NO amount of whinging here will see things change, which is ironic because all we want to do is make the game better and to enjoy it more. So instead of moaning why not recommend other games that we could play instead, maybe then will a certain game company take their heads outta their arses !.

Glad to see my fave operation/scenario back, always do it in shiny, first time back and got 12 kills, shark among sheep, and 2 other awards, second time in Surrey and got 6 kills, seems to be easier, although muppets still playing, while playing Surrey a friendly, or should that be an unfriendly Shiny torped me and then a few minutes later shot at me, both occasions deliberate (no enemy around), the things people do when they're upset, I killed 6, he 4, maybe it was someone from the first game where I killed 12 ?. So yeah good to see a good op back, I do find it easier, and would love something similar for T8's.

May I please ask what is on the long list ?.

Surrey’s my favourite Brit Heavy, mines specced for AA given it meets T6 and T8 cvs, a lot, it’s more consistent damage wise than my fave cruiser; Prinz Eugen but unlike that ship armours a joke, Surrey’s worst aspect is the range, 14.8 is pathetic.

Hoods good but the reloads slow, it has the pace and power, but no torps (unlike real life), and secondaries are poor, New Orleans and Indianapolis are ok. KGV does work well because of the quick reload and he damage but you do have to avoid Missouri. Another one which I haven’t tried is the Duke of Yuck that might be worth considering, as do Yorck and Surrey

Fiji, Belfast, Shiny, KGV,Boise, Atlanta and Gne.

The remastered C&C and xcom chimera will stoke things up, being in my 50’s and having played in the days of the original spectrum and vcs, waiting ten minutes for a cassette game to load with what 2 colours, only to crash at the last second to this day, I’ve played a few games, as been mentioned the lack of competition and the heavily induced Russian influence hold the game back, whilst driving a wedge between WG and it’s gamers. Games like C&C, a relaxation of lockdown and the departure (temp or permanently) of gamers will hit WG and hard, any doubts they’ll be scratching their arse wondering why ?.

Ships ain’t the problem, neither are planes it’s the way people use them and WG’s implantation of the game (MM/RNG).

We could have; Gustav V, or any other ships of the Sverige class along with the dristigheten, Oscar, Aran, Oden, or Svea classes (Swedish), The Vainamoinen (Finland), and Niels Juel (Danish). Sadly there is very little on offer BB wise, mainly because the major players are already in the game. Instead WG could give us Rodney, New Jersey, Royal Sovereign and many other BBs instead of paper ships.

Ever played against one, and wondered why I never ventured beyond Amagi 😉.

Very well said, albeit a bit too long 😉.