MadBadDave

Gneisenau does have better AA, it shouldn't but does, Mine has an AA rating of 81, my Bis 77. I agree on the Nose Citadelling. Although it has a 3.2km difference Gneisenau's Secondaries are better. In Tirp I have citadelled Yamato's. Bismarck is definitely not the worst T8, but dire MM and facing T10's does hamper the ships ability, which definitely does need a buff; the AA needs improving and should be higher than GNE's, how many planes did RN and RAF send against Tirpitz, in game T6 plane attacks shouldn't even get close. The dispersion is woeful despite german and non existent russian ship accuracy; Bis sinking hood, Scharnhorst's range record, while Kremlin can fire around corners and still get a citadel. The secondaries also need a decent, "proper" buff, even my T6 Warspite's are far better.

Bismarck dull and boring, ROFL, it’s a great ship especially if used properly, the most boring T8 I’ve used thus far was the Monarch, HE anyone, even the lower tier KGV is better. Amagi I didn’t like, tbh it’s just a pumped up Fuso. Tirpitz is good but doesn’t have hydro and poor AA, the torps are great, I kicked the crap out of a Yam and Missouri within a minute but using Tirp Torps isn’t a regular occurrence.

It’s because of the smoke I believe that RN cruisers don’t have HE, and yet the one Prem Cruiser has HE and no Smoke, whilst smoke definitely helps and frustrates the inexperienced players, it’s not the shield it used to be, radar, spotter planes, cv’s and awareness all quickly negate the cruisers Smoke screen, and sadly every single RN cruiser has armour made of sugar glass. A mahan tried to hide in smoke and HE my Gneisenau, unlike the wise he was stationary, he didn’t last long, that’s what WG should be concentrating on buffing/revising ships especially German BB’s and Brit BB Ap and real ships, not op paper crap.

Yep, noticed by everyone I think, proving that once again WG don’t think about way they’re doing, on this occasion the research bureau, noobies in low tiers with level 5 skippers vs seasoned players with level 19 skippers and map awareness, makes for an interesting game 👍. So one sided slaughters will become even more common. Especially if devisions are present.

Is it me or there are more and more players either not bothering to play, as soon as they see a battle line up, that's too hard for them, having network/system problems or have to move away from the screen for some other reason. The vid for 8.8 clearly puts the message across that WG wants us to have fun, how can we have said fun when I, you, the team are handicapped by someone going AFK, I've just had 7 battles, 4 wins, 3 losses, 2 of the losses saw AFK, a Bismarck, and the Frence T7 DD Vaseline, on both occasions both ships would have contributed and may have even seen a different outcome, in short for whatever reason these 2 players helped contribute to 22 other players losing, damaging all 22's WR, PR's and enjoyment. I have been afk several times in the last year, but unless killed have always managed to get back in, as I'm sure many others have also done. We can indeed report AFKs, salty chat and poor play, but is'n't it time AFK's were taken more seriously, I also feel that we do not get enough "reports", if like me you play 10+ games a day, you come across 230+ other players, I report those that play badly, sarcastically compliment those in high tier ships who play very badly, and leave genuine compliments for the good players, who don't always finish high, but in which I feel contributed to a team performance, e.g a DD on the flank holding back half the red fleet, or providing smoke, and escorting/screening a BB etc instead of capping, torpedoing and getting Kraken's galore. Does anyone know if WG are going to change the way we report others within the game ?. Personally I think we should have a limit of 4 or 5 each and every game, any abusive chat, afk's and those that do deserve praise would very quickly stand out.

Regarding Historical Accuracy, it's a thing that's mentioned a few times in WG's own dev blog video. Yes it's a game, an unbalanced biased one, especially anti German IMHO, and overtly biased toward Russia, who yes suffered HUGE losses, but their NAVY did sweet FA in WWII. Hood and others had Torps, Did Tirp and Scharnhorst ?, and then there's WG's obsession for yet another high cost paper premium, that will fall to the wayside (in favour of HISTORIC ships), within due course. Now the good; WG's little game is flawed, as above but it has got me really interested in warships of THE most important period in History, when we see the team line up we know all the "historic" ships and what they did, and how good they were etc, its also revealed a few big hollywood/film mistakes; e.g yesterday Battle of the River Plate was on, an old favourite, as soon as I saw their Graf Spee I started laughing, I know CGI wasn't invented in 1956 but as with the Panzers in Battle of the Bulge, games like WOWS and WOT have helped promote better awareness, for example looking at the film Graf (actually the U.S.S Salem), you cannot be anything other than impressed, wow 3 small cruisers beat it, in reality the Graf had far less guns and had it met Salem, probably wouldn't have lasted long,which does demonstrate the skill and bravery of the Spee crew to hold off 3 Brit cruisers. Had it not been scuttled who would've won ?. And that awareness was brought about from playing a simple Warship game, hence my loathing of anything paper and Russian, because as stated they did SWEET FA naval wise.

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I do feel the charge is high, but do like the flat rate as it does encourage you to be more aggressive, you do get more credits in a premium than a tech tree, which I don’t agree with, plus I don’t agree that losers get far less xp than the victors, similar to co op, you could have a really good game kill far more than anyone on the winning red team and only end up with 2k xp, hardly a reward for doing so well. There are a lot who run hide and try to protect their ship when the cause looks bleak or is lost, thinking it’s gonna save them something, me personally given how annoying it is to try to find, kill and wait for the clock to run down, I frustrate by staying hidden, one finger salute 😏.

I think that’s what frustrates us the most, and it’s not just epicentre, a lot of battles are dynamic one team takes the upper hand, caps and then takes big losses, and way before the 20 mins the game suddenly ends without warning, 10, 20 seconds or whatever later a cap is capped, a BB sunk, and the pendulum swings, the best come back I ever saw was by a guy in an Icarus, his team had had its butt kicked and he was outnumbered 5 or 6 to 1, he ended up winning the game, these days that would never happen because WG’s clock and scoring system would’ve ended the game at least 5 mins earlier. Thankfully with cv reworks the chances of seeing distant cv exchanges have been seen less at the end of a game (dull as dish water), so why not let the game run its course. I’ve literally been 1 or 2 seconds away from killing the last ship, only for the game to suddenly end way before the 20 min mark. And I’m sure many other have experienced that.

How many times have you seen a match lost while you’re team had 4/5 ships and the reds only one, it’s like many a football match; the better team who’s played better over the 90 mins losing to a diving penalty in the last second. If there was no cap the base how would the 5 vs 1 pan out?.

Totally agree it’s a great ship, but it’s Sigma and AA does need a buff.

Hate this Map/mode and not a fan of cap the base, either, how many times have games finished way too early and with the better team/players losing, very few look at the map regardless of Tier anyway. How many times you gone down the flank and capped red base while they cruise down the other flank ?. Makes for a fast, frantic and enjoyable game ;-).

Totally agree, the best and most realistic map within the game, no camping, hiding just a straight up fight fest, only played it twice ( in over a year), being able to pick your map or at least be given a poll by WG concerning our faves would be great, instead we’ll get more island heavy maps great for HE spammers .

Given WG’s MM and that Exeter spends as much time with T7’s as T5’s plus every single other Brit cruiser has smoke Exeter should have smoke, as well, I’m sure if it were a make believe Russian dingy it would have smoke, radar, homing ammo, and reinforced concrete hull.

So, while you’re on the flank in a BB trying to push and the Lemming DD’s in a cv /radar rich environment are off trying to cap and die you’d rather see that, how many times have you been put on the back foot because green dd’s had died while Red DD’s were in your area ? Jingles Bismarck Video demonstrates the importance of DD cover, as in real life, every ship within a battle group has its purpose, BTW in game send a T10 Yam against a low tier DD that can stealth Torp, who’s gonna win, in real life the DD wouldn’t stand a chance. I was merely pointing out that DD’s can contribute a lot, without finishing high on the leader board, another example; how many times do you see “I need intel” from Frustrated BB drivers ?, a lot, if no CV’s who provides that ?.

Wot a great idea, auto bot after 5 mins.

The US bb contingent also have some very desirable possibles, like the New Jersey and winconsin. WG deprived its noobs of the Missouri a very historical ship in favour of OP Russian paper ships.

Any, actual non Russian ship, in particular BB’s that fought in world war 2, Not post war paper premiums !. And there are A LOT of genuine Non Russian ships that can be added, Rodney ?, Royal Sovereign ( which we gave to Russia because they had NONE), and many more, but we all know the next BB, super heavy cruiser will be a high tier paper premium.

Any, actual non Russian ship, in particular BB’s that fought in world war 2, Not post war paper premiums !. And there are A LOT of genuine Non Russian ships that can be added, Rodney ?, Royal Sovereign ( which we gave to Russia because they had NONE), and many more, but we all know the next BB, super heavy cruiser will be a high tier paper premium.

I primarily use the sarcastic compliment, because I normally have ran out of played poor reports.

I agree, as if the island hugging HE spamming Cruisers aren't bad enough, it's WG's latest push to DAKKA DD botes, producing a constant stream of HE as well. I know we’re talking about the heavily biased russian fan boy company that still hasn't go the cv rework right, but surely they must realize that with so much HE BB's are going to sit back, and snipe from a far, which makes the game boring & un-enjoyable. I can understand BB's slinging HE from afar, and depending on which ship I'm in, I'll do it, for 2-3 salvo's, but on the whole I use AP. Whether it's noobs, the unaware or just lazy, you do see more and more BB's within 10km firing HE, which is laughable, especially if I'm in my Bismarck,with full secondary build (as they normally are ).

Unlike OP Russian paper ships German BBs need a buff to their Sigma and AA, how many planes did the RAF and RN send to attack Tirpitz?, how many T6 DB’s dropping tall boys get thru my Bismarck AA, most. Talking T6,7 & 8 Increase their Sigma and AA, lower Russian Sigma (all ships), give Japs a second or two more speed, make RN AP more viable/consistent (like hoods) and everything will be balanced BB wise. I play so that I can play Historical ships that actually existed I don’t play to drive Op paper ships, most of which are expensive high tier premiums, There are A LOT of real ships that could be added instead. Zero Russian BTW.

Re Jervis, it's a big improvement over Icarus but it's torp range / concealment is a huge let down, especially when you'll be up against Sims, and Akatsuki's etc, the later has 10km torps, the Lightning at T8 is a totally different matter and a lot better;, 5.5km concealment, 8 km torps, fast guns. And unlike the Jervis, Lightning is very good up-tiered to either T9 or T10, Jervis at T8 and T9 is severally lacking.

How typically Russian/Belorussian . A Russian ship that's as OP as you can get, just played first match against one, if this thing is allowed then the BELFAST should be brought back and the Minotaur given the same hull the Smolensk hull is made of, throw a rock at a Mino and it'll break, I hit the Smolensk(with Bismarck, which btw would have absolutely decimated the paper ship), and 2 other BB's hit it, seemingly with balls of paper. This bias, which clearly does stand out, has got to stop; fact Russian ships of which there were VERY FEW, if any did sweet FA during the second world war, all famous ships have been nerfed, while fictional Russian paper ships are clearly OP, it's almost as bad as the cv rework, oh and look another T9 premium.

I received an e-mail on the 26th Aug: It's been a year since your first battle in World of Warships. We congratulate you on this occasion and want to give you 10 sets of probably the most beautiful camo in the game—For Meritorious Service—and a special patch. Just log in to the game and the gift will be added to your account right after your first battle. In a few battles, you will also get a coupon that entitles you to a 30% discount for items that are usually sold without any discount. You can even use it for doubloons and Premium Account time. The Patch and paint came more or less straight away, but no coupon, which I was intending to use to get the Alabama. I chased up WG, and basically they gave me a coupon valid for 2/3 days, which has expired, without any notification, in contrast to what it states on the MY coupons page; that you will receive confirmation via e-mail. Naturally WG deemed my e-mail address to be at fault, funny that I've had e-mails including last nights about a bonus code for 2 containers, but ZERO about a 30% coupon, clearly it's a CV rework (screw up). And they are unable to do anything about it ?. Anyone else have trouble with no existent promised coupons ?.