bratisla_boy

et une excellente menace pour ceux qui se méfient. J'ai vu une fois un Massa qui ne voulait pas se mettre en portée de ses secondaires à cause de ça - il n'avait pas tort, sauf que du coup je l'ai farmé à l'AP Par contre pour dépasser les 50k de dommages sans torpillles pfouu faut mouiller un peu son maillot.

ce qui ne veut pas dire qu'il ne faut pas que je fasse de mon mieux. Je veux dire, faire des parties à 50k en Alsace comme j'ai pu faire trop souvent est inacceptable. Le but à atteindre est d'être utile à l'équipe et de pouvoir se dire "j'ai rendu la partie intéressante". C'est pourquoi le Bismarck, le Chapa et l'Ibuki ont dû transpirer pour m'arracher la cap

150k en Alsace, 1,9 millions tankes, toujours défaite - même en support à fond du friesland qui a fait ce qui a pu. Je suis en paix. Je sais que je vais avoir un wr pourri sur l'Alsace, quels que soient mes efforts. Je peux donc farmer tranquillou pour le Republique, sans plus me soucier de ce que je fais mal avec ce navire. J'ai atteint l'état zen.

Survivor bias is a thing. For me, my common experience is that I have a lemmingtrain behind me whatever I try - even with relocating. I didn't try gtfo and let my team alone though, I will concede you that. ... because it's more often my team disappearing around me leaving me alone to defend a cap. Given my difference in WR between Richelieu (during cursed T8 MM before changes) and Alsace, I get that Alsace is cursed for me though. Will freeXP this garbage asap. ... yeah this is a general rant against Alsace, in fact. Can't wait to let it in port getting dust. But since it's my only tier 9 ship and I have to play tier 9 to get a tier 6 ship (because logic) ...

And how Alsace players with glue sniffing BB teammates that don't allow them to set crossfires are supposed to do ? I try my hardest to position myself so that 380 mm AP can do something. But nope, lemmingtrain in my back (because yeah I'm also apparently the only one thinking that supporting DDs may help), the enemy team happily shows his nose, can't do crap with AP and get blapped because Alsace cannot tank. Sorry, that means HE for a long time, because when I reposition the glue sniffing BBs follow me. Frankly I'm beyond desperation at this point.

J'entends, et couillon comme je suis je vais continuer à la jouer collectif. Je vais progresser la branche allemande, comme ça je vais pouvoir tanker et être utile dans les positionnements à occuper et que l'équipe abandonne. Et ça me donnera une bonne occasion de passer du ZDF en boucle, ça me détendra

AP for BBs work when you manage to create crossfires with a friendly BB. Especially if you play french BB, you are forced to create opportunities. But for the love of whatever you believe in, can BBs get *at last* that crossfire is the key ? I'm SICK of seeing GKs/FdG/Iowa sniffing my aft while I try to find a sensible position ! Seriously, the next time a BB follows my Alsace even though I switch directions, I will ask for hauling fees and they better have to pay if they don't want a HE volley on their nose. I can't stand this lemming mentality anymore.

Il y a un topic sur les navires maudits sur le forum anglais, pour moi c'est l'Alsace. J'en perds mon grec. Et pourtant je tanke comme un fou avec, 2 millions minimum 3 millions plus souvent - en Alsace ! Mention spéciale au GK qui s'est ingénié malgré mes appels à créer des crossfires à suivre *exactement* ma trajectoire. Comme s'il voulait m'utiliser comme chair à canon. Un GK. Sans parler du Vlad la partie suivante qui a passé 75% de sa partie sans avoir reçu de dommages, avant de montrer son flanc ostensiblement au Montana ... et terminer avant moi parce qu'il a fait du KS alors que j'avais tanké 3,2 millions et j'avais ouvert la voie au Shima (qui nous a assuré la victoire) en tapant sur un Gearing. J'en ai marre, je vais jouer l'Alsace au farm HE distance max, mon WR sera similaire mais au moins ça m'évitera d'avoir la frustration de voir des malotrus terminer avant moi. En plus ça augmentera mon PR. Ma claque de me sacrifier pour l'équipe pendant que des égoïstes pensent qu'ils jouent bien.

Yesterday, despite my pleas to set up a crossfire, the GK followed my Alsace and let me die before yoloing into the enemy blob. Next game, tanked 3 millions (!) rekted a gearing to open a path to the friendly shima, ended up *behind* the Vladi who was full life until the very end of the game when he showed a huuuge useless broadside to the Montana and didn't jump at the Venezia to save the Shima. That's the final straw. From now on, I will play Alsace full HE max range. I'm done. I will have the same abysmal WR, but at least I will improve my damage output and PR.

Since a genius decided sub battles do not count in directives because reasons, don't expect the numbers to go up. Which is, as you both pointed out, worrying because in the current state of semi-coop one is really unable to draw any conclusion whatsoever.

"wow the AI sure has made good progress these last years - now the bots can insult me in chat, it's as if they were real salty players !" (couldn't resist)

WR increases with a 1/x law, to be precise - if my laziness to take a pencil and write some equations did not trick me. The more battles you have, the less influence your recent WR has on the overall WR. A better tool to track your progress would be WR over a sliding window of N battles, N deemed statistically significant. ... or ditch all this and just play the game.

Alsace. I do correctly in Richelieu - 56% WR, most of that obtained during the old MM that made the tier 8 often into tier 10 games ; I do correctly in JB - 56 % WR. But Alsace ? Less than 40 % . Same kind of ships, same caliber, same (lack of) armor, same MM, same mobility, but one of these ships just doesn't work for me. The most infuriating thing is that I broke my personal potential records with Alsace : 3,7 millions tanked. And I manage to do "correct" games with this ship, only to see my team crumble. I even tried HE spam with Alsace (didn't work of course), I am *that* desperate. I don't get Alsace at all.

At these tiers, AP is imho better than HE because you will catch more cruisers and BBs with broadsides open - except for Iron Duke who has terrible AP (I mean, gosh). Since you already have to wait 30 seconds to fire, you can wait a few seconds more if it means broadsides. Or out of position DD to be finished. HE only "works" for some british BBs (depending on the caliber and the battles) and french BBs when they are badly positionned - or they have to position themselves not on the flanks. Aim superstructures at worst, you could get lucky shells penetrations. I know your pain - you try to transition from ships that are adrenaline filled to ships that require a solid nap between salvoes. I try the opposite, and it's hard too ^^ I suggest a cup of tea, think ahead the general battle flow instead of the local specifics with high threat against squishy targets (you know, "ok the bulk of the fleet goes there" instead of "the radar ship is behind this island"), and getting british calm under HE spam. Getting a mod cutting the fire effects helps. BBs are enablers and help the team, they have general influence. They can't work alone though, you have to rely on your teammates as much as they benefit from your presence. ... meaning don't run line 1 and cover unless you are helplessly outnumbered and you know the flow battle is against you. And meaning sometimes, well ... you have your cup of tea. And don't follow my advices too closely, see my stats. They are horrible. You can do better than me

I swear I've seen 30 mm for side armor... I shall check that

Side armor was upped a bit, now you can bait 406mm into bouncing - I trolled a Massachussets that couldn't go into secondary range because he knew I had torps ready . But I won't certainly NOT complain if accuracy is buffed a bit - with only 6 shells it is often infuriating.

I came here because I was promised chocolate cookies. I love chocolate cookies (more seriously, I arrived just before the CV reeeeework - so at least I've witnessed the glorious OP crossdrops ; not enough experience to tell if the game spirals downward or not. Although the Benham grind, the Pay2Rico farce and the multiplication of surprise mechanics does not bring optimism)

En plein combat endiablé à bord du Saint Louis, alors que l'issue de la partie n'est pas fixée, que j'aligne un Mahan et que mon reload booster est activé .... ... mon fils décide sans concertation de relancer le téléchargement de Valorant sur l'autre PC. Cours vite. Tu n'auras pas beaucoup d'avance.

"non mais chérie ce moment avec le Graf Spee c'était passager je te jure !"

Lorsque j'avais eu le Mikasa en test avec mon fils, on avait fait une partie en poussant des grognements d'homme de caverne, en fonçant au milieu du pack comme des abrutis et en finissant premier avec un report de notre équipe. Un grand moment de rigolade

Effectivement, il y a eu un changement : au moment de faire un cadeau, il faut rentrer un code spécial avant de valider ; le code est bratisla_boy on peut toujours essayer non ?

Je viens de replonger dedans, je persiste : je ne vois pas quel genre d'enseignement on peut tirer de ces batailles. C'est encore plus le bordel qu'en coop, ça papillonne de partout, ça fait des erreurs telles que le deuxième de l'équipe gagnante est un Bayern bot qui a réussi à gagner un duel contre un Hatsuharu alors qu'avant en Dunkerque j'ai dévasté un U69 avec une salve AP à 1,5 km Je répète : un Bayern bot qui gagne contre un DD japonais, un BB qui coule à l'AP un sous-marin. Je n'ai pas regardé mon trajet ni le trajet des autres navires, mais ça devait ressembler à un test de Rorschach tellement ça partait dans tous les sens. Je vais continuer quand même, j'ai un capitaine de Richelieu à faire monter en xp. Mais je vais débrancher le cerveau et abandonner toute espèce de prétention à vouloir jouer tactique dans cette illustration parfaite de l'agitation moléculaire. Je n'ose plus donner d'avis sur les sous-marins du coup - mais, même en prenant en compte qu'on est sur un jeu arcade, on est loin niveau ambiance des Silent Service, Silent Hunter 2 à 4, Destroyer Commander, Cold Waters, sans même mentionner Sub Command et Dangerous Waters ... Et ce n'est pas "les subs sont OP/useless", je parle juste des sensations de jeu. Je ne suis pas convaincu, du tout.

J'ai essayé, c'est un croiseur papier russe tier 5. Pas vu de différence fondamentale avec le Kirov : même AP qui pique les flancs, reload lent comme le Kirov (un poil plus lent ?), mêmes torpilles d'autodéfense, même utilisation de placoplâtre Castorama pour le blindage. Donc c'est autant un étron que les croiseurs de son tier, il n'est pas plus mauvais en vérité. Mais oui blindage papier. J'avoue l'avoir pris pour éviter qu'il ne sorte en supercontainer à la place d'un navire plus ... plus quelque chose quoi, plus mème, plus iconique. Au moins la classe Kirov a une histoire intéressante, ayant évacué des troupes d'Odessa. Objectivement, j'ai failli faire comme tu le conseillais - mais n'oubliez pas qu'un navire déjà dans votre arsenal ne peut pas sortir en supercontainer ! /edit après j'avoue que je fais partie des hommes de goût qui trouvent les sensations et le plaisir dans la douleur en sortant le Huanghe. Donc peu objectif.

I have to step up to defend CCs a bit. At least, put in perspective. I did teach ... 12 years ago ? at several universities when I was a graduate student. Back in the day I was tempted by the academic life (just before I discovered the very limited number of non-tenured positions, and the crappiness of my Phd advisor, but that's another story) and I actually went through a 1 year course to pass national recruitment exams for highschools - not the standard one but the elite one. I was very learned in physics and geology, and to this day I absolutely love that. I even collect old physics books as a hobby. So I'm kinda qualified to say ... Teaching is hard. In fact, teaching is a *job*, and not a brainless one. You actually have to get knowledge about how the human brain learns in order to be an efficient teacher. Let's face it, there are still too many professionnal teachers that don't know how to teach. So asking a CC, who despite the title isn't paid to teach the game but is sponsored by WG to *show* the game (ie : spectacular stuff), to be as pedagogic as a paid professionnal is asking IMHO too much. Some CC are better at explaining things than others, because they have more abilities for reasons - but you can't demand them to be crystal clear in their explanations. And, as several stated, even if ... let's say Neil De Grasse Tyson or Maurice Krafft (RIP) played WOWS and did a didactic video on positionning, you can bet some people would not get it. And often not even because they are idiots - but because they learn in a different way. And actually Flamu did a quite good job explaining his thought process in these videos - as several others did (Flambass etc.) . Sometimes you know the stuff, but seeing it exposed and explained helps you translate it into IG skill - I am a prime example of that, perfectly understanding the need of being present but not too overcommited when I am not in game and finding myself terribly out of position because I'm too aggressive when I'm in game. So the video is not wasted at all imho, even though too many people won't be able to translate that correctly.

I struggle with Nurnberg, I first played her island hopping but ... yeah. If someone has pointers, I would be grateful ^^ Hydro is wonderful, though.