Afghanicus

The PTS is no longer available. Round 2 ended hours before you posted.

Seems like I'll end it at 24/36 which is more than I anticipated. That's obviously not even trying to do the insane grind or even care for the PR. Also got Gorizia sooner than planned so I might do a few missions with her as well even though it seems it sucks worse than the non-premium counter-part. At least with my play-style in co-op.

Well, WG has serious problem with the servers. Every player can see that, no need for BS from them. Just when you posted I've noticed that the game is unavailable but also the forum was. Couldn't access anything regarding the WOW EU. They just don't want to admit/acknowledge it which makes it even worse.

The 'infinite bundles' still sounds unbelievable. So now they don't even give you 'closure', now you grind indefinitely until you completely burn out and uninstall the game. WG really knows how to deter players and kill the game.

Just in time, before PTS shuts down. You could have done it tomorrow.

There is no dockyard in this PTS. The requirements on PTS and live server always differ which makes sense. Even though sometimes WG makes it 1000 times harded like the insane PR grind most sane players didn't give a F about.

Isn't it a bit late for that? You came up with that idea few hours before PTS shuts down? Nice.

All these topics are made for suggestions from players. Especially this topic: However, we've all seen that WG ignores all feedback so no need to waste your time. They invite players to give feedback and suggestions. Once the players start writing all those comments, they never reply or do anything about the issues that players are talking about clearly not giving a F about any feedback from players. Has been like that for a while but it's getting worse each update.

Well, I've started complaining weeks ago, since this update... But WG says everything is ok with them and their servers... no problem at all. So I stopped bothering as I see they don't care at all.

Is this for real? WOW!!!

Hopefully WG will use their brains next time. Tirpitz in over 90% of the battles. The rest is usually Bismark or GZ. Since I don't have any of those I won't be wasting my time any longer on this BS mode that no thought or plan was put into it, at all.

Well, I'm one of those not having a lot of fun. In fact, I've quit and will not finish this Ranked Sprint at all, not even close. I simply don't own any German ships which I encounter in 99% of the battles - Bismark and Tirpitz, even GZ. I play mostly CLs and that's what i have. No matter what I choose, I don't stand the slightest chance. One shot to the bow and I'm half HP down. If I angle a bit, my torps don't get incapacitated, they get destroyed. The only few battles I won was against other cruisers. So instead of getting pissed off, I'll just cross this Ranked Sprint and forget it ever existed. Hopefully WG will use their brain next time and actually take some MM into consideration instead of having 2-3 ships being played almost every battle.

@Sub_Octavian promised they will look into this but no word from him yet. I wonder how reliable a Russian promise is.

@Garfield4, I don't think it's incompetence. They are just shifting from f2p to p2w. Slowly but surely. At the same time players like me are shifting from playing moderately to playing occasionally or quitting the game altogether. It's obvious that those guys with deep pockets and no brain are the main (and only) focus of WG and that's fine, I won't even waste time explaining the obvious.. they can sail towards failure all they want but I'll be in the lifeboat called 'SANITY', ready to leave this madness.

This is 0 creativity and idea put into a finished 'feature' (mode). For some might be fun but it's quite stupid if you think about it. There could have been done many fun options in terms of maps, danger zones taking HP or whatever. Like this is a total BS.

What about this?

Seems like WG wants me to pay doubloons to finish the collection. I wonder if WG knows I don't give a crap anymore. I'm not even that long here but I remember when finishing collections was fun process that took some time. Now you have to complete everything in a rush and bleeding doubloons/cash in the process. What a joke.

I'm either incredibly bad or incredibly unlucky. With Amalfi, I faced BBs most of the time and I couldn't do crap about them. Even when I hit them with multiple torps, hit them with SAP in the meantime I still don't take even half HP of a ship like Tirpitz, Bismark or any other T8 BB. Then out of desperation I ram but it's not a draw because they still survive the ramming. Then I tried CV (even though I hate them and don't have the slightest clue how to play them) and it was a total disaster. When faced a GZ, she destroyed me with secondaries more than all of my torps or anything else I'd use. Then I faced Benson and thought I will win with I've no freakin' idea what her concealment is but by the looks of it, it was like less than 3km or something. There was absolutely no way I could do anything. Whenever I spot her, it's already too late to drop so I have to make a circle but while doing that, she becomes undetected again. Total disaster and TBH I wasn't pissed at the game so much in while now. I don't blame WG for this [edited] idea, I blame myself for wasting my time on it.

It's about skill allowing CVs against any other class? Are you serious? ROFLMAO

Great.

Wanted to play a few more battles tonight but...

I could play this with Kaga and have close to 100% WR probably (even tho I don't play CVs at all) but what's the fun there? I'm choosing lines which I haven't grinded yet and using it to get from T8 to T9. So I just started today with Amalfi, hoarding XP for Brindisi. I haven't had any DDs or CVs yet. Against cruisers, I won most of them (unless they get lucky with torps because I don't have hydro). Against BBs I lost most of them (unless a BB is really bad). So by reaching rank 1 not only will I get coal and some flags but I'll also make more progress (and much quicker!) on certain ships/lines than I normally would.

Seems like the WG managers have better understanding of gambling mechanics and psychology than the actual two-way engagement and mutual respect.

I had the exact same situation today on the exactly the same map. The BB (not sure if it was Vladi or some other BB) was never spotted. We killed the rest but we were searching for that last BB for almost 10 minutes. He was at the exactly same spot as the Vladivostok on the OP's screenshots. Maybe it has to do something with the map and the vessel's starting position. He gets stuck and then spends the next 10 minutes trying to unstuck itself...

Once the timer runs out, the boosters can only give you the instant boost (xx million points)... no points per second gain will be obtainable after that. As long as you've reached the "magic barrier", you'll have the "WIN" button calling you to give WG about 30,000 doubloons.