Afghanicus

Alright, since this 0.8.11 patch is coming to an end... I'd like to look back at the players that had so many issues with high pings and disconnection throughout the update. I know most players didn't experience any issues and they could focus on the insane PR grind but I'll leave that for the other threads, this is a thread to the ones who were getting kicked out of the battle quite often. WG describes us as "handful of people" and our problem "a solitary issue" but we all know that's BS but even if it was about a few players, shouldn't WG still care? Or it's just a majority thing.. if most people have no issues, who gives a F about the rest who cannot play the game? Is that a WG philosophy? I won't quote all the threads which have been opened in regards to this issue as there are too many, I'll just quote my post in one of the threads where I tagged over 70 players having this issue and you don't need to be an expert to know that for every player that complains on the forum, there are many others who don't so if at least few hundreds of players are "a handful of people" I wonder how good at math WG guys are. Apparently, most affected players are from the Balkan region - Montenegro, Croatia and Serbia. Even though there were players from other countries like France, Netherlands etc. If that's a "solitary issue" for WG then we have more problems that we thought.

Well, another update with no change, huh? Look, I know co-ops are not a priority, I know WG doesn't care about them but when a WG staff member like @Sub_Octavian publicly promises on the stream that they will look into it, "discuss it over the next meeting" and let us know about the outcome.. then you would expect some feedback in return, don't you? Then when you tag him 10 times after that and he NEVER replies you start to have those initial feelings when he messed up the whole PR thing on Reddit, don't you? Can we have some feedback from the developers? Was this discussed at all or it was just empty Russian words from WG? If it wasn't, do they plan to? If it was, what was the outcome? How easy/hard it is to change/remove the points in co-op battles? By either removing the points altogether and winning only by sinking the whole enemy team. Or giving the bots more points so they don't end up at 0 in the first 3-4 minutes of the battle and ending it without the possibility to do anything, leaving many ships alive on the enemy team. In the meantime... I have battles of less than 4 minutes regularly. That's NOT good. And since @Sub_Octavian has been ignoring me for the last 20 days or so... can any other WG staff members check this for me and give us some feedback? @MrConway @Crysantos @Tanatoy @YabbaCoe @Sehales Thanks.

I was just wondering... what is your experience with the support tickets and the guys answering them? I have a dozen support tickets and so far the experience was always the same - regretting I wasted my time in writing it. - They NEVER solved any issue I had. (the templates they use as replied can be easily found on the Wiki or Google in general, they never say anything I didn't know already) - They ALWAYS mark the ticket as 'SOLVED' after their reply even though it's never solved but the investigation just started - If you ask them NOT to mark it as 'solved' they disrespectfully ignore it completely - Every reply is written by another guy or at least the system assigns a random name every time they make a reply which is very confusing. (last ticket has 6 replies from their side, from 6 different guys or at least under different names) - They don't read anything I write and that's easy to see based on their replies - They just use useless templates which pisses most people off (who likes to talk to [ro]bots?) - Their level of understanding is minimal and usually results in a lot of wasted time in order to make them understand what the issue is I am probably not even allowed to post anything from the tickets but the latest experience is regarding the connectivity issues that so many players are having. After spending hours doing PingPlotter reports, WGchecks etc. they simply didn't have anything useful to say other than I have some packet losses and they will escalate the case to their specialists. However, specialists are probably the same guys because soon after that they asked for new reports. I provided the new reports and then I was advised to "investigate packet loss in internet and you can contact with your internet provider". The sentence before that was "I personally will do my best to help you, don't worry.". W.T.F. At the end they said "I am afraid we can not do anything about your situation. Please contact your service provider related your packet loss." basically letting me know that they can't (or don't want to) do anything about it and that message goes to all the players having so many connectivity issues, especially since the latest 0.9.11 patch. This was probably the last support ticket I'll ever make because it's been such a waste of time filled with frustration. What is your experience?

While I'm well aware that there are millions of other, more important issues... I'd like to talk about replay and the replay system as well. I know these threads in the "Current update" stay even for next ones so I decided to open the thread here as I think it's the best place. When was the last the WG worked on replays and did ANYTHING to improve them? I know that not many players use them but they are quite useful for multiple reasons. Sometimes you just want to see how you played without the actual concentration on the battle, to see details from a wider perspective that you couldn't see in battle and overall learn from mistakes and improve your play. Other times you just want to show someone (your clan mates, reddit, forum, youtube, customer support, whatever) some interesting situations, funny moments, technical issues or anything alike. No matter why you're using the replays... they are in a pretty bad state IMO. Most functions are completely bugged and the ones that are not work poorly. Following the shells doesn't work most of the time - the camera starts following the shells and then jumps to the edge of the map showing absolutely nothing except the border of the map. The rudder indicator? BUGGED. The speed indicator? BUGGED. The camera controls? Terrible. etc. etc. Even the whole system that you cannot load the replay while in game (port) or using some external "viewer". If you want to watch a replay... you have to close the game, run the replay and then get back in the game after watching it. And you cannot watch the replay from a previous update, it has to be the same update which is also very bad. You can speed up and slow down the replay when watching (sometimes bugged as well in both situations, especially when speeding up) but you cannot go backwards. So if you missed a certain moment that you wanted to clip, take screenshot or do whatever... instead of just going back few seconds you have to close the replay, wait for the process to end completely, open the replay again and fast forward all the way to the moment that you missed. How intuitive you think that is!?? Do I need to mention that replays often crash and you have to do it all over again? Sometimes doesn't even close but you have to open the 'Task Manager' and force close the whole process and then wait until you can run it again? I'm well aware it's not and it won't be on any "priority to-do list" but I'll leave it here as I really feel the replay system should be significantly improved. It's long overdue.

Don't hate me, I just think one thread per relevant section about the EXACT SAME topic is enough. But if you don't... carry on, don't mind me.

I noticed such issues in earlier updates. Glad WG managed to fix them and now the operations' rewards are nerfed for a reason. [/s]

Total BS. Like players use the useless AA anyways. And now they use that childish excuse to NOT give us the free commander's re-spec which was always present during CBs. "Improvements" everywhere indeed. The ones in charge of such changes need a reality check, asap.

Well, you both played more than I did so I don't need to tell you about so many situations where theory just doesn't hold. You know very well that if you angle against BBs and you have a CV on your tail looking to land nice torps you can either angle against the torps and get hit by BBs or keep angled against those sniping BBs and eat all torps. Coming close is an option unless you have like 4 DDs waiting for just that. In that case you're spotted all the time, without seeing an enemy and you know there will be incoming torps in the next 10 seconds or so. But what do I know.. P.S. Spotting planes are completely irrelevant as the max. range I used (26.6km for Yamato for example) is without the spotting plane. No reference to the ranges with spotting planes were made in any of my posts. I also never used the word "constantly" or any other synonym which would reflect a constant problem I had. I just mentioned the issue I was facing recently. That's all.

Something WG uses all the time. Especially when they want the player-base to focus on minor improvements (that should have been implemented years ago) instead of all other BS that was delivered in the same package.

Pretty much. The main difference is that in the campaigns you can do the same mission multiple times and in directives you can't. The rest of the changes such as the name, stars collection etc. are just cosmetic touches and nothing else IMHO. I believe most (if not ALL) campaigns for commanders have no time limit.

So you think because you opened a thread you're entitled to close it as well? It would be interesting to see if that's the case because that would say a lot about moderation over here. I agree it's said that you're the only one posting your spreadsheets here which means absolutely nothing since anyone can fake any spreadsheet but somehow when you say something you think it has some weight but when so many players point out how the quality of games has dramatically decreased of the last month or so.. that has no weight at all and it's all whining and controversy for the sake of it. Sure, makes perfect sense. To you probably and nobody else.

The worst thing about CVs at the moment is the useless AA which isn't as nearly as effective as it should be. Priority sector makes a slight difference but not nearly enough and defensive AA module is a total joke. Not that this is the only issue but I believe it's the first one that should be focused on.

So the guy has nearly 800 battles with CVs with a WR of 61.3% and you'd restrict him to play co-op battles only? Because he is not good enough? Because he has not enough experience in CVs? While some total tool with no understanding of the basics of the game can buy any T8 CV he/she wishes and take it to randoms? LOLWUT!? P.S. You gotta love when some players dig the stats from others, write publicly about those with a negative connotation... while having their stats hidden. Hypocrisy at it's highest.

While that's technically true, it doesn't always work out in real world. You can avoid getting citadels but with a BB you can't really dodge all the shells, most of the time. Especially if more ships are shooting at your at the same time. Additionally, if you have a CV down your tail it makes all that even more difficult. Luckily with T8 I was facing mostly T8 CVs which isn't as bad as facing T10s. Not that I didn't have those battles but they did seem to be more rare as opposed to T8 CVs.

Seems like you either get it as the first bundle or the last one I'm sure those are not the only ones but from the (relatively small) sample I have at the moment, that seems to be the case. One of my clan mates had the same - got both commanders from the first bundle. The ones that started digging through the bundles.. mostly gave up after a dozen or few dozens of opened bundles with no commanders.

You really feel uptiered when playing your T8 against T10s Lately I was grinding my Vladivostok and I have been uptiered most of the time. With my 18km range it wasn't easy facing Jean Barts, Yamatos, Montanas etc. with much higher range than mine. And it's not like they aren't effective at the long range either. So while they can snipe me from 20ish+ kms (up to 26.6km) I can only hope that some other ship will make a mistake and come close so I can actually do something in that battle because I can forget about those BBs completely as they all have significantly higher range than mine, mostly from 30% up to 50% higher to be precise). You just feel you have almost no influence in such games and you completely depend on your team as opposed when facing the same tier when you don't have such issues, especially not that much. Maybe this example is not the most 'average' one but some other T8 vs T10 example would be more acceptable but it's still a struggle, no matter which example you find.

I've me a few in co-op this morning. Most of them were the first to die without taking more than half HP from the DD that killed them. Not sure what to make out of it.

Yeah, because they cannot just pay 30/40 euros and get any premium CV they wish. It was the same with Puerto Rico... "WG will never sell T10 ships" they said once upon the time. Players were sure it will never happen and it should never happen. Then PR came along and all of a sudden you could have a total noob paying up 200 euros and playing a T10 ship. So we can imagine all kind of noobs playing premium T8 CVs as well as premium T9/T10 ships just because they can pay for it, not because they put enough time and effort to get to that T8-T10 games.

By giving some players both commanders on the first bundle, you're making sure they will talk about it, share it online and give motivation to others to buy the bundles thinking if it's not on the first one it will probably come "soon". No need to say the real outcome of such attempts and the amount of doubloons spent in hopes that bundle will appear "soon". Luckily, I have no gambling problem and since my first bundle brings some flags... I'd be more than happy to ignore all 61 of those.

While I agree that getting uptiered very often, especially playing certain tiers (like T8 for example) and MM needing significant improvements... this system just doesn't make much sense and it wouldn't work unless the "lower tiers" (in this case the odd tiers) are BUFFED all "higher tiers" (in this case even tiers) are NERFED. And I can tell you straight away that such thing won't happen, ever. If you ask me, the main issue is that MM wants to find the battle asap. If you were to make a poll (not on the forum but in general), I'm pretty sure the majority (if not all) players would prefer waiting few seconds more and be matched with the same tier (or 1 tier difference at worst) than having to face ships which are higher/lower than your by 2 tiers. Because honestly, it's an issue either way. If you're facing ships 2 tiers higher than you then it's obvious what the issue is but if you play a strong BB and face 2 tiers lower than you... you will be getting A LOT of overpens along with a lot of frustration. I don't think waiting a bit longer in queue would be an issue for most players, especially when there are many players online. At "low-activity hours" (like from midnight til late morning) I'd understand that the waiting times would be too long for a MM to match you with the same tier and the difference in waiting time would be minutes, which is a lot. But when the servers are full then the difference in waiting times would be few seconds and I'm pretty sure players wouldn't even notice. Just my 2c.

I didn't even bother with those missions as I'm quite sick of the WG's RNG and random bundles. It's like those things are more important than the ships and gameplay itself. Everything is wrapped in RNG and random bundles.

The business is going better than ever, you can bet your a$$ on that. With the current situation in the world gaming industries are the ones doing better than any other. People are generally stuck at home with nothing to spend their money at and then the decide to spend it on some pixels. Many are re-joining the game after years of inactivity and they have no clue of all the BS that has been going on and then simply want some new premium ships or feel like gambling and WoWs is a perfect place for that.

Audio and the whole game tends to freeze for a second or two while I had other players reporting complete crashes. These issues never happened to me since I play WoWs so it seems like you tweaked something you shouldn't have. No changes to my PC or the game settings. Ping was fine, fps was fine and then all of a sudden, no sound for a second or two and few minutes later the whole game freezes for the same period of time. This happened multiple times. I strongly believe it should be look into before it becomes an issue you cannot find the root cause for. You know.. like many others you drag for several months (and years)...

I didn't have a complete crash but first time since I play WOWs I had the game freeze for a second or two, completely. Sometimes I'd have the sound go mute for a second or two while the game is running fine. My ping was fine, fps was fine, I have a decent PC with just "high" setting and I never had such issues. I don't know what they did but it doesn't seem to be any improvement.

You can do 2 missions at the same time (3 missions if you have premium account) and you can choose which ones to do first. You can either finish the Yamato missions and then move to the new campaign or start the new campaign and leave the Yamato for later since it has no time limit. I guess it depends on how much you need the Yamamoto commander. If you do need him and you're nearly done, I'd finish it first as few days won't make any difference, especially with their "we unlock one stage each week" BS.