MementoMori_6030

And those sub pros that simply dive to max depth in spawn and go having lunch. Nobody can find and/or kill them. They might even farm spotting damage, if I understand the weird spotting mechanics of subs - who should be totally blind beneath periscope depth - correctly...

Imagine 100 mph T4 biplanes dropping grenades...

And pray you don't get that kind of tool team that expects you to cap, defend, sink the entire enemy fleet and kindly save their sub butts from other DDs... I have a feeling that the timidity of players will only increase with yet another threat to handle.

I am curious how long you will have to wait as a sub player if they are forced into randoms...

Try submarine battles. Surprisingly, (human) CV and BB players are super rare there.

I smell slander against elderly people...

Gib ASROC!

Yeah, and having a 3 vs 3 sub brawl under water pretty much feels like a darkroom with drunken people in it. Somehow i managed to kill 2 or 3 subs with mine... double target lock at 1,5 km and using the buttplug stern tube. It was a hilarious Star Wars style dogfight in super slow motion with everyone launching torps and pings into every direction. Some even managed to ram each other despite the fact that they now had 3 dimensions to evade.

Those were Soviet torps, so that kind of malfunction might indeed be a "feature". Had it been US torps, they would have been duds.

Another issue... if you have a target locked with 2 pings, the torps - supposed to dive under its keel and blow up there - still can hit other surface ships in their path. Weird.

So basically the "couple after 3 years of relationship" thing...

Already tried to exceed max depth by arranging to be buried beneath a sinking battleship, but the bugger just did the dead Jedi trick when it reached a certain depth. Poof, gone.

Just in case I understand your exotic grammar correctly: I do indeed play some Italian ships.

That's easy: The 96k is European coal, the 366k is Russian coal. It's the same in premium shop. Thanks to the Ruble being worth sh*t (1 R = 0,013 E), you pay an enormous amount of Rubles for the same stuff that would cost you only a couple of Euros.

I would love take a look at your Italian ships to check if Sansonetti would be of any use to you, new player, but the stats of your 2015 account are hidden... so forgive me not to comment on your complaint and give you sage advice.

I wonder if it is possible to buddy-laze some target if you are teaming up with several subs.

Now, I played my Mutsu. A BB. In a sub game. I had so much fun. In the end, 1 BB and 2 subs tried to sink me. I killed the BB, and the subs kept launching torps after torps after torps, for what felt like hours (I enjoyed torping them back and actually hit once). Finally they gave up and a cruiser had to finish me off. My verdict: Broken, totally broken. Having no available counterpunch against an ENTIRE class of ships (if the captains are not totally braindead) is not a feature of a game someone should expect me to play.

Submarine game: World of Warships:

Add to this that "in RL" there were not the very same ships fighting each other, and while it may be (some times) possible to identify friend or foe by using different flags or camos, the subs below periscope depth are essentially blind. I wonder how they can tell if they are pinging and torping a friendly Fuso or and an enemy Fuso, e.g., because "in RL" individual ship propulsion signatures where not recorded and archived thence. I also wonder how the sub who is spotting (well, let's say "locating", because it can't see sh*t down there) is telling his cruiser mate the enemy position - no radio link, no visual signals, no nothing. The sub is also miraculously immune to friendly depth charges, and point blank torpedo shots do not even scratch the launching ship's paintjob. So let's just say "in RL" there were subs. They operated differently than in the game, they functioned differently than in the game, etc.

Historical subs: Scorpions WG subs: Greyhounds

Fishing rods with limpet mines...

Does changing the GFX settings ingame have any influence on the problem? I have artifacts (green and violet luminescence of outlines if there are quick movements onscreen) now and then, but when I change and rechange some settings like Antialiasing, even plug in and plug out a different monitor before switching back to my main monitor, the problem usually goes away, for whatever reasons.

Half of the teams are bots anyway; nobody wants to play helpless cannonfodder, so you can expect that only DD and SS are actually human players in most of those "games". I really see no future for this in random games. Lack of teamwork is bad, but you still got a chance to fight every possible enemy solo if it comes to that. With subs, you can do zilch if you don't have ASW and your teammates do their own thing and forsake any teamplay. You are factually dependent on the ASW ships to keep you safe, and the typical random battle shows that most players are only concerned about their very own safety.