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Okhotnik does not understand what”one torpedo hit” means

I have trouble understanding why any of this is surprising to OP. Anyone who's played ranked for a while has seen a thing or two. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion etc.

Some of those useless glue eaters who play the new German line in ranked really deserve that negative karma :P.* * I note that there are exceptions; sometimes you see awesome German line players, even in ranked. They are of course always on the red team

Looks like typical ranked MM to me :P. Both teams have truly, awfully terribad DDs at least based on their stats.

From devblog: Edinburgh really needed a nerf, OP ship. I am a bit salty about this, because unlike the earlier nerfs this one is a nerf to the thing the RN CL line is specifically supposed to be good at, i.e. DPM. It's not a massive nerf, but maybe except for the fiji, it is uncalled for. These ships are balanced around the lack of HE (i.e. if you can angle, their DPM drops like a rock), and their fragility.

Clearly you are a man of culture

Sub_Octavian released a statement on the NA thread. Nothing earth shattering, just telling WG's POV on the matter as it stands now. For better or worse, I think it gives a good idea of how, on the one hand, WG sees the problem (two CCs being let down), vs how the community sees the problem (symptom of a general problem with how WG communicates). From Sub_Octavian's post, it seems that WG is willing to be reasonably flexible with addressing the immediate problem (two CCs who feel let down), but has not acknowledged or accepted that the problem is something bigger and more systemic, and requires a change of direction in how the company handles its branch offices and in general collaboration and communication (or lack thereof) with the playerbase.

Tbh the articles on the subject were so vague it was impossible to understand what exactly was being claimed, except that shady and possibly illegal hijinks were involved. It will be years until we know the truth either way. White collar, cross border crime investigations are not fast.

I honestly struggle to understand why ppl with no understanding of an issue/event must post “against the grain” opinions for 3dgelord points.

The ipr/copyright explanation is pretty lazy. There is such a thing as copyright assignment, all it takes is signing one paper. Of course, if the NA team are thorough f ups they didnt sign that paper before starting the project. Then there might be a problem if you have to negotiate with prickly auteurs AFTER the work has been done.

Qualified out of Bronze. Last match was a treat, with a competent, cooperative, friendly, communicating team. Qualifiers were basically [edited]otherwise though.

But not important enough to get ole’ Helmut’s respect. Who does she think she is? (Btw extra points for using “girl” in a denigrating way, what a piece of work)

And yet, from a balance pov the booty torps are mosty a harmless gimmick, while every radar they add to the game affects the freedom to operate and survivability of cap contesting dds and support cruisers like the rn cl line.

I should give Eddy another whirl, was almost the first kine I grinded, so struggled predictably with her. I can imagine Ed would be better in ranked with smaller, more congested maps and less BB crossfires.

I'll try. tl;dr - WG has a crappy corporate culture where the non head office, possibly the NA office in particular, are treated like mushrooms. I.e. kept in the dark and fed crap. The stuff we've seen with Mouse / Chobbitsu is to be expected considering this corporate culture. Wg need to change, and it still isn't too late. The fall guy (Gneis) is a fall guy, the real fault lies with WG. Oh and because she's American Australian? there's a lot of stuff about personal relationships and really knowing and trusting this and that person, and repetition.

Hurr durr Hood kablooie historical realism hurr durr.

Do we really need to use the /s tag so ppl get it? Ive grinded the edinburger. It is at most a decent ship for its tier.

:(

Had a stab at it with the Rhein. Despite my unicum stats in CVs (60%, 3 victories out of 5 games played!) neither I nor I am sure anyone in my team had fun.

Mmmmust have been before my time? They've had 10 km radar for as long as I've been playing, which granted isn't that long. As I said, I can understand the nerf to fiji. But do you feel this was a justified nerf to Leander, or in particular to Edinburgh? (and "last time" they got nerfed; smoke duration nerfs to some of the silver RN CL ships; that was not that big of a deal, because it did not affect the "heart" of the line IMO)

Ah but for those tough cookies you can finish them off with your stern mounted torpedoes.

Oh, you would never take artillery plotting room. It's secondary mod all the way! After all, according to the (alternative opinion) wiki, this ship is a brawler!

So this BB has longer range radar than equivalent US cruisers at its tiers? Edit: looked at the wiki entry - under "alternative opinion" for how to play the ship: "Constellation is a ship best played at short to medium range. Although she is capable of slugging it out at longer ranges, players will likely find that in Random Battles she is more fun if played as a brawler, similar to Tirpitz." Has BoW been editing the wiki? Who would play a 27mm battleship with laughable broadside armor at close range? Everything about this ship except maybe the radar screams "kiting backline sniper": -Fast -Weak plating and citadel armor -Gun orientation that favours kiting (at least according to the wiki) -Stern launched torpedoes -Great accuracy The radar leaves me wondering though. Maybe it's the perfect BBaby sniper tool, to remove the last threat, i.e. back line stalking enemy DDs torping the snipers?

Is the precise date for 10.5 known? Secondly... Asashio. Worth it to nab the bote before it disappears from the store? How gimped is it vs other dds, or do you manage to have decent matches even when you don't have a lot of juicy BBs to farm?

I dont have it :(. Ive consoled myself by playing petro. It’s funny when you are up ahainst n00b super bb drivers who only have experience of lolpennable midtier cruisers. I look on it as a calling to educate them about balans armor models and balans railguns.