SodaBubbles

Thank you, I hope you are correct. Does this mean that detonation flags will no longer be available when you detonate?

Not at all. I had good fun with Z39 and Yuda -- the old Yuda was made to kill Sinops. Mahan is also a ton of fun, good mix of guns, torps, and smoke for close-in action like Ranked.

it's not anymore, though. T6-8 are all excellent for Ranked, much better than dull and unplayable T10. But the devs are obsessed with T10. They like an arena where all the broken Russian ships they have created can dominate, a sort of compensatory fantasy for the Russian navy in WWII.

Before the commander skills rework, you could run Yuda with useful 12 km torps with the speed boost and range sacrifice. Now, you're basically stuck with the slow, visible from space 15 km torps. Can we get a module of 12 km torps with faster torp speed to use instead of the plodding torps we have now? Otherwise, I see no reason to ever play that ship, which is why I almost never see it in game either.

Vermont, no question. All the other BBs have respectable to good secondaries, ~30 knot speeds, excellent main guns, and good reloads. Vermont? Hahahahahaha. I have no idea what the devs were thinking with that, and they usually do a good job balancing ships, Russian ships excepted.

This new mechanic is stoopid beyond belief. Just another thing the players didn't need, which nobody asked for. So typical of WG. Meanwhile, we need new maps, quality of life fixes to the interface, new operations, old operations returned....

Could be using all this imagination to MAKE NEW MAPS. Instead, we see the usual pattern -- a mechanic the game does not need, that nobody asked for. Meanwhile stuff the playerbase has been crying for? That will take years.

So tired of the garbage teams, the selfish, incompetent 45% CV players I keep having on my team, the players who throw games because they have to shoot their guns with everyone watching saying "Go dark!" It's not hard for me to save a star, but still.... One thing I have learned from playing WOWs is that real men don't take wise advice....

I like this idea. +1

Good news, if true. Would love to see numbers on that. But almost every match I enter has a CV, sadly. It would be great to just once, be able to play the game. But all too often I'm a target drone instead of a player....

I had exactly the same reaction. What makes brawling fun is spewing out secondaries, not firing mains at 27 seconds instead of 30 seconds. It would be ok that they dont play the game, if they listened to the player base. But they dont do either. Make secondaries great again!

Wow that sucks!

Yep. Lots of ships are that way.

No. Because WG won't get rid of CVs, we can't. Their influence on outcomes is too great and becomes more powerful as the number of ships falls. Matches are already more or less determined by the disparity between CV players. Smaller modes magnify that. Just another of myriad ways in which CVs make the game suck. Thanks, WG!

I just was on a team with 2 botters. Thanks, WG!

Thats what it has become. I am farming it too, for credits and for RB resets. WG will take no steps to get rid of botters and AFKers, won't keep crappy CV players out of Ranked, will not adjust the MM for radar, and similar. Clearly they are uninterested in fostering a good playing environment. Why should any player care if the devs don't?

I'm trying to view this positively. I think it's great that they got rid of dead eye. As you note, the remaining skills are limited and impoverished compared to what they used to be.

I dont like it. I think I am suffering from ping issues whenever I see it. Needs a disable option.

Could do that... but I rather enjoy coop. You only need to play for brief minutes and can multitask since bots are predictable. But in Randoms you have to pay attention....

It certainly fits into the pattern of gimmicks we have seen lately -- the reworked CVs, the Smolensk, the Asashio, high ROF spammers, Thunderer, etc -- gimmicks/ships that are fun only for the person using them, but make the game suck for the target. If this line actually comes out with that idiotic gimmick, I will only play it in coop. I dont play ships that are not fun for the other players in the match, and this idiocy will certainly qualify.

lol beat me to it.

I play Ranked on two servers. None of this is my experience. Outside the somewhat higher population of botters, most players play to win, even though they are largely mediocre to bad. Because so many players are so awful, it is not difficult to play well enough to influence the outcome. Damage dealing and killing are not good measures -- I can do 30K in a DD and decisively affect the game, and 120K in a BB and have little effect on the outcome. XP remains the best of the many bad measures of performance.

Because its a trial with 2 CVs per match and bots, to boot. Further, you've just proved his point by observing how much better it is to be top tier than bottom. I would gladly give up being top tier in a 2 tier spread if the idiotic 2 tier spread were reduced to 1 tier. But WG is committed to providing fodder botes for T10 players to feel like real men, so everyone else has to suffer. What we need is the battle button to let us choose the spread, so players who brag about how awesome they are at bottom tier can still play against ships 2 tiers up, and the rest of us who like balanced, fun matches can enjoy near-tier matches.

2300 base XP QE game. Removed the Sky Cancer via dev strike for the win. Very satisfying after totally unfun harassment by the thing for the last part of the game (can't imagine how anyone at WG ever thought playing with CVs was fun. Just glad I don't have that kind of mind). Overall, my QE grind has been a ton of fun so far, much better ship than I thought it would be. Devs did good balancing it.

If only they had nerfed the real problems with those ships, the broken fire chance of the Thunderer and the broken armor and guns of the Stalingrad.