Bland_42

What?

Maybe it's something normal that I don't know, but... how the f***ing hell my DD in smoke have a spotting range of 17.6km!!!

True, but in that point there's not so much manouvre space... with CAs coming from NW and a torp-wall from NE, if I'm in the middle and I wanna do some damage I'm forced to accept that sometimes I'm going inside the circles, even if usually I try to not do it. This if I play a DD, with other ships I have different approach routes (usually). I will not correct you... because I'm the first one asking an explanation.

Thing is, the OPs were reworked. Who knows who did what and when... if it's part of the original code or if it's something recent. True, but those are mechanics that we know. This thing seems largely unknown, I didn't find anything enough explanatory about it in the Wiki and it could be something good to know if it's intended to work like this.

Well, it was the first time that I used smoke inside the light circle... However t's not so simple. The illumination shell do not negate the smoke screen, the spotting is still 2km in that case, but when I shot it jumped to 17,6km (that must be the "standard" range within an illumination shell light). The screenshots below are an example (tomorrow will be impossible to reopen the replay 'cause new patch). I would really like to understand this mechanic, to me seems a bit nonsensical. I mean, from what is calculated that abnormal range?

I'm starting to be dangerously used to spearhead in Cherry Blossom with DDs... not a good habit.

I had mixed experiences with the Rupprecht... can dominate or evaporate, no middle ground. It's a nice thing that you can enjoy it.

A decent match in Ranked bronze... reached the doubloons, enough for me in this Sprint.

At match start I had a sudden greet from @lovelacebeer (I didn't see you, sorry mate)... we were (almost) side by side in a fast defeat in Convoy. The good side for me was that, even defeated, I made enough points to complete the grind of the Shimanto. Obviously now buying and grinding the Takahashi will be... questionable.

Probably hilarious... annoying for sure. They would be an insured headache source for me.

Someone knows how is calculated the minimal height of an island to hide a ship behind it? In situation like this below, where the island is not a sand bank, it would be interesting (for me) understanding where I can hide and where I will be spotted.

I hope you are not considering things like Smolensk with this phrase...

What we can say is that HE power is not well scaled with the calibre. If we take North Carolina like example, we have this data about main guns and secondaries (same guns mounted on US DDs): 16" HE 862 kg 5700 damage 5" HE 24 kg 1800 damage It's like if, making a confrontation, the 5" have 11 time the power of the 16". >>> (1800 / 24) / (5700 / 862) = 11 It's even worst if we consider the rate of fire, because the 5" can shot every 6 seconds (3.5 for the USS Benson) while the 16" reload in 30 seconds... it's 5 time the small one. No surprise that the 5 guns of Benson have 161k DPM while North Carolina 9 main guns stop at 102k. It's a game, and this is only one of the incongruences "needed" to "balance" the classes. Still, situations like a Kitakaze (IFHE) vs an Alsace can really be a death sentence for the BB... something really frustrating. Yes, the example DD vs BB is very specific... I'm currently grinding the Alsace, this happened today.

This was from yesterday, my best in Ranked. After a slow start (and honestly it seemed another helpless match until almost the end) I saw a chance to push when someone sunked the Missouri that was keeping the middle. This below were the final (funny) moments.

It's only me, or "T11" Piemonte stats seems a bit... meh?

After another day of struggling in Bronze Ranked (stupid me, that remained here to not struggle) I understood that in this Sprint is a must to try to carry. Unfunny (if you are grinding like me). This below was the only really funny moment.

Ok, it's more or less like I suspected. To keep going with questions, we know if it's also dependent by the height of the observer, or only by that of the target? EDIT: found the answer in the video linked, yes it's dependent by the top masts of both ships. However that video have some outdated parts, like when explaining about shoting from unspotted at long ranges...

Don't know why, but in this last week of bronze Ranked I find incredibly difficult to win matches. This is indubitably partially my fault , because I use it to grind lines, but still... I mean, in 2 days I winned 2 matches of 8-10 played (I think, not really counted them). This below was really an attrition match, finished in a damage race between me and the enemy CV about who will sink faster the other one.

Can we have the option to deactivate the automatic aim-lock, and keeping it strictly manual (push the button to lock the target)?

I don't remember if happened before but I would like to try a T8 cruisers-only Brawl. Pure chaos.

Convoy teams keep being bad, considering I was first in the winning team with this "no-build" and those points... A little moment of self-satisfaction instead, considering the way I did this kill and thinking about the other player's face...

I feel like I'm shooting at the Red Cross (way of saying in my country)... but mate, before to say something try to verify your sources, will you?

I will probably still go for the Amagi instead.

Two bugs today. First bug: going back to port after battle, I had the black screen. Could not change the selected ship, could not change the selected port. The containers main page was also black, but the containers storehouse was ok. Armory and missions pages were ok. After closing and restarting the game everything was back to normal. Second bug: at the end of a match, after everything else disappeared the game froze and after half a minute I had a disconnection. Reconnecting seems to go normal, but I had my doubts so I closed everything and logged-out before restart. After that it was back to normal.

I was grinding my Shimanto in Convoy, spamming torps... then suddenly a never spotted Shimakaze detonated. Only then I discovered it was @Fastmotion. Sorry mate.