Have you enjoyed the Space battles?

[Sharana]

This weekend we had the opportunity to play tier X ships in the fun mode and I hope most of you used it. There were some mixed opinions on the forum, so I'm curious and will start that topic with a poll. Please take a minute and share your impressions about the high end gameplay, as most of you haven't reached the high tiers yet

 

Now I will share my impressions, because I haven't played 12 vs 12 tier X battle before. This was very interesting way to make most of us test tier X and I'm sure WG have collected a lot of statistics.

First of all I'm sure all of you noticed that the map is just too small for the high tiers, but it was actually exactly as big as most of the other maps in the game. Only "Nord" is slightly bigger and of course "Islands of Ice" which is the biggest map we currently have. There were problems with the spawn, "B" couldn't be captured from south side, some games ended very fast as one of the team just lost few ships right at start and had negative amount of points. But still it was fun and I know which is the 3rd tier X ship I'm now going for

 

I didn't have a lot of free time to play this weekend, so I had only 37 battles in this mode and as I wanted to have picture of the different ships's performance I played 10 battles each on Yamato, Galaxy and Zaya, because I have enough battles in Essex already and I'm just bad with DDs. I have to say that most of the opponents I met in this battles were mainly new and very unexpected captains, there was also  a lot of hitpoints as it was 12 vs 12 tier X and I was able to make some incredible battles. That's why the stats may seem somehow unrealistic

 

1. Galaxy (Des Moines) - 10 battles - 2224 avarage exp - 154,674 avarage damage - 80% WR

2. Yamato (Yamato) - 10 battles - 1904 avarage exp - 152,156 avarage damage - 50% WR

3. Zaya (Senjo) - 10 battles - 1455 avarage exp - 90,903 avarage damage - 60% WR

 

4. Flyfire (Gearing) - 5 battles - 1484 avarage exp - 62,898 avarage damage - 40% WR

 

I also have 2 battles with the Enterprice, but it's pretty much the Essex I already have (108K avarage) so I won't comment about it. The Gearing was huge surprise for me. I'm really bad with DDs and I probably don't have more then 1-2 torp hits per battle, but her guns were able to compensate my missing torp firing skills (I can only fire aerial torpedoes ). I had the impression that DDs are pretty useless in tier X games, but with their low detectability + smoke screen for the team, torpedoes and insane RoF on their artillery batteries I think they have their role in the team.

Now I knew Senjo was overnerfed and UP now, but I wanted to try her to have my own opinion. Well it's a good ship, just bring the long range torpedoes back! OK 20km may be too much, but 14-15km should be just fine, as during those games I was never closer then 10km to the enemy, so I just haven't launched a single torpedo and all the damage was done with the main guns only. You can't expect to get so close in high tier battles to use the current torpedoes, so that's why Senjo is underperforming now. She just can't use part of her weapons to compensate the weaker artillery power.

Yamato ... well that's just Yamato. Huge , slow moving target with many hitpoints and bugged armour (turrets + DDs penetrating with APs) with 460mm guns and insane AA. But she was doing her job just fine, I never went down with under 115K damage received (literally almost hundred hits from CAs and DDs). The distances were short (10-15km) and I was able to aim my big guns very well against the noob captains (moving in a straight line with constant speed), so because of the nice hits for 30-50K damage my avarage damage per battle is pretty high. But I can't imagine that in regular tier X battles where the player will be at least bit more experienced.

And now of course my new favourite ridiculously OP ship - the machine gun (Des Moines). I knew she was OP, but I never imagined such a ship . I installed 3rd modification where turrets rotate slower (still fast enough), but the main guns fire faster!!! 5.1 seconds reload time was so funny and the dpm was of course just insane. I always tried to retreat to second line, so there are other ships in front of me to take the enemy fire, while I was realising my dpm from 2nd line (12-15km). The result can be clearly seen and now I'm going for that ship ASAP, hope I will get it and have some fun before Des Moines meets the huge nerhammer.

 

PS: Well I've just planned the poll with few words from my impressions and ended with WoT (Wall of Text) yet again...

[KptStrzyga]

Meh, not really. I played once to see how it looks and went back to my regular sheeps. 

Too flashy for my taste. 

[The_yoh1len]

It was quite all right, but I wonder if they are not teasing us for some Space oriented game by Wargaming this way. Can't wait for E3 if they do not come up with World of Spaceships for real! 

 

[Ew_]

I wish i had spaceships :|, tfw you get a CBT invite just after the event starts so you miss out.

[beercrazy]

its too black everywhere for my taste

I think its fun but my god the gfx on my old sad eyes is hard to take in so I have to say its not that good but well done wg for making something different

 

[Pekoe_Darjeeling]

I played once or 2 but it's not my kind of games - spaceships plus my eyes... but still I would not say they waste their time because there are ppl who enjoy that mod so its ok

 

[Tobblish]

Been enjoying it a lot especially to have a nice set of ships to pick from.

The map isn't garbage either so it have had a lot to do with it.

[Gudako]

Is this an official poll? Why is there only one "OP" Option, for the Galaxy, and the rest UP? Sounds kind of biased. Thankfully, there's an "Something else" option.

 

Yamato seems weak at anything but sniping. Secondary guns dont seem useful, at that range you gonna get ganged by the entire enemy team anyway. Turrets made of glass.

Zaya is okay-ish. Torpedo range is sad, and worthless. That close you're fish food to citadel hits. Guns seem decent.

All the US ships are amazing. I wonder why..........

Galaxy is good, the Flyfire is amazing and I'd say it is OP. I love using it, so if they fix it I'll be sad. It is good at gunfights, tears Yamatos apart and dodges their shots, outranges their secondary armaments, and the torpedoes are a nasty surprise.

The only threat is Zaya or Galaxy blanket-fire.

[Sharana]

Of course this is not an official poll, do I look like someone from WG?

Anyway I was thinking about the "Flyfire is OP" option and I should have added it right at start, but I will fix that now. Do you have other suggestions? I doubt you will find  someone who will say you Zaya,Enterprice or Yamato are OP, so I didn't add such options.

Lots of people have voted with "Something else" and it would be great if they share what's wrong.

[SBS]

I played all the ships and I didn't really seem to have any problems doing well in any of them. And I must say I actually liked the map mroe than the standard ones. The one big rock (island) in the middle with open space (oceon) worked really well for me, and I had a lot of fun.

[anr96]

If they want a t10 test drive, why we just don't get the normal t10 ships for 2 days?  So normal ships in their normal environment and on normal maps. I love to play space battles but somehow I don't get it. This mode is good for an event but odd for testing.

[OldGrandad]

Well I took it at face value - pure fun and escapism. Anyone moaning really had no right to do so as regular battles were there still and the development of this voyage of fantasy was done by the guys and girls in their own free time so not impacting the development of the vanilla game.

 

Don't forget, if your captain did well on one of these 'space' ships make sure you put them into reserve before the ships are removed!

[Losqualo]

I'm sorry, but this poll is quite useless as long as you have to answer every question. 

 

Even if I make my cross at "I haven't played them" I still have to tell wich ship is OP...

[anonym_hqO9wrVAEQYQ]

This poll is as pointless as the game mode.

[Mindfulcrane07]

This poll is as pointless as the game mode.

 

well that is your opinion.i think the poll is great i and strongly agree Sharana with the things he said in the post.

and also i think the game mode is quite fine. since it can give some of the newer players a way to see what ships they like and go for

[JapLance]

Not specially.

 

Played one game, realised it was exactly the same as the standard mode, and didn't play it anymore.

 

I consider it a waste of time, not because of the development , but because it was harder than usual to find a game in the normal game mode.

[Exocet6951]

I had great fun showing others that the Yamato in full assault mode is hellah fun, and usin it to snipe from 20km is a waste of time.
Also, the Senjo. I thought it would be bad, but even if its torps are not very useful, and it doesn't have as much firepower as the Des Moines, it clicked for me.

 

One thing that greatly disappointed me was the Des Moines' AA. Yeah it has great range, yeah you do damage, but I don't know, it just doesn't feel as good as all hell unleashing on planes as soon as they enter a 3.5km zone of death.

[Et_Lanatus_baro]

The Galaxy aka the dessi  and Flyfire aka gearing are way too OP or maybe the other ships need to be buffed??  If used right the dessi will wipe out a Yamato on its on in a few minutes the gearing wow getting 4k damage hits on ships with the guns and at that RoF is scary. Saying that I enjoyed the Yamato I mean who wouldnt wanna try that beast?? but its definately UP like an earlier poster said the secondaries are not thatt good and if you get ganged up on your toast, The Zaya has good guns but the torps are useless against BB's as your armour is so weak one decent hit and your done.

[Broevaharo]

The Galaxy aka the dessi  and Flyfire aka gearing are way too OP or maybe the other ships need to be buffed??  If used right the dessi will wipe out a Yamato on its on in a few minutes the gearing wow getting 4k damage hits on ships with the guns and at that RoF is scary. Saying that I enjoyed the Yamato I mean who wouldnt wanna try that beast?? but its definately UP like an earlier poster said the secondaries are not thatt good and if you get ganged up on your toast, The Zaya has good guns but the torps are useless against BB's as your armour is so weak one decent hit and your done.

 

Well that is not really a surprise since all ships got (over)nerfed except the Gearing and the Des Moines and the Yamato turrets and armour are bugged

[Rawindra]

Why am I forced to fill out all of the questions of the poll, if I choosed "I haven´t played them" in the first question? I cannot answer the other questions, if I haven´t played.

[Sharana]

Well it seems the you really have to fill all the options...but there is nothing I can do, I don't see options for optional questions.

[Addicus]

It was quite all right, but I wonder if they are not teasing us for some Space oriented game by Wargaming this way. Can't wait for E3 if they do not come up with World of Spaceships for real! 

 

Well considering Wargaming now owns the rights to one of the best space 4x games out there (Master of Orion), a space game might not be too far off.

[foche]

 

Who voted for: Enterprice (Essex) is UP

Sharana, foche

 

 

 

[Alexidiss]

How i can free my account from this crap? How i can sell or destroy these?

[Sharana]

There is 1 more (Lightbaron) from our endangered species now 

How i can free my account from this crap? How i can sell or destroy these?

Just relog, they are gone already.