Ranked Battles: the Twelfth Season

[SamPulley]

9 minutes ago, Battleship_Division_7 said:

Agree with that!

but look.. its not my problem if ppl don`t gona play this game anymore..games enough to do..

But they must remember.. WE ARE THE CUSTOMERS! everyone is complaining and nothing changes.. well its not my problem either if the game is not gona make any more profit and they must dismiss ppl working there.. i only feel sorry for them..

 

The only premium ship I ever bought was Le Terrible just before the new cv came into play. Goes without saying she's in my port never used anymore.

[Un_Dac_Liber]

Ranked with CV and rented ships ??? Neehhh....

[HentaiSquirrel]

1 hour ago, Crysantos said:

We had several sprints on other Tiers and also a Tier IX season previously, we're trying to keep some variety

That may be true... nonetheless seen from the perspective of someone who hasn‘t got to T9/T10 yet, events (and many cc-streams/videos) seem very T10-heavy. While I still occasionally watch a T10 event or cc-stream I must say that this has become  quite boring over time.

 

Not that I think there should be less of those and I am certain there are a lot of people who very much enjoy this... but maybe a tad more focus on those who you certainly wish to be (still) engaged with WoWs in the future?

 

I‘d be happy to see WG checking their filters in this regard.  ; )

[Teekesselchen]

 

So it's gonna be a blob meta that's fun for neither side - the surface ships are dramatically limited in their tactical choices because they have to sit in a blob to not  get wrecked by CV, and the CVs don't get to do much because everyone sits in a blob.

 

It's something everyone already knows happens, but its interesting that even WG acknowledges this....  I sure hope they realise one day that CVs are incompatible with fun and dynamic ship gameplay and belong in an alternative game mode (maybe you can bring the fortresses and all those other failed experiments into that one as well), not into the normal battles.

[Sons_0f_Odin]

CV's will single out and attack anybody who tries to push on their flank making the game play edit* for BB's who are trying to push.

For this reason alone don't expect your Russian BB line to be much use outside of random battles.

 

I guess the French DD's with no smoke will have the same problem.

 

Also 4 cv's per game has got to go - it's just too much...

 

Edit: Language

[Pamwachete]

Keeping a star if you get top xp for a loss should be removed, too many people played for xp last season. and the gap between irrevocable ranks 12-1 is too damn big

 

[ijsco]

As a DD player I see no reason to go into ranked with broken rocketplanes from cv... "but we fixed the cv in 8.4?" ye, nerfed the wrong planes numbnuts...

[Ninjitsu_is_SK]

CVs in ranked is a terrible idea. Last ranked season (T9, Arms race) was great because of no CVs in it. They're OP enough even in 12v12 random battles, let alone 7v7. CVs should NOT be in ranked, period.

[Lacomble1942]

3 hours ago, Crysantos said:

We had several sprints on other Tiers and also a Tier IX season previously, we're trying to keep some variety

 

We have several changes for CVs planned for 0.8.4 that should help DDs a lot. CVs were part of ranked seasons before - with several squadrons in the air at the same time. And we'll monitor how the new CV gameplay will fit with ranked battles during the seaon.

I need to check about this, not in the very near future though.

Greetings, Crysantos

Variety????

the only Variety is Tier X with caps on and Tier x with caps of.

[Battleship_Division_7]

For better gameplay they must remake the  rank battle point system, now u must have a victory for passingthe next level or to collect stars...

 

why not like the naval battle mode right now? Collect the right amount of damaged? In several type of battleships dd,ca,bb... when u exceed the damage limit u bump up when u dont u drop back.. 

 

This will have a positive effects,

 

-u get a more dynamic gameplay because everyone wants the right damage score

 

-even in a lossed game u still got the possibility to bump up

 

-u dont face the same premium ships in every battle because u need to play all kind of ship type’s

 

- A Rank game is a individually gamemode so u not depend so more on how the team is playing but all how u play by yourself

 

its just a idea

[Bortasqu]

What a joke. Now the lemming trains is gonna be the new meta, and DDs can't go outside the blob or they will die by CVs.

[HaachamaShipping]

You know something's wrong when you are glad you don't have to play. Keep your steel, I keep my sanity, thanks.

[___V_E_N_O_M___]

6 hours ago, Radamel19197 said:

Can we get a feature to hide rental ships (for CW and Ranked) in the port?

Yeh just remove captains from any rentals and deselect empty ships from carousel filters to make them disappear ....

[___V_E_N_O_M___]

3 minutes ago, Cagliostro_chan said:

You know something's wrong when you are glad you don't have to play. Keep your steel, I keep my sanity, thanks.

[Steel_Boot]

Crysantos 

 

If you are nerfing CV's for the sake of DD's I don't think that says that CV's are currently balanced does it?  I left grinding DD's late and now I totally regret it.  2 T8 CV's in a normal battle is bad enough when playing DD but now CV in ranked too!  CV's are killing the game I wanted a game to shoot other ships and dodge the incoming shells not spend my time running from planes because they always go for the DD's. Get a bad player in a CV and the other team has a good one thats game over before it starts.  They may not always do the most damage per game but they have the most influence in a game.  I have enjoyed battles in Ranked because there are NO CV's.

[ChatBanForSayingTruth]

So much of mimimimimimimimi about CVs..... Damn you, just quit the game, WG will not bankrupt if 1000 whiners will leave. The whole intention of CV rework was to bring it back to competitives with lower skill gap between CVs and lower overall impact into the game (as much as you dislike carriers they do have lower impact into whole battle than before). It's not WGs fault that majority of this community went full potato mode quicker than snow melts in sunny day of spring. Stop whining ffs. Adapt, learn, overcome. If still fail or don't like it - nobody is holding you. You have no commitment to WG. Free to leave. And meanwhile i will continue blapping solo yoloing ships in my CV reading the chat how op and unfair carriers are...

Ps.: never liked ranked due to high level of frustration it gives. Won't like it now either even if nowdays i play carriers only (~59% wr on them, quite similar to my other ship types). And simply because 90% of the battles i will win only by carrying the rest of 6 on my shoulders.

[Steel_Boot]

I have no commitment to the game fine refund all the money I've put in and I will put up and shut up! The game mechanic has changed so much a lot of the ships I purchased are pretty much against trhe meta now.......just get gud it what all the fan boys say.

[Teekesselchen]

19 minutes ago, Sugertukas said:

So much of mimimimimimimimi about CVs..... Damn you, just quit the game, WG will not bankrupt if 1000 whiners will leave. The whole intention of CV rework was to bring it back to competitives with lower skill gap between CVs and lower overall impact into the game (as much as you dislike carriers they do have lower impact into whole battle than before). It's not WGs fault that majority of this community went full potato mode quicker than snow melts in sunny day of spring. Stop whining ffs. Adapt, learn, overcome. If still fail or don't like it - nobody is holding you. You have no commitment to WG. Free to leave. And meanwhile i will continue blapping solo yoloing ships in my CV reading the chat how op and unfair carriers are...

Ps.: never liked ranked due to high level of frustration it gives. Won't like it now either even if nowdays i play carriers only (~59% wr on them, quite similar to my other ship types). And simply because 90% of the battles i will win only by carrying the rest of 6 on my shoulders.

CVs are just straight up broken once you figure out how to play them:

 

Sure there are people who complain just because they don't understand what's going on, but plenty of good players with good game understanding complain as well. T10 had a very good ship balance in non-CV games, but CVs wreck both that balance and tactical variability. Imagine a situation where ONE ship per team is enough to encourage players to go all-out on captain and upgrade speccs just to counter that one ship, and position themselves on all flanks of the map just to survive against that one ship. No other class has this sort of power. And if your team doesn't have the ability to stop based on a onedimensional AA stat check, they will get destroyed by it with virtually no counterplay. I've seen plenty of those games where a team just got unlucky with not having enough specialised AA ships and got completely steamrolled for it. Here is a recent case study I made of that:

 

Spoiler

That flank simply got unlucky by having only a Yamato, Lightning, Shimakaze, and Zao, and no proper AA on their entire team except the CV itself. Which means I got to kill all of them without any resistance. Focussed on the Yamato for the first 3 minutes 20, then helped mop up the smaller ships, then finished the Yamato before any of them could do anything at all.

[jqpubl1c]

Ranked T10 is a bit boring - there are several ships I enjoy playing when they are top tier but which really can't handle uphill MM, and it would be great to get a chance to dust them off.

 

Maybe go for an odd-numbered tier next time, but also allow premiums and carriers from the tier below?

[_Sensei_7]

I don't mind t10 ships for Ranked, because they are more or less balanced. What bothers me is these rental ships...Jesus...We already have a lot of awful players in Ranked and now you want to give an opportunity to people who don't even have experience in top tier Random games. Really? Also, CVs... You will have plenty of dds boarder camping, afraid to even get close to the actual caps, not to mention that a cv combined with radar cruisers, also the small number of players  -  dds are completely unplayable. After so many complaints in the previous seasons, you still promote star-saving gameplay. Why?

[RSG_1905]

the mess of carriers already reduced eu servers to half empty

Please note: compared to the previous season, the amount of Steel in the Second League has been reduced by 300 units, and increased by 300 units in the First League.

Thank you for this Elitism WG, what a great motivation for new season

[tsounts]

Aa based on RNG, how amusing, so players get plane damage but no plane kills....

[Ihnako]

I'm not participating in this event. It's just another event to pamper those who are narrow minded. And yes... DD's got buffed again. So happy torpinfested waters! Camp behind bushes, err... islands.
Risk <-> Reward? Who cares when you have unlimited torpedos.

[Miscommunication]

13 hours ago, Crysantos said:

We had several sprints on other Tiers and also a Tier IX season previously, we're trying to keep some variety

The Ranked sprints were actually much more fun than the acutal Ranked seasons, especially for me as I am a pretty casual player who can't afford to spend hours and hours getting stars between ranks 12-1 and then losing them again straight away because you get chucked in with an awful team.

 

The problem is the rewards (for Ranked Sprints) were awful - wasn't it something like 5,000 coal for achieving rank 1? I don't want to sound ungrateful or anything - but that's not exactly a reward worth playing for.

 

And the T9 ranked was basically no different to your standard T10 ranked in terms of what ships could take part - T9 is not much different to T10.

 

I don't understand why everything has to be about T10s. Even a T8 ranked (without CVs) would be more interesting.

[thunder3oo]

14 hours ago, Animalul2012 said:

Where are the cv nerfs? where are the kitakaze, harugumo nerfs? where are the german dds and batleships buffs? When will hindenburg become truly the tankiest t10 cruiser?( give it 32mm side plating and 32 mm deck and give it 60 sec heal cool down) khabarovsk buff? new campaings when? 

Are you ever going to admit that you have destroyed this game with your carriers that appeal to low skill players?( much like arty from wot and believe it or not people that game is becoming better and better day by day while with wows is the oposite) Ap bombs that can deal 20k damage per drop sounds balanced to you? HE bombs with extreme penetration and damage and fire chance sounds balanced to you? rockets that can deal up to 8-10k damage to a battleship sounds balanced to you? torpedoes that can be drooped from 1-1.8km sounds balanced to you? infinite planes sounds balanced when you have turned AA from a simple mechanic to understand to an RNG fest with the addition of the useless flak and that GOD DAMMIT stupid hit probability?  

Are you ever going to understand that these carriers in this state that they are right now are not good for the health of this game? 

As for this ranked season i will play minotaur and henry( I CANT WAIT UNTIL YOU WILL NERF THAT BUT KITAKAZE, HARUGUMO AND CARRIERS ARE ALL UNTOUCHED)

Very well said, Animalul2012