Update 0.8.4: Soviet Battleships!

[The_EURL_Guy]

Another stage of the "Victory" competition, a new unique Commander, the long-awaited release of the Soviet battleships, and much more!

Read it on the portal

[radius77]

It looks like Georgia and/or Yoshino won't come SoonTM

[Bad_Mojo_incoming]

I got both the Vladivostok and the Pyotr Velkiy (or something) from a container, so what will happen to them? They will become 'regular' tier 5 and 8 BBs in my port?

 

[Klopirat]

Vor 1 Minute, Bad_Mojo_incoming sagte:

They will become 'regular' tier 5 and 8 BBs in my port?

yes

[quickr]

At least CVs are ready for ranked, thank god!  _\s

 

 

[Bad_Mojo_incoming]

And after the new patch, I'll be collecting new tokens like I did with these coin tokens, and I will have a chance of unlucking new soviet ships and maybe even Kuznetsov himself from the 'Motherland' containers...

 

Speaking of containers in the Armory...I still have my '3 years of World of Warships' collection, but I can't complete it as there are no containers available with the same name...So that's inactive now? Or can I get collectable items for that collection from other containers?

[sin099]

1) Kinda dissapointed by no sale on permanent cammo for TX (like it was in the past for the tier where ranked was held)

 

2) Well CVs were tested in 12v12 format where AA blobs are larger threat, you really should have had a ranked sprint at TX before this to see how CVs behave in 7v7 where the absence of 5 ships might make a world of difference and i say this as someone who plans to use midway in the ranked. 

[BlackFish__]

Do I understand right that Admiral Kuznetsov can only be obtained through "Motherland" loot boxes? No campaign, no collection, no coal, like other special captains???!!!???

[Klopirat]

Gerade eben, BlackFish__ sagte:

Do I understand right that Admiral Kuznetsov can only be obtained through "Motherland" loot boxes? No campaign, no collection, no coal, like other special captains???!!!???

according to the patch notes you will get him only in the Armory for the new tokens, as announced in the developer diaries some time ago and as on the PTS...

[Klopirat]

Vor 7 Minuten, Bad_Mojo_incoming sagte:

and maybe even Kuznetsov himself from the 'Motherland' containers...

not according to the patch notes...

 

Vor 7 Minuten, Bad_Mojo_incoming sagte:

Or can I get collectable items for that collection from other containers?

no, you will have to wait until those containers are added to the Armory. I would expect them around the next birthday....

[BlackFish__]

"In the service of the Motherland" containers that have a chance to dropping  V Okhotnik,  VI Molotov,  VII Leningradand  VIII Lenin; and the new unique historical Commander, Nikolay Kuznetsov.

 

From that quote to me it seems the Admiral drops from containers. 

[Bad_Mojo_incoming]

7 minutes ago, Klopirat said:

according to the patch notes you will get him only in the Armory for the new tokens, as announced in the developer diaries some time ago and as on the PTS...

Ugh, I have a feeling he is gonna be an expensive consort...

[Klopirat]

Vor 7 Minuten, BlackFish__ sagte:

From that quote to me it seems the Admiral drops from containers. 

there is a ';' between the list of ships and the admiral (as between the Murmansk and containers)...

 

so it means yon can use tokens for either ther Murmansk OR containers (that can drop ships) OR the captain

[Umbray]

Can we get a clarification of this:

 

Quote

 

We are constantly working to optimize our game, resulting in positive effects on all aspects of game performance, including battle loading time. The textures streaming fix that we implemented in Update 0.8.3 has benefitted players with a significant reduction in the average battle loading time. With Update 0.8.4, the battle loading time will be reduced from 45 to 30 seconds.

 

Because I am confused as to whether it is the set time that players have to load into the battle, or the average loading time.

My loading times range from anywhere to 30 seconds to 1 minute, which means I occasionally load in several seconds after the battle has started. This problem is particularly annoying in Clan battles!

[SirAmra]

The long-awaited russian BBs?

How about the long-awaited Italian lines?

"Wargaming Premium Account is no longer available in exchange for doubloons in the Premium Account purchase menu. However, you can still get it via the Premium Shop."

Why?

[ColonelPete]

46 minutes ago, Umbray said:

Can we get a clarification of this:

 

Because I am confused as to whether it is the set time that players have to load into the battle, or the average loading time.

My loading times range from anywhere to 30 seconds to 1 minute, which means I occasionally load in several seconds after the battle has started. This problem is particularly annoying in Clan battles!

The matches should load quicker now.

[Umbray]

Just now, ColonelPete said:

The matches should load quicker now.

I read it as the loading time improvement was pushed out in 8.3 and because of that the allotted loading time has been reduced to make people get into battle quicker

[defender128]

Hol' up, WHY IS PREMIUM ACCOUNT NO LONGER AVAILABLE FOR DUBLOONS?

[Klopirat]

Vor 1 Minute, defender128 sagte:

Hol' up, WHY IS PREMIUM ACCOUNT NO LONGER AVAILABLE FOR DUBLOONS?

Wows Premium will still be available for doubloons

[CroPanzer]

Wait, tier 9 ships from supercontainers?

I thought t8 was best you can get?

[Neptykk]

So seemingly Wargaming wants us to think that they are working on balancing the CVs. The change in dive bomber aim is completely useless for DDs, any halfway skilled player will adjust to this and hit the same damage diving as in the previous iteration. 

 

By allowing CVs in Ranked Battles, Wargaming shows that they like the current balance (or unbalance if you will) of CVs like it is right now.

 

I don't think we will see any changes to CVs anytime soon.  ---- Remember how they try to tell us they are working on the Matchmaker? For how long now? 2 years? And nothing has changed.

 

Quite the same policy of lies to the community, to keep it at bay, and then again uploading a patch with unfinished work, saying that they will still work on it and balance, with minor changes in the first few months, but then dropping the topic as it gets more and more forgotten by most of the community.

 

And don't get me wrong - I like to play CV myself, but putting them into Ranked is an idea, which you can only judge like this: NUTS!

 

 

[Klopirat]

Vor 4 Minuten, CroPanzer sagte:

I thought t8 was best you can get?

Missouri and Musashi had been added already quite some time ago as far as I remember...

[thunder3oo]

"Thank you", Wargaming, you f**ed up your own game big time. And I mean... BIG TIME. Well, it's my fault that I believed you to be a serious company, who cares about its players/customers and respects them. I have learned a lot from my experience with you, so, after more than 20k battles, I will not spend a single coin on your fraud/falsely advertised products (and I spent a lot since the game was in Beta stage). Time to look for another game made by a company who really respects its players, and end this chapter. 

[ColonelPete]

30 minutes ago, Neptykk said:

So seemingly Wargaming wants us to think that they are working on balancing the CVs. The change in dive bomber aim is completely useless for DDs, any halfway skilled player will adjust to this and hit the same damage diving as in the previous iteration. 

Then you are sailing your DD wrong.

[thiextar]

So wargaming states that because of the changes in 8.4 Carriers are now ready for ranked battles, but the only thing that was changed was a sidegrade to divebombers?????

 

When they originally came out with this, we were also supposed to get reworked aa skills and sector management AND a start delay in 8.4, nothing of this happened....

 

@MrConway @Sub_Octavian Since you didnt make any of the major changes you said you would, how can you still say that carriers will be ready for ranked?