Developer Bulletin 0.8.5

[The_EURL_Guy]

In Update 0.8.5, the Public Test server will offer you the chance to try out a new battle mode pitting four teams against each other on the same battlefield. This is the Post-Apocalypse!

Read it on the portal

[quickr]

Yup, this thing

 

Fits a WW2 naval game perfectly

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[VulcanPyroman]

Yeah for tier 7 ranked sprint, no CV's  .  Don't really care about the new "post Apocalypse game mode, Battle Royal-clone-thingy"?

 

But NOTHING on AA fixing... really? The amount of fail just keeps on stacking.

[anonym_N94VxxjvHv2p]

Great. No AA fix; nothing about captains skills adjustment (AFT, i'm looking at you); not a word about the CE uselessness (is that well said?) when CVs are present...

But you lose your time in a post-apocalyptic waterworld-themed game mode nobody asked for. Another failure.

[MrFingers]

Apart from Ranked Sprint (yay, T7!): an unnecessary and redundant "patch".

[Flashp0int]

Hopefully Wargaming gets sarcasm

Happy about next Rank being without CVs as well. Current rank really makes games with CVs less interesting. It is basically pack-or-die. Hence it is less about tactics and more about tank-DPS.

[Valdelomar]

WG, Are you sure to make sprint ranked with tier 7? There are still people with belfas

[tsounts]

WG you're burning us down with all those events.... Ranked after ranked after struggle after struggle.

[tsounts]

Just now, Valdelomar said:

WG, Are you sure to make sprint ranked with tier 7? There are still people with belfas

Maybe they make rental belfasts for all?

[quickr]

5 minutes ago, tsounts said:

WG you're burning us down with all those events....

I'm fairly sure they are doing it on purpose. To burn out "old" players, make most of them quit and get a bunch of new ones that won't press them so hard on CVs and other bulls*it

WG would be happiest of all of us that are playingWOWS for years just quit and another fresh players replace us.

[Valdelomar]

4 minutes ago, tsounts said:

Maybe they make rental belfasts for all?

 don't give bad ideas, i remember the last rank in tier 7, and everybody cry about belfas, atlanta, and all the premium tier7. And the tier 7 is the only tier with premium ships have radar and tree ships no

[Appadang]

........Battle Royale...in wows....

 

Cocaine is a helluva drug....

 

How long untill the (low attention span) people who play BR mode can summon / construct "fortifications" like....oh....I dunno....."Sheit-night"?

 

I'm sticking with Normal Battles - if I wanted to play BR, I'd play WWE (The ONLY place a BR mode should be) but I rather just walk over to a neighbour and borrow his pistol so I can remove my brain......

[_Kettenbeisser]

• Only long-range AA defense action radius is displayed on the Minimap

But why ?? Why remove the ability to view information totally instead of leaving a choice ? Since AA Values are different and the mechanic seperates between Long-Mid- and Shortrange it was even more viable to have the ability to show them on the minimap.
At least leave me a choice between all AA radii and only long range displayed, @MrConway @Crysantos @Sub_Octavian (coopway you wanted feedback fast so you get it!)

[LoliWolf]

 

Wouldn't be surprised if they gave out Yahagi for free... That thing is such a dumpster fire a very few people would pay for it...

[CAP98100]

Minimap changes:
Why?
Why better to have the coordinates on the left, insted of the right?
Why better to remove the option to se more circles, instead just adding the option to see less (and maybe setting it up as default)?
 

[eliastion]

1 hour ago, Cuarzo said:

Great. No AA fix; nothing about captains skills adjustment (AFT, i'm looking at you); not a word about the CE uselessness (is that well said?) when CVs are present...

But you lose your time in a post-apocalyptic waterworld-themed game mode nobody asked for. Another failure.

If CE is useless for you when CVs are present then you're doing something wrong. I'm not sure about BBs but for DDs and most cruisers that's a first-pick tier 4 skill even if every single match had a CV. In fact, even CVs (at least the IJN ones) are picking CE and these actually do have a guaranteed CV opponent.

 

 

[deathsadow]

T7 ranked spirit... i guess its time for a new T7 premium CV to ruin it too :P

 

Jokes aside WG should focus on fixing real gamebreaking issues like nerfing IFHE spam, fix CV interaction or rework some of the poorly designed maps we have.

1st fix the game we have right now and maybe after it work on wowsnite :P

[ShitButFunny_Noobies]

yet again, nothing about fixing the screwed up port (lagging/temporarily freezing), still no nothing about the radar lock down, AA remains unbalanced to the point of rediculousness and one-sided interactive... jesus christ, the changes between 8.4 and 8.5 are so minimal, it is almost a joke... actually, maybe most devs are going on summer holiday, so they have the interns do an update... i imagine, it must be incredibly hard, to find out, when and how someone miscoded the port mechanics and then BLOODY REVERSE IT

 

but hey, what do i know... i am only a guy who, at this point, sadly and stupidly has sunk a pretty huge ammount of cash into WG's pockets, hoping, they would take a different approach on WoWs, compared to WoT... foolish me...

 

[Tomimoto_1]

Something must be wrong with Russian battleships, I sunk a ship at least 10 times with secondary armory and never get credited a kill.  Tried with Sinop and Vladivostok, the same thing.

 

Also ramming don't work.  I ram with 70.000 HP battleship a cruser and was unable to sink it.  Don't tell me she was flying anti-ram flag.  Also at other rammings I never get the HP I deserve.  Mind you this were fresh, intact ships and I get for ramming 20.000 HP, come on!

 

Best, Tomislav

[Filipin00]

Revert Graf Zeppelin changes to dive bombers....you quite literally killed that CV....

[XDMeloniXD]

The dystopia event seems cool but I think the commanders are way too expensive, 4,000,000 credits for them?! I'd have a hard time affording them.

 

And since I'm a free to play player I can't get the camos for the ships either, would be better with the container system like in the halloween event (2018) , the halloween event perma camos were great and you could get them without paying money just by completing relatively fun and easy missions for them, and you were able to get a good amount of them as well and it didn't feel like they were impossible to get, there actually was a chance.

 

Point is; make it easier for FTP players to get the camos and commanders, not impossible. 

I don't have any other opinion on the ranked since I'm not a competitive player, but the rouge wave definetly looks interesting.

[FixCVs_Nautical_Metaphor]

Sadly once again no mention of basic GUI improvements that have been suggested for ages, like the demount-all-signals button... Ship configuration profiles...

[Panocek]

44 minutes ago, XDMeloniXD said:

Point is; make it easier for FTP players to get the camos and commanders, not impossible open wallet. 

Purpose of game as service, be it free2play or buy2play is simply to milk as much money as possible from players. Have no illusions about it.

[Klopirat]

Vor 3 Minuten, Panocek sagte:

Purpose of game as service, be it free2play or buy2play is simply to milk as much money as possible from players. Have no illusions about it.

you are aware that the container method for camos is more "milking" as the "direct buy" method? With a container you have to buy many containers and cannot know if you get any camos, or if you get a camo you cannot chose which one... So the "direct buy" method is much more user friendly...

[Panocek]

1 minute ago, Klopirat said:

you are aware that the container method for camos is more "milking" as the "direct buy" method? With a container you have to buy many containers and cannot know if you get any camos, or if you get a camo you cannot chose which one... So the "direct buy" method is much more user friendly...

Both ways ends up with funding WG account. One is fine, you see what you get for your money. Other you see what POTENTIALLY you can get for your money with dangling carrot in shape of mythical OP premium tank/ship/whatever and dreams of grandeur like smashing noobs with balans ship and whatnot