Invisifiring? What?

[Miragetank90]

20191008_195308_PRSB109-Sovetsky-Soyuz_47_Sleeping_Giant.wowsreplay

 

What's happening here around the 7/8 min mark? It's not like this Kita is shooting at me from beyond max range, I get that he is close to it - but his shots are landing. Yet, for a while, he manages to shoot at me from open water whilst remaining completely unspotted. 

 

 

Again, the whole time as far as I can see his shots are making contact. Therefore, he was in range. 

 

Can someone explain this? 

[hgbn_dk]

1 minute ago, Miragetank90 said:

20191008_195308_PRSB109-Sovetsky-Soyuz_47_Sleeping_Giant.wowsreplay

 

What's happening here around the 7/8 min mark? It's not like this Kita is shooting at me from beyond max range, I get that he is close to it - but his shots are landing. Yet, for a while, he manages to shoot at me from open water whilst remaining completely unspotted. 

 

 

Again, the whole time as far as I can see his shots are making contact. Therefore, he was in range. 

 

Can someone explain this? 

If you sails towards him he can fire outside of max range of his guns kitting away. In other words you sail into range

[beercrazy]

as above

hes firing at where your sailing to even though he don't have a lock on

I do it sometimes and it can be hard to achieve if the bb player just throttles his speed up and down to counter it

 

[Exocet6951]

When stealthfire was still a real thing.

[IanH755]

Playing against a 14km range Gremy was the ultimate in Stealth Firing! 

[hgbn_dk]

Just now, IanH755 said:

Playing against a 14km range Gremy was the ultimate in Stealth Firing! 

Zao was way worse

[ForlornSailor]

24 minutes ago, Miragetank90 said:

What's happening here around the 7/8 min mark? It's not like this Kita is shooting at me from beyond max range, I get that he is close to it - but his shots are landing. Yet, for a while, he manages to shoot at me from open water whilst remaining completely unspotted. 

 

As above - was pretty much introduced the same moment they "removed" stealth firing. I made a video back then explaining it.

 

 

[Tyrendian89]

20 minutes ago, hgbn_dk said:

Zao was way worse

still sad for my poor Yugumo - stealthfiring from within 9.5km if memory serves, so also comfortably within torpedo range... kinda the only claim to fame that ship ever had^^

[Miragetank90]

54 minutes ago, hgbn_dk said:

If you sails towards him he can fire outside of max range of his guns kitting away. In other words you sail into range

 

52 minutes ago, beercrazy said:

as above

hes firing at where your sailing to even though he don't have a lock on

I do it sometimes and it can be hard to achieve if the bb player just throttles his speed up and down to counter it

 

 

32 minutes ago, ForlornSailor said:

 

As above - was pretty much introduced the same moment they "removed" stealth firing. I made a video back then explaining it.

 

 

Right! That's it.

 

Thanks for that. I didn't consider it. 

[Major_Damage225]

4 hours ago, Exocet6951 said:

When stealthfire was still a real thing.

Sometimes you hated it (reciving end) but most times you loved it (giving end) do i miss it yeah, would i want it back, nah. Tho if gremmy would keep it.. Well 

[kfa]

32 minutes ago, Major_Damage225 said:

Sometimes you hated it (reciving end) but most times you loved it (giving end) do i miss it yeah, would i want it back, nah. Tho if gremmy woupd keep it.. Well 

Freshly released khaba had like 4km stealth fire buffer, man i miss my dear ship... 

[Jethro_Grey]

While stealth firing was a bad mechanic, I do miss it sometimes. 

 

Imagine shooting all these ru BBs from stealth and then not being able to blap me for 3/4 of my HP with one salvo makes dwell in old times. But then I remember that Smolensk could do it too and then i‘m thankful that it got removed.

[Adamcriz]

Bring back stealth firing for DD's i say! especially given how much bloody incoming fire we attract, and now subs we have to deal with. We deserve a break, Stealth firing with 1km buffer if travelling no faster than 1/4 seems fair! Balans as much as the bloody he spamming smolensk and colbert.

 

Maybe DD's might actually live a bit longer than 2 minutes. (well potato joes anyway, not that im any better)

[Sir_Grzegorz]

One thing that makes me wonder is if he would have been outside of range then he would not have the counter saying "1".

Unless there was someone else having lock on on him. Looks like BB actualy could have him in range from A so must be it.

[pra3y]

23 minutes ago, Sir_Grzegorz said:

One thing that makes me wonder is if he would have been outside of range then he would not have the counter saying "1".

Unless there was someone else having lock on on him. Looks like BB actualy could have him in range from A so must be it.

Yeah could have been the Georgia in A. You dont need line of sight to lock on anyway, just someone spotting the target.

[anonym_Wl2ej1ad8jEc]

The weirdest thing happened to me yesterday. I was hunting a Smolensk in my Bismarck and well a storm set in so visibility was reduced to 8 km, got set on fire a lot etc etc. I manage to trap him in the corner of the map, I could see him on my minimap sitting there hugging the corner. But when I got within 8 km he was gone while the minimap told me I was right on top of him. He was not dead or anything.. just gone. Sailed out of the map perhaps, I have no idea.

[Sir_Grzegorz]

4 hours ago, Snautzi said:

The weirdest thing happened to me yesterday.

That is some crazy bug, if you have replay then send it to WG or fill in bug report.

It does sometimes happen that RPF is pointing absolutely wrong place, but it does fix itself soon enough.

The only reasonable (?) explanation would be he DC'ed and was put into spawn position, but that would be even wilder bug.

[Tyrendian89]

4 hours ago, Snautzi said:

The weirdest thing happened to me yesterday. I was hunting a Smolensk in my Bismarck and well a storm set in so visibility was reduced to 8 km, got set on fire a lot etc etc. I manage to trap him in the corner of the map, I could see him on my minimap sitting there hugging the corner. But when I got within 8 km he was gone while the minimap told me I was right on top of him. He was not dead or anything.. just gone. Sailed out of the map perhaps, I have no idea.

and I'm sure you have a replay for that? I'd love to see it

[anonym_Wl2ej1ad8jEc]

1 minute ago, Tyrendian89 said:

and I'm sure you have a replay for that? I'd love to see it

Let me see if I can dig that up for you. I hope it works this time, since I've not had much luck with it in the past.

[CptBarney]

17 hours ago, Jethro_Grey said:

While stealth firing was a bad mechanic, I do miss it sometimes. 

 

Imagine shooting all these ru BBs from stealth and then not being able to blap me for 3/4 of my HP with one salvo makes dwell in old times. But then I remember that Smolensk could do it too and then i‘m thankful that it got removed.

Wargaming would probs gib ru bb's  instant transmission or something.

 

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