Cyclone yes or no

[Wazige]

Hello hello,

After getting in a bit to many cyclone battles and hating every single one of them i thought let's see what the rest of the community thinks of it.
Personally i would even go as far as to say that cyclone is simply ridicilous and whichever WG manager approved it should consider a job outside of designing games. 
Perhaps designing slot machines because those things are RNG heaven.

[Allied_Winter]

Care to explain why there's two declining, but only one affirming option?

[iFax]

In real life battles, weather happens...

[CptBarney]

I actually don't mind cyclones too be honest. (must be in the minority).

 

I wouldn't mind seeing more weather effects but i guess silly subs are the priority atm.

 

But i can understand why they are so frustrating.

[Egoleter]

Voted "it's cool" to screw your biased poll.

I actually do not care about the weather.

[Major_Damage225]

6 minutes ago, CptBarney said:

I wouldn't mind seeing more weather effects but i guess silly subs are the priority atm.

I would like to see more storms, chopy water, ones that actually impact your ships preformance, you know make it a litle more fun, there is a trailer in witch there is a night battle in the middle of a storm, now that would make for a really sweet game mode, one can dream 

[Karasu_Browarszky]

The cyclones are a two-edged sword; for one thing, they provide much needed variety in gameplay, but they also typically screw up your team's tactics and lead to a guaranteed defeat.

[Major_Damage225]

13 minutes ago, Karasu_Hidesuke said:

The cyclones are a two-edged sword; for one thing, they provide much needed variety in gameplay, but they also typically screw up your team's tactics and lead to a guaranteed defeat.

On the flipside the enemy team gets just as mutch screwed, thing is it's a good thing as it can swing a defeat into a win, but, the players on the team if they know the upsides of the cyclone, it's cool, problem is most players when they get into a storm, they just go error 404 and then get slaughtered. 

[Karasu_Browarszky]

3 minutes ago, Major_Damage225 said:

On the flipside the enemy team gets just as mutch screwed, thing is it's a good thing as it can swing a defeat into a win, but, the players on the team if they know the upsides of the cyclone, it's cool, problem is most players when they get into a storm, they just go error 404 and then get slaughtered. 

 

Statistically speaking you'd think so but... in my experience this always affects my team more than the enemy. What happens is the enemy seems to move close under cover of cyclone and then yell out 'Surprise!'. No cake involved.

[KielYourself]

Quite biased poll. I think cyclone is a fun mechanic and makes for interesting and different gameplay only in random games. Competitive gamemodes should stay vanilla.

[Major_Damage225]

 

Thus is a storm, and this would make for a epic gamemode, downside only the ones who know how to play would love to play it, the fappatron brigade however would flood the forum with the usual "too OP, not fair" etc threads. 

[Karasu_Browarszky]

3 minutes ago, Major_Damage225 said:

 

Thus is a storm, and this would make for a epic gamemode, downside only the ones who know how to play would love to play it, the fappatron brigade however would flood the forum with the usual "too OP, not fair" etc threads. 

 

It was a dark and stormy night...

[Conrad_zoo]

Never trust a perfect weather man, so yeah storms are cool, hurricanes even better.

 

 

[MMASK]

Cyclone is actually quite good as it (should) improve minimap awareness.

More brawling is always good, especially in high tiers.

[DFens_666]

Cyclone is the least annoying whether effect, the others need to be removed.

But its stupid that Cyclone favors certain ships, while screwing others completely over.

[Miscommunication_dept]

Cyclones stop everyone fighting and slow the game down. Cruisers suffer terribly but they are fantastic in a secondary spec battleship. Thunderstorms are better as ships concealment is changed proportionally.

[Ferry_25]

Personally I don't have any problems with cyclones. Yes it changes the meta dramatically but if you're able to adapt it's perfectly viable. You get a warning 5 minutes before it's hitting and after that the visibility drops in steps. So detetcability is actually evened out. I love that. No, not all matches but I'd say the balance is good ATM. I only would love to see more visual effects. Nothing combat interfering, other than the visibility but waves going over the bridge in the most heavy BB's and seeing DD's struggling in those waves. Again: no aiming/ torpedo influence. Heck I even accept no influence on smoke screens. Just the visual effect I'd love to see in cyclones.

[Saltface]

Point No. 1 - The poll should be

 

How do you rate cyclones?

1. Cool

2. Indifferent

3. Bad

 

Point No. 2 - I like them despite the fact that I am a DD main (My gameplay is highly influenced) - Full disclosure - I also like the Ocean Map.

[NothingButTheRain]

2 hours ago, MMASK said:

Cyclone is actually quite good as it (should) improve minimap awareness.

More brawling is always good, especially in high tiers.

Ow I have to absolutely disagree with you here.

If you want more brawling, you want WoT (post deforestation/RIP magical forest).

 

I do really like cyclones and would actually like more diverse weather effects (like rain showers or banks of fog drifting across the ocean with an ingame mechanic similar to what would be moving smoke).

[NothingButTheRain]

2 hours ago, DFens_666 said:

But its stupid that Cyclone favors certain ships, while screwing others completely over.

Different maps also favor different ships, this is unavoidable.

Personally I don't see anything wrong with not all maps being equally balanced for every single ship in the game and things like cyclones make the game more diverse and does favor people who have the intelectual capacity to make use of this.

 

Spoiler

Btw I wonder... how would WoWS be if (a part of) the maps in the game were randomly generated?

People would have to adapt on the fly and this would definitely benefit the more skilled players. Too bad I doubt this idea is practical for WoWS. but one can dream, right?

 

[Karasu_Browarszky]

1 minute ago, NothingButTheRain said:

Different maps also favor different ships, this is unavoidable.

 

 

This could be easily avoided if all the maps were more like Ocean...

[NothingButTheRain]

1 minute ago, Karasu_Hidesuke said:

 

This could be easily avoided if all the maps were more like Ocean...

Not really true, as this would still not guarantee some ships to be imbalanced (like ships that depend on being near islands). But from a mapmaking perspective, Ocean is probably the most balanced map out there.

 

I would like to see it more 

[MyopicHedgehog]

9 minutes ago, NothingButTheRain said:

Not really true, as this would still not guarantee some ships to be imbalanced (like ships that depend on being near islands). But from a mapmaking perspective, Ocean is probably the most balanced map out there.

 

I would like to see it more 

Had Ocean for what seems like the first time ever - that was a shock to the system, taught me an awful lot about how my DD game needs to improve...!

[thiextar]

6 hours ago, Wazige said:

Hello hello,

After getting in a bit to many cyclone battles and hating every single one of them i thought let's see what the rest of the community thinks of it.
Personally i would even go as far as to say that cyclone is simply ridicilous and whichever WG manager approved it should consider a job outside of designing games. 
Perhaps designing slot machines because those things are RNG heaven.

Biased poll is biased, voted "its cool"

[Nufessa]

14 ore fa, Wazige ha scritto:

Hello hello,

After getting in a bit to many cyclone battles and hating every single one of them i thought let's see what the rest of the community thinks of it.
Personally i would even go as far as to say that cyclone is simply ridicilous and whichever WG manager approved it should consider a job outside of designing games. 
Perhaps designing slot machines because those things are RNG heaven.

It's cool as a mechanic but i've always thought that it is an advantage to bbs cause forces cruisers to move at closer ranges