Halloween: Raid for the Filth!

[hrzo18]

the new resarched ship does not come with port slot?!

[TohtoriP]

1 hour ago, hrzo18 said:

the new resarched ship does not come with port slot?!

Guess somebody forgot something...

 

I think the mode is just fine. More game modes is better and I think collecting filth and getting some rewards for it is just fine too. At least this is no Benham grind so when you get bored and decide the rewards are not anymore worth it just play another game mode or entirely another game. 

 

EDIT -  My only gripe is the bots spawning so many superfast torpedoes especially in the end stage that it becomes just unplayable. Better just collect the crocosaurs filth and get the hell out ASAP.

[Crysantos]

On 10/28/2019 at 3:58 PM, thiextar said:

you really need to be able to buy better rewards for filth...

 

Also, it says nothing about class restrictions, so i assume we can pick 3 of the same class ship if we feel like it?

We're always open to suggestions in terms of rewards - for now you get things that will definitely help you in your everyday life in Warships - ranging from credits, coal, signal flags to a permanent camouflage that will help you with income and can be applied to the vast majority of ships of the same Tier. And it's up to you to decide how much time you want to spend there - please don't forget that these modes are first of foremost something fun to play - additional rewards come on top of that. If this mode doesn't really float your boat, there are plenty of other things to do in-game.

 

You can bring any combination of ships for this mode, no restrictions.

 

On 10/30/2019 at 8:50 AM, Someone_unknown said:

AFTER 4 YEAR OF PLAYING WOWS  THIS MODE IS  REALY WORST WHAT I SEE  ….  SHAME ! WHY U DONT TEST IT ON TEST SERVER ??? !!!!  U PLAY IT BEFORE U LOAD IT ON SERVER ???   BET U NOT !!! 

Hi there - first of all, please refrain from the Caps lock spam. Secondly, please let us know why you think it's bad - because yes we tested it on several occasions, ranging from internal tests, to Supertest and Public Test.

 

On 10/30/2019 at 8:42 AM, StanleyHTweedle said:

I had to log in here to give you my feedback. This new Halloween mode is... well... crap of the year. Tried it, won't play it ever again. Best of luck in killing the game with ideas like this.

What would you improve - what do you dislike? I got actually many positive replies about this when playing it and from other channels, but obviously some rather fun-oriented fictional mode won't be popular with everybody.

 

10 hours ago, Bokusatsu_Tenshi said:

Each ship should come with a temporary port slot. Now I can´t buy the next ships in line because I don´t have free slots. Great.

Thanks for highlighting this, we're checking about this scenario.

4 hours ago, PiXiE93 said:

Who payed you for that comment and how much money and how can we also earn it.... 

Comments like this do lead to people who are positive about things we do to be discouraged from posting, when they get mocked for saying that. Please be respectful to those who don't share your point of view - you expect the same from others and us, too.

11 hours ago, Silvercat18 said:

Quite an entertaining game mode and the rewards are both achievable and worthwhile - I like this!

Happy to hear that!

16 hours ago, Palubarac said:

It was tested on the PTS.

 

All flaws listed but WG still didn't give a flying F so they made absolutely no changes and released it as it was.

 

That's for the "we listen to your feedback" BS.

We actually made a lot of changes based on feedback from PT - ranging from some balance changes, making e.g. DDs more fun to play. But the spawning is something we didn't change this time, but maybe next time - we always take time to read your feedback and we try to implement all those things, where we think this might improve the mode & gameplay experience. Please keep in mind that the feedback e.g. provided on the forums is unfortunately sometimes very low volume feedback and not the only venue of feedback we collect - e.g. the feedback surveys we do for each PT sessions where a significantly higher amount of players who tested it share their feedback.

2 hours ago, TohtoriP said:

Guess somebody forgot something...

 

I think the mode is just fine. More game modes is better and I think collecting filth and getting some rewards for it is just fine too. At least this is no Benham grind so when you get bored and decide the rewards are not anymore worth it just play another game mode or entirely another game. 

 

EDIT -  My only gripe is the bots spawning so many superfast torpedoes especially in the end stage that it becomes just unplayable. Better just collect the crocosaurs filth and get the hell out ASAP. 

It's by design to make the end very hard - so the longer you stick around to collect filth, the harder it gets. Use your team consumables wisely (in particular the more advanced ships are great for that) - then you can even get out of there alive.

 

Greetings, Crysantos

 

[Raclos]

Please do something about special ships requires slots, i don't have anything to sell. And by the way how filth scenarios can be a win???? It doesn't say anywhere.....

[MrFingers]

30 minutes ago, Crysantos said:

to a permanent camouflage that will help you with income and can be applied to the vast majority of ships of the same Tier

It would greatly help if you were able to equip that camouflage but not have to look at it. As in: if you have "special camo's" disabled, it's just replaced visually by a Type5 camo. I absolutely detest looking at those fantasy-creations, so I don't equip them. I even don't aim for them if they can be earned. That would all change if you could change the visual on it. 

 

Please make that happen (it already is implemented for camo equipped by other players in your battle).

[Wicket_Boomber]

10 minutes ago, Raclos said:

Please do something about special ships requires slots, i don't have anything to sell. And by the way how filth scenarios can be a win???? It doesn't say anywhere.....

I think they would need to do uppdate , and I dont think they will do one so soon , I have 4 slots free , and 5 ships to unlock ...  I did not know is that way, that sucks , I guess I bump up a tier my pan asian dd (T5) , and sell it , so I have 5 places , but if WG what to be respected and taken seriously , they cant make such misstakes in future ...

[Crysantos]

28 minutes ago, MrFingers said:

It would greatly help if you were able to equip that camouflage but not have to look at it. As in: if you have "special camo's" disabled, it's just replaced visually by a Type5 camo. I absolutely detest looking at those fantasy-creations, so I don't equip them. I even don't aim for them if they can be earned. That would all change if you could change the visual on it. 

 

Please make that happen (it already is implemented for camo equipped by other players in your battle).

This is something maybe for the future that we're investigating, but I can't make any promises yet.

 

22 minutes ago, Wicket_Boomber said:

I think they would need to do uppdate , and I dont think they will do one so soon , I have 4 slots free , and 5 ships to unlock ...  I did not know is that way, that sucks , I guess I bump up a tier my pan asian dd (T5) , and sell it , so I have 5 places , but if WG what to be respected and taken seriously , they cant make such misstakes in future ...

Right now I can't answer that, we're checking internally. When it comes to winning - it's actually quite easy. Why don't you join us for today's Halloween stream and we'll show you how to do it?

 

Greetings, Crysantos

[Klopirat]

3 minutes ago, Crysantos said:

When it comes to winning - it's actually quite easy.

although the article says you cannot win:

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There are no winners or losers in the new mode:

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*duckundweg*

 

[thiextar]

2 hours ago, Crysantos said:

We're always open to suggestions in terms of rewards - for now you get things that will definitely help you in your everyday life in Warships - ranging from credits, coal, signal flags to a permanent camouflage that will help you with income and can be applied to the vast majority of ships of the same Tier. And it's up to you to decide how much time you want to spend there - please don't forget that these modes are first of foremost something fun to play - additional rewards come on top of that. If this mode doesn't really float your boat, there are plenty of other things to do in-game.

I mean its good fun playing with clan mates, so in that sense, i like the mode, and consider it a success. The problem is the random bundles that contain permacamos as the main reward, it would be great if these permacamos were somehow better than normal permacamos, because as it stands right now, i can barely find  a ship that i would gain by putting these permacamos on, and the reason is simple: With all the new premium/special/reward ships that have been released, nearly all of the most competative and strongest ships at tiers 8-10 are special ships, which already have perma camos... These ships are pretty much the only ones that i play, because i cant justify playing a weaker ship for no reason.

 

If it was possible to maybe turn the filth into coal in a halfway effective manor, or make the permacamos just a little bit stronger than regular permacamos, or anything like that, then the rewards would be much more worthwhile to grind for.

 

Right now i am playing the event simply because its fun, but i feel like an actually useful reward would go a long way into making the event as a whole "good"

[DeviousDave02]

4 hours ago, Crysantos said:

We're always open to suggestions in terms of rewards

CV skins  (for that class that gets left out of every event)

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to a permanent camouflage that will help you with income and can be applied to the vast majority of ships of the same Tier.

 

That irritatingly can't be used by 90% of my tier 8 skins (cos there CV's)

 

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You can bring any combination of ships for this mode, no restrictions.

Except for CV's as there not invited (and got removed from the Halloween OP to boot) [Ok, I'll admit they wouldn't really work in this mode but did you reeeaalllllyyy have to remove the Nobilium? I mean come on WG, you knew Halloween was coming and have had all year to fix Sunray in the Darkness]

 

Yes I do have a chip on my shoulder over this. The whole reason I started playing WoWS in the first place was everyone on the Fractured Space Forum (back when that game was alive) pointed to World of Warships as how CV's and Carriers should be done. So I thought I'd come and have a look, got hooked by them and grinded them out to tier 8 (and dumped a small fortune to get the Nobilium skin last Halloween).... only to get them changed the year after I started (fair enough, I knew it was coming) and then seemingly abandoned content wise after the British line got released (with the exception of one Premium release) and excluded from every... damn... fun skin earning event.

 

Not cool War Gaming, not cool.

 

At least tell me you have something planned that they can take part in and/or earn Apocalypse/monster skins.

 

(FYI - new game modes fun, no other real reason to play it but it is fun.)

 

Edit: Oh and hat's off to the design team for the tier 10 premium skins (Scorpioid etc.), the attention to detail on them is fantastic and they look really cool!

[Sznyper]

I said it once. It was ignored. I say it again. Apart of other things MM STINKS AS HELL. AFAIR it is the first event that puts random teams against division. And then randoms as screwed.

2 hours ago, Klopirat said:

There are no winners or losers in the new mode:

You got to be kidding. But it is not funny. Especially when you encounter clan division camping aroung the exit and killing anybody that approaches. 

[laudano]

I got the italian cruiser from the last container...no more random chests for me. Grinding to achieve an undetermined goal? not again thanks

[Afghanicus]

@Crysantos, seems like you answered everything except the fact that these ships don't come with a port slot.

 

I wonder if this was a mistake or it's an intentional attempt to milk the 300 doubloons from players?

 

It's BS however you look at it.

 

You need an additional 6 port slots in order to fully play the event? Nice job ruining it for many, especially newer players who don't have the 6 port slots needed.

[DeviousDave02]

 

33 minutes ago, Palubarac said:

@Crysantos, seems like you answered everything except the fact that these ships don't come with a port slot.

 

I wonder if this was a mistake or it's an intentional attempt to milk the 300 doubloons from players?

 

It's BS however you look at it.

 

You need an additional 6 port slots in order to fully play the event? Nice job ruining it for many, especially newer players who don't have the 6 port slots needed.

I believe from what he's said so far there looking into it (I'm guessing it's a bug as I doubt they would be daft enough to ask us to actually have to use doubloons for temp ship ports)

Hopefully there is some form of compensation for those effected by this.

[Afghanicus]

I want to believe it's a mistake (even tho it was tested, reviewed and tested on PTS before release) and not a very low attempt to milk 300 doubloons in order to fully play the event.

 

The worst thing is that you can't even sell a special ship in order to buy another one. 

 

Once you buy a special ship, you lose a port slot but then you cannot sell it in order to get a port slot.

 

[DeviousDave02]

Yeah, I mean this is WG were talking about so who knows... I still doubt they did it on purpose but hopefully they fix it soon.

 

Meanwhile, @Crysantos, As for the game mode itself... it varies massively in fun factor, if you get a match with a decent team with no clans diving up for rofl stomping/trolling/griefing and get players who want to truce, then the game mode is really fun. When you get Div's and tryhards who camp the end portal with the sole intention of seeing just how many torpedoes the game can physically render... ehhh... not so much fun.

 

Maybe having multiple exits, with a random one chosen to open could help with this?

 

Sadly as the day has gone on the games I have encountered seem to be leaning more and more towards the latter.

 

I think i'm gonna walk away from this mode for now and go play coop for a bit to cool off.

[S_c_o_r_p_i_o_n]

NOT happy that you have to purchase port slots for the next ship up in the halloween tech tree

 

PS no point in going for the Rasputin you will end up all dying anyway as even when you kill it the dd's still keep on spawning

 

[sin099]

@Crysantos

 

For me:

+ Fun mode (i liked torpedo beats)

+ The rewards aren't now all or nothing (Benham grind was cancer and what killed it for many people was that it allowed you to miss one daily... which was frankly stupid design) and each step gives something even thou i had to unlock last boxes even now (the 2k one)

+ More and different ship variations

+ Rewards (perma cammo is nice thou i am not stoked on limitations)

 

- wtf no port slots... -> hope you fix this one with a hotfix as its BS.

 

Improvement:

* Let us offload to BB what we have in DD or similar QoL in the furure.

[DeviousDave02]

10 minutes ago, sin099 said:

Improvement:

* Let us offload to BB what we have in DD or similar QoL in the furure.

That's actually a fantastic idea, +1

[Klopirat]

18 minutes ago, sin099 said:

hope you fix this one with a hotfix as its BS.

unlikely:

2 hours ago, Tanatoy said:

Greetings, captains and happy Halloween!

 

We hope you enjoy the new event and various rewards as signals, coal, Free XP and opportunity to get camos for tier VIII, IX and X ships.

 

We know that some of you are upset with the necessity to have free slots in port for event ships.

 

Please take our sincere apology for the inconvenience - this is how ‘tech tree’ ships currently work. As of now, we have no ability to change it, but we will certainly consider this case for the next events with temporary ships.

 

As a token of appreciation, we’re happy to announce that the slots for the first three ships (Steel Lancet, Rust Nightfall, and Maverick) will stay with you after the event will end. And, of course, slots for other events ships won’t be removed from your accounts.

 

Good luck and fair seas!

 

[sin099]

2 minutes ago, Klopirat said:

unlikely:

 

They could do a flash sale for 1-6 ship slot bundle really cheap (like 50 dubs - the amount you got free from the italian cruiser daily logins)

[Silvercat18]

I think the main problem with the port slot issue is that these are still event ships and cant be sold to clear space - you are stuck with them. So we end up with the worst of both worlds, which is not fair at all.

[koliber_1984]

Dear WG this event is too complicated! Again I was the only one from my team to even escape through the portal. Collected only 500 filth. Firing on enemy team (except bots) should be disabled to succesfully end the battle.

[Odo_Toothless]

I can say, I really like it. So many variations: cooperation of all teams (very rare), broken truce with only one team and even some team members was still neutral, while others was in fight. Great moments like defending gate in late game, to let other "enemies" slip into it, after succesfull ride on Rasputin.

 

And most the times just fight vs anyone. Sometimes I asked myself why I am chasing a ship which have 0 filth on board Anyway, it's a fun, becouse You can negotiate terms with others and sometimes it really works.

[koliber_1984]

29 minutes ago, Odo_Toothless said:

I can say, I really like it. So many variations: cooperation of all teams (very rare), broken truce with only one team and even some team members was still neutral, while others was in fight. Great moments like defending gate in late game, to let other "enemies" slip into it, after succesfull ride on Rasputin.

 

And most the times just fight vs anyone. Sometimes I asked myself why I am chasing a ship which have 0 filth on board Anyway, it's a fun, becouse You can negotiate terms with others and sometimes it really works.

Keyword: sometimes. Usually it's frustrating to play when everybody dies wasting so much filth. I pass.