ST - armor-piercing rockets

[Tanatoy]

Please note that the information in the Development Blog is preliminary and subject to change.

 

Soon there will be a closed test session for attack aircraft carrying armor-piercing rockets. Please note that if the results are positive at the end of the test, detailed information about the future usage of this concept will follow.

 

The mechanics of these new rockets are similar to that of armor-piercing shells, with the main difference being –just like with armor piercing bombs– that their armor penetration is not dependent on the distance they are fired from, but is instead a constant value.

 

As per the current concept, these rockets on Tier X aircraft carrier squadrons will be close to 203 mm armor-piercing shells in terms of efficiency against different classes. Upon hitting destroyers there will often be overpenetrations and the total damage will be lower than with standard rockets.

 

The new rockets will be most effective against cruisers due to their ability to hit their citadel and deal significant damage. When attacking battleships, most damage will be dealt when targeting the casemates - the penetration won't be high enough to pass through the citadel's armor belt.

[OM40]

 

[mcboernester]

Oh boy...

[El2aZeR]

You have got to be kidding me.

[Zenryos]

Ah yes, it was not enough for rockets to completely murder DDs and take large chunks out of cruisers, now CVs will outright be able to delete cruisers with just rockets and light touch of dive bombers.

Who even comes up with these ideas?

[Flavio1997]

Please tell me this is an April  fools event. So you now have he rockets to [edited]dds and ap rockets to [edited]up cruisers. It will become  world of cvs and bbs

[Jethro_Grey]

So, you can make an dumb error, and instead of Fixing said error, run with it, declare it a feature AND then dial the scope of this error to Eleven...thousand. 

 

Dumb. Dumber. WGs dev Team. 

[MarcoGn97]

No. No. No. No. No. 

 

The only understandable way to fix rocket planes is to remove them, the actual model is too monkey proof and easy to use. 

 

Like, how are devs coming up with such ideas? It's like they never play (or care about) the game at all. 

[zFireWyvern]

19 minutes ago, Tanatoy said:

As per the current concept, these rockets on Tier X aircraft carrier squadrons will be close to 203 mm armor-piercing shells in terms of efficiency against different classes. Upon hitting destroyers there will often be overpenetrations and the total damage will be lower than with standard rockets.

  

 The new rockets will be most effective against cruisers due to their ability to hit their citadel and deal significant damage. When attacking battleships, most damage will be dealt when targeting the casemates - the penetration won't be high enough to pass through the citadel's armor belt.

Who the hell thought this was in any way, shape or form a good idea?

[Bear__Necessities]

 

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[Uglesett]

IFHE changes, AP rockets... why are cruisers suddenly being forced to wear the gimp suit?

[DFens_666]

19 minutes ago, Tanatoy said:

 

The new rockets will be most effective against cruisers due to their ability to hit their citadel and deal significant damage

 

Ok, you gotta tell the guys at WG HQ to stop smoking / drinking whatever it is that they are doing... i guess 10-15k volleys against Cruisers with 40k HP is not enough, need to be MORE devastating... REALLY?

[edited]REALLY?!?!?!

How about some Rockets that can only [edited]BBs and CVs, but i guess that doesnt work when peoplen in charge are CV/BB mains who have to pamper their own wet fantasies.

[ForlornSailor]

5 minutes ago, MarcoGn97 said:

Like, how are devs coming up with such ideas? It's like they never play (or care about) the game at all. 

 

Or... they play only 2 classes. So their hate against the other makes them come up with all this stuff. Now it shouldnt be hard to guess which 2 and 2 im refering to, right?

[Cambera_1]

Well, if they were to replace HE rockets with AP rockets the DDs will get a break!

But...

I'd like to see the test results - but the negative possibilities here are endless

[HaachamaShipping]

4 minutes ago, Uglesett said:

IFHE changes, AP rockets... why are cruisers suddenly being forced to wear the gimp suit?

Because DDs are already going extinct. Now it's the cruiser's time.

 

Also, regardless of how much you tell WG to not do it, it will be implemented and it will be crap. You know it.

[HaachamaShipping]

Just now, ForlornSailor said:

 

Or... they play only 2 classes. So their hate against the other makes them come up with all this stuff. Now it shouldnt be hard to guess which 2 and 2 im refering to, right?

They don't play CV. Which is why they have no idea how to balance those.

[Jethro_Grey]

7 minutes ago, Zenryos said:

Ah yes, it was not enough for rockets to completely murder DDs and take large chunks out of cruisers, now CVs will outright be able to delete cruisers with just rockets and light touch of dive bombers.

Who even comes up with these ideas?

Must have been a russian WoWS DEV, cause Abbott and Costello, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, as well as the Marx Brothers are WAY too intelligent to come up with such a idiotic idea.

5 minutes ago, MarcoGn97 said:

No. No. No. No. No. 

 

The only understandable way to fix rocket planes is to remove them, the actual model is too monkey proof and easy to use. 

 

Like, how are devs coming up with such ideas? It's like they never play (or care about) the game at all. 

This is what happens when a game DEV loses it's Connection to the Player base and starts Looking at numbers exclusively. 

Spread shiet says it's fine. Spread shiet says, we can squeeze out even more Profit. Spread shiet will fix all our woes.

Praise the Mighty spread shiet. 

4 minutes ago, zFireWyvern said:

Who the hell thought this was in any way, shape or form a good idea?

See Reply above. 

[belalugosisdead]

I think WG wants more BB mains. This class clearly has a lack of players and must be pimped. 

[mcboernester]

8 minutes ago, belalugosisdead said:

I think WG wants more BB mains. This class clearly has a lack of players and must be pimped. 

Time to bring the Sub torp concept to CVs then, give me your citadel 

[DFens_666]

4 minutes ago, Bunny_Lover_Kallen said:

They don't play CV. Which is why they have no idea how to balance those.

 

I think they play CVs, but they arent better than the average CV player, so thats the result we have now

[Sunleader]

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Cough cough......

*throat clearing noises*

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

 

I love it xD

 

I tend to Focus Cruisers instead of DDs.

So I am not entirely with the Meta here.

But for that Change is Genius ^^

[_Propaganda_Panda_]

Dear WG Team

The game has completely different problems when there is a "class" with a 43% player base.
And no, the 43% Playerbase has nothing to do with love or history for battleships.

Shows me a game where there are such big differences in the classes.

Why don't you start there first, for example with the withdrawal of the flooding nerf.

Thanks

[Nauseica]

 

[_DFA_]

Vast majority of playerbase: Rockets are too powerful, especially against DDs

 

WG: We'll introduce AP rockets that are equally as powerful against cruisers for ultimate class balance!

[ForlornSailor]

WG: if you wonder, why this topic is full of angry reactions - blame your ideas, not the players. Seriously. Nobody here needs this. Nobody wants it. Let us play our ships, stop these horrible ideas!