Ranked Sprint: Arms Race

[nooberg]

Taking my Tashkent (with 19p Ovechkin) and raking in all the hate

 

Disclaimer - I have all Tier 10s

[BlackFish__]

Arms Race is a crap mode, Wargaming why do you have to shove every shite down our throats?

Also, why do you increase the number of players for a ranked mode to 12? do you artificially prolong the event? Ranked is not feasible above 7 players per side, I would welcome even 6 vs 6. 

 

Why am I not surprised about these horrible decisions anymore?

[Yamashiro42]

I will play to win, as always in ranked. But just because of the starsaving mechanics (that has unfortunately not been removed) I will play with T9 ships to get more base xp for being uptiered, unless this is not the case in ranked, which I don't know for sure, @Sehales?

[ollonborre]

6 hours ago, gabberworld said:

 

tier 9 you can level up to tier 10, tier 10 you can't to tier 11

That is not an entirely valid reason and not the point @GarrusBrutus was making. Tier 10 ships are much more powerful than tier 9 ships, so if you have tier 10 ships there is no logical reason if you just want to push through the ranked mode quickly to pick anything but tier 10 ships.

[ollonborre]

Double post please delete.

[anonym_FDOLXpxOfXXq]

9 hours ago, The_EURL_Guy said:

The new Ranked Sprint will be fought in the Arms Race mode playing Tier IX–X ships. Join the race for credits, signals, and Coal!

Read it on the portal

At 12vs12 it is essentially the same crap as randoms.

And rewards look rather uninspiring.

[GulvkluderGuld]

7 hours ago, PassTheSalt said:

going to play exclusively kitakaze, just to annoy people who think i should be in a t10 (i have plenty) :P

Kitakaze is better than the tier X anyway 

 

Not sure what I will play - Benham, Kitakaze, Daring og CV...or maybe farm the Zao LM on poor unsuspecting potatoes 

[Stronginthearms]

rewards are very poor for the time spent on this

 

[ImoutoSaikou]

i am really happy to see those t9 girls smash by the Stalin Smolensk and Kremin  :))

GJ WG you are genius.

[Aetius85]

3 hours ago, AmiralPotato said:

At 12vs12 it is essentially the same crap as randoms.

And rewards look rather uninspiring.

this!

[Datz68]

Why armsrace mode? 

Nobody likes it.

[kai_of_lexx]

Ah more high tier crap yep sit another one out, this will be a painfull random battle with more people hiding to save stars.

[M0rannit0]

If you think you can "smash" T9s easily... think again.  Alaska, Benham, Jean Bart, Kitakaze, Black,  Georgia, Missouri, Musashi, Kronstadt, Friesland.

Smash that.

 

Alaska, Musashi and Benham being tier10 ships in all terms and purposes with Georgia being nothing but an Ohio at tier9 and very very potent in the hands of a good player.

 

I think that allowing T9s makes Sprint Ranked very competitive and opens alot new avenues to explore. T10 games are boring af and hardly enjoyable with most of the classic tier10s and by that i mean the initial lines tier10s being power crept to hell and back and hardly worth playing anymore really.

Last thing i wanna see would be a copy cat of the last season of Ranked which was nothing but utter cancer and horrible and impossible to play and enjoy unless you had a Stalingrad or a Smolensk or a bloody CV

[soralapio]

On 4/27/2020 at 1:48 PM, GarrusBrutus said:

But why would anyone pick T9s when you can pick T10s? That makes no sense.

Because you can have one of the "T9.5" ships like Alaska or Musashi, and when you play those, you will get matched against another T9 ship -- hopefully one that isn't nearly as good, giving your team an advantage.

 

Of course on the flip side if you queue up with a T9 tech tree ship (especially a crappy one), you might be facing a Friesland, a Musashi, a Black, or Kronstad or... and make life difficult for yourself.

[Sehales]

23 hours ago, Yamashiro42 said:

I will play to win, as always in ranked. But just because of the starsaving mechanics (that has unfortunately not been removed) I will play with T9 ships to get more base xp for being uptiered, unless this is not the case in ranked, which I don't know for sure, @Sehales? 

Yes, it works in the same way in ranked. You are trading in strength and get rewarded a little better.

[Hugh_Ruka]

On 4/27/2020 at 5:41 PM, Sehales said:

The same text is part of the EN version:

Divisions consisting of two players are allowed in the Ranked Sprint. A Division can enter battle only if the opposing team also has a Division.

A maximum of four Divisions is allowed per team.

 

 

Why TF do you hide that in a segment that needs to be manually expanded when the article is REALLY SHORT ??? Then you run the risk of people missing it.

 

I can understand that in the patch notes, those are usually loooong, but this one ? Also still no answer to the CV question.

[ZeroSkillPureLuck]

Gameplay is horrible. One one in losing team doesnt lose a star, and there are 12 players per team. You will need hunderds of game to get to rank 1. Just use it for tier 9 grind or credits grind. Everything else is a massive waste of time.

[PandaFile]

ranked is cancer.... 

 

[Cammo1962]

On 4/27/2020 at 12:00 PM, The_EURL_Guy said:

The new Ranked Sprint will be fought in the Arms Race mode playing Tier IX–X ships. Join the race for credits, signals, and Coal!

Read it on the portal

@The_EURL_Guy WG ruined CB with CVs and now you are ruining Ranked Sprint with CVs cant we bloody hell not get one mode where there no CVs that wont ruin the game ??

[Cammo1962]

On 4/27/2020 at 7:10 PM, AmiralPotato said:

At 12vs12 it is essentially the same crap as randoms.

And rewards look rather uninspiring.

And you have damm CVs in Ranked Sprint

[Toivia]

WTF is this shite?!

This is absolutely the worst Ranked you could ever come up with. T9 and T10 MIXED together?! CVs allowed?! Useless ruined Arms Race where every camping potato gets the buffs instead of those nearby?! 12 versus 12?!

What idiot came up with this?! You put everything that is bad about the game in this Ranked Sprint. Do you plan on adding subs in there as well?

[NothingButTheRain]

I liked the idea of putting tiers 9 and 10 together. And I also liked the concept of arms race.

So I played with my Jutland. 1st battle was fun and really close!

2nd battle, enemy had a stalingrad and the battle was crap

3rd battle enemy had a stalingrad and the battle was crap

4th battle both teams had a carrier, I'm done. I feel like crap, this is supposed to be a FUN game? Well I'm not having any fun. Spending my time and feeling shittier the more I play it.

 

Get rid of this [edited]stalingrad already.

[tsounts]

Tried one battle, wasn't fun, stopping now.  12 vs 12 is not fun at all, it's just like randoms and in an arms' race mode which makes things even worst.  This is worst than the previous ranked season.  Rewards are too poor for the dedication, time and effort not to lose one's sanity in order to reach rank 1.

3 friendly cruisers in our cap preferred opening fire at a half hp shimakaze that was 11km from them instead of firing at the smolensk that rushed the cap through the center and which was 5-6km from our friendly cruisers...

 

1 vs 1 is fun, so are 3 vs 3 or 5 vs 5 in clan sprint.  

[TohtoriP]

So grinding credits with a tier 9 premium is more fun (and efficient) in randoms this time?

[Toivia]

12 hours ago, NothingButTheRain said:

I liked the idea of putting tiers 9 and 10 together. And I also liked the concept of arms race.

So I played with my Jutland. 1st battle was fun and really close!

2nd battle, enemy had a stalingrad and the battle was crap

3rd battle enemy had a stalingrad and the battle was crap

4th battle both teams had a carrier, I'm done. I feel like crap, this is supposed to be a FUN game? Well I'm not having any fun. Spending my time and feeling shittier the more I play it.

 

Get rid of this [edited]stalingrad already.

I took a Yugumo (need XP on it), "First Blood" on enemy Yugumo, then CV comes and game over.

I took a Kitakaze (same XP reasons), "First Blood" on enemy Mogador, then CV comes and game over.

I took a Friesland, no CVs...

 

I mean, I'm sorry people, but if WG pulls this crap and calls it Ranked Sprint, I don't think I have any other choice than Smolensk (again)*. It deals with planes alright, deals with DDs, deals with cruisers and deals with BBs. I know it's cancer, but the mode is cancer as well right now.

 

*That is, of course, if I actually don't throw in the towel completely. 12v12 and the "improved" arms race is just such a fail anyway.