Battleships everywhere! Where are others?

[Alex_steel_45]

All game types! 

All day times!

Battleships everywhere!

Cruisers useless, destroyers  useless.

Add smoke to ALL CRUISERS, IMPROVE smoke for DD!

20 sec after shoot is TOO LONG to be spotted , Battleship can one hit every cruiser ! And you think people will play cruisers ???

Are you ok DEVS???

5 sec DD ,10 sec Cruisers, 15 sec BB!

Where are SUBMARINES??? Submarines must fight against Battleships, 

Where are all of them?

Do something,  Big part of the game stuff (cruisers, DD) useless and unplayable. 

[Verblonde]

All these BB players are being very public spirited; they're getting cooties to give those of us who play proper ships shorter wait times, and something to fire our torps at.

 

BB players, I salute you!

 

[ColonelPete]

8 minutes ago, Alex_steel_45 said:

1. All game types! 
2. All day times!
3. Battleships everywhere!
4. Cruisers useless, destroyers  useless.
5. Add smoke to ALL CRUISERS, IMPROVE smoke for DD!
6. 20 sec after shoot is TOO LONG to be spotted , Battleship can one hit every cruiser ! And u let cruiser survive ???
7. Are you ok DEVS???
8. 5 sec DD ,10 sec Cruisers, 15 sec BB!
9. Where are SUBMARINES??? Submarines must fight against Battleships, 
10. Where are all of them?
11. Do something,  Big part of the game stuff (cruisers, DD) useless and unplayable.

1. Yes, BB are allowed to enter all game types
2. Yes, all the time
3. and CA and DD...
4. Really? See below...
5. To make the game even more passive? WoW...
6. That is fine.
7. Yes, since they do not listen to people like you
8. So you want BB to vanish earlier?
9. Thankfully, not here. And no, Subs will not be a counter to BB. Subs are too slow for that and BB too far away.
10. In Development, they are far form ready, if there are ever...
11. See below..

Poor DD:

Spoiler

Today:

https://replayswows.com/replay/119618#stats

 

Akatsuki had double CV.

Kagero was vs Enterprise...

 

 

Sunday:

Saturday:

 

 

Maybe, just maybe it is a personal problem? Have you considered it?

[HystericalAccuracy]

46 minutes ago, Alex_steel_45 said:

Battleships everywhere!

Has always been like that. If you can´t handle it, play randoms

Spoiler

 

 

 

[andymcFudge]

Can I just add that the folks taking out the battleships have no clue how to actually play said battleships. No idea about map control, when to push in, when to kite, etc. 

If they actually rewarded good gameplay and weeded out the nonsense it might make for closer games than what's being going on recently.

[DFens_666]

You might wanna try Coop, usually not that many actually. Even had a game today where i was the only BB

I guess doing BB missions in coop kinda sucks, because DDs and Cruisers are playing torpboats and you are basicly left with nothing because you are the slowest and spawn furthest away.

Might actually be a reason why all the BBs derp around in randoms and ranked to do their missions...

[_DeathWing_]

2 minutes ago, andymcFudge said:

rewarded good gameplay

Rewarded gameplay and WG. Now that's something you don't see every day. Oh wait. 

[koliber_1984]

Doing stupid dd/cl dockyard missions in co-op, like me 

[OldPappy]

As a dd main, a lot of bbs is just like a dinner bell! Chow time! Come an’ gettit! 
cvs? No thanks! 
cruisers? Rather not!

other dds? If you must!

bbs? Yes please!!!

 

But all kinds are welcome really!

[COPlUM]

That queue with 62 battleships and 9 other classes isn't even a good example, the ratio is typically more than 10 battleships in queue for every non-battleship. I've seen queue with 250+ battleships and 4 ships that aren't a battleship.

You are drawing the wrong conclusions though, the conclusion you are drawing is that this must be happening because every other class is garbage, this is false. The only conclusion you can draw is battleships are more popular and spend more time in queue.

As to why they are more popular, it's not difficult, they're typically easier to play and the biggest ships with the biggest F-you guns has a certain sex-appeal with the majority playing a game like this. At its core, people play warships to blow stuff up, really big guns are good for blowing stuff up.

[Ubertron_X]

1. Do not 100% believe what the waiting screen is telling you as in my experience what is displayed does not seem like any realtime queue numbers. However the numbers displayed usually still provide clear trends.

2. Having said so I and others noticed BB's currently trending too, which left us quite puzzling as the current events, missions and game modes do not in any way promote BB gameplay and since the release of the phat american BB's a couple of days have past already.

[HassenderZerhacker]

11 hours ago, Alex_steel_45 said:

All game types! 

All day times!

Battleships everywhere!

Cruisers useless, destroyers  useless.

Add smoke to ALL CRUISERS, IMPROVE smoke for DD!

20 sec after shoot is TOO LONG to be spotted , Battleship can one hit every cruiser ! And you think people will play cruisers ???

Are you ok DEVS???

5 sec DD ,10 sec Cruisers, 15 sec BB!

Where are SUBMARINES??? Submarines must fight against Battleships, 

Where are all of them?

Do something,  Big part of the game stuff (cruisers, DD) useless and unplayable. 

 

even with the waiting screen looking like that, you will still encounter CV in most battles.

[Shadeshots]

Its cause WG only wants BB's and CV's in their game, everything else gets countered or simply dumpstered on by 'CV Fun Police' and ' HE BB's'. Without any counter play whatsoever.

 

[BlackYeti]

Being easier to play is only a part of reason for BB popularity. Big ships have more fans and were more famous, simple as that, most fleet actions revolved around them. Just look at the number of lets say, Bismarck fanboys and put them against the amount of (insert any dd name here).

 

 

[lovelacebeer]

The loading screen isn’t to be completely trusted but yes at the moment there is a large number of battleships being played, which is better know as a target rich environment. 

 

As for the idea that subs would in anyway change this rather than reinforce it, I have to admire the naive optimism displayed.

[Captain_Newman]

DD’s are meant to counter BB’s, not subs. They are still one of the strongest / most impactful classes, but arguably the hardest to play. Most of the player base is horrible at it, so after always being dead in the first 2 min, instead of learning they conclude - much like you have - that “dd’s are useless”. Except that if you actually know how to play them you are far more likely to carry a game than you are in a BB. Useless, indeed. A similar argument could be made for cruisers, btw.

 

Most of your suggestions are bad and would actually make the game worse.

[invicta2012]

54 minutes ago, Ubertron_X said:

2. Having said so I and others noticed BB's currently trending too, which left us quite puzzling as the current events, missions and game modes do not in any way promote BB gameplay and since the release of the phat american BB's a couple of days have past already.

Phase 4 of the Strasbourg Campaign has a mission to do 750,000 damage with the main battery in Battleships and another one to do 380,000 damage with pretty much anything. Three stars on offer to complete both missions. Repeat that four times - which is pretty easy - and you've unlocked the final task.  Obvs. ships like Musashi, Georgia, etc have a higher damage potential than low tier ones, so there's a lot of them about as people try and finish the campaign.

[Shaka_D]

@OP: From my experience, most BB mains have the IQ of a rock - bad when on your team, great when on the opposite team.

 

If you see too many bb's in the line up, pick a BB killer and make them cry. Pick a dd with good torps or pick a cruiser and make them burn. Once done, come to the forums and wait for their complaints (those that actually know how to read and write). The vast majority of them will spend the rest of their lives wondering (if they've developed congnitively enough that is) why the game has been so unfair to them and put them in such bad matchmaking, hence the reason for their 32% to 45% win rates (generally speaking of course) - it's how they justify it anyhow.

 

The sad reality, a lot of them are adults and may even have already reproduced. Scary huh?

[Prophecy82]

12 hours ago, Alex_steel_45 said:

 

Ah, this is bronze league. Gets better in silver. 

Its not a suprise that there are so many BBs in queue: 

 

1. Pretty much no CA/CL has heal at T8.

2. Average DDs pretty much never save a star. 

3. Due to "big hits" its rather easy to save a Star in BBs.

4. BBs are an easy class to play since its quite forgiving. 

5. BBs are overall the most played class. 

[Captain_Newman]

2 minutes ago, Shaka_D said:

@OP: From my experience, most BB mains have the IQ of a rock

 

A slightly below average one, at that.

[Peroidas]

12 hours ago, Alex_steel_45 said:

Battleships everywhere!

 

Maybe, just maybe that's because BBs were made for direct combat while cruisers were built for patrolling and scouting while DDs were made for screening and suicide torpedo charges...

In real life a cruiser that spotted BB would stay at the edge of spotting range shadowing and radioing the position to BB/CV task force. 

DDs would smoke and attempt long range torpedo attacks.

 

IRL cruisers would fight only other cruisers and smaller ships.

 

You would have to massively unbalance the classes to make cruisers and DDs easy to play in a direct combat scenario (and they already are more powerful than in reality - for example only some DDs had torpedo reloads).

 

I remember that when the old smoke rules were in effect the situation was reversed - a ton of DDs in queue, as back then you could smoke up and safely farm BBs with HE and fires

[COPlUM]

4 hours ago, Captain_Newman said:

DD’s are meant to counter BB’s, not subs. They are still one of the strongest / most impactful classes, but arguably the hardest to play.

Yup, DDs win games, all the other ships are there to assist. Picking up the slack if there's some bad BB captains on your team is rough, but doable. Picking up the slack for bad DD captains is damn near impossible without radar and/or CVs, which, incidentally, is the one thing I appreciate about carriers, they are a balancing factor if one team's DDs are potatoes.

[COPlUM]

5 hours ago, Captain_Newman said:

Stuff

I've seen things today, too many things. Give me some of that glue

[Captain_Newman]

24 minutes ago, NikolayKuznetsov said:

I've seen things today, too many things. Give me some of that glue

That jar's mine! There's more in A1, but you gotta beat the BB's to it.

[Humorpalanta]

It is simply not true. There are a lot of other ships played as well not just BBs. CVs, Stalingrads, Moskvas, Nevskis and Smolensks. Oh and don't forget cruisers like Alaska, Puerto Rico, Siegfried and Agir.