Thunderer bugged?

[Snowy_a]

Anyone else noticed something strange with the Thunderer fire chance? I had a few games with abysmal amount of fires. I had 32 hits on a montana and 2 fires. Next game 4 fires with 60 hits.

 

I kept getting suprized how unlucky I am and everytime I think its a fluke but it got worse and worse and worse and at this point I am almost convinced something is off?

[ColonelPete]

The only known bug with Thunderer is that the W-key does not work properly on many ships.

[gopher31]

This should be fun

 

[DFens_666]

Sounds awesome. Can they not fix that?

[__Helmut_Kohl__]

Was already wondering where the weekly "has ship XYZ been nerfed" thread was.

 

I think it's really just bad RNG mate, it happens. :)

[principat121]

24 minutes ago, Snowy_a said:

I kept getting suprized how unlucky I am and everytime I think its a fluke but it got worse and worse and worse and at this point I am almost convinced something is off?

Do you know what "chance" mean?

[Snowy_a]

Just now, principat121 said:

Do you know what "chance" mean?

I know way better than you

[bobtherterrible]

Two biggest problems for me with the Thunderer is

A) I can't shoot accurately enough so get really poor results with it

B) there's such a rabid fuss about it at the moment that you just get focus fired to death as soon as you spawn.

 

For mainly the latter reason it'll remain in port until the excitement dies down.

[JG4_sKylon]

It´s not a bug, it´s a balanz comrade ;)

 

[principat121]

1 minute ago, Snowy_a said:

I know way better than you

I doubt that, because if you know what chance mean, you would know that that what you observe is fully in the limits of that what the game says and that assumin "something is off" is far too deliberate at this point.

 

Let me share this for our enlightment:

Spoiler

 

[Snowy_a]

11 minutes ago, principat121 said:

I doubt that, because if you know what chance mean, you would know that that what you observe is fully in the limits of that what the game says and that assumin "something is off" is far too deliberate at this point.

 

Let me share this for our enlightment:

  Hide contents

 

If I didnt know that Id say the thunderer is bugged not ask I hope you had fun explaining something everybody knows

[ghostbuster_]

HE spamming thunderer complaining about fire chance.  playerbase is truely hopeless.

[principat121]

25 minutes ago, Snowy_a said:

If I didnt know that Id say the thunderer is bugged not ask I hope you had fun explaining something everybody knows

Then there is nothing "off" and then there would be no swift reason to start a topic.

 

But the opposite is true:

1 hour ago, Snowy_a said:

I kept getting suprized how unlucky I am and everytime I think its a fluke but it got worse and worse and worse and at this point I am almost convinced something is off?

 

[Snowy_a]

12 minutes ago, ghostbuster_ said:

HE spamming thunderer complaining about fire chance.  playerbase is truely hopeless.

Should I be spamming AP so I am less hopeless?

[ColonelPete]

7 minutes ago, Snowy_a said:

Should I be spamming AP so I am less hopeless?

On most cruisers? Yes.

[Snowy_a]

Just now, ColonelPete said:

On most cruisers? Yes.

is there some mode with only cruisers because I haven t found it yet?

[Dragontrn]

Are you wishing that you will get every fire on hit lol. Thunderer HE spam is what we hated most, it just karna, not a bug. Anyway, i love to he a Thunderer burned to sink =))))

[ColonelPete]

Just now, Snowy_a said:

is there some mode with only cruisers because I haven t found it yet?

There are cruisers and nearly all random battles.

You can move your crosshairs and aim at them.

[Snowy_a]

2 minutes ago, ColonelPete said:

There are cruisers and nearly all random battles.

You can move your crosshairs and aim at them.

I know about random battles but where is the mode with only cruisers so I can main AP. Is that some special unlock after playing 15k battles for epople with a lot of free time?

[Echo_519]

Vor 10 Minuten, Snowy_a sagte:

Should I be spamming AP so I am less hopeless?

 

Vor 2 Minuten, ColonelPete sagte:

On most cruisers? Yes.

Look for broadsides and shoot AP. You have over 24km range. Not finding any broadside means you are out of position...

Thunderer has quite good AP, so why not use it?

[Snowy_a]

1 minute ago, Echo_519 said:

 

Look for broadsides and shoot AP. You have over 24km range. Not finding any broadside means you are out of position...

Thunderer has quite good AP, so why not use it?

 

Oof good AP have you tried something like the Republique or the Montana maybe? It might open your eyes

[Wedontneedmoregrippen]

dont forget us BBs have looong repair party runtime (can extend).

That time cant re-fire the ship...

[Dragontrn]

3 minutes ago, Snowy_a said:

 

Oof good AP have you tried something like the Republique or the Montana maybe? It might open your eyes

Thunderer is one of the most accurate with 457mm gun if not say the most, you cant citadel mean you are not good enought

[Echo_519]

Vor 2 Minuten, Snowy_a sagte:

Oof good AP have you tried something like the Republique or the Montana maybe? It might open your eyes

Montana? really? Thunderer has way better AP then Montana... So use it.

Of counse you won't get citadels on BB's on max range, but neither do others. You can target the upper belt, you can easiely hit bb's for 15-20k per salvo without any citadels.

[PsychoClownfish]

2 hours ago, Snowy_a said:

Anyone else noticed something strange with the Thunderer fire chance? I had a few games with abysmal amount of fires. I had 32 hits on a montana and 2 fires. Next game 4 fires with 60 hits.

 

I kept getting suprized how unlucky I am and everytime I think its a fluke but it got worse and worse and worse and at this point I am almost convinced something is off?

I am not kidding when I say that setting  fires with Thunderer is as likely as doing it with Minotaur. Well maybe slightly more likely but not much. I see videos of people setting three fires in one salvo. In all the time I've had Thunderer, I have set a double fire once. I can place six HE hits and not get a fire, in fact that's the norm. 

I have calculated that doing a 4 hit HE salvo has a 1.7% chance of NOT setting a fire. If you go purely by Thunderer's stats. Of course there are other factors involved, but in my case, those factors apparently make it like shooting AP.

Which is what I do mostly anyway. But still.