Developer Bulletin Update 10.10: Initial Comments

[Aethervoxx]

A lot of 'content' coming our way. The question is: Is it good?

1) Superships: Six superships coming our way with gimmicks*

* one gimmick: Burst of Fire - this looks suspiciously like the auto-loading cannon from WoT.

I suppose Superships is one direction WoWS is headed towards.

2) Fifth Ranked Battles: 7 vs 7 T10 ships. ROFL. T10 is already a crap show. 

3) Arms Race: T9 & T10 only featuring 'team buffs' at various locations on a map. What is this? Pokemon i-phone location hunting?

WoWS already spawns players onto a map with totally ludicrous 'matching'. This 'arms race' idea, imho, is a recipe for more disaster.

4) Visual Improvements & HD textures: We all, or mostly all, like these kinds of improvements. The coders need employment.

5) Underwater Vegetation: Oh rapture of raptures. Just what we need when we take 'Nautilus' '20,000 leagues under the Sea'. 'Aquaman' approves (When will he be a Cpt for sale? - with 'special sub abilities', ofc).

6) Division Achievements: Any proposal to encourage 'divisioning' is good considering the (almost) complete lack of team play most of the time. Note a second borrowing from WoT - 'Brothers in Arms'.

7) Reworked Cpt portraits: Sure, whatever, so long as these new features can be retro-fitted onto current Cpts - some of the current faces & names appear far too often.

The next item is from the Wish List which is a section where WG advertises what new Ships/tech tree lines are being proposed;

8) Pan-Asia Cruisers: T5 to T10. Two points - where are the T3 & T4 P-A Cruisers? & what are these T5 - T10 Cruisers & their names, never heard of any of them. 

We do know why this Pan-Asia Cruiser tech tree line is appearing - simply to offer something to that untapped market.

9) Almost all the new Wish List ships are T8, T9 & T10. No surprise here. Lots of new premium ships for sale.

Overall, what is my opinion?  I like the new graphic upgrades. Some new Cpt portraits are nice too. Otherwise, I dislike everything else.

Still no Italian DD tech tree line on the horizon.

 

[Hades_warrior]

5 minutes ago, Aethervoxx said:

9) Almost all the new Wish List ships are T8, T9 & T10. No surprise here. Lots of new premium ships for sale.

Which one?

[ZeMalm]

10 minutes ago, Aethervoxx said:

7) Reworked Cpt portraits:

This is where WG should put their effort into. Then they do not have time to fukk up game mechanics. 

[Aethervoxx]

12 minutes ago, Aethervoxx said:

Lots of new premium ships for sale.

Check the Dev Blog 'Wish List'.

7 minutes ago, Hades_warrior said:

Which one?

Look at the list, then, pick whichever one you like the most - my bet is they all will be premiums for sale & if not that, then sold for coal and/or steel.

[MementoMori_6030]

Vor 14 Minuten, Aethervoxx sagte:

1) Superships:

Not interested.

Vor 14 Minuten, Aethervoxx sagte:

2) Fifth Ranked Battles:

Not interested.

Vor 14 Minuten, Aethervoxx sagte:

3) Arms Race:

Not interested.

Vor 14 Minuten, Aethervoxx sagte:

4) Visual Improvements & HD textures:

Not the top priority when it comes to what the game really needs at the moment.

Vor 14 Minuten, Aethervoxx sagte:

5) Underwater Vegetation:

Not interested. It's for suckmariners' eyes only.

Vor 14 Minuten, Aethervoxx sagte:

6) Division Achievements:

Not interested. Achievements have become useless.

Vor 14 Minuten, Aethervoxx sagte:

7) Reworked Cpt portraits: 

Not the top priority when it comes to what the game really needs at the moment.

Vor 14 Minuten, Aethervoxx sagte:

8) Pan-Asia Cruisers:

Not interested.

Vor 14 Minuten, Aethervoxx sagte:

9) Almost all the new Wish List ships are T8, T9 & T10:

Not interested.

[Miragetank90]

I'm honestly interested in the Super Star Destroyer Hannover Superships.

 

In any case I would take these over subs in a heartbeat. 

[Aethervoxx]

25 minutes ago, MementoMori_6030 said:

Not interested.

Me neither, for the most part. I was doing my best to be 'positive' (lol). The 'underwater vegetation' - I mean, is there any question now that Subs are here to stay.

When do we get Jules Verne's 'Nautilus' & 'Cpt Nemo' in Halloween mode? 

[SobanRe]

Yeah, more shiny stuff to dazzle and distract.

 

Don't think about anything, look it's shiny  and pay up. 

[RenamedUser_92906789]

I actually look forward to Arms race to grind my T9s. Preferable without subs. And CVs.... (ye like that will happen).

[ZeuSueZ1337]

Supah ships! Time to dust off Somers, Shima etc. However the super DD and CL/CA makes me worry a bit.

 

More important tho (I'm phat-l00t kind'da guy) it seems we have to dust off snowflakes already starting in November? Aren't 0.10.10 scheduled (+/-) for release early November? Was hoping this to be a x-mas kind of grind....

Mostly I'm in it for the expected steel (75 for each t8&t9 still ?) rewards. The santa-crates are nice but it's not a priority atm.

 

The arms race tho, pity :(

 

bUt tHe PlEbS....sorry - plaYeRs, WaNt MoRe ArCaDe?!

(doubt it)

[invicta2012]

2 hours ago, Aethervoxx said:

1) Superships: Six superships coming our way with gimmicks*

* one gimmick: Burst of Fire - this looks suspiciously like the auto-loading cannon from WoT.

I suppose Superships is one direction WoWS is headed towards

I can't say I'm interested in bigger battleships. The Burst of Fire idea is extremely overpowered and will be unpopular. We already have TRB and MBRB and we know how strong those are. This sort of idea might have worked a few years ago when it was easier to remain unspotted, but this sort of thing is just going to lead to more games being "get spotted, get wrecked".

 

2 hours ago, Aethervoxx said:

3) Arms Race: T9 & T10 only featuring 'team buffs' at various locations on a map. What is this? Pokemon i-phone location hunting?

WoWS already spawns players onto a map with totally ludicrous 'matching'. This 'arms race' idea, imho, is a recipe for more disaster.

It's an ideal game mode for lower Tiers. Mid Tiers are full of WGs bad idea ships which means balancing buffs is impossible - what helps the Nurnberg is hopelessly OP on a Belfast - and with so much overmatch at higher Tiers, buffs seem irrelevant. Lower Tier ships are often so weak and so wonky though, that buffs would be worthwhile and could be used for fun gameplay. Tier III-IV-V gameplay with capture zones giving buffs to dispersion, speed, secondary range? Why the hell not? 

 

2 hours ago, Aethervoxx said:

4) Visual Improvements & HD textures: We all, or mostly all, like these kinds of improvements. The coders need employment.

5) Underwater Vegetation: Oh rapture of raptures. Just what we need when we take 'Nautilus' '20,000 leagues under the Sea'. 'Aquaman' approves (When will he be a Cpt for sale? - with 'special sub abilities', ofc).

All good if it means they're spending more time optimising the graphics. 

 

2 hours ago, Aethervoxx said:

8) Pan-Asia Cruisers: T5 to T10. Two points - where are the T3 & T4 P-A Cruisers? & what are these T5 - T10 Cruisers & their names, never heard of any of them. 

We do know why this Pan-Asia Cruiser tech tree line is appearing - simply to offer something to that untapped market.

The PA Cruiser Tier III and IVs are the real ones and therefore WG can't be bothered. As for what these ships are...

 

Tier V - Arethusa / Huang He

Tier VI - Dido

Tier VII - Flint

Tier VIII - Ochakov / Flint

Tier IX - Seattle (just joking, it's a super light US cruiser with Midway's secondaries for main guns)

Tier X - Austin, but with *lots* of torpedoes. 

[fumtu]

11 minutes ago, invicta2012 said:

The PA Cruiser Tier III and IVs are the real ones and therefore WG can't be bothered. As for what these ships are...

 

T5 is also a real one and the only one that actually served in some Pan Asian Navy (China) out of all those announced. Also, you can count (or not) a Dido at T6, real ship but fictional cruiser with fictional guns, and Oakland at T7, real ship but never sold to anyone, here.

 

 

[Hades_warrior]

4 hours ago, Aethervoxx said:

Check the Dev Blog 'Wish List'.

Look at the list, then, pick whichever one you like the most - my bet is they all will be premiums for sale & if not that, then sold for coal and/or steel.

Ok, I added Tulsa to my wish list. Now what?

Congratulations! You are participating in this offer!

[Deckeru_Maiku]

5 hours ago, Aethervoxx said:

A lot of 'content' coming our way. The question is: Is it good?

1-3) ...

4) Visual Improvements & HD textures: We all, or mostly all, like these kinds of improvements. The coders need employment.

5) Underwater Vegetation: Oh rapture of raptures. Just what we need when we take 'Nautilus' '20,000 leagues under the Sea'. 'Aquaman' approves (When will he be a Cpt for sale? - with 'special sub abilities', ofc).

6-9) ...

 

1-3) not interested a bit...

4) yeah, nice... not needed, but nice...

5) yeah, ox feces... if Subs were handled as in a sim they wouldn't ever see anything under water. WG could have put the guys doing all this graphical fluff to rather do something productive...

6-9) not interested a bit...

[totally_potato]

12 hours ago, Aethervoxx said:

A lot of 'content' coming our way. The question is: Is it good?

1) Superships: Six superships coming our way with gimmicks*

* one gimmick: Burst of Fire - this looks suspiciously like the auto-loading cannon from WoT.

I suppose Superships is one direction WoWS is headed towards.

2) Fifth Ranked Battles: 7 vs 7 T10 ships. ROFL. T10 is already a crap show. 

3) Arms Race: T9 & T10 only featuring 'team buffs' at various locations on a map. What is this? Pokemon i-phone location hunting?

WoWS already spawns players onto a map with totally ludicrous 'matching'. This 'arms race' idea, imho, is a recipe for more disaster.

4) Visual Improvements & HD textures: We all, or mostly all, like these kinds of improvements. The coders need employment.

5) Underwater Vegetation: Oh rapture of raptures. Just what we need when we take 'Nautilus' '20,000 leagues under the Sea'. 'Aquaman' approves (When will he be a Cpt for sale? - with 'special sub abilities', ofc).

6) Division Achievements: Any proposal to encourage 'divisioning' is good considering the (almost) complete lack of team play most of the time. Note a second borrowing from WoT - 'Brothers in Arms'.

7) Reworked Cpt portraits: Sure, whatever, so long as these new features can be retro-fitted onto current Cpts - some of the current faces & names appear far too often.

The next item is from the Wish List which is a section where WG advertises what new Ships/tech tree lines are being proposed;

8) Pan-Asia Cruisers: T5 to T10. Two points - where are the T3 & T4 P-A Cruisers? & what are these T5 - T10 Cruisers & their names, never heard of any of them. 

We do know why this Pan-Asia Cruiser tech tree line is appearing - simply to offer something to that untapped market.

9) Almost all the new Wish List ships are T8, T9 & T10. No surprise here. Lots of new premium ships for sale.

Overall, what is my opinion?  I like the new graphic upgrades. Some new Cpt portraits are nice too. Otherwise, I dislike everything else.

Still no Italian DD tech tree line on the horizon.

 

Visual improvements, Arms Race hell ya

Division achievements, Reworked captain portraits hell ya

Superships ranked with no subs Sure why not

 

Rest

 

MEH

 

[Gnirf]

Superships.....

The economy for T10s is too good.

Therefor WG introduce superships - i.e. the top tier battles will consist of even more fantasy.

 

However the economy in T11 is bad for the players

 

 

Solution T11 Permacamo=15000 doubloons ....Genius WG 

[Latouche_Treville]

Still grinding old cruiser lines so, i'm not interested in those bovine faecal bowls frivolous novelties.
For now, i play only operations and coo-op so, you can imagine what i think about ranked, arms races, etc..
On the graphic changes, i don't care i play on a cell phone.

 

 

 

No, i'm kidding, but i don't care.

[Prophecy82]

16 hours ago, Aethervoxx said:

A lot of 'content' coming our way. The question is: Is it good?

1) Superships: Six superships coming our way with gimmicks*

* one gimmick: Burst of Fire - this looks suspiciously like the auto-loading cannon from WoT.

I suppose Superships is one direction WoWS is headed towards.

Blergh.

Especially since the RU-Super-DD isnt Smodaloi. They had ONE FKiNG JOB!

 

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2) Fifth Ranked Battles: 7 vs 7 T10 ships. ROFL. T10 is already a crap show. 

Lame.

 

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3) Arms Race: T9 & T10 only featuring 'team buffs' at various locations on a map. What is this? Pokemon i-phone location hunting?

WoWS already spawns players onto a map with totally ludicrous 'matching'. This 'arms race' idea, imho, is a recipe for more disaster.

Actually I like armsrace. Hate me if you want but I hope its comming to Randoms: We have the same-old-same-old for ages. 

At the moment I take everything that breathes fresh air into Randoms that is not ships and especially not subs. 

 

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4) Visual Improvements & HD textures: We all, or mostly all, like these kinds of improvements. The coders need employment.

Fine I guess. 

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5) Underwater Vegetation: Oh rapture of raptures. Just what we need when we take 'Nautilus' '20,000 leagues under the Sea'. 'Aquaman' approves (When will he be a Cpt for sale? - with 'special sub abilities', ofc).

You mean like this? 

Spoiler

 

Would be an incentive to play subs... infact would be more exciting then the gameplay. 

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6) Division Achievements: Any proposal to encourage 'divisioning' is good considering the (almost) complete lack of team play most of the time. Note a second borrowing from WoT - 'Brothers in Arms'.

Nice idea, but where rewards for achievments?

 

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7) Reworked Cpt portraits: Sure, whatever, so long as these new features can be retro-fitted onto current Cpts - some of the current faces & names appear far too often.

I have a mod for that. To feed my needs.    

 

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8) Pan-Asia Cruisers: T5 to T10. Two points - where are the T3 & T4 P-A Cruisers? & what are these T5 - T10 Cruisers & their names, never heard of any of them. 

They are called: Smolensk the TT-Line. What could possibly go wrong?

 

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9) Almost all the new Wish List ships are T8, T9 & T10. No surprise here. Lots of new premium ships for sale.

Coal for Tulsa is already piled. 

[fumtu]

21 minutes ago, Prophecy82 said:

Coal for Tulsa is already piled. 

 

So that is why there is a shortage of coal in China, you are stockpiling it for Tulsa. How dare you

[Fat_Maniac]

I also picked up this little nugget. 

In Update 0.10.10, you can earn festive battle performance bonuses on all of your ships of Tier V and above. Depending on the ship's tier, you can grab Coal, Steel, or a special temporary resource that you can exchange for Santa's Gift containers in Update 0.10.11

 

Is that a change to the "snowflakes" event or something else?

[MementoMori_6030]

Vor 8 Minuten, Fat_Maniac sagte:

Santa's Gift containers in Update 0.10.11

But I already have 3 Makarovs...

[fumtu]

6 minutes ago, MementoMori_6030 said:

But I already have 3 Makarovs...

 

Poker of Makarovs sounds better then just three of a kind.

[MementoMori_6030]

Gerade eben, fumtu sagte:

Poker of Makarovs sounds better then just three of a kind.

Ok, threesome. Better?

[fumtu]

1 minute ago, MementoMori_6030 said:

Ok, threesome. Better?

 

You mean foursome, after all there is three of them and only one you.

[MementoMori_6030]

Vor 1 Minute, fumtu sagte:

You mean foursome, after all there is three of them and only one you.

No, I am a total of 11, and only 3 of those 11 have a Makarov.