Warships in 2022. What do we think it will be like?

[Bear__Necessities]

So. As the title suggests, where do we think WG will be taking Warships next year?

 

Here is my gut feeling.

 

[KruppStahl14]

2019: Disappointment
2020: Huge disappointment

2021: Can they f*** up harder than last year !? OH BOY THEY CAN !

2022: Same question. Is that even possible ?

 

 

But to be fair, WG did show some signs of improvement like percentages on lootboxes etc. However, some weeks ago they told stuff about the credit eco being out of hand. They could ruin that for us. Even tho we got to buy our flags for credits now (And for some they even charge us for Dubs...). Further monetization of our Credit income, that could be the big 2022 sh*tstorm.

[MementoMori_6030]

[Bindolaf_Werebane]

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[loki51]

Probably uninstaled again :-D

[Verblonde]

17 minutes ago, Bear__Necessities said:

Here is my gut feeling.

 

That looks strikingly prescient to me...

 

To be fair, WG have shown some signs of being less ghastly of late (per @KruppStahl14), but I don't believe for a second that's because they've suddenly become born-again decent; it's all about the money, and I imagine that the various "you're getting it whether you want it or not" stuff, like submarines, is calculated to make more money than it'll lose...

[Camperdown]

I have low expectations and no hope.

[Takethatyoubeast]

28 minutes ago, Camperdown said:

I have low expectations and no hope.

Those were my wedding vows 🤣

[Molly_Delaney]

WG will announce it is actually a recruitment tool for Glorious Soviet Navy......

Like America's Army is a recruit info tool for US Army (explains a lot)

[arquata2019_]

31 minuti fa, Bear__Necessities ha scritto:

So. As the title suggests, where do we think WG will be taking Warships next year?

 

Here is my gut feeling.

 

shinano

tier 12 carriers (because we gotta solve t10 being always toptier in randoms)

ofc missiles because we need to have  more fun

and... what else did i miss? oh right, smaland with 10 turrets with grozovoi arcs and shima torps

& the returning of odd tier cvs because the more the cvs the more the fun

 

if any of this is actually happening you know who to think of, this is all humoristic, but ya know.. :)

 

[MadBadDave]

MTB’s.  Please.

 

Other than that can’t see any change in direction, more op Russian paper ships, more rouble collecting and ever glitzy graphics,  for those of us who prefer SWOS to FIFA, and Jet Set Willy to GTA 59 game play always tops glitz.

 

 

[lovelacebeer]

I have absolutely no faith in the way things are going and already stopped playing randoms. 

[Takethatyoubeast]

1 minute ago, lovelacebeer said:

I have absolutely no faith in the way things are going and already stopped playing randoms. 

Try playing Arms race - OMG it’s like they have specified “ On no account must you even try in this mode” 

 

Win or lose they are all blow outs 

[Bindolaf_Werebane]

2 hours ago, Takethatyoubeast said:

Those were my wedding vows 🤣

And s(he) replied "take that, you beast"? :D

[totally_potato]

2 hours ago, KruppStahl14 said:

2019: Disappointment
2020: Huge disappointment

2021: Can they f*** up harder than last year !? OH BOY THEY CAN !

2022: Same question. Is that even possible ?

 

 

But to be fair, WG did show some signs of improvement like percentages on lootboxes etc. However, some weeks ago they told stuff about the credit eco being out of hand. They could ruin that for us. Even tho we got to buy our flags for credits now (And for some they even charge us for Dubs...). Further monetization of our Credit income, that could be the big 2022 sh*tstorm.

2019 - RN CVs, Soviet BBs, French DDs, and Italian cruisers

2020 - British CAs, European DDs, Soviet CAs and changes to soviet CLs, German CVs, and US BB split

2021 - Italian BBs, German DD split, Dutch cruisers, Soviet CVs, and German BCs

2022 - Pan Asian cruisers, and ??? 

 

2019 year was a bad year in general becoz of CV rework, but lines in general

RN CVs - Historical CVs, that are balanced, and bring different flavors of CV armaments to the mix. I didn't like CVs in particular, but had no problem facing them tbh

Soviet BBs - BBs that bring new gameplay to the mix. Tanky forts with punchy guns, good AA, decent conceal and new form of dmg con. They promoted good gameplay, and were kinda hard to use 

French DDs - Smoke-less DDs, which are insanely fast and bring yolo torps and good guns with MBRB, but trash conceal. Open water gunboats aren't that bad to have in the game, but will admit they are kind over tuned, but very fun to play

Italian cruisers - Decent line with new ammo and fuel smoke. No utility, focus on damage only. Wasn't that big of a deal

 

2020

British CAs - They are good counters against hard to kill ships, but I do admit, their gameplay is kinds stale

European DDs - The torpedo boat line in like forever, since the Pan Asian DDs and IJN gunboat split (mid tiers). Was nice to pick up. The guns and heal made it nice against DDs too

Soviet CAs - Yes the T10 is broken, but the T8 and 9 bring good gameplay, are unique and quite fun. Nevsky wasn't bad either and while its overrated, its a decent ship alright

German CVs - The only CV line that I liked. AP focus, class focused air groups, new AP rockets, requires a ton of planning ahead. Plus some meme secondaries. Broken on release, decently balanced today

US BB split - Pathetic line apart from t10, but gameplay is bad

 

2021

Italian BBs - Gud line, as it brings SAP to a whole new form, smoke on BBs, good armor, high alpha gunpower, etc. Great pushing line

German DD line - AP focused gunboats that can farm BBs the best, nuke the crap out of cruisers, and can fight a DD at long range thnx to its accuracy. Gud armor and high HP pools too. Misconcepted at first, but gud line

Dutch cruisers - Meh line, but a knack on close range with high pen but wonky guns with solid caliber, airstrikes, improved heal cd and decent protection with improved concealment.

Soviet CVs - Unique CVs, still broken tho. So meh. Do like one thing is that you can directly reduce the dmg coming your way with AA, and potentially knock a miss-played squad off to hell

German BCs - Amazing line, with accurate main battery, god tier secondaries, good conceal, decent armor, high speed and agility, German hydro, large number of hard hitting and long range torps.

 

 

The trend of the lines recently has been more mid-close range focused, so def the lines aren't getting worse.

 

 

[Takethatyoubeast]

19 minutes ago, Bindolaf_Werebane said:

And s(he) replied "take that, you beast"? :D

I like what you’ve done there 🤣

[ZeuSueZ1337]

A cluster-f***.

 

Subs aren't as prevalent as WG would have them be so expect WG to flood it with premium subs from all over the world. One more OP than the other, but no one more OP than fantasy paper CCCP-subs.

 

But for me Supahships are gonna be the straw that breaks the camelback. It's been a few fun/good years sailing but once I've cleared all my steel and "gift certificates" I'm gonna dial down my sailing to a bare minimum. The experience with ranked and players who have maybe played a few hundred games randoms and then comes rolling in on a boat that's way out of their league is a complete showstopper for me. I'm gonna sail casually with my clan mates but the grinding days are over.

[MadBadDave]

23 minutes ago, ZeuSueZ1337 said:

A cluster-f***.

 

Subs aren't as prevalent as WG would have them be so expect WG to flood it with premium subs from all over the world. One more OP than the other, but no one more OP than fantasy paper CCCP-subs.

 

But for me Supahships are gonna be the straw that breaks the camelback. It's been a few fun/good years sailing but once I've cleared all my steel and "gift certificates" I'm gonna dial down my sailing to a bare minimum. The experience with ranked and players who have maybe played a few hundred games randoms and then comes rolling in on a boat that's way out of their league is a complete showstopper for me. I'm gonna sail casually with my clan mates but the grinding days are over.

I think a lot of us who’ve been playing this game for years have exactly the same train of thought, WG will not change its course; noobs mean money, so many things which could easily and quickly be changed / improved but we all know they won’t be,  no money in it.

[illy]

[Aethervoxx]

The writing is on the wall. The writing is in red. It's blood. There is a crime scene here. It was a domestic crime (at WG HQ). It was a self- inflicted wound. Was it fatal? Who knows? It's on life-support (aka walleting ).

[Wulf_Ace]

4 hours ago, Bear__Necessities said:

So. As the title suggests, where do we think WG will be taking Warships next year?

 

Here is my gut feeling.

 

this picture is already here.

but the worst thing is all those autoreloaders, they are bringing them from WoT, worst possible game implemenation in the world

[KruppStahl14]

1 hour ago, totally_potato said:

2019 - RN CVs, Soviet BBs, French DDs, and Italian cruisers

2020 - British CAs, European DDs, Soviet CAs and changes to soviet CLs, German CVs, and US BB split

2021 - Italian BBs, German DD split, Dutch cruisers, Soviet CVs, and German BCs

2022 - Pan Asian cruisers, and ??? 

 

2019 year was a bad year in general becoz of CV rework, but lines in general

RN CVs - Historical CVs, that are balanced, and bring different flavors of CV armaments to the mix. I didn't like CVs in particular, but had no problem facing them tbh

Soviet BBs - BBs that bring new gameplay to the mix. Tanky forts with punchy guns, good AA, decent conceal and new form of dmg con. They promoted good gameplay, and were kinda hard to use 

French DDs - Smoke-less DDs, which are insanely fast and bring yolo torps and good guns with MBRB, but trash conceal. Open water gunboats aren't that bad to have in the game, but will admit they are kind over tuned, but very fun to play

Italian cruisers - Decent line with new ammo and fuel smoke. No utility, focus on damage only. Wasn't that big of a deal

 

2020

British CAs - They are good counters against hard to kill ships, but I do admit, their gameplay is kinds stale

European DDs - The torpedo boat line in like forever, since the Pan Asian DDs and IJN gunboat split (mid tiers). Was nice to pick up. The guns and heal made it nice against DDs too

Soviet CAs - Yes the T10 is broken, but the T8 and 9 bring good gameplay, are unique and quite fun. Nevsky wasn't bad either and while its overrated, its a decent ship alright

German CVs - The only CV line that I liked. AP focus, class focused air groups, new AP rockets, requires a ton of planning ahead. Plus some meme secondaries. Broken on release, decently balanced today

US BB split - Pathetic line apart from t10, but gameplay is bad

 

2021

Italian BBs - Gud line, as it brings SAP to a whole new form, smoke on BBs, good armor, high alpha gunpower, etc. Great pushing line

German DD line - AP focused gunboats that can farm BBs the best, nuke the crap out of cruisers, and can fight a DD at long range thnx to its accuracy. Gud armor and high HP pools too. Misconcepted at first, but gud line

Dutch cruisers - Meh line, but a knack on close range with high pen but wonky guns with solid caliber, airstrikes, improved heal cd and decent protection with improved concealment.

Soviet CVs - Unique CVs, still broken tho. So meh. Do like one thing is that you can directly reduce the dmg coming your way with AA, and potentially knock a miss-played squad off to hell

German BCs - Amazing line, with accurate main battery, god tier secondaries, good conceal, decent armor, high speed and agility, German hydro, large number of hard hitting and long range torps.

 

 

The trend of the lines recently has been more mid-close range focused, so def the lines aren't getting worse.

 

 

We had the addition of lines before. That is normal and nothing outstanding. Neither did i claim that lines are getting worse (ita BBs are a big disappointment tho).
The years i listed up were the ones when WG started big time to add premiums which were considered unthinkable and unhealthy for the game before like Smolensk, Thunderer and breaking promises like with Shikishima. Also the full monetization offense with lootboxes.

The horrible CV rework. Doing big f*** ups in events like Puerto Rico and the short list incident last Christmas.

This year came the captain rework which mostly aimed on reducing our elite captain XP gain and making respecs more expensive. Also The removal of flags for achievements. Lying to the community over and over again "wE reMoVeD fLaGs FoR aChiEvEmeNTs BecAuSE pEoPlE eXpLoiT iT To FaRM dEToNaTiOn flAGs"... Who believes this BS ? Then big PR desasters like Yukon and the "FCKUTORIE" Incident. And finally the addition of Subs which almost nobody wanted.

 

The last 3 years were nothing but a dumbster fire. Doesnt matter if they continued to add good new lines, thats no argument. Btw, they even monetized this with the pre realease of lines and the token stuff. And people spend money on this...

 

I did break this down very shortly. If someone has the time, he could make you a gigantic list of all the bad things of the last 3 years in this game.

2015-2018 is still the golden era (with some flaws) of WoWs.

[Mad_Dog_Dante]

I've stopped playing randoms almost completely this year and am satisfying my remnant cravings for ships by playing each and every one of them harvesting stupid celebration tokens in coop. I never thought I'd sink this low because I think WOWS coop is about as stupid as any sub par online game can get. But random/ranked/etc matches infuriate me, as the stuff thrown into it gets more broken each release up to the point where I only played a handfull of ships. At least while farming stupid tokens I get to see all my ships at least once without getting depressed as fk about the state of humanity.

[fumtu]

For 2022 I expect to finally see this in the game

 

Spoiler

It is Soviet, it has rockets, it is fast, it ... can fly (well technically glide just above surface)! So perfect in every sense

 

Spoiler

 

 

[KruppStahl14]

26 minutes ago, Europizza said:

I've stopped playign randoms almost completely this year and am satisfying my remnant cravings for ships by playing each and every one of them harvesting stupid tokens in coop. I never thought I'd sink this low because I think WOWS coop is about as stupid as any sub par online game can get. But random/ranked/etc matches infuriate me, as the stuff thrown into it gets more broken each release up to the point where I only played a handfull of ships. At least while farming stupid tokens I get to see all my ships at least once without getting depressed as fk about the state of humanity.

I feel that. After the introduction of deadeye i did quit the horrible experience which it caused for some months.
However, after they removed this dumb skill, i returned and had a blast again. Mostly playing T9 which has way less CV/Sub matches and not as many broken HE spammers as T10 mm. T9 is the new sweetspot which T7 was for a long time. Just crossing my fingers that they never add odd tier CVs again and Subs...