Waterline: Roadmap Update – Spring 2022

[The_EURL_Guy]

You can look forward to new ships, game activities, and events, as well as new improvements and changes!

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[Kaptenballe]

Are there things you can improve Co-OP Let it be 15 vs 15 and 2000 pointsLet
The bot ships go like a random battle so you can also use CO-OP as trainingShips that you abused against reality fix to them
Do mission battle for all levels, you should be able to choose the difficulty level Tier from 1 to *. Clean up Super Ship
Assignments with difficulty afterwards and reward accordingly.
For example Tier 1 to 3 missions +2 - 2En the wish had been the Nordic Chruiser Tech tree.

[GermanBoomercaustEnjoyer]

Steel compensation better be above 20k steel. On a srs note - i did most of the PR event missions back then (had to pay +-40€ to complete it and no - i had no crap bucket under me while being a sub 50% WR player back then while playing 2h hours a day around that christmas). I dont expect like a t10 steel ship price but at least worth 2x seasons of CB - anything below that would be a smack in the face - dunno about the ones that payed PR full price since they must dont care to much about anything to begin with.

 

Anyway - Roadmap in general looks good tho - lf to this summer then.

 

 

[Panocek]

RIP 155mm Mogami

[ReDiR20]

Promising news, but I would be much more interested in Odin or Anchorage instead of Puerto Rico...

[Nauseica]

20 minutes ago, Panocek said:

RIP 155mm Mogami

Lets hope that Mogami will either stay on Heavy lien as it is or atleast moved as it is in free premium ships and be priced as coal ship as it been for some other ships like Khaba/GK

 

But honestly im preparing for some butchering ... it is japanese ships anyways like german ships WG tends to be a little bit over "sledgehammering"

"cross fingers"

[Panocek]

5 minutes ago, Nauseica said:

Lets hope that Mogami will either stay on Heavy lien as it is or atleast moved as it is in free premium ships and be priced as coal ship as it been for some other ships like Khaba/GK

 

But honestly im preparing for some butchering ... it is japanese ships anyways like german ships WG tends to be a little bit over "sledgehammering"

"cross fingers"

Mogami probably will stay as T8 CA, just lose 155mm option

[wot_2016_gunner]

about the upcoming T7 IJN CL, 

 

i htink people have forgotten about Oyodo, which has 155mm (2 mogami turrets)

 

[Nauseica]

Just now, Panocek said:

Mogami probably will stay as T8 CA, just lose 155mm option

[lmperial_Japanese_Navy]

IJN LIGHT CRUISERS !!!!! Finally something to look forward to !

 

This will open door for ships like IJN Oyodo and the IJN AA cruiser purposal with a ton of 100 mm guns ! And that IJN Kitakami might be finally released together with the new branch ?

 

Although this is kinda exciting news but i hope you won't forget to update the ships we already have in the game. Many of them have been in the game since the BETA and they look horribly low quality in comparison to the newer ships...

 

 

 

 

[Panocek]

1 minute ago, Nauseica said:

Z23 lost her historical 15cm guns with Ger DD split, what makes you think Mogami will retain hers?

[lmperial_Japanese_Navy]

2 minutes ago, wot_2016_gunner said:

i htink people have forgotten about Oyodo, which has 155mm (2 mogami turrets)

 

Well, i didn't. IJN Oyodo is one of those ships came to my mind when talkng about light cruiser, but because they said all ships will be equipped with 610 mm torpedo, so Oyodo is defnitely not going to be in this branch because she needed to save weight for aircraft hangar so she didn't have any torps.

But seeing how WG made all hybrid ships premium, i wouldn't be surprised...

[Panocek]

4 minutes ago, wot_2016_gunner said:

about the upcoming T7 IJN CL, 

 

i htink people have forgotten about Oyodo, which has 155mm (2 mogami turrets)

 

Thing is, IJN CLs weren't particularly stellar as we have last designed CL (?) on tier 5, Yahagi. And she's hardly popular choice

 

So outside of some quality napkin designs, I'd expect Mogami class but in CL config as tier 8-9 at best. As tier 10? She would have to pack SERIOUS torpedo power, powercreeping Aliexpress cruisers when doing so.

[Verblonde]

Am I blind - I'm not seeing any mention of submarines? Is it too much to hope that WG have realised they really aren't working...?

[ReDiR20]

11 minutes ago, Panocek said:

Z23 lost her historical 15cm guns with Ger DD split, what makes you think Mogami will retain hers?

 

Losing the "fun" version of Mogami would be "not fun", but the ship never fit in that line

 

If new T8 will be similar, then it's seems like a decent compromise

[ReDiR20]

Just now, Verblonde said:

Am I blind - I'm not seeing any mention of submarines? Is it too much to hope that WG have realised they really aren't working...?

 

I'm suprised and disappointed to not see them released in tech trees. Probably later than Autumn then?

[Panocek]

1 minute ago, ReDiR20 said:

 

Losing the "fun" version of Mogami would be "not fun", but the ship never fit in that line

 

If new T8 will be similar, then it's seems as a decent compromise

T8 CL Mogami class, as there were 4 of them would be fine and "least damaging" I guess. Issue is, there are no CL designs I know of that would fill tier 9 and 10 and not feel completely out of place, Like Kitakami being pressed as tier 10 ship.

[lmperial_Japanese_Navy]

It is unlikely to have another Mogami in the form of her sister with lighter gun caliber in a different branch. Beside WG never done this before, the sister ships of a ship in the main line are always a premium.

 

As the person above said, the IJN Mogami could become a premium ship for coal and hopefully they will rework the heavy cruiser Mogami so she is on par with the Atago...

[guy_incognito79]

6 minutes ago, Verblonde said:

Am I blind - I'm not seeing any mention of submarines? Is it too much to hope that WG have realised they really aren't working...?

Apparently they're thinking of including the Sub based Halloween Op along with the usual ones this year... the only time I might consider playing a sub.

 

IJN cruiser split looks interesting too, good to see them getting some love.

[Panocek]

Just now, lmperial_Japanese_Navy said:

It wouldn't make sense to have another Mogami in the form of her sister with lighter gun caliber in a different branch. Beside WG never done this before, the sister ships of a ship in the main line are always a premium.

 

As the person above said, the IJN Mogami could become a premium ship for coal and hopefully they will rework the heavy cruiser Mogami so she is on par with the Atago...

Mogami, tier 8 tech tree CA

Mikuma, tier 8 tech tree CL

Suzuya/Kumano, tier 9 freemium CA that can switch to 155mm, like current Mogami. Throw in usual tier 9 features and 12km torpedo option and it suddenly would be one big 

 

And again, WG yeeted historical 15cm guns from Z23 only because "didn't fit the line" when introducing new Ger DDs. At the same time, we didn't had situation where "sister ships" had different calibers, as its rather rare event for ships to swap calibers IRL.

[Nauseica]

21 minutes ago, Panocek said:

Z23 lost her historical 15cm guns with Ger DD split, what makes you think Mogami will retain hers?

None sadly

 

Takao class ship could go to T8 heavy line with no heal and maybe slightly better reload and send the current Mogami to coal ships but yeah we are talking for WG here .....

[Panocek]

1 minute ago, Nauseica said:

None sadly

 

Takao class ship could go to T8 heavy line with no heal and maybe slightly better reload and send the current Mogami to coal ships but yeah we are talking for WG here .....

Takao was part of the tech tree in beta, but was pushed as Atago to replace Kitakami as T8 premium.

 

At the same time, it would be... 6th? Takao class in the game. Atago, Atago B, ARP Takao, ARP Maya, Maya and now tech tree Takao. Talk about recycling the same ship over and over and over again

[Nauseica]

Just now, Panocek said:

Takao was part of the tech tree in beta, but was pushed as Atago to replace Kitakami as T8 premium.

 

At the same time, it would be... 6th? Takao class in the game. Atago, Atago B, ARP Takao, ARP Maya, Maya and now tech tree Takao. Talk about recycling the same ship over and over and over again

WG loves recycling :)

[yell_]

At least they're offering compensation for the Puerto, but to my eyes, the bundles would have to contain at least, what 33k steel? for it to be worth one of any* of the available tier x steel ships. But that also means that you would probably only get 260-270k coal and then 63k research points? It will be interesting to see these bundles. 

Shame we will see 3 puerto's per team in random's for a month or so after the dockyard though lol

And what's this, not one, but TWO new maps? Oh WG you are spoiling us... it must be a distraction from something...

*WG's wording not mine

[flip_66]

5 minutes ago, Nauseica said:

WG loves recycling :)

It's better to recycle stuff if the new stuff they bring is stuff like subs, superships and carrier buffs...