Nostalgia for the good old days!

[KurtVonSteiger]

As per the post title I was thinking of the good old days when WoWS was young and had not lost it's innocence

Ships were real and not drunken "what if Carlsberg made ships" fantasies

CV's were a pain in the [edited]but fair - they could DevStrike but they also ran out of planes and became toothless

There was no buy your way to the top tier

There was no gambling or excessive (not to mention obscene) real world costs for ships

WG promised 'No subs ever as they did not fit into the game!'

 

Truly it was a Golden Age

[Siagor]

Yes indeed.

I was there since Beta, miss those days too.

[kremlyncek]

Truly it was a Golden Age

[KurtVonSteiger]

Oh yes, believe me I had not forgotten that part but at least they ran out of planes unlike now and even WG realized that CV's were too strong (unfortunately their solution was shall we say not the best!)

[Bubba_S]

Don't forget invizifiring with Zao and Bly! and some more I guess that I don't remember. Was very fun for BBs!

[ReDiR20]

28 minutes ago, kremlyncek said:

Truly it was a Golden Age

 

yep, CVs were really unbalanced back then

[KurtVonSteiger]

The interesting thing is that WG had quite a few options available to fix the original game - unfortunately they always seem to pick the worst one!

A pattern that now seems set in stone

[triumphgt6]

Do you remember at the beginning of the game offering to give AA support to the battleships when in a cruiser? Laughable now!

[GarrusBrutus]

18 minutes ago, triumphgt6 said:

Do you remember at the beginning of the game offering to give AA support to the battleships when in a cruiser? Laughable now!

lol or when CV sniping became meta so each CV begged for AA support at the start of the game.

 

Also, like many others, i first tried the IJN torpedo boats. Since the "Spotted" indicator was a captain skill back then and not a general feature, dev strikes on oblivious straightlining ships without this captain skill were quite common.

[Mad_Dog_Dante]

1 hour ago, KurtVonSteiger said:

The interesting thing is that WG had quite a few options available to fix the original game - unfortunately they always seem to pick the worst one!

A pattern that now seems set in stone

That is becasue they employed a mobile games revenue guru and doubled down on his fallacies ever since by employing producers who created the succulent money and manhour black hole of carrier rework and subs. More wasted resources plox! 

[Panocek]

2 hours ago, KurtVonSteiger said:

Truly it was a Golden Age

 

While a little bit in shitpost territory, I find this to be surprisingly fitting here. Even if I have no hopes of WG doing "will return again" part

 

1 hour ago, ReDiR20 said:

yep, CVs were really unbalanced back then

Its not like CVs are balanced now either

[Datz68]

2 hours ago, kremlyncek said:

Truly it was a Golden Age

 

2 hours ago, KurtVonSteiger said:

Oh yes, believe me I had not forgotten that part but at least they ran out of planes unlike now and even WG realized that CV's were too strong (unfortunately their solution was shall we say not the best!)

I remember one game when guy with Izumo deplaned CV because he had AA build with manual AA priotity target and we all were happy 

[Nibenay78]

2 hours ago, KurtVonSteiger said:

Oh yes, believe me I had not forgotten that part but at least they ran out of planes unlike now and even WG realized that CV's were too strong (unfortunately their solution was shall we say not the best!)

Or you pressed DefAA...

[Panocek]

Just now, Nibenay78 said:

Or you pressed DefAA...

And it was enough to even make Atago an effective AA escort by virtue of reducing accuracy.

[Maris_Piper]

Stop it your depressing me at the thought of playing this current Sub infested Up   Show 

[Lord0]

Haven't played for months now; subs have killed my love for the game 

[Karasu_Browarszky]

7 hours ago, triumphgt6 said:

Do you remember at the beginning of the game offering to give AA support to the battleships when in a cruiser? Laughable now!

 

I did the exact same thing with CV's too... I know, I was young, innocent and naive back then...

[GulvkluderGuld]

 

 

Minekaze with 10 km torpedoes and very few hydros in the game.

Invisifiring with Blysca.

The glory of tier 6 Cleveland.

 

No radars existed. And no smoke firing penalty either.

Advanced BB play consisted of sailing in straight lines while swinging the rear turrets out occasionally so as not to give full broadside all the time.

Reaching Rank 1 gave pirate flag and getting it 3 times earned a free ship.

Every anniversary 10 of all dragon flags per tier X ship in port.

 

8 hours ago, ReDiR20 said:

yep, CVs were really unbalanced back then

7 hours ago, Panocek said:

Its not like CVs are balanced now either

1 CV vs 2 wasnt uncommon. Half the time the lone CV would be lower tier than the 2. 

The glorious CV vs CV sniping going on around the edge of the map!

Those glorious days of keeping track of 9 Hakuryu squadrons while micromanaging strafing fighters.

[Karasu_Browarszky]

Those were the days..

[NoLuvForPhatShips]

Wows classic when?

[Maris_Piper]

3 minutes ago, NoLuvForPhatShips said:

Wows classic when?

Oh How I wish 

 

I'd even consider stopping Bitching at WG, not that they listen  

[Takethatyoubeast]

8 hours ago, Admirality said:

 

I remember one game when guy with Izumo deplaned CV because he had AA build with manual AA priotity target and we all were happy 

And much was our rejoicing, even unto our tenth pint of beer 😄

[Humorpalanta]

10 hours ago, Bubba_S said:

Don't forget invizifiring with Zao and Bly! and some more I guess that I don't remember. Was very fun for BBs!

Chapa, USN DDs as well.

 

Man, T6 Cleve :'(

T8 Fubuki :'(

Good old Ice map :'(

 

Man, member when Kutuzov was actually an OP ship with great smoke and amazing AA? Nowadays I just laugh on Kutu players. Nothing shows better how it lost its value than the fact that you can barely see any in battle.

[ghostbuster_]

11 hours ago, kremlyncek said:

Truly it was a Golden Age

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9utUp_8mWGY

 

Yeah, back then even Zao was able to shot down 105 planes and be a serious AA threat if full AA speced...  

Good old times.

[Mandyxx]

Was so funny when playing nagato u were in a tier 10 battle :)

Ah... remember DD with cv, to smoke cv?

 

 

First screenshots when i played.