German premium BB - where's my Scharnhorst? Also: New ARP missions

[Varian_Dorn]

 

I especially love that despite it being common knowledge that they will be released at Gamescon some people still insist on complaining despite the fact that we haven't got to the Gamescon dates yet

 

Oh, so Wargaming actually made an official announcement on their website that "at Gamescon" is set in stone? Link please.

But if we dable in such "statements": last I heard, and that was months ago by now, was "BEFORE Gamescon". Gamescon starts in a Little more than 2 weeks. You'd think that they would make some sort of big official statement by now.

[ilhilh]

 

Oh, so Wargaming actually made an official announcement on their website that "at Gamescon" is set in stone? Link please.

But if we dable in such "statements": last I heard, and that was months ago by now, was "BEFORE Gamescon". Gamescon starts in a Little more than 2 weeks. You'd think that they would make some sort of big official statement by now.

 

Link please

[Varian_Dorn]

 

 

I do like Takao. The character even more than the ship. Would also be nice to hear if we ever get to see her in the game... I'd even pay for her, considering her sister ship is a premium. Also, what about Yamato / Musashi? Or Hyuga, if they actually would create the Ise-class?

[Varian_Dorn]

 

Link please

 

Read the words straight in front of the text you highlighted. I indulged you with a "had heard that" on my own. But since you can produce nothing else other than a weak retort, I hereby assume that your rumour is as good as mine. Your turn. You still owe me a link or admitting that you don't have anything official to back your Claim.

[aboomination]

 

what about Yamato

 

They should make an optional ARP-Yamato skin a reward for an upcoming ARP-mission. Owners of the regular Yamato would be able to use it.

[ShinGetsu]

 

I do like Takao. The character even more than the ship. Would also be nice to hear if we ever get to see her in the game... I'd even pay for her, considering her sister ship is a premium. Also, what about Yamato / Musashi? Or Hyuga, if they actually would create the Ise-class?

 

We know the ARP Takao (ship) is already in the folders of the game, as for her voice. So we'll have sooner or later mission to get her. Tho I expect they will be more difficult than the one for Myoko-class. And probably restricted for tier 8+ ships.

[ilhilh]

 

Read the words straight in front of the text you highlighted. I indulged you with a "had heard that" on my own. But since you can produce nothing else other than a weak retort, I hereby assume that your rumour is as good as mine. Your turn. You still owe me a link or admitting that you don't have anything official to back your Claim.

 

I never claimed to have an official link - we all know the level of official information there has been but just because you make a counter rumour and then say they are all equally rubbish doesn't mean they are.  But if you want to dismiss the Gamescom as just being a rumour unworthy of paying any attention to then fine, you do that but I am looking forwards to playing German BBs at the time I always thought I would be able to play German BBs.

[ColonelPete]

 

Oh, so Wargaming actually made an official announcement on their website that "at Gamescon" is set in stone? Link please.

But if we dable in such "statements": last I heard, and that was months ago by now, was "BEFORE Gamescon". Gamescon starts in a Little more than 2 weeks. You'd think that they would make some sort of big official statement by now.

Feel free to go through 100+ pages of "Info from the RU server" thread.

[kingduckling]

 

I'm a paying customer, thank you very much.

 

and you will still be a paying customer.

 

still im expecting scharnwurst to come out next week, with tirpitz added to the tree when full line appears.

[RUSSIANBlAS]

 

still im expecting scharnwurst to come out next week, with tirpitz added to the tree when full line appears.

 

Do WG really need to sell the Tirp anymore?! It's 8th on the top 10 most played ships. Look at where all the other Prem ships are on the battles list...

[Blue_Bug]

Ever since Scharnhorst was put into the client for testing I've been waiting for it's release, checking the damn website daily. Or rather, ever since that hunk'o'junk Krasni Krym was released. Remember, Wargaming? You put that scrapheap into testing alongside Scharnhorst. More than 2 weeks have passed now, and still not even a word on the release of any german premium(s) or a hint at the exact release date for the entire tree.

And no, "around Gamescom" isn't good enough. First you hype everybody up for those ships, only NOT to deliver at the peak of said hype. By now at least a german premium should be out... you now, to get some more money from us and keep the hype up.

Instead, I'm still looking at that russian garbage scow for a latest entry in the shop.

 

 

So, DATES, now!

 

 

Oh, and while you're at it, please train your website monkey to activate Information on new missions/content so it's available PARALLEL to the shop/game client. Just saw new Arpeggio missions in-game and a little heads-up would be nice.

 

​If you look at the past, you will notice that before the change from "In game for testing purposes" to "available for everyone" there Always is an update. So you don't have to look for those ships before your client is updated.  However it will not say that directly after such an update the ships are available. Even now there are ships in the game who never saw the premium shop.

[anonym_MfZ6T7iwWpUC]

 

I'm a paying customer, thank you very much.

 

 

That's your choice, not forced on you. They have no obligation to tell you anything. You have no right to demand anything. Get over yourself. Either deal with it, or go play something else. 

[Varian_Dorn]

That's your choice, not forced on you. They have no obligation to tell you anything. You have no right to demand anything. Get over yourself. Either deal with it, or go play something else. 

 

Indeed, my choice. I chose to pay for extra services, which I receive. And yes, they have no obligation - but it is widely considered as good customer service to, ya know, not leave people in the dark too much. And I have every right to demand at the very least a few answers, for not only do I play their game, but I chose to invest money into it. They piss me off, I stop paying, I stop playing.

And while one individual may not seem worth anything, may I once again remind you that while I am right now one of the more vocal ones, there sure are others who think similarly. Sure, if they stop paying and playing, it might also not make a big impact. But as I said earlier: it all adds up eventually.

Most of the time I really don't put too much importance in myself... but occasionally I do. And why do I do that? Because part of me cares. The day one stops caring, one simply leaves.

I will not simply let this slide, not this time. And you certainly don't get to tell me what I play and don't play - so heed your own advice there and get over yourself. The likes of you sure don't get to lecture me; so just roll over like a good WG lapdog and stay quiet, will ya? Or don't.

 

 

Now, as for a few observations during the day: WG's Website monkey is either out of town or not really in the mood to do his job properly. 16 hours have passed and there is no detailed info available on the new Arpeggio missions. Critical? No. Lazy? Hell yeah.

Furthermore it took them half a day to make 2 new announcements: 1.) their party at Gamescon, which is currently front and center; 2.) the latest wallpaper for the month (Bismarck in action) alongside the link to the updated event calendar and a few remarks about the "soon" to be released german ships. Number 2.) has vanished by now - without any trace said announcement was ever there. This I classify as odd, even by Wargaming's standards. Why remove this after such a short time having it up?

 

 

So the very least I can hold against them today is being lazy in terms of information policy. Especially regarding a 2-month mission event (Arpeggio) that sure as hell didn't activate out of nowhere - such events, even though somewhat repetitive, warrant notice AHEAD of their start, not after it already started.

And I am puzzled about the removed news. I'm sure some of you saw them too.

 

 

Last but not least, if this would all be a first timer I wouldn't say anything. But by now I'm beginning to see a pattern in which Wargaming tends to make Information / content available anywhere BUT their website; and if those infos do come to the website, they often do so with some delay. Delays ranging within 1 - 4 hours seem to be standard; more than half a day is rare, but by now not unexpected, at least not for me.

For all the good they do with this amazing game they sure fu** up a lot in it's surrounding "environment".

 

 

EDIT: Yes, actually there were 3 updates on the website today. But then again I don't count their monthly premium shop "update" (ha-ha) as news.

[Varian_Dorn]

 

​If you look at the past, you will notice that before the change from "In game for testing purposes" to "available for everyone" there Always is an update. So you don't have to look for those ships before your client is updated.  However it will not say that directly after such an update the ships are available. Even now there are ships in the game who never saw the premium shop.

 

This update has already somewhat happened. All the standard german BBs are presentsince 0.5.9; Scharnhorst made it into the game one update before. You might be right if they want to significantly Change something on those ships before everyone can play them.

But basically as things are now, all it would probably take for WG would be changing access permissions to "all" on serverside. And as for premium vessels: Krasny Krym was simply activated not long after it was patched in, without any changes for it's release.

[kingduckling]

 

Do WG really need to sell the Tirp anymore?! It's 8th on the top 10 most played ships. Look at where all the other Prem ships are on the battles list...

 

Well thats a good point .

Still id like to see tirpitz added with the rest of the battleships and they can just milk the Scharnwurst instead. Prices should be fairly similar.

Milking both scharnwurst and tirpitz is too greedy, even for WG

[SBS]

German bb line will come just before gamescom, Scharnhorst will be out sooner, perhaps even tomorrow, and ARP missions will be updated tomorrow in the event box as well.

I do have a valid ? though I already have HIEI and she is well trained, what happens with her as I complete the new HIEI mission? Will I have 2 of her or will the one I have be overwritten?

I do want the new CA so have to play them to get there.

 

 

 

Been wondering about that too. I also have already a skill-less commander Hiei wasting one of my reserve slots as I also got the 16-point commander Hiei.

 

So, how about some credits / xp instead of getting the same commander / ship again? See, I wanna get Ashigara too.

 

To answer your questions. You get a another Hiei commander that will end up in reserves. The captain will not override previous ones. No idea what happens with the ship.

 

We have been asking to be able to dismiss ARP captains for a while as they take up valuable space, but nothing...

[Varian_Dorn]

 

 

To answer your questions. You get a another Hiei commander that will end up in reserves. The captain will not override previous ones. No idea what happens with the ship.

 

We have been asking to be able to dismiss ARP captains for a while as they take up valuable space, but nothing...

 

At least the commander-part is cleared up, thank you.

 

Let's see if Wargaming may graciously shed some light on current events today.

[Spellfire40]

 

 

To answer your questions. You get a another Hiei commander that will end up in reserves. The captain will not override previous ones. No idea what happens with the ship.

 

We have been asking to be able to dismiss ARP captains for a while as they take up valuable space, but nothing...

 

We have a Hiei Mission runing atm? If so you dont see it at all if you allready have one.

[Nechrom]

 

We have a Hiei Mission runing atm? If so you dont see it at all if you allready have one.

 

The mission we have right now will award you a Hiei captain, the Hiei ship (again?), the Ashigara captain and the Ashigara ship, for each step in that order.

I can see it even tough I have the Hiei already, otherwise I wouldn't have a chance to get the Ashigara.

[Varian_Dorn]

 

We have a Hiei Mission runing atm? If so you dont see it at all if you allready have one.

 

Oh yes, it can be seen. it uses the same Image of Iona under the missions tab in-game, even the same name. As far as I can tell, only the rewards and the timeframe were changed. Stage 1 reward is a 3-skillpoint commander Hiei, final reward for full completion of all 4 stages is cruiser Ashigara.

 

Edit: I too already have 2 commander Hiei and one battleship Hiei. Will be interesting to see what happens when I complete Stage 2 for the ship.

[Adwaenyth]

 

The mission we have right now will award you a Hiei captain, the Hiei ship (again?), the Ashigara captain and the Ashigara ship, for each step in that order.

I can see it even tough I have the Hiei already, otherwise I wouldn't have a chance to get the Ashigara.

 

Mhm Ashigara?... Then I will have 5 Kongos and 4 Myokos... can I sail them as a full fleet maybe?

[duoinvasion]

 

They should make an optional ARP-Yamato skin a reward for an upcoming ARP-mission. Owners of the regular Yamato would be able to use it.

 

aslain added an ARP yamato skin to his mod pack, but having an permanent arp skin and not a mod would be fcking great

(would love the same one they use in the modpack for the offical skin)

[duoinvasion]

 

Mhm Ashigara?... Then I will have 5 Kongos and 4 Myokos... can I sail them as a full fleet maybe?

 

go back in time to before arp missions were added

make 11 more accounts

get a t8 prem on each

grind out each mission on them

get all the ships

play a full fleet

profit

[Comrad_StaIin]

 

go back in time to before arp missions were added

make 11 more accounts

get a t8 prem on each

grind out each mission on them

get all the ships

play a full fleet

profit

 

or get friends

[Varian_Dorn]

Still no real news about german BBs. Still no info on the updated Arpeggio missions even though we're 2 days into them now. No explanation why the Bismarck wallpaper news was gone for over 20 hours after it's initial release (notice the time gap in the comments).

As I said, either alarmingly busy or very sloppy / lazy, Wargaming.