Brand new and really bad

[swindle750]

So I just got around to downloading this today and have played my first handful of battles. I suck something awful lol.

 

Anyway, I was wondering if there was any decent gameplay guides kicking around. I literally have no clue what I'm doing and could do with learning the basics 

[AgarwaenME]

http://forum.worldofwarships.eu/index.php?/forum/174-newcomers-section/

[swindle750]

http://forum.worldofwarships.eu/index.php?/forum/174-newcomers-section/

 

Thanks, I'll take a look.

[Niibler]

If you have specific questions you can always ask around the forum, people are usually nice. Also some WoWs streamers have nice videos explaining the basics.

[swindle750]

If you have specific questions you can always ask around the forum, people are usually nice. Also some WoWs streamers have nice videos explaining the basics.

 

Yeah I could do with watching a few streams and some YouTube stuff, if I continue to enjoy playing it I'll probably make calling in here a regular thing. So long as it doesn't end up being like the WoT console forums lol.

[AnotherDuck]

Welcome to the game and to the forums!

 

Personally I never really checked up any guides in the beginning. Dove straight into it, although I had seen a bunch of videos before, so it wasn't all new.

 

Best advice I can give is to just be patient. The gameplay isn't always very fast-paced (although it certainly can be, especially for a destroyer when things turn interesting), and sometimes you just have to spend some time waiting or travelling to another part of the map.

[swindle750]

Welcome to the game and to the forums!

 

Personally I never really checked up any guides in the beginning. Dove straight into it, although I had seen a bunch of videos before, so it wasn't all new.

 

Best advice I can give is to just be patient. The gameplay isn't always very fast-paced (although it certainly can be, especially for a destroyer when things turn interesting), and sometimes you just have to spend some time waiting or travelling to another part of the map.

 

Thanks

 

Yeah I definitely need to be more patient, that's one of the things I noticed straight away, I've been getting caught out in the dumbest spots and just getting battered, just through wanting to get stuck in lol.

[AnotherDuck]

Yeah I definitely need to be more patient, that's one of the things I noticed straight away, I've been getting caught out in the dumbest spots and just getting battered, just through wanting to get stuck in lol.

 

Learning how to position yourself is one of the hardest skills to learn in the game, and many people struggle with it throughout all tiers. It's usually more important than other skills, or your specific ship upgrades.

 

The first thing about that is probably that you shouldn't position your bow against an island. While it can help in some cases (emergency brake), it usually leaves you a sitting duck for people to easily shoot at (and people will choose an easy target over a moving one).

[Pekoe_Darjeeling]

dont shou your sides

[MariohanaNor]

join the Wows Teamspeak is also a good place to speak with other Wows-gamers for tips and tricks. 

Name:Official WoWs Ts3 Server
Address:92.223.3.90:9989

 

[True_Winterfeld]

You should check out IChases YT vids about some important basic mechanics:

[chaosrealm93]

So I jut got around to downloading this today and have played my first handful of battles. I suck something awful lol.

 

Anyway, I was wondering if there was any decent gameplay guides kicking around. I literally have no clue what I'm doing and could do with learning the basics 

 

welcome to the game !

 

check out "flamu" on youtube

he reviews ships and gives you a good idea of how the ship is and how its supposed to be played

he's skilled and is fun to watch

 

 

[Phantombeast]

Welcome to WoWs  

 

Once you have learned to swim check out the guides in my signature for more in depth information

[ghostbuster_]

So I jut got around to downloading this today and have played my first handful of battles. I suck something awful lol.

 

Anyway, I was wondering if there was any decent gameplay guides kicking around. I literally have no clue what I'm doing and could do with learning the basics 

 

you can learn much from here. 

https://www.youtube.com/user/cheesec4t

[Procrastes]

Welcome to the World of Warships, captain!

 

I can't advice you on how to best play the game, since it's really up to everyone to find their own playstyle.

I do, however, have three pieces of basic advice on how not to play the game:

 

1. Don't hug the borders. While rushing in prematurely may certainly get you sunk, active gameplay is always better than passive gameplay - and lots more fun!

 

2. Don't sail in straight lines. Doing so will get you torpedoed in no time.

 

3. Don't fire torpedoes from second line. When one of your torpedoes strikes an ally, it is always you fault. It's simply not fair to gamble with your team members hitpoints!

 

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I look forward to meeting you on the sea of battle!

[daki]

So I jut got around to downloading this today and have played my first handful of battles. I suck something awful lol.

 

Anyway, I was wondering if there was any decent gameplay guides kicking around. I literally have no clue what I'm doing and could do with learning the basics 

 

Welcome to WoWs mate

Nice to see the positive attitude. Try to keep it up despite occasional frustrations that you are bound to feel.

As others have said, there are plenty of resources and nice people willing to help so do not be afraid to ask.

No matter all the guides and advice you will read or watch, be ready to invest time to get better and keep in mind that it will not come overnight.

That is why my main advice now for you is to focus on having fun. The rest will come with experience.

 

See you on the rough seas skipper

[cpt_gandy]

Notser has done a recent vid on aiming that is worth a watch.

 

 

Also other youtubers that are worth watching.

Flamu - Also streams on twitch

Jammin411 - Does commentry on replays but well worth watching

IChaseGaming - Also streams on twitch but he has some very good guides

atsf aka Eurobeat - some great and funny how to vids, really worth watching

[philjd]

So I jut got around to downloading this today and have played my first handful of battles. I suck something awful lol.

 

Anyway, I was wondering if there was any decent gameplay guides kicking around. I literally have no clue what I'm doing and could do with learning the basics 

 

Yup, welcome to the game, enjoy it and persevere with the learning to understand it, as that is where the best enjoyment lies 

[havaduck]

I would even say Aiming guides are useless "now". Low tiers require a different aiming technique as T4+ anyway (imho) as arcs, distances, speeds and ship sizes change vastly early on.

 

 

My recommendation would be to simply jump with those T 1-3 into co-op battles. See what you like to play and enjoy ....... and then go try (even crazy) stuff with those things, so you know what they can and cant do. Feel free to ask anything you encountered and dont understand on the forum.

 

You learn the aim on the way - at least I did and am still to this very day. 

 

 

One thing that imho helped me do the trainsition form he spamming scrub to an AP user. You should seek close encounters (preferably not with the whole enemy bot-team, only 1-3 at a time) and then try those citadels-shots on the bots. The T 1 ships are perfect for that as they have powerful guns but are not too heavily armored.

Close encounters also help you anticipating torps and dealing with their evasion while shooting those DDs up - if you can do it on low tiers you can do it on higher ones too. Dont worry if you get blown to bits - T 1 ships are free of charge in terms of repair and even up to T5 its ridiculous cheap.

 

 

Oh and dont buy any premiums yet, especially high tiers. If you got a Diana (T2) or something like that, feel free to use it, but dont run of and get yourself a Tirpitz/Atago/whatever ........ yet.

[BlueMoon51]

I would say the very first thing to learn is how to survive while contributing to your team. That's much more important than learning to hit things! because the longer your games are the more comfortable you will become with your ship and accuracy with weapons will follow (I would also advise that you stick to playing one ship for a while its hard to learn aiming switching from ship to ship with the varying shell travel times . This is helped by varying your speed turning and not showing your broadside unless you're sure that they won't fire back. Also assume anyone that can fire torps at you is(or is planning to)! unless you know otherwise, an example of this is if you are clearing a headland in a Battleship and you know the other team has a destroyer the otherside, if he is not running away as fast as he can blowing smoke..... BAD things are about to happen to you! 

[SV_Kompresor]

 

Here's a few things about ships

 

US cruisers:

-Very good AA

-Decent HE shells (good for starting fires)

-Relatively poor AP shells

-Slow shells

-Somewhat annoying to play at tiers 7 and 8 (usually most played tiers) because of their lack of armor at that tier

-No torpedoes (with the exception of tiers 4 and 5)

 

IJN cruisers:

-Slightly faster

-Poor AA

-Relatively good AP shells and high caliber guns

-Good HE shells

-Slow turret rotation speed

-Good torpedoes

 

German cruisers:

-Very little armor

-Good range

-Decent AA

-Very good AP shells

-Poor HE shells

 

Russian cruisers:

-Defensive torpedoes

-Slightly worse AA

-Big range

-Excellent shell velocity

 

US battleships:

-Slow

-Shorter range

-Good AA

-Good armor

-Slightly larger dispersion

-Brawlers

 

IJN Battleships:

-Fast

-Longer range

-Somewhat lacking AA

-Slightly less armor

-Good secondaries

 

US destroyers:

-Very good turrets (fast reload, rotation speed)

-Medium/short range torpedoes

-Best for hunting other destroyers at close range

-Slow shells

-Can stealth fire with ease

 

IJN destroyers:

-Slow firing/turning turrets

-Long range torpedoes

-Best for stealth torpedoing enemy ships

 

Russian destroyers:

-Very short range torpedoes

-Relatively large caliber turrets which allows them to citadel ships easier

-Good shell velocity

-Slow turning turrets

-Good range

-Slightly worse concealment

 

US carriers:

-Larger squadrons

-Less squadrons

-Very good for air superiority

-Very specialized

 

IJN carriers:

-Smaller squadrons

-More squadrons

-Good for bombing ships

 

[Et_Lanatus_baro]

So I jut got around to downloading this today and have played my first handful of battles. I suck something awful lol.

 

Anyway, I was wondering if there was any decent gameplay guides kicking around. I literally have no clue what I'm doing and could do with learning the basics 

 

Hello and welcome to the game as previously stated there are lots of things to help you improve your gameplay and overall enjoyment, great place to start is the newcomer section which someone has kindly given you the link for also check out 

 

Notser on youtube:- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-c1d4QVKztu8_3f8VqMtKw

iChase:- https://www.youtube.com/user/ichasegaming

 

Also these streamers are all very helpful

 

Crysantos:- https://www.twitch.tv/crysantos

Flamu:- https://www.twitch.tv/flamuu

Izolate:- https://www.twitch.tv/izolate

& iEarlGrey:- https://www.twitch.tv/iearlgrey

 

 

Enjoy hte game and see you on the sea's

[ShinGetsu]

 

US carriers:

-Very good for air superiority

 Nope.

You should say instead "more specialized than the IJN." they are either allrounder with the stock setup, or entirely dedicated to strike ships. AS setup doesn't exist.

The way you said it, you encourage him to play the useless fighter setup, which is a horrible idea.

 

 

US cruisers:

-Relatively poor AP shells

What ?

 

 

IJN cruisers:

-Good HE shells

 Understatement.^^

 

[row72]

So I jut got around to downloading this today and have played my first handful of battles. I suck something awful lol.

 

Anyway, I was wondering if there was any decent gameplay guides kicking around. I literally have no clue what I'm doing and could do with learning the basics 

 

I know what you are saying you are like me and probably also like others in the beginning. When i first downloaded this game i also did not know what i was doing and even had a average dmg of 10k so even lower then you. I needed at least around 100 battles to know just a little what i was doing, its maybe because i am a little older i need a longer learning curve. I even had plans to quit the game but after a while i liked it more then wot so i quit that one instead btw in wot the gameplay is a lot easier and also more boring. Now after many battles i can say how to play aldo still strugling in higher tiers, so my advice is just play like a 100 battles to see if you improve and if you like the game and watch videos on YouTube.

[SV_Kompresor]

 

 Nope.

You should say instead "more specialized than the IJN." they are either allrounder with the stock setup, or entirely dedicated to strike ships. AS setup doesn't exist.

The way you said it, you encourage him to play the useless fighter setup, which is a horrible idea.

 

Choosing AS on US CVs is a bad idea yes but that doesn't change the fact that if you want to shoot down planes, US CVs are the best at it.

 

 What ?

 Shell arcs make it almost impossible to use AP effectively at anything other than short range.