Favorite shipgirl (Kancolle,Azur lane, Arpeggio of blue steel,Haifuri)

[Zemeritt]

45 minutes ago, LOZFFVII said:

That they did. I'm still hoping for Shimakaze.

 

2x IJN UR in a row is highly unlikely

 

45 minutes ago, LOZFFVII said:

Could be Midway? If there's any US ship that would definitely qualify for UR, it'd be Midway.

 

Honestly,  I believe both Midway and Des Moines are ships, we won't see for awhile. I think they're too advanced for this game atm.

 

46 minutes ago, LOZFFVII said:

What do you mean by "SD"?

 

South Dakota. She's the last of the 4 sisters missing.

 

47 minutes ago, LOZFFVII said:

Retrofit Laffey is a reference to the Allen M Sumner-class Laffey, though. I think it's more likely we'll see those CVs get retrofits that reference the Essex-class ships (two of them would even be bumped up to SR as a result, to match the rest of the Essex-class).

 

All three would be SRs the, as Yorktown, Hornet and Lex are all actually just Elites. (I guess thats properly also the reason why they are just that) but I've to admit, having another ship carrying the same name could be interesting.

[Marblehead_1]

1 hour ago, LOZFFVII said:

I'm going to be very blunt with my counter-arguments, so forgive me but I mean no ill will.

Azuma, FdG and Drake?

Ryuuhou is SR for some reason.

Only in displacement (due to weight of armour). Midway was bigger (had to be, to carry more planes).

In that case, why isn't Yukikaze UR (multiple heavy battles fought, no major damage sustained)? Jervis would definitely be UR by that definition (multiple heavy battles fought, no major damage and not a single man lost).

 

In my personal opinion, UR should represent the pinacle of what that nation could build during the time period, in particular they should represent technology that didn't exist until post-war.

In that sense, Shinano gets a pass due to being a Yamato-class hull conversion. IJN's real UR CVs should be the Unryuu-class (I wonder how many of us forgot that KC has Unryuu-class shipgirls?).

Retrofit URs get a pass due to how the retrofit system works in the game (retrofit always knocks the rarity of the ship up one level).

UR PR ships get a pass due to being special in a way (WG's babies).

We agree that ships like Des Moines and Worcester should be UR, but I'd also posit that Shimakaze should be UR due to being the pinacle of IJN DD design (excluding Akizuki/Kitakaze). With this being said, Daring-class and Gearing-class should also both be UR. Tiger-class is a bit iffy, although they were based on Minotaur, they could not be fully realised due to budgets so they may be limited to SR (and while I've mentioned her, I'm still disappointed that the recent Sardegna event referenced the Minotaur of legend, but HMS Minotaur didn't get featured in the story).

 

I'm not sure did DR collab characters should be included in such list due to their specific upgrade requiring months or years of upgrading. Also WG/Yostar differentiated PR and SSR ships as same as DR and UR.

 

My proposal of UR's

IJN. Yamato, Musashi, Shimakaze

USN. Iowa class, Alaska class, Des Moines class, Worcester class, Midway class

VMF. Stalingrad, Kronshtadt ( Stalingrad with similar gimmicks like Odin placement between Main and Vanguard Fleets )

MN. Alasce/Bourgogne/Flandre, Mogador, Colbert/De Grasse in anti aircraft cruiser versions

RN. Vanguard, Battle/Daring, Audacious

RM. Giulio Germanico/San Marco light cruiser ( with Guichen/Chateaurenault sisters as ASW cruisers in MN too )

DKM. Type XXI

 

Some of ships were not completed like Alasce class but if we have Kii and Suruga then why not Alasce and Bourgogne?

 

I wonder about TX ships and their influence on balance but tbh did in game which PvE is 99% of content is worth to care about balance too much? It's not like in kancolle where most of balance changes and mechanics are made to milk players.  

 

Personally beyond new UR's I would definitely want to see some new factions and which will be their flavour? 

[Pururut]

I wouldnt expect Iowa; it is mostly prejudice but since it is an Asian game it feels kinda off to have Iowa first prior to Yamato. That and given the only previous non retrofit UR being Shinano it is only right that US gets the counterpart to what can be considered the pinnacle of Japanese carriers.

 

That said, the ship I desire the most is Alaska preferably with her design being a mix of Baltimore and Minneapolis. Given the status of Azuma and Drake I expect both Alaska and Des Moines to be a part of PR4 this year. 

[El2aZeR]

Enterprise UR retro pls.

 

[LOZFFVII]

22 hours ago, Zemeritt said:

2x IJN UR in a row is highly unlikely

We weren't expecting two new major events in a row, and yet here we are. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

22 hours ago, Zemeritt said:

South Dakota. She's the last of the 4 sisters missing.

Aaah.

I thought you were talking about a Super Deformed (i.e. loli) Indianapolis. (which doesn't exist, hence my confusion)

 

22 hours ago, Zemeritt said:

All three would be SRs the, as Yorktown, Hornet and Lex are all actually just Elites. (I guess thats properly also the reason why they are just that) but I've to admit, having another ship carrying the same name could be interesting.

Of course they are!

I thought you said Wasp.

 

I derped at reading twice!

[Zemeritt]

1 hour ago, LOZFFVII said:

We weren't expecting two new major events in a row, and yet here we are. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

Well we got a rerun of a small event

So it's not two major event back to back.

 

1 hour ago, LOZFFVII said:

Aaah.

I thought you were talking about a Super Deformed (i.e. loli) Indianapolis. (which doesn't exist, hence my confusion)

 

But yes, Indiana is the last non Iowa fast BB missing in the EU lineup.

While I don't believe that all Iowas will be URs, one or two are guaranteed to be.

 

1 hour ago, LOZFFVII said:

Of course they are!

I thought you said Wasp.

 

I derped at reading twice!

 

So, retrofits when?

 

17 hours ago, El2aZeR said:

Enterprise UR retro pls.

 

 

I do believe this will happen eventually, but I wouldn't be surprised if this will be part of the OpSi stuff.

[Zemeritt]

Looks like something broke. Can't load battles anymore as my loading bar stays at 99.XX%

[LOZFFVII]

24 minutes ago, Zemeritt said:

Looks like something broke. Can't load battles anymore as my loading bar stays at 99.XX%

I had that earlier. Funnily enough it was after downloading the mandatory non-mandatory update (to fix getting stuck in settings).

There should've been another update that fixed the problem. In fact, I've been able to play the game just fine for hours.

 

[Live edit]: I just logged in to the game and tried an exercise battle and it seems to be fine for me.

[Zemeritt]

15 hours ago, LOZFFVII said:

I had that earlier. Funnily enough it was after downloading the mandatory non-mandatory update (to fix getting stuck in settings).

There should've been another update that fixed the problem. In fact, I've been able to play the game just fine for hours.

 

[Live edit]: I just logged in to the game and tried an exercise battle and it seems to be fine for me.

 

And I had to reinstall the entire game to get it fixed.

 

 

In other News: USS San Francisco has been announced:

Spoiler

 

Wonder if she and Atlanta will come along

 

While "inofficial"

It's also clear that we'll indeed get an Iowa this event.

Spoiler

It's New Jersey, as Saratoga hinted in the current pre-event as "Black Dragon". Can't say tho if she's an UR.

 

Quite "futuristic"? Sorta reminds me of KOSMOS

 

A light cruiser:

Spoiler

USS Boise:

 

And another Essex Class:

Spoiler

Source As always, the Essex designs are top notch 

 

[LOZFFVII]

4 hours ago, Zemeritt said:

And I had to reinstall the entire game to get it fixed.

I'm pretty certain there's an option either in the settings or on the title screen (or both) that allows you to repair the game data. So you didn't need to uninstall the game.

[Zemeritt]

5 minutes ago, LOZFFVII said:

I'm pretty certain there's an option either in the settings or on the title screen (or both) that allows you to repair the game data. So you didn't need to uninstall the game.

 

I tried that multiple times.

Multiple times it said it had to download ~400mb of data to repair the game.

The download window appeared, stayed at 0% just to go directly to the "donwload complete" window.

[LOZFFVII]

3 minutes ago, Zemeritt said:

I tried that multiple times.

Multiple times it said it had to download ~400mb of data to repair the game.

The download window appeared, stayed at 0% just to go directly to the "donwload complete" window.

Well, fair enough, at least you tried all you could.

[Khaba_Gandalf]

Am 15.5.2021 um 23:23, Pururut sagte:

Given the status of Azuma and Drake I expect both Alaska and Des Moines to be a part of PR4 this year. 

So far all PR ships have been paper designs that either 100% fictional WG stuff like Roon, were part of a ongoing design process (Izumo) or were never completed in steel with that design and name (mainz as a 4x3 15cm Hipper variant). 

 

Given that both alaska and DM were build in steel and had a (brief) naval career under said names, I would expect them to end up either as SSR or UR event ships... 

Vor 21 Stunden, Zemeritt sagte:

 

In other News: USS San Francisco has been announced:

  Versteckte Inhalte sichtbar machen

 

Wonder if she and Atlanta will come along

 

While "inofficial"

It's also clear that we'll indeed get an Iowa this event.

  Versteckte Inhalte sichtbar machen

It's New Jersey, as Saratoga hinted in the current pre-event as "Black Dragon". Can't say tho if she's an UR.

 

Quite "futuristic"? Sorta reminds me of KOSMOS

 

A light cruiser:

  Versteckte Inhalte sichtbar machen

USS Boise:

 

And another Essex Class:

  Versteckte Inhalte sichtbar machen

Source As always, the Essex designs are top notch 

 

I don't get the boise art work... What's the connection with the scuba gear and where is the fifth turret in the art work, guns also look too long for CL guns. Not that I don't like the design but I don't get the idea behind it. Anyone has a clue why? 

 

Also spend my last pledge ring because... 

 

Ark Royal wedding skin ftw...

[Zemeritt]

5 hours ago, Khaba_Gandalf said:

I don't get the boise art work... What's the connection with the scuba gear and where is the fifth turret in the art work, guns also look too long for CL guns. Not that I don't like the design but I don't get the idea behind it. Anyone has a clue why? 

 

No idea. Especially since we've the class already in the agme and it makes no real sense to let her look so different from the other Brooklyns in the game.

The missing turrent could be hidden behind her body?

[LOZFFVII]

5 hours ago, Khaba_Gandalf said:

I don't get the boise art work... [...] where is the fifth turret in the art work

19 minutes ago, Zemeritt said:

No idea. Especially since we've the class already in the agme and it makes no real sense to let her look so different from the other Brooklyns in the game.

The missing turrent could be hidden behind her body?

Have you guys been paying attention to the game's artwork?

Look at literally any DD class in the game and see how wildly different members can dress from each other (Fletcher vs Bache, Bush, Kimberly, Nicholas, Stanly, or Stephen Potter). Not to mention how many DDs only have one gun turret in their artwork when historically they had more (again, off the top of my head, the entire Fletcher-class only have a single turret in their artwork).

I can even find examples in other CL classes: Biloxi from the other Clevelands (outfit); Achilles from the other Leanders (2 visible turrets vs 4); hell, the entire Atlanta-class has the incorrect number of turrets (Atlanta, Juneau, San Diego - 6vs8, San Juan - 5vs8, Li'l Sandy - 4vs8, Reno - 2vs6).

 

You guys are picking on something that should not be an issue at this point.

(Note, also, that the only times artwork has been fixed where turrets are concerned is when there have been too many, i.e. Baltimore's original design had 4 turrets instead of 3)

[Marblehead_1]

21 hours ago, Khaba_Gandalf said:

So far all PR ships have been paper designs that either 100% fictional WG stuff like Roon, were part of a ongoing design process (Izumo) or were never completed in steel with that design and name (mainz as a 4x3 15cm Hipper variant). 

 

Given that both alaska and DM were build in steel and had a (brief) naval career under said names, I would expect them to end up either as SSR or UR event ships... 

I don't get the boise art work... What's the connection with the scuba gear and where is the fifth turret in the art work, guns also look too long for CL guns. Not that I don't like the design but I don't get the idea behind it. Anyone has a clue why? 

 

Also spend my last pledge ring because... 

 

Ark Royal wedding skin ftw...

As I found during Battle of Cape Esperance she was hit by diving shell from Japanese CA's ( and it was probably only case of sucessfull usage of such shells ) losing all bow turrets and their crew.

 

I hope that she changed her behaviours and hobby after  

 

Anniversary stream today so I expect many good content. Please more wedding skins for Shikkan's Task Force 

[WorthyOpponent]

Azur Lane is getting USS New Jersey

Spoiler

 

 

[Pururut]

We are indeed getting an Iowa after all then. A pity but it might be a signal for the next UR to be Yamato so I will keep my hopes high. The real deal however is the event livestream reveal on Reddit.

Spoiler

The upcoming ships are BB New Jersey, CV Ticonderoga, CA San Francisco, SS Archerfish, CL Boise and most importantly; Enterprise-chan. The new skin series is focused on bunny girl concept for Eagle Union ships with my  favourites being Stephen Potter and Archerfish and in before you ask nope; no bunny girl skin for NC or Washington. The second skin serie is a continuation of party dresses. I dont like this one very much besides the one Enterprise had so it will be a hard pass. Hood looks very elegant tho and Valiants skin is pure meme material. The next META ship is going to be Helena. Ark Royal and my beautiful Azuma are getting oath skins as well as a third yet unrevealed ship. Given the triple turret design, use of dark blue and white coloring and fleur de lis I expect it to be Saint Louis of Iris Libre.

 

I suppose I will finally shift from F2P to full whale :/

[Zemeritt]

Summery of the anniversary livestram, thx to reddit:

 

New ships and retrofits:

Spoiler

 

So we get a new EU sub and a new Fletcher?

A little not, Archerfish has Shinanos sword in her artwork

 

Indypendence gets a retrofit and Enterprise a loli variant.

 

Bunny skins:

Spoiler

 

And no bunny skins for the NC-Class

Some people will be mad.

Surprisingly the UR doesn't get a L2D skin.

I'm not that into bunny skins, I'll have to see how I like them after they arrived in the game.

 

Party Skins:

Spoiler

 

Weser actually is an l2D skin.

Otherwise, some look nice.

 

New META ship, oath skins and a collab:

Spoiler

 

Helena META looks amazing.

Ark skin was already posted here

Azuma is also ice.

The silouette is Rodney. Just give that girl a retrofit or something (I know there are plenty of other ships also in need of a retro)

Can't say what the collab is about tho.

 

[MK1D]

1 hour ago, Pururut said:

Given the triple turret design, use of dark blue and white coloring and fleur de lis I expect it to be Saint Louis of Iris Libre.

Now way these are 203's, more likely Monarch's 381's or ruski 406's. The front is flat and rounded on the sides so definitely not Nelson. I'm not seeing the dust covers on the barrels just like the Monarch's but blue is not really her color. 

Blue seems more fitting for a Russian ship and the cross-thingy is too pointy to be fleur de lis, it just look like a part of a Russian design.

I'm placing my bets on Monarch or Sowiecka Rosija.

[LOZFFVII]

1 hour ago, MK1D said:

Now way these are 203's, more likely Monarch's 381's or ruski 406's. The front is flat and rounded on the sides so definitely not Nelson. I'm not seeing the dust covers on the barrels just like the Monarch's but blue is not really her color. 

Blue seems more fitting for a Russian ship and the cross-thingy is too pointy to be fleur de lis, it just look like a part of a Russian design.

I'm placing my bets on Monarch or Sowiecka Rosija.

Take another look at this picture:

1 hour ago, Zemeritt said:

New META ship, oath skins and a collab:

  Reveal hidden contents

 

Helena META looks amazing.

Ark skin was already posted here

Azuma is also ice.

The silouette is Rodney. Just give that girl a retrofit or something (I know there are plenty of other ships also in need of a retro)

Can't say what the collab is about tho.

 

Open it in a new tab and zoom right in on the "secret" oath skin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Nelson_(28)#/media/File:The_British_Navy_in_North_African_Operations._20_November_1942,_the_British_Navy_Played_a_Large_Part_in_the_North_African_Combined_Operation_._A13034.jpg

^Notice how Nelson's guns have the range finder "ears" towards the back?

https://wiki.wargaming.net/en/File:Monarch_wows_main.jpg

^Monarch's range finder "ears" are way closer to the front.

https://wiki.wargaming.net/en/File:Советский_Союз_wows_main.jpg

^And the front of Sovetsky Soyuz' guns are totally different in design to either of the RN ship's designs.

You can just about see in the silhouette that the rangefinders on the "secret" oath are towards the back, making them more like Nelson/Soyuz, but the bottom of the silhouette gives away just enough detail to show the guns are RN design, not Russian.

Meaning this is either Nelson or Rodney's oath skin.

I'm leaning more towards Rodney, but it's still possible to be Nelson who let her hair down.

[Khaba_Gandalf]

Vor 1 Minute, LOZFFVII sagte:

Take another look at this picture:

Open it in a new tab and zoom right in on the "secret" oath skin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Nelson_(28)#/media/File:The_British_Navy_in_North_African_Operations._20_November_1942,_the_British_Navy_Played_a_Large_Part_in_the_North_African_Combined_Operation_._A13034.jpg

^Notice how Nelson's guns have the range finder "ears" towards the back?

https://wiki.wargaming.net/en/File:Monarch_wows_main.jpg

^Monarch's range finder "ears" are way closer to the front.

https://wiki.wargaming.net/en/File:Советский_Союз_wows_main.jpg

^And the front of Sovetsky Soyuz' guns are totally different in design to either of the RN ship's designs.

You can just about see in the silhouette that the rangefinders on the "secret" oath are towards the back, making them more like Nelson/Soyuz, but the bottom of the silhouette gives away just enough detail to show the guns are RN design, not Russian.

Meaning this is either Nelson or Rodney's oath skin.

I'm leaning more towards Rodney, but it's still possible to be Nelson who let her hair down.

Afaik Rodney being the secret oath skin was confirmed somewhere...

 

... my 2cents so far:

 

New Jersey: Guess her being UR (like Shinano) will be a "go to", but I'm not hyped by her regular skin.

Ticonderoga: Run of the mill US CV design, will get her for collection purposes but unless she is a T0-1 SSR CV I prolly won't field her over Essex&Ente

San Fran: Like that rowdy looks, reminds me a bit of the Hiryuu School Skin and those japanese girl school gangs with those "demonic" hair-horns and the baseball bat ...according to wiki she is the second most decorated US ship after Ente

Archerfish: Nice artwork with the Shinano swords

Boise: Most likely a bland ship stats wise (like most purple ships recently), but I really like the artwork (and the l2d bunny skill too)

Morrison: don't care beyond collector purposes

Ind-Retro: Finally a new retrofit

 

Little Enterprise... *cough*

 

 

 

 

[LOZFFVII]

5 minutes ago, Khaba_Gandalf said:

Ticonderoga: Run of the mill US CV design, will get her for collection purposes but unless she is a T0-1 SSR CV I prolly won't field her over Essex&Ente

According to Just3c, she'll be the first USN CV to have a single-target damage focus, meaning she'll likely be at least T1 in current meta.

 

6 minutes ago, Khaba_Gandalf said:

San Fran: [...]...according to wiki she is the second most decorated US ship after Ente

Third most decorated. San Diego is second with 18 battle stars (Enty has 20).

San Fran is joint third with O'Bannon (Fletcher) as both have 17 battle stars and a Presidential Unit Citation. (BTW, if I'm not mistaken, O'Bannon was the DD that captured an IJN sub by throwing potatoes at it)

Source, btw.

 

[Khaba_Gandalf]

Vor 37 Minuten, LOZFFVII sagte:

According to Just3c, she'll be the first USN CV to have a single-target damage focus, meaning she'll likely be at least T1 in current meta.

 

Third most decorated. San Diego is second with 18 battle stars (Enty has 20).

San Fran is joint third with O'Bannon (Fletcher) as both have 17 battle stars and a Presidential Unit Citation. (BTW, if I'm not mistaken, O'Bannon was the DD that captured an IJN sub by throwing potatoes at it)

Source, btw.

 

Yeah, spelled that badly: She is third in terms of ship awards, but second for the sum of battlestars+crew awards after ente. Sandy has more battlestars, but her crew has received less rewards like Medal of Honor, Navy Cross etc.. 

 

Zitat

San Francisco and her crew would become one of the most decorated warships of World War II earning 17 Battle Stars, Presidential Unit Citation, four Medals of Honor, 21 Silver Stars and 32 Navy Crosses.

Source: https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/browse-by-topic/ships/modern-ships/san-francisco.html (for whatever reason that official US navy page lists Sandy with only 15, while her memorial states 18 stars... anyone know why there is that discrepancy?)

 

 

[LOZFFVII]

Everybody ready for tomorrow's AL update?

I should have enough coins for about 70 builds in a row. Which will hopefully at least put me on the path towards the 200 pity (coins are my only limiting factor: I have over 600cubes, probably close to 700).

 

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On a separate note, my Touhou Lost Word homies, are you guys struggling with bronze mahjong tiles as much as I am? Feels like they only have a 5% drop rate on regular stages (this is based on cognitive bias) and if you do the lvl70 daily for tiles you only get silvers and golds, meaning you have to purposely choose the lvl50 or below dailies.

I'm focusing all of my resources on my three strongest (Youmu first, Reimu second and Ran third), but it still seems like a slog to upgrade them. Duplicates are hard to come by when you're f2p, so I'm having to make do with the once-a-week paper doll to limit break them, yet Reimu and Ran are already stuck on their level caps (80 and 70 respectively). I can't kill the first boss on Lunatic with my current characters and equipment either, so I'm hoping for some Moon-element characters to drop - at least I can still auto grind the boss on Hard for the consolation equipment as well as skill books (although I've played that stage a lot already and haven't acquired the story card).

Randomly decided to do a 10-pull today and got Lily White. At least that's one more character towards 18 I can use in errands (btw, to all AL non-THLW players: if you think commissions take forever to give you all of your rewards, you haven't played THLW - the game literally shows you every single reward each character earns in each errand completed, and then shows you how much experience they earned doing it very slowly, and you can't skip it).

 

I've basically decided I'm not going to spend any money on THLW until either the devs improve the user experience or Satori is added to the game, whichever comes first.