Buggy/cheating WG coding

[RenamedUser_542507870]

Mid game, me and my Akatsuki just finished one BB and I am ALONE and rushing to help team m8s. Suddenly i get an icon that I got spotted by planes. WTF? There were no CVs, no ship for miles and yet i GOT SPOTTED. Really? A few sec later I see 2 (two) squadrons of fighters hovering above me. 2 [edited] squadrons of fighters and NO CVs in game??? Really WG? They've been flying arround me for 10-15 sec and than they vanished in thin air.

 

So WHAT THE [edited]WAS THAT??? My DD was even shooting at them so they were not just a graphic glitch, DD actually detected them and was firiing at them. At this was not public test, it was the latest "stable" game.

 

Please do explain.

[CLyDeThaMonKeY]

Planes can spot you trough islands/mountains. But you cant spot them.

[Verence196]

Replay/screenshot or it didn't happen. =)

 

My best guess is that a) you had CVs in the game, but for some reason missed them, or b) you mistook a pair of cruiser/battleship fighters for carrier fighter squadrons. Probably the last one. And the fact that you didn't see any enemy ships around isn't really conclusive. Both cruisers and battleship can hide behind islands, or get quite decent concealment with a dedicated build.

[Runner357]

My guess is that it was two fighter planes from a cruiser or a battleship

[praetor_jax]

Isnt there a new skill the allows you to have two catapult planes in the air at the same time?

[Verence196]

Isnt there a new skill the allows you to have two catapult planes in the air at the same time?

 

There is. Very useful on many ships.

[cro_pwr]

must be hax.

Report planes for misbehaviour in chat.

[Baunummer509]

Regarding Bugs: I've played many videogames but can't hardly remember one game with less bugs. Wanna say: the game is rock solid.

 

The other thing are structural weaknesses like radar that can detect ships behind islands but i guess the game engine makes it difficult to accomplish a more realistic behavior (and WG doesn't do all the programming from scratch, for sure they're using frameworks from other software manufactures that allow doing some things but aren't able to realize others).

 

(sorry for man bad english...)

[Ghostychan]

[...]There were no CVs, no ship for miles and yet i GOT SPOTTED. Really? A few sec later I see 2 (two) squadrons of fighters hovering above me. 2 [edited] squadrons of fighters and NO CVs in game???[...]

WHAT?!

WG, HOW DARE YOU HAVE HYBRID CARRIERS WITHOUT ME HAVING ANY?!

 

Reported WG for not giving ME hybrid carriers

[Devantejah]

How did you get to Akizuki without realising that ships can carry planes without being a CV?

[praetor_jax]

How did you get to Akizuki without realising that ships can carry planes without being a CV?

 

Click into battle. Repeat.

[RenamedUser_542507870]

There is a difference between spoter/fighter plane or a whole squad, right? Or do you have to have t10 to know that???

First thing I checked was if we have any CV in game. We did not have any. And both of them just pop up from nowhere and also vanished in to thin air.

 

So, keep on guessing.

[AgarwaenME]

There is a difference between spoter/fighter plane or a whole squad, right? Or do you have to have t10 to know that???

First thing I checked was if we have any CV in game. We did not have any. And both of them just pop up from nowhere and also vanished in to thin air.

 

So, keep on guessing.

 

And you made sure to take a screenshot of course... no wait

 

Occamz razor:

 

Either actual fighter squadrons spawned in a game with no CV, or you're a dumbarse who can't tell the difference between spotters and fighter squads and comes here to cry "cheat" due to your own ignorance... the answer really is easy in this case.

[bushwacker001]

I reckon it was a CV hiding in the corner on the next door map and his fighters strayed onto your map.....can easily happen. 

 

or...it was the Bermuda map!

[Skyllon]

How is it, all you guys who have a weird problems, cannot deliver either screenshot or replay? How difficult it is to enable replays? Without proof noone is going to take problem either seriously or spend time trying to explain it.

[Ubertron_X]

There are some maps that have NPC plane squadrons flying around, but those won't spot anybody. So the question is did you see those squadrons on the mini-map too? If the answer is no than perhaps you observed said NPC planes while being spotted by an unseen enemy plane. If the answer is yes we cant help without a screen.

[Ubertron_X]

How is it, all you guys who have a weird problems, cannot deliver either screenshot or replay? How difficult it is to enable replays? Without proof noone is going to take problem either seriously or spend time trying to explain it.

 

Actually it is very difficult as the game client does not bring the feature as a default option. And being the lazy guy that I am I will never ever bother to enable the feature by hand.

 

Screens on the other hand are easy to do and a totally different topic...

[Tungstonid]

Mid game, me and my Akatsuki just finished one BB and I am ALONE and rushing to help team m8s. Suddenly i get an icon that I got spotted by planes. WTF? There were no CVs, no ship for miles and yet i GOT SPOTTED. Really? A few sec later I see 2 (two) squadrons of fighters hovering above me. 2 [edited] squadrons of fighters and NO CVs in game??? Really WG? They've been flying arround me for 10-15 sec and than they vanished in thin air.

 

So WHAT THE [edited]WAS THAT??? My DD was even shooting at them so they were not just a graphic glitch, DD actually detected them and was firiing at them. At this was not public test, it was the latest "stable" game.

 

Please do explain.

 

Why do such things never happen to me? Ohwait, maybe because I enabled my replays...

 

Replay/screenshot or it didn't happen. =)

 

My best guess is that a) you had CVs in the game, but for some reason missed them, or b) you mistook a pair of cruiser/battleship fighters for carrier fighter squadrons. Probably the last one. And the fact that you didn't see any enemy ships around isn't really conclusive. Both cruisers and battleship can hide behind islands, or get quite decent concealment with a dedicated build.

 

Maybe they even were from the very same ship he finished before he got spotted by them. But if you are in a DD you should still be able to see BBs and CAs with decent concealment when you get spotted by their planes (unless they hide behind an island), shouldn't you?

[Verence196]

But if you are in a DD you should still be able to see BBs and CAs with decent concealment when you get spotted by their planes (unless they hide behind an island), shouldn't you?

 

The Leander (just to take an example from ships the Akatsuki is likely to encounter - forgoing for a moment the question of why a British cruiser would take fighter instead of smoke =p) has stock concealment of 10.26km. With concealment expert, that goes down to 9.02km. The Akatsuki has air detectability of 3.78, but his AA would have opened up at 5km range, increasing his concealment to almost 8km through gun bloom. I don't know precisely how far away from the Leander it's fighter flies, but my guess is that it's quite plausible that the aircraft could spot the DD before the DD spotted the cruiser.

 

 

 

There is a difference between spoter/fighter plane or a whole squad, right? Or do you have to have t10 to know that???

First thing I checked was if we have any CV in game. We did not have any. And both of them just pop up from nowhere and also vanished in to thin air.

 

So, keep on guessing.

 

Thanks again for your polite and well reasoned argument.

Replay/screenshot or it didn't happen. =)

 

You are claiming to have seen something which would be impossible under current game mechanics. It might be a fairly major bug, but as no one else has reported seeing anything similar, we're assuming you somehow misunderstood what you were seeing. Unless you have some kind of photographic proof, or your assertion is backed up by other witnesses, your complaints are not gonna be taken very seriously.

 

Good luck in your future endeavours!

[RenamedUser_542507870]

Don't you guys read before you comment on things? 0 CV means 0 CV. Not hidding or stuck in the corner of the map, there were 0 CV in game.

True, I should have taken prntscrn, but was to pissed off and, frankly, I did not think that you ppl would actually question my "report". I know this is forum on the net but I'm not in a habit of lying and I'm not trolling.

 

The squadrons were on top of me, my DD was shooting at them. And they were visible on minimap. I'll do screen shots next time.

 

Someone suggested that they might be left oves from BB but I would have seen them before and they appeared like 10 s after I sunk BB.

 

I guess its hard to do anything about it now with no replays.

Next time.

[Verence196]

Don't you guys read before you comment on things? 0 CV means 0 CV. Not hidding or stuck in the corner of the map, there were 0 CV in game.

True, I should have taken prntscrn, but was to pissed off and, frankly, I did not think that you ppl would actually question my "report". I know this is forum on the net but I'm not in a habit of lying and I'm not trolling.

 

Someone suggested that they might be left oves from BB but I would have seen them before and they appeared like 10 s after I sunk BB.

 

We're not accusing you of lying. We're accusing you of misunderstanding or misinterpreting what you saw - a very different thing, and something that happens to the best of us.

 

And not spotting aircraft from a sunk ship at once, and not spotting aircraft before they're within AA range is not that uncommon - especially if there were islands around you. Spotter and fighter aircraft from battleships and cruisers fly in large circles, and they fly quite slowly to boot. That you somehow crossed their path 10 secs after having sunk the ship they originated from is not very strange at all.

[iJoby]

[mtm78]

I know this is forum on the net but I'm not in a habit of lying and I'm not trolling.

 

With your chosen account name I find that hard to believe....

 

edit: though also you could just be 'misunderstanding' game mechanics as people been trying to explain to you. But my verdict on that isn't out yet.

[_cosmo]

planes already in air keep staying there untill their timer runs out or they are destroyed, even if the ship has sunk. There are plenty of possibilites, i don't know why you get mad at ppl making various hypothesis when you couldn't povide anyting concrete to discuss on other than your claims.

[Elenortirion]

frankly, I did not think that you ppl would actually question my "report".

 

welp just take a step aside and look at the situation from the other perspective:

someone jumps into a forum claiming to witness a technically impossible situatioon and show nothing to proof that it actually happened as he described.

 

would you believe such a person?

 

if you would then I must say I'd be surprised by how naive you'd be xD

 

personally I think that in such situation with such annoyance levels it would not be all that hard to misrecognise the icon of fighter plane and fighter squadron and puting the camera at angle to easilly confirm amounts of actuall planes would be quite troublesome thing to do.