Clear Skies

[B4zza]

I can't find the Q&A where @Sub_Octavian said that the clear skies achievement was going to be looked into but it was a while back and nothing has changed. 

 

Personally I need this one achievement to complete all task in the honourable service campaign and for me, getting this in it current form is near on impossible. Only gotten it 2 in all my games. Now I will need to get it in the Yamamoto campaign as well if I want to complete all tasks.

 

Now some of you will say play CVs and your right, I should carry on grinding them and play AS all the time hoping to get lucky with my opponent and no AA ships so I can farm his planes.

 

That said, the screen shot of this game where our CV spanked 80 planes down and it wasn't enough for a clear skies because it wasn't more than 50% of the planes shot down doesn't fill me with hope that playing CV (which I don't enjoy much) will get me this ridiculous achievement.

 

Can we get an update on this being reworked? I don't want it to be made super easy, it isn't a whine I just think in it's current form if 80 planes isn't enough it is a little silly. Surely it isn't a hard thing to do to change the parameters of the requirements for this? 

[ColonelPete]

Complete them later...

[robihr]

6 minutes ago, ColonelPete said:

Complete them later...

 

when year of CV comes you can complete them...

 

[xXx_Blogis_xXx]

1 hour ago, robihr said:

 

when year of CV comes you can complete them...

 

in few years maybe , or more ;)

[Loran_Battle]

52 minutes ago, xXx_Blogis_xXx said:

in few years maybe , or more ;)

Nah, every year is CV year!

 

edit: ah well, let me serious for a moment. Clear Skies has been broken ever since they included ALL planes. So those dumb BB or CA players that have it along with SI, but never launch them count. Or those that get killed before they can even launch their second. Not to mention those that have the +1 catapult skill... The achievement is nearly impossible to gain for a long time now.

[robihr]

51 minutes ago, Loran_Battle said:

Nah, every year is CV year!

 

edit: ah well, let me serious for a moment. Clear Skies has been broken ever since they included ALL planes. So those dumb BB or CA players that have it along with SI, but never launch them count. Or those that get killed before they can even launch their second. Not to mention those that have the +1 catapult skill... The achievement is nearly impossible to gain for a long time now.

 

it is possible on low tiers when you have idiot enemy CV player who suicides planes on you... or just idiot CV player on higher tiers who suicides planes on you :P

[Gojuadorai]

i have 2x solo warrior but 0 clear skies nuff said

ok i admit i dont play Cv's but still thats kinda ridicolus the achievement is used as an objective.....

[waxx25]

i have been sitting at 2/3 for months now lol. Last mission I have left. They made clear sky on the same level as solo warrior.

 

[TheIdesOfMarch93]

I used to farm Clear Skies like nobody's business with Bogue before they removed manual drops for T5 CVs and made Bogue unviable to play. Now the rare times I get Clear Skies again is if I take my Lex out and run into a Strike loadout Lex, and even then I have to wipe out something like 50+ planes just to get it. 

I miss the days of Clear Skies being just downing 30 planes and getting that achievement even with battleships! 

[P2Win]

People are going to cheat. Queue with your friends, he send all planes to you. Rinse and repeat.

[Armorin]

Last time I played a T6 CV in a T6-8 battle, it was the ships AA gunners that got the clear skies achievement.

[svadilfari]

i´m sure they gonna fix it some day......

[Gnirf]

1 hour ago, TheIdesOfMarch93 said:

I used to farm Clear Skies like nobody's business with Bogue before they removed manual drops for T5 CVs and made Bogue unviable to play. Now the rare times I get Clear Skies again is if I take my Lex out and run into a Strike loadout Lex, and even then I have to wipe out something like 50+ planes just to get it. 

I miss the days of Clear Skies being just downing 30 planes and getting that achievement even with battleships! 

Well I have 1 clear sky in 13000+ games and that is in the Texas. It is one a few remaining in Hon service for me and I will never get them.

[valrond]

I have 8 in 2700+ battles. But just a bit over 200 in cvs. It is easy enough in an AS lexington. Strafe all day. I got a few playing AS Rangers and Lexingtons, and even one using the Big E

[Max_Kammerer]

27 of them with Saipan strike loadout, but before changes (ALL planes included) during this spring :).

[Estaca_de_Bares]

15 hours ago, waxx25 said:

i have been sitting at 2/3 for months now lol. Last mission I have left. They made clear sky on the same level as solo warrior.

 

Same for me, although not the last mission (I still have those cruiser-oriented too because of ARP Takao being my only T8+ CA ATM). It's "easier" to achieve the lower the tier (always within those with manual attacks, of course), so I put my hopes in facing a reckless strike Lex or a potato wallet warrior in Enterprise and having a slugfest in the air with 60 or more (70 or more would be a safer estimate, although it nearly equals my personal record) planes shot down.

 

Salute.

[159Hunter]

75 and all of them date back before they changed the parameters. So I'm not gonna bother with clear skies anymore.

[AlwaysBadLuckWithTeams]

The problem is not getting clear sky. The problem is getting a (or better: 3) CS in an 8+ ship. This is as rare as getting 3x for daily wins in EU for WG's birthday. And now we will be getting ANOTHER CLEAR SKY CAMPAIGN MISSION. Maybe it is time for some self defense at 3 o'clock in the morning....

 

[GulvkluderGuld]

 

3 hours ago, Caljostro said:

The problem is not getting clear sky. The problem is getting a (or better: 3) CS in an 8+ ship. This is as rare as getting 3x for daily wins in EU for WG's birthday. And now we will be getting ANOTHER CLEAR SKY CAMPAIGN MISSION. Maybe it is time for some self defense at 3 o'clock in the morning....

 

 

Got one today in my Iowa.

Enemy strike Ranger focused me the entire game - ended on 50% hp and killed 44 planes in the process (along with 4 ships). Dont even have a single AA perk

 

If you want to exploit - why not do CS T8+ in coop?  Queue in Baltimore in div with a T7 CV or similar.

[AlwaysBadLuckWithTeams]

41 minutes ago, GulvkluderGuld said:

 

If you want to exploit - why not do CS T8+ in coop?  Queue in Baltimore in div with a T7 CV or similar.

 

Because there are no achievements (=signals) in coop, and it doesn't count towards campaign missions either.

 

If I want CS, I play strike Saipan and farm all the noob cv that have never learnt about manual drop or strafing. The point is the stupid 8+ requirement.

[GulvkluderGuld]

44 minutes ago, Caljostro said:

 

Because there are no achievements (=signals) in coop, and it doesn't count towards campaign missions either.

 

Oh silly me, I was thinking about the regular missions that can be done in coop but forgot about the epic achievements.

[Kann_Nix_Extreme]

Dtep 1: Play stronk Midway for a day

Step 2: ???

Step 3: Profit 

 

 

[AlwaysBadLuckWithTeams]

10 hours ago, Kann_Nix_Extreme said:

Dtep 1: Play stronk Midway for a day

Step 2: ???

Step 3: Profit

 

Let me help you fill out the blanks:

 

Step 2: queue with a X carrier at 3 o'clock in the the morning and make sure your clan buddy does the same so that you can feed each other planes

 

I don't judge you. Actually, if that CS Yamamoto mission goes live in a few days, I just might do the same. I am sick of begging WG to fix their game. How hard can it be to come up with something reasonable ?

[Butterdoll]

On ‎18‎-‎08‎-‎2017 at 8:38 PM, Loran_Battle said:

Nah, every year is CV year!

 

edit: ah well, let me serious for a moment. Clear Skies has been broken ever since they included ALL planes. So those dumb BB or CA players that have it along with SI, but never launch them count. Or those that get killed before they can even launch their second. Not to mention those that have the +1 catapult skill... The achievement is nearly impossible to gain for a long time now.

 

 A little bit harsh don't you think.

As a cl/ca player mainly, I find catapult fighter planes pretty useless , yes they do spotting, yes I could train the captain to diminish the useless of the plane. but that it's just throwing away skill points much needed in other fields.

 The only times I launch my planes  it's when no cv it's around (in the mm)

Why?

simple, because there's no point doing that, many, many times in the past I launched my plane in the hope that  torpedo run or the bomb run of the enemy cv could be disrupted and the payload goes wide, but with no luck, it' gets shot down after a few seconds in the air.

I'm better of relying in the aa capabilities of the ship even if it's got bad aa and evasive manoeuvres.

For a while now, I thinking if it's possible to switch the fighter plane for a spotter plane. 

 

But I must agree with you, all the planes shouldn't count .

[WingedHussar_Adler]

1 hour ago, Butterdoll said:

 

 A little bit harsh don't you think.

As a cl/ca player mainly, I find catapult fighter planes pretty useless , yes they do spotting, yes I could train the captain to diminish the useless of the plane. but that it's just throwing away skill points much needed in other fields.

 The only times I launch my planes  it's when no cv it's around (in the mm)

Why?

simple, because there's no point doing that, many, many times in the past I launched my plane in the hope that  torpedo run or the bomb run of the enemy cv could be disrupted and the payload goes wide, but with no luck, it' gets shot down after a few seconds in the air.

I'm better of relying in the aa capabilities of the ship even if it's got bad aa and evasive manoeuvres.

For a while now, I thinking if it's possible to switch the fighter plane for a spotter plane. 

 

But I must agree with you, all the planes shouldn't count .

Ussing spotter plane explains your below average dmg. You are to far away from combat to do dmg. 

 

P.s.

Fighter plane is longer in air. It spots ships and incoming torpedo. If you "click" on squad of enemie plane it attacks that squad and make "panic" to them so they can not torp you.

 

Only way when spoter is good is to shoot ships sitting in smoke. But for that is skill needed.