RANT!!- Idiots with torpedoes

[Cyclops_]

Happened again last night, random battle team mate in a CA sent 4 torpedoes into me in my BB, then blamed me for turning into them when I was turning to focus on a CA that was coming down a channel in-between 2 islands, he even reported me and I lost a Karma point, really fecked off, got a bit salty with him once he blamed me for it and kept repeating it was my fault!!!!!

[Aragathor]

Weekend as usual. Nothing to see here folks.

No, seriously, that's par for the course. Lots of players don't know [edited] about torpedoes and then they blame others for their mistakes.

Have a great example for this, a guy in an Emerald kept pumping torps into a cap which I contested. Had to give him a piece of my mind, since he was a greater danger to me than the enemy. But that's normal for a game with no weapon tutorials.

[AkosJaccik]

For a fair amount of time I tried to not be a d*ck about it and try to evade "friendly" torpedoes (like there are "friendly" things with 3-500 kg of explosives in them), but frankly, if I do, show broadside in the process for example or just have to commit myself to a dangerous course or beach myself and get deleted for it, then the guy who was oblivious enough to lauch the torpedoes will never realize in a million years that he just got me sunk.

 

...so I just eat at least some of them, if that is the optimal solution. Should he apologize, nothing happened, as that was probably a learning experience. Should he scream "idiot", I "express my discontent", but it's in vain anyway.

[Juanx]

Developed the habit of going for torps dropped from 2nd line and towards my sailing line, nothing like getting some retard purple.

Let the flood punp your adrenaline rush, and with some luck, the offender will be dead to TK dmg.

[Cyclops_]

I think TK damage should be like Call Of Duty, the TK damage should be immediately reflected back to you and the team mate you hit should recieve no damage.

 

 

The only down side would be that you would get those that will deliberately enter the path of your torps, but at least it will make players think before they send torps at a target.

 

Should getting pink be changed to recieving the damage you would have caused, would anyone else like this method ???

 

 

[Juanx]

1 minute ago, OGHF_Cyclops said:

The only down side would be that you would get those that will deliberately enter the path of your torps, but at least it will make players think before they send torps at a target.

 

Erm, if someone can get into the path of your torps, you already screwed it, that is the gist of it...

[aboomination]

Happened to me four times this weekend, not counting close calls. Yeh, it's fun ^^

Especially if those torps would not have reached any targets anyway and you know it. Unlike that DD player who is unaware of his torp's reach.

Some even try to torp through islands

[indycar]

dont we all love those cruisers with 5km torps hiding behind lines and launching torps a ships 15km away

[Armorin]

Once had someone call me retarded for running into his torps which he fired from the second line. DCP was on cool down and I had a jammed rudder so couldn't do anything about it anyway.

Sometimes friendly fire events do happen, even IRL. Torps can have long range and only travel at about twice the speed of some ships. Sometimes it seems safe to launch them only for an ally to do a 90 degree turn and sail into them a long time after launch. #shiphappens.

I think if friendly torps did no damage, it would just lead to reckless torpedo launching. So I'm fine with how it works as it is. A serial torpedo spammer will get a TK status sooner or later.

I don't know if the torpedo reload times on lower tier ships are realistic. It doesn't help people to make them count rather than just spam them aimlessly.

 

[shockinhockin]

I actually believe that they should implement a system where if you have less than 100 battles in ships armed with torpedoes, that when you select the torps a massive red message pops up that says "do not fire torps from second line and if you do and hit an ally it's your fault!" 

 

If I had a pound since cbt where the friendly ship was assued of turning into the torps and it being there fault id own this company by now. 

 

Sadly you can't really train stupid. Iv seen players with 1000s of battle and no matter what you tell them as you sink after eating all there torps in the back they will still say "your fault noob sailed into my torps noob l2p" 

 

so for thous who are new here and actually want to learn something. This is the written rule of the sea regarding torps. 

 

" allways take responsibility for your own torps. And as such only fire from the frist line where it is safe to do so. And at the very least inform your allies if they are danger close to your firing angles." 

 

Do this and all will be well 

[AnotherDuck]

Actually happens rarely to me nowdays, but I've mostly been trying to advance my T7-T8 cruisers or other high tier ships. It's not that common on those tiers. When I play my Shinononome or Kamikaze for some bonus captain experience at mid tiers, then it happens on occasion.

 

Normally, just shrug and get on with it. It's not a big deal. If someone actually raises a stink about it, and they're the one who fired the torpedoes, then they can has all of my reports. Which is really all you can do.

[Beach_bum]

I don't really have a problem with it but when they turn around and blame you the victim of their folly it makes me a bit stingy.

[darkstar73]

Got torped some days ago. From a second line hiding destroyer. I didn´t sail into his spread, He saw me. Got 3 hits on my Yamato. I didn´t heal myself. I thanked him so much. Got a FU noob from him. and got reported. LOL. And he turned pink. Idjit

[aboomination]

Was just torped by some retarded (I have to assume that he is mentally disabled at this point) Königsberg...capped a cap, smoked our ATL and then ate his 6km torp. Next enemy: 14km away. Yes, I would love to personally remove his eyes and finger nails but we all have to accept that 80% of the player base are useful idiots to WG and a nuisance to everyone who wants to enjoy decent teamplay.

Amazingly I ended up in the upper half of the score list. 

 

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[Cyclops_]

21 minutes ago, aboomination said:

Yes, I would love to personally remove his eyes and finger nails but we all have to accept that 80% of the player base are useful idiots to WG and a nuisance to everyone who wants to enjoy decent teamplay.

 

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What would you think if rather than you taking the damage it was reflected back to him and it would be the end of his game if his HP pool was not big enough to take it??

[aboomination]

I think we could have won then 

[JollyRoger1516]

I think they should at least half the dmg taken from friendly fire. Then to kill somebody on your team youd have to repeatedly harm them so it becomes obvious what youre doing.

Sadly this is hard to figure out. Honestly there are many idiots who torp without any regards to what around them and without considering the run time of their torps. However theres also always those guys who really dont pay attention and run into torps launched 60 secs ago which they really shouldve seen and been able to easily not run into.I went pink once when I attempted to aid a Leander against a Bayern and when I launched my torps behind him and warned him in chat he still went for a full 180 turn back into the path of the torps. I mean he was running away from them only to go back into them...

Unfortunately thats the problems you face when using relatively slow moving and non discriminating weapons...

[Hawg]

I got backline torped by a teammate yesterday, who then apologized profusely.   I was far more shocked at the appology than the torping.   

[Messias]

Hah, I feel your pain. I bought friday night de Grasse because I like the Tier VI French cruiser and this is just a copy that boat. Well, here is my streak on  saturday : L, W, 6L, W, 4L, W, L, 2W. On sunday the saga continued,: 2L, W, 5L. Then I decided that the RNG do hate me and I quit. What did I saw: A lot of afk on my team, clan divisions on other teams that performed well, complete morons on my team (Tier VI French cruiser spamming AP on BB from a long distance, not responding to advise in chat BB's going to narrow gaps while a visible enemy DD is waiting on the other side, ships going all place but nowhere near cap. Man, I got frustrated. I understand that there are noobs in the weekend, but why, in the name of all what is holy, do they ALLWAYS land in my team. I have a frigging 28% winrate with that ship after 29 battles.  While I have the same stats damage wise with my  Galissonniere but that ship has a 54% winrate. But the worse was this guy: He was pink + AFK. Tight match, and we barely lost it and we could win that one if he was active. I was late in thegame near the point whre he was, and because he was AFK I rammed him so he could wait another extra battle to have his pink status removed. He then fired  upon me ( he was not AFK, he just did nothing) but forgot that because of his pink status the damage backfired upon him. He didn't fire a single shot on the enemy team. 

 

Later on I checked his stats: 55 battles in his New Mexico: average dps 6700, I checked other ships of that guy and all were bad, he had a winrate of like 35% and extremely low damage. But he did do damage first because the stats with the records of killign ships and damage and such I saw normal figures. SO it looks like he used to play normal, and then decided to troll everyone in his team bij just logging in and do nothing besides teamkilling. Man, if you din't like this game be gone. I don't think reporting him to WG wil help, or do you have other experiences?

[Armorin]

Unfortunately, you can't stop idiots playing the game. Idiotic DD's get rarer at higher levels since they probably move on to BB's. Then they complain they can't hit anything from J1 as their guns get more accurate.

Perhaps the torp warning indicator could be more useful. I've got torp vigilance on quite a few ships now, and I can see torps in front of me but with no warning. It only seems to help if you are looking in their direction.

[Hedgehog1963]

People are not given enough incentive at present to take care. All this would be reduced if being pink meant no PVP. 

[Butterdoll]

man, today it's co-op and scenario day.

Very aggressive players on chat, not in game, they fight each other like was no tomorrow

always end up in the chocolate team, they melt quickly.

in one map (fault line) they leave me by my own to defend/delay a cap...well... me and a afk ship, afk pink ship. we were the gay "flank".

yesterday, a bb, green bb shoot at me at me, again, and this time the fight  hadn't started yet, this time as i said before, torpedoes away.

One hit and i manage to do the same damage to him as he did to me.

As I said before i don't care if I turn pink

 

 

 

[Dampfboot]

6 hours ago, OGHF_Cyclops said:

Happened again last night, random battle team mate in a CA sent 4 torpedoes into me in my BB, then blamed me for turning into them when I was turning to focus on a CA that was coming down a channel in-between 2 islands, he even reported me and I lost a Karma point, really fecked off, got a bit salty with him once he blamed me for it and kept repeating it was my fault!!!!!

 

Wait until you meet the Nürnbergs that try to torp BBs that are 12km away. That is the premier league my friend, then you know your game is going down the drain fast.

[BeauNidl3]

5 hours ago, Juanx said:

 

Erm, if someone can get into the path of your torps, you already screwed it, that is the gist of it...

 

Indeed.

It is the responsibility of the torp firer to not fire if there's a chance they will hit an ally. At the very least it's the firers duty to shout that torps are at risk of hitting.

 

[hooneroids]

i got torped in my gearing by a zao from my own side.... i stayed and watched his entire game and he played really well (apart from the obvious)

so well he was a major contributor to the team winning i had no choice i had to compliment him on his game play

if you torp someone by accident though at least have the decency to type sorry