Did anyone else have a terrible weekend?

[Sicknote1]

Morning All,

 

I'm not trying to moan about teammates, in fact, I'm pretty ashamed about some of the hate chat that I sent out during my weekend of play.  If you were one of the people in my rage induced firing line, I'm sorry.

 

What my misery is looking for, is company. Looking at my stats for the weekend, I ended up with a win rate of only 35% and it just seemed no matter what I did, most matches ended up a loss. What would perk me up a bit on this gloomy Monday morning is to hear that I wasn't alone!

 

So imagine me as the guy propping up the end of the bar who looks like he's got nothing left to give to the world and just wants to hear about how crap other people's lives are for a bit of Schadenfreude!

[Spuggy]

I played on Thursday night after the RN BB release.

 

Played three games then knocked it on the head. Haven't logged in since. It was freakin' awful.

[aboomination]

Yep, it was terrible.

[RAHJAILARI]

Weel, the week before was quite bad. 40% win rate and what was worse - I was one of the idiot potatoes in way too many games (why did I turn right, when i knew in advance I would die instantly, if I did so?). I did myself a favor and had a few days rest, so when I tried again last Friday it went better, but then again, anticipating a huge overpopulation of British BB's - I did make sure to play DD all weekend, Hehe!

 

Turns out they react similar than any other BB to an unexpected torpedo hit...

[Sicknote1]

Maybe that was my mistake, waiting so long for British BBs, that's exclusively what I played this weekend. Maybe I should have jumped into my Gallant!

[creamgravy]

34 minutes ago, Sicknote1 said:

I ended up with a win rate of only 35%

 

40% with QE and 33% with KGV here. Watching your only 2 destroyers torpedo each other at the start is always fun.

 ...but I ground out a fully functioning KGV and QE. Happy days! 

 

22 minutes ago, Sicknote1 said:

Maybe I should have jumped into my Gallant!

 

100% on Gallant plus a ton of positive karma. Destroyers and CV win games, BBs are helpless with no spotting. 

[JaiFoh]

It's been Fantastic. 
Since patch was released not taken out a BB, pushing 70% win rate including a 100% win rate in the Kamikaze 
and 70% of those games were with Destroyers with a smattering of Cruisers and a single CV. 

8 minutes ago, creamgravy said:

100% on Gallant plus a ton of positive karma. Destroyers and CV win games, BBs are helpless with no spotting. 

only 57% my end, but over 40k average damage and 2 kills per game on average. 
two losses i did 70-80k of damage, three kills, and was the only person on the team to get any kills.....and all caps.

I really like the gallant, and i cannot help but thinking if her guns were 5" instead of 4.7" and a slightly faster torp reload she would be borderline OP. 
I really go think she is just the best all round DD at T6. 

[philjd]

A weekend I wished I had stayed away from the game - my summary of my experience over the weekend (although I finally unlocked the Neptune, my first T9, which I couldn't get my head around, which didn't help).

[Fat_Maniac]

I logged in Thursday after the patch and did a few battles in my t3 - t4 bracket, cos I'm going slow and steady trying to learn the game.

 

Gave up, but thinking of dipping my toes in the water again.

 

I've got to learn this game to play it properly, and that means playing regularly, but its been so bad the last few weeks with the summer hols I haven't been able to learn anything or develop my skills. Just felt the internal rage building so had to walk away for a while.

[Damanta]

I had a fairly good sunday.

Division up and even bad games can be fun.

[BrusilovX]

2 minutes ago, Fat_Maniac said:

I logged in Thursday after the patch and did a few battles in my t3 - t4 bracket, cos I'm going slow and steady trying to learn the game.

 

Gave up, but thinking of dipping my toes in the water again.

 

I've got to learn this game to play it properly, and that means playing regularly, but its been so bad the last few weeks with the summer hols I haven't been able to learn anything or develop my skills. Just felt the internal rage building so had to walk away for a while.

 

Just keep playing one class as the 'main' then even for different nations - maybe at most do the 'daily doubles' in the others (although at times that in itself can take a few battles).

[Fat_Maniac]

Just now, BrusilovX said:

 

Just keep playing one class as the 'main' then even for different nations - maybe at most do the 'daily doubles' in the others (although at times that in itself can take a few battles).

Styill trying to figure out my main class TBH, still playing everything except CV to see what makes them tick, but cruisers are looking likely as my main atm, I like BB's but its easy to play them badly and still live and get reasonable numbers. In a cruiser if I dont play well, I die or score terrible so I know I have something to learn from that game.

 

[T0byJug]

58 minutes ago, Sicknote1 said:

Maybe that was my mistake, waiting so long for British BBs, that's exclusively what I played this weekend. Maybe I should have jumped into my Gallant!

I always stick to one rule.. Never play a tech line the week of release.. I pissed around in the tier 3 and 4 in Co-op to get them elited and played old Iron Duke in Operations. Almost exclusive DD and CA/CL this weekend.

[philjd]

2 minutes ago, T0byJug said:

I always stick to one rule.. Never play a tech line the week of release.. I pissed around in the tier 3 and 4 in Co-op to get them elited and played old Iron Duke in Operations. Almost exclusive DD and CA/CL this weekend.

BB queue's were about 2 mins over the weekend - took my shiny new T3/4/5 RN BB's out for 1 spin each then didn't bother with BB's anymore.

[Messias]

Fridaynight I had been drinking. Seeing the invasion of BB's I decided to play with my Langley, won almost all of my matches. But then.. Sunday I tried 4 matches, first 3 losses with my Cruisers (Cleveland and Algerie) where only one game I could dish out decent damage. All one sided losses. 4th game was a one sided victory where I had no chance to get some decent damage because match was over in no time. I than decided to quit gaming and do something else. I now refrain from playing during the weekend because last weekend it was even worse. 27% win rate with my de Grasse, ouch.

[ShuggieHamster]

only managed 3 t6 cv games in total ... loss win win. did notice in game 1 (both sides) and game 3 (red team only) a lot of iron dukes not understanding that the flying things were dangerous. Game 2 both teams played well, both cvs struggled to get in to drop so we amused ourselves with dogfighting and strafing - ended up with my first clear sky (I never run AS loadout).

otherwise didnt feel like a mega potato weekend.

[Donar79]

RNGsus gives it, RNGsus takes it.

For me it was quite a good weekend (only Sunday).

I recognized that weekends are always an extreme. Often my results are above 80% or below 40%. Luckily, often the first.

But there are 2 rules for me:

1. Don't bother playing new lines on release. Or even this class.

2. Stop playing BBs if there are more than 100 people waiting in your tier-range.

[Ferry_25]

Was really weird. Either it was a legendary match or a godawfull one. Latter most frequent sadly: couldn't hit a citadel even when I would be in it, begging to give at least 10% of the fires I was recieving, my torpedocatcher worked flawless and lots of games where I was the First Blood donor. And the good ones I even hardly had to aim! Point in the general direction and the dev strikes clogged my connection speed.

Did manage to suffer out a few missions though. All in all not too bad.

IMO the weekends are the most "extreme" in terms of good or bad matches.

 

And indeed: my advise would be to sit out the "hype" of a new line a couple of weeks so you can properly get familiar with it. Now the queues are clogging with RN BB's and lots of sealclubbers (myself not being entirely innocent in that regard TBH) who think it's hilarious to get killsteals at people who try to figure the new line out. Suspiciously lots of CV players ruining the matches since the RN release. So I polished up my sealclubclubbers... Hello Atlanta (and kindred ships)! Farmed quite a few CV tears in the process.

[Lord_WC]

Only had 10 matches, won the usual weekend 80% of it.

The trick is you should pick a cap capable ship on the weekends, because weekend BBs are even bigger pussies than the weekday ones and will never EVER contest a cap. You just cap something, they get scared and run away.

[ShuggieHamster]

12 minutes ago, Ferry_25 said:

 Suspiciously lots of CV players ruining the matches since the RN release. So I polished up my sealclubclubbers... Hello Atlanta (and kindred ships)! Farmed quite a few CV tears in the process.

 

I resemble this!   Although being alergic to large quantities of AA, I avoid cleves, Altantas and even Bayerns.

 

I did have one game where there were 4 cvs ingame. First time I've seen a 4 cv match in forever. looked like 2 noob drivers and 2 experienced (1 per side). not saying there was farming, but there was a little light market gardening going on.

[BrusilovX]

36 minutes ago, Fat_Maniac said:

Styill trying to figure out my main class TBH, still playing everything except CV to see what makes them tick, but cruisers are looking likely as my main atm, I like BB's but its easy to play them badly and still live and get reasonable numbers. In a cruiser if I dont play well, I die or score terrible so I know I have something to learn from that game.

 

 

The problem with CA is that they are very squishy and if hit broadside by a battleship you're deleted.  I'm not really into the 'hide behind an island' game play used by many CAs.

 

I played a few games as a CV in the beta and did not like the play style.

 

BBs are a bit slow and with many teams it's hard to keep up with them especially when they lemming.

 

DDs can be quite fun and can have an influence on the outcome either by capping and spotting or by ambush.  Even with DDs there are different styles - torps (IJN mainly) or guns.

 

[Lord_WC]

5 minutes ago, ShuggieHamster said:

I did have one game where there were 4 cvs ingame. First time I've seen a 4 cv match in forever. looked like 2 noob drivers and 2 experienced (1 per side). not saying there was farming, but there was a little light market gardening going on.

The best CV I ever met on the weekend was a guy that thought the best place to park is the opposite side of an island where I parked my full AA specced neptune.

His squadrons couldn't even lift off.

[WhiteCliffs]

Had an okay time playing Queen Elizabeth until I reached my wet dream and hit the seas in KGV. At 10 games in with the coveted latter I was on a 20% win rate. Wound up on Fiji to spew hate across the tier. Bloody awful weekend.

[creamgravy]

1 minute ago, Lord_WC said:

BBs are even bigger pussies than the weekday ones and will never EVER contest a cap

 

Battleships can't contest caps unless the game is already over. They can't push into smoke and torpedoes with battleships/cruisers behind islands shooting them. The correct play is to camp around islands close enough to support a cap.

 

45 minutes ago, JaiFoh said:

I cannot help but thinking if her guns were 5" instead of 4.7" and a slightly faster torp reload she would be borderline OP. 

 

The RN 120mm is actually better than all 127mm guns at tier 6. It has decent DPM, good traverse and high fire chance. Perfect for brawling other destroyers and HE spamming BBs. The downside is weak AP. 

[_DeathWing_]

Nope! Cuz I didn't play