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Goddammit. Now have to pre-order some ships.
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How are others experiences with the Cleveland? Are you racking a lot of citadels on BBs, or do you score those 1-4000 points per salvo as I seem to do?
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Daktari posted:How are others experiences with the Cleveland? Citadels are rare in a cleveland except against lower tier light cruisers. It's all about piling on scratch damage.
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Apr 14, 2015 14:34
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Daktari posted:How are others experiences with the Cleveland?
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Apr 14, 2015 14:52
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Cleveland will murder planes even a tier or two higher, especially if you choose the AA range upgrade. But really, any American CA above Tier V will chew through planes at or even above its tier. Had a very fun game on Sunday, I think, Sims division and a couple of pubbie DD tagalongs. We 1000 cut a Cleveland to death and nobody fired a torpedo at it. Anyone have any idea when Open Beta hits? I want to burn through my free xp before it all gets wiped.
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Apr 14, 2015 14:58
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Asehujiko posted:Cleveland can't do citadel hits against any BB, they're it's hard counter. You can blender most cruisers, oneshot destroyers and you're the closest thing to decent AA available at that tier. Cleveland can chip damage any BB lower than a fuso to death with relative ease in a 1v1 with maneuver room. Stay at around 10 km minimize the amount of time the BB has to shoot at a flat side, dance like your life depends on it, aim high, and for turrets. I also find it a good idea to swap to HE until she burns, whenever she is not burning. One, it will cause dumb players to blow their repairs. Then we you get a gun kill its stays dead. Two, it makes it simple to tell if they have blown their repairs. Letting you know you need to star over with the whack a turret game. Three, more dots. Don't gently caress with the fuso the shot gun effect is deadly when it only takes one pelt, Nagato, Amagi are far simpler to fight as their captains need to be able to aim to kill you.
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Apr 14, 2015 15:47
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FINALLY http://worldofwarships.com/en/news/ I had to buy my way into the closed beta, but it's gonna be worth it. I'm tired of seeing this game and not playing it.
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Apr 14, 2015 15:47
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Own a Cleveland? Step one: shoot HE and set poo poo on fire. Step two: switch to AP and fire a salvo at your quarry who likely blew its repair kit because of said fire in step one. Step three: load HE again and try to lite the fucker on fire again because now they don't have a repair available. Step four: play Burn by Ellie Goulding, preferably the dubstep version and ask the person if they used their repair kit as they burn down in flames. Bonus if you manage to light larger ships in multiple areas watching the funeral pyre burn brightly.
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Apr 14, 2015 15:53
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What? Is that how the turrets get knocked out? You use a repair and suddenly your turrets can be taken out for the whole game?
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Apr 14, 2015 17:44
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:What? Is that how the turrets get knocked out? You use a repair and suddenly your turrets can be taken out for the whole game? No, iirc, hits knock them out temporarily, and penetrations total them.
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Apr 14, 2015 17:48
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xthetenth posted:No, iirc, hits knock them out temporarily, and penetrations total them. As I climb up the tiers, pens have been happening more or more often. I've been finding myself in a castrated Pensacola trying to ram things before I get blown up.
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Apr 14, 2015 18:02
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 In 1947, this is what the Swedish navy figured a guided missile cruiser's missile launch system might look like in the future. It's funny how they just took what they knew (the twin gun turret) and replaced the guns with launch ramps. Complete ship proposals, one with guns and one with missiles:  
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Apr 14, 2015 18:29
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If people are starting to get extra keys, I'll go back through the thread and update the big list. I'll try to have it up later today.
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Apr 14, 2015 18:45
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Hahahaha, the servers are overloaded because of all the pre-orders. 
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Apr 14, 2015 20:10
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Magni posted:Hahahaha, the servers are overloaded because of all the pre-orders. haha yeah took just a bit over 30 minutes to download first 5.5 gigs, this last .5 has taken over an hour. By the way, they just flag the Wo* account as a beta tester, you don't get sent a key so if you were already in and pre-ordered a bundle you dont get another CBT key. FlyingCowOfDoom fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Apr 14, 2015 |
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Apr 14, 2015 20:23
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The best thing about this game is doing 54.9k damage to a fuso, and then having someone come by and snipe the last 150 life, and get more xp and credits than you do.
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Apr 14, 2015 20:25
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That's why I always shoot my guns when I'm driving my Destroyer. That 100 hp kill shot always makes the game more fun.
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Apr 14, 2015 20:36
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FlyingCowOfDoom posted:haha yeah took just a bit over 30 minutes to download first 5.5 gigs, this last .5 has taken over an hour. I've been playing the CBT since it came out and got the Sims package. WG emailed me key yesterday anyway. I would give it away, but don't know if that would screw up my access.
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Apr 14, 2015 20:48
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My Lexington went up alone against two Rangers who both had the fighter heavy configuration. My one fighter squad didn't really do well in a 6 vs 1 despite the superior quality but I still managed to land some torp hits so all their work accomplished nothing. In fact less than nothing and possibly actively bad as they had two useless ships which countered one (mine) that still managed to be a little useful. Oh and I went into a game against some poor bastard in the tier 5 carrier. 3 tier difference on the fighters. When they clashed his died faster than if they had dived into the ground. Lost both those games of course, my team just melted like ice bergs in the tropics. Poil fucked around with this message at 20:59 on Apr 14, 2015 |
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Apr 14, 2015 20:55
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I gave the aim assist mod a try and holy moly is it helpful. In fact, it's basically mandatory for me now because it is based on the ships ACTUAL position, not their position on the screen. So if the graphics desync (a persistent bug through the CBT) it's no longer an issue. I'd advise going through the early tiers without it though, the indicator isn't always right and you need a sense of where to shoot in those cases.
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Apr 14, 2015 21:35
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There's already an aim-mod before the game is even out of Closed Beta? The WoT style decline begins!  What's the aim mod do? Give you a lead indicator for your guns or an SPG style line to show you the path to the target or something?
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Apr 14, 2015 21:58
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Zaodai posted:There's already an aim-mod before the game is even out of Closed Beta? The WoT style decline begins! It draws an x on the exact center of the enemy ship, and then draws a line that is based on their heading/speed and the time it takes for your shot to land, it then puts a second x at that point. If they continue at the exact speed and heading and you aim for the second x, your shots will be centered around the enemy ship. It doesn't work well if the enemy varies their speed/heading so you should always be zigzagging.
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Oh, and the reason I mentioned you should try it is that apparently the EU forum mods said it was legal. Which...okay, might as well then I guess.
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Apr 14, 2015 22:15
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:It draws an x on the exact center of the enemy ship, and then draws a line that is based on their heading/speed and the time it takes for your shot to land, it then puts a second x at that point. Wow. That's kinda busted. Wargaming.net: Where effort is for suckers. Just another reason to play zig-zag destoyerman!
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Apr 14, 2015 22:23
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I'm having pretty good luck with the Aoba. People usually ignore me and I get huge citidel hits against things other than destroyers... which is pretty much the opposite of my experience with the Cleveland.
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Apr 14, 2015 22:39
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Aoba is quite nice. Anyone got a link to that aim mod? I am seeing it used more and more and well, gently caress it, I needs it.
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Apr 14, 2015 22:49
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Burt posted:Aoba is quite nice. Here you go! http://pkwot.blogspot.ca/2015/04/world-of-warships-aimbot-huge-thanks-to.html
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Apr 14, 2015 22:56
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If you're joining the CBT now, be sure to get in the Goons channel and the Vent server. Platooning is OP as gently caress.
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Apr 14, 2015 23:09
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Vengarr posted:If you're joining the CBT now, be sure to get in the Goons channel and the Vent server. Platooning is OP as gently caress. I find that even if you're playing with lovely people, you're going to be more motivated to play it safe and stay alive. That leads to winning games. Edit: lovely as in, not good at games. Goons are cool as gently caress mostly.
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Apr 14, 2015 23:20
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So I think I got the disappearing ship bug someone was talking about earlier. My camera became unstuck, and my Penscola drove off into the sunset on it's own, I Ctrl-Alt-Del'd out of the game hoping to get back in and it's been in battle ever since.
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Apr 14, 2015 23:29
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Infidelicious posted:So I think I got the disappearing ship bug someone was talking about earlier. My camera became unstuck, and my Penscola drove off into the sunset on it's own, I Ctrl-Alt-Del'd out of the game hoping to get back in and it's been in battle ever since. Definitely make a report on the forums. It'll probably only be fixed when the server reboots tomorrow morning, but let em know about it anyway.
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Apr 14, 2015 23:32
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With the 5 free ship slots from spaceships, I'm looking forward to rebuying a Wakatake, Kuma, and Omaha tommorrow to beat up on new people. People love the St. Louis and Cleveland, but Omaha is my favorite US cruiser. 8x1 and 2x2 main guns means it has more guns than the St. Louis plus it can go 34 knots plus it has 5.5km range torpedoes. So much fun.
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Always nice to meet another goon division in-game.   And then sink them.  TS was fun because they were on the same channel. Had a hearty laugh when bulb realised I was coming to the same flank and decided that they should GTFO because their BB pubbies were not likely to stop me.  Also, had a match in the New Orleans that was the botes version of playing Touhou. Enemy capping in encounter and it's a smoke cloud in the cap, so I decide to go and whack the DD. Except it wasn't one DD. It was two. And a Kitakami.  So, that was kinda fun dodging like 80 torps in a clusterfuck of a turning fight and scrapping one DD and the Kita before a BB wandered over and nuked me while I was dodging the last wave.
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I haven't seen a Kitakami pull its weight yet but I did have a late night game where both teams had three kitakami. They didn't end up amounting to much but it was goddamn terrifying to even be near them.
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Folks who were in CBT before today -- make sure to dismiss or retrain the commanders off of your space boats, because your commander reserves will be otherwise full. There's a risk of accidentally dismissing a commander from a real-tier boat that you were going to transfer and retrain to a higher-tier vessel if you try to sell the lower-tier ship. I am not speaking from experience, but hearing a pubbie complain about it brought a smile to my face. 
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Apr 15, 2015 00:26
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Looks like they're just now starting to apply CBT access to people who ordered yesterday--I can finally download the game and whatever. I didn't get a key, it was just applied to my account
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Apr 15, 2015 01:06
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Just unlocked my Yamato (again). Also, Iwaki OP:    Kumas (and by extension, Kitakamis) are ridiculously easy to citadel.
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   This wasn't a particularly spectacular game by non-pubbie standards, but the highlights included dive bombers actually hitting and letting me finish off a destroyer as the first kill of the game, dropping smoke to cover a pub's escape from grounding on an island, actual teamwork in chat, gunning a Kitakami down because Kitakamis suck, and a super-narrow 1002-to-996 Domination score at the end. 
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Apr 15, 2015 03:27
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rossmum posted:Kumas (and by extension, Kitakamis) are ridiculously easy to citadel. Japanese light citadels are pretty pants, yeah. Also I wasn't kidding when I ran into you and said I was lagging more, I was spiking to four seconds. Dodging future torps with a past boat is pretty hard.
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