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Dalael posted:gently caress! Sometimes I just can't loving understand this RNG bullshit. I can never hit anything long range with m y Nagato. Its ridiculous. Its not that I have bad aim or anything like that. If it was a matter of sucking at aiming, I wouldn't care as much. But when every single fuckign shot is perfectly aimed for the middle of the ship, but all god drat shells hit water on both sides of the ship its just infuriating. What pisses me off the most is when I'm fighting another Nagato at long range, and while my shots just land on both side, his hit non-stop. What's your name in game? I gave that treatment to several other Nagatos tonight. It needs the gun upgrade to not be a pile of poo poo at range.
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Lee Outrageous posted:What's your name in game? I gave that treatment to several other Nagatos tonight. It needs the gun upgrade to not be a pile of poo poo at range. Same as my SA name.
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Apr 25, 2015 07:00
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So, I had a game in the murder-machine named Cleveland tonight, and this happened: Followed by this, easily the best DD game I've ever had:  Good times.
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Apr 25, 2015 07:02
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James Garfield posted:"[something nerds don't like] poi" gets fairly consistent results. "Anime is for children poi" works a lot better than without the poi. Could someone please explain "poi" please? It appears I need to know what it means in order to fully understand botes.
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Apr 25, 2015 07:52
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Atomizer posted:Could someone please explain "poi" please? It appears I need to know what it means in order to fully understand botes. Something about an anime about boats. Kenculla I think? Kencolla?  E: http://en.rocketnews24.com/2015/03/30/kancolle-anime-characters-catchphrase-poi-is-poised-to-take-over-the-world-poi-poi/ TLDR: AH! Like I'm gonna read that poo poo for you.
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Apr 25, 2015 07:57
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Dalael posted:Something about an anime about boats. Kenculla I think? Kencolla? That helps me understand it even less. I don't watch gay Japanese cartoons for children.
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Apr 25, 2015 07:59
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Atomizer posted:That helps me understand it even less. I don't watch gay Japanese cartoons for children. Edited my post with a link which I think may explain it. Did a quick google search for you. E: Don't get me wrong. Some anime can be cool. But from the first picture I saw about it, its one of those anime with pre-pubescent girls like the japanese are so fond of. loving weirdos. EE: Fun fact, I stopped talking to a friend of mine once he admitted being more attracted to prepubescent japanese anime girls than to a real, live woman... I just did not know how to deal with that information.. It was way too loving awkward. Dalael fucked around with this message at 08:05 on Apr 25, 2015 |
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Apr 25, 2015 08:01
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Dalael posted:Edited my post with a link which I think may explain it. Did a quick google search for you. Yeah, I went back and read the link, I guess that kinda explains it now. It's an anime thing that either retards will "get" because they watch terrible cartoons and also play botes, or people who've lost their virginity won't get and will look on in bewilderment. I did try searching for poi but it means other things (e.g. food) so I wasn't sure exactly which thing was connected to botes. Thanks for clearing it up though!
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Apr 25, 2015 08:05
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Atomizer posted:Could someone please explain "poi" please? It appears I need to know what it means in order to fully understand botes. There's a Japanese browser game called Kantai Collection. It's very simple, about collecting ships like pokemon, fleet management, development and RNG. The catch is of course, that the ships are represented as girls. The game was a massive success when it came out, followed later by an anime adaptation and a lovely vita port still in the works. A lot of the IJN fleet is in there, along with a couple of the famous German battleships, like the Prinz Eugen and Bismarck. All of the ships have lines of dialogue, in combat, for various menus, time-sensitive ones, and even when you simply click them. Out of these ships, there's the IJN destroyer Yuudachi. Instead of trying to explain what Poi is and embarrassing myself over what it actually means in a sentence in Japanese, you can experience the poi for yourself, here! (You can pick her other lines next to the "Set" button) Basically, it's a tick in her lines. You can also "modernize" ships, and their appearance can change as a result of that. When Yuudachi gets modernized twice, she gets hair flaps that make her look more like a dog, further fueling her popularity.  For some reason, people get really mad when you say Poi in-game. I have no idea what that's all about, but that's the power of anime for you, I guess.  Edit: Welp this was kind of a redundant effort post in the end but hey. OSad fucked around with this message at 08:50 on Apr 25, 2015 |
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Apr 25, 2015 08:16
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OSad posted:For some reason, people get really mad when you say Poi in-game. I have no idea what that's all about, but that's the power of anime for you, I guess. People get mad because: 1- Its loving annoying to read POI all the time. 2- Its loving retarded. 3- Its from another one of those anime thats all about pre-buscent girls which for some reason, japanese people think is okay to fantasize about (Modern Japanese culture is loving weird and if it wasn't for the international community, I am 99.9999999999999999999999999999 sure they'd be okay with pedophilia) 4- Prebubescent anime girls with dog ears? Sounds a lot like furries to me. (Guess they're okay with bestiality too) I am sure there are more reasons than that, but those should be sufficient.
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Apr 25, 2015 08:39
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It's also a famous Hawaiian dish that ranges from sweet to sour as it ages. There's apparently a performance art based around spinning balls on string in rhythmic patterns called Poi. Modern Poi uses glowstick technology to make some performances a really trippy experience. Also the balls/objects can be on fire  I have learned something neat today. Now I can make references and call pubbies uncultured rubes for not getting them as they wallow in their plebian anime memes 
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Apr 25, 2015 08:48
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Suggesting I use alt has really helped my carrier game. And then I got to the independence carrier and realized how lovely dive bombers really are. Atleast I sunk a battleship that game by ramming him.
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Apr 25, 2015 09:23
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Dalael posted:gently caress! Sometimes I just can't loving understand this RNG bullshit. I can never hit anything long range with m y Nagato. Its ridiculous. Its not that I have bad aim or anything like that. If it was a matter of sucking at aiming, I wouldn't care as much. But when every single fuckign shot is perfectly aimed for the middle of the ship, but all god drat shells hit water on both sides of the ship its just infuriating. What pisses me off the most is when I'm fighting another Nagato at long range, and while my shots just land on both side, his hit non-stop. Earlier I lost a Wickes on Wickes duel because literally every hit from the enemy Wickes was a citadel hit. I even hit it with a torpedo, and hit with more of my shells than the enemy ship, and it was irrelevant because the enemy shells happened to disperse onto a favorable part of the aim circle.  Exponential damage RNG is stupid.
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Apr 25, 2015 09:30
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As I'm just starting out, what should I focus on, getting higher tier ships or upgrading my lowbie ships? Also what are sone of the better ships to aim for? I haven't played tanks much and all the options confuse me 
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Apr 25, 2015 10:15
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Willeh posted:As I'm just starting out, what should I focus on, getting higher tier ships or upgrading my lowbie ships? Also what are sone of the better ships to aim for? I'm intentionally being a dick and just firing HE all the time because 1) it's fun setting people on fire and making them burn (no pun intended) their repair kits, and 2) gently caress it, who cares it's all meaningless and will be reset. Aim for the Cleveland and the Kongo as good mid-tier targets. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 10:32 on Apr 25, 2015 |
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Apr 25, 2015 10:27
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Willeh posted:As I'm just starting out, what should I focus on, getting higher tier ships or upgrading my lowbie ships? Also what are sone of the better ships to aim for? Don;t worry too much about loving things up and getting the wrong upgrades, it's all getting wiped at the end of CBT heading into
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Apr 25, 2015 11:01
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My strategy has been to pick the ships that go bang and make the enemy ships go boom and it's been working out p good so far
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Apr 25, 2015 11:05
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The best part about playing American cruisers is when you get a salvo dead on that blows somebody clean in half, and they accuse you of buying your aiming skill from Russia.  "But I was turning!"  Maybe one slow, unmodified turn isn't that hard to lead!
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Willeh posted:As I'm just starting out, what should I focus on, getting higher tier ships or upgrading my lowbie ships? Also what are sone of the better ships to aim for? Get the St. Louis, fully upgrade it.. pimp out to the max. Never ever sell it.
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demonR6 posted:Get the St. Louis, fully upgrade it.. pimp out to the max. Never ever sell it. Yeah, the St. Louis is sort of the Churchill III of WoWS. A giant brick of a ship that makes you feel giddy firing off an all-gun broadside, even if you're barely scraping past 10km effective range.
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Apr 25, 2015 13:06
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I think after playing many, many games with the Cleveland, I finally got a handle on the ship and it is definitely my favourite ship in the game so far. I think the upgrade that gives you a better RoF is necessary, the turning rate on the guns isn't too bad and you can improve it with your captain/upgrades anyway. The thing will absolutely smash cruisers, destroyers and even battleships if they are otherwise preoccupied and you can pump 6 second volleys. I'm pretty bad at aiming but with the Cleveland I don't even really need to aim. I love it.
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Tekopo posted:I think after playing many, many games with the Cleveland, I finally got a handle on the ship and it is definitely my favourite ship in the game so far. I think the upgrade that gives you a better RoF is necessary, the turning rate on the guns isn't too bad and you can improve it with your captain/upgrades anyway. The thing will absolutely smash cruisers, destroyers and even battleships if they are otherwise preoccupied and you can pump 6 second volleys. I'm pretty bad at aiming but with the Cleveland I don't even really need to aim. I love it. There is no upgrade that increases RoF. The one you're thinking of actually decreases RoF, while giving higher turret rotation speed. The upgrade that increases main battery accuracy is a no-brainer in that slot on most/all ships.
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PirateBob posted:There is no upgrade that increases RoF. The one you're thinking of actually decreases RoF, while giving higher turret rotation speed. The upgrade that increases main battery accuracy is a no-brainer in that slot on most/all ships. Edit: sorry I meant the module, not upgrade. My mistake for making it unclear.
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PirateBob posted:The upgrade that increases main battery accuracy is a no-brainer in that slot on most/all ships. I don't know, the RoF/Turret turn time upgrade is pretty nice, especially on battleships.
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It's a rate of fire downgrade, actually, it makes your reloads longer. It's pretty bad.
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El Disco posted:I don't know, the RoF/Turret turn time upgrade is pretty nice, especially on battleships. How often are you turning the turrets around in a BB? Enough to sacrifice 10% of your DPM? Assuming you aren't just confused about what that upgrade actually does... vvv lol. I made the same mistake the first time I bought an upgrade. The description is somewhat unclear. PirateBob fucked around with this message at 15:30 on Apr 25, 2015 |
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hopterque posted:It's a rate of fire downgrade, actually, it makes your reloads longer. PirateBob posted:How often are you turning the turrets around in a BB? Enough to sacrifice 10% of your DPM? Oh for fucks sake, I thought it was a bonus to RoF.  brb, destroying some upgrades...
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El Disco posted:Oh for fucks sake, I thought it was a bonus to RoF. Welp.. gently caress me. Didn't need all that money anyway!
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Hatsuharu Trip Report, Day 3 1/2:  I'M FREE! FREE AT LAST! gently caress this cursed tub forever, off to the junkyard she goes.
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I totally bought into beta like a scrub and gently caress is it awesome. I'm only rocking tier 2 cruisers but still it puts a smile on my face. I can't wait to group up with some of you goonies.
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Just had a Cleveland game where I shot down 33 planes. I bet that carrier driver was really not happy with me, especially when I went and sunk him. I even shot down a scout 
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Apr 25, 2015 18:25
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Pubbies just can't wrap their head around how to hit someone Tokyo Drifting the map edge. Killed a ~half health Amagi and full health Kongo because they missed everything forever at like 12km.
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Playing the Phoenix kind of feels like I made a wish with a monkey's paw. I keep getting the most XP of anyone in the game... but my team always loses.
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Magni posted:Hatsuharu Trip Report, Day 3 1/2: Are those stats only for the Hatsuharu? How do you get that? I can get my overall summary, but not by individual ship that I've found so far. Also, holy poo poo pubbies are stupid. Low tier game earlier, we have a St. Louis and Chikuma? (the T2 IJN cruiser) vs. a Kawachi. The Chikuma is capping, the St. Louis is fighting the Kawachi who is on our cap. St. Louis does a decent job (could have won if he'd had an entire broadside on target) and keeps the Kawachi reset until the Chikuma has 50% cap, so with only the Chikuma and Kawachi (at 8k health) left, the game is won. Right up until our Chikuma leaves the cap to go back and fight the Kawachi. *ugh*. He can barely get there in time, but when he gets there and is almost to come out from behind an island to light the Kawachi, he comes to a dead stop, sits there for a minute, and then begins to move ahead, so that when he comes around into the open he's doing maybe 3 knots, at less than 3km from the Kawachi. Salvoed out in one shot of course.
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Magni posted:Hatsuharu Trip Report, Day 3 1/2: I'm surprised you made it through the Mutsuki. I sure didn't. Best part was getting the Fletcher and realizing that it has better torpedoes too.
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Tindahbawx posted:Is this still buy-in only? Pre-ordering a package gets you into the Closed Beta immediately, but the application page for testing is still working, so you could just apply to be a beta tester and wait, you might get selected if they want to expand the number of testers at some point.
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The Locator posted:Are those stats only for the Hatsuharu? How do you get that? I can get my overall summary, but not by individual ship that I've found so far. Take a look at your account on the WoWs webpage. It has a more detailed stats page. Vengarr posted:I'm surprised you made it through the Mutsuki. I sure didn't. Well the Fletcher is three tiers higher than the Mutsuki.  I found her to be kinda meh, but actually useable. Just pretend you're a ninja every ~90secs by either throwing torps at someone from beyond your detection range or by ambushing and killing someone around a corner or by sneaking through half the enemy team to murder the carrier. The Hatsuharu has more useable guns, but is a bigger tub that gets detected from farther out and the same torps and it's just painful. Fubuki OTOH? Enough guns to make them really useful for HE spamming at DDs and carriers, 3*3 torpedos with the upgraded ones having 15km range and with the concealment mod upgrade you're actually less visible than the Hatsuharu. Magni fucked around with this message at 00:54 on Apr 26, 2015 |
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