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I legitimately do not understand how to play the Cleveland. It is not at all fun for me to constantly miss because of shell travel time, or to close in with destroyers and other cruisers and get shredded Instead I play the Myoko, which was a good ship at tier 8 and only had its torpedoes nerfed during the move. It's pretty great.
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:I legitimately do not understand how to play the Cleveland. It is not at all fun for me to constantly miss because of shell travel time, or to close in with destroyers and other cruisers and get shredded It has a fantastic rate of fire, so figure out how to hit at max range, and then proceed to rain fire and brimstone (HE) on everything. I killed a pair of DD's, a New Orleans and an Aoba in a match today (or maybe last night, my memory is terrible) with the Cleveland on the stupid ice map.  It's also possible to just straight up DPS down a battleship in just a couple of minutes if you don't catch any solid citadel hits or he's distracted shooting at other BB's.
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May 18, 2015 02:17
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rossmum posted:Having a surprisingly good time in the NM. Not a bad ship, even if it is ugly. My favourite part of the Yamato is driving at the side of one and pretending I'm fighting a Contra boss or some poo poo cause Axis weaponry only makes sense if you think of them as making weapons for video game bad guys
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May 18, 2015 02:19
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Wow, Amagi AA is no joke. Just killed 20 aircraft.
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May 18, 2015 02:32
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What's the deal with x4? I see people posting that. Is it a EU server thing, or one of the flags you can add? Also, I love the Atlanta:    The guy TK_Konstantin was playing Horatio Nimitz and ordering people around and then was complaining when people weren't following his orders.  Also, 16k in fire damage. I'm loving the pyro perk for my cruiser captain.
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May 18, 2015 03:35
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x4 is for EU people, yeah. The Mogami with the 155mm guns is still great after the patch. Got Double Strike and another Confederate with it in a game tonight.    Saying "thanks for flags" when an achievement pops really sets off a chat explosion, haha. Especially after a Double Strike.
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May 18, 2015 03:44
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Trying to get into the goons channel, but it's not working. I don't get a prompt for a password or anything, it just stays in the task bar and won't open. Is this a known bug or am I missing something here?
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May 18, 2015 03:53
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Magni posted:As for Yamato:  Holy poo poo that exp!
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May 18, 2015 04:44
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I get this every so option when it bugs out. Try right clicking on the channel name and see if a text box pops up with the option to join the channel. E: why does the na server aways get jack diddley squat for these bonuses that the ru and en servers gets? Crash74 fucked around with this message at 04:50 on May 18, 2015 |
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May 18, 2015 04:46
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Crash74 posted:E: why does the na server aways get jack diddley squat for these bonuses that the ru and en servers gets? Because people in NA already have the best bonus of all 
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May 18, 2015 05:04
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Had the best game in my New York game...that ended in a loss, 6 kills, High Caliber Confederate, and Devastating Strike gave me 300k in credits and almost 3000 in xp  Also in capture the point rounds, If one team fails so much that they get to zero points, it is an instant win to the other team 
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May 18, 2015 05:08
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Stevefin posted:Had the best game in my New York game...that ended in a loss, 6 kills, High Caliber Confederate, and Devastating Strike gave me 300k in credits and almost 3000 in xp Soooo, suicide your carrier + 2bb platoon each match and listen to the wailing from the pubbies?
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May 18, 2015 05:47
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Every time I see a US CV run a bomber loadout I cry a little on the inside "Oh sick we have an Essex that's gonna poo poo all over the lower-tier CVs on the other team" *watches as 3 DBs and 2 TBs lift off*
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May 18, 2015 07:49
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Insert name here posted:Every time I see a US CV run a bomber loadout I cry a little on the inside To be fair, all the
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May 18, 2015 07:56
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Insert name here posted:Every time I see a US CV run a bomber loadout I cry a little on the inside The alternative is a fighter loadout that just gets to circle around a while not even making GBS threads on the lower tier CVs, bar shooting down their planes
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May 18, 2015 08:22
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Magni posted:New Mexico is one of the highlights of the line. Enjoy her while you can, the Colorado is just pure misery by all accounts. I am not liking the Colorado at all, the stock ship is TB bait, doesn't help that most of those 4 spawn maps are too hard for pubbies to play. Your CR and DD gently caress off into the tiny channels where you shouldn't drive your BB and leave you alone to die. Hopefully this thing gets better with the 1945 hull, the 1930whatever hull already added some AA which should help some.
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May 18, 2015 09:18
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Insert name here posted:Every time I see a US CV run a bomber loadout I cry a little on the inside I wouldnt knock this, either. I was in a game last week with Aleksandr_Kerensky and he used that load out and took out a full fighter Essex and ended the match with 4 kills, top o match.
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Tahirovic posted:I am not liking the Colorado at all, the stock ship is TB bait, doesn't help that most of those 4 spawn maps are too hard for pubbies to play. Your CR and DD gently caress off into the tiny channels where you shouldn't drive your BB and leave you alone to die. To be fair, I took my Nagato full speed through those tiny rear end channels like a fuckin boss and killed a Myoko and a Kongo the other day. What do you do when you round the corner of an island into the guns of a Nagato at 3km? You die like a bitch. E: The best poo poo is the Myoko panicked and tried to torp me at less than 100ft, he immediately turned away from me and dropped all his torps and they hit me before arming, as he beached himself on the other side of the channel and then my secondaries and main battery ripped him open like a can opener.
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The low speed on the US battleships makes it easier to dodge torpedoes, but gently caress is it annoying getting citadeled by shitters in Japanese battleships doing stupid poo poo outside your max range.
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May 18, 2015 10:50
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Low speed and small turn radius make it easy to dodge shells at long range too. With the weird shell trajectory and the small turn radius of ships that looks like they're drifting, I find it really hard to hit stuff at long range with my Fuso.
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Keep in mind. You have 30 seconds at least to do the most crazy manouvers before you need to get your guns back on target. Do that.
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May 18, 2015 11:31
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If you have the ability to torpedo spam and aren't then you are doing yourself a disservice. Also always message "incoming spam!" in all chat for good measure.
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May 18, 2015 11:37
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Michaellaneous posted:Keep in mind. You have 30 seconds at least to do the most crazy manouvers before you need to get your guns back on target. I don't know if it changes with graphics settings, but I'm using medium and unless I'm actually looking at the firing ship on full zoom I don't get to see incoming shells from ma range until they're 2/5 of the way here already
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May 18, 2015 12:32
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orange juche posted:To be fair, I took my Nagato full speed through those tiny rear end channels like a fuckin boss and killed a Myoko and a Kongo the other day. What do you do when you round the corner of an island into the guns of a Nagato at 3km? You die like a bitch. Or you run face first into a Fletcher or Gearing and die like a scrub to a full 10 torp broadside. BBs at <3km are my favorite things ever. I may not live through it, but if my torps aren't on cooldown, you sure as poo poo won't either. Pubbie BBs loving love the southeast ice fields around the A cap point on the ice map, and I love introducing them to glorious American torpedoes. I think my favorite tactic currently is to do a big lazy loop of smoke around a cap point, then circle back into the smoke and linger. Half the time I can bait some poor fucker into the smoke and then it becomes a cat and mouse game of who can see the other first, and then whose torpedos or broadsides can connect quickest.
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NTRabbit posted:I don't know if it changes with graphics settings, but I'm using medium and unless I'm actually looking at the firing ship on full zoom I don't get to see incoming shells from ma range until they're 2/5 of the way here already It does change with graphic settings. I can see the enemy firing and the shells flying all the way.
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May 18, 2015 12:50
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Methylethylaldehyde posted:Or you run face first into a Fletcher or Gearing and die like a scrub to a full 10 torp broadside. BBs at <3km are my favorite things ever. I may not live through it, but if my torps aren't on cooldown, you sure as poo poo won't either. To be fair the Myoko was looking the other way and his first alert i was there was my secondaries lighting him up, he freaked and ran into rocks and tried to torp me while i closed on him at flank speed, he died like 10s later.
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:Just like before the patch, HE hits on superstructures do a lot of damage. American battleships and Warspite feel this the most, and Japanese ships with weird superstructures avoid the worst of it. The Myogi is actually really hard to damage with HE, because it has no superstructure to hit. Should I be aiming HE at the superstructure rather than the waterline?  I literally never used HE before the patch, so I'm clueless.
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PirateBob posted:Should I be aiming HE at the superstructure rather than the waterline? Superstructure. HE on the waterline is more likely to be eaten up by armor and do reduced damage. Superstructure, deck, everything along those lines.
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May 18, 2015 13:28
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HE hits on the deck also damage and destroy turrets, steering, start fires, all the things you want HE to do
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And then of course you get that sweet AP broadside that fucks the enemy for 20k. Noone knows what to fire at the moment. We will know when premium ammo arrives.
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Since the patch I'm doing a lot better than I was, my stats are still garbage but it feels better anyway. Right now my general rule is for Battleships firing AP at Battleships and Cruisers, HE at at Destroyers if I firing a them at all. Cruisers, firing AP at cruisers and Battleships if i'm close and HE at everything else. Destroyers firing HE all the time.
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May 18, 2015 13:56
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With some exceptions, my hit rate is mostly unchanged from pre-patch, but I'm not doing nearly as much damage now. I will land the typical 2-3 shells from super long range in a salvo and do.. 820... Or I'll fire HE and do 3500. but no chance for really good high damage hits. I have had very few citadel's since the patch, even though to all appearances in the game, I'm landing my shells pretty much the same as before. It's annoying and bugging me.NTRabbit posted:The low speed on the US battleships makes it easier to dodge torpedoes, but gently caress is it annoying getting citadeled by shitters in Japanese battleships doing stupid poo poo outside your max range. So they are shitters for playing to their advantage vs. you? Seems kind of smart to me.
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The Locator posted:So they are shitters for playing to their advantage vs. you? Seems kind of smart to me. No they were shitters because they were driving backwards in circles, trying to peek and poke like a heavy tank, and other stupid poo poo. I could see them doing it, couldn't shoot back, and they landed lucky citadel hits because slow moving battleships are a lot easier to hit at range than anything else.
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Speaking of driving backwards in circles... The pizza guy showed up yesterday while I was in the middle of that awful open water map in my Aoba so I just went full speed full left rudder. When I came back about 5 minutes later with a couple slices of domino's and a rum and coke I found myself beset by 4 ships, none of which could hit me. I wonder how long they were shooting at me for.
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NTRabbit posted:No they were shitters because they were driving backwards in circles, trying to peek and poke like a heavy tank, and other stupid poo poo. I could see them doing it, couldn't shoot back, and they landed lucky citadel hits because slow moving battleships are a lot easier to hit at range than anything else. How the US ever won WWII is a mystery if their battleships sucked poo poo as much as WG says they do  That said, US battleships supposedly have thicker armor the whole way up the US tree than IJN BBs, I wish I knew if WG is actually using the armor modelling they showed off in that video or if it's just a citadel hitbox.
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orange juche posted:How the US ever won WWII is a mystery if their battleships sucked poo poo as much as WG says they do Planes. As soon as carriers and halfway decent planes entered the war (to be fair, american planes were decent), the time of dreadnaughts and battleships was over.
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May 18, 2015 18:06
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The Battle of Surigao Strait was a night engagement and we had radar and computers to shoot our guns with.
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Night battles with darkness affecting spotting distance would be cool as hell. Pubbies would hate it though, the same as the whining whenever Ocean turns up. Maybe War Thunder will do it whenever they get around to doing their version of boats.
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Gonna be honest I have issues with Ocean as well. The only map where I can never hit anything. I get solid good hit volleys on any other map except that one. I think the lack of any focus points throws me off quite a lot.
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I've only played on Ocean once; my team had two less ships, half the number of battleships, and we were slaughtered
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