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Hazdoc posted:Edit: Never spend gold on your captains, or really on anything except port slots and ships Unless they add "permanent for gold" camo like Tonks has anyway. Also you should only buy ship slots during sales, if they follow the Tonks method there should be 50% off on slots sales several times a year.
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Hazdoc posted:Once your captain has 3-4 skills, its better to move the captain up and spend money on retraining than it is to get a new commander. The retraining will finish in 2-3 matches and then you have the benefit of a bunch of skills to use, and you can keep adding more. Especially important if you got a high skilled commander from finishing in a top % of the closed beta, less important if you're keeping old ships (you can just leave the captain in the ship and get a new one for the new ship). Retraining is cheap enough that it's always worthwhile to retrain a captain even for free because low skill captains basically take no xp to retrain.
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You don't need as much free xp just to make stock boats playable as you do in tanks. There are some boats that need a module upgrade to be playable, but those are generally pretty low tier. You can still use it to fully upgrade ships, but not free-xping modules isn't shooting yourself in the foot the way tanks is. On the other hand you can still free xp past ships, and some ships richly deserve it, and it takes 45000 to get out of the Furutaka which is worse than the Kuma even fully upgraded. 
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Jun 28, 2015 18:52
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The phoenix is a notable ship for burning some free xp on. The stock hull is utter garbage, and you get 2 guns for each hull upgrade you get. The upgraded turrets also improve your rate of fire, turning it from utter poo poo tier to merely bad tier.
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Jun 28, 2015 19:06
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Ugh. Probably ten more games with the Kawachi. Kill me now 
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HMS Barham, 25 November 1941 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdrISbwy_zI
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NTRabbit posted:HMS Barham, 25 November 1941 All those dudes on the hull trying to get off and them the magazine goes. 
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The Locator posted:All those dudes on the hull trying to get off and them the magazine goes. Yeah it's not the nicest thing to watch and think about, but personally I think it's important to see and remember. There's quite a bit of high quality (for the era) naval footage compared to land footage, probably because it was safer and more stable to film. NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Jun 28, 2015 |
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Jun 28, 2015 20:00
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841 men lost from a crew of 1,184. Welp. People ask for visible crew in the game but even if it was technically feasible and wouldn't net the game a mature rating, I'm not sure I'd want to be reminded of that every single time I blow up some pubbie. Gamechat: my ping to the server jumps wildly between 240 and 400, with near-constant severe packet loss. Previously it was 220. I think they may have switched to the NA East server or something after the wipe, it's making the game nearly unplayable. I want to go blow up baddies with my Atago
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Jun 28, 2015 20:10
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Invite code: IhopethesebotsF93K4don'tU5C72takeWFUATitbefore95KAHyougetit
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Jun 28, 2015 20:11
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A tier 7 Carrier in low tier game, what could possibly go wrong. He murdered a ship with every plane rotation, starting with a kongo 1 minute into the game. We were pointlessly sailing in formation for AA cover but didn't manage to down many planes.  (AA on Furutaka is for show only)
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Jun 28, 2015 20:14
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Welp I bought the Atago. Hope it is worth it.
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Jun 28, 2015 20:17
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Michaellaneous posted:Welp I bought the Atago. I'm waiting and hoping for a sale, since I'm playing pretty casual. After they merge the gold from WoT I'll have plenty to buy whatever I want, but don't see any point in jumping into them until after there are a lot of non-premium ships at those tiers. My current threshold for enjoyment is about 3 or 4 games then I log out and go do something else.
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Jun 28, 2015 20:32
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Grem is still an amazing DD. Came out to about 3200 exp, can't remember how many credits. /burning a Warspite for almost 30,000hp, love it Atlanta Michi88 fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Jun 28, 2015 |
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Jun 28, 2015 20:46
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Largepotato posted:What guidelines do people use for switching between AP & HE now? HE, AP if you're a BB and shooting at something you're guaranteed to pen (and not overpen, like a DD, knocking out the DD's engines with HE is better than overpenning with AP). Sometimes you can change to AP if you're shooting down a tier, especially if your enemy is a cruiser, especially if that cruiser's name is the Kuma.
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Hazdoc posted:The phoenix is a notable ship for burning some free xp on. The stock hull is utter garbage, and you get 2 guns for each hull upgrade you get. The upgraded turrets also improve your rate of fire, turning it from utter poo poo tier to merely bad tier. Exactly what I did, recommended.
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Largepotato posted:What guidelines do people use for switching between AP & HE now?
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loving hell. Of course the EU server decides to poo poo itself and die jsut as i'm about to finish a brilliant 4-kill match with the stock Kongo (including a beautiful 15km tripple citadel slamdunk against a Hosho) that would have given me the engine upgrade. 
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Phinneus Periwinkle posted:Has anybody noticed a change in artillery camera since the wipe? For some reason the camera is moving up and down instead of my cursor It was like that early on in the closed beta, when I came back about 2 weeks before the wipe it was gone, now it's back. :Wargaming:
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Krogort posted:A tier 7 Carrier in low tier game, what could possibly go wrong. This video is from yesterday and after watching it, its hard to see how carriers don't change in some way. Yes, its a perfect game: no enemy carrier, tons of low tier poo poo bucket BB's with no AA, but still. The gameplay looks neither challenging, nor engaging. AA at low tiers needs to be reworked - OBT is gonna be hilarious.
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OK I don't have permission to any of the WoWS TS channels.. I'm NothingmaN79 in game.
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So tired, so very loving tired, of the goddamn "collision avoidance" system. That "helpful" automation has screwed me over so many times and I really wish WG would just remove the drat thing already.
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Jun 29, 2015 02:20
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Phinneus Periwinkle posted:Has anybody noticed a change in artillery camera since the wipe? For some reason the camera is moving up and down instead of my cursor
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Pretty sure you can turn off collision avoidance. I mean, with the amount of times I run smack into islands and friendly ships, I sure as hell don't seem to have any collision avoidance system in place. Also, the Kuma owns bones. Most fun I have had in this game so far, including hammering away at and sinking BBs with the St. Louis.
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Man, Karma is biting me in the rear end in the Furutaka. Went from 10 games 10 wins in the Kuma to 3/11 in the Furutaka. I'm not playing badly, but the combination of bad speed/agility and horrendous DPS makes it feel like the Kawachii all over again, rather than a beautiful IJN cruiser. The only saving grace is the angled funnel, and I'm getting close to the point where that just isn't enough, anymore.
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Jun 29, 2015 02:27
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So Fog_Battleship_Gneisenau claimed he's gonna report me for calling him a whiny nazi. If you see him be sure to keep doing it.
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Lord Koth posted:So tired, so very loving tired, of the goddamn "collision avoidance" system. In the game, under Settings -> Controls, you can turn the collision avoidance system off, or to only be on in binocular view. You can also now select to not have to hold down the alt-key in settings.
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The Locator posted:In the game, under Settings -> Controls, you can turn the collision avoidance system off, or to only be on in binocular view. You can also now select to not have to hold down the alt-key in settings. Oh drat, I should turn the alt-thing on. I didn't know they finally added that.
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Insert name here posted:Just to be sure, you're not on the lowest zoom setting are you? Because it's always done that on the lowest zoom setting, and changes when you zoom in. No I played around with the zoom and it didn't help, it's not a big deal in fact it's actually considerably easier to aim, I just prefer the way it used to work.
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The Locator posted:In the game, under Settings -> Controls, you can turn the collision avoidance system off, or to only be on in binocular view. You can also now select to not have to hold down the alt-key in settings. Huh, didn't realize that, so thanks. And yeah, as Rennzero mentioned, it activating is wonky too, which makes it even worse.
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Radio-Controlled posted:OK I don't have permission to any of the WoWS TS channels.. What server were you on? I didn't see you and I have been in there for hours.
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Look who's baaack.....   That was the first match after her hull upgrade, too. Won by domination points literally three seconds before the timer ran out. 
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Velius posted:Man, Karma is biting me in the rear end in the Furutaka. Went from 10 games 10 wins in the Kuma to 3/11 in the Furutaka. I'm not playing badly, but the combination of bad speed/agility and horrendous DPS makes it feel like the Kawachii all over again, rather than a beautiful IJN cruiser. The only saving grace is the angled funnel, and I'm getting close to the point where that just isn't enough, anymore. The Furutaka is so painful that I play one game in it then go do something else for an hour. 30k exp to the Aoba. 
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I'm glad someone was using the test server properly.
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Atago's concealment is insane. I have Concealment System and camo on and I have to get to within 10 km to be detected by enemy 
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Most high-tier IJN cruisers can do that. I had some fun during beta with the Ibuki because with the mod and a concealment expertise captian, you could drop torps at a closing enemy without being spotted as if you were a morbidly obese IJN destroyer.
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Wargaming did a great job with the carrier bot AI, so lifelike. They sit in one place just like a pubbie.
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