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Finally finished this stupid Sniper daily quest. Had a terrible run of destroyer matches before this one, so it felt real nice.  Started on the North spawn of Fault Line, ran down the west edge and spotted a US DD just a few seconds before he popped behind one of the smaller islands and about 200 meters beyond the detection range for my ship, so I threw a max range salvo just at the far edge of the island, which he obligingly ran into, never even saw me. From there, I surprised their carrier at the edge of the map and met a Murmansk running away from the rest of my team with like 60 HP. I was able to get two more island ambushes off on a Nicholas who should have known better (he came to a stop right around the corner of an island and didn't bother to move after we spotted each other  ) and a Wyoming who was rushing blindly towards me to stop my base cap.Not quite as good as VietCampo's there earlier though! 
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wdarkk posted:drat I had no idea Scoots had a Yamato. Too bad about running into Deprived Pickle there.
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Amagi looks fun, nice to have something to work towards. I can also report that, to the surprise of no one, upgraded Fuso is a million times more fun than stock.
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If your first torp hit kills the motherfucker, the rest that hit the corpse should count for half XP or something, just to reward accurate salvos. It's disheartening to only get credit for the one that kills when the other 8 impact too.
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El Scotch posted:Amagi looks fun, nice to have something to work towards. Too bad about the Izumo 
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wdarkk posted:Too bad about the Izumo I'm a total weirdo who is actually looking forward to trying that ship. I expect after about 2 games I'll change my mind.
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Today was a good day! Didn't even have to use my AK. No, seriously, matchmaking was on my side and the pubbies pulled through for a change. I had a miraculous six games in a row that went my way. I had my first decent game that I've had in a long time with my New Mexico. North map, and I figured this wasn't going to go well, but it ended up coming out great, and I looked like a loving pro in the last five minutes. It comes down to me, a DD (Mutsuki), an Aoba and a New York. I'd loaded HE to shoot at cruisers. DD sneaks behind me, but I figure he's coming, so I've got one eye behind me. He pops around the corner, I swing the back end around and plant a salvo of HE in his face before he can launch. Turn back, and the Aoba's on low health, but walking up on me. One salvo off a fore gun, and I set him on fire. I hold my fire, because there's a New York behind him and we're low on time. I wait to see if I need to fire again, and he ends up burning down, so I can save my thirty-second reload for the New York. Unload the HE into him, set him on fire, and switch to AP. Then it's a midrange slugfest that I eventually win. If I'd been sloppy with my reloads, it probably would have been a draw, as we were down to the last thirty seconds on the clock when I sank the New York and the New Mexico takes thirty seconds to reload. I redeem myself for missing every shot on the Aoba giving me his side earlier in the match.    Replay link. As a nice side benefit, I can purchase the C-variant of the New Mexico hull, and I have AA like a real battleship, finally! Then I hop into my Murmansk. Fault Line!    Replay link. Which goes well despite my miscalculating a torp launch on a Myogi and I end up slugging it out with him and nearly dying at point blank range. Then it's on to my Omaha. Fault Line again! I die prematurely and the result is middling but okay, but the end comes down to a nailbiter: a St Louis on 1000 hp on our team vs a St Louis with 10,000 hp on their team. It was domination and we won at the end of the timer on points because our St. Louis had the sense to hide from the other guy even when our overzealous Isokaze decided to engage a St Louis head-on with 200hp. I'll spare your hearts that replay because it's basically the same as the Murmansk (I even followed practically the same course, on the same map). Then I figure, what the hell, I'll play my Isokaze for a change. Fault Line again! First, I end up duking it out with a Kuma in the east torpedo alley. A Furutaka comes with me, Kuma kills him with a close-range torp volley, and it comes down to my killing a Kuma with my guns on an Isokaze, with some help from a salvo from a Myogi. I do. Duck away from a New York rounding the corner to slip through the channel, go miraculously unnoticed by another DD, and there's a Wyoming and an AFK Furutaka in the cap. I fire a couple of torps at the Furutaka on principle, and then do an open water run on the Wyoming (dodging my fellow DD's torpedoes as much as the Wyoming's fire as I go). The Furutaka sinks to flooding, and I neatly dodge the sinking Furutaka wreck with my torpedos, landing all four. We win on points a few moments later. I forgot to get screenshots of the results screens, but this pretty much sums it up:  Bonk. Replay link. And hey, what's this? I've finished the Isokaze! I can go out and get a whole other x2 first-win of the day in my shiny new Minekaze! :Fault Line again! Standard. This turns out to be much hairier. At first, I sweep back and forth along the top of the map, looking for anything I can run in and ambush on. I just got this commander in this boat, so Awareness isn't working. I nearly get trashed by a Tenryu and his DD escort before I can duck out again. I sail a little bit east, then turn back, hey! There's an Isokaze coming out of the channel. And the Tenryu is chasing me. I fire off a salvo on the Isokaze on principle and launch a set of torps around a rock at the Tenryu. He sails right into them, but we exchange pleasantries. I sail back into the middle to try and (unsuccessfully) save a BB from a Clemson, but I manage to inexplicably rail the Clemson with a pair of torps before I get fired on by everything else in the middle; an Omaha, a Murmansk, and the Isokaze from earlier. I lose my engine twice! I figured I was done for the second time around, but I guess the Omaha loses sight of me as I limp around the corner on inertia and he stops firing while I have 1800 hp. He and his buddy sail up into the cap, and I try and take some potshots with torps, but only one salvo comes close. Omahas, I know not to mess with. I don't have the HP to rush them, and they can dodge. So it's up to the friendly BBs coming back to the cap to hold them off. I figure I'll sail south and cap their flag instead, since I'm the only DD left alive. But what's this? A Wyoming is going to try and mess with our BBs defending the flag. I fire a salvo on my way out the door.  Bonk. I book it south. The BBs in our cap hold off the Omaha and the Murmansk just long enough to let us (A NY and an Omaha that had been trashing things down the west line of the map) deal with a Myogi playing possum in the spawn, and get a headstart on the cap. As there's three of us capping to their two, we win by less than half a bar. Close game!    Replay link.  And yes, these are all first wins. I tend to post a lot of those because, once I win in a ship, I move on to another one to get the first win in that, and getting my first wins takes at least a couple of hours if I do them all. Predictably, the games when I win are when I tend to do the best. Right now, I've got a St. Louis, Ark Beta, Omaha, Bogue, New Mexico, Sims, Pensacola, Gremy, Murmansk, Yubari, Minekaze, Kongo, Zuiho, Aoba and Fuso. The Aoba and Fuso will be a Myoko and a Nagato in about 15k XP each. All in all, it was a super good day.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPMiHxMjw1U Warning: Poi
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grrarg posted:This deserves better than being bottom of the paged. What a monster game, drat. Love the aimbot crying when they were showing their broadsides the whole time.
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The South carolina almost made me want to quit going up the BB lines for a while due to being slow as poo poo and always on fire, but i am glad i kept going and got the Wyoming, it seems like such a vast improvement over the south carolina and plus more guns boom boom.
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I just had a string of games that reminded me why I never seriously looked into War Thunder/World of X prior to Warships, your earnings/performance sometimes have nothing to do with the objective in the game. My last game I handed the win to our team by specifically capturing a point under the nose of two battleship and a Cleveland in my Furutaka, mostly through some raw luck and careful use of the edge of an island that was still inside the capture boundary. Then I stuck around and kept a cruiser and destroyer from capping that point and the other behind it (it was the four point map with the row of islands in the middle and an big island or two separating each point). while the rest of the team was duking it out at the next point over or trying to find the carriers. Eventually our team collapsed hard but my nabbing point B early and keeping the point alive by driving off the two who tried to capture it mid-game and making the last minute stand to keep it in our hands is what directly lead to my side winning the game instead of being crushed. Even then the only reason I survived is because the enemy carriers sent their planes to crush ours rather than me, so I was able to dodge the remaining two battleships. But either way, because I spent my entire time in the Furutaka (loving 21 god drat seconds) taking pot shots and not shooting at all to stay undetected I had less than 20 hits (very very little actual damage), one base capture, and some base defense credits. Which means despite being critical, if not central, to the winning of the match I only earned just over 200 research points before the 2x bonus. I honestly could have done much better just running in, get a single solid hit on a cruiser or destroyer, lose the map, and come out ahead. Especially once you factor in the ability to jump to another ship instead of being stuck through the point countdown. It would have been an awesome feeling, to have performed as well as I did in that map, in any other situation. Instead I feel jipped and bummed out that all that effort was basically wasted since I was on my own and it ultimately meant nothing for the points grind.
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If you use dense smoke by not moving much when you smoke up, can a Nicholas also conceal an Omaha while the Omaha still fires, same as the Nicholas can stay hidden while firing with denser smoke? Ambushing people from the middle of my magical smoke realm would only be better if I could also bring a bigger friend.
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Night10194 posted:If you use dense smoke by not moving much when you smoke up, can a Nicholas also conceal an Omaha while the Omaha still fires, same as the Nicholas can stay hidden while firing with denser smoke? Yes, but they have to be fully inside the smoke and stop. While concealed in smoke, you cannot see out, you will need a spotter.
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 Just had a game where I shot boats a lot, drove like an idiot, then shot a boat so hard the game ended well before we had enough points. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfOAfEFspZU
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Done with WoWs til 4.1 First game is our tier 8 CV vs a tier 8/9 CV pair, we lose badly with them both in top 3 XP earners. Second game I spend 3 minutes firing at the bugged Iowa superstructure, landing 8+ hit volleys with my Ibuki that do 0 damage half the time (and maybe 500-1k the rest). Back to tanks for a few weeks.
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Artless Meat posted:
The Omaha is a very good boat at shooting. The way I can tell the Cleveland is legitimately broken is even when I try to play it stupid I kill like 3 boats.
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cheese posted:Done with WoWs til 4.1 First game is our tier 8 CV vs a tier 8/9 CV pair, we lose badly with them both in top 3 XP earners. Second game I spend 3 minutes firing at the bugged Iowa superstructure, landing 8+ hit volleys with my Ibuki that do 0 damage half the time (and maybe 500-1k the rest). Back to tanks for a few weeks. I really enjoy the CV but it's awful when you get bad matchups. I always run the Bogue with the 2-0-1 setup because there's like a 60% chance you end up either at a disadvantage 1v2 or you're up against a higher tier than you and has more squads than you can realistically handle.
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nessin posted:I just had a string of games that reminded me why I never seriously looked into War Thunder/World of X prior to Warships, your earnings/performance sometimes have nothing to do with the objective in the game. My last game I handed the win to our team by specifically capturing a point under the nose of two battleship and a Cleveland in my Furutaka, mostly through some raw luck and careful use of the edge of an island that was still inside the capture boundary. Then I stuck around and kept a cruiser and destroyer from capping that point and the other behind it (it was the four point map with the row of islands in the middle and an big island or two separating each point). while the rest of the team was duking it out at the next point over or trying to find the carriers. They don't give you points for that kind of stuff because it's a boring way to play. Assuming they could figure out a way to reward you based on your actual importance to the victory, would you really want to end up playing like that over and over again? I for one appreciate the 5 minute suicide charge that gives me a crapload of xp and money.
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Artless Meat posted:
Huh. So if the enemy score goes negative, you win.
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Really does anyone honestly care about the e-peen multiple screen shots of your scores? Who honestly gives a rats rear end. Break 10k exp sure post it but other wise no one gives a gently caress.
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I got the fuso and fully upgraded it the other day. It's better than the kongo at battleship things because six turrets to ripple fire with is more practical than four. It's not as cool to play because it's kind of a blunt instrument thou what's the best thing to use in the 1mil slot upgrade as a general rule? I'm leaning toward rudder shift by default for pretty much everything because time reduction on fire doesn't seem nearly as worthwhile as reducing the chance of it happening to begin with Raged posted:Really does anyone honestly care about the e-peen multiple screen shots of your scores? Who honestly gives a rats rear end. Break 10k exp sure post it but other wise no one gives a gently caress. 
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 gently caress you matchmaker  As though being a V in an VIII battle wasn't bad enough, they got the only and top tier carrier, three New Mexicos, and all of the cruisers.Also my team started shooting each other in the alternate spawn because of the pink guy.  Ended like this so not all bad. Many higher tier heavy cruisers elect to "deal with the New York after the more dangerous ships" and forget how many guns it has that are really only, and very, useful at killing heavy cruisers inside 10km in such a high tier game. NTRabbit fucked around with this message at 14:59 on Aug 23, 2015 |
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Raged posted:Really does anyone honestly care about the e-peen multiple screen shots of your scores? Who honestly gives a rats rear end. Break 10k exp sure post it but other wise no one gives a gently caress. On the opposite of this, I'd have loved to have seen the exp gained from that double Yamato kill game.
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wdarkk posted:drat I had no idea Scoots had a Yamato. Too bad about running into Deprived Pickle there. That's awesome.  Is there even an aim bot for WOWS these days? I haven't seen any real sign of it myself, though pubbies complain about it every now and then.
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Raged posted:Really does anyone honestly care about the e-peen multiple screen shots of your scores? Who honestly gives a rats rear end. Break 10k exp sure post it but other wise no one gives a gently caress. "Who cares about your game experience in this thread of discussion about the game?" poo poo, I don't know.
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PerrineClostermann posted:"Who cares about your game experience in this thread of discussion about the game?" don't pretend that pages of scoreboard.jpg with mostly no replies is the same thing as discussion
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Raged posted:Really does anyone honestly care about the e-peen multiple screen shots of your scores? Who honestly gives a rats rear end. Break 10k exp sure post it but other wise no one gives a gently caress. okey dokey.
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yaay posted:don't pretend that pages of scoreboard.jpg with mostly no replies is the same thing as discussion So if I don't reply to you, you shouldn't be allowed to post? I like this idea.
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PirateBob posted:That's awesome. Pubbies always complain about aim bots. They can't fathom the concept that some humans have developed the ability to recognize shapes and then track their movement.
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Astroniomix posted:Pubbies always complain about aim bots. They can't fathom the concept that some humans have developed the ability to recognize shapes and then track their movement. So far my experiences in this game see that luck heavily outweighs skill. I'm not great, but not terrible. It's only natural that other pubbies would be "feeling" this more strongly. I know where to aim and a video like that with the Amagi is something I've never seen in practice. Also, it seemed like all of the targets decided to sail perfectly straight without ever turning... so I'd like to have one of those games too.
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cheese posted:Jesus christ, master class in both citadel hitting and bad yamato driving. "I'm going to drive straight across this guy that's already belted two of my teammates. WHAT? How'd he hit me?"
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Kevos Setzer posted:"I'm going to drive straight across this guy that's already belted two of my teammates. WHAT? How'd he hit me?" "I should do it at close range, too! That'll confuse him!"
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jownzy posted:So far my experiences in this game see that luck heavily outweighs skill. With the exception of battleships shooting at the edge of their range, it doesn't. Also most of the shots that guy took were are REALLY close range.
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Do you BB guys have a tip or strategy for hitting broadside Cruisers/DDs at medium distance? I find that BBs are pretty reliable to use the timing notches for aiming, but Cruisers and DDs are just too fast... is there some ratio to consider? Like lead for 2x the time on Cruisers etc?
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Razzled posted:Do you BB guys have a tip or strategy for hitting broadside Cruisers/DDs at medium distance? I find that BBs are pretty reliable to use the timing notches for aiming, but Cruisers and DDs are just too fast... is there some ratio to consider? Like lead for 2x the time on Cruisers etc? It's mostly up to experience. I'm not to hot at aiming, but in Battleships its usually a good idea to shot your guns one by one at first to range in on the target.
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I use 5 notches at 10km for slowpokes like US BB's, 8-10 for faster ships and put the edge of the measuring thing next to their bow if it's 33kts+ cruiser like an Omaha. Minekazes I just aim half a screen ahead.
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Raged posted:Really does anyone honestly care about the e-peen multiple screen shots of your scores? Who honestly gives a rats rear end. Break 10k exp sure post it but other wise no one gives a gently caress. Bragging about videogame is pretty much the raison d'etre for half the failsons in this forum. me included.
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PerrineClostermann posted:So if I don't reply to you, you shouldn't be allowed to post? If I ever start posting to myself sure
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