ghetto wormhole posted:

Why does the Myogi exist

ghetto wormhole posted:

Why does the Myogi exist

Night10194 posted:

Getting torpedoed by allies is the best part of this game.

grrarg posted:

No, that would be dodging ally torpedoes then sinking them with your own torps.

Sneaky Kettle posted:

words

Groggy nard posted:

How
can you
I don't even

I mean sure, Clevelands are hard to citadel due to it being split into two smaller armored citadels instead of one big one, but the New Mexico is one of the few boats that actually can do it from my own experience.

Sneaky Kettle posted:

New Mexico words

DurosKlav posted:

North Carolina is starting to get on my nerves. The shells are so loving floaty. Hitting anything above 15km is starting to turn into pure luck. Its also a HE magnet.

Michi88 posted:

Play it mid- short range and keep your nose at the enemy, then laugh and yell I'M A JUGGERNAUT BITCH. /repeat

DurosKlav posted:

Michi88 posted:

I'll just leave this here again, I'm on a losing streak atm with the Iowa, I can do 200k dmg, and tank an entire teams worth of shooting for 5-10mins, but our other teammates are afraid to close to more then 15k and lose sniping matches. I really wish pubbies would grow a pair and stop acting like a rowboat in a BB.

demonR6 posted:

CTRL X locks the turrets in place. CTRL p or s does some poo poo too but I forgot.

Also no resolution on what the gently caress is plaguing clans that we cannot accept new seamen. I still have an open ticket.

Michi88 posted:

On a side note, I went and looked and I have an almost 8% draw rate, this is beyond ridiculous.....

UV_Catastrophe posted:

So, I think I'm giving up on carriers for a while. I've been going down the US line and found tier 4-5 to be pretty fun and decently enjoyable, despite the fact that trying to focus on air superiority through fighters paid gently caress-all for XP. Then, I reached tier 6 and hit the absolute brick wall that is the CV tier disparity mentioned earlier in the thread. Holy poo poo. My first two matches were against same/lower tier carriers which were predictably fine for me. Then I faced off against tier 7-8 CV's in the next several matches and got brutally loving murdered every single time any of their fighters even looked at me.

The last straw for me was a match against a tier 8 where I spent 75% of my time hiding under the skirts of my cruisers to take advantage of their AA capabilities, waiting for any opportunity to hit something at all. Towards the end, he just threw his fighters at my planes anyway and shredded me in seconds, only losing one plane to the two clevelands and the new mexico that were spraying AA fire at them. The rate at which my aircraft now die to fighters (or the suddenly plentiful AA at tier 6+) is extremely impressive. They're very quick and efficient at blowing up. It's amazing.

Anyway, I think I'll stick to dailies and occasionally trolling CV drivers with my Bogue's fighter loadout for now. Hopefully they find a way to make carriers more fun in the future

DurosKlav posted:

Would be interesting to see your damage taken on this. Iowas are so bouncy its funny watching pubbies try and pen them. They see the high tier ships and the blinders go on and they just start spamming shells. "Why arent my pop guns penning this highly armored battleship thats angled away from me and at long range?" Its really bad anytime there is a Tirpitz in the game.

Vivick posted:

I'm installing Aslains modpack right now, is Wargaming ok with people using that that Eye of Sauron Camera mod? I havn't tried it yet but if it works as I imagine it does it seems to give a pretty big advantage.

TehKeen posted:

Is anyone having problems with Aslain's mod causing black screens when trying to load into the port? I'm only attempting to run the Eye of Sauron Camera mod and the IJN Rising Sun flag.

NTRabbit posted:

You'll be pleased to learn that botes just patched, so you'll need to go and download a new version of Aslains and install it again

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Cruiser Omaha will get an increase in firing range when equipped with the most advanced hull to match her to the other ship of the series—Murmansk. Cruiser Furutaka, which taught many Japanese Navy enthusiasts coolness and peace of mind, now shifts the helm faster, and turns to the enemy more rapid-firing and agile primary armament turrets together with updated torpedoes. By the way, the same torpedoes are installed on the top configuration of destroyer Mutsuki, which provides a good opportunity to save on research. The Japanese Navy enthusiasts will most certainly appreciate another improvement: the rotation speed of primary armament turrets of Wakatake, Minekaze, and Mutsuki was increased. The latter also received a bonus to the reload time of torpedo tubes.

The changes of U.S. destroyers deserve a more detailed description. In general, we registered some decline in popularity and battle performance for these warships, which were always famous for excellent primary armament guns and their ability to both act as part of the team and hunt light enemy ships on their own. Low-tier destroyers Samspon and Wickes will get increased fire rate and gun rotation speeds. Their colleagues starting from Tier V will have two variants of top hulls. The alternative variant will have additional AA armament at the expense of the main battery. At the same time, the Engine Boost consumable will be replaced by Defensive Fire. Undoubtedly, these improvements will allow the Americans to fully use their versatile primary armament guns against enemy aviation. However, captains who want to concentrate their efforts on hunting down enemy destroyers can select main top hulls equipped with Engine Boost and standard artillery armament that are now necessary in order to get to the following level. Apart from that, the action time of Smoke Screens of all U.S. destroyers was increased.

Still, we had to do some fine-tuning. Minekaze, a too effective, elusive, and dangerous Japanese destroyer, will lose her top torpedoes and three kilometers of range with them.The traversing angles of her torpedo tubes were reduced a little, while the detection distance was increased by almost one kilometer. It's cool to be a ninja, but it's time to draw a line. Mutsuki's concealment was modified in the same way. Our research showed that the Japanese national bonus to the chance of causing fire with high-explosive shells needed to be balanced, that's why it was reduced depending on gun caliber. Cruiser Mogami, the terror of Tier VIII, will have to be more careful now, as the reserve durability of her primary armament turrets was decreased, while the previous Japanese cruiser Myoko will have a lower rate of fire. As for the U.S. Fleet, the test results showed that the rate of fire and the primary armament turrets’ rotation speed of battleship Wyoming needed to be reduced a little.

Wargaming posted:

For example, aircraft carriers are now distributed in the teams strictly symmetrically, both by quantity and by Tiers, which will significantly even the balance.

The precision of Battleship’s primary guns have been considerably increased at a range of up to three kilometres.

The Premium pre-order vessels Sims and Yubari have been improved. The former gets a new set of torpedoes (slower, but with a longer engagement range) and the latter receives a “Defensive armament” consumable boosting its anti-aircraft capabilities.

Many Japanese and American ships have been rebalanced - more information coming soon!

WG Asia posted:

In addition, we have tried to resolve another dogfight issue, that is a great disparity in the effectiveness of fighters in adjacent tiers. Fighters have long found themselves in an unfavorable situation when facing enemy counterparts of higher tiers. Sometimes, it would seem that enemy “hawks” reign supreme in the air by destroying their rivals from inferior tiers and getting away with it. For Update 0.4.1 we have collected the necessary data and rebalanced parameters of all fighters. Now the damage they can cause increases more evenly depending on their level. Researching your aircraft is still important, but fighting off enemies from the next tier has gotten easier.

Rear gunners on many bombers and torpedo bombers have also been affected: the damage they cause has been recalculated upward.

However, fighter lovers might be saddened by the balancing of Japanese aircraft carriers of medium tiers. According to research, they demonstrate abnormally high battle performance even when used by less experienced players. This is why we increased the aircraft servicing time for squadrons and reconsidered the structure of air groups: now each air group has at least one fighter squadron.

WG Asia posted:

We also introduced an algorithm that will forcibly put a player on an optimally comfortable tier of battles (equal to the tier of their ship), if they played several battles in a row with higher tiers.

the action time of Smoke Screens of all U.S. destroyers was increased.

After long reflections and several tests we are ready to introduce a solution to the map edge problem. Here is a reminder for those of you who didn't encounter this issue: in the current version of the game, a ship that is set against a map's edge starts to slide along it at an unconventional angle, which makes targeting it difficult. Many players use this peculiarity to their advantage, but Update 0.4.1 will render this kind of behavior useless. From now on, any ship contacting a map edge will be correctly processed by the targeting system. You can set the usual target lead and fire at will. We believe this feature will stop drift enthusiasts in World of Warships as it no longer provides any advantage.

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Improved graphics on familiar maps is not the only thing that will make players happy. New Dawn and Fault Line were modified significantly.On Hotspot, the diagonal team arrangement and the Domination mode with five bases were removed.

Hazdoc posted:

OH GOD

THEY ACTUALLY GAVE THE DEFENSIVE FIRE SKILL TO US DDs

I'm over the moon right now, excuse me while I celebrate. This patch is looking phenomenal.

http://worldofwarships.eu/en/news/common/game-update-041-pt-announcement/ posted:

For example, aircraft carriers are now distributed in the teams strictly symmetrically, both by quantity and by Tiers, which will significantly even the balance.

TehKeen posted:

The Minekaze nerfs aren't really even that bad since imho the 7km faster torps are better.