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Larf, I submitted my beta application like a couple hours ago, and a moment ago I came home from grocery shopping, checked my email, and welp quote:Congratulations, you have been accepted to the Closed Game Test. As a Closed Test participant, you will now take command of a fleet of legendary vessels and and hone your tactical skills in intense naval combat. Yay botes 
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First battle: Oh god how does everything work, I have no idea what I'm doing! Oh hey there's a guy behind this island, I'm gonna flank hi- oh, match is over. Second batte: Top score of the team after a slugging match agaainst three or four Katoris, of which I sank one and mangled two others, and survived despite all of them shooting at me. Pubbies seem to be bad at gunnery. Also, jesus christ is there really no option to invert the mouse Y-axis? This is going to be awkward.
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Mar 12, 2015 17:05
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Prav posted:For any first-timers, I recommend getting a St. Louis, the tier 3 american cruiser. It's got a shitload of 15 cm guns and is just a good time. Also, I really like the look of these old WW 1 era ships, with their big chimneys and the dreadnought style bow.
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Mar 13, 2015 00:47
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Hmm, gonna take me a while to get the hang of the Phoenix. The speed really lets me get into more trouble I can handle with this glass jar.
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Mar 13, 2015 03:31
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Ok, I think I'm getting the hang of the Phoenix now:  This thing is freaking sweet, while it has fewer guns than the St.Louis, their layout is such and the ship is so nimble that it's pretty easy to keep laying consistent fire on target while I wiggle around between islands like a (rather big) weasel. I mostly just save the torps for those "Oh poo poo" moments or when I spot a particularly oblivious pubbie.
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Mar 13, 2015 20:59
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Actually, it's pubbies that make fleet maneuvers impossible.
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Mar 13, 2015 21:16
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dtkozl posted:Dial it back bro I just said less terrain not make every map open ocean. The maps are fine as they are.
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Mar 13, 2015 22:44
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I feel accomplished, I just had my first case of a teammate trying to TK my DD because I "stole his kill" with my torps. 
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Mar 13, 2015 23:42
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dtkozl posted:Buddy there have been plenty of games where there have been fleet actions in open ocean and all that crap you typed didn't happen. Here are just two solutions to that, have more than one dd make smoke so there is too much area for the other team to cover all of it. Have the dds far enough ahead so the smoke obscures vision and lets the other teams line change course a bit so all those torps and shots miss by a mile.
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Mar 14, 2015 00:20
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In my Myogi, abandoned by teammates, surrounded and getting hammered to poo poo from all sides: RAMMING SPEED. I think I was down to a couple thousand HP at most when I perfectly T-boned a full health enemy Myogi and blew us both up. 
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Mar 14, 2015 02:14
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hopterque posted:I unlocked the Kongo holy poo poo it's glorious.
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Mar 14, 2015 05:37
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Strobe posted:I dunno what you guys who were making GBS threads on the Phoenix a few pages ago are on about. Sure I get less guns but my torpedoes murder motherfuckers. However, I have now moved on to the Omaha and can assure you it's just plain better in just about every single way. I don't even use the torps except when an opportunity happens by, mostly I just zip around gunning poo poo down. The gun layout is great.
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Mar 14, 2015 23:53
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I really hope WG is gonna fix this "getting permanently stuck on a cliff because your side almost kinda brushed against it" horseshit asap, because it's the loving worst. Feels like pre-physics WoT all over again.
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Mar 15, 2015 01:28
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Infidelicious posted:lol. You're lucky they let you get close to shore at all without running aground and then flooding. tbh. And I would be totally okay with taking damage if I actually hit a cliff. I am not ok with getting permanently magnetised in place even when no part of my ship is touching anything.
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Mar 15, 2015 01:43
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I wish this game had replays, because I just had by far my best battle yet, in my Omaha. Four kills, ~150k credits and about 2,8k XP. The first several minutes were kinda uneventful, the usual long range shootout amidst islands. I wrecked a DD but that's about it. But then the enemy started capping, and I raced to defend. Arrived to find a DD hiding in a smokescreen and a St. Louis just arriving to speed up the cap even more. Started duking it out with the St. Louis, got some solid hits on him. The DD made the mistake of thinking I was distracted and emerged from the smoke, only to eat two of my torpedoes about three seconds before he would've finished the cap. At this point the St. Louis disappeared into the smoke and a Myogi barged in from behind some island. I started hammering him with shells while maneuvering to torp him, but then the St. Louis came back to disrupt that. He promptly ate a full three-torp spread flush in his side, and realising I was nearly dead and couldn't turn quickly enough to torp the Myogi before his secondaries would kill me, I rammed him in the side which killed us both. Then my team mopped up the rest and we won. gently caress, this game rules. (we need a variant of that smiley with a captain's hat or something)
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Mar 15, 2015 05:36
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Yeah I had a game in my Kongo where a Cleveland got a drop on me from behind an island. I got some decent hits on him, but he just tore me to loving bits with his fast firing batteries while I was struggling to turn fast enough. I think I got like half of his health, while he gunned me down to like 10 or 15% before loving off. And he didn't even use torpedoes. Also, I have a  PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Do not bother trying to argue with NTRabbit. It's not worth it.
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Mar 15, 2015 15:51
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He didn't have to gently caress off, he could've finished me off easily. it's just that an island came between us and I guess he got distracted or something. And I don't think soloing a full health BB in exchange for half a cruiser is that bad a trade.  And my point wasn't that CAs can go toe to toe with BBs easily, just that they aren't that completely helpless against them.
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Mar 15, 2015 16:21
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Pimpmust posted:Have an (american) destroyer video Cooked linked me: However I am glad to see phontomen has gotten into WoWS. Dude makes the most entertaining silly videos.
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Mar 15, 2015 17:30
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Valle posted:I couldn't help but notice that it says you spent 6min 32sec in battle, and in that time traveled 33,46km. This means you had an average speed of 307,3kph, or 191 mph! Now those are some fast ships!  )
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Mar 16, 2015 18:25
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rossmum posted:I am suddenly really loving bad at this. I am not sure how or why, but it's very discouraging.
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Mar 16, 2015 20:46
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:So for those of us not in the beta, what kind of early ships are there at Tier 1 and 2 or so? The current low tier goon favourite, the St. Louis class, was built between 1905 and 06 and looks like this:  She's beautiful. <3 Nordick fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Mar 16, 2015 |
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Mar 16, 2015 21:48
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Fart Car '97 posted:Why do people complain about the Phoenix? It seems great. Lots of guns with decent range, torps to slap any DDs who get through the 5x murder guns, good AAA that rewards protecting your team. Driving it has been nothing but fun That said though, wait till you get the Omaha, it's basically just a straight upgrade to the Phoenix in just about every way, except maneuverability and concealment, where the differences are marginal. Also I just got the Cleveland, and while I kinda miss having torpedoes, the gun battery is just so goddamn amazing and it's kinda refreshing to get to just focus on gunnery without also trying to keep an eye out for torping opportunities. Loving this ship a lot. Nordick fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Mar 17, 2015 |
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Mar 17, 2015 01:14
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My main problem with torpedoes is that I just keep underestimating the amount I need to lead the target.
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Mar 17, 2015 05:59
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hopterque posted:If you target something, hit x and it'll show a white arc for approximately where you need to aim your torpedoes in order to hit them if they keep travelling at the speed and heading they currently are.  gently caress, I've seen that indicator a million times, how did I never figure out what it was. Christ I'm such a dum dum.Thanks guys.
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Mar 17, 2015 06:07
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Yeaaaahhh I just took the Isokaze out for a spin, now with knowledge of the indicator, and it's pretty ridiculous. Yeah, it won't help if the target turns or changes speed, but the thing is a lot of pubbies just plain don't do that. I nailed several hits I wouldn't have even dreamed of, previously. And even if the target is, say, turning a bit, you can still use the indicator as a starting point and adjust from there, instead of just plain eyeballing. I dunno, maybe they could change it so it only appears after you've tracked the target for a few seconds first, or something.
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Mar 17, 2015 06:26
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NTRabbit really is quite impressive with his utter bullheadedness in completely disregarding all other people's experiences to the contrary of his own haphazard conclusions. He has a long and storied history of doing it in the tanks thread. "This thing is poo poo, it can't do X at all!" "Nah man, I've been doing X with the thing just fine" "No no no I tried X once and it didn't work, it can't be done! Thing is poo poo!"
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Mar 17, 2015 17:06
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NTRabbit posted:Yes, the guns on the Clemson are the best feature, which was my point. Some people apparently incapable of grasping the simple fact that slow, short range torpedoes are poo poo torpedoes, and no amount of hand waving makes them otherwise. You didn't just say they're the best feature, you said they're the only good feature. And we were trying to tell you that no, that's not true, because while the torps might be worse than the jap ones on a tube-by-tube basis, they are still a shitload of torps, which in fact is a good feature to have.
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Mar 17, 2015 17:48
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Fart Car '97 posted:Wasn't the first post after NTRabbirs first post "Don't argue with NTRabbit" And a few pages later I'm arguing with NTRabbit. 
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Mar 17, 2015 19:02
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BadLlama posted:Sorry can you explain this? Are you referring to how in a 8 minute battle the game will tell you that you traveled like 40 miles?
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Mar 17, 2015 22:20
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santanotreal posted:I'm in the same spot as you but I'm enjoying tier 4 BB much more than tier 3, mainly cuz of the extra range. I assume they only get better from here. Also, in a BB, you really want to be planning your routes ahead, so that you can keep your battery pointed towards targets as constantly as possible, instead of having to keep turning the glacially slow turrets back and forth.
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Mar 17, 2015 23:35
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NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:If Wargaming is smart, they'll make both teams a pyramid where most ships are cruisers and destroyers, with a few CA, BB, and CV up top. It would probably make for more interesting and varied games.
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Mar 17, 2015 23:46
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Delorence Fickle posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_battleship http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Incomparable 20-inch guns.  Also, I first read the name as HMS Inoperable, which probably would've been quite fitting, really.
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Mar 18, 2015 19:10
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Kuntz posted:I liked the sound of this and googled it, look what I found.  HMS Ignoble HMS Immemorable HMS Interchangeable HMS Inconceivable
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Mar 18, 2015 20:52
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YellerBill posted:This document is the gift that keeps on giving. I mean, I assume this is nothing official (no poo poo) but just some sort of complication of procedurally generated words, considering the first one is just "HMS Ible", but whatever, they're hilarious.
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Mar 18, 2015 21:36
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Cythereal posted:Ramming speed a viable option when you have nothing else to lose? A) Wait for a few seconds, die B) Ram someone, sink them, die it's not actually a contest is it?
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Mar 18, 2015 22:36
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NerdyMcNerdNerd posted:I really hope the gun portion of the game doesn't turn into WoT bullshit where you want to kill yourself if you're stuck with a stock gun. It's nice that stock ships are actually threatening and dangerous.
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Mar 19, 2015 05:07
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Dalael posted:For the coolest ship in history, you have to look at the US destroyer William D. Porter. Am I the only one who immediately started envisioning this as some vaguely Kelly's Heroes-esque war comedy film? Because it should totally be made into one. With some artistic license of course, have them searching around for some sunken Japanese gold treasure or whatever. gently caress, they could even call it Willie's Heroes. Also I'm totally gonna call lovely pub DD players Willie Dees from now on, I don't even care none of them will get it.
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Mar 20, 2015 14:35
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I'm pretty sure they just pick pretty much everyone who manages to slip in an application during that narrow time window. Or at least make their picks pretty much at random. At any rate, congrats to the fresh botegoons!
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Mar 23, 2015 19:03
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I really liked the New York, I think I'm gonna keep it around. At least so I have an excuse to spam the all chat with Frank Sinatra lyrics, if for no other reason.
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Darkrenown posted:Warspite is on sale again on EU. Sounds like it's pretty good?
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