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rossmum posted:It's fast, turny, gets smoke, and has a lot more in terms of guns than DDs of its tier. If you know how to lead to hit citadels consistently, especially at the edge of your range where most pubbies really struggle to even connect, you will butcher everything. Is this the ship you used to own an entire match by yourself yesterday? Saw what you wrote in the goon channel. omfg, bra-loving-vo on that one.
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I don't often meet known goons in this game, but when I do I ram them. Failed to ram Ullerm just a few moments ago. Sooo close. Edit: Also, I maintain some guy on your team was using the mod. Consistent hits on a zig zagging BB at max range... E2: Does anyone know how Damage control actually works? I used it twice in a row for less than 1k HP repair despite missing over 20k HP on my ship. Other times, it heals 1/5th your HP. To me  and I wouldn't mind some schooling.
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OSad posted:CV games feel really borked right now. They definitely feel different in the way that if you want to do the cool torp spreads that the good CV players sometimes do to you, you have to get good at manually aiming them with alt and such. You need to outsmart your opponent, which is quite frankly not that hard. People in this game are dumb as poo poo. One of the things you can do, is separate your torpedo bombers. They don't HAVE to be on the same side of the map. Most people who play with a 3 fighter squade will keep 2 together on one side, and 1 on the other side. But as soon as they spot torpedo planes, they rush all fighters to it. What you need to do is use one of your torpedo squadron as a decoy. Engage his fighters with your 1 fighter. Keep in mind, you WILL lose that battle. But the point is not to win it. Its to keep one or more of his fighter squads busy. If you're lucky, your decoy torpedo planes will be able to launch a few torpedoes before being shot down. If not, it really doesn't matter because he's the decoy. try and use your remaining torpedo squad (hopefully on the other side of the map) to do the best drat torpedo run you can. Also, remember that allied cruisers are your friend (especially in higher tiers) thanks to their AA. Use your decoy torpedo planes to drag his fighters as close as possible to your allied cruisers and engage them there with your 1 fighter squad. You will still lose, but you will definitely make him think twice about following your planes anywhere. CV really are not that hard. It just takes a bit of planning, being able to outsmart another guy and a little bit of luck. Also, hang in there... The Langley is the worst carrier and every other carrier you will have is an improvement on the last one. Except maybe the ranger... I liked it, but people seem to bitch about it a lot. Insert name here posted:If it helps the Langley really sucks rear end It reminds me of a game I played in my lexington vs 2 Rangers. Both rangers were fighter fit and never even came close to slow me down. I think I had something like 24 torpedo hits in that match. Talk about them being loving useless. E: Please don't use POI. Dalael fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Apr 21, 2015 |
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I was skimming through the latest patch info when I read about FF:quote:Other Updates New griefing tactic.. Willing putting yourself in the path of friendly torpedoes to see a destroyer or cruiser go down in flames with you. On another note, The Saipan is being removed and they are putting the independance in its place instead. I don't remember the Saipan much, but I don't think it was a bad carrier, was it? They added the Bogue to fill the spot of the independance.. I have literally never heard of that carrier before and I am too tired to use my google-fu. Does anyone have any info regarding this ship? Vengarr posted:Lexington arbitrarily gets a much better plane distribution (two fighters, two torpedo bombers). It was still 6 fighters to my 2. All they really had to do was assigned 2 fighters to each of my fighters, and use the remaining 2 to go after my torpedo planes. They completely failed at that which was the entire purpose of them being fighter fit. Dalael fucked around with this message at 04:18 on Apr 21, 2015 |
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Atomizer posted:I would love to taste SEAMN if I could! You are just in luck. I don't care who gives the blowjob as long as it ain't me! 
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Holy gently caress, I need to learn to screen pic my chat more often. I playing in my Aoba, which a ship I loving hate cuz I can't stand japanese ships. I'm focusing on some cleveland and don't notice than a friendly aoba cuts me off. So I plow right into it without really noticing. At that point, he decided to unload his torpedoes on me and completely miss. As we disengage, he shoots at me using his turrets. I replied by sinking his rear end with one torpedo salvo. A friendly cleveland nearby thinks I'm the aggressor so starts shooting at me. Cuz you know, there's not enough people on the red team, might as well add more enemies. I sunk his rear end too, but end up sinking at the same time. Guy starts bitching at me in chat, completely unable to understand that I was only retaliating to both their stupid rear end. His whole line of insult can be resumed to this: Buy a life. Get a girlfriend. This is just loving sad. If you're going to go attack someone, don't loving cry over chat if he sinks you and for the love of god.. Learn better insults. E: Lol. He just contacted me after the game. Note at the top, his facebook: http://imgur.com/Koqocuv Dalael fucked around with this message at 15:15 on Apr 21, 2015 |
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orange juche posted:I love how pubbies bitch about that aim lead mod (which they blame for people not having to fire shots for ranging) when the ALT button is so much more powerful. More likely, people are figuring out that ALT button gives you lead info and shot travel time and everything you need to calculate a shot, as well as enemy HP and they're just not telling people. Seriously, try hitting the alt button in a match and using that for aiming your shots, pubbies will accuse you of aim-hacking. I actually just found out a few minutes ago about the ALT thing. I would guess you're the one who just taught me? Seriously, ALT is a magical key in this game.
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DJ Dizzy posted:So whats the secret to using carriers? My fighters just seem to die, and I am horrendously bad at torpedoin, despite trying to do fancy stuff like staggered launches. First and foremost, try not to engage the enemy fighters if the enemy carrier is even 1 tier higher than you. He will gently caress you up. If you must engage him, try to have numbers advantage on him. If he's upgraded and you are not, even at 2 to 1 odds, you might lose. I recommend luring the enemy over friendly cruisers and engage there. Use alt to manually drop your torpedoes. It allows you to drop them a lot closer to the ship you are trying to sink, making it much harder for them to dodge. Its not fool proof, but it is a lot better than simply clicking on the guy and waiting for the planes to do their jobs. Plane travel time sucks. Try to get closer to the action all the while staying out of spotting range. Island will often help. Or stay at the back and bitch that you only managed to do 2 runs during the whole match. Always be on the move. If a BB spots you and you are not moving, you will be sleeping with the fishes. Always assume your team sucks and will do absolutely nothing to help you. More often than not, they will leave huge gaps that allows enemy DD to go right up to you and gently caress up your day. IF you are lucky, one friendly DD might come and kill the one that just sank you, but odds are he will not be there in time to save your rear end. More importantly than anything: Pay attention to what goes on in the map. If one of those big gaps open and a DD comes right up to you, its not just your team's fault. Its your fault for not getting the gently caress away from that position. Once in a while, sink a friendly ship. It'll make you feel better. Don't forget to tell the guy in chat that its his fault. We love chat porn.
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DJ Dizzy posted:Thanks! Whats the arming time on torpedoes? Twice I have had a full barrage slam into a ship only to just do nothing at all. I've never been able to quite figure it out. You'll probably have to do a few trial and errors until you get it nailed down.
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DJ Dizzy posted:Yeah. Nothing is worse than watching 6 torpedoes all hit a battleship only to just fizzle out. Yes there is. 2 sets of 6 torpedoes all hitting a battleship and fizzling out. 
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First match in my Lexington today. Other carrier on my team is a ranger. I see his planes take off and then just.... fly around doing nothing. One of the enemy carrier on the other team managed to send all of his fighters and torp bombers straight to us. While I attempted to fight them off, the other guy did nothing. So being a nice guy, I warned him that i'd sink his rear end myself if he didn't do something soon. No reply.. Planes still just flying around him, so I decided to launch a few torps at him. 7 torps hit and sunk him. That is when the guy gets all spergy in chat, bitching and all. I excused myself saying I was really bad at math and was trying to solve a problem: If a carrier moves in a direction at a specific speed, and torpedoes moves towards it at a different speed. Will they meet? I might get reported. 
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According to the enemy team I just played against, it seems that the ocean map actually requires skills. In their little minds, going in a straight line while following your fleet without having to worry where you're going requires more skills than maps with islands, in which you actually have to pay attention to what is around you. Its really loving sad. Unless I am actually missing something, how can someone actually think that? Please, someone reassure me and tell me the majority of players do not actually believe this poo poo.
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Galdarion posted:Are battleships really good or just big targets? It really depends on the player. A fuso and/or nagato in the hands of a good player is devastating. In the hands of someone who can't aim worth poo poo.. 
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M.C. McMic posted:Ah, okay. I misheard the video I was watching. I don't feel as bad now. No. Its not. Just wait for open beta. If you really like the game, then spend some money on it. But 40$ for a ship and access, not worth it.
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Sidesaddle Cavalry posted:REMOVE CRUISERS FROM THE GAME Learn to adapt to the game or  People with their stupid idea that would absolutely not fix the problems they are bitching about. 
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Atomizer posted:I think my favorite part of the experience was the fact that there is apparently no punishment for TKing. Although there currently is no mechanic to punish TK, they have actually came up with something that should get implemented soon. See one of my earlier post for details: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3705704&pagenumber=86&perpage=40#post444316015 It will allow for much needed griefing.
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I had to "liberate" a couple of retards who rammed into me or otherwise did stupid poo poo, including one who tried to TK me but missed with all his torpedoes. Then he said something to the extent of, "So what if I'm dead, now you have to stay here for the rest of the battle and lose," at which point I proceeded to carry the rest of us to a win.
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Tahirovic posted:CV are simply too boring to bother with right now and the MM shows that. I think its a matter of opinion. I like CV's for the RTS side of things. When you have a competent carrier player on the enemy team, it makes it even better. There are games in which I'm having trouble breaking through with my torpedo bombers because the other carrier is just that competent with his fighters. It can be very challending when you're facing two rangers, both equipped with fighters only. You also have to face weird choices when all the planes meet up. Do you try and kill enemy torpedo bombers with your fighters to save friendly ships, or do you use your fighters to kill his fighters so that your torpedo bombers are unimpeded? Basically, its just a completely different type of game play. I can see why people may not like it tho, but it sure as hell beats the poo poo out of playing artillery in W.o.T.
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orange juche posted:Unfortunately players treat carrier drivers much like Artillery players in WoT, they immediately abandon them and give absolutely no fucks about them for the rest of the game. Carriers have a funny place in this game. People call them sky cancer and useless, but will literally ignore everything else around them for the remote chance of killing a carrier player. I've often seen DD's (even cruisers) try to chase me (or other carriers) at the expense of everything else, only to end up being sunk without ever reaching their goal or retaliating against whoever sunk them. I think one of the fundamental problems with carriers is that they're completely hit and miss. Any other ship can afford to miss often during the course of the map and still end up doing a lot of damage. The carrier does not have this luxury. Every miss means being completely useless for at least 3 or 4 minutes of gameplay while waiting for the planes to come back. In most games, a carrier player will get to do 2 torpedo runs. 3 at the most. My personal best was 4 but I took extreme risks by following the fleet and being in range of being spotted and shot at. A possible solution would be to increase the speed at which planes travel, while lowering the damage that torpedo bombers does. I'd rather do less damage per hit, but increase the amount of times my planes get to do a sortie.
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Insert name here posted:They're making planes fly faster after dropping their payloads in 0.3.1 which is good; I hope the speed bonus is noticeable. I wonder how much of a speed bonus tho. The other day I sent my fighters to try and catch up to some torpedo bombers that had just dropped their load. Even though my fighters were relatively close, it took them more than lf the map to actually catch up and start shooting. I fear that if they increase the speed too much after the torpedoes are dropped, fighters may be unable to catch the torpedo bombers in a reasonable amount of time.
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ranbo das posted:I'd actually be fine if unladen bombers were faster than fighters. Gotta intercept them before they drop or they get away. Also could provide some interesting choices in "do i drop my load now and get away or get closer and drop my load but get caught by fighters". I don't really like this idea. First of all, historically, bombers are slower than fighter. They tend to be a bit bigger and heavier, and made to carry weight. Fighters are meant for speed. That is their thing. Secondly, the map is big enough and gaps in spotting coverage wide enough that fighters are often out of position to intercept. Those choices you are mentioning are already present in the game. Fighters need to be fast enough that they can catch torpedo bombers to be able to intercept them or catch them after they drop their load. But they can't be so fast that it would guarantee the torpedo bomber's demise. They also need to be able to get away if the fighters are too far away. A good balance must be found, and I think we're not quite there yet. demonR6 posted:Wish me luck, I installed a modpack from some Russian guy and it was completely in the mother tongue so I had no idea what the gently caress I just installed. You sir, are a very brave man.
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demonR6 posted:Yes! "Good luck everypony, POI POI POI!!" Worked like a charm. Two Shut the gently caress up's and one go to hell freak. I resent you for being one of those who say Poi. What is wrong with you? Go back to watching your anime. E: Okay.. maybe not resent.. But seriously, Poi is your big troll? Dalael fucked around with this message at 16:39 on Apr 24, 2015 |
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Burt posted:So is the aiming mod no more then? I can't hit a loving thing now I have been using it!!! The thing is, you don't need to use it. Thanks to Orange Juche, we are now aware of a function on your keyboard called: The Alt key. Its awesome, gives you a lot of information and will allow you to land a lot of shots you normally wouldn't. Give it a try, it certainly helped me and I suck at shooting guns.
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wfwon posted:Are there any consequences in team killing at the moment? Some of my teammates are rather annoying ... There is no in game consequence atm. However, if the player reports you, wargamming may choose to ban you. Remember, this is closed beta... I'd say who cares. Sink whoever you want and claim you needed to test something out.
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gently caress! Sometimes I just can't loving understand this RNG bullshit. I can never hit anything long range with m y Nagato. Its ridiculous. Its not that I have bad aim or anything like that. If it was a matter of sucking at aiming, I wouldn't care as much. But when every single fuckign shot is perfectly aimed for the middle of the ship, but all god drat shells hit water on both sides of the ship its just infuriating. What pisses me off the most is when I'm fighting another Nagato at long range, and while my shots just land on both side, his hit non-stop.
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Lee Outrageous posted:What's your name in game? I gave that treatment to several other Nagatos tonight. It needs the gun upgrade to not be a pile of poo poo at range. Same as my SA name.
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Atomizer posted:Could someone please explain "poi" please? It appears I need to know what it means in order to fully understand botes. Something about an anime about boats. Kenculla I think? Kencolla? E: http://en.rocketnews24.com/2015/03/30/kancolle-anime-characters-catchphrase-poi-is-poised-to-take-over-the-world-poi-poi/ TLDR: AH! Like I'm gonna read that poo poo for you.
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Atomizer posted:That helps me understand it even less. I don't watch gay Japanese cartoons for children. Edited my post with a link which I think may explain it. Did a quick google search for you. E: Don't get me wrong. Some anime can be cool. But from the first picture I saw about it, its one of those anime with pre-pubescent girls like the japanese are so fond of. loving weirdos. EE: Fun fact, I stopped talking to a friend of mine once he admitted being more attracted to prepubescent japanese anime girls than to a real, live woman... I just did not know how to deal with that information.. It was way too loving awkward. Dalael fucked around with this message at 08:05 on Apr 25, 2015 |
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OSad posted:For some reason, people get really mad when you say Poi in-game. I have no idea what that's all about, but that's the power of anime for you, I guess. People get mad because: 1- Its loving annoying to read POI all the time. 2- Its loving retarded. 3- Its from another one of those anime thats all about pre-buscent girls which for some reason, japanese people think is okay to fantasize about (Modern Japanese culture is loving weird and if it wasn't for the international community, I am 99.9999999999999999999999999999 sure they'd be okay with pedophilia) 4- Prebubescent anime girls with dog ears? Sounds a lot like furries to me. (Guess they're okay with bestiality too) I am sure there are more reasons than that, but those should be sufficient.
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demonR6 posted:I think it is kind of amusing to have someone 'accuse' anyone of using the aiming mod. Like it is guaranteeing a sure hit. ZOMG AIM ASSIST 1337 H4XX0RZ! I admit to have made such accusation a few times. When you're zigzagging and changing your speed multiple times, and people are still hitting you with impressive accuracy taking away big chunks of your HP, its hard to tell yourself that the guy is just that good. When your day is already going lovely and your gaming doesn't relax you, it leaves little options. Teamkilling, or yelling HAX!!! Teamkilling too often might get you banned, so whinning like a little bitch becomes much more reasonable and acceptable.
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I've decided to try something with my carrier and so far it seems to be working. I move in a position that will definitely get me spotted, but forces people to run up to me to kill me. So many people take the bait, that it allows for my team to easily pull off a win by capping because people would rather kill a carrier than win the match. I've done it a few times now, and every time, the guys chasing me could have turned around and salvaged the game, but they never do. Its been a win every single time I've done it, and every time its with half of my team making it to the cap almost unoposed. Its ridiculous how people have no sense of priority. The downside is that I get killed more often, but who cares about survival rate really? Pubbies are loving dumb.
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One of the thing that kind of annoys me about this game as a carrier player: You launch your planes. They take a bazillion years to reach your target. You manual aim a perfect run and watch with excitement as your torpedoes speed towards a battleship and you just know all 6/12 torpedoes are gonna hit and wreck the poo poo out of him. Then juuust before your torpedo hits, someone else lands an awesome citadel hit and sinks the ship, making your entire effort and the last 5 minutes of your gameplay an entire waste of time.
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Dalael posted:I've decided to try something with my carrier and so far it seems to be working. I swear to god guys.. try this. Its unbelievable how pubbies are retarded. My latest match, I told my team I would do this right at the start. Near the end of the match, a few teammates were capping. Two enemy cruiser were in a perfect position to shoot those capping, but also in a perfect position to shoot me. Guess who they choose to shoot at? I truly do not understand this attitude. What is it with pubbies wanting to kill carriers so badly that they would rather do so at the cost of the entire match. The funniest thing about this is that in all the match I've done this, none of them managed to sink me. Fake Edit: I realise that I'm quoting myself which is kinda dumb.
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SERPUS posted:Did you quote and reply to yourself? Have you not read my fake edit?
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A little while ago I mentioned I had an extra code for the closed beta. I don't know if still valid but it seems I really don't need it. Who was next on the list to receive it? I can't find the post. E: I went back 25 pages and could not find the latest update for the list of people who want to have keys. I do not guarante that this key still works, but if someone wants it.. just ask in here. If possible, I'd like to give it to someone who has seen what the game looks like and is interested in playing until open beta hits. I would not want to waste it on someone who tries the game a few times and gives up. Dalael fucked around with this message at 10:04 on Apr 26, 2015 |
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Stringbean posted:If there's any codes lying around I'd love to give this a shot. PM is available Check your PM. I sent you the code I have. I truly hope it works for you. Good luck!
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xthetenth posted:No, and relink thread please? I've only got a glorious thread that's crying about the swastika not being in when the hammer and sickle is in and do you know what the Soviets did to the Jews But.. but... My immersion? 
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Claiming it might be CBT only is just a marketing tactic to get pubbies to rush for the drat thing. Wargaming might get some more of my money, but its definitely not on stupid ships that I have never heard of before. These ships will be great at first and be awesome money makers. Then people will figure them out, other ships will be added and in the end its going to be the Lowe and Type59 all over again. No thank you. I might go for a premium account or something, but that is most likely it.
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xthetenth posted:The WWII treaty battleships other than the KGV all had more than 14". The North Carolina and South Dakota are both treaty ships, and the Iowa is just a South Dakota that gained 10k tons for 6 knots. Treaty battleship means 35000 tons, pretty much. What are the chances that they'll add a midway class in the game? Despite what I said earlier about not paying for a ship, if they add that as a premium, I'll throw my credit card and pin code at them. E: I just read the entire wiki article regarding the Midway class and it pretty much answered my question: Never Dalael fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Apr 29, 2015 |
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Sidesaddle Cavalry posted:Also: gently caress no! I enjoy playing carrier so much, its possibly the only class that is not going to get any free xp invested into it. I enjoy each of my carriers for as long as possible, including the Langley. I don't know wtf is wrong with me...
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