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I was poking about in the forums and ran across a dev/community person post stating that they dropped the number of Alpha battles to get the freebie premium ship from 100 to 5. I wasn't in alpha so whatever, but some of you folks were. Already downloaded and installing client due to Beta Test Weekend participation  And here's something that's pissed me off already - The built in TeamSpeak overlay works fine with WoWs, while it stopped working with WoT a long time ago  
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My turn for a game post !   Saw 4 DDs on the enemy team during match loading, I figured I was going to get focused down in a hurry, but then pubbies happened. Loaded AP off the bat,  ammoracked?/magazined? a DD with a 10km out plunging full broadside  , 2 salvoed another when he tried to torpedo me, then got into a brawl with the Tatsuta. Sank him, got out at about 1/2 health. Took 1 torp to the rear end from the last DD that I wasn't paying enough attention to, I'm down to 1/4th HP (thank $deity  repair was off cool-down), he then cut around an island at about 1/4th HP left. I pre-aimed where I figured he'd appear, vaporized him about 2 seconds after he appeared. For whatever reason DD drivers seem to like to hug islands as much as they can  .
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Mar 20, 2015 08:52
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2250 XP to a Cleveland, I have enough $$$ and free xp to insta-elite it & fill all the mod slots too.   I think its absolutely nuts right now how much silver I can pull in just by cycling through tiers 2/3/4. I'm starting to think they have the payouts artificially jacked up so everyone isn't having to grind for weeks in order to afford stuff. And on another tangent, I was browsing through the folder that WoWs is installed in, and there is an XML file (convoyConfig.xml) that hints at something to do with convoys. I opened it up, and its got comments in Russian & parameters that hint at the presence of AI controlled ships & waypoints.
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Mar 23, 2015 07:56
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Double-clicking fires all guns (that are pointed at the target), click and hold fires them one at a time in sequence.
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Mar 26, 2015 06:23
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On TeamSpeak earlier tonight.... : hey guys lets do a 6-7 division! : ok !    GAME ON !   A bit later....      The Shimmy did the usual DD thing of trying to solo smokescreen cap A, but we somehow spotted him & focused him down. The Essex driver was  ping as hard as he could I think, he blew away some serious chunks of BB HP, and for whatever reason the Yam driver eventually felt the need to try and hide from us by going down the small E-W channel @ Cap A while the torpedo bombers were landed for reloading.  I saved this replay for posterity.McGavin posted:This game needs a mod that shows gun and torpedo range for everything. One of the mods that demon6 posted up-thread a ways does a perma-alt key thing, so at least you can see HP bars & ranges (see 1st screenshot). MREBoy fucked around with this message at 06:28 on Mar 31, 2015 |
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Mar 31, 2015 06:26
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OK, does anyone know where to find info on whats going to be in the next patch, or does that info not get distributed until the patch lands ? I've been all over the NA forums looking for anything but its chock full of 2-3 year old threads about whatever. Is this type of info RU only or something ?
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Apr 2, 2015 06:47
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What are the odds the US BB branch unlocks off the Chester ? I hope not, doing it off the St. Louis would be a heck of a lot easier.
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Apr 2, 2015 18:47
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Montefarle posted:We just updated to 3.0.9 as of the current time servers are down. Did you folks know patch files are just a big ZIP or RAR or some sort of archive ? 7-ZIP opens them just fine. I did some poking around... All the elements of that "SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO" mode are in there   I'm not kidding - map, load screen background, ship icons, skybox, the whole thing: Here's "99_deep_space.png", in "wows_30.90523_30.90070_client.patch\res\gui\maps_bg\"  Harbor previews & in-match icons:  also spotted: what appear to be files for USA Battleships and maybe IJN carriers  .I dare any of you to post this to the official forums
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Apr 8, 2015 18:42
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Update: replacement textures and possibly models spotted for Des Moines, Gearing, [e:]Essex, Yamato and something called a "Zao" - Zao is apparently the one with the neon stripes & swirls and crap from "Arpeggio of Blue Steel - Ars Nova", that's the anime the "Fog" thing comes from. e: added Essex MREBoy fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Apr 8, 2015 |
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Apr 8, 2015 18:56
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JUST BECAUSE I CAN:
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Apr 8, 2015 19:16
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Do you know where it saves them? A folder called "screenshot" inside the WoWs folder 
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Apr 10, 2015 05:08
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so about that US pre-order destroyer..... USS Sims - DD-409 - http://www.delsjourney.com/uss_neosho/coral_sea/other_ships/uss_sims.htmUSS Sims was assigned to escort an oil tanker named the USS Neosho during the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942. A Japanese scout plane spotted thee ships and reported them as a cruiser and an aircraft carrier  . Japanese command ordered an all-out attack, and both ships were attacked by upwards of 50 different planes over several hours. USS Sims eventually took 3 x 500lb bomb hits, split in half, and sank. 237 dead, 14 survivors. USS Neosho survived in bad shape, and was found by another US destroyer a few days later just a short time before the crew was going to abandon ship. One Neosho crew member posthumously received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his efforts to save the ship. The crew & Sims survivors transferred over, and the Neosho was scuttled by way of gunfire (after 2 torpedoes fired at the ship failed to do anything ).
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Apr 10, 2015 06:10
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So where does one go to get some legit usage mods for WoWs ? The one contour icon mod I use currently is out of date (missing the pre-order ships), and I got it from this thread so I don't know where else to go looking.
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Apr 17, 2015 00:06
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The Locator posted:ALT ALT ALT Bunch of pages back, someone posted some mods lifted from the RU forums, as NA has no mods section yet. One of these mods is a Perma Alt Key thing. Install, press Alt once at battle start, its on for the match. Click this for fun and prizes! 
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Apr 22, 2015 18:41
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Yes, you have to overwrite paths.xml. Why ? Because WG: Stock paths.xml code:code:
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Apr 24, 2015 05:33
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So if swastikas in any form are out due to DE law, does that mean Bismarck wanting sperglords in NA land will go nuts when it comes out ? I'd give it maybe a week before some sort of skin mod shows up to "fix" this. 
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May 9, 2015 03:03
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JuffoWup posted:Well, that is about how long it took for the jap flag to be corrected at launch of cbt. I was thinking more of these swastikas:  This would require a re-skin of the ship, which will probably happen. Weird Bismarck fact: At some point in time, a trans-Atlantic communications cable was somehow laid directly across the wreck of the ship. It's not an old cable, as it appears to have a grey/blue plastic outer sheath. The wreck sits in 15,000+ feet of water on the side of an underwater mountain.  source, has more pics
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May 9, 2015 03:58
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 REMINDER Patch 0.3.1 breaks all current mods intentionally in order to try and remove the aim assist mod. The usual symptom of this is a black screen when the game loads, prior to the login screen appearing. Currently the only option is to delete all mods. If you break your install somehow & don't want to re-download ~5.5 gigs, the following might help: 1. Force a client verify: change the shortcut to the WoWs launcher to the following: code:code:code:2. if you outright delete res_mods, you must edit paths.xml, otherwise the game will not load: You want the contents of paths.xml to be : code:code:
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May 13, 2015 23:35
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Managed to get a Wyoming unlocked, got tired of the 9 a side BB slap-fest, took the Omaha out for a spin... (1.5x round & Premium acct in effect)     The medal I got is "Confederate" - for damaging at least 6 different ships for 20% or more of their base HP. Got me a 10 use flag thing that gives 50% more xp per battle. All I did was cruise in a figure 8 pattern in the backfield and dumped alternating salvos of HE/AP at anything that got into range. I know I set a BB on fire at least twice. I'm happy to say the lack of aim assist wasn't too much of a handicap, but I definitely prefer a non-stock gun-sight. If you can figure out how much left/right lead to use, you've got it made.
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May 14, 2015 04:21
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That Works posted:Also, how does AA work? Auto or? Essentially automatic, but you can control-click an enemy air group in the sky to tell your AI gunners to concentrate on that group. Your ship has a several km radius area of engagement, different on each ship (look at AA stats in port). Also, some cruisers have a AA buff power they can pop to magically turn all those 12.7/20/40/whatever mm mounts into CIWS turrets for a short bit. And there's a captain skill that buffs that buff power. In higher tiers this can make approaching certain cruisers with airplanes a  -al situation.
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May 14, 2015 23:56
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Mahasamatman posted:Been playing this today and it's very fun. However, my last game in my japanese destroyer I couldn't rotate my turrets or shoot them. I couldn't aim or fire torpedos either. It was as if I was holding down RMB the whole time--my turrets never rotated. It's probably something obvious in retrospect but I can't figure out what the hell was happening. Totally unresponsive turrets is a known bug with the game, can happen to any ship (ask me about this happening to my Wyo one match ). Ammo load-outs are not a thing yet, but will be at some point. Currently you just get charged credits for firing shells out of your magically never ending on-board supply.
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May 17, 2015 06:57
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Warbadger posted:US battleships don't get AAA until tier 7.
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May 17, 2015 08:52
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Someone start a petition to have BB gun SFX changed to some of the booms in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3S6MYSj2AI
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May 19, 2015 03:54
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I think I've become the Torpedo Whisperer, even when driving an Omaha. Or maybe I know what I'm doing.... or maybe pubbies are extra stupid right now  Dumped 2 wide angle torpedo spreads at a Cleveland who was in a smoke cloud while dodging his shots, 2 hits.  "A" cap on Faultline, snuck up on a New Mexico all they way from mid map through one of the E/W channels, got behind him and dumped both sides into him.  Full torpedo spread into a S. Carolina at less than 3km , barely made it out alive & almost blew away Sextro, who was 50 yds. off my port side.
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May 22, 2015 05:01
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Cleveland x5 match, 86k damage output, 1880 base XP  Final shots on a Kitakami, Atlanta, Aoba, I also helped chew up a New Mexico and a Kongo. Who's gotten the highest base XP and with bonus XP so far ?
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May 22, 2015 22:48
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Apparently 0.3.1.2 just dropped, got a ~157mb update just now. http://worldofwarships.com/en/cbt/news/0312-update-notes/ I rummaged around inside the .patch file, the files for the Bismarck are present . Also, a lot of game SWFs replaced by various mods got updated too, so expect mod breakage.Logged in, general help & chat channel hub bub says IJN torp bombers had the width of their torpedo spread upped by 50% or so . Also all USA fighters were buffed to carry 15% more ammo.
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May 28, 2015 19:47
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3 minutes and 49 seconds into a 12 minute match, my St Louis gets 1 shotted by 3 AP hits from a New York. The 14k damage (14 hits, 2 crits, 3 citadels) I did to a single Yubari was enough for me to get 1st place by XP on my team . Enemy team lost a total of 2 ships.
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May 29, 2015 06:09
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ok so where are you folks going to pull up these per ship damage stats ? Something in-client or a 3rd party website ?
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Jun 4, 2015 21:18
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FYI if any of you use the Aslain modpack for WoWs, one of the OTM mods (version #1 (Altvision) by W03L0BED) in the current version (0.3.7) is causing the game client to crash with a BigWorld memory exception error. The other OTM mod is fine. E2add: Aslain just posted on his forums that ALL the flag mods are bugged out too.
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Jun 18, 2015 20:24
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Just logged into the game, seem to have sprouted an extra week of premium, 1000 gold and I now have 10 free ship slots. I bought one of the Humble Bundle Murmansk codes, so I'm guessing that's where it came from.
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Jun 30, 2015 21:30
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The latest edition of Aslains ModPack now has an option where it will enable replays for you, no more fiddling with config files by hand.
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Jul 4, 2015 20:27
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Demon, the TS server is down!  
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Jul 11, 2015 02:45
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demonR6 posted:$$$ woes So how much $ a month is it ?
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Jul 11, 2015 04:35
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demonR6 posted:Have to check when I'm home and can get in the account. Wasn't a whole lot but still I got tired of eating the bill mostly. I just poked into the PBCAK TS (had it bookmarked for some reason) and holy poo poo that's a lot of channels, along with some noticeable gently caress GOONS stuff. If its not super horrible I could probably pony up a few months worth of time for our own server.
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Jul 11, 2015 04:53
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demonR6 posted:Well, we had a link on the server to donate directly to the account but that's out the window without us being able to log in. heh. If you click the little TS server status strip thing in the OP, it goes to the hosting company website and there's a donation button there. 
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Jul 11, 2015 05:04
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I don't like using Mumble, its overlay functions refuse to work on my computer for some reason.
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In case anyone didn't know - you can Control-click on an enemy air group, and that tells your AA to focus fire on that particular group. And yeah, AA is short ranged, the 127mm batteries on the DesMoines have a base range of 5.7km. Similar guns on the Montanna are 5km base. Lowest ranged USN AA is the .50 cal Browning HMG at all of 0.9km. 20mm Oerlikons are 2.1km, and 40mm Bofors are 3.5km
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I just had a thought - does the AA on/off switch have any sort of wind up or wind down effect ? If not, you could turn off AA until stuff gets close, then try shotgunning them.
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Jul 16, 2015 20:50
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Why I Still Drive a St Louis.jpg -or- Sucks To Be You.jpg -or- A 11 Point Captain Is The New Seal Clubbing.jpg  7 of 8 shells landed all over his bridge area, at least one did penetrate as the DD guy got a "Detonation" medal.
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Quick quiz time ! You are in a match, in a slightly damaged St. Louis, and you come up against a full health South Carolina. Early in the engagement, you take a hit to the steering, causing you to be locked in a hard turn to port for over a minute as Repair is on cooldown. Who wins ? http://www.mreboy.com/wot/20150722_220921_PASC004-St-Louis-1906_13_OC_new_dawn.wowsreplay Fast forward to about 6:40something left on the match timer. A: Dumb poo poo South Carolina was shooting HE & missing quite a lot, I burned him down with massive HE spam eventually.
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