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Oh wow they're adding magnetic torpedoes into the game. I wonder if they'll also add in a new gimmick for historical battles where it's about 8 IJN destroyers protecting a convoy vs a full team of USN submarines. The USN torpedoes does a circular run on them.
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Danann posted:I wonder if they'll also add in a new gimmick for historical battles where it's about 8 IJN destroyers protecting a convoy vs a full team of USN submarines. My dream of having the Authentic SS-257 experience is probably better left unfulfilled anyways.
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Livorno Trip Report: http://imgur.com/a/c4mPf That's a spicy meatball. 6 guns sounds a little undergunned, but when they fire at 2.5rpm base, have 6.1 km range, high accuracy for a BB, do Queen Elizabeth damage and pen, and fly as fast as a US CA's shells, you can forgive its terrible deck armor, 4 secondaries a side (though they're good secondaries), and terrible radar and spotting. It also has torpedoes because why not. 
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It is time. Time to shoot botes again. EDIT: lol, just lost a 9 kill fubuki comp game to a 12 kill fubuki on their team. Mazz fucked around with this message at 19:27 on Aug 18, 2016 |
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Mazz posted:It is time. Elder Lee is still scared of me. It's a good feel.
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Has anyone tried the UK battlecruisers enough to say  about them? The Repulse is pretty good anyway.Also can you still get tier 5 games with 7 a side, or is every tier like tier 8 used to be now?
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I've gotten up to the Tiger (and I'm working my way towards the Renown) but the first two are terrible (because why wouldn't they be), the Lion is a shittier Kongo with Orion guns and awkward short-ranged secondaries (which makes sense, the Kongo was a modification of the Lion), but the Tiger has finally hit some paydirt. It's got a pretty good main gun layout, the T5 version of the Orion Guns is perfectly acceptable for a T5 armament, and the secondaries and their layout make getting all 6 of them on a target (it has 6 per side) easy. I really want the Renown, though. It looks like a Queen Elizabeth that trades some belt armor and one turret for good speed and the deck is still heavily armored, which matters a lot for an artillery ship. From fighting them in my Nelson/Colorado/Scharn, Hoods are Sad Botes that like to explode, so that'll be historically accurate.
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I think tier 5-6 is still okay, especially in this little while after the patch. I even saw 12 people in the 9-10 queue yesterday. Unfortunately high games still often pull bad matchups, like 2 BBs vs 1 BB and a DD or CV. It's a crapshoot, but still kinda fun since more bads have migrated up and a lot of the old decent players seem to be gone. Some are still around tho, azder has played 7000 matches in this awful game. Mazz fucked around with this message at 13:59 on Aug 19, 2016 |
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I want to play the Artillery ship but that means I always have an unpainted Tier6 and a Tier5 as my DD's against two RADM+ ranked Laforeys. I want to play the DD but my Artillery will not shoot at the ONLY artillery ship on the enemy team even though I have him spotted for five minutes straight because. I want to play with competent goons but goons do not play anymore, I could join No Botes Allowed but they don't really use VOIP as far as I am aware plus their bote pedophilia means joining is a non starter for me. Steel Ocean. Steel Ocean never changes.
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Groggy you know for a fact I am usually botefite, just I am traveling and on vacation at the moment.
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Yeah but you always have your own entourage with you and with the squad limit being three it gets... awkward. So the end result is almost always still playing alone. edit: Pubbies. 
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Aug 20, 2016 04:14
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I would play with goons more if I knew what time goons would habitually log on to shoot botes.
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I would hop on and play my Gearing a bit if you want Mazz.
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Groggy nard posted:Yeah but you always have your own entourage with you and with the squad limit being three it gets... awkward. So the end result is almost always still playing alone. Sorry, next time I'll tell Xaphan to get stuffed and Kommy and I will join you at T7/8 with SURCOUF and YAMATO to have glorious ducky adventures.
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Danann posted:I would play with goons more if I knew what time goons would habitually log on to shoot botes. We had a good run on fleet battles for a while, then they just got impossible to get matches for.
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I just killed a Bismarck with penetrating fire from the Surcouf's cannons. Honhonhon, motherfuckers.
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Night10194 posted:Sorry, next time I'll tell Xaphan to get stuffed and Kommy and I will join you at T7/8 with SURCOUF and YAMATO to have glorious ducky adventures. There are other games that we can play where nobody has to get stuffed. Also I have reason to play T7 again thanks to the KGV having an amusingly fast reload.
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Double Posting because according to the Official Twitter, American and Japanese BB's will get updated to have both "Fast" and "Heavy" Battleship lines, including the Montana and Fuso. And CL's might get a buff to Artillery Range. https://twitter.com/SteelOceanDev/with_replies
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Groggy nard posted:Double Posting because according to the Official Twitter, American and Japanese BB's will get updated to have both "Fast" and "Heavy" Battleship lines, including the Montana and Fuso. And CL's might get a buff to Artillery Range. If the mog 35 got a range buff it would be fun as gently caress to play. It already eats hippers for breakfast.
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Panzeh posted:If the mog 35 got a range buff it would be fun as gently caress to play. It already eats hippers for breakfast. Anything that gets in range to fire at a hipper does this. This is why the Hippy's secondaries and torps are a trap.
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Playing with a good CV driver is fun and cool, you just have to be patient with the Matchmaker. Totally worth it so far.
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Wow, the tier 2 and 3 British battlecruisers are the worst ships in the game
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James Garfield posted:Wow, the tier 2 and 3 British battlecruisers are the worst ships in the game fite my connecticut i dare you
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I got through the Ca-Class by never actually buying or playing it and dilligently saving free EXP for a long time. I hope the Tribal won't suck.
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I originally wanted to do a better post with fancy pictures and everything for this, but got caught at work late, so this will have to do: A friend of mine is on the crew running a submersible dive on the wreck of the U.S.S Independence, starting at 7 pm ET (4 pm Pacific Time, or basically now.) You can find the stream here: http://nautiluslive.org/
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I became angry at pubbies and did a bad thing. Also a tentative preview of the new American BB lines. https://twitter.com/SteelOceanDev/status/768713204163719168  edit: why 
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Danann posted:Oh wow they're adding magnetic torpedoes into the game. I wonder if they'll also add in a new gimmick for historical battles where it's about 8 IJN destroyers protecting a convoy vs a full team of USN submarines. Does that come with the historical American dud rate?
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That feeling when an enemy sub forgets your Surcouf has side torps makes the dumb ship worth it every time. 
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Wait the Surcouf has spoon(?) launchers? I never knew this. 
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Wait the Surcouf has spoon(?) launchers? I never knew this. Neither did that Tier 8 Nazi sub last night! 
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So what is the real status of this game? I've just started getting into World of Warships, but as a Castles of Steel grognard I think I'd be really excited about more realism in terms of ballistics, penetration and damage modeling. I'd play Fighting Steel Online if it existed in a heartbeat. In any case someone told me Steel Ocean is a bit more realistic in these respects, but when I checked the thread here it seemed I was seeing a lot of posts about the game having no population. Is this being exaggerated? I definitely don't want to start playing, and possibly drop $45 into a game that's going to never pop battles at best and shut down its NA server at worst.
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Steel Ocean is not at all realistic and is focused much more strongly on being a good game. It has a small but relatively stable population and I don't have that much trouble getting matches, though they're usually tiny at high tiers like 8. The main goal is this game is to position your big ships well, hopefully in a group, and blow the gently caress out of an enemy line that hopefully doesn't know exactly where you are due to outscouting them, killing their scouts, and using aircraft.
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Well, thesNight10194 posted:Steel Ocean is not at all realistic and is focused much more strongly on being a good game. I don't expect it to be realistic. That's pretty much impossible for these types of games that don't want 3 hour matches and mix wildly different timeframes. I was just told the ballistics and armor modeling is better than world of warships. Of course that could be a totally wrong.
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Oh yeah they're way better than WoWS, in that poo poo like plunging fire comes up way more often than just being a crapshoot and your modules and armor are fairly consistent. It's also a lot easier to see what your shells' Penetration is. Also, armor seems to buckle and break some by bouncing shells repeatedly, wearing away some and letting lighter fire through. Also, everyone isn't on fire all the time like in WoWS.
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The guns and armor are probably more realistic, in that plunging fire actually exists (warships cuts off the ranges instead of compressing them, so battleship shells at 15 km are coming in flat even though 15 km is pretty long range) and ships aren't hollow besides the citadel. Penetration works like in world of tanks, but I think deck and belt penetration are different and change depending on distance. The Germans don't get a random bonus from using WWI armor instead of all-or-nothing. Also in warships "exposing your broadside" is a bad thing, Steel Ocean correctly represents that battleships had all their armor on the broadside. As far as tactics it's more realistic than warships by default, because getting your T crossed is a bad thing instead of the main way to avoid damage. Steel Ocean isn't really dead, apparently the number of players went up a bit in the last month. Games at high tier are usually 3 on 3, but up to tier 6 or so you shouldn't have problems getting bigger games unless you play at like 3am pacific. It might be more popular, but apparently wargaming threatened to pull warships youtube personalities' preview access when they reviewed it. Also the developers have still not figured out advertising, or making an English website.
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Night10194 posted:Also, armor seems to buckle and break some by bouncing shells repeatedly, wearing away some and letting lighter fire through. Is this really a thing now? My Des Moines might actually be worth something! Also I really need to get back into this game, it was fun.
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It's been a thing for quite a while. It's more noticeable in the Super KitKat mode because the KitKat has a lot of HP such that eventually, 5-inch shells are penetrating for full damage instead of doing scratch damage.
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James Garfield posted:The guns and armor are probably more realistic, in that plunging fire actually exists (warships cuts off the ranges instead of compressing them, so battleship shells at 15 km are coming in flat even though 15 km is pretty long range) and ships aren't hollow besides the citadel. Penetration works like in world of tanks, but I think deck and belt penetration are different and change depending on distance. The Germans don't get a random bonus from using WWI armor instead of all-or-nothing. Yeah, if you get your T crossed against a CA or BB you are about to have some Bad Times. You really, really don't want to have to advance directly into a broadside enemy BB because you will actually get enfilade fire where his dispersion is about equal to the shape of your boat and you get turbo-hosed.
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Log082 posted:Is this really a thing now? My Des Moines might actually be worth something! If Groggy, Kommy, and I start seeing more goons we'll go back to Mumble instead of Skype.
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Night10194 posted:If Groggy, Kommy, and I start seeing more goons we'll go back to Mumble instead of Skype. I'll try and log on more, though I'm not on mumble right now anyway. I need a new headset, first. I did just play a few games and sunk a BB with my Surcouf. Still got it!
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