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EmilCrane wrote: Just ignore that stuff at the beginning and watch the real gameplay. I have a history degree, I did my dissertation in naval history, I know what real naval battles look like, and while no arcade game can come close, World of Warships does an ok job. The real gameplay, not that crap at the beginning.
Would have been better to say this at the beginning
I might give it a watch, but when im home with sound maybe.
Give it a try, the guy commenting knows his stuff and is very informative and fun to listen to. Just try to survive the initial seconds that are never again showed
BaronIveagh wrote: As an alpha tester, my NDA binds and gags me hand and foot.
The NDA has been lifted:
With CBT just around the corner, we are happy to drop the non-dislosure-agreement that prevented you all from sharing your adventures from the game with the rest of the community. From 12 March onwards, you will finally be able to post your videos, screenshots and impressions without any constraints!
Welp, just got my first Battleship. NOW we are talking. I really need to learn how to use this bad boy, I mean, 30 second reloads? Oh boy, you better make every shot count.
BaronIveagh wrote:The NDA has been lifted for everything AFTER alpha. So, here goes:
In the nice inversion of WOT everything Russian is gak. Expect this fixed soon with a flood of not even paper projects and nationalist wishful thinking.
Japan still has no carriers. The US still has no battleships. Predreadnought ships are now allowed, apparently. (see 'thread'nought on this subject in their forums way back in the day when the [replaced] devs swore 'Death before Pre-dreadnought')
The alpha reward ship is actually pretty sweet, being the only cruiser (so far) with a smoke generator. IJN and USN still have the wrong flag, told not a bug, but a design feature. (Both have 'modern' versions of their national flag instead of period flags or navy ensigns.)
Debate on if German battleships will be historical models or big metal X's will be placed on prows continues.
Does the Japanese ships have the emperor seal though? that could be considered offensive to people that felt the brunt of the Japanese invasion.
Personally i think they should keep it true to reality, i am against any form of censorship even if some things appall me.
If you mean this:
Spoiler:
Yes, the ships do have them. I have noticed it on my Cruisers, but I admit I haven't looked for it on my Battleships.
And I HATE Destroyers. I don't seem to ever be able to hit them with a battleship at long range but the damn torpedos sure find me. I love my Myogi but damn, I'm so bad using it
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Interesting! I appreciate the insight. I haven't made it anywhere near that level of play; I'm still working towards my first Tier IIs . Makes me wonder if there might be a development down the road to split carriers out into fleet and light/escort lines...if the last few years playing WoT has taught me anything, its that tech trees are written in sand.
Whn you get there, a tip, stay about ten km from a Yamato. Those secondaries give it a huge damage aura and it HURTS. As in even if it doesn't one shot you, it will whittle away a cruiser in about 30 seconds. Torps are about your best option. A Kitakami will one shot it if it connects with all 20 torps, but two dessies will still mess it up as long as they're fitting long range torps. Torp bombers are less effective and dive bombers might as well be dropping spitwads. Amusingly an Atlanta can wreck one, if you spam explosive and can keep it's turrets disabled. If even one turret goes active though it will one shot you.
If torp bombers aren't effective and dive bombers dont do crap, then what good is an aircraft carrier? o.O
Torp bombers are less effective than ship-launched torpedos, but still do serious damage to battleships and anything else really. This is a historical difference (air dropped torpedos, by necessity, are significantly smaller) and provides a decent gameplay distinction; ship torps are more powerful, but more dangerous to oneself, as you have to enter firing range of your opponent, whereas planes can attack with a lot more impunity, and react to changing circumstances much faster.
And they HURT as hell. I'm currently using Myogi, the Rank IV battleship. It has 0 AA and there isn't exactly a possibility of Cruiser escorts in the random games.
For example, the one I know of, the Rank IV Battleship, the Myogi never existed. The Kongo and her sisters were built considering the ideas for the Myogi, tho.
BaronIveagh wrote: Preorders packages are now available. Note that preordering does NOT get you into Beta.
this has proven somewhat alarming to testers. Not the not getting in part, but the fact the game isn't quite ready yet. There are still a lot of serious issues.
There are? I had no idea. I've been having a blast of fun and never noticed anything too major. But then again, I only hit tier VII - Nagato - so I have no idea how balanced the end-game is.
There are? I had no idea. I've been having a blast of fun and never noticed anything too major. But then again, I only hit tier VII - Nagato - so I have no idea how balanced the end-game is.
You haven't noticed things like running aground on invisible objects, aircraft sitting on the surface of the water shooting at you, or the recent return of glass turrets, a bug that was fixed three updates ago, but has mysteriously risen again?
1 - No
2 - No
3 - I did think my turrets were getting screwed up more than they usually were, but I thought it was because I was mostly fighting against tiers VII - X. And those pack the hell of a punch.
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BaronIveagh wrote: I'm surprised, since AFAIK no one has been given any invites to hand out, though some streamers were supposed to pass out a few.
I'm guessing EU is pretty bad. I know they were having a hard time getting players for the alpha test.
I think Asia was worst. A friend of mine is currently living in Japan and he got into the Closed Beta for the Asia Region. I got an extra code and gave it to him, he logged in for the first time and (almost) shouted over TeamSpeak "WHAT THE HELL?! 5000 PLAYERS?!" Yeah, Asian servers were bad
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One has fleet combat and growth and stuff, the other is "Imma ship!" arcade fun time. Both are good. A merger? Now that's what I call port side.
One has ships and combat. The other is a travesty.
I wouldn't say a travesty. It's not big surprise a number of WoW players are also KanColle players, or because of KanColle they got interested in naval warfare and are now interested in WoW.
Heck, in one of the Closed Beta Surveys they sent, they had one question asking what other games you play and one of the options was "Kantai Collection".
Hell, I love big ships with big cannons, but it was mostly in a sci-fi enviornment. I learnt and got interested in learning more about naval warfare thanks to KanColle.
Oh, and of course, BURNING LOVE!
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The girls are the "warships". They inherit the spirits of the sunk battleships and face the Abyssals. Elements of the ships are designed into the girl's uniform.
Yes, it makes no sense. But it's fun.
But the Kongou is awesome. Both in KanColle and in WoW. So it's such a major win for me.
Saw the latest mingles with jingles and he mentioned a mod used for cheating in WOW heard of it?
Yes, I have been hearing about it but I didn't think it was that bad.
It kinda explains how I'm hit over 20kms away with consistent citadel hits. No really, there's the "HOLY gak, THAT WAS LUCKY YOU SON OF A BITCH" and then there's the consistent battering I sometimes get.
It's rare to see accusation in chat, but they are here.
Ah well, the game is still mighty fun and after reading those patch notes I'm incredibly pumped up! American Battleships! OH YES!
Just read all that, wow, I mean wow, those changes, now that's an update!
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Saw the latest mingles with jingles and he mentioned a mod used for cheating in WOW heard of it?
Yes, I have been hearing about it but I didn't think it was that bad.
It kinda explains how I'm hit over 20kms away with consistent citadel hits. No really, there's the "HOLY gak, THAT WAS LUCKY YOU SON OF A BITCH" and then there's the consistent battering I sometimes get.
It's rare to see accusation in chat, but they are here.
Ah well, the game is still mighty fun and after reading those patch notes I'm incredibly pumped up! American Battleships! OH YES!
Just read all that, wow, I mean wow, those changes, now that's an update!
Ah Soladrin, nice to see you are in the "EXPRESS TORPEDO DELIVERY" service
I have now done close to 300 games.
I'm a fething God of Death and Destruction when I'm playing with my sweet Kongo or destroyers at lower tiers.
I fething love this game too much and it's only the CBT. Damn, I need that new patch ASAP, I want to get my hands on the USA's Battleships to compare with the Japanese.
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TheDraconicLord wrote: Ah Soladrin, nice to see you are in the "EXPRESS TORPEDO DELIVERY" service
I have now done close to 300 games.
I'm a fething God of Death and Destruction when I'm playing with my sweet Kongo or destroyers at lower tiers.
I fething love this game too much and it's only the CBT. Damn, I need that new patch ASAP, I want to get my hands on the USA's Battleships to compare with the Japanese.
Yeah, I've done about 200 battles myself and am absolutely loving it. My preference of ship however is very much settled on Japanese destroyers, second probably being carriers. I've gotten to Tier 6 on both the US and Japanese cruiser lines and while fun, it's just not for me. got a kongo too but I just can't stand that rate of fire.
I'm a sneaky torpedo delivery man at heart.
Think I'll try American destroyers today to see if they are worth a damn.
Also, the russian pre-order destroyer is hilarious. Decent torpedos and 130mm guns. I've killed Aoba's one on one with that thing.
The American destroyers are fun. Their torpedos have an insane short range, the one I'm using has 5.5 Kms. It's like Jingles says, it's a life of risk and adventure aboard one of those! What you get are awesome, awesome cannons, that's why I like them a bit more than the Japanese ones.
I MURDER most of the destroyers I meet, including the russian because the players are still (I guess) noobs who only use their torpedos, including against me, another destroyer. I just laugh as I shoot them with my ridiculous rate of fire.
Fun Fact: Nearly 300 games played and I don't even have the first Carrier unlocked
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I feel the same. I hate when I can't just tip my hat because of a shot well placed and instead I'm suspicious said player is using the mod.
But, tbh, I haven't felt that in a while now. I'm rocking the seas with my Amagi. That beautie had her ass kicked when she was "stock" but now, fully upgraded and with a Captain fully retrained? It's beautiful. Dodging torpedos, shooting down planes with AA, DESTROYING MY GOD-EMPEROR DAMNED ENEMIES LEFT AND RIGHT! All at the same time! IT'S GLORIOUS!
I have been playing a lot with the girl and I haven't been suspicious of a player for a while.
Still, Kongo remains my love. Kongo is Love, Kongo is Life!
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BaronIveagh wrote: No. And, they just announced that despite being only available in beta, it's being wiped after CBT. Needless to say, people are screaming because they preordered gold just to buy it, thinking it was like the Buffalo. Glad i didn't buy it.
I was very confused with this so I searched around the forum for the official statement:
Ahoy, Captains! I got the answer about the Warspite.
So, the ship is currently available in the Closed Beta for 7,500 tokens. At the end of Closed Beta (start of Open Beta), it will be wiped from your account, it will be unavailable for purchase, and you will be refunded your spent tokens as doubloons. (The same as any other purchase in the Closed Beta Test)
We will eventually offer the Warspite again in the future. For the time being, it is only a Closed Beta Test ship that you can play and test during the Closed Beta. I should also make a point that the current price will not necessarily reflect its future price when it is made available again after OBT.
Well, they'll have the gold back for actual GOOD premium ships or premium time. Not that piece of crap.
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Ya know, after watching Jingles kicking ass and taking names with Warspite, I'm not so sure it's such a bad ship after all. His video is really surprising.
MrDwhitey wrote: Hitting an enemy Kongo in the citadel with an AP shell is satisfying.
More satisfying than being rammed by his mate's Warspite though...
The Kongo was fun until I unlocked the Fuso, now I'd much rather play the Fuso and I'm left scratching my head as to why people like the Kongo so much. The majority of the time I see other people playing them they end up getting out ahead of the main group, isolated and destroyed.
I'm one of those persons. Give me my ship-waifu over Fuso any day of the week. Mostly it's a combination of armor, firepower and speed that make me love her so much. I've very, very rarely had a game with that ship I considered a failure. It happened, yes, but very rarely compared with the others.
Then again, when I play with a battleship I play as the tank so I don't even know if I'm doing it right "LOOK AT ME! Big scary ship! HIT ME! HIT ME!" as I advance into the fray to the magical 10-12 KMs range I love so much and protect the little guys. When I see battleships remaining at near maximum range in a game and not even daring to advance, I just laugh and I wonder if they are actually having fun.
Hell, my favorite moments is when I'm capping and I'm dodging torpedos, the AA are shooting, the secondary batteries are blazing away at near targets and I'm shooting the main cannons. Bonus points if me and another battleship are doing a broadside less than 3 kms away.
It's a freakin' carnage and an orgy of explosions. AND I LOVE IT!
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Also death to US CVs apparently; the IJN is now ruler of the skies as US CVs lost 1 TB squadron at all levels in favour, in almost all cases, of more dive bombers.
Whoopie.
Meanwhile he IJN is rolling with 5 TB squadrons.
we'll see how this pans out.
SERIOUSLY?! 5?! I know they mentioned japanese planes are weaker, but DAMN, 5 seems overkill!
AND COME TO DADDY, US BATTLESHIPS!
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