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I have discovered that my problems with destroyers stem from playing USN ships like IJN ships. Torp spam works much better from 2km outside of your detection range

Hitting an enemy Kongo in the citadel with an AP shell is satisfying.

More satisfying than being rammed by his mate's Warspite though...

 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.

Atlanta and Mogami are my favourite ships so far. Sadly, japanese destroyers become kind of gak after tier 6.

 Catyrpelius wrote:

 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!

So I get my closed key, and the first thing my internet does it jam up because the suburb next to us is getting upgraded.

When is the release planned? I really want to get this game but don't want to go through the beta and get ships only to have all the effort wiped out when the game goes final.

M.

 Miguelsan wrote:
When is the release planned? I really want to get this game but don't want to go through the beta and get ships only to have all the effort wiped out when the game goes final.

M.

Depends on how many bone headed moves that WG makes in design that testers have to point out to them. Most likely fall of this year. There's to be no wipe though between Open beta and release.

 BaronIveagh wrote:

 Miguelsan wrote:
When is the release planned? I really want to get this game but don't want to go through the beta and get ships only to have all the effort wiped out when the game goes final.

M.

Depends on how many bone headed moves that WG makes in design that testers have to point out to them. Most likely fall of this year. There's to be no wipe though between Open beta and release.

It's still closed beta though so current progress will be wiped.

There are times, when the games suck.

Then there are others, when no one is using the Aim Mod and the MM does something like this:



EPIC fights between Yamato Senpai and us

3.1 is out: Death to the Aim Assist


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.

 MajorStoffer wrote:
3.1 is out: Death to the Aim Assist

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!

Time to test my long range torpedo's now that spotting has been nerfed.

 Soladrin wrote:
Time to test my long range torpedo's now that spotting has been nerfed.

Heeeeeeeeeeere's Kitakami!

Kitakami? I own a Kagero. 20km range bitches!

Update:

I now have a Shimekaze. Tier 10 bitches!

 Soladrin wrote:
Kitakami? I own a Kagero. 20km range bitches!

Update:

I now have a Shimekaze. Tier 10 bitches!

39k to go until Yamato

Edit: They probably added the Tier IX IJN Battleship, didn't they? .......

They did.

Also, shimakaze is bloody amazing. 6 guns, 15 torpedo tubes. 40 knot top speed,

The Tier IX Cruiser has almost as much armor as the new tier IX Battleship, Izumi ... and that cannon pointing to the tower ...

I am NOT amused with this new battleship ...

I don't see the point in going beyond tier V in a destroyer.

The Farrgut doesn't seem any better than the Nicholas, in fact all the USN destroyers seem pretty poor until the Fletcher.

I just got 154 hits with my Nicholas, it seems to do quite well once I stopped trying to use torps

Aside from the Kageros ridiculous range I don't see any benefit from teching up the IJN tree either.

Okay.. so I was wondering how the Mogami would function at tier 8..

You only sank 7 ships? meh

You have no idea how much I hate you right now

Ever since the patch my aim has been completely off thanks to the crazy BB AP arcs. Hell, sometimes when I shoot one of my Izumo's batteries, I see one shot going all the way left, one goes way up, and the last goes all the way right. And I mean 3 shots from the same turret. It's crazy.

I'm only now reliably hitting targets again but the accuracy of the BB turrets still feels so damn off. . Still, congratulations on that awesome result, I'm nowhere near that kind of results

But let me tell ya, bouncing a Nagato's secondary battery shell when you are using a Sims with 67 HP and thanks to that, being able to take down said Nagato with torpedos and survive was one hell of a laugh

Haha, yeah. I don't even use BB's. Highest I got is a Fuso, I'm just not a fan of the playstyle.

Also, the best part of that match was blind fire into a smoke cloud killing a destroyer, turning away from him and having a Cleveland trying to ram me, I dodged him and gave him some torpedo's as a going away present.

 Soladrin wrote:
Haha, yeah. I don't even use BB's. Highest I got is a Fuso, I'm just not a fan of the playstyle.

Also, the best part of that match was blind fire into a smoke cloud killing a destroyer, turning away from him and having a Cleveland trying to ram me, I dodged him and gave him some torpedo's as a going away present.

Honestly, after reading that I can only imagine your ship's captain putting on his sunglasses riding to the sunset as the Cleveland explodes in a ball of flames behind him.

Yeah that's pretty much how it went. Seriously though I don't I ever stopped shooting that match and we won on points at my 7th kill, I got every kill for my team and won the game in about 10 minutes.

The new carrier loadouts are a bit off. I just had a game where I completely shut down 2 Hoshos with my fighter loadout Bogue. 40 planes shot down and I even seriously damaged a BB by setting fire to it, for the loss 5 planes. I can't imagine that it was a fun game for them though.

So... Having barely skimmed over the 8 pages of the thread.. Verdict?

Love it.

Reasonable. I suspect that it will have longevity problems.

There is no rush at the moment though, its not going to be in open beta for months yet..

Atlanta pretty good