Just a heads up I will be streaming WOWs every night at around 10:30est and will be raffling access codes every night thanks to Blackhawk. http://www.twitch.tv/journeyman1029

We will also be having a Q&A with Blackhawk on the stream more than likely on the 27th and I will confirm that as soon as I can!

Come hang out and drink with us!

Oh I am so in!

agreed. ships sink way too fast.
speaking of destroyed ships... when a ships dies in shallow water, why does it get swallowed up by the sand, in shallow water?

 

LOL...I had that happen to me last night.  I made a mistake and cut it a bit too close to an island.  Ran aground and got my ship hung up mid-ships.  Couldn't rock it off in time to evade the incoming fire and torpedoes.  I eventually was sunk, and my ship slowly faded into the bottom of the seal.  It was shallow enough for me to get stuck, but apparently deep enough for me to sink completely out of sight.  

I do like the oil slick that comes from a sunk ship though...nice touch!

The American DDs are only close range torps until tier 7 (haha, ONLY until tier 7).

They start getting longer range at that point.

Bump this for the daylight guys.

Looking forward to it!

I haven't won a game today....I don't even check my stats anymore.

Totally sweet

ETA - I'm watching some of your prior broadcasts now

Oh shit. I will be there.

I feel your pain bud.  Any tips on how to enjoy the game without winning?  I'm burning out fast...

There is no taste as sweet as victory, and none as bitter as defeat.

Looks like toning up helped us both.  Too bad we ran out of time on that last game.  If the team would have moved to cap at the 8 minute mark like we had asked we might have pulled it out.

Death by 1000 cuts in my Cleveland.  Hit a North Carolina 117 times and finally sunk it.



Fuso is proving to be a solid Tier 6 BB.  Jim was running a New Mexico and I had greater range allowing me to stay farther towards the edge of enemy fire.  Just couldn't drag the team to a win...3 enemy ships stayed and defended cap and we couldn't kill them fast enough.  Had the last guy at 50% when time ran out.

I wish the game allowed us to have "motto's" like that visible to other players.  Your line there would be on every ship in my harbor.

I managed to set two battleships ablaze and some how sink them with a little help

I had a fun game last night with Journey and usafwolfe  in my Tier III St Louis. I killed from full health a Tier V New York right after I had administered the coup de grace to a Tier IV Wyoming. I did this all while at 1/2 health. It was fun watching the New York miss me repeatedly with his shit dispersion while I poured HE into him and burned his as right down. Sometimes the games can be very fun.

I think the key is platoons (or divisions or what have you).  At least you have 2-3 people working together and that usually sways the outcome at least to be more balanced.  And most arfcommers are decent at tactics, so good chance they won't be yoloing up the middle and dying in the first 5 minutes.

A sinking ship should not sink as fast and RNG the amount of shots it can get off before all hands are lost.

I managed to get stuck in my Cleveland the other night, ended up being the last one alive...seriously annoying for me, big giggles for the enemy team.

Well, except for the CV drivers...I murdered 15 of their airplanes while waiting to die.

Blackhawk, here's two suggestions:

1.  try to spawn platoon-mates closer together, when possible.


2. I would much prefer equal numbers of ships, but one side be a little lopsided, tier-wise; to the current situation, where we get 2 extra ships on one side.  90% of the time, the side with 2 extra ships wins all of the time.

Yeah... American torpedoes sucked until the middle of the war anyway. I'm glad the game doesn't take into account all the duds and failures to detonate that actually happened!

I'm falling in love with the Fuso again.  Tier 6 with good guns and good reloads.  21km range means you can just about out range anything you are going to be facing.

Phenomenal BB.  No negatives, when played to its strengths.

 

You guys must be having shit luck.  My win rate keeps going up for some reason....  

I'm just above 55% overall.  Playing lower levels is kind of a crapshoot.  I'm around 65% when playing tier 8 and up.

Then don't change what you're doing  

Thanks to Blackhawk, Journey and I will be doing dueling giveaways for WoWS every night.  So tune in to either or both our channels for the mayhem:

http://www.twitch.tv/engine_95

http://www.twitch.tv/Journeyman1029

E-95

And I just got back from the liquor store!

Shit just got realz, YO!  

What's going on here?  15500 XP?



edit:  Oh it's an x5 weekend.

Did you read the headline?  For the holiday 5x XP on first match with a ship.

 

New game changes recently -

1.  HE ammo works well in all situations now.  No need to switch.  One shotting others has gone way down.  I haven't had a citadel hit in a long time to any of my ships.   I see this as a positive change, but ...

2.  DD have a huge nerf.  Scout planes rule all.  Very hard to hide.  Most of my DDs have the Notification when you are detected, and it stays up pretty much most of the time unless you are in a higher tier IJN DD or the Fletcher or Gearing and just spam torps from way back.  

3.   BBs are much harder to kill now?  Changes to the armor?  Multiple torps hits to a BB just get repaired right back up even though I thought torp and flooding damage doesn't get repairs as much as fire and other damage.   I was in a tier 4 CV during a match, and the whole time I had 3 sets of torpedo planes hitting a New York (Tier 5 BB) - hit after hit after hit after hit... he lasted until the end when some other ships found him.  It was like my torp hits didn't do anything.  

4.  Cruisers and BBs are super manueverable now (at least relatively).  BBs stop really fast or pretty easily stop my BB in order to miss torpedoes, much easier than before.  In my BBs and Cruisers, I can thread Torpedo groups.   In fact, in the BB, i mostly just shrug off the torpedo hits - can't do that in the cruisers though.  

--- Game is developing OK, but the games are mostly stupid.   Either I get lucky and get 5 kills in a DD, or I die right away.  Otherwise, I have to hide in the back b/c the games consist of so many BBs and they can just lumber around taking so many torp hits.

--- No teamwork at all.  It is really hit or miss if the CV on your team even knows what it is doing.  BBs stay hidden as much as they can or lemming follow each other to a side of the map where it is obviously devoid of any enemies.  Or cap gets rushed, and your team doesn't do anything, while you get nuked going to reset cap - b/c you can't go anywhere close without being spotted by scout planes that now have super range and super vision.

Going to uninstall for several months - go back to WOT that at least seems much more ironed out.   Maybe try this again later on.  I'm hoping clans, clan fights and team work will really improve this game when more people are playing.   Also, alot more people after release (hopefully) will lessen the tier difference you see in fights.   Like a Minekaze going against Iowas or Fletchers as can happen now.

The torp nerf has gone too far.  It effectively nerfs two of the four classes of ships, with dive bombers still sucking.  They definitely need to find a better balance for the torp dependent ships before launch.

I agree.   Maybe make torps more powerful, or less torpedo belt armor.  Maybe increasing torp range on the lower tier ships, or increasing torp speed some too.  Maybe a compromise of the above.  

Dive bombers are pretty worthless, except for the occasional stopping a cap.

I should say that the last patch was great in some ways.  The ammo changes really has fixed the crit problem.  I haven't been one shotted at all lately.  And citadel hits seem pretty non-existent on small ships which makes the game much more fun.  (Of course, I lose turrets and torp tubes a lot more but this is much more acceptable that having all my health gone in 1 hit)

Watching Journeys stream. Looks pretty cool, can't wait to play.

Everyone keeps telling me that HE is a no go in BB's and AP is ALWAYS the answer...

I'm sorry but I just don't see it.  At far range and/or when an enemy is angling very well I always seem to put out more hurt with HE...

I will check this out. Thanks for the heads up

When I tried to switch, most times I would have a better shot if I just waited a little for an opening, or I missed a good shot because my guns were reloading.  I definitely think there are situations in a BB where HE is better, but the big issue is waiting for your weapons to reload.

The situations where I would use HE:
- Only enemy DDs left (or in my immediate area)
- Chasing a ship that is maintaining an angle that is likely to result in below average performance from AP

Long range is no reason to switch.  I regularly land 20k+ hits at 20km on both BBs and cruisers.

The advantage of using HE to start fires is diminished for BBs because of the slow rate of fire and high shot dispersion, despite the higher chance per shot to start a fire (there's a thread with the math on the official forum showing this).

I am not having any issues playing DDs/torping the hell out of everything on the map.  This is Tier 5 thru 8, IJN, USN and RUS.

I've noticed an increase in effectiveness of torpedo bulkheads on BBs, but generally speaking, I'm not having any trouble killing things with torpedoes in DDs, CVs, or IJN cruisers.

Once again it fell to me, this time in an Iowa, to defeat the bulk of the enemy team:




Please take note that I used only AP ammo (fires are from secondaries) and all but two shells that hit penetrated (66 of 68), for an average of 2,560.6 damage per hit with 52.71% accuracy.

Yeah..whole lotta this.  With the torp spotting reduced to levels that make them almost impossible to dodge I'm routinely getting a lot of hits on BBs and CAs from pretty far out even when I'm spotted.

Saw a couple "FBHO" and "FU AROCKs" tonight.

Had a few bad defeats, a couple not so great victories... then this in my Farragut:




I'm happy with that. I'll take that. Took out an enemy carrier in his cap with guns since I missed with my torps and reload is fuggin slow.

Good to see you. I take it that's the game you won and we lost?

No... I didn't do very good in that round. That was one of my less impressive victories tonight.

If anyone has an extra invite code, I'd appreciate one.

Spamming gold noob!

 



I mean, Holy shit!

It seems your best bet at this point is the twitch give-aways eavery night from E-95 and Journeyman1, referenced earlier in this thread.

 

Also, you can buy a $15 (I think that's right?) pre-order ship and get access plus a little gold to buy extra slots, etc...

Hey Slick, PM Blackhawk101 and/or Manic_Moran.  They work for WG and can get you codes.  I'd like to save those I have for the stream viewers but if Blackhawk and Manic are out of them I'll give you one from my list.  Just PM me.

E-95