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I am all over this game as I was all over World of Tanks (much less about planes). It seems to be lot more MechWarrior with boats than World of Tanks I believe. But anyway, I want a closed beta key very bad, so hand me one! (please)  :drillf:

Are they planning on combining all of these into one big World of War game?

My WoT clan is pretty much just playing Warships right now.  Thinking of taking the plunge.

Yamato.  :uhrr:

NA server - Valhalla01

The premium ships work just like premium tanks in WoT; so you can train your captains with them if they are same nation and class.  The US Sims is a barrel of awesome, once you figure out how to play the damn thing.  The Yubari is suspect, but it's the cheapest, AND it has one major saving grace... it has wicked AA for a Tier 4 ship.  If there is a Carrier on the other team, you immediately become every Kawachi and Myogi's best friend.  The Grim is a Cruiser in Destroyer's clothing.  Big guns, slow traverse/turn rate, long range, slow longer range torpedoes, low health. 

Look up iChase gaming on YouTube if you want to watch some fairly good vids on gameplay and how some of the ships operate.   

Ginaz NA server.

I have to agree with you about those premium ships.  They are all pretty good.  I haven't played the Yubari much but the 2 destroyers are a whole lot of fun to play, esp. the Sims.  The Sims guns fire so fast that you can often fire off a 2nd salvo before your 1st hits the target.  Torpedo range is shit but it's shit with pretty much all the US destroyers.

The Yubari is a beast and might get nerfed at some point in my opinion.

Not that it matters, but why does it say that I've won 0 battles under my Profile? Beta?

Not that it matters, but why does it say that I've won 0 battles under my Profile? Beta?

A (newbie) tip for anyone doing low tier levelling (and so quickly changing from one ship to another): the white circle around you on the minimap is the max range of your currently chosen weapon (especially useful when using torpedoes and you just can't remember what was the max range on the particular model).  :awesome_for_real:

Also: When you are zoomed in and you hit the alt key (extra info) it will show the relative distance your aiming reticle is at and (very useful imo) the travel time of your shots to that point.

Loving this game as well btw, the attention to detail is just awesome. Not just the eye-candy, but the little sounds every ship makes, or the 'sploosh' you hear if you shoot down a plane close to you; lovely.
I'm around tier 5-7 now and I have to say the Japanese ships just feel so much better at these tiers. Their battleships seem to have about 5k extra distance and the american cruisers suddenly lose their torpedoes :(

What's the point of a low tier Premium ship like the Tier II Albany? Would you actually ever use such a weak ship in a serious battle? This is my first Wargaming.net game so I'm still learning about all the systems.

In WoT its just tease Your collector soul - You will earn more on normal tier 5 toon.

The role of premium vehicles in WoT is for cash earning and crew training, and that doesn't really work till tier 6 or so. I suspect that the same applies for WoPoBS

Got 12k xp in one good match with my to US BB.  Sadly when open comes xp gain will be nerfed hard.

Haven't played much but really enjoying it more than I did WoT.  The bot combat probably helps, at least with the low tier battles. 

seems like the NA server is awarding 5x XP for your first win this weekend.

So I can get in on the fun if I preorder a bundle. Has anyone here purchased the boats in question? I am inclined to go for the Tier VII US destroyer bundle...

I bought the 3 boat pack for $70. Not sure which are in it, since I haven't bothered to log in during beta. Want to keep it fresh so  I don't burn out quite as quickly.

So I can get in on the fun if I preorder a bundle. Has anyone here purchased the boats in question? I am inclined to go for the Tier VII US destroyer bundle...

I heard this game was full of autolock/auto find hacks. That true?

Looks like the arty camera mod, which can't really be banned, seeing that Wargaming gave the coders of the mod the Wargaming Developers award -for it-.  (http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/index.php?/topic/453351-battle-assistant-arty-mod-wg-award-winner/)

Yeah, I don't see that mod making anywhere near as huge a difference as the arty mod does. That's like playing a whole different game.

Closed Beta Test accounts to be wiped soon - rewards to follow

The Closed Beta Test will be undergoing another round of wipes very soon as we take one step closer to Open Beta and the eventual release of World of Warships. To create fair conditions for everyone who will join after the start of Open Beta, all progress will be removed, such as credits earned and ships purchased,

However, there are significant benefits to those who have participated actively in the testing. Here are the following benefits of your labour to reap:

• Account Level will be partially restored based on the number of battles you fought.
• Signal flags will be partially restored based on the number of battles you fought.
• Two experienced commanders will await you in your port with a certain amount of free skills. This amount is dependent on your participation in the testing phase. These commanders will be at your service on Tier I US and IJN vessels until an appropriate account level is unlocked. At that point you can retain these two gentlemen to command any ship you desire for free.

Note: Contents of any purchased pre-order packages will be invoiced to your account after the wipe, as previously stated in the package description and on our portal. Iwaki Alpha will be restored to your port if you received this ship for your participation in the Closed Alpha phase. Please note that you will receive only the ship – modifications and crew will be wiped.



CBT Reward: USS Arkansas

Being a Beta Tester is all about sticking with the game for the long haul, and we're fortunate to have some very loyal players with us while we tighten the screws and polish the game in time for release.

To reward those of you who have been sailing the seas and battling online foes throughout the Closed Beta, all players that have participated in at least 50 battles will receive the USS Arkansas, a unique warship not available anywhere else.


(http://worldofwarships.asia/dcont/fb/image/ace98e20-0f60-11e5-b636-000c2923ff17.jpg)

USS Arkansas is one of the brightest examples of U.S. battleships. While having relatively a low speed of travel and firing range, Arkansas is characterized by good manoeuvrability, well-armoured citadel, and anti-torpedo defense system. She is equipped with anti-aircraft armaments and multiple primary guns. Not only that, the ship will also be painted in a unique camouflage scheme to make it stand out whenever it leaves your port.

I'm waiting for the Graf Spee.

They were awesome cause they were the size of heavy cruisers but had the range of a battleship -- i.e. they were totally OP :drill:

It seems the step from closed to open beta is imminent™ soon™.

Sooo, I'm discovering that life turns really shitty for japanese carriers real fast. Smaller squadrons, not nearly enough fighters, and every ship has 400 AA guns. Squadrons are good for one, maybe two runs before getting wiped out.

They really need to let us just pick the squadron types for ourselves. Dive bombers appear to be next to useless.

Basically its just not fun. I saw it myself last night in my first carrier PVP match. I played one game, launched my fighters and sent my bombers at a cruiser. the enemy torpedo bombmer flew right over to the spawn, found me and sunk me despite the efforts of my one flight of fighters. I sunk a cruiser and splashed 4 bombers. End of my game. Wow, that was exciting.

Played 1 game with a destroyer and was spinning crazily around without a clue what I was doing and I could not handle the manoeuvrability of the thing.

So any tips on how to lead your target? I do ok with cruisers but I do crap with battleships.

Yes but it's rare for cruisers to escort carriers. Also at lower tiers ship AA sucks all around.

If you haven't bought one of the Founder's Packs to get into the beta, Humble Bundle is running an E3 Digital Ticket Special (https://www.humblebundle.com/twitche3) right now.

For less than $6, you get a ton of shit, including Payday 2 and some DLC for it (that's the top tier), a shitload of games or keys for games/MMOG's, including a full 30-day sub standard edition of Wildstar (that's on the first tier so basically as little as $1) and on the first tier, you get a World of Warships beta key plus bonus content (also on the first tier so basically $1).

If you haven't bought one of the Founder's Packs to get into the beta, Humble Bundle is running an E3 Digital Ticket Special (https://www.humblebundle.com/twitche3) right now.

For less than $6, you get a ton of shit, including Payday 2 and some DLC for it (that's the top tier), a shitload of games or keys for games/MMOG's, including a full 30-day sub standard edition of Wildstar (that's on the first tier so basically as little as $1) and on the first tier, you get a World of Warships beta key plus bonus content (also on the first tier so basically $1).

If you haven't bought one of the Founder's Packs to get into the beta, Humble Bundle is running an E3 Digital Ticket Special (https://www.humblebundle.com/twitche3) right now.

For less than $6, you get a ton of shit, including Payday 2 and some DLC for it (that's the top tier), a shitload of games or keys for games/MMOG's, including a full 30-day sub standard edition of Wildstar (that's on the first tier so basically as little as $1) and on the first tier, you get a World of Warships beta key plus bonus content (also on the first tier so basically $1).

Do you know if this stacks with the preorder bundle? A Murmansk and 5 port slots would be nice.

In WOWS news, I have ground all the way to tier 3 (St. Louis). It is slow, but it has a lot more firepower than the stuff before it. Getting decent at leading shots, so I am able to outdamage many of the spatially challenged people I run into. Still trying to learn how to protect myself better, when to repair, etc. it is fun, but doesn't have the stickiness that WoT does for me, at least not yet.

WoT definitely has more depth of gameplay than WoWS so if that's what floats your boat (har har) WoT is the better game.

The premium ship is the Murmansk, it's a tier v cruiser.  It's based on an Omaha class cruiser that was lend leased to the Soviets in 1944.  It is a pretty decent tier 5 ship with an accurate and fairly hard hitting broadside, good if slow torpedoes and a useful AA capability.

WoT definitely has more depth of gameplay than WoWS so if that's what floats your boat (har har) WoT is the better game.

Bear in mind that bot games don't count towards the 49+ you need, I'm pretty sure. Also, the bots seem to be better players than real people a lot of the time.

I used a Humble Bundle code for the Russian ship and other goodies but if anyone wants the beta code for NA let me know.  I'm not sure if it will work without the other code but worth a shot, I guess.

I got the humble bundle, so if anyone wants a World Of Tanks code, let me know.

2) Should I buy every ship I research, or just skip some of the ones that don't look that good like the tier 2 cruiser? Once I buy a ship, can I sell it back to free up a slot?

In general I have some complaints about the direction the game is going, but it's mostly higher level game-play cripes which I don't want to bore anyone with. So biting my tongue!

New developer blog for patch 0.4.0

http://blog.worldofwarships.eu/developer-bulletin-update-0-4-0/ (http://blog.worldofwarships.eu/developer-bulletin-update-0-4-0/)

Gist of it: One new map, premium consumables and new commander skill. The stupidest of which is the carrier one: manual targeting your torpedo bombers is now a perk that needs to be unlocked.  :oh_i_see:

In general I have some complaints about the direction the game is going, but it's mostly higher level game-play cripes which I don't want to bore anyone with. So biting my tongue!

Updated the original post with the names of F13eers playing, hope I didn't mess up the regional allocation.

I love the nublet carrier drivers who just load bombers - easy targets for my fighter squads.

Yeah, you take 2 IJN fighter wings against 1 USN fighter wing and the one USN fighter wing will win, losing half its planes if the IJN player is lucky. Not only are USN fighters better, but they come in wings of 6 not 4. The only use for IJN fighters is to park them over something with lots of AA and hope they get a couple of splashes. Its not even useful in defence as the IJN Carrier AA is crap.

That said, I was in a game a couple of days ago with a T4 IJN Carrier and I took a single flight of fighters and I was up against a USN T4 Carrier with just 2 bomber wings and my single flight of fighters totally neutered him. It probably was a hell game for the poor bastard. If he had gone with a wing of fighters and a wing of bombers, he might well have neutered me.

End of June is the current estimate so about another week.

http://forum.worldofwarships.com/index.php?/topic/33150-wows-obt-starting-by-end-of-june-from-wg-e3/

Open beta might as well be the release if there are no more wipes scheduled so I would agree that it's too early and the impression players will get might not be the best one.

Commander's skill "Manual Control" has been removed

Any idea if that means you can control without a skill or that there is no manual control anymore?

The former. Anything else would be too absurd.   :why_so_serious:

Yeah it definitely feels like they are rushing it out.

My son is now playing rush into battle and die ASAP to hit 50 games.

A Pubby Is Born.

He's gonna be a pubby with a rare and cool looking crappy tier 4 battleship...

You will notice increases to credit and XP costs, of both ships and their modules, as well as to upgrades – by a factor of between 2 and 3.5, on average.

Ze grind may be what ultimately kills the game for me or not. Depends on how useless I feel in early games.

So apparently this isn't quite Open Beta/soft release. I am assuming this is to clear the lower tiers of beta testers who would dominate and maul the hordes of new players that would be coming in.

The Kitakami, it is being withdrawn and replaced by the Atago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_cruiser_Atago

I'm in. My Murmansk is gone, for some reason.

This is the final planned wipe. They of course reserve the right to wipe again if something game/account breaking emerges in OBT.

So my progress from now on counts?

Yeah, a lot of shit missing from inventories it sounds like. I am sure they will take it down again and unfuck it soon. Hopefully it will be down long enough for me to get home and start grinding  :grin:

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.

So bye bye Warspite till they get off their asses and decide to do the Royal navy. Which of course ill be after the Germans and the 643,898,347 Russian ships, including the one Lenin joked about that time when he was drunk.

And of course all the tokens you get off that Humble Bundle thing? That shit goes bye bye too. Fuckers.

Those credits are from your service level which was preserved for some reason, not what you earned in CBT battles.

Considering that the Humble Bundle thing was US server only it would have been a pretty uneven way to get started (though not sure if that would have been only a bad thing).

http://forum.worldofwarships.com/index.php?/topic/34445-humble-bundle-e3-digital-ticket-update-murmansk-will-be-credited/ (http://forum.worldofwarships.com/index.php?/topic/34445-humble-bundle-e3-digital-ticket-update-murmansk-will-be-credited/)

And apparently they realized they messed up.

Those credits are from your service level which was preserved for some reason, not what you earned in CBT battles.

Account levels – based on the number of battles played

While we are taking all your Experience away, we are returning some of your hard earned account levels!

Level 2: 5 battles played
Level 3: 10 battles played
Level 4: 20 battles played
Level 5: 35 battles played
Level 6: 49+ battles played
Flags – based on the number of battles played compared to other players

Believe us, you want these. They're not easy to come by and will give you a huge boost during the OBT.

Top 1% of players: 40 flags (of each type)
Next top 10%: 20 flags
Next top 30%: 10 flags
The remaining 59%: 2 flags
Signal flags will become visible only after unlocking Account Level 7.

Commander(s) for tier I ships – based on the number of battles played compared to other players

Top 1% of players: 9 skill points
Next top 10%: 7 skill points
Next top 30%: 5 skill points
The remaining 59%: 3 skill points

I have 20 of each flag and my veteran captains have 7 skill points so I must have been in the top 10 percent. That surprises me because i only had about 80 battles in.

The "free" battleship seems to be alright. Lots of Secondary weapons, the guns are ok, but it has no air defense at all. The warspite is actually still available so I was wrong about that. I bought a load of slots and the Russian Aurora which seems to be a Russian premium version of the St. Louis American cruiser.

Is it just me, or are the destroyers basically made of fucking tissue paper now, with magazines that get critted like it's a bottle of nitro glycerine riding on a fucking rickety ass wooden rollercoaster?

Is it just me, or are the destroyers basically made of fucking tissue paper now, with magazines that get critted like it's a bottle of nitro glycerine riding on a fucking rickety ass wooden rollercoaster?

Is it just me, or are the destroyers basically made of fucking tissue paper now, with magazines that get critted like it's a bottle of nitro glycerine riding on a fucking rickety ass wooden rollercoaster?

Open Beta started - we could change the subject.
Is there any guide to torpedos? I just cant figure how i can hit anything without comming really close or just blindly fire them out in enemy general direction  :uhrr:

Open Beta started - we could change the subject.
Is there any guide to torpedos? I just cant figure how i can hit anything without comming really close or just blindly fire them out in enemy general direction  :uhrr:

What OS? 7 32bit? Why?

Yeah I've seen videos of it but I still can't seem to do a manual drop the way it's shown in those, but I don't play carriers much so I don't have much practice at it. It's annoying that a lot of basic UI control stuff isn't documented in the game.

Remember now you need a level 2 skill to do a manual drop. That may be your issue.

Does it get better, or is shooting at .1 km less than your max range (and taking the same) the endgame?

This appears to be the early, middle, and end game. Lord knows things go exactly how you described if I try to get a little aggressive and deviate from it.

I'm also starting to wonder if that "aim assist" mod is still working. It either is or there are an awful lot of good shots out there.

I don't think it's OB just yet.  It was more of letting additional people in to test the load capacity of their servers.  Still technically CB.

http://forum.worldofwarships.com/index.php?/topic/35533-closed-beta-final-load-test/

Open Beta started about 9 hours ago.

Problem is I'm actually trying to kill people with torps, which requires you to get within detection range. Or do you guys literally just drop torps at extreme range and hope for the best?

with half a dozen St.Louis' firing ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND HE shells at you every second.

Yeah, that's been pretty much my experience with destroyers. You can't even get close to one cruiser, much less a battleship without just getting asspounded. I swear that destroyers were a bit more sturdy in the 0.3 version though. I'd still expect to die, but the number of crits that just hammer me in 0.4 is ridiculous.

Yeah, that's been pretty much my experience with destroyers. You can't even get close to one cruiser, much less a battleship without just getting asspounded. I swear that destroyers were a bit more sturdy in the 0.3 version though. I'd still expect to die, but the number of crits that just hammer me in 0.4 is ridiculous.

Low level IJN DDs (especially with a decent commander) are just murderous right now. No one knows how to watch for torps. Had 5 kills in my tier 2 last night, and had torps otw to two other targets when we capped out. It was fox in a henhouse stuff  :awesome_for_real:

Low level IJN DDs (especially with a decent commander) are just murderous right now. No one knows how to watch for torps. Had 5 kills in my tier 2 last night, and had torps otw to two other targets when we capped out. It was fox in a henhouse stuff  :awesome_for_real:

Just had a really unfair match with one side having 3 DDs compared to the others' 0. Needless to say it was a slaughter (and I actually managed to break 100k damage on a tier 4 dd  :why_so_serious:)

I can't kill anything in a battleship for some reason, and destroyers are way too fragile.     

I've managed to unlock the tier 4 destroyer and battleship (US) and am working my way up to unlock my first carrier. I think I've gotten a better handle on destroyers. I still don't expect to survive a battle but I'm happy if I can get some hits, especially torp hits. Seeing the insane XP requirements to go tier 5, I have no idea how anyone could get as high as 9 without nonstop playing.

Question about one of the commander skills - the one that gives you +20% torpedo acquisition range. Is that for shooting torpedos or is it for being warned you are about to take 6 torps up the ass?

Jesus Christ, that dude has like $300 worth of doubloons.  :uhrr:

Or he could dump coin from his Youtube moneys.

Battleship spread is really disheartening. More often than not I'll have 12 barrels lined up for plunging fire to pound another battleship dead midline and when the shots land 2 of them hit while the other 10 plunk into the ocean in a circular pattern around the other ship. Or I fire a test shot with one turret and the two projectiles fly off at a 45 degree angle to each other, like some sort of eye lasers coming from of a walleye carp. And even when they do hit they don't seem to do a lot more than cruiser damage unless you get a citadel hit.

Cruisers on the other hand seem to be super accurate and will start at least one fire with every salvo. Two hits for 1000 or 4 hits for 670 + fires, cruisers are the way to go.

DDs are ok except for lowest tiers where there are no aircraft or only a few. There's very little a DD can do if there's an aircraft spotting it since their AA is usually too weak to be a threat and you can't outrun the aircraft. Smoke helps but it limits you to a certain radius  and there's only a limited number of uses and a cooldown (and DD can't take more than a few hits before sinking once they are detected).

I'm having the opposit problem.  I can fairly consistently broadside other BB's, scoring 8-10 hits each time.  It just does no fucking damage to them at all.  Meanwhile, every other broadside shot at me hits me in full, and takes out 1/3 to 1/2 my life per hit.  AP or HE, makes no difference.  Very aggravating.

I'm having the opposit problem.  I can fairly consistently broadside other BB's, scoring 8-10 hits each time.  It just does no fucking damage to them at all.  Meanwhile, every other broadside shot at me hits me in full, and takes out 1/3 to 1/2 my life per hit.  AP or HE, makes no difference.  Very aggravating.  Also, DD's need a nerf.

There are probably still survivors of the Japanese rape camps in Korea.

It's pretty doubtful, they'd be at least 85ish. Early 80s if they didn't mind raping prepubescent girls. What am I thinking, it's Japan. The country that finally managed to outlaw businessmen paying 6th graders for sex about 10 years ago. So okay, there might be a couple in their early 80s.

Yeah, the grind is pretty grindy and starts pretty early on. I think they've tuned on people getting 3000xp wins and 1300xp losses. That's not that hard to get even if your team is full of dolts, but it would be nice to not have to decide between full-on promode every single game or having to settle for 300-500 xp on a loss.

I honestly don't know how anyone could have tier X's already short of grinding with a tier VII premium and then converting the XP.

I've just got the last modules for the New York and the notion of grinding this thing for the ~20-30 battles it'll take makes me weep. It is fun when a new ship is fairly close at hand, but day after day of the same ships is gonna make me quit this, I'm pretty sure. Also, wtf is up with the Furutaka. Its a total horror comparied to the other cruisers at the same tier or below. That gun turn time is horrid, and you'd think they'd compensate by giving it enhanced range, like they do with IJN battleships, but nooo.

I've just got the last modules for the New York and the notion of grinding this thing for the ~20-30 battles it'll take makes me weep. It is fun when a new ship is fairly close at hand, but day after day of the same ships is gonna make me quit this, I'm pretty sure. Also, wtf is up with the Furutaka. Its a total horror comparied to the other cruisers at the same tier or below. That gun turn time is horrid, and you'd think they'd compensate by giving it enhanced range, like they do with IJN battleships, but nooo.

The Phoenix is a nice cruiser for its tier, thinly armored like its Japanese counterpart but the guns are accurate, traverse fairly quickly and have a fairly brisk rate of fire.  The key is to not present your broadside to other ships, the experienced players will use AP and take advantage of your large thinly armored citadel, the HE spammers will be presented with an easy target to lay down multiple hits any one of which can cripple you or light you on fire.  Angle your ship at or away from the biggest threat and change heading and speed constantly and you won't be quite so easy to kill.  You don't need dramatic changes of either to throw off someone's aim and the hardest shots to figure lead on are when a ship is angling away or towards you.

I was kind of afraid that the game would be way too grindy after going to open beta. The progression felt slow to me even in closed beta so pushing it felt way Off

To be honest I'm gonna buy the murmansk and the Warspite which means I have ships to play up to tier 6. i'mj too old and pissed off for silly grinds anymore. Actually I have the sims for tier 7 so thats good enough for me.

You can but he's in a different group so I wouldn't expect any changes.

So I noticed IainC is with Wargaming now. Can we bitch at him about the Furutaka and expect changes by the time I get back home from work today?

I've actually had something of a good time with my Tier 4 Prem BB. The key is to have the upgrade that upgrades your secondary weapons so they get a bit more range and accuracy.

https://eu.wargaming.net/shop/bonus/

Put in "ALBANY" and get your Tier 2 Albany.

Can you get off the beach or is it a one-way ticket?

Did it appear possible to sail through shallows that, while not running aground, would prevent torpedoes from making contact?

Playing the Minekaze is very fun.  I had three games in a row where I had three kills each and felt that I really made a difference.  Then I had three games in a row where I was popped into detection unexpectedly by another Minekaze two minutes in and decimated instantly by multiple cruisers.

Ok. I did the insane thing and bought the Mikasa, the tier 2 IJN premium Battleship.

I keep looking for this premium ship you speak of and can't find it
https://na.wargaming.net/shop/wows/vehicles/

Did they remove it?

I'm sick of the matchmaking though - PUG crap is to be expected but when Double carrier at T9 Takes on a T7 carrier and the MM numbers are made up with high level DD that get slaughtered early on... something is wrong.

Tier matters for carriers. We had 2 T7s vs their one T10. They were 2 players down. The T10 ate our entire fleet. Both fleets were T7-T9 plus their T10. I'd read that they were OP but never gone up against one.

In other news..


Cleveland city.

Ended up a draw - ugly fight though.

Yeah I can see that. There is a problem with Carriers in that if one side has one carrier and the other has 2 then the one carrier is in general floating XP and not much else.

Yeah I can see that. There is a problem with Carriers in that if one side has one carrier and the other has 2 then the one carrier is in general floating XP and not much else. The tier Difference does not help either as a low tier carriers planes are going to get murdered regardless.

And, of course ships grouping together for mutual protection? HERETIC!!

I'm thinking of getting the Atago. How is it?

I just can't get over how awful Furutaka is compared to Omaha. I'm actually not sure if there is anything good to say about Furutaka since unlike most Japanese cruisers it's inferior even in torpedoes (with 2 salvos compared to Omaha's 4). That said Omaha is turning out to be my favorite cruiser so far combining insane rate of fire with decent torps making it capable of taking out pretty much any opposing ships (especially with scout plane and sonar to counter destroyer sneak attacks)

I don't think its quite as simple as that. The Omaha and Cleveland forgives bad aim by sheer volume of shell spam, while the IJN cruisers have fewer guns, so you need the shots to land. If you are a good shot, there's a good chance you will outdamage a Cleveland with an Aoba with a player of comparable skill. However, most folks aren't good yet, so the Cleveland looks comparably more awesome.

Using only AP (citadels after citadels on other cruisers) and playing like BS makes Furu managable. After 10k exp on this thing I stoped hating it.

I find this game fascinating but I don't care about navy stuff. I hope some one makes one space ships or air ships.

Upgraded Furutakas ROF is 3.5/min@4.7k AP or 3.3k HE (16% chance of fire) with 6 turrets (45s turn) and 2x3 6km torps

Upgraded Omaha ROF 8.6/min@3.1k AP or 2.2k HE (12% chance of fire) with 10 turrets (24s turn) and 4x3 5.5km torps

You migyht find star conflict interesting then. It gets pretty grindy but its fun. Haven't plaved it in ages though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzOdYzgotk0

This game is fun in closed beta, people trying to play tactically and actually knowing how to use islands and work as a team. Has lead to some great moments like last night on the Open Water map. My team came together and knew how to run a firing line and focus the first ship to come into range. We wiped the other side without a loss and it was glorious.

However, given that we did exactly that, I can also forsee how bad this will suck once the general public gets in and does silly things like they do in WOT.

I gave in and dived into this. Star conflict didn't seem to have the depth I was looking for. Whats the business model here? just gold ships?

I am on NA as Tazelbain.

I am kind of person that in LoL, I have to stick with a few champs in order to not be completely horrible. So I am still trying figuring out what my "champ" is in WoWS.  Which I think is approximately the Nation/class. So I want figure that out and if I see myself playing long-term before I commit to a gold ship.

Is there a penalty for dying besides hanging around not doing anything?

Unless you are in a platoon/division, just treat every game as a 1v the rest. Expect no help. Actually, expect active resistance to winning.

Any wish I know this when I started playing advice?

Normally swapping ammo is not an option as it takes too long, but the perk that makes swapping ammo last only 20 seconds actually makes that bearable.

All in all if you want a gold ship take the Murmansk.

Apparently Tirpitz is on sale tomorrow. As a tier 8 Premium Battleship it will be the bones of 50 quid.

How much is that in money?

In other news the Myogi is a piece of crap. Cant hit a barn door.

Also, you're on the NA server and speak english well enough to know what I said and argue about how I'm a racist white pussy so why not just speak fucking English?

I want to step in and say that if my answer to the original message offended anyone, I apologize as that was most certainly not my intent. It was part of a much larger conversation, that had been ongoing for quite some time, so I think that it lacks a lot of context, and is more easily misunderstood.

That being said, we do not have plans to immediately sell the Tirpitz. It is a "rare" ship, so we wouldn't sell it right now and then again in a very short span of time - takes the rare factor away. We also recognize that you guys, our loyal customers, would really like something new. We have a PAX-specific ship coming up later this week. It was originally slated to be given out on the show floor to PAX attendees, but I made the case that our loyal forum-goers should have a chance to get one, even if they could not attend the show.

So beginning Friday, we will have a contest called PAX on the Forums. It's one of those destroy ships and use the player's name to spell a word things (like we did with FIREWORKS). EVERYONE who participates in the contest gets this ship with PAX camo. Just for the sake of clariry - it is not a Tirpitz. It is also not a ship we have sold before, so you get something for free that is new and different, and the PAX specific camo makes it unique to the NA server. I have permission to give out as many ships as there are people who participate, so no RNG involved (for once!) The full details will be announced on the portal on Friday.

I realize that it's not a Tirpitz, which is what you want RIGHT NOW. I know that giving you something else may or may not appease you in any way, but I do hope that it encourages you to think that we do care about our NA player base. The PAX specific camo was developed specifically for the NA region, so the devs invested time into making something for only our territory. There are more examples of NA specific things coming up in the future as well.

OK just back from playing World of Tirpitz. Around 66 battleships in the queue and other outrageous numbers, I wonder what happened.

Ok this thing is a BLATANT "buy this killer and then we will nerf it when we have your money". The armour is insane, only Yamatos are able to pen it any way reliably. Its guns are massive and fast firing. Its also very fast at 30 knots+. Cruisers cant keep up with this thing and forget about cruisers damaging the thing.

Its only weak armour is at the bow and the stern, and it has crap AA so apparently Carriers are having a lot of fun killing them in droves. So yeah, buy your unbalanced ship for the price of an AAA game, but realise its going to be nerfed at some point and its going to be nerfed HARD.

In other news the Myogi is a piece of crap. Cant hit a barn door.

 And I also play with filthy non-westerners!

And I also play with filthy non-westerners!

I hadn't played in a while and thought it would be fun to stick my carrier captain in the Yubari and work on getting the extra plane skill.

Log into NA server
Join game, enemy has a Bogue and a Langley
Lick lips, I am ready
Planes all meet in one big clump right overhead
AA goes nuts
Planes dropping like flies
Suddenly random encounter, Wild Torpedos appear!
Hit by three, sunk by team mate ImperadorJoao
Fucker is like half a ship length from me running parallel
"What the fuck man, you should know how torpedos work by now"
"Comer merda americana eu estou assistindo futebol"
Fuck you Brazil
Close game

Between WoT and this game I want someone to disconnect Brazil's internet from the rest of the world. They are the worst players and just unrelenting dickbags. I can predict a game result 100% of the time without using XVM. Whichever team has the most players that speak spanish or portuguese in chat autolose. It pisses them off to no end when I say this, but it's always how it turns out. Also, you're on the NA server and speak english well enough to know what I said and argue about how I'm a racist white pussy so why not just speak fucking English? Even the fucking Quebecois speak english most of the time.

Fucking Brazilians, the Poles of the NA server...

Everybody Listen: World of Warships Will Be Released Soon!
Today 31,033

Indeed, World of Warships will soon lose its “BETA” status and become a fully-fledged product with all the spit and polish you have come to expect from us.
Get ready for intense battles on the high seas starting September 17!

The development team is already buried in work on upcoming ships, maps and other features that we will uncover as soon as we are sure they are ready to be revealed. But that's not all. Wargaming.net community teams are in full swing all around the globe to prepare exciting events for you, be it in the virtual world or at various interesting places in Europe and further afield. We also cannot wait to announce a long-awaited and very promising concept of Ranked Battles, which some of you have already tested on the Public Test server.
The rest of the community will have the chance to get involved in Ranked Battles on the day of release!

Thank you for being part of World of Warships' great community and rest assured that this voyage has just begun. Stay tuned for more information, keep dominating the high seas and…

Action Stations!

Hopefully release means a full account merge so that my free xp in WoWP(not much) and WoT (a lot) will be available in WoWs.  I also have a small amount of gold that would be nice to have available in WoWs.

Turns out that there are no plans in the immediate future to have experience and gold sharing with the other two games.

Its much easier to get draws in this game than WOT. So many carriers think that sitting in a corner is good play

After 505 battles, I'm averaging 1355xp and 25004 damage per game.  I think the game is too young to determine whats "good" at this point but I'd like to know how I'm doing relative to the general player base.

Wat, I got 29.7k average damage and only 1115 average xp. How else do you get XP in this game?

Ok, I dont have it myself but I've been watching streams the last few days as I've not been very well, and here's the pro and con of the Tirpitz.

Pro; Its Premium. Its fast. It has very fast gun rotation, and its fire rate is 25 seconds per volley. It has very hard armour and its hard to citadel, basically you can only citadel it if it is turning and the ship is leaning over.

Con; To pay off for the rapid fire, the guns are very weak for its tier. It's accuracy is horrible. The AA is crap. Its somewhat long so you are getting hit a fair bit. Basically, its not that dangerous.

I honestly don't know about how it maneuvers.

Personally, the more I watched it the less I wanted it and I'm not getting it if it turns up again. My money is still waiting on the Warspite.

I was watching a US streamer last night and the US people are officially in Waiting for Godot "THE DAY APPOINTED IS AT HAND" mode about the Tirpitz. They have convinced themselves it will happen when the game goes officially live next week. They also think the Tirpitz will be a standard thing in the Store when it comes out. They were utterly shocked when I told them the Tirpitz is gone from the EU store. The Tirpitz is the Messiah.

On another front I had the best game of my life on the Murmansk last night. 4 Destroyers and a cruiser dead, 400k Silver, 1400 XP base, 5 citadels.... AND I STILL LOST! Seriously what the fuck do I have to do, drag them to a win kicking and screaming??

Jingles seems to think it's pretty good.  Video review below.  Skip to about 11:00 for the relevant bits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfggxKkcdd4

Anyway I got a New York and I wasn't happy mainly because it sticks you in tier 8 games. Might as alt tab out and watch Twitch cause there is nothing I can do to help.

A New York can definitely help the team. (Once it actually manages to get in range. Bloody speed...)

Go back to South Carolina if you think New York takes time to get in range :oh_i_see:

The Kawachi is faster than the South Carolina by 2 knots.  :why_so_serious:

Captain's Primer
Special

Offer expires in 10 d.
€9.77

This package contains:

    x4 Port slot;
    7 Days of Premium.

For all the captains that are just coming on board, this package is the best way to get you up to full speed and catch up with the rest of the fleet. One week of Premium account to get your feet wet and 4 extra Port slots to expand your fleet. Welcome aboard!

Greetings,

in the german area of the forum we have the following thread and I would like to point this out in the english section aswell, because the "offer" ´with the 4 harbor slotts is not realy an offer:

http://forum.worldofwarships.eu/index.php?/topic/30694-premiumshop-angebot-ab-1792015-liegeplaetze-premiumzeit/

The calculation by Eisenkarl is:

 
So... 250,77 Doublons per Euro does sound "ok", right? Well, lets compare it to the regular 2500 Doublon package wich costs basicaly the same:

2.500 Doublons / 9,95€ => 251,26 Doublons/EUR

Or in other words, do not buy this "offer", since you will get better value for your money by using the standard package for basicaly the same ammount of money.

If you want to get 7 days of premium and 4 Harbor slotts, get the basic 2500 gold offer instead.

As we want to celebrate the transition from beta to release, we have planned a few activities for you to participate in and have the chance to win some ships!

Starting from tomorrow, until Sunday, you will have the chance to win a Tirpitz every day, along with some smaller ships.

17/09 — Release stream, Q&A and giveaway with Quickybaby featuring karsun and MrConway

Where: http://www.twitch.tv/quickybaby

From: 18:00 - 20:00 CEST

Submit your questions here: https://www.reddit.c...roducer_and_mr/

18/09 — Youtube competition hosted by our community contributor PointyHairedJedi

Where: https://www.youtube....ointyHairedJedi

When: TBD

19/09 — Release stream and giveaway with with Circonflexes featuring MrConway

Where: http://www.twitch.tv/circon

From: 18:00 - 20:00 CEST

20/09 — Youtube competition hosted by our community contributor, the mighty Rear Admiral Jingles

Where: https://www.youtube....r/BohemianEagle

When: TBD

Smaller giveaways:

21/09 — Youtube competition hosted by our community contributor, AgingJedi

https://www.youtube.com/user/AgingJedi

When: TBD
 

19/09 — Release stream and giveaway with Deserte featuring Ph3lan

Where: http://www.twitch.tv/sts_deserte

From: 19:00 - 21:00 CEST

Hopefully I will be seeing some of you along for the streams, and I wish you the best of luck with our Youtube competitions.

Action stations!

Seriously I have never seen a launch as fucking clownshoes as this.

 


In the end although my own team is involved with the streamer/YouTuber stuff, and though I'd like to talk purely about that, it's obvious that some of the feedback is about stuff beyond my direct influence. However, I am still a representative of the company so I don't plan to just ignore the other points you and others are making. But the streaming stuff isn't really meant to be a big deal, we just advertised it here in case others were interested in joining in for a chance to win something. It's just a little extra thing the community team wanted to do. We already do work with these streamers regularly and provide prizes here and there. So doing something like this for the launch isn't really surprising. It's certainly not the company's only plan for marketing the game now it is released: we have traditional marketing and PR departments. I suspect though that they're likely to be targeting new players.

One point I've seen is from people who have already been beta testing the game that perhaps have a different vision about how the game would be at release. But it wouldn't be right to just release a different version without first testing it - that was what the late part of the open beta was! Playing the game early, in the testing phase - especially just before the release - is basically playing the game as it is intended to be released. So there seems a disconnect here between expectation and delivery. Now, I haven't gone back and read all the news articles and stuff we've posted to see how well we communicated what the game would be like at release, but sure maybe there was more we could have done to help people set expectations. Personally I know that when I beta test a game, especially just prior to release, the release game is going to be pretty much the game I was testing.

"Where's the cool launch stuff?" I think the main idea is that the release itself is what is cool. That's how it is for me and pretty much every other other game that I love: it's the release itself that I wait for and am excited about, I don't care about extra bonuses, I just want to play the game. "But... what about cool stuff for open beta testers who are not new to the game today and so are not necessarily feeling the coolness of the actual launch of what they've tested?" The real benefit of open beta testing was already reaped: the obvious big draw being the ability to play the game before September 17. The initial fun you may be expecting from release date is arguably that which you experienced when you first got into the OBT. "But couldn't there be at least a bit more for open beta testers now it's released?" Well, there's the x3 weekend. Whoa, it's a tough crowd... :rolleyes:

Maybe it's simply not possible to meet everyone's expectations, so it may not matter how much text I type out here for example. It would be hard not to empathise with those who are disappointed (community team members are often noted for their very strong sense of empathy) even knowing logically that beta testing is testing the game as it is intended to be at release. Perhaps this is another point we could have worked on setting expectations for in advance: "the release game is what you're testing, so don't expect it to be somewhat different on release day."

Probably more I could say, but I have to get on with other tasks.

Just to calm everyone down: This package is not intended to be a super special release package.

The only reason it is marked as special is the fact that it is time limited and the premium shop displays this automatically. It is put up as a starter kit with the most purchased items for a new player.

The price difference is due to the premium shop rounding. *hide*

62.08 € (69.99 USD)

The package includes:

    Tirpitz;
    port Slot in World of Warships;
    1500 doubloons;
    7 days of premium;
    Zulu x 60;
    Equal Speed Charlie London x 60.

Add this legendary tier VIII German battleship to your armada! Combining speed, fantastic guns and torpedoes, the Tirpitz is a menace on the high seas! You’ll get more than just the sister ship of the Bismarck with this bundle, as it also includes Zulu and Equal Speed Charlie signal flags! When equipped, Zulu earns you an extra 20% Credits, while Equal Speed Charlie brings in 50% extra XP! Add to the fun with a week's worth of Premium and 1500 Doubloons for added earnings and XP.

I see WG is as skilled at balancing boats as they are at tanks. The more I see from them, the more I am amazed that WoT is such a playable, interesting game.

Some polish guy have just created aimbot completely independent from game files. Without external anticheat WG is fucked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3frQsXBvoQ4

Didn't people scream a lot at that statement and the changed the code to make it 'impossible'?

I managed to get the Fuso and Myoko this weekend and I'm pretty pleased with both of them.  Each one feels like an upgrade from the previous tier which is great because both the Kongo and Aoba are good ships.

What is this PVE of which you speak?

Right, but who's more likely to report botters.

My thoughts, at least.

Or maybe botting&losing your way through PVE won't affect your stats (like PVP would)?  :why_so_serious:

There is another non obvious function for pve though. If you have had 3 or 4 utter shit games and you are starting to feel like raging, you can drop into your favorite ship pr ships and go into a few stress free, fun games against bots to clear your head and chillax.

Or maybe botting&losing your way through PVE won't affect your stats (like PVP would)?  :why_so_serious:

I'm surprised this game even has a PvE mode.  This is the most relaxed and low key PvP game I've ever played.

I think beyond learning the basic functions of shooting, launching torpedoes and managing air groups you are better off playing PVP no matter how fast you die.

On the other hand, I'm really not digging the Soviet DD line.  3 Km torps?  Under 10 Km gun range?  Garbage so far.

I'm surprised this game even has a PvE mode.  This is the most relaxed and low key PvP game I've ever played.

you may choose 6 types of warships used in the World War II to fight the 16vs16 battles.

Never change, stereotypes.   :awesome_for_real:

Edit:
Oh god, in their promo cinematic video on steam, they have the USS Iowa power sliding into the side of the Yamato, and shooting it point blank execution style.  Real ultimate navel combat!

I'm downloading this right now for comedy.

And a wild Chinese knock off appears.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/390670/

There are no subs in the game.

k cause I patacheed up and loaded wows and theres no sub. And the devs have said there will be no subs. I'm an ex sub sailor and I love sub sims. But wows is a surface combat game.

I'm still playing about 1-4 battles a day on this. Its rare to get good fights, win or lose. Sooo many bad players that don't understand basic fleet positioning, even at the high levels. Like a 3 or 4 cap point map where 2 of your battleships end up hunkered up in a corner clutching their handbags while the enemy caps it all.

This is a game I can take in small doses but know that if I play for too long I'm going to get mad as hell.

Royal Navy might make me start playing again. I loved the gameplay of the Warspite and stiff upper lip and dibdibdib.

In a moment of weakness I purchased the Scharnhorst. Its great, cept for the dispersion and weak-ish HE shells. I mean, I beaned a Benson 6 times with an HE shell and only whiddled him down to half. I don't mean 6 volleys, but 6 hits with HE. So, basically, cruisers still have the main role of hunting DDs. Scharnhorsts are CA killers, but not DD hunters. Just in case you were considering it.

WoWS Q&A – 19th September 2016
2016-09-19 ~ Sebastianul   

Thanks to Babykim, EU

Summary of an interview with Daniil Volkov on Wargaming.FM

1. We plan releasing another branch this year, in addition to the new Japanese destroyers and the British cruisers.

2. In 2017 we plan to release four new branches, and the German carrier Graf Zeppelin.

3. The depot is coming relatively soon.

4. We are seriously looking into the submarines, as they are in popular demand. They will probably not come in 2017, but likely at a later date. One alternative considered is having submarines as bots.

5. The new Japanese destroyers and the British cruisers are scheduled for 0.5.12, if they finish testing in time.

6. We do not like firing from invisibility. Destroyers firing from smoke are fine, but not battleships. We are working to change the gameplay.

7. We are satisfied with the current complexity of gameplay, and would rather make a bit more complex than simpler.

8. We are working on gameplay on high tiers towards less dominance of the battleships and more room for the cruisers.

9. We are not satisfied with the carrier gameplay, and are working on a better interface for them.

10. The lags in port will soon be addressed.

11. This year will see another major rework of the captain skill tree, and an early version of clan functionality.

12. Daily missions will soon be replaced by containers shown at Gamescom 2016.

13. We focus equally on all regions. The Russian market is most difficult, because the immensely popular WoT drains many players form ships to tanks.

14. Our most mature playerbase is in NA (average age 40 years), the youngest in Asia (25-27 years).

Update: The Russian battleships definitely not coming in 2016.

I just got into the Ibuki not too long ago and I'm having either feast or famine matches with it. I either get unlucky and get citadelled on an evasive turn or I survive the fight all the while doing evasive techniques.

One key factor for me having better matches with the Ibuki (and I imagine the Zao is the same) is to have max camo. That means 5th captain camo skill, the expensive camo modification, and of course the actual lowered visibility camo. This gave me a 'quiet' rage of 9.5 km, essentially allowing me to make round about blitz attacks to then flee with silent guns as soon as someone decides I'm a pest.

I've had the worst match to date, 3xcitadel from a lucky Yamato, and the best, with over 4 kills, 180k damage (team still lost can you believe it).

The torps are something special too. They are quite potent compared to other CA torps, and I suspect that they rival most regular DD torps as well.

I got a quick question on this.  If I’m a destroyer and you are a battleship you want me to drive past you a drop a smoke screen, correct?   I’m not making it harder for you to shoot, right?

I got my first carrier, the Langley.  After two disastrous outings I finally got my first win. 

Holy smokes, carriers are a whole other game by themselves.