[2019] 0.8.5 AA DPS change

Dear players,

As 0.8.5 changes have brought much needed and requested AA DPS consistency, seems like in many cases the plane losses became slightly excessive, and CV efficiency was nerfed too much. While we do like the change, we still need to keep CV efficiency reasonable. Over weekend and early next week we intend to observe the situation very closely, determine the amount of needed changes to plane HP, and implement a hotfix. Unfortunately, only live server data will help us to polish the change, preserving its core concept – more rewarding and meaningful anti-air defense.

Stay tuned for more news, and we sincerely apologize for any inconvenience.

The change was ultimately made to provide consistency in DPS for surface ships and remove some of the randomness.

I know I personally ran into a number of situations in a AA spec ship where squadrons could make multiple passes on me and barely get a scratch. Now we are confirming with this blog that the change is still good (consistency is a great thing!) but it might have impacted CVs a little more than the team would like. We're going to watch data from this weekend and make adjustments as needed.