My bad, probably read with closed eyes since I was speaking exactly about this battle haha, thanks for pointing out.
I know, I'm a fan of DnD myself and used to play Arma a lot in which it usually takes at least several hours of play to finish one game. But I was speaking about the majority and those who are enjoying playing that long are the minority.
Which is already too long for a session game.
In RU we don't have it :) Plus because of the economic situation in RU 30$ is pretty much for a book. That's a cost for any AAA game with regional price in RU which usually cost 60$ in US or 60€ in EU.
If we speak about the data side of PTS... It should be almost the same amount of players as on live server playing for pretty long to generate data based on which we can immediately say how it will be working on live server. So even if we do mega-big rewards and PTS will have more than enough players, guess what then? The live servers will be unpopulated :) Plus I'm sure those players will never leave feedback and the feedback has nothing to do with data generated by players, kinda different things.
And I said that:
So it may happen, but I don't think so for the reasons I said above.
From now on let's discuss the feedback, shall we? For the rewards etc. you are free to create a separate topic in discussion section.
OK now, I at least get what exactly you mean :)
As we stated before, we are not going to put subs blindly in random games. We want to run a good portion of tests, including tests on a live server in a separated mode to gather good and constructive feedback from players who actually played it.
And we are definitely not going to change mechanics because some part of players "feels" those mechanics are bad/not interested etc. When we will receive proper feedback from those who played it - that's another story.
Also, off the top of my head, Irian has wrong superstructure, Isokaze has some problems with torps, Mutsuki has different guns with same name that behave differently. We are aware of those and sorry that mistakes were made, and various models are being updated.
Also, int the case of Edinburgh (and other Research tree ships that had sisters), ships can be an amalgamation of all ships in the class - because some times lead ships of the class didn't get refits we want to put in the game, sometimes we have better references for other ships in class, sometimes lead ship didn't achieve needed speed, while her sisters did.
Currently, DD detect sub on a close distance, 4km I suppose (maybe wrong). Plus it can be detected if come close last seen position. So even if you don't use ping you can be detected.
That's what we waiting for haha
I believe that those players who spend their time to come on the forum and write something bad or good are the ones who truly love and care about the game so I don't mind them being sometimes too mean or whatever, I'm a player myself and totally understand it.
Regarding everything else you said, I clearly see your point and concerns, but as you said yourself - let's wait till test.
Hey, thought relayer speaking.
We're fully aware of the sentiment with Smolensk, and her performance gets a lot of attention, but let's not get emotional here.
Almost any new ship at first gets into hands of very good players, counter-play isn't immediately obvious, and any new ship gets more attention from the community.
If needed, shells can be replaced fir different ones, just saying.
Yes, in case of balancing, ships that arent' available for difrect purchase aren't considered premiums, and therefore can get individual tweask. It doesn't mean that we will or will not balance certain ships, but the possibility is open. We do want to create clearer terms on ship categories, though, since right now in some cases it can be confusing.
It was my favorite, but then Sheng Yang appeared. Also, Clemson is still very good, albeit a bit more torp and sitting-in-smoke-focused.
Hello.
First of all, Yamato's model was very old, one of the first in game, and since the time she was made we become better and building models, and found better sources for Yamato-class. So it was remade according to new standards.
On the other hand, Musashi's model is relatively new and is okay now, there are ships that need attention one more.
Also, while Yamato and Musashi belong to the same class, they are different ships, and there are differences between them, so we can't just copy-paste Yamato to Musashi. It would be wrong to do so, and we strive to make 3D models as historically accurate as they can be.
There may be different reasons for CV popularity at T4 right now, and even with that said, we're looking at CV effectiveness at T4.
It shouldn't, since
And I had to check internally for secondary accuracy. Just in case, Warspite also do have increased secondary accuracy, but that was common knowledge.
They did, and HE pen is shown in the port.
I fully agree, I use AFT almost on any BB as a part of "universal" build.
And here I thought that among RN BB's Hood had quite decent secondary dpm, and with her speed, she can shase enemies down.
I have Nagato commander with secondary setup and have used it on Kii. While it's fun as it just melts enemies with 100 mm, on higher tiers 7.6 km range for seconaries isn't enough, especially combined with IJN BB concealment, so I stick with other builds.
PTS server has no region. It's a worldwide server. And I don't think that we are going to increase reward and definitely we are not going to allow players to carry PTS earnings :)
Of course we can make it populated via big rewards etc but then it will be useless since such players won't be reporting bugs or leave feedback because they came just for grinding and rewards.
I wrote an answer, than came upon one intresting thing about accuracy and had to check.
It may be suboptimal, and I wouldn't recommend it, since to use it, you have to show more broadside than Nagato and your citadel isn't as low-postioned as on Gneisenau. Also, Gneisenau has more range and has built-in IFHE.
Nagato can fire 8/11 secondaries at 10 degree angle. Sinop 6/8 at 14. And Gneisenau 4/6 at 33.
Firing angles, Nagato, Sinop, Gneisenau, from Gamemodels3d. (don't look at secondary accuracy there, though, it's parsing stuff wrong)
What was unexpected for me - accuracy of 140 mm battery for all IJN BB — Nagato included — is higher than normal and similar to that of Massachusetts.
So, secondary setup for Mutsu, Nagato, Ash*taka, Amagi and Kii is more viable than at first glance. And may even be a reasonable alternative to other builds, if we don't consider armor scheme (IJN BB can be squishy), so if you try that setup - you ...
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Round one of PTS has ended. Thanks to everyone for participation, don't forget to leave us your feedback or submit a found bug in proper topics.
What I remember the most from last birthday is supercontainers for T10's, of course.
Just want to let you guys know. We are aware of this issue and we are currently working on a fix.
Guys, please refer to the recommended comment from Femennenly.
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