World of Warships Enters Open Beta!

[Derfnofred]

Have an interesting Yamato vid today with that attempted TK. Great example of why, despite being clearly outgunned, you don't throw your ships away and why

Seriously. It amazes me that people throw Iowas away.

I'm still baffled by your teammate's torps. And to work his way through the game that far to do that kind of dumb crap?

 

[dave99]

I don't think I've seen a standard battle win with so few kills on either side. Red's entire team abandoned their base, there were like 5 of us in their cap, 3 dd's & 2 cruisers (and 2 bb's not far behind). 19 of the 24 ships still alive, they were actually up a ship on us 3-2. The poor dead cleveland that rushed back to defend their base got the focus fire of a lifetime from the 7 of us, looked like a damn star wars set with all the shells in the air..

Spoiler: thatwasquick

 

[sirmonkey1985]

I don't think I've seen a standard battle win with so few kills on either side. Red's entire team abandoned their base, there were like 5 of us in their cap, 3 dd's & 2 cruisers (and 2 bb's not far behind). 19 of the 24 ships still alive, they were actually up a ship on us 3-2. The poor dead cleveland that rushed back to defend their base got the focus fire of a lifetime from the 7 of us, looked like a damn star wars set with all the shells in the air..

Spoiler: thatwasquick

a while back during the start of open beta i won a game with out a single person dying on either team.. i just full speed ran across the map to the enemies base in my minekaze to see if i could pick off a battleship.. there was no one there so i just sat in the cap and no one came to kill me.. my team was pretty mad about it since they didn't get to kill anything

 

[Business6]

In the 3000 matches I've played I've seen just one 12-0 match but a half dozen 12-12 matches, lol.

 

[sirmonkey1985]

In the 3000 matches I've played I've seen just one 12-0 match but a half dozen 12-12 matches, lol.

only times i've ever seen 12-0 matches have been when one or the other team had a TK'er on it.. use to see them a lot in T4/5 matches with jackasses in murmansk's tking their entire team. luckily you don't see it as much these days now.

 

[TechLarry]

I take it you don't have a Cheesecake Factory near you, do you?

Buffalo wings appetizer + some Chicken Picatta is delicious.

In a different view, with $40 - $60 more I can buy a 500gb ssd if I want something more permanent.

Yeah, but if you throw it at the enemy it'll break...

 

[TechLarry]

I'm still baffled by your teammate's torps. And to work his way through the game that far to do that kind of dumb crap?

I wanna know how the game knew it was intentional.

I've had torps get away from me before, including a full spread hitting a teamies ship when he unexpectedly did a U-Turn on me (after I warned him NOT to), and other than the awful screech you hear I never got banned from the game like that guy did.

Did it know he was sighted on you when he fired?

 

[Putz]

played it a bit, its fun but the price of the boats is insane, either charge me 69$ for the game in full or make the boats 2-5$ DLC on top of the free to play

 

[Digital Viper-X-]

I wanna know how the game knew it was intentional.

I've had torps get away from me before, including a full spread hitting a teamies ship when he unexpectedly did a U-Turn on me (after I warned him NOT to), and other than the awful screech you hear I never got banned from the game like that guy did.

Did it know he was sighted on you when he fired?

range maybe? and the fact that there are no enemies in torp range ?

 

[chibe]

What happen is half way from having all of the torps hit Business, he turned pink. And went you go pink, any damage you do to an ally is reflected back to you as well. That 90k hp is what fucked him over (beside himself).

 

[dave99]

played it a bit, its fun but the price of the boats is insane, either charge me 69$ for the game in full or make the boats 2-5$ DLC on top of the free to play

you talking real world money boats (of which there are only a few) or the boats you work your way up to? 95% of the boats in this game are free, you just have to earn enough credits to buy them, and the first few tiers are very quick.

 

[Putz]

seems very slow to progress to the free ones, i imagine an effort to make you buy currency/credits to speed that up?

maybe i wasnt playing long enough to get to use modern boats

 

[TechLarry]

you talking real world money boats (of which there are only a few) or the boats you work your way up to? 95% of the boats in this game are free, you just have to earn enough credits to buy them, and the first few tiers are very quick.

Not to mention you can have all the fun this game has to offer in Tiers 1-6.

Granted, this is coming from someone who has spent WAY too much money on it LOL

 

[Digital Viper-X-]

seems very slow to progress to the free ones, i imagine an effort to make you buy currency/credits to speed that up?

maybe i wasnt playing long enough to get to use modern boats

When you start out and learn the mechanics, it's not too difficult to move up 1-3 or even 4 in a few days, it slows down a bit at 5 and 6, then a lot more to get t to 7.

I have purchased premium time + about $50 on flags/dbloons, and a murmansk so maybe for the last 5 months I've spent $100 ( average $20/month)

I have
Tier 10, and T9 US Battleship, a T6 and T9 US Cruiser, a T5 US DD
Tier 6 Japanese BB + Cruiser, Tier 8 Japanese DD.
a Tier 6 German Cruiser as well

I have played this game since July, so It's not too bad, the grind on most ships is fun, so it's not a chore.

 

[dave99]

seems very slow to progress to the free ones, i imagine an effort to make you buy currency/credits to speed that up?

maybe i wasnt playing long enough to get to use modern boats

You can go from tier 1 boats to tier 3 boats in a couple hours (or less). If you are trying to playing tier 10 boats, then yes, it does take a long time, and no, you can't just buy them. You can use cash to advance more quickly, but you can't just buy a tier 10 ship. Even if you could, you'd get smoked in the first 2 minutes. You have to learn the skills.

And as larry mentioned, for many people, most of the fun in the game can be had at the lower tiers. T4-6 appears to be the most fun game play from reading on various forums, reddit, here etc.

 

[sirmonkey1985]

seems very slow to progress to the free ones, i imagine an effort to make you buy currency/credits to speed that up?

maybe i wasnt playing long enough to get to use modern boats

it's semi slow but necessary in my opinion to actually learn how to use each ship which will benefit you in the long run..

T1-5 per country/ship class takes about 3 days moderately playing.. once you get to T6 it starts slowing down a bit.

on average no premium it should take you about 60 games per ship to unlock the next tier.. you can speed that up with the +50% xp flags as well.. they do many 2x first win bonus weekends/events as well.

the XP gain per tier scales so while T9 seems like it requires an insane amount of XP to unlock those ships, you should be making on average 2600-3k XP without premium. where as T6 you'll probably be doing 1k-1400 xp per game on average.

 

[Digital Viper-X-]

The FUSO has wowed me, even more than the kongo though they are very different ships.

Spoiler: fuso

 

[Business6]

The FUSO has wowed me, even more than the kongo though they are very different ships.

Great job!

All the Tier 6 BBs are fun as shit. I'm about to review the Warspite and then the Nikolai and holy hell I'd just play these two ships all day, lol. Right now I could easily make a 2 hour Warspite review with how many good games I've had in it. I actually don't know what to do with all the footage, frankly.

 

[sirmonkey1985]

The FUSO has wowed me, even more than the kongo though they are very different ships.

Spoiler: fuso

yup it's a beast, especially once you upgrade the hull. i didn't bother with the engine upgrade, 3kt's wasn't worth the xp.

 

[Digital Viper-X-]

Great job!

All the Tier 6 BBs are fun as shit. I'm about to review the Warspite and then the Nikolai and holy hell I'd just play these two ships all day, lol. Right now I could easily make a 2 hour Warspite review with how many good games I've had in it. I actually don't know what to do with all the footage, frankly.

This thing is a monster hitting citadells from 20k out, it's almost effortless,

yup it's a beast, especially once you upgrade the hull. i didn't bother with the engine upgrade, 3kt's wasn't worth the xp.

I fully upgraded with the help of some free xp, and some battles

I have had as many battles in the FUSO as the Montana (9) and I'm already up to 50k xp fully upgraded. It has my second highest average damage as well, and survivability.

Nation	Ship Name	Tier	Class	     Battles	Win Rate	 Average Exp	Average Dmg	K/D Ratio   Survival Rate   
U	Montana         10	Battleship   9     	77.78%	         1,857	        81,091	        5.50	    77.78%         
J	Fuso	        06	Battleship   9     	77.78%	         1,935	        78,526	        7.00	    77.78%        
U	Iowa	        09	Battleship   101	58.42%	         1,726	        72,174	        1.44	    45.54%

Interesting that my survival rate is the same as the win rate(or close)

 

[TechLarry]

Where do you get this info?

This thing is a monster hitting citadells from 20k out, it's almost effortless,



I fully upgraded with the help of some free xp, and some battles

I have had as many battles in the FUSO as the Montana (9) and I'm already up to 50k xp fully upgraded. It has my second highest average damage as well, and survivability.

Nation	Ship Name	Tier	Class	     Battles	Win Rate	 Average Exp	Average Dmg	K/D Ratio   Survival Rate   
U	Montana         10	Battleship   9     	77.78%	         1,857	        81,091	        5.50	    77.78%         
J	Fuso	        06	Battleship   9     	77.78%	         1,935	        78,526	        7.00	    77.78%        
U	Iowa	        09	Battleship   101	58.42%	         1,726	        72,174	        1.44	    45.54%

Interesting that my survival rate is the same as the win rate(or close)

 

[Digital Viper-X-]

Where do you get this info?

warshipstats.com

under individual ship statistics

http://warshipstats.com/na/player/steel_castles

to post it in here, you'll have to manually adjust the formatting to get the columns to align.

 

[sirmonkey1985]

Where do you get this info?

J	Fuso	6	Battleship	75	61.33%	1,037	48,390	2.41	1.03	0.77	0.24	0.00	57.33%
J	Kongo	5	Battleship	56	42.86%	842	33,038	2.07	1.07	1.16	2.09	0.18	48.21%
J	Myogi	4	Battleship	48	47.92%	727	31,419	1.69	1.02	1.25	0.17	8.08	39.58%
J	Nagato	7	Battleship	41	48.78%	972	48,099	1.50	0.80	0.88	0.00	0.00	46.34%

theres my stat comparison with the fuso and my other BB's. the nagato isn't too bad either, i just get screwed hardcore by matchmaking.. one game i'll get stuck with T4/5's next game the enemy team has 4 tirpitz + T9 IJN DD's.. i've only had maybe a handful of games where it was a legitimate T7 with a couple T8's.

 

[Droc]

Played a ranked game in my Kiev earlier today.

Round a bend, Benson spotted. Fire first salvo, he returns fire. 3 of his shells hit me, DESTROY all 3 of my turrets, disables my rudder and engines. Wow. benson fires fucking nukes apparently.

 

[chibe]

Played a ranked game in my Kiev earlier today.

Round a bend, Benson spotted. Fire first salvo, he returns fire. 3 of his shells hit me, DESTROY all 3 of my turrets, disables my rudder and engines. Wow. benson fires fucking nukes apparently.

Holy shit man! That sucks. I had that issue with the tier 6 rusky DD, but not in the kiev.

Now at rank 2. I want to murder little kittens right now....

 

[dave99]

Played a ranked game in my Kiev earlier today.

Round a bend, Benson spotted. Fire first salvo, he returns fire. 3 of his shells hit me, DESTROY all 3 of my turrets, disables my rudder and engines. Wow. benson fires fucking nukes apparently.

welcome to ranked in the kiev. Some people can make it work all the way to 1, I made it work until 4. As much as people say it's OP, in the upper tiers of ranked it's not. People have figured out how to counter it, the horrid detection distance means a benson or fubuki shadows you out of detection and steers you with torps, and the cruisers focus fire you. Then if you happen to stumble close enough to detect the benson (not so much the fubuki), then the rate of fire they can produce wrecks you.

I found last stand is essential, which means you have to give up AFT unless your captain is a 15 pointer.

I don't have the patience to stay back, but I'm guessing a good strategy is to lay back with the group, fire some bursts when you have a good target and hit %, break contact/detection, move to a new spot and fire again. Hope to live until late in the match when only a few ships are left, and then put yourself on the opposite side of the red ships from your main force, and rain fire. If the enemy turns to face you, hopefully your BB's can catch a broadside.

 

[dave99]

Holy shit man! That sucks. I had that issue with the tier 6 rusky DD, but not in the kiev.

Now at rank 2. I want to murder little kittens right now....

I wonder if WG changed a variable recently on the server side, because I've been getting turrets wrecked constantly lately in the kiev.

 

[sirmonkey1985]

I wonder if WG changed a variable recently on the server side, because I've been getting turrets wrecked constantly lately in the kiev.

welcome to the RNG that is called world of warships.. it's random as shit.. for example over a 3 day period. 1 day had no problem taking hits from a new mexico in my nurnberg..
next day 3 games i get hit by 2 rounds from new mexico's on my ass and instantly detonated.. up to that point i had never had a single detonation loss in a nurnberg.. so i got pissed and quit playing for that day...
day 3 again in the nurnberg against new mexico's i get hit 19 times by one new mexico, i take 0 damage from all of it(yes literally 0 damage and asked the guy so he pm'd me a screen shot showing the 19 hits) and slowly burn the guy down..

it makes absolutely no sense how the bullshit RNG works but what ever..

 

[chibe]

Welp, I have gone and done it. I have reached the top of mountain and planted my flag for all to see.]

I REACHED RANKED ONE!

I literally grinded from rank 4 to 1 today. The biggest heartbreaker was the battles for the last star. First battle, I got a phone called was completely focused on the call for 10 mins and we lost. Second battle, my team was straight up retarded. DDs suicided because they can't dodge torps or took on 3 DDs at the same time with no support.

Spoiler: All most there!

Spoiler: No moar grind!

Going to get a bottle of jack and celebrate (or cry in a corner). Also love that you can't play any more ranked games once you rank 1. Like I want to do that shit again.

 

[Derfnofred]

Congrats, man! Enjoy your jolly roger. The way you and Business6 describe it though, I'm kinda glad I stopped playing a while ago.

 

[DeadSkull]

Got the Atago through the Secret Santa doublons. Think it cost me $33 total.

Weird ship....feels squishy yet also powerful.

 

[Digital Viper-X-]

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Only took like 40 matches :X

Finally got the Myoko! I have to say I'm glad to get rid of the Aoba, while it has it's strengths. the cleveland is more fun to play

 

[Business6]

Unfortunately my internet crapped out for almost the entirety of the day but I posted a Warspite Overview and goddamn I'm in love with this ship.

I REACHED RANKED ONE!

Hell yeah, congrats man! Great performance to top it off, too!

 

[Dayaks]

Congrats Chibe! I think next season I'll hit it hard. I skipped ranked battles a lot for reasons I couldn't tell you.

I am going through World of Warship withdrawal. I've been working on a shitty job 300 miles from my house. By the end of today I'll have driven 1800 miles this week.:/

 

[TechLarry]

Im Close

I continue to make tons of XP with the T1 Orlan and my particular favorite, Herme the Luv Cruiser

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Only took like 40 matches :X

Finally got the Myoko! I have to say I'm glad to get rid of the Aoba, while it has it's strengths. the cleveland is more fun to play

 

[TechLarry]

Did the new Crimson Driver update fix the WoWs issues ?

 

[Ryan45]

What do you guys think about server pop? It has been going down and I am wondering if this game is worth any more money investment. I have bought Tirpitz, Warspite, and some gold. Around $140 ... but I would like to buy a few more ships, I just don't want the game to be dead in 6 months and playing against BOTS.

Also Business6, do you just post your best videos or do you always do that good? Do you ever make mistakes? It seems like every shot you take is a citadel hit....

 

[Digital Viper-X-]

BTW, did secret Santa, spent about $20 CAD, got 5k dabloons + 20 100% xp camo

 

[TechLarry]

What is this secret santa stuff ?

 

[Business6]

What do you guys think about server pop? It has been going down and I am wondering if this game is worth any more money investment. I have bought Tirpitz, Warspite, and some gold. Around $140 ... but I would like to buy a few more ships, I just don't want the game to be dead in 6 months and playing against BOTS.

Also Business6, do you just post your best videos or do you always do that good? Do you ever make mistakes? It seems like every shot you take is a citadel hit....

When they release a new ship line there will be a considerable spike in the server pop. Also, when/if the carriers get squared away and back to being more frequent along with the introduction of clan wars it should increase steadily again.

And I actually mention what you ask about the citadels in the video. It's cherry picked, of course, but generally frequent. Penetration damage (1/3rd the citadel damage) is more important to me, however. Consistent damage is more valuable in more situations, especially if you're doing that damage when they don't have their side exposed. Makes a massive difference in the ability to control the fight.