World of Warships Enters Open Beta!

Final Ranked video for this season. I definitely think there's room for improvement with how Ranked is handled in regards to both progression and matchmaking. However heavily flawed the mode is, it's still quite fun in a lot of respects.

It'll be strange getting back to Random now, that's for sure.

dave99 said:
Looks like in the next update the kiev gets nerfed a fair amount (HP 15800->12800). Together with a torp buff (torpedo detection range decreases 20%), that's going to make all the other DD's more impressive. Slower rudder shift for BB's also. All adds up to a big nerf for the ruski dd's.
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Kiev definitely needed to be reeled in quite a bit. But I'm guessing the a slower rudder shift is because idiots in destroyers only fire their torps where the target lead indicator tells them to and with the narrowest spread e.g; going for kills and not hits.

I'll reserve judgment for when I see what the rudder shift nerf will turn out to be like but the impact on the flow of the game with these nerfs is significant. You won't get battleships pushing forward as often once enough people have been stung by the slower rudder shift, that's for sure. Boring.
 
Digital Viper-X- said:
I'm not sure, torps are effective in ranked. When groups of ships move together torp walls wreak havoc on both their health and grouping / coherency
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I won't disagree with that. My logic of thinking is Fubiki = Benson > that tier 8 rusky DD >= Kiev > Hatsuharu = Mahan > Sims
 
I did my third ranked battle in a Murmansk this morning at 4AM when my 1 year old was wandering the house. Surprised I got a match. Took out a minekaze and a Cleveland. I got a torp hit on the Cleveland which helped a lot. 7k XP... I have to do more of these ranked battles. :) It was around 2k XP no multipliers. Considering I didn't steam roll them it seems like you get more XP in ranked.
 
dave99 said:
gotta love at rank 5, an asshole(slayer6, I think I've seen him pull this shit before before), takes a tirpitz and proceeds to just march right into red team HQ without firing a shot, that I could tell. Then proceeds to spam chat the whole game about what a troll he is.
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Funny thing is the asshole had to PAY to be an asshole LOL
 
Well, I'm at rank 7 now. Only had 4 loses this season so far. Only two tips I can say is get the dam caps (destroyed the enemy team except a DD and lost because my team thought the caps were poison and I had to do it myself). The other tip is DON'T sail in a straight line (one shotted a Mogami right at the start of a match).
 
Digital Viper-X- said:
damnit, the update killed the nVidia Inspector AA mod. :X
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Let me know if you find another way! My GPU must be running around 30%.

Tirpitz is up for sale if you can stomach $67. I can't...

Also I love this 2x modifier, 100% camo and 50% flag boost... Took a ranked ~2k base XP to 10k XP. :)
 
Even slower rudder shift for BB's ? Now I know I'm losing interest in them :(

I had a good night last night. Put the tarp on the Cleveland for a while, and used the Minekazi and the Benson. Over a 4 hour period made it to level 9.2 from level 15.

Almost made it to 8 but ended up with dead weight on the last game and we lost bad.

And I didn't TK anyone with an errant Torp. WooHoo :)
 
Dayaks said:
Let me know if you find another way! My GPU must be running around 30%.

Tirpitz is up for sale if you can stomach $67. I can't...

Also I love this 2x modifier, 100% camo and 50% flag boost... Took a ranked ~2k base XP to 10k XP. :)
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Is the Tirpitz a good ship, or is it another Atago ?
 
I see Business has the same problem where ships simply see his shells and torpedus coming and they blow up and die in fear without ever being hit by them LOL
 
$67 is too much money for now, and I have not been impressed with the cost/benefit ratio of premium ships. The only one worth the money has been the Murmansk.

The Atlanta and Atago's were horrid disasters.

I didn't see enough in the video's to change my mind. I will say the Tirpitz is more in line with my style of play. Fast, speedy turrents, fast guns, in-close fighting capability.
 
That looks nice man but f that...I'm upgrading my computer first instead of buying a 3D skin for a game for $70!!!11!!1!!!!!
 
I see that Wargaming is not going to do anything about the Ishizuchi shit performance. there really needs to be a small boost to either dispersion or the range. AA guns or turning radius / rudder time would be great either.

Oh well, filing a claim through paypal to get my money back.
 
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I do well with the Ishizuchi... I have a 2.79 K/D over 29 battles with it. It's speed helps. Seems like Wyomings citadel it though, but if you keep your broadside hidden it's a tank (like a lot of jap ships).

As for the Tirpitz.. Chibe always gets thrown into T10 games with it. heh...
 
TechLarry said:
$67 is too much money for now, and I have not been impressed with the cost/benefit ratio of premium ships. The only one worth the money has been the Murmansk.

The Atlanta and Atago's were horrid disasters.

I didn't see enough in the video's to change my mind. I will say the Tirpitz is more in line with my style of play. Fast, speedy turrents, fast guns, in-close fighting capability.
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yeah, no matter how good a game is, I'm not paying $67 for 1 ship, just on principle. Between murmansk, some premium time and gold, I've probably spent $60 or $70, I'm not inclined to give wargaming much more than that, especially considering this is still a beta product.
 
Threw together a new vid just going over some of the upcoming content and also the details for my first official stream tomorrow at 3pm eastern. Though there might be a problem that I didn't account for and mention in the video, as I may have a coffee date in that time as well, lol. If that's the case I'll test out the stream until I need to leave and do it for a few hours once I get back.

I just want to try it out for a bit and see how various things translate. Should be fun, right? Right guys?!?!?
 
You can always log onto someone else's account and do more ranked battles, because those were "fun" right? :p

Anyways, good luck with the stream, since I be having my family christmas that day.
 
I say better luck with the coffee date, cause who gives a shit about gaming when other fun can be had...

lol.
 
dave99 said:
yeah, no matter how good a game is, I'm not paying $67 for 1 ship, just on principle. Between murmansk, some premium time and gold, I've probably spent $60 or $70, I'm not inclined to give wargaming much more than that, especially considering this is still a beta product.
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You've only spent $70 ?

Hell, I've spent 5 times that much on gold to use for free XP conversion.
 
dave99 said:
yeah, no matter how good a game is, I'm not paying $67 for 1 ship, just on principle. Between murmansk, some premium time and gold, I've probably spent $60 or $70, I'm not inclined to give wargaming much more than that, especially considering this is still a beta product.
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actually it's not in beta anymore.. :p beta ended 2 months ago. just sayin.. lol


Dayaks said:
I do well with the Ishizuchi... I have a 2.79 K/D over 29 battles with it. It's speed helps. Seems like Wyomings citadel it though, but if you keep your broadside hidden it's a tank (like a lot of jap ships).
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it's a pre-dreadnought battlecruiser design so not surprising.. the original design of the ship was basically a tin can with giant guns on it but they instead scrapped it in favor of the dreadnought design of the kongo. the Japanese actually had a lot of designs similar to the ishizuchi that were used for coastal defense pre 1910.
 
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TechLarry said:
You've only spent $70 ?

Hell, I've spent 5 times that much on gold to use for free XP conversion.
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yeah, but remember I mainly play only destroyers, and only up to T5 on all of them except russian to T7. No BB's, no CV's, and only US cruisers to phoenix (and murmansk).
 
After flopping around in rank 7, I finally got rank 5 tonight. Wouldn't lie, kinda afraid to keep going for the fear of going back into rank 6. One great thing about doing ranked in the Tirpitz is now I have so MUCH credits! Atleast until I buy the Fletcher, then I'll be broke again.
 
chibe said:
After flopping around in rank 7, I finally got rank 5 tonight. Wouldn't lie, kinda afraid to keep going for the fear of going back into rank 6. One great thing about doing ranked in the Tirpitz is now I have so MUCH credits! Atleast until I buy the Fletcher, then I'll be broke again.
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yeah i hit rank 10 after winning one losing two winning one losing two for i don't know how many games .. that was enough ranked for me i'd rather deal with the headache of random battles then that crap. plus i'm not a fan of any of the T7/8 ships in the game other than the Hipper but german ships are terrible in ranked.
 
love trading my 168 HP in the kiev for a full health amagi, got the torps off from behind an island before his secondary's could finish me..he ate 8 of 10.

still bouncing between 4 & 6, just got back to 4. Another kiev that has put me down a couple of times just made 1 on my team last game, so it'll be nice not to have to see him anymore.
 
dave99 said:
love trading my 168 HP in the kiev for a full health amagi, got the torps off from behind an island before his secondary's could finish me..he ate 8 of 10.

still bouncing between 4 & 6, just got back to 4. Another kiev that has put me down a couple of times just made 1 on my team last game, so it'll be nice not to have to see him anymore.
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Yah, im bouncing between 4 and 6 in the kiev aswell.
I love the Kiev, but recently I find other players need you to role play for them. BBs have been sitting waaaay back and screaming for you to spot, but the Kiev is terrible for spotting because other DDs detect it a good 2km early, and by that time, the entire enemy fleet rains down so much foccus fire on me that its over before it began.
And if I play the Kiev to its strength, as a mid range gunboat, covering other DDs, or my personal fav, racing around wide and lighting all their battleships on fire(and forcing them to turn to me, instead of my team), but by doing this, your team fuking FREAKS out on you.
If your in a DD and not suiciding the center of the map, your team wants to crucify you.

I have played 124 ranked battles so far, and I doubt Ill make it from 5 to 1 before its over. Seems that without the tirpitz, its a real long shot.
 
I'm stuck on 9 :(

Anyone come up against the Arkansas Beta yet? I don't remember what class ship that is, but it has no business being in a T3 battle.

I landed 126 square on HE hits on that damn thing and did less than 40% damage to it. AP was bouncing of the fucking antennae's I think !

I finally killed him, but he was my one and only target the entire game and it wasn't until the very end he finally burned up.

I felt like I was playing frickin' Whack-A-Mole at Chuckie Cheese's.
 
Droc said:
Yah, im bouncing between 4 and 6 in the kiev aswell.
I love the Kiev, but recently I find other players need you to role play for them. BBs have been sitting waaaay back and screaming for you to spot, but the Kiev is terrible for spotting because other DDs detect it a good 2km early, and by that time, the entire enemy fleet rains down so much foccus fire on me that its over before it began.
And if I play the Kiev to its strength, as a mid range gunboat, covering other DDs, or my personal fav, racing around wide and lighting all their battleships on fire(and forcing them to turn to me, instead of my team), but by doing this, your team fuking FREAKS out on you.
If your in a DD and not suiciding the center of the map, your team wants to crucify you.

I have played 124 ranked battles so far, and I doubt Ill make it from 5 to 1 before its over. Seems that without the tirpitz, its a real long shot.
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Yeah a couple of times I have been the only DD, where they are like 'go cap'..well if you want me to die. We had 5 BB's, a mogami and me, against 4 bb's, 1 cruiser and a benson & mahan on ocean a few minutes ago, and the bb was telling to to attack the dd's who were together @ A. Along with a tirpitz & an atago. I wouldn't even detect the DD's before i was toast. These guys don't realize my armor is made out of engine, my turrets fall off if you look at them wrong, and my torps have the range of me throwing a 5 pound rock.

I liked that flanking move also, but I re-skilled to last stand instead of AFT, so that doesn't work nearly as well now. That's been clutch to keeping me alive much longer in the match.
 
dave99 said:
Yeah a couple of times I have been the only DD, where they are like 'go cap'..well if you want me to die. We had 5 BB's, a mogami and me, against 4 bb's, 1 cruiser and a benson & mahan on ocean a few minutes ago, and the bb was telling to to attack the dd's who were together @ A. Along with a tirpitz & an atago. I wouldn't even detect the DD's before i was toast. These guys don't realize my armor is made out of engine, my turrets fall off if you look at them wrong, and my torps have the range of me throwing a 5 pound rock.

I liked that flanking move also, but I re-skilled to last stand instead of AFT, so that doesn't work nearly as well now. That's been clutch to keeping me alive much longer in the match.
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I feel that.

Just got out of a ranked battle.
we had 2 tirpitz, 2 atagos, and 4 DDs including my kiev
they had 1 amagi, 1 atlanta, 1 mogami, 1 new orleans, and 4 DDs(no kievs)
I sunk 3 ships, and the we lost with the rest of my team not sinking a single ship.
You cant make that shit up.
 
Took a break from ranked and went into my Nurnberg for some random battles. This was my first game in the ship and DAM, it felt GOOD.

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Makes me want to keep this ship for awhile.

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Also didn't notice that this ship had secondaries. Who knew?
 
bit surprised that hermelin survived. I think I saw on reddit earlier a T8-T10 match with 2 orlans on 1 team...
 
Dayaks said:
I do well with the Ishizuchi... I have a 2.79 K/D over 29 battles with it. It's speed helps. Seems like Wyomings citadel it though, but if you keep your broadside hidden it's a tank (like a lot of jap ships).

As for the Tirpitz.. Chibe always gets thrown into T10 games with it. heh...
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I'm pretty good with it. There is a real bug with its guns though.

I can pop destroyers and cruisers all day but for some reason shooting BBs at 6-8 km completely wrecks the dispersion values for the guns.

There's some kind of stealth nerf going on with Ishi vs other tier IV bbs.

16 battles 68.75% avg exp 1,105 avg dmg 45,712 k/d 5.75
 
DeadSkull said:
I'm pretty good with it. There is a real bug with its guns though.

I can pop destroyers and cruisers all day but for some reason shooting BBs at 6-8 km completely wrecks the dispersion values for the guns.

There's some kind of stealth nerf going on with Ishi vs other tier IV bbs.

16 battles 68.75% avg exp 1,105 avg dmg 45,712 k/d 5.75
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Nice. I think my avg dmg is around 42k with that ship.

My K/D is probably lower on avg since I'll leave other ships pick away at the last 1-2k so I don't waste a volley.
 
dave99 said:
Yeah a couple of times I have been the only DD, where they are like 'go cap'..well if you want me to die. We had 5 BB's, a mogami and me, against 4 bb's, 1 cruiser and a benson & mahan on ocean a few minutes ago, and the bb was telling to to attack the dd's who were together @ A. Along with a tirpitz & an atago. I wouldn't even detect the DD's before i was toast. These guys don't realize my armor is made out of engine, my turrets fall off if you look at them wrong, and my torps have the range of me throwing a 5 pound rock.

I liked that flanking move also, but I re-skilled to last stand instead of AFT, so that doesn't work nearly as well now. That's been clutch to keeping me alive much longer in the match.
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Quick-Capping with a DD ONLY works IF the other team does not leave a DD behind to protect from it. Another DD is the only thing that will see you and foil your plans. I've died many a quick death trying to do this. It's not worth it IMHO.

Now, if you get lucky and they didn't leave a DD behind, then you can cap and, assuming they don't send their DD, pick ships off one by one with torps as they come, and never be seen doing it.

But the other side is rarely that stupid. Unless, of course, I'm on it and then it seems like everyone has their head up their asses.
 
dave99 said:
bit surprised that hermelin survived. I think I saw on reddit earlier a T8-T10 match with 2 orlans on 1 team...
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Wait, what? Orlans and Hermelins in a T10 match ?

I love those little pop guns but shit. One hit from a T10 and they are done for.
 
yeah, if you division with a high tier ship, it drags the low tier ships in with them.
 
TechLarry said:
Wait, what? Orlans and Hermelins in a T10 match ?

I love those little pop guns but shit. One hit from a T10 and they are done for.
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actually they are hard as hell to hit with things above T7 and you overpen like a mofo on it while it just rains down HE on you distracting you while his buddy lines up a perfect broadside shot.. seen people doing it a bit more lately, it's friggin annoying.


chibe said:
Took a break from ranked and went into my Nurnberg for some random battles. This was my first game in the ship and DAM, it felt GOOD.


Makes me want to keep this ship for awhile.

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Also didn't notice that this ship had secondaries. Who knew?
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yup i love the nurnberg, the ships a beast even in T6 though it's more balanced there then the konnigsberg is in T5 which is op as hell in that tier.
 
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