World of Warships Enters Open Beta!

If they are anything like the Murmansk should be fun. I haven't looked at them yet.

I won't be in until around 5PM EST.
 
Haven't been playing World of Warships much since I caved and bought Division.

Been trying carriers again with the promo this month. Got frustrated and free exped out of the Bogue and Indepedence is getting better if you avoid Clevelands and Pensacolas and don't get alpha striked by the other carrier. Ryujo's seem to like to alpha strike you. Have to get better at where to move and how close to follow the fleet though. You don't want to be too close to get shot but you don't want to be alone in case a destroyer comes knocking. Although I do like dive bombing destroyers and lighting them up for my team to shoot. Not nearly as fun as Arty was in WoT for the boom factor though.
 
49-2 in this baby and the only reason it's not 50-1 is because two jackasses threw the match on Monday while I was trying to cap, lol


I fucking love this ship.
 
Digital Viper-X- said:
Thinking about free-xping up to T4 or T5 :p
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Go right to T5.

I did ONE run in the TII and TIII. They really, REALLY suck LOL

The T3 was trully horrific. Slow turrrets, slow fire rate, and you think other ships lob shells? HA!

The HE in the T2 was giving like 50 HP LOL

IMHO the T1 Orlan is a FAR more fun ship to play than the T2 or T3.

I skipped the T4. I was in too much pain from the T2 and T3.

I got the T5 Kirov but have not run it yet.

Don't waste your time until at least T5. Just FreeXP your way through.
 
I like the low tiers though... I want to play at least one game. :)

A slow fire rate and a big lob? That's unforunate. Generally slow fire rate means high velocity and a good AP. I hope you're wrong!!! Heh
 
Business6 said:
49-2 in this baby and the only reason it's not 50-1 is because two jackasses threw the match on Monday while I was trying to cap, lol


I fucking love this ship.
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Great video as usual!

Hey, how the HELL did you get so many flags ?
 
wow, just started the russian cruisers....holy shit these are garbage.
This is looking like the worst cruiser line in the game by far.
I am at t5 and its so bad.
Slow guns, slow reload....Benson AFT arcs....and so soft.
 
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Droc said:
wow, just started the russian cruisers....holy shit these are garbage.
This is looking like the worst cruiser line in the game by far.
I am at t5 and its so bad.
Slow guns, slow reload....Benson AFT arcs....and so soft.
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Told ya :)
 
TechLarry said:
Told ya :)
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I havent won a single match or gotten a single kill yet. took until the Kirov before I got a citadel.....Over 9km its impossible to hit the belt....at +10km your shells have to travel to orbit and back.
And even when you get in close and rail a citadel, your reload and turret traverse is so bad your giving the fallowup to someone else.
 
Yeah, I'll play them, but it will be all on their own coin. They aren't getting any more free XP.....

It's a huge disappointment, really. As good as the Orlan is for a T1, man I was expecting SO much more.

So far its like the worst of the IJN cruisers humped a Russian Aurora and these were the result.
 
the kirov is like a fatter, backwards Nberg with slow guns and shit arcs.
 
Holy shit is the Budyonny BAD!!!

I put like 40 rounds of HE into the superstructure of a BB about 7k away and as best I can tell, got ZERO (yes fucking ZERO) damage points for it.

I then got into a side by side with a cruiser. We exchanged fire forever it seems, side by side, about 2k away. I was on AP and I wasn't getting shit for damage points. He finally blew me up and won.

I have no idea WTF that was all about. I sure hope it's 'broken' because if it isn't, man that is one bad ship.

I can confirm that up through T6 is a waste of time.
 
The kirov wasn't bad, arc isn't a laser, but it's nowhere near US suborbital arcs. It can hit though, both HE and AP. 3-5k salvos of HE on a BB were common, and seeing an omaha at like 3km give me a broadside (he was trying to torp run me) was an instant deletion (like 4 cit's + all the other hits), and dayaks nuked another kirov in the same manner. Fragile as shit though, like nurnberg bad or worse. Horrid AA, even though the rating is decent (I was a 42 or 43, dayaks was a 50), everyone I was playing with noticed it struggling to shoot down even T4 planes.

The buddy I only played once after selling the kirov, seems like it has potential. Basically a 3 turret kutuzov at tier 6. Look forward to playing it a bit more tomorrow.
 
I didn't realize how much dmg the des moines can dish out with AP against a BB, I Was hitting a yamato for 7-9k / salvo from 13k away
 
dave99 said:
The kirov wasn't bad, arc isn't a laser, but it's nowhere near US suborbital arcs. It can hit though, both HE and AP. 3-5k salvos of HE on a BB were common, and seeing an omaha at like 3km give me a broadside (he was trying to torp run me) was an instant deletion (like 4 cit's + all the other hits), and dayaks nuked another kirov in the same manner. Fragile as shit though, like nurnberg bad or worse. Horrid AA, even though the rating is decent (I was a 42 or 43, dayaks was a 50), everyone I was playing with noticed it struggling to shoot down even T4 planes.

The buddy I only played once after selling the kirov, seems like it has potential. Basically a 3 turret kutuzov at tier 6. Look forward to playing it a bit more tomorrow.
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the AA rating is miss leading on the russian cruisers because they're AA is to damn big and most of it is single turret AA where as USN AA is lots of small dual gun AA.. caliber size has more weight in the rating than amount since RU cruisers are heavily reliant on dual purpose secondaries. so you're primary AA dps has a range of like 2km.

as far as the rest of the RU cruisers so far from my experience they are really good against ships in their own tier or lower. but because of the way matchmaking works you can get matched against ships 2 tiers above you and that's where they start having trouble. i also have a feeling the armor is not working as intended, the buddy is suppose to have 140mm armor on it's center citadel, yeah no it literally gets deleted by anything with AP.
 
dave99 said:
The kirov wasn't bad, arc isn't a laser, but it's nowhere near US suborbital arcs. It can hit though, both HE and AP. 3-5k salvos of HE on a BB were common, and seeing an omaha at like 3km give me a broadside (he was trying to torp run me) was an instant deletion (like 4 cit's + all the other hits), and dayaks nuked another kirov in the same manner. Fragile as shit though, like nurnberg bad or worse. Horrid AA, even though the rating is decent (I was a 42 or 43, dayaks was a 50), everyone I was playing with noticed it struggling to shoot down even T4 planes.

The buddy I only played once after selling the kirov, seems like it has potential. Basically a 3 turret kutuzov at tier 6. Look forward to playing it a bit more tomorrow.
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I have to agree with Dave.

Kirov seemed like a decent ship. Giant citadel which I am used to because of the Atlanta. I had some good games in her.
- AA is shit. Shoot down one plane if lucky. (AFT/BFT and AA module)
- Concealment is painful at around 14 - 15 with camo
- Guns are... Good. Not amazing but they can do some damage.
- Only real delightful part is the torp arc is amazing.
- Giant piece of paper. Pensa took me out from full health with two slavos and I was decently angled, definitely not broadside.

I love the Buddy. Only one game so far but it was a good one.
- AA is good. (AFT/BFT/AA module). I'd say it can shoot down 8 planes / wave with AA def where a Cleveland can do about 10, Atlanta 13. So not bad.
- I love the fast reload and relatively flat arcs. Seems to AP pen cruisers of similar tier very well (I didn't get a chance vs T8s). My favorite part of my first game was torping a cruiser to my right and APing a furu in one slavo from 1/3 to 1/2 health.
- Concealment! Way better than the Kirov, around 12.7 with camo, can get down to 11ish with captain skill. Should be fun hunting DDs/cruisers.
- Fast, both these cruisers are fast and you have to be careful since it makes it very easy over extend yourself and be the only target for the enemy team since they are DD fast.
- Armor. Seems to take hits well, but keep in mind 140mm can actually hurt vs larger caliber. I am hoping it will help me angled vs these larger guns that would bow pen the Kirov. It's not enough to let you sail around broadside all day. That's bad in any ship. I've only played one game so it's hard for me to assess this.

Kirov I sold. I think the Buddy might become my T6 choice, only second to the Fuso.

I think the AA rating gets so high from the range. The Kirov does shit for damage but pretty good range compared to other ships of her tier. For instance the Buddy has 4.2/4.4/7.2km with the capt skills and module. At least the buddy does around 300DPS with AA def. Not bad for T6 and it's all pretty long range.

We might have been to hard on the Kirov's AA. All T5 ships have shitty AA. :) There were CVs out seal clubbing which didn't help.
 
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The T10 and T9 ships look like battlecruisers.. 65k HP on the T10, and it looks huge. One of the people using it said its AP sucks, but it has good HE, though I'm not sure how true that is. I'll have to wait for meself :p
 
Digital Viper-X- said:
The T10 and T9 ships look like battlecruisers.. 65k HP on the T10, and it looks huge. One of the people using it said its AP sucks, but it has good HE, though I'm not sure how true that is. I'll have to wait for meself :p
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Let us know what you think. Right now I think I'll hang around T6 for a while. I have great ships already for T7-10
 
I thought Russian ships are supposed to be the best thing ever because of developer bias?
 
Dayaks said:
I have to agree with Dave.

Kirov seemed like a decent ship. Giant citadel which I am used to because of the Atlanta. I had some good games in her.
- AA is shit. Shoot down one plane if lucky. (AFT/BFT and AA module)
- Concealment is painful at around 14 - 15 with camo
- Guns are... Good. Not amazing but they can do some damage.
- Only real delightful part is the torp arc is amazing.
- Giant piece of paper. Pensa took me out from full health with two slavos and I was decently angled, definitely not broadside.

I love the Buddy. Only one game so far but it was a good one.
- AA is good. (AFT/BFT/AA module). I'd say it can shoot down 8 planes / wave with AA def where a Cleveland can do about 10, Atlanta 13. So not bad.
- I love the fast reload and relatively flat arcs. Seems to AP pen cruisers of similar tier very well (I didn't get a chance vs T8s). My favorite part of my first game was torping a cruiser to my right and APing a furu in one slavo from 1/3 to 1/2 health.
- Concealment! Way better than the Kirov, around 12.7 with camo, can get down to 11ish with captain skill. Should be fun hunting DDs/cruisers.
- Fast, both these cruisers are fast and you have to be careful since it makes it very easy over extend yourself and be the only target for the enemy team since they are DD fast.
- Armor. Seems to take hits well, but keep in mind 140mm can actually hurt vs larger caliber. I am hoping it will help me angled vs these larger guns that would bow pen the Kirov. It's not enough to let you sail around broadside all day. That's bad in any ship. I've only played one game so it's hard for me to assess this.

Kirov I sold. I think the Buddy might become my T6 choice, only second to the Fuso.

I think the AA rating gets so high from the range. The Kirov does shit for damage but pretty good range compared to other ships of her tier. For instance the Buddy has 4.2/4.4/7.2km with the capt skills and module. At least the buddy does around 300DPS with AA def. Not bad for T6 and it's all pretty long range.

We might have been to hard on the Kirov's AA. All T5 ships have shitty AA. :) There were CVs out seal clubbing which didn't help.
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I must have got stuck in a high tear battle because my Buddy was no buddy to me LOL
 
Digital Viper-X- said:
i will be a long while before I get there... I still need to get credits for the kagero and izumo :p
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Paying millions for the Izumo is like paying for a Ford Pinto when it's the last car on the planet. You don't want to, but you got no choice. And don't hit either in the ass as they tend to explode.

:)
 
Some people....

tnt009

hes our CV in a T4-7 match. As soon as the map starts, he calls out our other CV for not running strike, calls everyone noobs and bombs himself to death. Spends entire match in chat complaining about "shit team".....and I win it for us...


earlier

You know your team played bad when.,..
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Played more games in the buddy, I really like this boat. Can cit other cruisers pretty well (I landed a cit against a kirov at 15km), HE is strong against BB's, starts a lot of fires (with demo expert). I was on the other team (and dead), when I watched chibe just absolutely wreck a BB (a new mex I think) with AP who had his guns turned the wrong way from 5km or so. Like 5k a salvo, wiped him from half health or so before his guns were even halfway turned.
 
dave99 said:
Played more games in the buddy, I really likethis boat. Can cit other cruisers pretty well (I landed a cit against a kirov at 15km), HE is strong against BB's, starts a lot of fires (with demo expert). I was on the other team (and dead), when I watched chibe just absolutely wreck a BB (a new mex I think) with AP who had his guns turned the wrong way from 5km or so. Like 5k a salvo, wiped him from half health or so before his guns were even halfway turned.
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I agree with all of that. I snuck in one game yesterday. I was able to AP penn a New Mex at 15k, around 3k damage. Probably better off with HE but can't repair AP as much... It takes damage waayy better than the kirov.

Not bad for a 2nd game!

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Digital Viper-X- said:
The T10 and T9 ships look like battlecruisers.. 65k HP on the T10, and it looks huge. One of the people using it said its AP sucks, but it has good HE, though I'm not sure how true that is. I'll have to wait for meself :p
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T9/10 are total junk, so far i haven't seen a game where either of them survive more than 8 minutes into the match and those that do end up at the bottom of the list for XP because they didn't do shit.

hell i had a game earlier where the T10 one got nuked before he even loaded into the match because 19km detection range yo..
 
Business6 said:
Have fun if you guys end up with a player named greengem on your team. What a piece of shit
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I love how Business stops in just to tell us this. :)

Oh boy they just put up a 2x commander XP for destroying a Russian ship. Like we didn't have enough people gunning for us. Time to play my Nagato I think...
 
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Played more games in the buddy, I really like this boat. Can cit other cruisers pretty well (I landed a cit against a kirov at 15km), HE is strong against BB's, starts a lot of fires (with demo expert). I was on the other team (and dead), when I watched chibe just absolutely wreck a BB (a new mex I think) with AP who had his guns turned the wrong way from 5km or so. Like 5k a salvo, wiped him from half health or so before his guns were even halfway turned.
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I had a successful game in the Budy last night, but I still don't much care for it.

It's only a T6 and already the Turrets and handling are in the crapper. I still think the AP is a disappointment for a Russian ship.
 
What's wrong with the turrets? For a triple 152, the turret traverse is quite fast. I did have one game where I lost both front turrets about 20 or 30 seconds apart, that was not particularly fun. The AP seems fine, it's the same gun & shell as the kutuzov @ T8, and it's going against T4 to T8 armor, I've been getting a fair amount of cits.
 
dave99 said:
What's wrong with the turrets? For a triple 152, the turret traverse is quite fast. I did have one game where I lost both front turrets about 20 or 30 seconds apart, that was not particularly fun. The AP seems fine, it's the same gun & shell as the kutuzov @ T8, and it's going against T4 to T8 armor, I've been getting a fair amount of cits.
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I found out it does pen Atagos quite well! I was getting 6k slavos.

The only T6 cruiser I don't use AP against is the Cleveland. It does do OK damage, but I think HE and some fire is better. I do like how many fires it sets.
 
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Dayaks said:
I love how Business stops in just to tell us this. :)

Oh boy they just put up a 2x commander XP for destroying a Russian ship. Like we didn't have enough people gunning for us. Time to play my Nagato I think...
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Haha, man things became so ridiculous with this guy in the blink of an eye. I had actually tried to type this story up but it just doesn't do it justice.

And yeah, count me out for Russian ships this weekend with that event.
 
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