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  1. Streaming the French BB grind - and no I am not sailing the entire game in reverse. 

     

    https://www.twitch.tv/maxl_1023

  2. Streaming the WOWS grind - its not as bad as WoT. 

    https://www.twitch.tv/maxl_1023

    1. SaintLaurentius

      SaintLaurentius

      Little disappointed tbh, I was expecting the furious mouse wheel scroll from the past:gachi:

    2. MaxL_1023

      MaxL_1023

      I now press F to pay respects.

  3. Streamed CW last night - tl;dr it does not go well when your caller leaves. Not to mention Des Moines players which go afk when the strat is layed out!

  4. It is a bug - they are fixing it in 7.1.1 as far as I know. It is a gun elevation issue or something weird like that.
  5. I am streaming again - done for tonight but there are a few archived videos if anyone wants to see how much of a shitter@ships I am. Note this is WOWS, not WOT - if I played tanks again I would probably be driven insane due to derp guns. 

    1. nabucodonsor

      nabucodonsor

      Trust me compared to the other shit WG  has been pulling out derp guns are fine. Atm I prefer facing 3 Type 5s than 3 268v4. The  257 while not OP requires more effort to pen SIDEWAYS than frontally and when you see people bouncing off it like morons, even if they have a pen indicator, you brain really starts to hurt.

      And finally you have average retard Vladimir telling us that if they buffed the Leo's handling it would be OP but not a tank with almost gold proof armour with better mobility than a russian medium. And let us ignore of how fucking stupid the 430U and 705A lines are.

    2. Darvek

      Darvek

      The 430U and 705 can be defeated. They're tuned a little high, but they're just another tank that you can defeat in the normal way. The 268 4, that's just a monstrosity. You simply can't pen it in the front, unless you're a gold-spamming JPE. If it moved like an E3 or a badger you might accept the god tier frontal armor. But it moves faster than a 140. It rams better than an E50M. And it has an acceptable T10 TD gun. Not the best gun in tier, but the platform is simply absurd.

    3. Fulvin

      Fulvin

      when I received the twitch notification I was expecting tanks. then I got sad

  6. At range the Pensacola has enough of a drop angle to likely penetrate your upper belt and then the Citadel deck - its 203mm AP has impressively high pen despite the high arc and low velocity. Against AP your best bet is a ricochet, and you were not angled heavily enough for those shots to exceed the critical angle with American AP - it can bite at a little steeper of an angle than most. I can't think of a Tier 8 Cruiser which has enough armor to stop that 203mm AP without reaching autobounce angle. It is also possible that the Pensacola got an underwater citadel pen, if your ship ha
  7. The NC has slower shells - you need to re-adjust your leads to get good hits. Also, the immunity zone is a little closer in than usual, so you often need to aim a little higher at mid range to prevent bounces off the belt armor (as the shells drop more than you expect). Right now Tier 8 MM is a little bit FUBAR based on how often you get 10s.
  8. The only issue with Divisioning with RUST is the requirement that you bring at least one unrestored Civil War Era Ironclad - they are surprisingly useful as enemy captains keep mistaking them for already-destroyed vessels.
  9. There were 2 solutions to unicum platoons - skill segregated MM or 3-5-7. It's obvious which one was easier, and why something needed to be done. I would probably still be playing if skill MM was introduced - WR and WN8 ( and padding) would be out the window. Instead, there would have been one overarching win-related metric which determined who you played with (and against). Stat-pad pressure would be mostly gone and true competitive play would ensue. 

    Sadly, it didn't happen. 

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    2. mati_14

      mati_14

      Before less campy? have you forgotten when the TDs could autopen you from 400mts for +900 dmg? and when you could find even 5 arties per side? Meta was way more campier before, but what you gonna do agaisnt other purples? you know the most effective way to win it's trading HP without losing it, sniping it's so far the most effective way. Go 1v1 against another purple in close quarter combat,  and even if you win i can assure you will take at least 2 or 3 hit from him, and then comes another one who takes you out, and somebody takes him out too. What would you do instead? Not taking hits, right?, Now when you have +10 players with the same mentality what would you expect? Coordinated actions are not common in pubs even unless you are platooning, which clearly pads WR but this proves nothing if you are playing with some other players at your same lvl not truly showing how good by yourself you are.

       

    3. Assassin7

      Assassin7

      To be fair, chaisniping every game isnt always the answer. Learning to be agressive and effectively trade in brawls is a massive part of being good, or you just end up like those TOTEM players that do nothing except red line snipe and do nothing to help win and just farm damage. 

      But yeah, the game is way less campy as a whole than it was 3 years ago. WG dealt with that by removing most of the bush cover on all the maps and making them all corridors. And paris. 

    4. mati_14

      mati_14

      I think it's clear that i'm not talking about the actual random battles, where pubbies bounce half of the rounds they hit or you have two yellow Mauses facing each other while not penning a single shot. I'm comparing ranked meta vs a skill mm pubs meta, where both would be flooded with purples punishing every try of aggression during the early game or any mistake during the battle. It might be the case that some shitters even start to play more arty because of the skill mm, just like in ranked battles.

       

  10. Holy crap guys: 1. By default, a forced 3-5-7 system will make top-tier platoons less likely. In a 3-man platoon (tier 8 for example) the following is true: There is one combination which gives you top tier (3 of you, 5, 7) There are 5 choose 3 (10) combinations of positioning where you end up as middle tier There are 7 choose 3 (35) combinations where you end up as bottom tier! By grouping 3 tanks of the same tier, you are either forcing the creation of a match which is basically just for you, or getting shoved into a match where you are not top tier. I am not s
  11. Flamu had a good video on IFHE - it turns out you want a gun caliber between ~150 and 195mm to make it worthwhile. Anything under 150mm won't penetrate 32mm with IFHE, and anything over 195mm will pen 32mm decks anyways but never get to 50mm, which is the next common armor group. If you are low to mid tier, you want to be able to pen 25mm, so guns under 155mm will need it unless you are below 120mm, where you are basically shit out of luck. Some cruisers have even thinner armor that that - check what you usually run into. I think the armor groups are less homogeneous below tier 5 or 6, s
  12. Ignore XVM - you will tend to (and obviously have been) giving away more of your personal tactical advantage than gaining. Trying to focus down a skilled player will rarely work - they will expect it, will not give you anything decent to shoot at or will just head somewhere else if you do manage to tilt the area in your favor. The tactics which beat skilled players will beat everybody - map control, vision control, early-game area denial and effective force concentration are very difficult to counter. In some cases, you will be at a vehicle, team, map or skill disadvantage which will lead you
  13. I think the current WTR is using raw win rate in a ship, so by default divisioning can pad it while all other stats seem equal. However, besides this everything is per-ship so role changes won't be a big issue. Things like tanking damage, capture/defense and spotting damage should really be included as well, but they are not at the moment. The WTR system can be improved, but it is the best I have found out there as a currently existing stat metric.
  14. Have you tried to correlate your win rate fluctuations (and potentially DPG and XPG using a finer scale) to a weekly or diurnal cycle? Theoretically, both of these factors will influence the playerbase and therefore the relationship between individual statistics and win rate. The playerbase may not necessarily be worse at any point, but it would not take a huge shift in metagame or population to have the slight effects you are observing. I would personally do a frequency domain decomposition of your moving-average (say 1000 game) win rate, checking if any statistically significant period
  15. You can pad any metric in existence - through long experience I know that your own personal evaluation of your play is more important than any number you can come up with. Are you happy with your skill progression within WoWS, WoT or anything else? Answer that based on your own experience and it's "smooth sailing/steaming ( and maybe even streaming if that's your thing!)
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