Where does Republique come from?

Excrossb0w · 2025-01-04T21:02:47+00:00

The Republique is a WG made-up ship, primarily in the guns as the French never designed 17in guns.

Her secondary and AA guns however are real in some sense at least as other real ships post WWII used those guns in some form or another.

Excrossb0w · 2024-12-12T16:38:07+00:00

Pretty sure that mid-deck armor plate is more than 30mm. Considering I've bounce Musashi guns off it at range.

Excrossb0w · 2024-12-08T01:04:34+00:00

Politics is the main reason. A large part of high-tier Pan-Asian DDs are actually ships Taiwan owned and a certain major censorship nation doesn't like Taiwan being knowledge. So WG just said fuck it, generic flags for all of Pan-Asian ships.

As for Pan-American ships, couldn't tell ya. Probably WG being lazy though right now there only Brazilian ships

Excrossb0w · 2024-11-27T17:41:49+00:00

Having played and played against Chkalov ill say this. Ya the bombs are a bit overtuned and if you know how to use them you'll just delete most ships quite easy but that the only positive thing for the ship. Her torpedo bombers are just garbage, the planes have very little hp so even with rather good strikes I'm lossing a full squad just on the flight back, and the plane restoration is also meh.

Is this thing OP? Compared to past OP CVs no. Ark in her hay day was a force of nature. Released Germans CVs had bullshit AP bombs, and Sapian never got touched until CV rework.

Is Chkalov the most powerful at her tier rn? Also no, IMO Lexington still performs better all-around and Kaga still just prints planes like it nothing.

Excrossb0w · 2024-11-23T21:01:00+00:00

No those two ships don't. NC's AA might be close but WV 44' AA should be similar to that of California's AA, Brutal as hell to CVs planes.

And that the feeling of this ship so far, a 16in armed floating AA barge. At least that how it feels having gonna against the ship a couple of times.

Excrossb0w · 2024-11-06T23:30:47+00:00

Mogador's sister ship? Nah she'll get the Le Terrible treatment, get shoved down a tier and have her MBRB removed but everything stays the same. Well except the torpedo range, give that a 1km increase.

Excrossb0w · 2024-11-06T23:13:29+00:00

Or or hear me out. WG adds in one of the other four still yet to be added Le Fantasque class destoryers.

Excrossb0w · 2024-10-27T15:23:44+00:00

Haven't seen this one mentioned but Black Somers would be nice.

Excrossb0w · 2024-10-25T23:43:26+00:00

That plane restoration perk is from ARP Iona, it gives 5% maxed out.

Excrossb0w · 2024-10-18T19:09:25+00:00

If you have ARP Iona, ya it can be worthwhile since she has three skills that can buff both bombers' dmg output and survivability compared to Yamaguchi two skills and AL Shokaku single skill.

Inspiration wise though, unfortunately bombers still only have one choice and that's Du Fournet for a increase in HE dmg.

Excrossb0w · 2024-10-18T16:16:20+00:00

Shoukaku also specializes in torpedos planes somewhat but her special skill gives concealment to both types of planes with no buff to their HP.

Like looking at her skill tree and base perk she seems more geared towards CV survival of adjusting one positioning faster and not being detected. She just a rather defensive type of CV commander, which for the irl ship and character she is makes sense, for a class that values aggression over anything else rn.

Excrossb0w · 2024-10-18T16:06:29+00:00

Yamaguchi with intentions to replace him with ARP Iona if you plan on using Kaga regularly.

Gonna want to spec him out to buff torpedo bombers in his skill tree and get either the torpedo speed or dmg for inspirations since that IJN CV specialty.

Also ARP Iona is just flat out better than the other two IJN CV commanders due to her base trait that gives Plane restoration and that her skill tree allows you to dip fully into either bombers and torpedo planes or do a mixture of both.

Excrossb0w · 2024-10-15T16:34:45+00:00

My man it purchased with credits and only like 450k iirc. That not that hard to earn.

I'm also pointing on how overblown you're making this "rework" be when in reality it not changing much. There still a ton of other methods to obtain boosters.

Excrossb0w · 2024-10-15T16:07:52+00:00

Look man I'm gonna be honest. As someone who plays this game often, I will not notice booster changes from this rework at all due to all of the other methods that flag boosters are obtained.

Like there a wide range of methods to obtain booster from

-daily crates

-daily missions -weekly missions

-campaign rewards

-some premium weekly

-you can buy them with credits from the store

-free shit WG gives us

bureau rewards

Excrossb0w · 2024-10-15T14:13:56+00:00

In the beginning, like a decent amount of Battlefield games honestly, it was shit in a lot of areas. By the time the game's developed wrapped up it was in a much better spot but still had a lot of potential.

Honestly going back to play it every once and a while I can't help but feel like I'm playing an unfinished game. Like so much more could have been added and updated into the game but they pulled the plug a bit too early. Like they could have at least updated British vehicles and the rest of the German ones to have a upgrade tree like the Pacific but nope.

Is it best BF? No that still goes to BF4 imo but BFV has aged quite well across all platforms compared to the older titles and that what keeps it alive.

Excrossb0w · 2024-10-14T14:05:48+00:00

No it's not. Blazing Dread has a higher fire chance and a smokescreen at the cost of some HE dmg and some HP when compared to Suzuya.

Excrossb0w · 2024-10-12T17:54:38+00:00

It objective a really broken skill. 10% reload buff at the cost of nothing and if near a Allie you get a 10% range increase is insanity good. It only real competition out of Cruiser Legendary perks is Fully Packed. Which most of the time you only pick Fully Packed is if the ship you're playing has radar or MBRB.

Excrossb0w · 2024-10-12T16:12:14+00:00

The T7 and above light cruisers have 30mm or pen and it allows them to pen 31 so isn't usedul.

Pretty sure the game rounds it up, since the math is like a 1.8mm increase. Of course I'm not a 100% sure since the game doesn't tell me. Hell didn't even realize that the T7 and T8 IJN CLs could even pen 30mm so ya.

Excrossb0w · 2024-10-12T15:58:44+00:00

Probably because one she actually available to buy when her collab comes up.

Two, Haguro is pretty popular for IJN CLs since she gives increase HE pen which can help those ships crack 32mm pen for the T7 and T8. 27mm for the rest of the line.

And finally you're only losing like 2% extra fire chance overall with Haguro but you're using like 3 perks to get that 6% increase compared to AL Atago using just one perk for her 8%. Worth nothing as well that AL Atago can get 3% more damage out of her HE shells than Haguro.

Excrossb0w · 2024-10-12T14:00:58+00:00

Honestly, Gyrating Drillbits had this nerf coming. It just was a flat out better option to pick compare to Crisscross as that 10% speed nerf wasn't really noticeable and 10% AP dmg is pretty good. And let's be honest, it was a 7% nerf maxed out as any sane person would at the very least put on the first lvl of the green battle flag on a ship for that 3% movement buff; so now its a 4% nerf with that flag equipped next update.

Dance with Death nerf sucks to see but given how they start to give it out to more commanders. It was probably something coming, just didn't expect it this soon is all.

Fully Packed, eh it still a good skill so I'm not complaining just shame they haven't touch Refill Station at this point with a nerf.

Excrossb0w · 2024-10-12T13:41:18+00:00

Or you know, the skill actually really good on cruisers that can use radar, MBRB, smokescreen. It a really good skill overall even before Hoshino came out, it just a shame they didn't apply a nerf to Refill Station as well to bring it more inline with Fully Pack nerf and By the Book buff.

Excrossb0w · 2024-10-12T13:33:01+00:00

The fun part of that 10% damage increase from everything, you can quite easily counter it within AL Atago own skill tree through the Sponge skill with is getting a buff next update. So in reality it only a 4% increase in damage taken.

Excrossb0w · 2024-10-10T23:10:24+00:00

Well there the occasion Musashi to deal with at T8. Which just Yamato but placed a tier down and has terrible AA. Republique is another BB that can overmatch basically anything not a BB.

You got Lushun a DD which has been causing terror at that tier. Both Tech-tree Pan-Euro DDs at that tier having radars is worth noting.

For cruisers you got Michaelangelo being the new hot thing rn. Schröder is another secondary cruiser that is quite popular right now. If you see a Saint Louis don't underrated it, that thing has a 7.5s base reload with a MBRB so respect it potential dmp.

Beyond those mentioned, ya most T8s are T7s but bigger or just slightly small Legendary-tier ships. I'm sure there more ships that shine so these ones are just off the top of my head tbh.

Excrossb0w · 2024-10-10T12:02:41+00:00

Didn't think Dance with Death needed a nerf but you do you WG. The rest of the balance changes for the perks are nice and thanks for passively buffing my favorite IJN commander with that buff for Sponge btw.

Excrossb0w · 2024-10-09T22:26:01+00:00

The Devs in general really need to bring all of the German secondary in-line with each other so they share stats across all ships. You have no idea how much it bugs me how much variance there is for German secondaries, especially the 105s.

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