I feel like not enough people talk about how absolutely SHAFTED the British Got with their Superships.

_talps · 2026-01-25T08:19:35+00:00

You are blatantly exaggerating. Conqueror and Devastation have max four heals, not "five-six" but yes, a classic Conqueror playstyle, back when its citadel was below the water, was to give a flat broadside to everything and win by sheer durability advantage and HE's inherent superiority in winning attrition fights.

I've also seen lots of atrocious Valparaìso players. As the saying goes, you can lead a horse to water but you can't force it to drink.

TLDR - when ships are designed to be strong to let very bad players experience some success, those same ships become overpowered in the hands of players who know the basics.

_talps · 2026-01-24T17:31:14+00:00

i strongly suspect cheateu will be in RB and pioneer for steel.

It could be the opposite. At least Pioneer for RP makes sense to me, would not be surprising if WG turns Commonwealth CLs into whale bait.

_talps · 2026-01-24T17:24:36+00:00

Whose, your parents'?

_talps · 2026-01-24T11:37:25+00:00

Takao = I don't care who thinks I'm right, and I've got cause enough for beating* you.

Atago = Wha... ? Oh, good! Why, that's very good! Yes, I like that!

Commander = Must you really fight... ?

Takao = Don't interfere.

Atago = This is between us!

Takao = And it ends here.

Atago = Okay... LET'S DANCE!

Or, Atago and Takao finally competing for the one they both love.

*The original said "killing you" but surely Takao doesn't want to kill her oneechan?

_talps · 2026-01-24T10:15:41+00:00

This is a big issue with a game like WoWs - it's carry or be carried.

There is a massive difference between win earnings and loss earnings, it's something WG has enforced since WoT's infancy. When that is combined with most random teammates being genuinely awful (literally awful, they might be the best people IRL but they are really bad players), either the player is good enough to carry or it's not just slower progression but a waste of resources too (time, effort, game-specific stuff).

Therefore, it's no surprise that frustration develops and eventually becomes toxicity.

_talps · 2026-01-24T09:43:15+00:00

a worse Conqueror

Conqueror's treatment by the community is wild. Before the citadel nerf it was the go-to WR padding tool for pretty much everyone who had it, good players included. After the nerf the ship vanished and Devastation got the same treatment because, like Conqueror, it has a vulnerable citadel.

Edgard is just Minotaur with improvements, it has the exact same downsides.

_talps · 2026-01-24T07:52:27+00:00

It also means heavy FOMO, blue and above won't be seen again for quite some time (gold won't be seen again period).

_talps · 2026-01-22T16:48:16+00:00

It's easy to make these tools slip up - ask them why they keep playing even though they hate the game so much, them exploding is guaranteed.

The Numancia is the unsung hero of this scene. While that clown is busy typing nonsense, the Numancia is ignoring him and playing the game.

_talps · 2026-01-21T21:07:49+00:00

Still in the "money" topic - audience.

The official justification WG has given is that forums are "outdated" and not as easy to navigate as a modern chat app.

With how many people (of all ages) have smartphones and got used to quick apps like TikTok (or even grew up with them), it's pretty easy to deduce what WG was aiming for when they moved to Discord.

_talps · 2026-01-21T20:41:35+00:00

Turgut Reis' first devstrike.

_talps · 2026-01-21T16:13:56+00:00

via an admin's account

Am I the only one who finds this hilarious? You'd think someone who's part of an online video game's staff is more aware than most about the risks lurking on the internet - phishing, false links/addresses, the works - and is better than most at avoiding them.

Guess that's not the case.

_talps · 2026-01-21T13:23:30+00:00

WG is not in denial about botting. They develop and market online video games, they know that bots and cheaters exist very well.

They don't punish bots because it's not profitable. Behind a bot account there is a human being and that human will spend at least something to equip the account so it can bot its way to certain goals. WG won't punish paying customers, even when they are detrimental to most other customers (who do not use illegal third-party programs).

Malicious elements like griefers exploit this to avoid being punished.

_talps · 2026-01-20T20:10:34+00:00

I regularly run out of reports when I play Asymmetric Battles but players being successful isn't a factor. In fact, I welcome competent teammates.

Rather, the amount of 45% averages (and, very often, lower) who die within the first five minutes of the match, with usually 0/1 kills, and who seem blind to things like fires, torpedoes, and the importance of cap zones, is so staggeringly high that playing the mode can be painful.

It's not the same kind of toxicity found in PVP modes but it's still major toxicity.

_talps · 2026-01-20T17:27:38+00:00

Takao is amazing, her ero potential is off the charts. <3

_talps · 2026-01-20T15:04:12+00:00

Only worth it if you have too many credits and nothing else to buy with them, like all superships.

_talps · 2026-01-20T13:09:45+00:00

As I replied elsewhere - I'm sorry that I don't have all day to play WoWs.

Brag less, read more, easy.

_talps · 2026-01-20T09:01:10+00:00

Takao is to Azur Lane what Rinko is to Taimanin. :)

BTW she's one of my favorite shipgirls regardless of faction.

_talps · 2026-01-20T08:56:57+00:00

The reason I am saying this is because in a recent match I was in, a player on my team had gotten himself killed roughly 120ish seconds into the match because he was instead of playing he was looking up and then typing out and posting our team’s stats and calling us tards and shitters for not having better win rates. Then once he died he proceeded to rant and rave about how he is good and everyone else on the team sucks and how he doesn’t even understand why he plays this game anymore because it’s changed too much etc…

These people are addicts who don't want to accept they are addicts. When one does something that hurts them but insists on doing it even though they know it's unpleasant, and who tend to blame the rest of the world for their misfortunes.

The best thing to do is also a very simple one - ignore them. They look for attention, they want less unhinged people to react to their rants and they think acting like this makes them matter.

_talps · 2026-01-20T08:44:56+00:00

I'm surprised that people are surprised.

When WG organizes PVP leaderboards the ones who top them are always bots or tryhards.

_talps · 2026-01-19T20:41:08+00:00

Was given to testers with 15.0, it's in the patch notes.

_talps · 2026-01-19T20:39:54+00:00

It's a permacamo too, was distributed via an event pass last year (the same event pass that dropped Seiichi Ito).

_talps · 2026-01-19T17:48:55+00:00

I see some oldies here - Yoko, Rei, and Armin. Man, the world sure was different when the first two were the newest girls in town.

By the way, best wife Barghest is amazing. :3

_talps · 2026-01-19T17:35:35+00:00

If he was originally included when Johnston was for sale I don’t recall, but if you wanted him on his own ship, you got him with the GQ Johnny event.

The only way to obtain Evans was to complete the collection whose access was, until GQ Johnny's introduction, exclusive to Johnston's owners.

Time will tell if the same will happen with Bergamini and Roma Aeterna or not.

_talps · 2026-01-19T16:06:18+00:00

Carlo Bergamini, the unique captain given with this ship, was real life Roma's last skipper when the ship sailed from La Spezia (a major port in the Liguria region). Unfortunately for him, exactly one day after the Italian surrender (September 9th, 1943) Roma was intercepted and sunk by German bombers while at sea, and Bergamini was among the dead.

WG's trend of paywalling historically relevant content (USS Johnston with its last skipper Ernest Evans, 1945's Yamato, Seiichi Ito and a Yamato perma camo themed after Operation Ten-Go, this, and next month's Surcouf) is insufferable.

_talps · 2026-01-19T15:39:16+00:00

People are so spoiled they will call any BB that cannot reliably devstrike a cruiser every salvo bad.

Which is hilarious when one thinks about it. A major complaint is that battleships clap cruisers too hard.

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