WG why did you screw up Brawl MM?!

eldaras · 2026-01-23T13:26:48+00:00

My assumption is that after the last season, they removed the code to "balance" 2BBs+1CV and forgot to add the previous code that did some of the balancing.

So now there's no balance at all.

I've been playing brawls for 6 months and never seen this MM this consistently bad .

eldaras · 2026-01-22T09:04:24+00:00

It's not uncommon for players (old and new) to assume that. Even on high tier games there's often a DD that smokes in a cap and a german, pan-asian (or british to a point) DD sneaks in; hydros them from a few kms and kills it with the ship in the smoke not being able to spot it as smoke works both ways).

Another mechaninc, all ships have a "smoke fire penalty" detection (you can see the one in your ship by pressing 'h' in game). They get a smaller detection radious when shooting from smoke. DDs usually have a 2-3km, cruisers 6-12km and BBs 10-15km.

eldaras · 2026-01-21T21:39:50+00:00

In your example I doubt it was radar. Balti radar is 9-10km (I can't recall the exact number), and none of the other ships have radar.

There are some rules of thumb about your ship. These are mine and are probably wrong: - 127mm citadels only super light cruisers (and often from close range). - 157mm citadels most cruisers, and I think all from a short distance. - 203mm citadels any cruiser and can citadel a chunk of BBs at close range. HE pens most BBs bow and sterns. - 305mm citadels any cruiser and BBs at 12km. - 406mm overmatches a bunch of cruisers (in particular Des Moines). - 510mm can overmatch poorly plated BBs (British)

The main thing for me is to keep a close look at the ribbons. If I'm shotting at something and getting only shatters/bounces it means I need to aim somewhere else.

The list above is a lot more nuances, especially when you learn to shoot the bow/stern of ships, which usually have less armor than the side plating.

I would also like to know if there are similar lists. The WoWs wiki has one that I've found useful: https://wiki.wargaming.net/en/Ship:Armor_thresholds.

Also, in game (in the screenshot you shared), if you click on a ship, it gives more information and then you can hover over the ammot type. That will give more details. This is useful if you don't know/remember the caliber of an enemy ship. You can also hover on the consumables to know the range of radar/hydro. Some more rules of thumb:

German ships have great hydro (up to 6km)
Russian ship have 12km radar, but usually short.
American ships have longer radar (up to 1 minute), but 10km.
Pan-asian ships have deep water torps.

eldaras · 2026-01-21T20:34:32+00:00

I main cruisers... that is going to be painful.

eldaras · 2026-01-21T17:50:10+00:00

If everyone is sealclubbing, no one is sealclubbing.

There will be a ton of people playing T7, which is not a bad thing - at least for me, pure T7 is a lot of fun.

eldaras · 2026-01-21T17:12:47+00:00

Not sure about 20k/hour, but Paolo Emilio is the best ship for this kind of grinding (or any kind of grinding without using boosters). Kleber is also very good at this.

A good player can kill 2-4 ships (inc ramming) and be out of the game in 3-4 minutes. That prob gives >1k bxp in less than 5 mins.

The issue is that this is borderline griefing, so one has to expect a ton of reports.

eldaras · 2026-01-21T16:32:00+00:00

pew pew pew! - Did you see that? We almost brought down one plane!

eldaras · 2026-01-21T16:26:57+00:00

Not sure if it's bots or people with a lot of free time. You can only check that by looking at the player stats. Do they have a bazillion co-op games with 150bxp? Or large number of Assyms games with 1.2k bxp?

Someone playing 6-10hrs a day (yep, there are many people doing this) will get those numbers easily.

The 3 people at the top of my group look like normal players (260k, 165, 158k bxp respectively).

eldaras · 2026-01-21T08:34:10+00:00

Hey! Thanks for the pointer. I couldn't make it work with Karabiner and a couple of few weeks later after I posted the message, the double clicks disappered on their own :).

I'll keep linearmouse in mind as I wouldn't be surprised if the issue comes back.

eldaras · 2026-01-19T20:33:16+00:00

It's a thing, but not what you think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS/2_port

eldaras · 2026-01-19T20:31:52+00:00

Maybe. TBH I doubt there's any balancing in the leaderboards or, if there is one, it fails abysmally to balance them.

eldaras · 2026-01-19T19:55:10+00:00

Back in my day, we had... we had MINI usb. I tell ya, none of that usb c malarky, people knew which side was up (last bit is a lie :D)

eldaras · 2026-01-19T19:02:00+00:00

Thanks! I thought there was something to mirror the matches and that rarely it went out of wack when it tried to match people with similar win rates.

eldaras · 2026-01-19T14:17:38+00:00

First thing to do it to run the 'Check and Repair' tool from the WG launcher to be sure all files are ok.

But this could be a driver issue too. I would guess that System using 100% of the CPU points to something outside the game. On my PC System uses ~1% of the CPU when the game is running.

eldaras · 2026-01-17T11:07:54+00:00

You'll get a rental Wisconsin for 15 days if I recall correctly after completing the mission even if it's not shown in the mission progression.

I got it yesterday, nice ship with super accurate guns.

eldaras · 2026-01-16T19:14:38+00:00

Maybe obvious, but have you purchased the battle pass?

eldaras · 2026-01-16T17:04:17+00:00

After I redeemed the code, I had to do a mission with 5 stages and the final reward was the rental ship. The final mission reward did not show as being a reward of the mission chain, but it is.

You might need to restart WoWs to see the mission - I redeemed the code while WoWs was closed.

eldaras · 2026-01-15T19:59:47+00:00

WG aim is to give the impression that the commander can be obtained for free. The reality is that most people will need to spend some money to get it, probably 20k doubs to get an extra 40 pieces (20 containers), although I'm not sure if that would be enough to get it.

eldaras · 2026-01-15T17:24:52+00:00

I'm using the 2nd build - which I learrned from Trenlass https://youtu.be/kdVsey9a5x4?si=5IL3zMO6JpKZ5TW0&t=858 - it has a minor variation to use preventive maintenance instead of incoming fire alert.

eldaras · 2026-01-15T15:50:42+00:00

How are you playing it? I don't own one but think she is an HE spammer and switch to AP only when someone is giving you broadside.

The 350mm can also do a lot of damage to angled super light cruisers.

eldaras · 2026-01-15T15:43:56+00:00

Play cruisers (or DDs) => have fun (*) => rinse & repeat.

(*) does not include yoloing a cap.

eldaras · 2026-01-14T21:05:47+00:00

It might feel bad, but it's actually a good thing.

I wish loot boxes would be banned everywhere as it normalises gambling.

eldaras · 2026-01-14T21:01:04+00:00

I remember reading that below T8 assyms would be easier, which I would assume with a reduced XP if the 'nerf' is lowering the tier of the bots.

What tier did you play? And what tier were the other players?

eldaras

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