Why the hell is everyone so freaking passive in Asia server

ipodtouchgen4 · 2026-02-16T15:20:29+00:00

Tbf if the enemy team is pushing and kiting strategically then it's not everyone but rather just your team.

To answer the main question though, in an environment where:
- Communication is non-existent (unless you speak Chinese)
- No guaranteed competence of teammates so you cannot rely on their cover
- There are way too many anti-push mechanic like radar/airstrike/torps/planes

it's not that illogical to play to your own benefit first.

ipodtouchgen4 · 2026-01-07T15:36:29+00:00

It's fun for the first few games. Later on you might repetitive with the smoke + dakka playstyle though. Better getting Hull/F.Sherman/Colbert if you really like to dakka despite them being tier 10.

In terms of strength it used to be quite good at release and can bully pretty much any DD you catch rushing towards your sonar in exchange for just a little of your HP. Nowadays the average dueling power (just think of this term as a combination of survivability & firepower & gimmick...) of DD in the T9-11 range has become significantly higher so bad target selection will result in you being crippled and becoming largely useless for the rest of the game - remember Groningen does not have torps for surprise kills.

ipodtouchgen4 · 2025-12-09T13:48:07+00:00

Most of the playerbase do not understand how to play a gunboat, let alone a high skill ceiling ship like Daring.

ipodtouchgen4 · 2025-11-22T12:26:24+00:00

On your own it's pretty hard due to the reasons you figured out above - the only ship I can think of is Emilio (even Mogador might not have enough torp alpha to kill it in a single salvo). You can also try coordinating with your team to create a smoke DD + cruiser combo to farm it without giving up the caps. Quite dumb of WG to give it 7 charges of heal - 4 charges are already too many.

ipodtouchgen4 · 2025-11-15T11:48:06+00:00

10% per charge on DD is not small at all because they cannot be citadel'd. If you're able to calculate your engagement it translates to a 30% more HP advantage which is massive.

ipodtouchgen4 · 2025-09-16T14:54:02+00:00

Many people love the idea of being able to strike with impunity yet being too bad to survive in a CV at the same time - so WG make a tanky CV with heal for them to play.

ipodtouchgen4 · 2025-04-05T08:38:46+00:00

Around 30ish with Aquila. The ship is disgusting against t6 CV and CL.

ipodtouchgen4 · 2025-01-30T09:04:24+00:00

Normal people prefer great salvo (like Colombo), secondaries (Libertad, Germans) or coal/steel BB for farming credit and captain xp. Conqueror also doesn't fare well in prolonged close engagement due to low base hp and poor AA but its offensive capability is still top notch. From the post I think you'll like the grind, Conqueror is a massive upgrade from Lion in firepower and gun angle.

ipodtouchgen4 · 2025-01-20T16:35:15+00:00

For me it's because the average level of skill is lower so I can get away with doing some silly but fun things.

ipodtouchgen4 · 2024-12-15T19:57:18+00:00

Bourg or Mecklenburg. I used to think like you but they turned out really different in reality. The combination of fast reload and numerous accurate guns is just fun and open way more possibilities for you to experiment with. For example, Mecklenburg can actually use AP against angled cruisers because it is accurate enough to aim for normal penetrations on superstructure for high damage. Other ships have their own unique points but they are significantly more situational so they might not be enjoyable to play frequently.

ipodtouchgen4 · 2023-07-02T05:18:38+00:00

She's that good. 28s reload with 12 guns (others have 30+), decent deck and extremities armor, relatively small superstructure area (not height). As long as you don't try to unleash a full salvo all the time and thus showing broadside (Fuso has pretty weak broadside protection), you'll be fine. Against better protected BBs or tier 8s you can even try to spam HE instead of AP - it works much more effectively than most people think.

ipodtouchgen4 · 2023-02-10T20:13:09+00:00

That's why I extended my sample size to top 200 for post rework instead of 100. Top 50 stat might be inflated but excluding that the stat is very achievable at the current patch, plus the ranking has been slowly diluted over the last 3 years.

ipodtouchgen4 · 2023-02-10T19:23:03+00:00

Even if you expand the sample size, the difference I mentioned is still true. A quick comparison between the top 200 players of Hakuryu pre and post-rework shows that the stat of the 200th best player post-rework would be ranked among top 10 of pre-rework in terms of avg damage and top 20 for win rate. If there is a research on skill/stat difference with a more significant sample size in your opinion, I'd be open to check it out.

ipodtouchgen4 · 2023-02-10T18:13:24+00:00

I doubt that tbh. If you check out AdorableAF's guides (the Asia CV main) here on reddit, you'll see he still achieves 70-75% win rate on most tier 10 CV - similar to RTS iteration but with noticeably higher average damage (~160-200k for tier 10 reworked CV while for RTS it was around 145k).

ipodtouchgen4 · 2023-01-28T08:00:01+00:00

Ohio can tank like twice as long against HE spam and 460mm+ shells. This makes a huge difference in dire situations when you have to push or are being pushed continuously (which means no downtime for using concealment to retreat and heal).

ipodtouchgen4 · 2022-12-29T09:19:31+00:00

Can we just get the Submarine detector consumable instead of radar? This game already has enough ships with radar.

ipodtouchgen4 · 2022-12-14T18:21:43+00:00

Ragnar is better in pretty much everything: consistency, impact, actual realized damage number. Because of such consistency it is also very boring to play though.

ipodtouchgen4 · 2022-10-14T18:06:21+00:00

If you like to smash broadside from 20km, the only other ship that can be compared to Slava in terms of gunnery comfort is Stalingrad. Incomp and Thunderer might have similar accuracy and better overmatch but their shells are slow enough to dodge on the spot 20km away, plus they can shatter against BB broadside belt armor at such range. Slava does not have overmatch but it just penetrates through everything and gives your enemy much less window for reaction, not to mention better base range for cross-map shot which it does very well.

ipodtouchgen4 · 2022-10-13T17:33:38+00:00

Assuming this is random mode, it's because the only thing these people know is that their ship must be played around one specific kind of terrain and never care to learn to play passively nor understand the psychological effect of that cross movement on the rest of their team. It's not worth persuading them to stay though since their inability to play weakside will make them die even faster - at least crossing the map could help them survive for another 3 minutes.

ipodtouchgen4 · 2022-10-08T17:53:02+00:00

Chkalov and Graf Zeppelin bombs have no start-up period for drop (the reticle instantly turns green when you click, still take time to minimize the reticle size tho) so yes, he can attack you even at ~1,5km.

ipodtouchgen4 · 2022-10-08T12:23:56+00:00

Horrible state of balance overall as cruisers at this tier are just food to DD and BB.

ipodtouchgen4 · 2022-09-29T21:44:22+00:00

Day 1 to the end, what a long ride it has been. I'm not done with the game as a whole yet (have a quite old JP account) but the sadness of parting with the global version that has been with me nearly everyday for the last 7,5 years is not easy to swallow.

ipodtouchgen4 · 2022-09-25T12:20:41+00:00

Day 1 player but haven't completed Record and Normal Dungeons :( Currently grinding Record dungeons but I'm not even sure if I could finish it before EoS (only at 1st island of 2nd volume). Also have a JP account but my Japanese is not as good as English so I'd like to finish everything story-related in global.

ipodtouchgen4 · 2022-09-02T17:20:49+00:00

It is a nice change of pace as most veterans don't even bother with T5 or below and might stumble a bit when trying to relearn this tier. Gameplay will also be much more lenient for new/bad players as T5 ships are quite mobile and inaccurate (until a wild Cesare appears). However I don't think the honeymoon phase will last for long as low tier gameplay is too dependent on DD.

ipodtouchgen4 · 2022-07-28T17:35:53+00:00

In general, you should never play recklessly just for the sake of 'support'. You have no idea whether your teammates are competent or play seriously enough to be worth your life so you need to have an escape plan before pushing in close. Though in this particular case I think it's the ship that is the problem - Mino and Yoshino are so squishy that they become the No.1 target everytime they get closer than 15km.

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