Official World of Warships discussion thread

I play WOWS quite frequently. I have:

VI Budyonny (CL)

VII Haida (DD)

X Minotaur (CL)

I played it... but only Tier8-ships.

Never spent a cent for the game, so i have no "premium-ship".
I dislike the super-russians, who are moved into the "best ever"-category... in the secret russian archives we will find quickly the best carrier on earth, just russia never builded it. Paperships...

they ruined the battlecruisers, instead of implementing german and british ones they dropped em...

it is fun to play, but you need to play often to have a real chance in combat... the many changes also mean, do not play 4 weeks and you are "out", because the rules have changed and your strategy that worked 4 weeks before now is faulty. I played around 3000 rounds... i am below average, because i like to have fun (to often to near to the enemy:) )... i think the best "fun ship" is the Bismarck, german T8 Battleship, it could hope to survive the first 5 minutes in a Tier10-game (and you are quite often in such games) and it looks cool.

British cruisers seem to be funny too, but here i stood at Tier6.
Japanese cruisers are a bitch, if you burn your enemies you have fun, but beware of turret turning and rate of fire...

Us ships are way low peformer... here i reached tier8, these ships should be much better...

russian destroyers and cruisers are "the best" (surprise)... but i have no clue if that is still true today (untill 2 months i played often, now have rested).

in the low tiers it is fun... Tier 3-6 could be funny, if you - with experience - meet some newbies who bought their ships... then you kill em

Something that could be a gamekiller... the game cheat about something... say you are 6km away from a hostile (russian) cruiser... he could make himself invisible and kills your battleship, either french, british, german, american, doesn´t matter... because you do not see him. He is much faster, more manoverable... you can fire every 25 to 35sec... so basically he can kill you - by HE-fire.
Doing this mean you need support by other players. But that is the biggest failure in normal "instant play". You have the nationalist idiots (mostly poles with a BIG minority complex) who like to insult the own team, betray your positions or try to kill you. Problem - if you shoot back (remove that ass), you get pink, labeled "team killer"... again that is from 2 months ago, but if one shoot on you (own team) you should be able to kill him. Esp. if he do it on purpose. But if you do, you get punished

Also the teamplay is very bad. Not many try to support their teams... and - that is from my pov the greatest problem - you will be judged by damage you do.
Example... say you are a cruiser and try to help your battleships (because you have much better AA fire - say an old Tier6-cleveland, leveled on AA) supporting Tier5 french battleship with ZERO AA, basically dead if engaged by hostile planes).
Doing this mean you are out of range (short legged guns), cannot do damage. You help your team to win, but you will not get much experience (very important) or money, so in the end you play FOR the team, but you do not get something out of it.

Something else to consider... if the "i move alone in the wrong direction"-guys, who never coordinate with the others die (that happen 99 out of 100 times, teamplay IS important), they flame in the communication all the time that the team suck, that he fucked your mothers, etc. Instead of shut up, learn and do it better, these guys allways blame the "others" if they subperform.

Add in the "politcal" interested... who try to attack Country X (not only germany), say a french hate british ships - for what mad thinking - then he blame them as "overpowered" the whole game. Nothing to stop him.

You could inform the game masters about such persons, but they never die out, i never saw them got banned or such things. That is a problem... that is a game that should be fun... i do not care if i drive a russian cruiser, a german battleship, a french cruiser or a british battleship (IJN and USA i have forgotten, here the same)...

Since 2018 we have had the following content introduced:

The CV rework

German DD line-split

Italian cruisers and battleships

Soviet battleships

British carriers

US battleship line-split

Soviet cruiser line-split

British cruiser line-split

"Pan-European" (Swedish) destroyers

And many more. Of these, I only really liked the Italian cruisers as a whole line. The newer British heavy cruisers honestly are not too impressive, the CV rework is...questionable, the US battleship line-split is also questionable. With the Soviet ships, yes you have ridiculous ships like Petropavlovsk but you also have terrible ships like Tallinn. And with the battleships, the high-tier ones are much less impressive than they once were because of all the carriers and HE-spamming cruiser making battleships much more difficult to play.

I still have Minotaur though, and now also have Venezia, Henri IV, Sinop, Smolensk, Des Moines, Marceau, and Oland.