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World of Warships entering Closed Beta
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kahboomkin
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Well what do we have here?
Several ships, that may or may not have included me, sank trying to get a closer look lol
RMS Gigantic
Member
I don't even have the crew retrained, but we are reunited at last! I am so happy!
wow. Do BBs get better in higher tiers? I'm having a hard time to convince myself grinding them any further. You get up-tiered a lot and most of the time you can't do much before you get sunk by Minekazes or Planes
RMS Gigantic
Member
wow. Do BBs get better in higher tiers? I'm having a hard time to convince myself grinding them any further. You get up-tiered a lot and most of the time you can't do much before you get sunk by Minekazes or Planes
Indeed planes and destroyers will always be the bane of battleships, though teamwork and, in the destroyers' case, HE rounds can mitigate these threats.
It's not as simple of a class to play as some might think. These ships are fortresses, yes, but it takes a LOT of know-how, forethought, and situational awareness to play right. These Battleships and aircraft carriers are capital ships for good reason: in high-tier matches, I have seen cases where the top-tier battleship on a team often, perhaps even is expected to, give the team members their orders during the match. I've personally started a lot of matches as the top battleship on the team by telling my team's cruisers to focus on eliminating the enemy destroyers and provide air cover (that is, get rid of the two biggest threats that face a battleship).
Naturally, there are a whole lot of teams that fall apart due to attitude problems or, especially in mid-to-low tiers, lack of experience with the game, but when you get a game where the players on it communicate with each other in a not-pissed-off way, the results are positively breathtaking.
Come to think of it, it's kind of funny how, during good high-tier matches, each role of ship ends up coming with a role of player as well. Aircraft carriers tend to relay the team information relating to the map such as whether flanks were left open or where unaccounted for ships were last seen, battleships tend to play the role of general, cruisers often look for ways to support other classes, and destroyers are perhaps the most adventurous class.
Yeah, this game works best if you are in a capable team. You don't even have to talk to others, it's enough if somebody tells everyone in chat what to do.
I'm having the most fun with my cruisers and destroyers. I hate it though, when I get one-shotted (or nearly one-shotted) across the map by some lucky battleship
I'm having the most fun with my cruisers and destroyers. I hate it though, when I get one-shotted (or nearly one-shotted) across the map by some lucky battleship
RMS Gigantic
Member
Yeah, this game works best if you are in a capable team. You don't even have to talk to others, it's enough if somebody tells everyone in chat what to do.
I'm having the most fun with my cruisers and destroyers. I hate it though, when I get one-shotted (or nearly one-shotted) across the map by some lucky battleship
Correct on both accounts: Your first point is correct that games go excellently if someone devises a strategy and has the entire team cooperate, and battleships or aircraft carriers are often the ones who bark those orders if anyone. They're the capital ships, after all! In terms of your second point, one of the developers said on the official forums once that they figured that destroyers and cruisers would be funner, and thus more popular, than the larger warships, as a way of keeping the capital ship population down at a reasonable level.
Basically, the stronger a ship CAN be, the harder it is to play.
For example, carriers have some absolutely incredible destructive potential, but they are at their absolute strongest if the carrier captain masters how to manually drop torpedoes and bombs (letting the game automatically place the attack can lead to easier-to-predict attacks), which is something that I'm still not confident enough to do against anything but stationary targets!
Battleships can rip smaller ships to shreds, but it's a class that's more strategy and planning than action and shooting, where you even need to decide when to use certain types of shell.
Cruisers are the jacks of all trades, which makes them easy to play.
Destroyers actually are a case where they're very fast, but still very hard to master, and thus have some seriously destructive potential if you are able to, as you said, dodge incoming shells.
To put it briefly, plenty of people can pop out some torpedoes, injure an enemy ship, and then die to the enemy's secondaries (I know I've one that plenty of times, and still do).
To explain in length on how someone can last longer as a destroyer (aside from the obvious "stay far away from the engagement," which is a legitimate strategy if you would rather become a hunter in the later stages of the battle, after the other destroyers are out of the picture):
It might be worthwhile to invest two skill points in the crew perk that gives you a small indicator if there's enemy fire going in your direction, to remind you to look around. The perk above it, the one-skill-point perk that lets you know when your ship has been spotted, is an indisputable must-have for destroyers, especially at high tiers. The best way I can describe high-tier destroyer play is that it's "Metal Gear Solid in a ship." You sneak into the front lines, deactivating your AA guns, using equipment, crew skills, or anything else you can use to minimize your detection range, getting up close to an enemy ship but not SO close that it destroys you with its secondaries, and then launching your extremely powerful torpedoes to cripple or sink them! And if you need to disappear from sight after you've been spotted, you can pop smoke to generate a highly conspicuous smoke cloud but disappear inside of it, or use speed to run away with the engine boost consumable (that makes you more visible in the process because your ship burns fuel in a dirtier way and thus produces thicker exhaust smoke while the consumable is in effect).
The biggest reason why I love World of Warships is the way that even with straightforward controls, this game is strategy on top of strategy on top of strategy!
RMS Gigantic
Member
Thank you very much for this! Albany is one of my favorite ships, aesthetically, thanks to the extremely 'Murican stern.
kahboomkin
Member
Well after some insane grinding.... I got her back.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I think I'll go sleep for an hour or twenty.
SillyEskimo
Member
I sunk all 8 enemy ships in a game the other day. Good times indeed.
RMS Gigantic
Member
You have yourself a real nightmare to the enemy there! I've heard a lot of fearsome things about the torpedo armament of the Zao, not to even mention the deck guns....
Have to play it like a BB. It does suck though, I free xp'd my way through half of it
anyone here using DDs in higher tiers? I have no clue how to play the jp dds with 2 carriers searching for me/others. You are completely useless and can't do anything about it. Once they find you your torpedoes are detected early, and your guns are shit anyway.
What am I supposed to do? Any tips?
What am I supposed to do? Any tips?
kahboomkin
Member
No more Colorado! I almost feel like celebrating.
