OT : World of Warships

[BBfanboy]

And then there is simply the realization that some people worked a lot of hours to design and build the game and they need to be paid for their efforts. This was a full-time job for them, not a hobby. I know the programmers were paid up front by the investors but there has to be a money flow to offset later or no one will build such games.
One reason I do not use Spotify and other "free" sites that do not reward the people who did the creative work.

[Fallschirmjager]

Sorry to dig up an old thread

But I have been playing the hell out of this. I am up to tier IV-V for most of my ships now

I could have tier VII or VIII if I played as one nation, one class but I like to mix it up. The updates are steadily getting better.
Russian cruisers were added and I expect the next update will add the RN or Russian battleships/battlecruisers
If they go the Russian route I expect they will have to use some paper designs since the Russians never got anything off the drawing board battleship wise in the Soviet era.
They laid some keels but never completed a ship.

After these two I expect perhaps Italy or the French Navy would be the next logical step. Both of those have all three lines of ships except maybe carriers but those could be shoehorned in using paper designs and borrowed British/American lend lease, purchased ships
I don't mind 'fantasy' ships to flesh out lines of ships. Ships are balanced for gameplay reasons.
i.e. the Yamato can fire about 26 KM in game but around 48 KM in real life.

It's a really fun game and I have broke down and spent real money.
The game truly is free to play. You don't gave an advantage by spending real money. Do you progress faster? Yes
But if you use a better ship you simply are matched against stronger ships. If you outright buy a high tier ship then you may lack the skills and game time to use the ship that well.
I purchased the USS Atlanta and got matched up against players with lots of played matches and got slaughtered.
Spending money was no advantage. It just gave me a 'unique' ship.

And the games you can play are not limited by cooldown bars or 'energy' like some truly terrible mobile games.
You can never spend anything on the game and play as much as you want and progress just as high as those who pay.
It is a grind and you will need to play a lot of games but it is possible.

All in all I am really liking the game. They continue to balance things and there is a lot of player complaints but what do you expect?
I am not hardcore into it and by diversifying my ship collection if a ship is nerfed I can move past it or to something else.

I really miss my St. Louis class cruiser (insane ROF, you could spit 6" shells like a hail storm) but I just fully upgraded my Wyoming and I really enjoy it. Fire a broadside and then turn to angle your armor while you reload and repeat.
Until a DD sneaks up on you and you have a quick end your gunnery duel.

I also like my Clemson class. The 4" guns can take on enemy DDs if you need to duel them or you can sneak in and with your 5.5 KM range torpedo's make an attack run. Or you can scout for the BB's/cruisers and lay smoke screens.

The Russian DD line have weak torpedo's but are more like destroyed leader/gunboat classes.
The Premium ship Molotov is really fun. 7" guns in 3 triple turrets. Mediocre torpedo's but great speed.
Not a lot of protection but it is a light cruiser with better than light cruiser guns.

[Admiral DadMan]

Atlanta was good before they messed with stuff and broke it. Mine makes me cry tears of disappointent. Same thing to Cleveland.

But then again, I really do suck.

[Lokasenna]

ORIGINAL: Admiral DadMan

Atlanta was good before they messed with stuff and broke it. Mine makes me cry tears of disappointent. Same thing to Cleveland.

But then again, I really do suck.

The Cleveland is amazing, but mostly because it's a bully. It used to be way too good with the range skill that no longer applies to its guns... now it's an absolute murderer or cruisers at 9km or so (load AP and try it), and if a DD shows its face it kills those too. And the planes... it's a great ship. It shouldn't be T6, it should be T8. Clevelands were amazing. Basically just a Baltimore with smaller guns, right?