Hello, everyone.
As of 2.43.0.63, bots sailing in much more advanced ships, such as the latter cruisers and battleships can be observed.
Bots scaling up witb players; makes sense, right? Yes, in a properly balanced game.
Many ships in the game are poorly balanced, with varying power and same BR.
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The French battleship for example, Courbet, is readily ammoracked and has poor performance.
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The 6.0 Cruisers with guns that cannot do much damage against battleships.
PVE was the lifeline for many ships, and it was a valid playstyle; bots contribute to the battle, and while battleships focused on PVP, cruisers focused on PVE (to a lesser degree PVP against other cruisers) and avoiding the wrath of battleships.
Without this lifeline, players in inferior ships (which the developers have yet to balance), cannot contribute at all, and are merely free kills.
Also have to mention is the fact that High Explosive shells (stock for many ships) are laughably weak and can barely scratch anything but auxiliary turrets/guns (usually only one or two of them). I have a Mutsu, and its mighty 410mm guns (roughly 46kg TNTe, so like 100kg bombs), was outperformed by the 140mm SAP shells.