People also don’t seem to understand that the reason she took awhile to sink was that the British were closed in tight and basically shooting flat-on into superstructure, turrets, and the belt armour. They weren’t making many below-waterline hits, which meant a very slow sinking. It wasn’t that the Bismarck was special and super, it was purely just the trajectories of the shell fire.
Yup, another reason people played arcade. I say played, because as one can see, there has been a major drop off, and barring the small uptick from new update, it will continue to decline steadily this coming year.
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Kirishima, which was a much more lightly protected and smaller battleship than Bismarck, took 4 hours to sink after getting brutally blown by the much more powerful 16" Mk 6 at point blank. This is the nature of a wrecked ship with flooded magazine - they just wouldn’t sink quickly under gunfire. Bismarck for sure would have not sunk this rapidly without her crew scuttled the ship, but believing British battleships were unable to sink her can be nothing but idiocy.
Yes because the Germans were aiming for the forward magazine of HMS Hood…Not a lucky shot at all. No difference from the Swordfish run on Bismark.
And instead of withdrawing they hung around and the inevitable happened. Even if Bismark made it back to France she wouldnt have dared risk putting to sea again and thats why the Tirpitz spent the whole war hiding in the Norwegian Fjord. Bismarkls fate would have been similar
Bismark became another German wunderwaffe destroyed by the allied powers.
The skill is still there. just because you aim at a certain point, doesn´t mean all shots land there. There is still some inaccuracy of teh gun and your movement direction in context of the target also effects there ballistic curve.
Though now its less aiming and more where you aim. I generally win because i aim for specific parts of the ship or know when someone moves to irratic to do so. Using there own movement to spread my hits over the ship, by simply keeping the aim centered.
There is still alot of detail to it. But with the old system it was hard to care about those detail, because getting the shots on the enemy in the first place was already difficult enough.
I really hope gaijin simplefies and streamlines the rest of arcade the same way.
There is not, and your posts are either the height of trolling or the height of simplification of games to point and click mobile styles.
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after seeing the dev server update the armor looks really really bad for its BR
is the armor still subject to change ?
Not majorly. Guess what, a WW1 distributed armour scheme will always stay a WW1 distributed armour scheme, and will always be inferior to an all or nothing scheme, no matter how much hype it gets
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There are several mistakes to be corrected, such as the inclination of the slope deck. Now it is mostly 70deg whilst irl it was 67deg max (not 68deg from most public sources) only around the boiler rooms and 57-62deg for most of the citadel.
So its armour is likely getting nerfs than buffs
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Ironically, this means that Gneisenau might be the most problematic because of her retaining Scharnhorsts armor scheme.
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Not really, in dev server Gneisenau explodes within 2 sec after ammo lift is on fire for >90% of the time, even much easier to kill than Scharnhorst in live server
Thx for telling me. Ammo elevator detonations are already making Scharn hardly playable. I was considering to even buy the Gneis. But why, if its the same elevator mechanic (where are the blast doors^^ Its not an open shaft)… Also for what? Bismarck hardly appears to be a worthy addition. There’s no reason to quickly unlock her, just to be DOA.
Whelp, that’s what I get for buying a new premium the moment it’s announced. I typically never do that for this very reason… I was just too excited. Not the most expensive lesson I’ve ever learned, but still unpleasant.
You will get nothing but downtiers at launch, enjoy it then before everyone gets end of the line 8.x ships that eternally drag it up there.
How do you figure? Gneisenau is to be a 7.7, per dev server. The only 8.3s and 8.7s are the new TT bigguns, right? And there will certainly be many Day One Iowas, Yamatos, Bismarcks, and fake Rooskie BBs when the new update hits. Or are you suggesting that Gaijin will limit 8.0 and above to their own BRs and fill in the other slots with bots?
Maybe its different in Naval, but in Air and Ground modes the new top units are just there from the very start.
Bismark DOA, Historically accurate.
Thought it was 7.3 my bad, 7.7 might still get some downtiers for a while but not as much ya.
Its gonna take about 10-15 hours of grinding for everyone that has the tree completely finished before the update hits to get the new ships unlocked unless they spend 10k or so GE to instantly unlock it, naval grind is pretty brutal. And thats with a premium/talisman ship and time.
Also they are easy to one shot these days with 7.7s like Rodney :P
Ive been feeling pretty indestructible in the sharn playing it at range and sniping, think most people now are just shooting bots though, I hear its easy to kill via fires or something?