I think the current status of Coastal is quite hopeless.
they are all compressed harder than ground coffee beans which wait for extracted into an Espresso shot in an espresso machine. Thanks to the Hard Cap made by Bluewater Reserve in 3.3BR. every single few 0.3-0.4BR steps of Coastal feels like 2.0BR different in Air RB to me.
also, there are some broken boats which are broken for years so almost feels like cheating(half-joking stance)
SKR-7 or PG-02 can be an example. typical Kiss up kick down t type of piece of shit. being weak against bigger class ships but can be nightmare to boats. Especially if the victim’s BR are even lower than those nasty bastards.
and those boats give worse rewards than their Bluewater counterparts since their Reward Multipliers are in the bargain but the cost of buying boats in both SL and GE is a rip-off.
(For Example, British Coastal Rank 4 LE Orla has a 6090GE price and 420% SL multiplier but British Bluewater Rank 3 HMS Diamond has nearly half price of 2980GE and 1200% SL multiplier. with exaggeration, You can buy 3 of rank 3 Bluewater prem which has higher reward-netting at the cost of 1 Coastal prem which has only 30% of the SL multiplier.)
If you start with a coastal-only deck, from reserve to 2.0BR. there only will be a full up tier of 1.0-2.0BR match which is filled with almost bots. according to my faint memory, maybe only 2 of the players in each team. and the match will end quite quickly if you cap the cap zone (because there are too few players on each side, so the total amount of tickets is too little.)
as long as Bluewater’s Reserves mainly sit on 3.3BR. if you finally get your first 2.3BR boat, you are literally fucked.
you will nearly always go full uptier match at 3.3BR and face [Proof that Gaijin are weeb] PG-02 or some big shits like German Drache. Those things will erase your boat within 10 seconds thanks to the ‘Controlling primary and secondary at the same time’ feature which was implemented at ‘Danger Zone’ by stupidity(only thinks about Bluewaters)
I can guarantee that grinding coastal without buying a premium boat or fully boosting research with GE is on a suicidal level of self-harming.
And, thanks to too few players compared to counterparts, Balancing with Battle Rating on the regular branch is also broken.
for example, HMAS Arrow which has only one Bofors L/60 is on 2.7BR while S-147(S-100/1944) with 7 autocannons are on the same BR. and superior USS Tucumcari/Flagstaff which moves faster and has extra firepower is on only 3.0BR.
and also can talk about HMS Peacock which has only one Automelara 76mm fitted on 4.0BR while the German counterpart albatross which is fitted with TWO Automelara 76mm are on 3.7BR. Oh, Albatross also have the ability to mount torpedo! while Peacock can’t mount any.
At last, Gaijin removed the ‘new’ naval reward of the battle pass but kept positioning the naval tasks into their battle pass just for annoyance.
I think the current status of the Coastal fleet is clusterfuck level and also feels like Gaijin is neglecting the coastal fleet at the ‘World of Warplane by Wargaming’ level of neglect.
I think we need complete reworks on Coastals to fix problems.
(Hyperbole)or just get rid of Coastal fleets and give them proper euthanasia and treat it as ‘it didn’t exist’ level.
seems the same to me since when Gaijin cut their line for Churchill AVRE and the sabbatical month followed.
and all we got after a month of neglecting was an Exact copy-pasted version of Italian Albatross with no extra features while Air got their F-14A IRIAF with unique arsenals.
(I enjoy adding F-14A IRIAF itself but feelings are mixed)