Thanks - added my support - calling it “unplayable” is just a silly exaggeration tho - it’s a PITA, but doesn’t make the game unplayable.
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It does definitely make it a big problem for the 6 naval players left playing this forgotten game mode
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This event has really highlighted to me just how worse naval is being made with each update
The BR’s are so badly thought out across the board its bearable when it’s just the usual naval crowd playing, but when events like this drag in others it’s really brings to the fore just how bad it all is.
The matchmaking is absolutely abysmal too, all I witness these last drew days is one side absolutely dominating another currently and very very rarely if ever have a balanced match that’s to the bone or any kind of contest.
As an example I’ve seen a lot of matches where one side spawns pr206 x 4 and a couple of mpk 124121 thrown on top for good measure, whilst the other side has a line up that’s made up of stuff not just a BR lower than it but has nothing that can even compare or compete against it and has basic 12.7mm guns or some 20mm that jam up after a few rounds so from the off one side is placed in a position of almost guaranteed domination before a shot is even fired
I used to love naval, but it’s so messed up it’s really not fun anymore.
It desperately needs a few things fixing starting with the BRs of everything and reducing the uptier/downtier to 0.7
You guys are genuinely and actively ruining your game for me and it makes me sad quite honestly, there has to be balance between fun and grind right, theres currently next to zero fun
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Yes, I fully agree - I observed that the BR might balanced between the teams but only in total - means the coastals in one team might be the described op-boats at 4.3 and the other team has its 4.3 only at bluewater. But the difference between a 3.7 and 4.3 destroyer is by far not so significant as between a 3.7 pt boat and a 4.3 PR206. So the match becomes very unbalanced !
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This is it, there can even be a full two tiers of difference in coastal too and remain within that 1.0 br spread still
As an avid naval player, I still think the score requirement for naval vessels needs to be 25,000 - 30,000 score max.
Note: the bot makers appear to have added invulnerability to their 3.7 Leopard bots this weekend. You kill them on the scoreboard but they don’t die. Just in case anyone’s still playing this event :)
(Seems to be a way to jump into their next battle faster. They’re respawning after their first death in the first battle and immediately disconnecting to go on to the next battle, leaving their zombies to continue to collect score in the first battle for taking damage. All new accounts, created today, standard bot naming conventions, started playing a few hours ago. But that means they’re score pinatas for everyone else too.)
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You’re not wrong. The one factor you didn’t mention is that bluewater was decompressed and coastal wasn’t in the June update and subsequently.
This meant a lot of the better destroyers that used to suppress the 4.3 coastals are no longer there in the battles to do that, leaving the SKRs to prey on new bluewater players in 3.3-3.7 more than before during this event, where they have no tools to fight back.
There is no way a 4.3 SKR-7 (which by definition is being played by an experienced player) should EVER be in the same matchmaker pool as a newb in a 3.3 DD, I agree, but they could alleviate a lot of the current problem by up-BRing the worst offenders rather than messing with the BR spread (which they said in the last Q&A they won’t consider anyway).
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I don’t really consider bluewater to have been decompressed but rather shuffling deckchairs around a bit and it fixed nothing besides changing who dominates, the destroyers in the mid br range have all nigh on become just fodder more than anything these days instead
I’m in complete agreeance with you, there’s a lot wrong that is badly needing a fix in a lot of aspects to insert some fun back into this mode and fixing the matchmaking balance and br properly without rushing it or without mainly ignoring player feedback is an easy win and start
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best solution is to stick to the EU server, havent seen a single one since I disabled the others
guess its only a matter of time before they infest it as well, but for now its the best you can do
bots now message people xD
any mandarin speakers here? google translate is not very good
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not a bot. Bot naming convention currently is a#aaaa#aaa
It’s a new subspecies this morning, all fresh accounts with this new respawn as a zombie attribute, just started a few hours ago. They’re all about 35 games in so far this morning. This crop seems pretty accurate too (on their first life; on their second as said they don’t shoot at all), seen a lot of first-places.
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He said “you were so good, you beat my cheats, therefore I will rally all my other Mandarin speakers to cheat”
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