IJN Takao: The Art of the Heavy Cruiser

They’ve been teased as being a permanent part of the game since the end of 2024. Stop blueballing us. I beg of you.

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It looks so goofy I love it :D

WW2 Heavy Cruiser. Perfect!

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Will fragmentation penetration still will be diminished for naval shells with the patch?

Will water still negate damage from shell explosions inside an enemy hull?

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Ships are boring, when real boat devblog? Gib Coastal!

If it’s at Rank IV I guess it will follow Haguro?

Why not Rank V before Tone though?

Give us kitakame already!

Maybe I’m putting too much faith in this, but are those torpedoes turning? Or is it just a weird launch? Will we be able to set the heading of the torpedoes for ships with Limited torpedo traverse? If so, this will be a really interesting change.

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Can we get a, Blue Steel Crossover skin for her?

Yay she’s finally here! :D

“Damnit, Sir. We’ve got two Japanese ships incoming, Both Takao class cruisers”

Finally the bloody heavy cruiser Takao is “actually” here… a nod to the fact there’s two user made crate skins for the cruiser Takao which is hilarious, now we can play “spot the Takao” with the others being the post remade cruiser Furutaka & iirc the cruiser Aoba.

Sooooo, its been quite a long time now for Imperial Japanese ships in game & it has bothered me for far to long but. When will the ahistorical prefix be removed from Imperial Japanese Navy ships? IJN was never used but the devs keep on adding it to new ships with only three ships not carrying it in game two Kaibōkan type vessels Shōnan & Shisaka an the Torpedo Boat Chidori. It took only a dev blog for the German cruiser Nürnberg for the devs to remove KMS years ago but IJN persists even today by the devs.

Well, I can’t wait to research this legendary cruiser type.

Yup, I noticed that too. I wonder if we will finally get torpedo heading angling?

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My battleship is about to turn in to a underwater museum.

Only boat I’ll ever be remotely excited for (still won’t make me play naval).

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There saving up for the epic trailer they cooked up if true.

The trailer is literally just gonna be this

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There probably going to take every reference from every submarine connected film and jam them into one trailer. This Dev blog could also be referencing fleet subs & midget subs as that is how Takao was disabled.