They clearly don’t want anyone with brain to play Naval Arcade.
I have been playing this game mode since 2020 and had the best fun before all these strange changes were added in recent years. I think many other players feel the same way, because Naval Arcade queue waiting times were so bad in last months that the devs had to add more bots to this game mode. Two or three years ago I never had such problems finding matches in Naval Arcade. These days boats are almost completely dead (which is not surprising after the devs decided to add different damage model for ships and make them pretty much unkillable for boats, but keep them together in the same battles). But to be honest, even ships are not in a good shape.
Pretty much all updates from recent years made Naval Arcade less and less enjoyable. We have finally reached the point where I will stop playing Navy altogether. I haven’t played Naval too much anyway in recent months, after many (in my opinion) very negative changes. Unfortunately the devs don’t want to withdraw from any of them, even when they lose players. They try more and more changes that take the skill away from this game mode to possibly attract new players, but this approach hasn’t worked so far. But they definitely lost many older players and players who liked to use their brain a bit.
So, in my opinion, Naval is in such bad shape now because Gaijin has made a lot of bad decisions over the years. And somehow they continue down this path, hoping for a different outcome. Well, good luck!
