Play realistic, it’s way more worth to do than arcade.
Oh “neat”, yet another new bug to “nerf” our naval rewards! 💀
More naval related battles are happening on the forum than in the game, lol
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this was done quite often and intensly in several threads incl. a poll- there are much more posts vs thsi change as to the damage control changes - but unfortunately w/o any effort and even no response from GJ up to today
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I don’t agree, they turned a quirk learning gunnery game into something more balanced by changing the way aiming works, similarly new DC is at least an attempt to limit the invulnerability of bigger ships and increases the tankyness of those without large amounts of AA.
Maybe I’ll actually bother with NRB in the future since it offers something different now, but my feeling is that arcade mode’s indicators and helpers are actually ‘realistic’ because boats and ships have massive crews.
Considering this entire mode is essentially a mod for an air simulator it’s quite reasonable.
I know 😉 I made one of the those polls, which is still open and ongoing 👇 The issue is that not nearly enough people posted on the main/official threads when the dumbing down was announced. But this time with the damage control changes nearly everyone spoke up, intensely, and they changed to allow us to keep using the old system. That is one of the very simple things that I have been asking for since the aiming change: just let ME choose which aiming mode to use.
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And yet another reason why the aiming change to Naval Arcade was/is a terrible idea:
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This is not valid statement, yes it started as air realistic and moved to tanks and then to ships but this is not a beta. They actually advertise Naval as part of the game and of coarse shell premium ships, so no, this does not explane the terrible status it is at this time.
By the way as you said it started and still advertize as realistic but they steadily make changes that are the complete opposite.
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Bata was in 2012, it’s a live service game now.
We could sarcastically say that Naval is currently beta quality, but I didn’t use that word anyway, more charitably I called it a mod with implied ‘work in progress’
The primary point I have against the ‘dumbing down’ crowd is that NAB is now MORE realistic than NRB when it comes to representing fighting with large ships.
I do agree that they killed a fun gunnery game, but I’m not missing it so much, perhaps because I’m older and not so interesting in mastering a meta to get ahead - I use persistence and cash instead ;)
waiting 5min for a game to have an average life time of 1min while mindlesly clicking is not my thing.
They changed the rules in a game set that is not build to support it.
Doed anyone play to get the torpedo chalenge for the BP?
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Yes I did - I recommend japanese destroyers, they have the long-lance torpedos which are quite fast.
It depends on the map how many matches one needs - some maps are more “torp-friendy” than others.
Best map for this is “fireland islands” where the bluewaters spawn in melee-distance from each other resulting in a slugfest
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I don’t recommend japanese torpedo destroyers period unless you know how to do this thing called evading.
Japanese DDs are often less durable than other nations with the added problem of mediocre to poor firerate (with exceptions) with equally (again, with exceptions) ammunition types which is a recipe for being farmed for a free kill. Yes, they have a 20km range with type 93s but anyone that isn’t a bot will immediately attempt to evade a potential torp spread.
The most new kids friendly nation period is the americans; the only times they actually ‘struggle’ as a nation is 5.0-5.3 cruisers and dreadnoughts (primarily their 40 second aced firerate barring one or two dreadnoughts)
The biggest advantage japan has at low tier is the painfully mediocre Kako and assuming it isn’t up tiered.
i did it in like 3 games, just uptier yourself to BB br range and spam lances
legit strat
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I can’t say I’d gainsay your approach or this assessment (“we shall buy our way to victory!”), I just think the dispersion values they use are just too tight and unaffected by other real-world limiting factors (basically using the equivalent of range benchtesting figures as the MoA values for real-world performance of a firearm, irrespective of what your gunsights actually allowed you to do, which everyone would see as silly if we were talking rifles) to call anything about NAB “realistic” after you turned all those true aiming aspects over to the AI as well.
If they’d replaced the gunnery aim-off enjoyment (as unrealistic as that was*) that they had previously with the current more passive aiming/firing but added more compensatory aspects of complexity to the survivability (fire control systems, advantages to surface radar, weather, visibility, sea state) where skill and ship knowledge could still convey advantages to a player, I think it would be a more satisfactory game loop. But of course, they tried to simplify that as well with the recent damage control changes, and reversed THAT to keep both systems in a new, messy repair system melange, because at this point they’re really just grasping at straws. Their last two store premiums sold terribly, their player numbers are back to where they were a year ago, the bots are back (but at least being fought off fairly aggressively so far). As it is, it’s just not a very satisfactory naval game in any respect anymore.
*I do get the point of the “I’m a ship captain, I have people to do that” argument against manual aiming in a battleship game. My counterpoint would be, well then why do you think you should press the mouse button WHEN to fire then, either? Battleship captains aren’t standing on the bridge shouting “fire” like Captain Kirk, either. If we’re being consistent to “things captains wouldn’t do,” the game should at most just be assigning target priorities and letting the guns go off whenever they like. But I think everyone would agree that would be even more disliked by players. So to me “captain agency” is just not a very useful lens on trying to figure out what Gaijin thinks they’re trying to do with this mode. But honestly I don’t think they know anymore themselves either. The real naval warfare grognards have games like War on the Sea which actually delivers what the naval diehards always said they wanted in capital ship action. The “I just like to do ballistic physics in my head” nerds have NRB (and yeah, there’s not many of that type of nerd who are also naval geeks, but there never were). So… yeah. I think most naval play now (both modes, but NAB even more so) is getting PoH and BP challenges done fast and making SL to subsidize your play in other modes. Once you take the other stuff away and don’t replace it with other mechanics as they’ve done, that’s what it has left as a purpose.
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What is naval
Same here. I initially tried to get the challenge done during normal sessions with Soviet DDs at BR 5.3,
which netted only 1 torp kill after several battles. After switching to AB (ewww) using Shimakaze and Yuudachi at 7.0 it took only two battles (open circle map- 3 kills, Franz Josef Land- 8 kills) to complete it.
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Yap initially I had a terible idea to play 5, It’s just no fun any more.
You immediately getting under fire at spawn, A/A are everywere etc
Anything from 6,3 and up is just 3-4 games.
a severely neglected gamemode
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Gotta be honest the mode is Semi Dead for me cause at top Tier now its like oh you want to have fun? sorry Soyuz spamming monkeys that perma hammer down on their movement keys like its some whack a mole game with their keyboard. There really should be a movement lockout of like 5-10 Seconds once uve gone into reverse or forward
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This mode is extremely boring, just like the land warfare mode that has only occupied three strongholds for so many years. Its map design and game mechanics are nothing but low energy and lack of ambition, and I can’t think of any other adjectives.
Except for some players who really like giant ship cannons, the value of this mode only lies in obtaining more Silver Lions for other players. As for why it is a naval battle, we have to ask why Gaijin’s land and air combat profits are so low.
But is that all? Will gaijin allow you to smoothly obtain the Silver Lion? Of course it is negative, even if you spend real money to support them. For gaijin, the priority of this mode is to prioritize survival over minimizing the profits for players.
I have been focusing on naval battles since the update in April this year. After the update in April, killing AI was very efficient. But two weeks after the update, gaijin added an avoidance mechanism to AI. Subsequently, in the updates from July to September, players who frequently play naval battles will surely feel that AI is becoming increasingly difficult to kill. Whether it’s the evasive maneuver of predicting the landing point of the shell, rapid drainage, the one second extinguishing of the ammunition depot, or the shell walking and hit effects under the Elo mechanism, all make it increasingly difficult for the game to benefit. Usually, the number of kills per game is between 4 and 8. If the ground cleaning command is activated, usually only 4 can be killed during the command period. If you dare to exceed the profit limit set by Gaijin, which is about 600000 silver lions per hour, then your matching opponent, hit probability, and effect will definitely give you a clear answer about the effect.
So how do we play games now? Usually, after starting the game, I only need to attack 3-5 rounds to know if this game belongs to me and if I can earn sufficient profits. What motivation do I have to play a game that already has a known outcome, knowing that its profits do not meet my requirements, and its game mechanics are extremely boring?
This mode should have been doomed long ago, or in other words, only when it is in a state of imminent demise, will this mode not die. As long as there is any chance of survival, gaijin will let him die.
So, naval battle players, what should you do?Do you still want to continue purchasing super battleships for $80 each?
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