Naval mode is finally dead

[Kweedko]

@magazine2

The Damage Control Window for Naval

Without a doubt if you play naval battles, trying to survive after being hit by salvos can be a struggle. You’re constantly trying to activate fire extinguishing systems, pump out water and perform repairs as efficiently as possible. Adding to the fact that the damage model (especially fires and critical magazine fires) has also changed in recent months, reacting quickly is essential to save your ship from being quickly destroyed.

All of the above in mind makes the current damage system quite difficult to manage, as you’re generally distracted from the core gameplay, which is to shoot at targets and take them out. Next to this, it’s not always as balanced as it could be, and as we would like it to be. This is because a player who does everything correctly still might not, for example prioritize the repair system in time because of the need to hold down the hotkey for a few seconds, leading to their ship still being destroyed, which can be frustrating.

So today, we’re announcing the new Damage Control System for Naval, giving players the opportunity to introduce automation elements. Players can plan their priorities in advance, choosing what’s most important at a given moment: be it firefighting, repairs or water pumping and can then quickly switch between them.

Let’s take a quick look at how it will work. While in the hangar, you can access the damage control menu through the modifications window by clicking on the “Damage control” button at the bottom right:

In this window, you’ll be able to put together a “Damage Control” build from available options and assign each one to one of the three buttons on the action bar, which were previously responsible for firefighting, repairs and water pumping.

Note: this window and text is heavily work-in-progress and the names, explanations and numbers will likely change.

Each damage control build has a primary process, a secondary process and an additional process.

Any of the three types of damage control options operate at full speed if only one is running. In addition, you no longer need to press buttons to begin the process, as it starts automatically as soon as the ship takes damage. You can switch between three presets, changing the priority process based on the tactical situation you find yourself in.

We’re currently working on the values for each and fine tuning it, and you’ll be able to test it for yourself on the dev server in the near future and leave your feedback there.

That’s a bad change incoming. This will lead to constant crew loss, that can’t be stopped by disabling repairs.

[SilentTracker]

Please give a like on my post on the new community update thread if you agree/would like an option to choose your aiming method in Naval Arcade battles:

Community Update No.8: Responses and What’s Coming!

@magazine2 @Smin1080p_WT Good morning gentlemen. I along with hundreds/thousands of other Naval players have been trying to have a discussion about the changes to Naval Arcade aiming since the moment they were made earlier this year. Naval used to be one of my favorite modes and I have spent hundreds if not over $1,000 on my Naval lineups. A small sample of the time effort and real money that I have put into my bote lineups: [image] [image] However, I pretty much never play Naval any mor…

EDIT: Great reply to my post, from the same thread: Community Update No.8: Responses and What’s Coming! - #513 by Bombe18

[xPorkulusx]

How will this lead to increased crew loss? The new system doesn’t seem to force repairs, only automating their activation in order

[Bombe18]

But we do not want to automatize our repair.
Sometime i want to have flooding to decrease my profile.
Sometime i do not want to repair and so on …

[TheMightySardine]

The damage control change is bad. Now with priority extinguishing, it will start extinguishing fire in secondary gun that can stay burning for a while, and i will die to the torpedo that hit me cause it will extinguish and unwatering will have penalty and become slower. so i will end up flooded and with lost buoyancy.

[Kweedko]

@xPorkulusx

How will this lead to increased crew loss? The new system doesn’t seem to force repairs, only automating their activation in order

Literally will force auto damage control, as far as i can understand.

@magazine2

In addition, you no longer need to press buttons to begin the process, as it starts automatically as soon as the ship takes damage.

I got my thought about that, how to do it right, without leaving player with no control on the situation.

Community Update No.8: Responses and What’s Coming!

Could you elaborate more, what you trying to achieve with this change? Cause now it looks like forced damage control, without ability to manage anything according the situation, that we have now. That will lead to even less survivability to all ships, and for the weak ones that gonna be even worse cause not enabling “Damage Control” their only chance to survive some more and turn the tide of the battle. I propose to keep selection of priorities and modificators and use them in battles, but als…

[boromas_1]

It seems like the damage control action will start in the order you set it one after another automatically. So lets say you’re under fire and when you extinguish the fire it will then automatically start the next action in the order. So unless you cancel it you’ll probably be repairing while midst of getting shelled which will reduce crew not to mention in the small timeframe, damaged modules that are not so necessary may replenish their crews which when knocked out again will kill them off.

[Kweedko]

@boromas_1

So lets say you’re under fire and when you extinguish the fire it will then automatically start the next action in the order.

Looks like it start all damage control at once, every time, but with different modificators.

[spirtous]

If they instead put all this brain activity to actually fix and then improve naval!

[Der_Zerkquetscher]

Fk yeah we absolutely need automated repair control that increases reload times to repair a couple of destroyed aa guns that you dont want to repair and dont need to repair just to put back more crew back on the deck just to die again by shells from ships. /s
Its not enough that we have automated aim in naval arcade (i don’t play it but have to on the days when naval ec arcade is a thing, and apparently a lot of people playing arcade already dont like it) now theres automated repairs? whats next? i also dont have to steer the ship? put “players” on ai ships and let them select the enemy your ship will automatically shoot at while randomly sailing somewhere? really snail if its gonna get put into the game like people here mentioned, why do they keep putting work into naval to make it worse? at least make it optional! like arcade aiming should be. Fine if people like it that way but don’t force people to use it that prefer the realistic aiming

[boromas_1]

@Der Zerkquetscher

that increases reload times

Oh btw, Damage control action no longer affects reload time.

[Der_Zerkquetscher]

damn ok, missed that change. was kinda dumb to begin with, assuming the crews from the turret would just teleport into the hull to patch some holes or sth. anyways, this should be a feature where people that want to set it up this way can have an order of which repair, pumping or fire extinguish should automatically take place one after another, maybe you then have to start that action with a keybind, but theres no point of having it automatically doing its thing when the system as is was more or less fine. (could have used some refinements of only repairing critical components, repair guns first, then engine, or engine first not guns but not always repair all superstructures and aa that will just get blasted again 2 sec later)