Naval mode is finally dead

[spirtous]

@Stona_WT

The anti-aircraft fire system has been changed. The excessive accuracy of anti-aircraft gunners has been reduced. The maximum range for opening fire on aircraft, which was previously very long, has been adjusted closer to historical values ​​for each caliber. For example, 37 mm to 40 mm autocannons now open fire at a range of up to 3,000m, and 12.7 mm machine guns at a range of up to 1,500m. In Arcade Battles, the lead marker for air targets has been removed: fire must be conducted by aiming the crosshair directly at the aircraft.

Quite the opposite, the distances are now doubled, LOL

[Rupert64]

seems they changed it vs aircraft but now far away coastal vessels are targetted and hit by weapons which are far beyond range.
And the bots (and ai aa?)

still have the range and precision vs. planes.

[ParryACO-psn]

Yeah they doubled the AA range lol

Watching my Dido’s AA gunners snipe an A26B at 9km+ was funny as hell

[pooqich]

@ParryACO-psn

Yeah they doubled the AA range lol

is there a bug report for this?

[Rupert64]

I haven’t found one - but I wonder how this could go live w/o any basic testing?

[pooqich]

@Rupert64

I wonder how this could go live w/o any basic testing?

same way as the fokker airspawn speed went live

it spawns at rip speed afaik

[Rupert64]

I know - sadly it seems common to some changes that they are not at all or even not properly tested.

[ParryACO-psn]

Don’t know but naval players eating good today; CAS spammers crying lol.

[Kweedko]

Looks like it’s the same problem from 8 month ago reappeared.

https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/MZEl4Vg1GL25

[spirtous]

This is not a random reapperance and this exacly what were disputing 500 posts ago!!
They are making changes and they never testing them!!!
They don’t test how it affects game play and after the last updates it is clear they don’t even test if they have the intendeed effect.

By the way you were insisting that “this is how the community works” and we were telling you that making the DEV server available does not mean the players will become free beta testers.

[Rupert64]

as the re-appearance of old bugs happens quite often I really assume that they went back using old codes aka making developments based on older versions - deleting newer bugfixes…

[SilentTracker]

Neat. AI botes got their fire extinguishing “buffed”, while they were working to nerf player’s damage controls LOL!

AI ships can't be set on fire properly in Naval Battles

In all type of Naval Battles, AI ships cannot be properly set on fire. The fire will disappear within approximately 2 seconds, regardless of number and location of fires. This issue severely affects gameplay balance and immersion. I hope it be fixed ASAP.

Bug report made:

AI ships can't be set on fire properly in Naval Battles

I can confirm this bug. After the latest update, the AI controlled ships put out fires instantly. It must be related to the new changes to damage control mechanics added to the naval forces. I also created a bug report about it. Hopefully it gets fixed. https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/dJMtkGMgTmr7

[SilentTracker]

Yeah, just like we said it should be lol. I really hope they stop ruining naval. I still am not going to play OR spend money on War Thunder Naval until they “allow” me to use the old Arcade Aiming.

@Stona_WT

Naval Vessels

• The minimum time between switching modes in the new Damage Control system has been changed from 30 seconds to 4 seconds.

It’s a slippery slope guys. Everyone should have complained much more strongly when they first ruined the Arcade aiming. They will keep dumbing down naval unless we stick together and refuse these types of horrible changes that are turning Naval into a literal AFK mode.

[Bombe18]

I’ve been muted for a week for saying things like that … lel

[Bombe18]

We made a post about reward.
If you are interested in, feel free to comment

Naval kill reward should be reworked

Hello everyone, With the recent event about naval compartments, some players have pointed out that the reward system doesn’t seem very fair. We need to rework that reward system too. In my case, this is the biggest issue in battleships regular battles and that’s why i stopped playing them.

Spoiler

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Stona mentioned that the compartment reward is only a small fraction of the final earnings. However, I believe this is 50% true and 50% false — and here’s why: …

[VegasMofo_Ytube]

They do not play this game at all.
My AA was firing at a B17 I couldn’t even see with my Aced crew yet.

[spirtous]

Were you playing with the Russian 37mm CIWS?
Are these things ever jam from overheating?
The Asheville’s 3" likes it very much to block, but well it is not Russian made… 😂

[Mishchovsky]

Play realistic, it’s way more worth to do than arcade.

[SilentTracker]

Oh “neat”, yet another new bug to “nerf” our naval rewards! 💀

@VegasMofo_Ytube

This keeps happening lately.
I find it unacceptable.

Game ends, but then never existed, no reward.
No proof of match except on my live streams.
Especially when I do good it seems.

And not the same as server crash, game ends, little reward for what you did is there, proof of match exist.

Anyone else noticing more stolen time or is it just me?

And yes when there is a grind system in place, bad economy , poor game reward mechanics(like naval bot stolen kills), special task that take way too long, paid premium vehicles and premium time, etc for Lions and they just vanish, it is time stolen.

If the game was just a normal game, it wouldn’t matter too much if they decided to erase the last 25 minutes of game play like this.

[ShOt_MaCkEr]

More naval related battles are happening on the forum than in the game, lol