So… With that new “auto-aim” naval AB is as dead as a year-old corpse.
Fast ships now are virtually impossible to hit due to wanky behavior of the corrective feature, and big bulky battleships are now like sitting ducks with “hit me” al over the vessel.
Before the change you at least had a chance to predict the movement, use some skill or have some lucky guess in a somewhat slow and methodical gameplay, now… Click, see things go boom or horribly miss the mark. No controll whatsoever where the shells go!
What’s next? “Auto-shot” so I just have to direct the ship only and watch the crew fire my guns?
One change killed the game for me. Way to go, Gaijin.
This is what I feared. We would have to lead the AI to lead the ship like it solved anything.
I think they wanted to add compartment damage, but being able to manually aim a tight grouping made ships instantly go black in a compartment.
So with auto-aiming, the game generously spreads the shells out to spare people from instant death in destroyers and cruisers.
oh, yeah, and CAS is damn near unusable now. Not only does the auto aim correction apply for ships, it also does for aircraft, so holding your cursor over a plane automatically leads for you, and they also jacked up the AI accuracy for both bots and from what i believe, player-ship AI gunners. I have consistently been hitting accurate shots with AI since the update, despite not upgrading auxiliary targeting skills.
Gotta dumb the game down for the dying brain cells that people used to have. Who wants to play the game when you can just spam click while scrolling on your phone?
I’m going to try reading a book while grinding free Battleship modifications before they revert the changes.
Edit: I can’t even bring myself to sit in queue. I keep canceling it before a match starts.
Thanks for breaking my addiction to this game, Gaijin. I can now live my life. I even have active boosters expiring.
I’d like arcade more due to better balance between: TP-boats/destroyers and Cruisers/Dreadnoughts. Torpedo reload and speed gives them chance to compete, which may not be realistic but more fun.
I mean ‘‘used to like’’, this new aimsystem and aggro-BOT behavior makes it a nightmare.
Знаешь, иногда надо признать, что Gaijin — профессионалы в том, чтобы делать плохие вещи ещё хуже. Я отдам им должное, лол.
You know, sometimes you have to confess Gaijin is professional at making bad things worse. I will give them that credit, lol.
i have to wonder
maybe the change was because it is easier to program the bots better this way
i have often wondered about the motivation of gaig coders
perhaps the if in doubt go with lazy is not as far off as thought
Latency does matter, atleast in realistic it does, because the range on the ship is not displayed correctly even when using the pro technique to range the target. Higher pings gives more discrepancies in the apparent range, thus decreasing your shell accuracy.
seriously? only if it is for those who do not have a great notion of “physics” and “speed” and “direction” and distance", and just want to “click to shoot” like in those “space invader” games in the first computer games…
in ALL ships (at least if they do not have computerized shooting) YOU HAVE to shoot IN FRONT of the ship… to the point where it “should be” at the moment the bullet falls… in the “direction” in which it goes, at the “distance” it has… and the speed… ETC.
if the ship is off the screen, you zoom out…
and this “realism” was what made naval battles one of my favorites…
now… just “click to shoot”, it’s almost as fun, as those casino games, where you just click to spin “the fruits”
Aside from the question of appreciation, the new aiming does what it should at my end. I aim and I maim. The bullets in coastal do hit. The only exception is course change or change in speed.
My dream is that the next gaming mode they add for WT is train combat where I’m a passenger, and I watch everything happen from the observation lounge, so I can enjoy snacks, drinks, and youtube on a dual monitor while scrolling my phone.
What in the actual hell is this new update?
When googled why my cross hair disappeared a minute into game all I find is: Community Bug Reporting System
So I came here to look and this is the only thread I can find?
No warning no explanation?
We didn’t want or need this…
Please reverse or I quit.
