Navy arcade mode is totally broken since this update. Stuff flying around everywhere, everyone in the chat complaining that no aiming possible, you aim left the bullets go right, you click something and bullets go somewhere without your control. Totally useless. Beyond that, the continuous calculation seems to challenge the server the ships are moving awkward and it is really a pain.
And anyway - why do they introduce such a major change with a small note in the changelog under ‘other items’ - and no tutorial or anything.
If I would deliver in such a way at work…
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I have noticed some wonky-ness with the aiming too, rounds leading WAY too far left or right. I have not figured out if it’s MY ship’s movement, or the opponent’s movement causing it, or maybe something else. But I definitely have started noticing some oddness too.
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I also don’t like the fact that now, I cannot even see where my rounds are. This was always a problem with deck guns on coastal boats but now its even worse. Get a few dozen people firing all over the place and since the aiming isn’t correct you have no idea where your rounds are landing. They really need to roll this change back and provide a beta test of new mechanics before implementing them in any update. This is a really bad change.
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Well, TBF, the change was live on the Dev server lol. Like I said earlier though, even though I mostly like the new Naval Arcade aiming, I am reading all the comments and will advocate for players who have issues with it and/or want the change rolled back.
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Yes but I don’t see the dev server as a beta test, I see it as a “this is what’s coming guys like it or not brace for impact”. They should set a mode aside in game for at least several weeks dedicated to that specific mechanic or mechanics to get feed back on. Lumping it in on the dev server with the size of the updates they push is not feasible for proper feedback.
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I see your point, and I would support that. I actually don’t spend a lot of time on the Dev server because I don’t get any SL’s to burn on the crate events 😂 So, an “event” type thing where I could still work on my SL stockpile would for sure get me to try out new mechanics a lot more.
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The aiming is broken. In theory you don’t have to lead but in practice you have to but without indicator.
Not to mention that shells go everywhere except for where I aim!
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There is zero chance they keep this change. Costal is unplayable now in arcade. Played six games today and in each one half of the costal vessels were getting one shot by destroyers/light cruisers from across the map. Something has to change, and it can’t just be for people to play realistic.
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WELL I wouldn’t ever say the chance is zero with the snail 😂 But, I will keep repeating, I am very thankful for all of you guys who keep reporting the issues you are seeing with the change. I almost never play coastal, so I have not and would not know about how much the change has affected coastal matches. This alone could make me change my mind and vote to say revert the changes. Even though I personally like the new aiming mode. I know coastal especially already has more than enough issues, I don’t want to see it have any additional hardships.
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i ask the same question every ‘update’
" is the game more enjoyable after the update than it was before the update " ?
sadly for about the 8th straight time the answer is an emphatic NO !
the lateral convergence from view to gun when aiming is so far off the rounds look to go everywhere and even then it is not a constant error but changes on every angle and not to what it should be …
getting sniped by guns that in practice were useless does not help
why do they never test these things before shoving them down the throat
it is obvious they hate naval players but does that have to be so open ?
the new reserve boats should have made the game much better … the change in aiming is so bad it managed to kill that as well
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Maybe it’s a better test than the dev servers, and they can count on proper feedback and testing on the live servers, and they consider the player pop to be too low to have any adverse effect on the already relatively vacant mode.
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hahaha
For my first AB I was extremely hesitant to hop into a coastal comp. Seemed more than likely to experience instant death there.
They should die easily from proper hits, so I think the compartment changes are good, but why coincide the update with auto-aim. hahaha
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AB is dead and if I ever see anyone telling me to go play RB where situational awareness and squad coordination is on a ooga-booga level I’ll just quit and go play helldivers
Oh, wait, half the thread is full of this kind of people
good day and farewell, naval
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And yet it still better and entertaining than aim at green snot in the middle of the sea, when your target 2 screens out of it.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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