Yup, the problem is still there and its incredibly frustrating on maps like these.
To avoid being farmed by light cruisers (thanks naval compression) I sailed into the islands and basically ended doing almost zero damage because all the props around those (cranes, small houses, small hills etc) made the aiming system go full “dumb mode”.
It makes all skill lost everywere you look.
Passive gamers that just sit in spawn spamming shells everywhere get rewarded, active players that try to play the objective and know map positioning get punished.
Also, if you try to set “realistic aiming” in the options it just overrides it in game and says “nope, you’re stuck with me now”.
The bug report got reopened in case anyone would like to contribute more.
I guess they can’t figure out how to recreate it despite the numerous instructions and a replay explicitly showing firing behind islands vs open water in a custom battle.
It’s been 11 days now, still no fix for this one. I gave up playing naval arcade for now, and I don’t play other mode much atm… sigh… 11 days we can’t aim properly!!!