This but vice versa having my reserve tier destroyer being stunlocked by an skr7
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That is pretty much nothing.
It’s sad to see so many basically dead BRs for a mode that goes up to a 7.3.
In my opinion SKR-7 nowadays is more like an niche vehicle, surely the four 76 mm cannons pack-a-punch but with the nerf to the rate of fire is a easy vessel to destroy if it’s a unexperienced player using it.
But regardless, Coastal needs a better suit to be playable in mixed matches, specially in maps where there are little to no cover from the spawn.
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What do you know about “dead BRs”, if you not even playing it?
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For me it’s the rockets that can disable part of your ship behind an island, forcing you to either take a ridiculous amount of punishment or flee and be fully exposed.
But I agree either coastal needs to be separated or something has to change.
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Doesn’t take a genius to see one BR is utterly dead if it has like 5k players in total across several weeks.
don’t you know we have ±1.0 BR spread in game?
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And ?
SS is giving out numbers for each BR step.
And what it mean how do you think?
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Tbh I’d rather take the opinion of the players within the mode, figures showing that with +/- 1 that there is a decent sized player base and the fact that gajin keeps renewing support (even If it’s on the small side) rather than a ground player who never/barely played naval
You wouldn’t need to introduce bots en masse in your 7 playable BRs in total if the population number was even close to being decent.
I simply don’t have enough time to waste it on a mode that’s on life support from the moment of it’s inception. I also don’t like to play against AI in a PvP game.
No one’s telling you to play naval btw. It just seems uncalled for to keep making snarky comments on a thread about naval content and then tell naval players that no one cares about the content. Unless naval burnt down your house and sim battles mugged you, then I don’t see the point of going into a thread about mode that doesn’t affect you and start proclaiming how it should be removed.
If you want to suggest removing these modes, maybe start a thread of your own about it.
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A lot of people would like to play naval but its awful right now, i ground out all of germany I played it a lot but im not touching it until a rework or they stop fleecing whales for coastal vessels like they do helis.
Im not saying ground is perfect but its playable at least, not going to see bot lobbies any time soon.
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I was talking with big picture in mind.
A mode with like 1% of the total player base definitely implies people don’t care about it and are rather playing anything else.
I do understand your stance though, you don’t want your mode removed which is fine.
I already explained how it does affect me.
Allocating the naval balance team to air or ground doesn’t exactly seem like a good re-allocation of resources to me.I’m still livid that the Stug IV or Supermarine Spiteful is absent but I doubt adding the VTB series of boats prevented them from being added.
I’m unsure how this justifies the snarky comments though.
Again, talking about navals issues is fine, barging in with little to no gameplay experience and making snarky comments about the mode isn’t. If you want to discuss it’s issues, don’t be so dismissive and self centred.
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For the record the two naval modes combined have been 1.2 to 1.4% of player sessions in 2025: link
The interesting question to be answered is how much the full-out, last-of-the-famous ships nature of this update (now including Richelieu) can change that.
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Tbh, while I’m happy for a big naval update once in awhile, I’m worried that this would ended up being all show and no substance.
Sure, these “big and iconic” ships would definitely draw more people in, but if you guys haven’t rectified the flaws of the gamemode that made it as unpopular as is currently is in the grand scheme of things, I doubt these new players will stick around for long though.
What’s the point of adding shiny new toys if the playground is filled with toxic waste?
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There is a catch 22 of needing the popularity to justify major fixes, but I’m hoping that with these new ships will come a minor decompression of top tier
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for real, every dev wasting time on naval is one dev less in GRB/ARB departament
The problem of WT is that game focused solely on GRB and ARB almost completely ignoring all other modes even popular one like AAB and GAB leaving them stagnating with relatively big online, that what hurting thunder online growth. I’m gladly welcome all Arcade modes development but there is almost none of it, heck i even prefer solely themed AB major update at least once in a year. There is no need to forcing people to move to RB you can grab donates from AB even better if you develop it well.
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