Yes, for quite some time now.
I never liked the idea of anti-aircraft guns firing automatically, can’t it be manual like in tanks? As a torpedo boat player, I’ve rarely been able to surprise other ships. I prefer the crew to warn me before seeing a sad little boat sinking without realizing it was there. I mean, it seems too op to me that thanks to that I don’t even have to worry about torpedo boats and I think that for submarines it would be devastating because any submarine discovered near the boat would have a hard time escaping
Agreed. Though i also don’t want planes to kinda take over another mode in case gaijin decides to over correct like most of their other changes.
Maybe having a warning/highlight system in game combined with an a.i. weapon selector could work? (Like if you target a plane, the aaa fires at it. Destroyers And up get main and secondary guns. And frigates and below get secondary and aaa. All fired from the players imput)
I think main reason why Gaijin made AA gunners AI controlled is that there is simply too many things to do. Imagine you need to arm the AA gunners and shoot at enemy airplane while you are hammered by enemy ship. You can see this in bombers when you are approaching base but there is also enemy aircraft coming at you (because bomber gunners are useless even with spaded crew).
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They need to nerf them. AI gunner, operating VT or Radiofuse is a deadly combo
Honestly, I was fine with them pre-nerf. It’s a bunch of different large guns against a single plane, of course that lone plane would be shot down.
I wouldn’t be against the effectiveness of AI gunners being more dependent on crew skill though tbh.
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After playing Tusk Force update against USS Charles F. Adams (or any ship with SAMs) I realized we dont even need ASROC. One hit with RIM-24 (or any other missile) and submarine will be critically damaged and most likely unable to submerge…
What kind of armor does submarines even have? I can imagine the tower is somehow protected but rest of the hull is just strong enough to withstand pressure right?
I’m pretty sure most submarine sails (conning towers) aren’t really protected at all, they’re just smoothed fairings.
Who knows how subs will evade missiles at close range? I think at this point Gaijin’s plan is to add submarines and figure out the balance as they go.
Speaking of which… it sure sounds like the community manager post for the next update will be next week. If we’re going to hear about submarines before the next major update, as BVVD said, then this is almost certainly when it’s going to happen.
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Yeah, based on previous years next update should be around the end of October - mid November which is in a month.
(along with Gaijins big anniversary sale)
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Most submarines have no armour at all, hence why strafing runs with guns would cause them to stay emergancy surfaced, worst case they would abandon the vessel.
It’s funny that Germany is known for their u boats, but then two of the best subs are going to be Japanese.
I-201 and I-400 class submarines
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Basically ni armor
Except some hulls have varying thickness depending on depth requirements
Armor is also not very adapted against the type of threat they mostly face (underwater explosions)
Putting armor would also mean more constraints on flottability and ballasts size
I so want the I-400!!
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played a bit of cold waters, Is that a kinda realistic depiction for damage or nah?
We had the realistic depiction of damage ingame already during the Battle for the Atlantik event.
If you surfaced, small machine gun fire from AA was deadly, let alone main cannons.
The I-201 was a speed demon for her time. I am happy Gaijin will most likely keep the deck guns operational but if its true a sub update is happening I think Japan might get the strongest submarine tree there is. Germanys U-boats are good but there meant for a different type of job.
One thing that’s cool from reading the wiki so take it with a grain of salt a lot of late war Japanese ships got sonar sets so you should be able to side step the sub issue.
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Japan will have something over the US for once at least, but Germany might find a way to bias it’s way to the top.
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Something else to discuss is midget subs Germany built a good lot of them. They also built some spicy prototypes using strange and wonderful fuel mixtures that might blow up the sub. Do you think there is use in these little cute subs with there perks in game? Any others you think are cool?
Meet the Molch the pure EV sub extra quiet and eco friendly to boot great for excursions with friends you have been assigned
The V80 uses water hydrogen proxied which spun a turbine early air in-depended propulsion
Kairyū class
Kō-hyōteki-class submarine
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That is crazy looking. I love it
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Some subs I would also like to see
Type U 151 submarine
Cargo subs turned cruiser subs
CB-class midget submarine
Mr. almost universal as Germany Italy and USSR used them at one time or another
K-class submarine steam punk powered freak
Surcouf less said about her the best because you already know the gimmick.
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