This match happened few weeks ago, with the current Naval Arcade boondongle. I wanted to post it before it’s too late, as tomorrow server update will render this replay useless (gg). Tried to link to the server replay, but it’s no longer available (4d93de400003349). Looks like the server replays are available for 2 weeks only. I’m attaching my game replay, if you want to check it out and see how much of a joke Naval Arcade currently is.
I counted as many as 7 bots attacking me at the same time. This is non stop pestering from all over the map. Bots as far as 16+ km away shot their shots at me with mostly surgical precision. Almost entire match was just a pestering BANG BANG BANG multiple times a second and me constantly putting out fires almost the entire game. A lot of bots seem to be shooting ranging shots, but it’s a non- stop barrage of fire that gets very annoying very quickly. It did not matter how much I turned my battleship and how far away I went, all these bots were focused on me until I died from [million] thousand cuts. The game decided that’s it was time for me my ship to die, so it sic all these bots on me. What is even the point of this??? None of the players were shooting at me. I tried to get in the circle and that’s when the trouble started. This game mode reminds me more and more of being Assault. What are you doing, gaijin??? Do you even need players? Let the bots just duke it out with each other. With the current aiming fiasco, where you need to ask permission to get your shells on target, what is even the point of playing this abomination? This question is from a long term Naval player that played this mode since closed beta and was Naval main for the last 6 years or so. What have you done to Naval, gaijin? The last 3 years were barely passable due to the nerfed aiming system that constantly was undershooting and overshooting due to that drunk aiming director (some sekrit RNG aiming value that nerfed your income), but the last 3 months really killed the game for me. It’s a tragedy that this was allowed and then the suck persisted all these months without gaijin doing any damage control and being awfully quiet overall, as if they did not see the dumpster fire.
Look at all these arrows. Different bots joined after I killed previous one. This is already when I turned away to disengage, but bots do not care. They will pester you until you are no more. Btw, what is up with these ALMOST HORIZONTAL shots? There are many games like this when there is no way to avoid them, as they fly at the height of your ship’s hull, so even when you turn, they still will get you.
Look at this distance. I’m still being set on fire every few seconds. Am I playing Fire Extinguishing Simulator???:
Died just seconds before the end of this useless match… by… Anton (btw, where is [Waldo] Anton?):
The funny thing is THIS IS THE SECOND TIME it has happened to me. Same situation with the death circle map, maybe about a month+ ago. Some sekrit switch was turned on and all the bots started shooting at me ALL AT THE SAME TIME… until my ship died. Also had a destroyer pestered and killed by some invisa shells from some small bot boat. Same precision guided shells, but I didn’t even see what was shooting at me. Yeah, the enemy shell visibility really sucks while enemy tags overlap and hide the enemy ships smh.
As far as I see, Naval has lost its personality. It’s now just a synthetic Assault gameplay. Btw, thanks for jacking up Assault game mode the unreasonable amount as well, gaijin. How is this all not a stealth income nerf? Why is this game so convoluted and shady? All of this choked out the fun out of this game mode. I don’t see any reason to continue playing Naval as main. All these fancy new battleships? Just a dead cat bounce, if gaijin continues on this path. Sad to see this.
I have like 2 weeks of premium time left. Will collect (puny) 10 more from the BP. Will do the Naval event, but after that I don’t see a reason to continue this farce. Maybe just play few matches of Air here and there to keep my Squadron status active few times a month. Will see how this game is going in November, but I don’t put my hopes up :(.
I’m attaching the replay that should work until tomorrow morning. Also, check out the battleship not far away from me almost at the end of the match. His primary weapons shells fly high while his secondaries hit the water (time after time) in front of him. What a joke…
Death circle - 7 bot gangbang 2025.06.07 21.14.04.rar (17.9 MB)