Yamato Needs More Hull Compartments

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We all would.

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Is there a way to actually survive a shot? Stern tanking maybe? I’ve tried only taking 300 of 900 rounds, and it seems to make no difference.

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It’s gimmicky but it also works with hyuuga.

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Problem is you need to survive long enough to actually turn, not the easiest thing in Yamato and now we don’t even have engine steering to help with it.

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Bit of an update, lowering ammo ultimately doesn’t matter: Almost all of your remaining ammo is in shell rooms which is the issue to begin with.

360 primary, 270 secondary drastically reduces magazine size but looking at the X-Ray, that ultimately won’t matter. Since all of your ammunition is - once again - in the shell room surrounding the turret.

Tertiary ai gunners also likes to shoot destroyers and cruisers, interestingly.

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Proof 1/3rd ammo does basically nothing. You’ll probably instantly die if hit anyway

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Here’s Musashi.

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Patch notes from today. This should help.

  • IJN Musashi, IJN Yamato — the ship’s internal structure has been corrected in the area of ​​the forward and aft ammunition magazines. A bug where the detonation of the shell rooms would cause the detonation of all magazines, destroying the ship, has been fixed.
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Here’s the actual changes. Less HP for the ammunition means it blows up more often, faster in fires, or both?

  • Musashi:
    • added another compartment
    • ammunition, engine room HP reduced
    • added 12.7 mm structural steel around the eight larger 25 mm turrets
    • No. 21 radar couldn’t be damaged, fixed
    • crew reorganised
  • Yamato:
    • added another compartment
    • ammunition, secondary gun, engine room, fire director, rangefinder, fuel tank, 460 mm turret mantlets HP reduced
    • crew reorganised
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Short, non-descript answer: Yes.

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Why would they do this? Serious question.

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Because the devs hate the IJN and the british navy.

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Must be. Not to derail the topic, but the new BR changes for British ships are completely unneeded.

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I already can 1 tap Yamato’s with Nagato / Musashi AP… so it would be even easier ?