Zuikaku

May 1894, game hangs on building new ships after end turn. Update: after killing the gsme in task manager and restarting the gsme, loading save everything works fine.

But you can still fight minors.

Maybe it's good thing defenders have some bonuses. It is easier to defend. Maybe it's the balance issue or the way battles are represented. Anyone ever seen AI scrapping old ships? I won't ask for refit...

Good thing I didn't patched yet.

Can new hulls now be hit by torpedoes or not?

AI just keep sending low fuel TFs into the battle. Why is it sending them out of range? Why are they hanging there for months unsupplied? Why do they not retrest to the home port? Don't know! But it's annoying.

It is becoming increasingly boring/tiresome to fight with the same graphical representstion of weather all the time. Before it was allways daytime, now it is dusk. It is raining and cloudy? No, it is dusk. Daytime battle with clear weather. No, you are fighting in dusk.

DDs shoul'd be as strong as skillfully being used. Dreadnoughts also. Asking "bristling with guns" to be equal to inpunity or guarantee that no DD can commence torpedo run and to be blasted from surface right away is just WoW arcade shooter school. Read about Taffy and Leyte. High tech dreadnoughts with gun stabilisation and top of the noch directors had hard time hitting fast moving DDs and TBs. Dreadnought ancient or modern without escort is just a sitting duck and disaster waiting to happen. They were designed to slug with other heavies at long range- not fast moving small targets closing in. Also casemate and deck gun secondary (unturreted) mounts were not discontinued for no reason.

All the time or sometimes?

Just had couple of campaign battles in 1892. Mostly some 10 TBs of mine vs. A lonely enemy ship (CA or BB). In each engagement I pressed hard with agressive torpedo attacks at 30kt speed and lost from 3-6 TBs per mission. So, nothing wrong with secondary guns

I'm not asking for destroyers to rule the battlefield. But I think you are asking for BBs no longer requiring to have screens of the light units cause... Bristling with guns shoul'd do fine.

You know what, some of us want realism snd not another WoW sniper arena arcade clone. I don't find it enjoyable when being able to hit anything anywhere with pinpoint accuraccy. That didn't happened and is not realistic. And I certainly won't play the game where 4" casemate guns can easily hit fast moving torpedo boat at 4km on rough seas in 1900. It's just silly! How can you make any strategy in laser gun arena? BTW, tell us something about experiences of "bristlin' with guns" players like Szent Istvan, Hiei in Guadalcanal at point blank range or japanese TF in Indian ocean against single US DD or "bristlin' with guns Yamato against slow, fat CVEs and pesky DDs at Leyte, or Bismarck vs. shadowing DDs or russian BBs against japanese torpedo boats and believe me, there are many more. I bet all of these players feel that game engine is flawed and are quite dissapointed by game experience cause, you know, they got BBs with bristling guns and the hit rates were not enjoyable at all. Results were also not as expected I propose realism panel to keep everyone happy!

@Nick Thomadis Have you considered adding realism settings so all can be happy? Insteadnof that you are forced to turn features on and off with each update. And now some of the players want casemate guns to be snipers. If you do that, torpedo boats are becoming useless, part of the players happy and other part dissappointed. And that is with every feature somebody likes or dislikes.

Casemate guns were horribly innacurrate compared to deck or turreted guns. They could not be stabilised or efficiently aimed. So this is agood change!

Good thing is that now you can sell your overly flawed ships to the minors and make profit.

How about for minors to just have ships named "Ex XY" or "XY class"?

This dissolving mechanism is a bit too much. 1890 campaign, AH. Italy lost a war in 1894, paid reparations(money only) and dissolved. A few months later Russia dissolved. Spain went to war with China and dissolved after a few turns. Economic collapse bug I presume. Why dissolving countries anyway? Just make revolution and change government type, lower BDP. Erasing nations off map is a bit too radical and gamebreaking.

Talking a bit more about flags, right? German naval flag of 1934-1945 era does not look like anything you proposed. Even the "offensive" flag that made so many uppset is not NAVAL flag used by Kriegsmarine. The real "nazi" naval flag was similar to imperial naval flag but with eagle and swastika added.

Wow, this update is still broken quite a bit! Ships are sometimes behaving rationally and the next moment they are drunk. Why not implementing "misinterpret order" concept from Close combat - you can give the order but ships do not understand or execute them correctly each time. And this happened quite a lot in real naval battles.

Give minor nations budget and fleet capacity! And sbility for major nations to sell them obsolete ships.

Many of these issues can be hotfixed.

Minors not having budget or maintenance costs is just game breaking. They are just killing shipyard capacities.

What a fascinating hipocrisy all over here! You can not cancell history! You just want to show you are in line with modern ideology. Do you know what Ottomans ,Italians, Belgians ,Japanese or British did? All colonial/major powers did horrible things. Remove their flags! Replace them all with pinky bears and butterflies! I don't mind any flag or symbol being represented in the game although my country was being destroyed, ruined and mollested by most of the flags in the game. It is history. Flags did not kill people. People killed people. Politicians made nations suffer This is naval historical game! I see solution in menu option to turn historical flags off and replace them with neutral/made up so even highly sensitive people can play without being disturbed. Also, dissolution of the countries shoul'd be remowed. They shoul'd change governmant and suffer GDP drop, not being erased from the map.

But you got World of Warships for arcade battles. I just fail to understand you. Leve us just one game that tends to be realistic and more simulator and less arcade!

@Nick Thomadis Is it possible to add a feature of selling already built/obsolete ships to minor nations? I suggest allied minor nations being able to oth order latest designs from shipyards and buy obsolete/already built ships. Non allied minor nations are being able to buy only obsolete ships.