Spitfire109

Will custom battles or battle deployments for custom and campaign become a thing? Or the ability to use two ships of the same type but different class in custom battles become a thing?

Update broke the US dreadnought hulls. Cant put guns on its front barbette.

Ladder aiming broken again lol.

Proper Italian dreadnought hulls for 1910-1930. Along with superstructure and proper gun turrets.

How far along in the "Chapters" Is this mod? And are things still moving along with it?

And although the new US Dreadnought hulls look nice you still cannot make a proper New York, Wyoming, or Texas out of them.

I wanna make a Dante, a Cavour, an Andrea Doria. There are no hulls for it proper though. As well as the double and triple turret mixing being a severe downside still.

Thanks!

Ive been looking for a hotkey to turn off the hud for better screenshots and cinematic recording. I cant find any answers or any info in the game. Is this a feature?

You are correct, the guns essentially being too snug together caused some dispersion. But It definitely didn't harm the accuracy to the point it does in game and It defiantly didn't hamper ladder aiming like it seems to do in game. Considering all the guns are the same size and thus same same splash sizes. So though maybe a small penalty because that's just a quirk of double, triple, ect guns, but not to this nearly crippling degree.

Ive really noticed that if you want to try and make historically inspired designs of say Nevada, Cavour, or KGV you are penalized for no logical reason. Several cruisers, battleships, and even a few destroyer models had this practice of a few of their main gun turrets had a different number of rifles and I've found nothing really that says this barrel arrangement was detrimental. As it stands in the game, if you try and replicate such ships you are penalized even though each gun is the same caliber and size. This really kills ladder aiming for some reason and the ammo pool is for some reason all not one thing. I believe this also hurts you if you have Wing and Centerline guns. Even though we know full well the German BCs at Jutland suffered no accuracy difficulties at Jutland due to wing mounted turrets. As a side note Id very much like if the battleships volleyed and not just fired the guns off as soon as they reloaded. Here's some historical examples. USS Nevada herself, B and I believe Y turret are both doubles while A and X are triples. Her Italian counterparts Andrea Doria and Cavour actually had an exact similar layout. They did suffer accuracy issues but not from the gun arrangement. http://i.imgur.com/YbL8z9V.jpg And maybe the most famous example is KGV. From everything I've read and watched about the class is the unreliability of the Quad turrets, which are mostly just a quirk of Quad guns, but her accuracy as a ship seemed more than adequate.

The battle AI improvements affect Academy and Customs too, yes?

What specifically has been improved for the AI?

Please set the AI in custom battles to be super aggressive or something in a patch or next update. Its so annoying trying to test ships and your opponent just turns and flees.

As far as the game is concerned certain armor and gun layouts are locked out for a good while. Well behind what was historically available for many nations. The French wanted quads on the Normandie's before cancelation and Nevada had AoN armor in the early 1910s. This should be adjusted.

Im trying to use quad guns for France in 1920, as they were gonna make quad ships in around 1916. Is there a way I can do this? Some sorta cheat or command prompt I need?

Id still like to see no Belt armor limit on CAs, there were many heavy cruisers and armored cruisers in existence with less than 101mm of belt armor.

Id say that if they eventually add Sea planes launchers for ships that could really help Larger vessels with ASW and of course it should be added for recon reasons.

Will there be a Beta for this Update soon?

Not exactly, Duke of York literally ambushed Scharnhorst due to its Radar and such being nearly completely destroyed by the cruisers. It had also lost speed and couldn't fire back effectively due to severe damage to its RF equipment. And yes, Duke of York obliterated Scharnhorst.

You sure do love just quoting numbers. I bet you loved math back in school. If it was all just numbers than this game would always be decided before battle even commences. Oh! The other guy's ship is simply larger than mine. I shall now perish and die. You forget the several times in at least WW2 where squadrons of CLs and CAs managed to hold their own or even gain advantage over capital ships due to superior position, numbers, training, or various other factor. When Belfast and her squadron found Scharnhorst in the north sea they didn't look at it and say "Oh no our puny pathetic 6' guns cannot HOPE to harm the ships 350mm belt!" instead they tightened their belts and said "Come on chaps! Jerry wont sink himself!" And you know what happened? Those cruisers so beat the hell out of the battleship so severely it didn't even see DoY coming to blast it with the 14's. Though had DoY not been there I'm certain either a close range torpedo attack may have been tried. Importantly though the Scharnhorst was essentially taken out of the fight from repeated hits from weapons you'd say couldn't harm it. Yes, HE is very very strong right now. Too strong but this game IS in Alpha and trying to both make it fun and realistic is hard. Especially since you can really replicate everything in real life in a game. But cruisers severely damaging and disabling a BB with gunfire alone is far from impossible.

This would be lovely. A good way to know how much the difference between the different armor types actually are. Lets you more accurately measure how much armor you have.

Oh that IS the enemy ship actually. Yes I shall send a report. On my team all the ships have no read parts and the game says they are complete but the launch button insists something is broken.

So here is the issue persisting. All the ships seen don't have any visual errors or red. I have other screenshots of the Italian ships in this fight I tried to make but the images were toooo big its seems. I can provide more if that would help. I also made sure that DD was gonna be AI generated and the one on the other team was hand built.

So you want cruisers to have no real chance against a capital ship? Or are you just salty your crappy BC got wrecked by a ship half it's tonnage? The only loser here seems to be the 'Flora'.