flaviohc16

Any love for the 1.5.1 update?

I'm more intrigued by the " Very soon we will announce something that should excite most of you that currently enjoy Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts." Completely new game or massive patch with something big coming? @Nick Thomadis can you tell us something?

He is not Playing with NAR, as you can see his armour is Krupp 2, but i have seen this a lot, a lot of people install your mod wrong, here are on Reddit. But i think that the gist of what he is saying is right: We unlocked 100k tons ships in 1929, when there is no chance in hell that a 100k ton ship was going to get built before 1941-42 IRL, Treaties or not. Also we unlock 7500 tons DDs in 1936, here again, no chance in hell that would happen before 1944 at the earliest. There are a lot of tech nodes that should get shifted 5-10 years forward IMHO

please fix the bug of late-game technologies not getting researched. in my usa campaigns lately I didn't have: radar 3. gas turbines 24 inc torps oxigen torps sonar 3 oil 3

its a pity, i would have loved to build my own transports. Like, maybe starting with ships that went 8 knots, no weapon and 2000 tons of cargo, and slowly evolving them to ships that goes 20-22 knots, 4-5 " guns and 10k tons of cargo, where you would need to balance weaponry, speed and cargo capacity.

Ehhhh a bit too much now 🤣🤣

I'm a masochist. Do I need to restart the campaign? Noice Thank you, let's see how it rolls Please do, IMHO they don't add anything to the game right now, unless you make them into a force field that you can't enter unless you have ships with anti-mine stuff, like it was 6 months ago in vanilla. Especially because they should damage less ships but do way more damage, but it's totally an rng game that the player can't interact with

i think that "partial pen" is more when the shells are between 2 layers of armour ( like the 1st than 2nd belt in the citadel)? but I don't know what I'm talking about

Well, you can add the "in between" ap shell fuze, also, you can make all the fuzes more linear: only shifting the fuses, and keeping the 6 values: SAP: -45% pen Semi ballistic: -30% in between (call it how you like) -15% standard: 0 capped: +15% capped ballistic +30% pen Yea, ofc I don't want overpen to do more damage than pen, I actually want overpen to do less damage, but having less of them overall. I know what I want ( and probably you know it too) but I don't know how to reach it, that's why I'm asking

Since you explained to me a couple of months back how penetration/overpenetration worked, I always avoided using capped shells ( I use them only on dds/cl/ca if I want them to punch above their weight). On 16" guns I actually always use standard or even semi-ballistic, with superheavy shells ( the shells that everyone was aiming for in the 1930s-40s), and as propellant RPC 12/38 and usually Dunnite as explosive because it gives me penetration without getting more flash fire chance. In 1930, with 16/50 guns, with 110% armour scaling ( basically everything at the best possible) my guns overpen 6 inch of armour (more than 12 " of pen): with mark 3 guns, standard ap: 25 kms mark 3 with semi-ballistic ap: 10 km ( ok-ish) mark 5, standard ap: 30kms mark 5, semi-ballistic: 15km https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1iMS371lN-LxQmQjWlKfWxRbcIp95gb5i?usp=drive_link (drive with the data and pictures) And the semi ballistic ones makes penetrating even a paltry 12 " of armour of a modern bb complicated ( they are the values given above). How would i change it? 1)give better overpen potential, like i said in my previous comment, 2)and give us more granularity in stepping down the Penetration values of AP: RIgh now we have only 2 "steps down" for ap: SAP and Semi-ballistic, and they are quite brutal in their ap pen reduction (-30 % for semi ballistic and -45% for sap), meanwhile we have 3 steps up in penetration, and the latter 2 are very close and redundant (capped +25%, capped-ballistic 1 +31%, capped ballistic 2 +36%), I would add an in-between shell fuse between standard and semi-ballistic, with -15% pen, and you can reach this goal either by adding one slot or by shifting one block and deleting one of the capped-ballistic ( capped ballistic 1 i would say) I agree, you made them quite fragile, maybe if you rework over pen mechanics, you might make overpen have even less damage than they do now: so you have less of them, but they also gives you less damage, so this will probably make dds more survivable. I agree that in late game accuracy it's still too high, at 20 km range accuracy should never go above 10-12% on a moving target, as that was the accuracy of Iowa class BBs in Korea (1952-55)

Also, and I know we talked about it before, I would try to change the overpen mechanic a bit, because right now it's world of overpens, sometimes even with HE. I know that the armour threshold is 2, so that if my shells penetrate more than double the armour they encounter, the overpen. But I would say this is quite limiting, especially because you might have 16 inch shells that overpen 6" of armour ,(WW2 CA belt armour) and you can't do anything about it. It's even more egregious with HE, were if you don't have an he with 0,1" of pen TBs or dds become quite resistenti to overpen. Same for light cruiser. I would try to increase this parameter to 3 for AP and 4/5 for HE and test how it goes. Basically, I would love to have a game where my hit are way more impactful and less 80-90% overpen and 10% pen that we have right now. I would also get then reducing a bit more the accuracy so that battles don't end in a slugfest in 30 in game minutes.

Because the tentation is strong 🤣🤣🤣 Well, I would say that you are playing at the max difficulty with one of the worst nation, nation that even IRL in the timeline the games cover (1890-1965) was basically "afk to the world stage to control his own shit'. Like you choose something with a high failure rate.

I have seen that you removed the ebility to put big barbettes on armoured cruisers: good. but....but, if I place the 2nd smallest barbette, I can still then place the big ones and then have a small dreadnought https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JJqpdD1YB83DVWqAvQj24gj-E_3uRt-3?usp=drive_link

You might have overturned a bit the "allied nations buying ships"

Latest NAR patch is for you

Yeap, but they have an accelerated path to war if your tension is over -50 , as in every month the tension goes up 2-5 points if you have ships in their area Yeah, as I said, a bit scared,but passable, looking back into it, it was a good call Yeap, I didn't unlock oil 3, auxiliary 5 and the last navy drill, the ones that gives you 21k crew for your taskforce, also the late technologies bonuses weren't getting updated on my designs. Tell me if you need some files from my saves. I'm starting a USA, 1890, hard campaign and see how it goes. Thank you for your hard work.

yeap, i had the same since opt2, i thought it was NAR, but as you are writing this, it clearly isn't

so I arrived in 1942, as always: Usa 1890 start, normal difficulty. The economy started snowballing in 1936 and snowballed completely in 1940, i would say that it's okay: 1) It's the USA in 1940, where they even in IRL went basically "shipyards go brrrrrrr" 2) i have 2/3 of the planet under my control, with 200 provinces, i should have an insane GDP. The economy for me it's fine, but it's quite crushing for the IA ( but i'm on normal difficulty), because the are always at war with each other. I love the last 2 patches (7 and 8), The enemy design has become really good and scary, and also the Ai tactics has improved. What imho need improving: 1) Ai still sometimes put barbettes at the ends of ships ( A turret on barbette and then a B turret without) 2) since the Ai update (patch 8 ) the Ai is a bit too scared of me, even when it shouldn't, leaving also transports to get killed by my ships even when they have the advantage. The only time it stuck around was when it had to protect a lot of TR, but when there are only 2-3 TR it escaped, it's a feature or RNG? 3) I still haven't unlocked auxiliary engine 5, oil 3 and the 21k crew size task force, even though i'm in the "incremental phase" of the tech tree (the end tree nodes). What i have noticed is that when I reached the end trees, the nodes don't change years like in the stock game ( ex: improved propeller 1 is 1930, and improved propeller 2-3-4-5-6-7 is still 1930). This is still this way in 1947, so there is some kind of bug. Also this end bonus don't seems to get updated ( my torpedo fro example don't improve, even when i refit/build a new class. as always, screenshots with the economy, the tech tree bugs and ai escaping when it shouldn't https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1AhwARcHyJNrnBIzpEf0LUnTOmlOnQABq?usp=drive_link P.s. do you know how to delete my old attachment on the forum?

As I said, click on one ship, scroll to the end of whatever you want to scrap, even all the ships you have, shift+click on the last ship, press scrap, done 4 steps done in maybe 10 seconds to scrap 1000 ships

You can already do this, Wich shift+click or Ctrl+shift+click, and if you sort by ship type you can do it fast with only the classes or the years you want.

you really don't need too much horsepower, i'm playing with everything maxed out at 1440p on a gtx970

Lol, I used the bug since I discovered it 6 months ago, but it should really get fixed

Another thing: Setting your ships to "low crew" gets you a lower maintenance cost than mothballing it, without even having to wait to reactivate the ship once you get it to full crew again

I'll report in in 1940 The problem is not war-mongering per se, it's the fact that it destroys their GDP growth, I'm fine with the AI declaring war with me, the problem is that the AI is always at war with other AIs, so their GDP growth is hampered I'm Italian BTW, and I know about the Americans' large cruiser/battle cruiser insanity, to me the only problem is making one redundant, for gameplay purposes, when one is 20k tons bigger than the other (50% more displacement) without bigger guns, even by 1 inch. You are very welcome!!

Also, the oil 3 missing bug ( oxygen torps and auto reload 2 are there however)