Nagato

I think game is even worse then before. Enemy spaming destroyers and light cruisers, torpedo nightmare remains. In one battle, despite having best equipment on board, i cant detect enemy till its destroyers are in torpedo range, torpedo swarm blasted trough my fleet, i lost 4 of 8 battleships by flash fires, and that in 1min period???? I never lost so many bbs in so short time. Some things are better, but some are worse.

There is a bug where France send ultimatum first option cannot be pressed, leading only to one of two others which reduces funds. First option in any game i had against France, it cant be used, only second and third.

I see that now enemy ships surrender due heavy casulties more often which is actually good. But why not allowing ships that surrendered join your fleet after winning the battle. Repair and use them as your ship but foreign design. It would be more reaslistic then just having say "sink" at the end.

There is also interesting thing happen in last campaign. I played with Germany and i am in alliance with Italy and Austro-Hungary, now i was in war with UK but now uk flags in cities are grey??, when i click on their ports, they have far far more ships then what is in in upper left screen showed. Over 30-40 light cruisers and bunch of ships and in upper main screen shows 1bb, 1 bc, 1 heavy cruiser, 1 light cruiser, 30 destroyers, clearly they have more in ports. Not only that there is no more ships at seas, UK do nothing?? France is also finished but France and every other nations have more ships then its shown, ???

There is one problem that still remains at large, and that is turn change. Sometimes it is fast but sometimes it is forever and sometimes after long wait it end in crash. This should be fixed by now already. Speeding turn change.

It is usually on forum, friend recieved his key. Keys are slowly coming, well not for me anyways didn't pre-order brought game later.

Somehow AI is worse then before. Not only they spam quite close (in every second battle) but it seems less aggressive. It still send destroyers and light cruisers but most of formation holds back and try to get as far as possible from you instead faceing you. It is good thing that AI ships were generally slower so i can catch with them. Odd calibers are still in for AI. AI have smaller fleets, at least small number of battleships and battlecruisers but it has ton of destroyers. It would be good if reparation system is added, where you receive ships from defeated nation, and use them as your own to fight other nations. Renaiming system would aslo be welcomed so that you can name your ships not having auto names. Also, shells seems to do less damage they did before. I mean i still sink enemy but i need much more to fire and spend more ammo on them.

Question, why AI now do not use standard caliber guns, i mean 14 inch, 15, inch, 16, its always, 14.2, 14.5, 15.1, even for smaller caliber guns?

It seems that pitch-roll is fixed, i did manage to make ships without this issues, however its still present on cruisers, especially light cruisers but only till the main guns were fitted, then slowly its fix itself. Campaign is now working better, but funds are still low, despite that i did manage to build five battleships, 2 battlecruisers and one heavy cruiser and was able to built at least 20 additional ships in next few turns without any problems, starting funds should perhaps be even bigger but well. However, enemy now have small fleets, i started 1930 campaign with Germany and enemy have perhaps 20-30 ships, should have 80-90 at least. If one country is defeated (not triggering end of campaign) surviving ships should be given as compesation and those ships should enter service with your fleet).

As intended. It worked far far better in 1.05. This "so called upgrade " is catastrophy, i cant create one single bloody ship that has no pitch-roll in yellow. Its impossible to make. This is downgrade not an upgrade. They changed things that worked maked them worse. It totally destroy fun of making ships. Not only my ships cant hit a squat they get butchered in every battle, i did manage to make few decent designs but it is still a bad. I simply cannot see this as an upgrade.

I wonder if pitch-roll was fixed, it was almost impossible to make ships before. But by the last comment from Hale, it seems pitch-roll and engine efficency were not fixed. Will wait till its fixed actually.

With this update at least on beta, there is big problem designing ship correctly, especially smaller ones, pitch-roll is always in yellow it is hard to actually find the right way now and for some reasons ships does get sink slightly faster now. Campaign upgrades are okay but there is still lot that lacking. If your supposed ally enter war with other team, you automatically enter with at least one (Example: playing with Germany, UK declared war to me after declaring war to Austro-Hungary earlier, France followed to but only Italy didn't so far.). There is constantly messages from UK or France threating to declare war if i do not move my ships away, the funny thing is, i had only six ships (two bbs and four battlecruisers as for whatever strange reason i cant build more, since my funds are to low for start), all six of my ships were in port and AI still threatens with war and then declare war?? All three allied nations have 70-90 ships i had only 6, cant built in beginning more then that, eventually i start building more ships but it take at least 12-14 months for darn cruisers. So what kind of start is this? where you are unable to built at least 60 or your own ships at the begnning. Of course enemy simply butcher my tiny little fleet with constant attacks. Its not fun at all.

Indeed. If Austro-Hungary enter war, Germany automatically enter war with Brits, its riddiculus how this new system works. I aplaude for longer campaign but it has so many problems. Especially ship designer. WHAT The heck is going on with ship designer. Whatever i put on the bloody hull it have high pitch roll ???

Pitch - roll system is screwed. Heck i cant make one single BB without having issuses. Also budget for building ships is to small. Chosed Germany 1910 and can built only six ships WTF?

Actually you can rename class. First ship in the class will be name you chose (if you chose to rename it) but all other ships receive names automatically. It would be nice to change this. Allowing players to give name to every single ship. It would make more personal fleet.

Thank you Nick for update. Hope you and rest of team and families are safe.

Yes, we are very aware of war in Ukraine. They were based in Kyiv and Kyiv is safe for now at least. Still that there is no news in two weeks? It's a bit odd.

Indeed, and so far no any kind of news from devs. As you say it would be good if they communicate with us little bit more so that we know what is the status of the 1.06.

If you have two same hulls, one of 35 thousand and one 40000 thousand, yes difference is only those 5000 tons, but they actually look the same. Sure ship of 35000 tons is not the same as that of 40000 but still they look the same. How many ships truly you can recreate today, perhaps few, Littorio, Bismarck, Yamato, Von der Tann, perhaps even Nelson (partiary) but let say dreadnoughts for germany or any other nation circa 1920 they all look the same only different displacement. As i always say, more hulls, more superstructures, more funnels, more guns, and those to be accurate historically, if you make them historically accurate to create real ship then you can add some modifications to them easly.

I think they keep us waiting, more hungry we are for 1.06 more we wait till they finally decide, here you go, 1.06 in all its glory, enjoy.

I really hope they release 1.06 soon. With current state of campaign it get quite boring. Especially if you nail your enemy fast they just surrender. But they should add possibility to capitulate one of your enemy countries and to receive some of their ships as compesation but that war continue with other nations you are at war and i really hope they plan to add US and Japan to expand the campaigns a little.

Beta branch? how long will we wait for the 1.06 release?

I agree, especially later camapigns (1930-1940) couldnt have more then few battleships and battlecruisers, so everytime i lack behind Ai in large ships. There should be larger budget or limit how much you can build ships of each type and having money for each type of ship to build decent starting fleet, or you get overhelmed by enemy quickly. By the way, is that you Mutsu Onee-sama???

It would be nice if we have superstructures for Konigsberg/Leipzig and also German destroyes (hulls as well), i dont like current German destroyer hulls at all.

In every battle i got one or two ships hit by torpedo, they lost speed, moving on 2-5 knots and they are left behind the main formation, enemy close and fire on that ship but it cant sink it despite having 1% left, only if there are ships with torpedoes they sink it with torps. But if you got main formation out of the battlezone and enemy cant fire on them anymore, you should at least have option to scuttle your own ship and end the battle. This is especially annoying in 1890-1900 campaigns.