Aiming/Accuracy Questions...

[Jadarok]

So the more I play and the higher tier matches I get into, I'm noticing more and more some odd things about accuracy.  I'll try to carefully bracket my shots and shoot one salvo at a time and my sells will go wildly different directions. From the SAME turret. And then I'll see shots fired at me, or a ship I'm spectating, ALL fly perfectly into the side of a ship in a tight cluster. Without even firing a test shot!

 

Now I realize knowing where to aim is a skill you can just learn over time and get a feel for where to shoot without have to fire test shots or bracket, but these shots where they are all in a tight cluster every time while mine feel like a random shotgun doesn't feel like RNG. Is there something I'm missing with accuracy and dispersion in this game? Do specific guns and ships have different accuracy ratings? Does the level of your commander affect or accuracy? Is there even an accuracy stat you can affect in this game or is it all strictly turret traverse? Does firing full salvo actually make it more accurate for some reason?

 

What am I missing here? I know it's not just me because I observe the same thing while spectating. BB carefully tries to hit another BB 7km away one salvo at a time...bullets go everywhere. Opponent BB fires full volley. They all hit dead on target.

[Mourneblade]

So the more I play and the higher tier matches I get into, I'm noticing more and more some odd things about accuracy.  I'll try to carefully bracket my shots and shoot one salvo at a time and my sells will go wildly different directions. From the SAME turret. And then I'll see shots fired at me, or a ship I'm spectating, ALL fly perfectly into the side of a ship in a tight cluster. Without even firing a test shot!

 

Now I realize knowing where to aim is a skill you can just learn over time and get a feel for where to shoot without have to fire test shots or bracket, but these shots where they are all in a tight cluster every time while mine feel like a random shotgun doesn't feel like RNG. Is there something I'm missing with accuracy and dispersion in this game? Do specific guns and ships have different accuracy ratings? Does the level of your commander affect or accuracy? Is there even an accuracy stat you can affect in this game or is it all strictly turret traverse? Does firing full salvo actually make it more accurate for some reason?

 

What am I missing here? I know it's not just me because I observe the same thing while spectating. BB carefully tries to hit another BB 7km away one salvo at a time...bullets go everywhere. Opponent BB fires full volley. They all hit dead on target.

 

each individual ship has it's own accuracy and dispersion rating.... additionally after thousands of battles some players have pretty decent muscle memory on knowing where to aim.

[Tank3rDude]

Yes each ship has its own dispersion rating (accuracy). But as your ship gets upgraded and your commander gets more and more skills and training the ship will get more and more accurate. Also, I believe their are certain signal flags and upgrades that can increase it even more. But, its also dependant on the player himself and by experience.

[Legendary_Typo]

If you're in a BB, it's quite easy to miss and quite easy to get hit. If you're in something else like a cruiser, it's way easier to hit, and after a few games you get a feel for the guns and can hit pretty accurately.

[BKKnightRider]

Yes each ship has its own dispersion rating (accuracy). But as your ship gets upgraded and your commander gets more and more skills and training the ship will get more and more accurate. Also, I believe their are certain signal flags and upgrades that can increase it even more. But, its also dependant on the player himself and by experience.

 

Actually, dispersion is a function of precision, not accuracy.  If you fire a broadside and all the rounds land centered around where you are aiming but none of them land on or close to where you are aiming then your accuracy is spot on but your dispersion is high and your precision is low (i.e. both dispersion and precision are bad).  If you fire a broadside and all of your rounds land right on the same spot but nowhere near where you are aiming then your accuracy is terrible but your precision is high and your dispersion is low.  For example.  I just had my Arkansas bracket a Phoenix only 5.4 km away.  It also had complete misses by bracketing other cruisers and BBs at about 7.8 km, 8.6 km, and 9.7 km.  Perfect aim with four broadsides and zero hits.  All of the rounds missed either high or short and none of them missed wide.  When I was firing at the Phoenix all of the rounds landed around my target just aft of amid ships so my aim was spot and my accuracy was spot on but the dispersion/precision  was horrible.  Funny thing is though, that Phoenix didn't have a single broadside miss.  Not every round hit, but every broadside hit.

[BKKnightRider]

So the more I play and the higher tier matches I get into, I'm noticing more and more some odd things about accuracy.  I'll try to carefully bracket my shots and shoot one salvo at a time and my sells will go wildly different directions. From the SAME turret. And then I'll see shots fired at me, or a ship I'm spectating, ALL fly perfectly into the side of a ship in a tight cluster. Without even firing a test shot!

 

Now I realize knowing where to aim is a skill you can just learn over time and get a feel for where to shoot without have to fire test shots or bracket, but these shots where they are all in a tight cluster every time while mine feel like a random shotgun doesn't feel like RNG. Is there something I'm missing with accuracy and dispersion in this game? Do specific guns and ships have different accuracy ratings? Does the level of your commander affect or accuracy? Is there even an accuracy stat you can affect in this game or is it all strictly turret traverse? Does firing full salvo actually make it more accurate for some reason?

 

What am I missing here? I know it's not just me because I observe the same thing while spectating. BB carefully tries to hit another BB 7km away one salvo at a time...bullets go everywhere. Opponent BB fires full volley. They all hit dead on target.

 

You are not missing a thing.  Also, if you have not yet had any close range engagements, you will learn when you have a few that at close ranges the BBs have significantly worse dispersion/precision that cruisers. Because, even with perfect aim your BBs will routinely miss with entire broadsides at close ranges while your cruisers won't do that.

[Jadarok]

 

You are not missing a thing.  Also, if you have not yet had any close range engagements, you will learn when you have a few that at close ranges the BBs have significantly worse dispersion/precision that cruisers. Because, even with perfect aim your BBs will routinely miss with entire broadsides at close ranges while your cruisers won't do that.

 

So is it all just really RNG then? Confirmation bias? That there is no trick. Some people are just lucky with their full volley shots?