I have questions about the CV updates in Patch .4.1

[1Sherman]

I was just looking through the notes for Patch .4.1 and I saw that CV fighters now have a manual ability called Skillshots. This ability will allow CV players to pick a specific area that their fighters will focus on, expending most of their ammo in the process. I have some questions about this.

 

Q1: Can this be used against surface targets, i.e. you target an area where (for example) a battleship is going to be and when your fighters and the BB arrive, the fighters strafe the BB, causing critical damage to secondaries, AA guns, and turrets?

 

Q2: Will this make attack loadouts on CVs useless by allowing fighters to completely neutralize a squadron of TBs or DBs in a matter of seconds, go back, re-arm, and do it all over again?

 

I also noticed that they said MM for CVs will be reworked so that CVs will be distributed (and i quote) "symmetrically, both by quantity and by tier." (unquote). Since they didn't directly answer my question in the patch notes, I will ask my next question here.

 

Q3: Does this mean that there will no longer be 2v1 fights when you're playing CVs? 

 

If you think you have an answer to any of my questions, I encourage you to feel free to post your answers in a polite, helpful, and constructive manner. 

[Fog_Destroyer_Akizuki]

Answers

 

1. Maybe as far as surface ships.....don't know yet ppl testing might see this.

2. Possibly.

3 Also possibly..depends on how effective it will be.

[Fast_Battleship_Iowa]

I don't think they'll be able to do damage to ships, and given how it's a manual skill (no automatic process here), they won't be able to destroy a enemy cluster of planes if the CV captain on the other side is paying attention and splits up the groups.

 

It looks pretty nice all around.

[1Sherman]

 they won't be able to destroy a enemy cluster of planes if the CV captain on the other side is paying attention and splits up the groups.

 

 

I was actually referring to if (for example) you're in a Bogue, which pretty much requires the attack loadout in order to influence the match and get enough XP to get to the Independence. Meanwhile, the enemy team has (for example) another Bogue with the fighter loadout. He could use the new fighter ability to wipe out your own torpedo bombers, leaving you to deplete your already tiny reserves for torpedo bombers and minimizing your effectiveness at taking out enemy ships. That's what I'm worried about.