Invisible Future?

[GiN_nTonic]

So the other day I was in a game where a Murmansk was shooting completely invisible (i was dead watching him on my team) - which I understand you can play within a short distance between range/detection.  However, this guy was invisible the entire time.  Smart player.

 

At the end of the match, I PM'd him congratulating his game and he let me know he had both the increased range skill AND the concealment skill.  I'm sure not very many people have both those skills at this point, but it got me to thinking - is that our future?   I'm not a mathematician, but I think having both skills can give a player a 3-4km differential between range and spotting, which is actually fairly massive.  Cruisers will be able to act like DD's in that differential and remain invisible while dishing out tons of dmg.

 

I really think WG needs to add "spotting" as a serious bonus to XP etc so that we have DD's acting like the screens they should be. 

[RogueFlameHaze]

So the other day I was in a game where a Murmansk was shooting completely invisible (i was dead watching him on my team) - which I understand you can play within a short distance between range/detection.  However, this guy was invisible the entire time.  Smart player.

 

At the end of the match, I PM'd him congratulating his game and he let me know he had both the increased range skill AND the concealment skill.  I'm sure not very many people have both those skills at this point, but it got me to thinking - is that our future?   I'm not a mathematician, but I think having both skills can give a player a 3-4km differential between range and spotting, which is actually fairly massive.  Cruisers will be able to act like DD's in that differential and remain invisible while dishing out tons of dmg.

 

I really think WG needs to add "spotting" as a serious bonus to XP etc so that we have DD's acting like the screens they should be. 

 

When you can spot a ton of ships across the map? There is a reason it's not in the game, and it's because it's hard to fire undetected, and especially bb's can be spotted so far out.

[GiN_nTonic]

 

When you can spot a ton of ships across the map? There is a reason it's not in the game, and it's because it's hard to fire undetected, and especially bb's can be spotted so far out.

 

Except it becomes a lot easier having both skills.  3-4km isn't nearly as hard to stay at stand-off distance, but 1km or less is (without skill).

 

You could credit ships that spot other ships that can only be detected by your ship.  This way you dont get credit for BB's firing across the map.

[vanFrozit]

You can also get squeezed by a smart team.   Have had that happen to me several times in my DD... 

 

[BlazerSparta]

Murmansk can do that? I'm guessing you need the range captain skill for that...