Atlanta AAA nerfed?

[tk208]

 

Has Atlanta's AAA been nerfed recently? Last game I had 4 groups of plans fly straight over me and circle around within about 2k's trying to attack our carrier, after a few minutes they were out of range and I was left with 1 plane shot down!

 

I swear I remember the AAA being more effective than that lol

 

Cheers.

  

 

[Captain_Dorja]

The 5" guns are really powerful. The rest of the Atlanta's AA is actually really weak. Was defensive fire activated?

[thegamefilmguruman]

The 5" guns are really powerful. The rest of the Atlanta's AA is actually really weak. Was defensive fire activated?

 

Plus they're getting even more powerful in 5.3.  Dorja's right, though.  Was DF activated?

[sargentmki]

 

Plus they're getting even more powerful in 5.3.  Dorja's right, though.  Was DF activated?

 

Is this true? I thought they were nerfing at least the manual aimed AA boost by like 15% to 1.1 damage boost.

 

[AVR_Project]

Sad thing is that whenever I have my Atlanta set up in 'expendables', ship modules, and captain skills to be the baddest AA cruiser on the planet, I get shipped off to some tier 9 gun battle.  Switch off AA to sonar and it's straight 4 carrier battles where the planes blot out the sun.

A couple days ago, I actually did get into a carrier battle in AA mode and it worked incredibly well.  The planes just fall out of the sky so pretty.  It helps if you use the <ctrl> click to select the torp planes first, then bombers, then fighters.  If they are <3km (wait for it... wait for it...), they melt away pretty quick after you hit the 'T' button.  Shot down 19 planes in one mission alone.

The 'T' button is like repair in that it has a few seconds to clear away the sky and a couple minutes cool-down.  AA still works without it, (like a tier 5 ship) , but it's painfully slow.

[10T0nHammer]

Atlanta has never had good AA. What it had was Defensive Fire. The Atlanta does have the 5in DPs but for whatever reason, they get low DPM. The Atlanta's high DPM guns are the 20mm guns and 28mm only have 2km range and they still suck. Both the Myoko and the Atlanta shoot down about the same number of planes. 

 

Unless Defensive Fire is active, dont expect to shoot down anything but tier 5-6 planes.

[thegamefilmguruman]

 

Is this true? I thought they were nerfing at least the manual aimed AA boost by like 15% to 1.1 damage boost.

 

 

DP guns are getting AA buffed, if I recall.  Other AA is getting nerfed slightly.  But of course, Atlanta is made of DP guns. 

[10T0nHammer]

 

DP guns are getting AA buffed, if I recall.  Other AA is getting nerfed slightly.  But of course, Atlanta is made of DP guns. 

 

USN 5in DP guns AA damage is getting buffed, range is getting nerfed. The 20mm and 28mm guns are getting buffed to 3km but getting damage nerfed

[thegamefilmguruman]

 

USN 5in DP guns AA damage is getting buffed, range is getting nerfed. The 20mm and 28mm guns are getting buffed to 3km but getting damage nerfed

 

There's the info^  So getting close enough to an Atlanta with one's planes causes them to evaporate, but you can get around them easier.

[Captain_Dorja]

ffs they are nerfing the range of the 5'/38??????

Seriously? AA is all US cruisers have right now, and we were the [edited]UNDISPUTED CHAMPIONS OF AA in WWII. If they keep those balls awful IJN 5" DP guns with equal range, I'm going to be pretty pissed. I mean, really, those guns fired slower, had crap ammo, worse fuses, worse ranging, trained and elevated too slowly... but yeah, they should probably be as good as THE BEST LIGHT GUN IN THE GORRAM WORLD. 

 

I know, I'm a bit of a 'Murica! [edited], but ffs, the USN is getting dicked over in this game a lot. We weren't the best navy in WWII just because we had a lot of ships. We had great equipment in massive numbers, well supplied, well trained, and well lead. It would be nice to get some of that crapin game.

[10T0nHammer]

ffs they are nerfing the range of the 5'/38??????

 

Seriously? AA is all US cruisers have right now, and we were the [edited]UNDISPUTED CHAMPIONS OF AA in WWII. If they keep those balls awful IJN 5" DP guns with equal range, I'm going to be pretty pissed. I mean, really, those guns fired slower, had crap ammo, worse fuses, worse ranging, trained and elevated too slowly... but yeah, they should probably be as good as THE BEST LIGHT GUN IN THE GORRAM WORLD. 

 

I know, I'm a bit of a 'Murica! [edited], but ffs, the USN is getting dicked over in this game a lot. We weren't the best navy in WWII just because we had a lot of ships. We had great equipment in massive numbers, well supplied, well trained, and well lead. It would be nice to get some of that crapin game.

 

Well its getting nerfed to 4.2km IIRC, not super game breaking but the damage is being buffed and with the DF nerf, the USN will actually benefit. DF nerf will drop the 6x multiplier for DP guns to 4x but with the USN damage buff, itll be like they were never touched at all, so USN go back to being AA power while rest of the lines are getting a true nerf to AA.

 

Any ship with the 5"/51 DP guns is going to get a massive buff. They are damn near doubling the damage. So Montana and Iowa will be scary to CVs again.

[AVR_Project]

Just got back from an Atlanta game .  I was up against tier 9 Tiaho planes.

Shot down 10 planes - 5 torp, 4 bombers, 1 fighter -- all in a span of a few seconds.

Seems to work as I remember it before.

Too bad I got stuck on a rock while rounding a corner and got single-shotted by a Nagato.

[AVR_Project]

But before someone can press the 'T' key and do magic..  They need to purchase the ship.  Small detail, I know.

[tk208]

The 5" guns are really powerful. The rest of the Atlanta's AA is actually really weak. Was defensive fire activated

 

Yeah had it activated, the planes were tier VII I think

[W4lt3r]

 

Well its getting nerfed to 4.2km IIRC, not super game breaking but the damage is being buffed and with the DF nerf, the USN will actually benefit. DF nerf will drop the 6x multiplier for DP guns to 4x but with the USN damage buff, itll be like they were never touched at all, so USN go back to being AA power while rest of the lines are getting a true nerf to AA.

 

Any ship with the 5"/51 DP guns is going to get a massive buff. They are damn near doubling the damage. So Montana and Iowa will be scary to CVs again.

 

It's the 5" / 25 that gets it's range nerfed.

Atlanta has the 5" mark / 38 mk 32 which gets it's DPS buffed by 2.5 times.

[HeavyDiveKick]

Yeah it'll be a lot more dps next update.

 

Right now, (from experience playing Tier 6/7 CVs), you can just waltz in with DBs to see whether Atlanta uses DF, if so, retreat and come back in 40 seconds.

Usually without defensive fire on, as a CV you maybe lose one or two planes on the way out.

[Mopic312]

The Atlanta just need help as WOWS needs to be ashamed of themselves for screwing up a  Premium ship like this:   Just had a battle

 

Out of 1206 shots fired, 131 hit and only 4 fires set.   ..

 

Pensacola 56 hits

Colorado 62 hits  -> range varied between 12km and less then 6 km defending cap

Hatsuharu 13 Hits 3 floods  -> Again, range varied between 12km and less then 8 km defending cap.

Ranger  0  anything, probably it was his planes  6 bombers.

 

Out of all that 1,075 shots did nothing maybe 300 shots were wasted and 775 shots dodge.. *sheeesh*

 

hopefully things changed a little....

 

Note: I do wished it had at least 8km torps,  trying to move inside of 5km is just something the Atlanta can't do,  I know its not suppose to close with anything but you do get into situations where you

have to defend the cap no matter what's in the circle.   The rudder shift and bad turning just won't allow you to escape launching torpedoes inside 6km.  besides, once you start using that rudder your speed is greatly reduced.

 

 

[sbcptnitro]

I actually like the Atlanta quite a lot, as I really enjoy the play style it takes to play it well.

 

I'm more than willing to put up with the not-so-ideal MMs for the few where it really shines.