Russian Cruisers Arrive on NA March 23rd.

[Cobraclutch]

Hi All, 

 

This was posted an hour ago on the front page. 

 

 

*Edit

As per the EU announcement page. Radar consumable will be added to USN cruisers. 

 

 

[Taichunger]

A Yubari-style ship is being tested... could it be? Could the Melon find love after all this time? 

[Canadatron]

Hi All, 

 

This was posted an hour ago on the front page. 

 

 

The biggest new for me though, is not that Russian cruisers are being introduced. But the lack of radar for USN Cruisers...

 

Does this mean it will be introduced later on? Is it a switch and bait in order to increase the appeal of VMF cruisers? Does this mean we won't see Radar at all on USN Cruisers? 

 

That remains to be seen... But as per this screen shot, it appears to only be a Russian cruiser consumable for the time being. 

 

 

Take it for what its worth. I just hope this won't mean that USN cruisers will be left out of RADAR. 

 

 

 

Uh, because the shiny new mechanic needs to subtly encourage people into moving up that pwnage based Russkie tree. Pretty simple to see their intentions now that we know it's Russian only for the time being. That's the big tasty carrot at this point in time. I can't believe this stuff surprises some of you by now.

[Cobraclutch]

 

Uh, because the shiny new mechanic needs to subtly encourage people into moving up that pwnage based Russkie tree. Pretty simple to see their intentions now that we know it's Russian only for the time being. That's the big tasty carrot at this point in time. I can't believe this stuff surprises some of you by now.

 

I never said I was surprised. Its just interesting regardless if you are surprised or not...  

[Canadatron]

 

I never said I was surprised. Its just interesting regardless if you are surprised or not...  

 

I agree 100% Cobra, in fact I am surprised they'd be so blatant after announcing both would get it, but hey never underestimate the will of Stalin.

[Luphelia]

Biggest news for me was that Campbeltown is coming.

 

I wouldn't expect all ships to have radar. That would be boring. I'm glad different ships offer different opportunities. I don't think radar is a game changer like it is in real life.

[dreadway2]

US cruiser is dead. crap...

[Cobraclutch]

 

I agree 100% Cobra, in fact I am surprised they'd be so blatant after announcing both would get it, but hey never underestimate the will of Stalin.

 

Definately.

 

Another interesting note is that the potential hydro changes we heard of are also not in this patch. Maybe they want to introduce this in a public test (same for USN Radar) 

 

Maybe a red could come in here and shed light on this?

 

Thanks 

[Argh_My_Liver]

Huh, I was expecting the USN to be getting radar as well this patch but I guess its not that big of a surprise that they would pull this sort of move. 

 

I guess they decided USN radar was just too "average" to bother including in the end 

[iEaTDaGrudge]

let the cry nerf begin!

 

[Lightning_Lad64]

Very excited.  Hoping to free XP to at least T6.  then grind to the T8

[ValkyrWarframe]

Let the HE spam continue.

[dcr66]

Radars in WW2 era are hardly accurate. Other than the Open Ocean, most maps will be problematic for radars of that era anyway. If we are to get it in WoWS, the players should be given the actual scope display to interpret themselves.

[alexf24]

Have not seen these news. Thanks for posting.

 

I don't plan in reaching T8+ in RU cruisers anytime soon, as I am not skipping any ship, but grinding from the beginning. I was interested in trying radar in my New Orleans. Not so, I see. So, what's new? USN love.

 

[update]: reviewed the notes and found this nice one:

• Changed the sound effect for damage markers to make it less harsh

 

They are getting rid of the screech, or so it seems. We'll see.

 

[update 2]: reading further down it seems it was a notes omission in NA and New Orleans and up will get radar.

[overpen]

This about USN CAs from EU announcement: USN Cruisers of tier 8 and up will get RADAR at the nearest patch

 

 

[Skraeling]

Ill grind it au natural as anyone who has played ANY wg game ever is fully aware of the Release OP ship people dump free xp into the line... nerf line into the ground.  bait and switch folks bait and switch.  Save your free exp.

 

Im looking at you Foch 155 and Waffentrager...

[Madwolf05]

Radars in WW2 era are hardly accurate. Other than the Open Ocean, most maps will be problematic for radars of that era anyway. If we are to get it in WoWS, the players should be given the actual scope display to interpret themselves.

 

That's hardly accurate. They were bad when a target ship was within a few hundred yards of shore, but outside of that the USN and RN radars were pretty accurate.

 

You don't get the results from radar controlled fire control they did with poor equipment.

[Argh_My_Liver]

This about USN CAs from EU announcement: USN Cruisers of tier 8 and up will get RADAR at the nearest patch

 

 

 

Thank you posting that. Seems the intern forgot to pass that info along to us again 

[x2_Weekends]

US cruiser is dead. crap...

 

Above Tier VI, yep

[_BloodHawk_]

 

Above Tier VI, yep

 

US cruisers just have the highest skill ceiling to use effectively. Unfortunately most of the player base lacks the necessary skills, so the ships get blamed.

[kerensky914]

The biggest new for me though, is not that Russian cruisers are being introduced. But the lack of radar for USN Cruisers...

Does this mean it will be introduced later on? Is it a switch and bait in order to increase the appeal of VMF cruisers? Does this mean we won't see Radar at all on USN Cruisers? 

That remains to be seen... But as per this screen shot, it appears to only be a Russian cruiser consumable for the time being. 

 

 

Take it for what its worth. I just hope this won't mean that USN cruisers will be left out of RADAR. 

 

Jump to conclusions much?  "I think you've put the wrong em-PHA-sis on the wrong syl-LAH-ble."  - Mike Myers

 

The sentence above isn't saying that radar is only available to Russian cruisers.  It is saying that Russian cruisers only get radar at later tiers (as opposed to *all* Russian cruisers getting it).  It doesn't say anything at all about USN cruisers, IJN cruisers, Klingon cruisers, etc.

 

This about USN CAs from EU announcement: USN Cruisers of tier 8 and up will get RADAR at the nearest patch

 

Hmm, no source here, but this would prove my point if true.

[Cobraclutch]

This about USN CAs from EU announcement: USN Cruisers of tier 8 and up will get RADAR at the nearest patch

 

 

 

 

This is correct. Maybe this was just a mistake on WG. 

 

[Argh_My_Liver]

Link to the eu notes http://worldofwarships.eu/en/news/updates/update-054-release/

 

 

[Madwolf05]

 

US cruisers just have the highest skill ceiling to use effectively. Unfortunately most of the player base lacks the necessary skills, so the ships get blamed.

 

Which is based on what?

 

Furthermore, that would mean the top players in USN ships would average more damage in their ships than at Tier enemy ships of the same class. 

 

However, if you sort the best players in each ship, the USN ships that statistically lag behind in mass data, also lag way behind in average top performances even with the player who is the best in the world with that ship.

[El_Judarino]

They do screw up patch notes all the time.

 

That said, if RADAR is a RU exclusive... I predict complications on the forums.