Best time to play the Yamato

[Xannari]

If you've got yourself a Yamato, and you seem to not be able to absolutely wreck house in it, there's an explanation:

When the majority of the playerbase is on at once, a good chunk of those players are going to be in the top tiers, and you'll get into large scale games. Top tier players absolutely love their destroyers for killing big stupid Battleship drivers, because those are the kinds of players you're inevitably going to run into sometimes. Even if you're still good at dodging torpedoes, when everyone else on your team is dead, you're next, and there's only so much dodging you can do before you start taking hits from a mass of anything that has them. So a solution?

 

Get into smaller scale games. 6 or 7 players per team is pretty ideal. Coincidentally [or not], the time you are most likely to get into small games is the same time most of the skilled players come out, and any skilled player knows that in a small scale game, your contribution is a bigger part. Yamato is excellent for either taking on and annihilating a single opponent, or holding out against 2 or 3, which is far more likely to happen in small scale high tier games since the maps are huge. Even if you spawn by yourself or with only 1 other ally, you can still be a powerful unit if you stick together and support each other.

 

Oh but what am I talking about? The best time to play the Yamato is not exactly any single time frame, but rather when there are only 2-3k players on the server. With so few players, not a lot of them are going to be in the higher tiers, and the ones that are probably aren't playing tier Xs. Even if they are, there's gonna be even fewer of them, which means you can enjoy being top tier in Yamato's favorite battle scenario, and absolutely wreck everything. It's a nice time if you want just a fun, small, casual game with people who [probably] don't suck. You can guarantee I'll be there quite often.

[The_GoDDfather]

So....be a scumbag?

[Xannari]

So....be a scumbag?

 

I suppose that works as well.

[LordBenjamin]

In theory it sounds good but you're not more or less likely to run into good players the later at night you play.  Proportionally speaking the player base is roughly the same and if the game is 7v7 you're as likely to have the really good divisions on the enemy team as you are to have them on your own team.  Actually with 7 spots to fill on enemy team and 6 to fill on your own it's slightly better they'll be against you.

 

Saturday or Sunday evening (technically the next morning) at some point after 3am I was in a game in my Gearing and there was two divisions on my team with all well above average players and two on the enemy team with the same thing.  Happened two battles in a row.   In both of those battles (one with me, one against me) the players in the Yamato division were on the losing team and they were decent players.   As a shift worker and frequent late nighter for years in tanks and ships it's always bugged me when people suggest that good players are more likely to play at other times.   Plenty of quality players exist who work odd hours, live in AUS/NZ, Guam, etc etc.   The player base is smaller but not better or worse.

 

If someone wants to win more battles in the Yamato they're better off playing better than they are manipulating their play time to try and game the system.  

 

[Xannari]

 As a shift worker and frequent late nighter for years in tanks and ships it's always bugged me when people suggest that good players are more likely to play at other times.   Plenty of quality players exist who work odd hours, live in AUS/NZ, Guam, etc etc.   The player base is smaller but not better or worse.

 

Absolutely but not relatively true. It's more like in a smaller playerbase, skill among players tends to contrast more in small games because a good and bad player's contribution makes a bigger impact on the overall outcome of a game, therefore whoever is good does better [typically]

[LordBenjamin]

 

Absolutely but not relatively true. It's more like in a smaller playerbase, skill among players tends to contrast more in small games because a good and bad player's contribution makes a bigger impact on the overall outcome of a game, therefore whoever is good does better [typically]

 

But one good player or division on the enemy team or one horrid player on your own team is FAR harder to overcome as well.   Generally I find it best to hope for a long game where a better than average player has more time to impact the game instead of the shorter games which can be a much shorter steamroll.

 

 

[Trubil]

or play p v e

[RoliePolie]

This is quite often bad advice to be honest. Low player numbers per team is basically you just asking to be shredded by DDs which the Yamato is too slow to react against without their team spotting for them first. Enjoy sailing into massive Shimakaze torp walls and losing a ton of HP that you can no longer repair easily because of repair nerf. The Yamato does fine at peak times. It's not like she can't penetrate other ships or anything (*cough* Montana *cough*). If you're underperforming it's probably because you're doing dumb things instead of the ship not being able to hold its own.

[Xannari]

This is quite often bad advice to be honest. Low player numbers per team is basically you just asking to be shredded by DDs which the Yamato is too slow to react against without their team spotting for them first. Enjoy sailing into massive Shimakaze torp walls and losing a ton of HP that you can no longer repair easily because of repair nerf. The Yamato does fine at peak times. It's not like she can't penetrate other ships or anything (*cough* Montana *cough*). If you're underperforming it's probably because you're doing dumb things instead of the ship not being able to hold its own.

 

Yamato is fundamentally bad at dealing with being focused, as you can't run away, and your guns take forever to reload. If you don't want to deal with everything at once, including the possibility of running into 6 destroyers on the enemy team, then smaller scale games are the way to go. You will at most be facing 2, which is actually manageable.

[LordBenjamin]

No, you'll face 4+ out of 5-7 players plenty.    Last time I hit battle on IX last night the que was 1 BB, one CA, 8 DD.   I quickly just backed out and did something else.

[Xannari]

No, you'll face 4+ out of 5-7 players plenty.    Last time I hit battle on IX last night the que was 1 BB, one CA, 8 DD.   I quickly just backed out and did something else.

 

That's a very unusual thing to happen, so don't count on it happening every time. Every game I played early this morning, only 3 top tier destroyers total online, 100k+ credits earned each in 7v7 games. Each game so far in the last hour? -50k+ in full 12v12 games

[LordBenjamin]

 

That's a very unusual thing to happen, so don't count on it happening every time. Every game I played early this morning, only 3 top tier destroyers total online, 100k+ credits earned each in 7v7 games. Each game so far in the last hour? -50k+ in full 12v12 games

 

Central time I play until 4am some nights.   DDs are the majority.   Perhaps it's different the hours I'm sleeping and you're playing.