0.5.11: New armor model for Yamato - Buff or nerf ?

[ThatLungfish]

 

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[4bRbyHSSzZ6pk]

Same changes they made to the USN line, no noticeable difference

[Captain_Dorja]

Honestly is neither. 

[MajorRenegade]

I would say a very small buff, since shells can now bounce more on the new armor model at odd scope angles

[Umikami]

According to WoW, and if I read it and interpreted it correctly, the new armor scheme does a better job of containing damage to a smaller, more specific area, which makes it less damaging to surrounding modules, which is a sort of buff, on a secondary level.

[Stratego89]

More angles = good.

 

More seperate areas that take damage individually = good for components but bad for health. The burning will commence.

[paradat]

In most cases this is a buff. In a few odd angles it could be a nerf. Most likely you will not notice it at all.

[YamatoA150]

VS battleships and AP-using cruisers?  Great.  Less of a pure wall and more angled facings, and from bow-on, even MORE angles to bounce AP off.  The superstructure especially, which used to be one of the main points for other battleships to target.

 

VS destroyers and carriers?  Not as much, as they'd be reliant on torpedoes and firespam to deal damage.

[Balck_]

More polygons = more angles = better armor over all.  

[ThatLungfish]

I just played the Yammy. I may had a bad game but it felt like a pile of trash, I've never been killed so fast, cruisers were consecutively putting 8k damage with AP shells

[Hangoverhomey]

The armor works more like it did in real life.  You have Steel plates that are actually in the dimensions/angles of the hull in real life.   So now you can look at your ship model and angle according to simply looking at it and knowing that what is facing the incoming fire is actually what it is.

 

Sorry if that doesn't make sense, only way I can put it.

 

[TenguBlade]

From the front, it's a buff, since the weak spot around the start of the torpedo bulges is now better-modeled.  From the rear, it's a pretty noticeable nerf, because now the boat garage and hangar doors actually are windows to the citadel like they seem to be.

 

If you let someone surprise buttsex the Yamato though, you did it wrong.

[Aduial]

I just played the Yammy. I may had a bad game but it felt like a pile of trash, I've never been killed so fast, cruisers were consecutively putting 8k damage with AP shells

 

That's the first time i've heard someone call Yamato a pile of trash. 

[icyplanetnhc]

The bow seems to be better angled, but the hull area just front of Turret 1 is less angled in the new model, so a (very) slight buff in some parts, nerf in others. I don't expect things to change much at all.

[WhiteRecon]

I just played the Yammy. I may had a bad game but it felt like a pile of trash, I've never been killed so fast, cruisers were consecutively putting 8k damage with AP shells

 

I landed some plunging 180mm AP into Yamato near superstructure with my Donskoi today for 8500hp, I was the most surprised.  I can't pen the side of a Montana at the waterline at point blank tho, ask me how I know...

[WhiteRecon]

 

That's the first time i've heard someone call Yamato a pile of trash. 

 

It's not trash, just trash drivers like me who overpen friggin everything.  Those 460s need some aiming, and everyone wants a piece of you...