Dear Lord....... Wedgie does it..... again....

[Andrewbassg]

NEW BATTLE TYPE: MODE SHUFFLE

 

Update 13.6 will bring along a new temporary battle type called Mode Shuffle. These are 12v12 matches where you can take any Tier VIII-X ship of your choice. You can also make a division with up to 3 people! When you select this battle type, you will get randomly placed in one of three game modes:

• Airship Escort - Escort the allied airship to the destination point or destroy all enemy ships! During the battle, ships on both sides can affect the speed of the allied or opposing airships by staying within an interactive zone near each one. It's important to remember the following:
  • Airships move at a standard speed if there are no players within their interactive zones.
  • Airships accelerate if only allied ships are within the borders of their interactive zones.
  • Airships slow down if at least one opposing ship is within the borders of their interactive zones.
  • If your team simultaneously speeds up the allied airship and slows down the opposing airship, the allied airship will move even faster.
• Convoy - Join the battle as part of the attacking or escorting team. The objective of the attacking team is to completely destroy either the convoy or its defenders. The defending team needs to escort convoys of cargo ships as they sail along a defined route. That team wins if at least one convoy ship reaches her destination point or the entire attacking team is destroyed. 
• Arms Race - Collect upgrades dropped from planes in various locations on the map. With the help of upgrades, your team enhances the combat capabilities of ships and squadrons of aircraft carriers. After some time, a capture point will appear, with its area decreasing over time.

It's worth noting that while Convoy and Airship Escort will be the most recent versions of those game modes, we have made a slight change to Arms Race: there will be no buffs placed near the map borders. That means that buffs will pop up somewhere in the middle parts of the map, so you'll have to get up close and personal to buff yourself and your team! The changes for Arms Race are only present in Mode Shuffle, as they remain unaltered in other battle types.

 

 

These people are really, REALLY completely clueless about their own game and its playerbase.....

 

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BRAWLS WITH SUPPORT CONSUMABLES

 

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Edited June 8 by Andrewbassg

[Wolfswetpaws]

Well, I had some fun games in Convoy mode.
And Airship Escort wasn't entirely unpleasant.
Arms race I'm neutral about.

What I can imagine people objecting to is that a player is not certain of which mode they'll actually get as a random result.

[Andrewbassg]

16 minutes ago, Wolfswetpaws said:

What I can imagine people objecting to is that a player is not certain of which mode they'll actually get as a random result.

Yes. People hated Airship when it was mixed with randoms exactly because of that. And what Wedgie does ?  (coz we all know that they will go ahead with this idiocy). Take that to a whole new level!! While cozplaying that they "listen".

Sigh.....I swear that these people are hellbent to scuttle the game..... and this is the direct result of them having no connection whatsoever with the playerbase

Edited June 8 by Andrewbassg

[Tpaktop2_1 NA]

The bad thing is WG is gathering stats to see which battle mode to keep, because they don't talk to the players, or rather they don't believe what the players want for battles from their feedback.

Edited June 8 by Tpaktop2_1 NA

[Ensign Cthulhu]

You will get to choose whether to participate in this or not. It's a temporary mode. Or did you miss that bit?

 

Observe:

47 minutes ago, Andrewbassg said:

a new temporary battle type 

 

47 minutes ago, Andrewbassg said:

When you select this battle type

 

Or are you just upset because WG isn't kowtowing to your strident demands to make Asymmetric permanent? 

[Wolfswetpaws]

30 minutes ago, Wolfswetpaws said:

Well, I had some fun games in Convoy mode.
And Airship Escort wasn't entirely unpleasant.
Arms race I'm neutral about.

What I can imagine people objecting to is that a player is not certain of which mode they'll actually get as a random result.

 

13 minutes ago, Andrewbassg said:

Yes. People hated Airship when it was mixed with randoms exactly because of that. And what Wedgie does ?  (coz we all know that they will go ahead with this idiocy). Take that to a whole new level!! While cozplaying that they "listen".

Sigh.....I swear that these people are hellbent to scuttle the game..... and this is the direct result of them having no connection whatsoever with the playerbase

 

11 minutes ago, Tpaktop2_1 NA said:

The bad thing is WG is gathering stats to see which battle mode to keep, because they don't talk to the players, or rather they don't believe what the players want for battles from their feedback.

 

5 minutes ago, Ensign Cthulhu said:

You will get to choose whether to participate in this or not. It's a temporary mode. Or did you miss that bit?

Observe:

Or are you just upset because WG isn't kowtowing to your strident demands to make Asymmetric permanent? 

The simple choice for a player is "participate" or "not participate".
That action can speak louder than words, eh?  🙂 

[Lord_Slayer]

56 minutes ago, Andrewbassg said:

Update 13.6 will bring along a new temporary battle type called Mode Shuffle.

 

These people are really, REALLY completely clueless about their own game and its playerbase.....

 

5 minutes ago, Ensign Cthulhu said:

You will get to choose whether to participate in this or not. It's a temporary mode. Or did you miss that bit?

^^ this exactly.

I know I read somewhere in this very forum that people thought that Convoy, Airship, and Arms race should be a separate mode.

Now that it is (and temporary), we still have complaining?

[Andrewbassg]

7 minutes ago, Ensign Cthulhu said:

Or are you just upset because WG isn't kowtowing to your strident demands to make Asymmetric permanent? 

Oh Ensign.........I know that your questions are ..."usually rhetorical", buut..........quote me where I asked  Asym to be made a permanent mode

Otherwise, what I or you think is irrelevant vis-a-vis what is good for the game.This is wows NOT CS or Fortnite... all attempts to shoehorn it onto those game is doomed to fail. For  gazillion of reasons.

[thornzero]

3 minutes ago, Lord_Slayer said:

Now that it is (and temporary), we still have complaining?

Seems like it is endless. On stream, on discord, on here. I don't get it. You can vote with your feet and not choose the mode, or even play the game. And there was already a thread on this topic.

The game is mostly free and some of us enjoy it.

[Andrewbassg]

6 minutes ago, Lord_Slayer said:

Now that it is (and temporary), we still have complaining?

Coz they are randomly chosen? Coz Wedgie is too lazy to do even "some" work?

[Andrewbassg]

3 minutes ago, thornzero said:

The game is mostly free and some of us enjoy it.

Yes. And I enjoyed these modes too when they were separate standalone modes. Not a fiddlesticked soup, coz Wedgie is too lazy... 

Edited June 8 by Andrewbassg

[Ensign Cthulhu]

7 minutes ago, Lord_Slayer said:

Now that it is (and temporary), we still have complaining?

If @torino2dc or someone of his calibre were to make a dispassionate analysis of why he thought Airship Escort and Convoy Escort demanded completely different ship types and were therefore a bad combination to pull from a random type selection, I might have more sympathy for opposition to this new idea. But it's just the usual suspects repeating their unfounded assertions that WG has no idea what it's doing, with not even an attempt at serious analysis. 

[Andrewbassg]

4 minutes ago, Ensign Cthulhu said:

But it's just the usual suspects repeating their unfounded assertions that WG has no idea what it's doing, with not even an attempt at serious analysis. 

Buut.... ya know.......even Wedgie agreed with "us", when they removed  Airships from randoms, because it was randomly chosen.

So.......try again?

As for "based" opposition, the very fact they are too lazy to implement even tier separation in these modes (& therefore incentivizing  onto buying T10 ships) speak volumes, about their commitments and priorities. Or ... no?

[Aethervox]

21 minutes ago, Ensign Cthulhu said:

You will get to choose whether to participate in this or not.

I won't be participating.

15 minutes ago, Wolfswetpaws said:

 

 

 

The simple choice for a player is "participate" or "not participate".
That action can speak louder than words, eh?  🙂 

I've already decided on my 'action'.

7 minutes ago, Andrewbassg said:

Coz they are randomly chosen?

ROFL if you believe Wedgie will randomly give you a good mode for your chosen ship (whatever mode you actually get). ROFL

9 minutes ago, thornzero said:

You can vote with your feet

Voting with my 'propellor' 😁.

Here comes another way to fracture the player base into different modes so it becomes even more problematic to find enough real players without having to add Bots.

[thornzero]

1 minute ago, Aethervox said:

Voting with my 'propellor' 😁.

Here comes another way to fracture the player base into different modes so it becomes even more problematic to find enough real players without having to add Bots.

You and your herrings and propellors. lol

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These modes do not pique my interest. I also think it will have little impact on fracture. The screams about airsh!t escort was deafening as were the screams for asymmetrics. 

I am glad they are not integrated with randoms any longer. In fact, if they removed arms race [which will still populate in randoms]; I wouldn't miss it.

Now asymmetrics did cause a fracture which I think surprised WG. 

[Andrewbassg]

11 minutes ago, Aethervox said:

ROFL if you believe Wedgie will randomly give you a good mode for your chosen ship (whatever mode you actually get). ROFL

Yeah but that's the point. Because this kind of crap creates the wrong kind of frustration. But it does sells the impression that the poor sob new player "must get a T10 ship,  coz they are stronk", while he learns absolutely nothing.

And this frustration is very bad, especially in the long run. But nah Wedgie never learns.... I mean the actual lessons... coz "Stavka is always right" and "my head is always stronk" "reasons"....

Edited June 8 by Andrewbassg

[Andrewbassg]

13 minutes ago, thornzero said:

Now asymmetrics did cause a fracture which I think surprised WG. 

Oh dat was reasonably good for levelling up lines. 

I do liked the others, until they made "mandatory" to get T10's. I still like em but they ceased to be good  fun modes. Like with Scenarios.

And i prefer ranked over randoms by far.

Edited June 8 by Andrewbassg

[Utt_Bugglier]

2 hours ago, Tpaktop2_1 NA said:

The bad thing is WG is gathering stats to see which battle mode to keep, because they don't talk to the players, or rather they don't believe what the players want for battles from their feedback.

Back when I lived in a different city, I would make pizza for my church’s college & young professionals group, which I was a a part of (it was a looonnnng time ago.). And when I set to making the pizzas, I would take orders from the group of about 20, and I would get requests for peppers & onions, olives , mushrooms, and all sorts of veggie combinations, but when the pizzas started coming out of the oven, the same folks reqesting  their veggie stuff descended upon the pepperoni, cheese, or sausage pizzas. And the requested stuff was lightly touched. After doing that a few times, I stopped asking people what they wanted, and made what I saw being eaten.

The moral of the story: What people TELL you they want, and what they PROVE they want, are often not the same thing. If I was in WG’s shoes, I would be reluctant to use survey information in isolation to make game mode decisions.

[HogHammer]

The battle mode I can live with, but...

BRAWLS WITH SUPPORT CONSUMABLES 
Update 13.6 will bring three Brawls unleashed in different formats, but this time we prepared something special for them to make battles even more entertaining. Brawls in Update 13.6 will feature Support Consumables, which were present in Piñata Hunt and Clan Battles Season 25 (a terrible move, in my opinion).

[Ensign Cthulhu]

31 minutes ago, HogHammer said:

Brawls in Update 13.6 will feature Support Consumables,

I can only presume that they want to increase the level of mayhem. 

The bar fight in this video (heads-up for F-bombs!) should give you some idea of what I think their intentions are.

[Daniel_Allan_Clark]

World of Warships gets more and more like a cheap casino every day.

Hilarious.

[Andrewbassg]

1 hour ago, HogHammer said:

we prepared something special

yeah....something very very special....

[Andrewbassg]

40 minutes ago, Ensign Cthulhu said:

I can only presume that they want to increase the level of mayhem. 

Which goes COMPLETELY agalnst what wows actually is about.......

1 hour ago, Utt_Bugglier said:

The moral of the story: What people TELL you they want, and what they PROVE they want, are often not the same thing. If I was in WG’s shoes, I would be reluctant to use survey information in isolation to make game mode decisions.

That's a good point, but there is a kind of difference between pizza and pancakes.....

 

That's HU also EEU pancakes aka palacsinta

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatschinke

Edited June 9 by Andrewbassg

[Daniel_Allan_Clark]

What I find amusing is the attempts to force modes with close quarters combat...using the tiers that incentivize long distance combat...and thinking this will be 'fun'.

Convoy escort and airship escort would be way more fun at some of the lower tiers...

Arms race is fun because the strategic areas CHANGE over the course of the match. Forcing the entire fight to always be in the center betrays a fundamental ignorance of what makes the mode fun and interesting.

Go ahead and defend WG, guys...but the increasing number of bots in tier 5 matches and the bleeding of playing players continues.

[Ensign Cthulhu]

1 hour ago, Daniel_Allan_Clark said:

attempts to force modes with close quarters combat...using the tiers that incentivize long distance combat..

The inflexibility of thinking you're showing here drives me to drink. 

Just because some people want to huddle at the back of a T10 map and wet themselves in terror every time their paint gets scratched doesn't mean others show the same  disinclination to get stuck in. 

Edited June 9 by Ensign Cthulhu